Here's a glance at 40 of the latest hot fiction and bestsellers added to Cowles' collection.  Find these new books, as well as others, on the main floor stand at the top of the ramp and in the Cowles Cafe area.

You were always mom's favorite! : sisters in conversation throughout their lives / Deborah Tanne

The case for God / Karen Armstrong.

Have a little faith : a true story / Mitch Albom.

It's really all about God : reflections of a Muslim atheist Jewish Christian / Samir Selmanovic.

Step out on nothing : how faith and family helped me conquer life's challenges / Byron Pitts.

The monuments men : Allied heroes, Nazi thieves, and the greatest treasure hunt in history / Robert M. Edsel ; with Bret Witter.

City of gold : Dubai and the dream of capitalism / Jim Krane.

A woman among warlords : the extraordinary story of an Afghan who dared to raise her voice / Malalai Joya with Derrick O'Keefe.

The murder of King Tut : the plot to kill the child king : a nonfiction thriller / James Patterson and Martin Dugard.

The Clinton tapes : wrestling history with the president / Taylor Branch.

The preacher and the politician : Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and race in America / Clarence E. Walker and Gregory D. Smithers.

Just like us : the true story of four Mexican girls coming of age in America / Helen Thorpe.

Onward Christian athletes : turning ballparks into pulpits and players into preachers / Tom Krattenmaker.

ESPN : the company : the story and lessons behind the most fanatical brand in sports / Anthony F. Smith, with Keith Hollihan.

Sixty feet, six inches : a Hall of Fame pitcher & a Hall of Fame hitter talk about how the game is played / by Bob Gibson and Reggie Jackson, with Lonnie Wheeler.

The machine : a hot team, a legendary season, and a heart-stopping World Series : the story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds / Joe Posnanski.

Game six : Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 world series : the triumph of America's pastime / Mark Frost.

That first season : how Vince Lombardi took the worst team in the NFL and set it on the path to glory / John Eisenberg.

Gridiron gauntlet : the story of the men who integrated pro football in their own words / Andy Piascik.

101 boardroom problems and how to solve them / Eli Mina.

Boom town : how Wal-Mart transformed an all-American town into an international community / Marjorie Rosen.

Reward systems : does yours measure up? / Steve Kerr ; with Glenn Rifkin.

What Americans really want-- really : the truth about our hopes, dreams, and fears / Frank I. Luntz.

The water giver : the story of a mother, a son, and their second chance / Joan Ryan.

The Madoff chronicles : inside the secret world of Bernie and Ruth / Brian Ross.

Listen up, Mr. President : everything you always wanted your president to know and do / by Helen Thomas and Craig Crawford.

Airlift to America : how Barack Obama, Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African students changed their world and ours / Tom Shachtman.

Small wonder : the little red schoolhouse in history and memory / Jonathan Zimmerman.

How the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll : an alternative history of American popular music / Elijah Wald.

High on arrival / Mackenzie Phillips ; with Hilary Liftin.

The lost art of gratitude / Alexander McCall Smith.

Blood's a rover : a novel / James Ellroy.

Little bird of heaven : a novel / Joyce Carol Oates.

Pride and prejudice and zombies : the classic Regency romance -- now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem! / by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith.

Dancing with butterflies : a novel / Reyna Grande.

Half broke horses : a true-life novel / Jeannette Walls.

Hope for animals and their world : how endangered species are being rescued from the brink / Jane Goodall, with Thane Maynard and Gail Hudson.

Why our health matters : a vision of medicine that can transform our future / Andrew Weil.

Inside of a dog : what dogs see, smell, and know / Alexandra Horowitz.

Highest duty : my search for what really matters / Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger with Jeffrey Zaslow.

Here's a peek at 35 of the latest hot fiction and bestsellers added to Cowles' collection.  Find these new books, as well as others, on the main floor stand at the top of the ramp and in the Cowles Cafe area.

Occult America : the secret history of how mysticism conquered America / Mitch Horowitz

Mighty by sacrifice : the destruction of an American bomber squadron, August 29, 1944 / James L. Noles and James L. Noles, Jr.

American Chinatown : a people's history of five neighborhoods / Bonnie Tsui

Ted Kennedy : the dream that never died / Edward Klein

The battle for America 2008 : the story of an extraordinary election / Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson

Just food : where locavores get it wrong and how we can truly eat responsibly / James E. McWilliams

On the line / Serena Williams ; with Daniel Paisner

How did that happen? : holding people accountable for results the positive, principled way / Roger Connors and Tom Smith

Consequential strangers : the power of people who don't seem to matter-- but really do / Melinda Blau and Karen L. Fingerman

The house at the end of the road : the story of three generations of an interracial family in the American South / W. Ralph Eubanks

A paradise built in hell : the extraordinary communities that arise in disasters / Rebecca Solnit

In the president 's secret service : behind the scenes with agents in the line of fire and the presidents they protect / Ronald Kessler

Culture of corruption : Obama and his team of tax cheats, crooks, and cronies / Michelle M

A mighty long way : my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School / Carlotta Walls LaNier ; with Lisa Frazier Page

The road to Woodstock / Michael Lang ; with Holly George-Warren

The lost symbol : a novel / Dan Brown

Homer & Langley : a novel / E.L. Doctorow

A gate at the stairs : a novel / Lorrie Moore

Inherent vice / Thomas Pynchon

The bride's farewell / Meg Rosoff

Everything matters! / Ron Currie, Jr.

The eleventh victim / Nancy Grace

I became a famous novelist / Steve Hely

Traveling with pomegranates : a mother-daughter story / Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor

New tricks / David Rosenfelt

Speed shrinking / Susan Shapiro

The girl who played with fire / Stieg Larsson ; translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland

The age of wonder : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science / Richard Holmes

You are here : why we can find our way to the Moon but get lost in the mall / Colin Ellard

The healing of America : a global quest for better, cheaper, and fairer health care / T.R. Reid

A brain wider than the sky : a migraine diary / Andrew Levy

Born round : the secret history of a full-time eater / Frank Bruni

Goat song : a seasonal life, a short history of herding, and the art of making cheese / Brad Kessler

A big little life : a memoir of a joyful dog / Dean Koontz

Homer's odyssey : a fearless feline tale, or, how I learned about love and life with a blind wonder cat / Gwen Cooper

Truth, lies, and O-rings : inside the space shuttle Challenger disaster / Allan J. McDonald ; with James R. Hansen

Some people think they are dangerous!

Exercise your freedom to read and join Cowles Library in celebrating Banned Books Week, September 26 – October 3, 2009. Visit the library’s main floor display featuring books that have or continued to be challenged. Learn the difference between a “challenge” and a “banning”, who challenges books, and the most common reasons for challenges. A variety of banned or challenged books are available on a book case near the Cowles Café.

To find out more about Banned Books Week, visit The American Library Association.

Here's a peek at the latest hot fiction and bestsellers added to the Cowles catalog.  Find these new books on stands on the main floor, at the top of the ramp and in the Cowles Cafe area.

Life inc. : how the world became a corporation and how to take it back / Douglas Rushkoff.

Women of wisdom : empowering the dreams and spirit of women / [Kris Steinnes, with Jean Houston ... et al. ; edited by Kris Steinnes, Hilary Hart, Annalisa Steinnes]

The attack on the Liberty : the untold story of Israel's deadly 1967 assault on a U.S. spy ship / James Scott.

Loon : a Marine story / Jack McLean.

The teeth may smile but the heart does not forget : murder and memory in Uganda / Andrew Rice.

Bobby and Jackie : a love story / C. David Heymann.

The state of Jones : the small southern county that seceded from the Confederacy / Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer.

Munson : the life and death of a Yankee captain / Marty Appel.

In July, there were over 100 new browsing titles added to the Cowles catalog.  Here's a look at 30 of the newest hot fiction, bestsellers, and staff picks.  Find these new books on the East side of the ground floor or the browsing shelf next to Cowles Cafe.

The woman who named God : Abraham's dilemma and the birth of three faiths / Charlotte Gordon.

Crazy for the storm : a memoir of survival / Norman Ollestad.

Mirrors : stories of almost everyone / Eduardo Galeano ; English translation by Mark Fried.

Red Orchestra : the story of the Berlin underground and the circle of friends who resisted Hitler / Anne Nelson.

Chameleon days : an American boyhood in Ethiopia / Tim Bascom.

Here's a peek at 25 of the 55 newest titles added to the Cowles catalog: hot fiction, bestsellers, and staff picks.  Find these new books on the East side of the ground floor or the browsing shelf next to Cowles Cafe.

The talent code : greatest isn't born, it's grown : here's how / Daniel Coyle.

How to make good decisions and be right all the time : solving the riddle of right and wrong / Iain King.

The education of an American dreamer : how a son of Greek immigrants learned his way from a Nebraska diner to Washington, Wall Street, and beyond / Peter G. Peterson.

We who are alive and remain : untold stories from the band of brothers / contributors, Rod Bain ... [et al.].

Tales from the Tower of London / Daniel Diehl & Mark P. Donnelly.

Horse soldiers : the extraordinary story of a band of U.S. soldiers who rode to victory in Afghanistan / Doug Stanton.

In the valley of mist : Kashmir : one family in a changing world / by Justine Hardy.

Prisoner of the state : the secret journal of Zhao Ziyang / translated and edited by Bao Pu, Renee Chiang, and Adi Ignatius ; foreword by Roderick MacFarquhar.

The Kennedy legacy : Jack, Bobby and Ted and a family dream fulfilled / Vincent Bzdek.

Obama's America / Carl Pedersen.

Yes we can : Barack Obama's history-making presidential campaign / photographs by Scout Tufankjian.

Full-court quest : the girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, basketball champions of the world / Linda Peavy & Ursula Smith.

Here's a peek at the latest titles added to the Cowles catalog: hot fiction, bestsellers, and staff picks.  Find these new books on the East side of the ground floor or the browsing shelf next to Cowles Cafe.

God is back : how the global revival of faith is changing the world / John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge.                       

Cartwheels in a sari : a memoir of growing up cult / Jayanti Tamm.
         
Closing time : a memoir / Joe Queenan.

Warrior of God : Jan Zizka and the Hussite Revolution / Victor Verney.

The media relations department of Hizbollah wishes you a happy birthday: unexpected encounters in the changing Middle East / Neil MacFarquhar.
               
Joker one : a Marine platoon's story of courage, leadership, and brotherhood / Donovan Campbell.
                           
Old World daughter, New World mother : an education in love & freedom / Maria Laurino.
                                       
Abigail & John : portrait of a marriage / Edith B. Gelles.
               
As they see 'em : a fan's travels in the land of umpires / Bruce Weber.    
                                                   
Ecological intelligence : how knowing the hidden impacts of what we buy can change everything / Daniel Goleman.
                               
Escaping North Korea : defiance and hope in the world's most repressive country / Mike Kim.    
                                   
Go down together : the true, untold story of Bonnie and Clyde / Jeff Guinn.
                                               
When skateboards will be free : a memoir of a political childhood / Said Sayrafiezadeh.
                                               
Liberty and tyranny : a conservative manifesto / Mark R. Levin.
    
God and the editor : my search for meaning at the New York times / Robert H. Phelps.
                                           
Brooklyn : a novel / Colm Toibin.      
           
The President / John Stewart.

Mum and Pup : a memoir / Christopher Buckley
                   
Laura Rider's masterpiece : a novel / Jane Hamilton.
               
Ruins / Achy Obejas.    
                       
The 8th confession / James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.
               
Wetlands / Charlotte Roche ; translated from the German by Tim Mohr.
       
The end of overeating : taking control the insatiable American appetite / David A. Kessler.
                                           
The big one : an island, an obsession, and the furious pursuit of a great fish / David Kinney.
                                           
I loved, I lost, I made spaghetti / Giulia Melucci.                

Here's a look at 24 of the 74 newest titles added to the Cowles catalog: hot fiction, bestsellers, and staff picks.  Find these new books on the East side of the ground floor or the browsing shelf next to Cowles Cafe.

Supersense : why we believe in the unbelievable / Bruce M. Hood.  BF773 .H66 2009

The two Marys : the hidden history of the mother and wife of Jesus / Sylvia Browne.  BT605.4 .S65 D88 2007

A thousand miles of dreams : the journeys of two Chinese sisters / Sasha Su-Ling Welland.  CT275 .L4695 W45 2006

Mister America : how muscular millionaire Bernarr Macfadden transformed the nation through sex, salad, and the ultimate starvation diet / Mark Adams.  CT275 .M1364 A34 2009

Betrayal : the true story of J. Edgar Hoover and the Nazi saboteurs captured during WWII / David Alan Johnson.  D810 .S7 J42 2007

Faith under fire : an Army chaplain's memoir / Roger Benimoff with Eve Conant.  DS79.76 .B449 2009

Baghdad at sunrise : a Brigade Commander's war in Iraq / Peter R. Mansoor ; foreword by Donald Kagan and Frederick Kagan.  DS79.76 .M358 2008

The girl in the green sweater : a life in Holocaust's shadow / Krystyna Chiger with Daniel Paisner.  DS135 .U43 C533 2008

Africa : altered states, ordinary miracles / Richard Dowden.  DT14 .D69  2009

This child will be great : memoir of a remarkable life by Africa's first woman president / Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.  T636.53 .S57 2009

Sultana : surviving civil war, prison, and the worst maritime disaster in American history / Alan Huffman.   E595 .S84 H84 2009

Obama : the historic journey / introduction by Bill Keller ; biographical text by Jill Abramson ; editors, Vincent Alabiso ... [et al.] ; art director, Toshiya Masuda.   E908 .A27 2009

The corporal was a pitcher : the courage of Lou Brissie / Ira Berkow.  GV865 .B716 B47 2008

When giants fall : an economic roadmap for the end of the American era / Michael J. Panzner.   HC106.83 .P36 2009

While America aged : how pension debts ruined General Motors, stopped the NYC subways, bankrupted San Diego, and loom as the next financial crisis / Roger Lowenstein.  HD7125 .L68 2008

Chain of blame : how Wall Street caused the mortgage and credit crisis / Paul Muolo, Mathew Padilla.   HG5095 .M86 2008

The life you can save : acting now to end world poverty / Peter Singer.  HV48 .S56 2009

The beautiful tree : a personal journey into how the world's poorest people are educating themselves / James Tooley.  C4065 .T66 2008

The Gardner heist : a true story of the world's largest unsolved art theft / Ulrich Boser.  N8795.3 .M4 B67 2009

Just take my heart / Mary Higgins Clark.  PS3553 .L287 J87 2009

Secrets to happiness : a novel / Sarah Dunn.  PS3604 .U565 S43 2009

How to build a dinosaur : extinction doesn't have to be forever / Jack Horner and James Gorman.  E721.2 .E85 H67 2009

Brain surgeon : a doctor's inspiring encounters with mortality and miracles / by Keith Black with Arnold Mann.  RC339.52 .B53 A3 2009

The global warming combat manual : solutions for a sustainable world / Bruce E. Johansen ; foreword by James E. Hansen.  TD171.7 .J64 2008

Here's a peek at 28 of the 133 new titles added to the Cowles catalog: hot fiction, bestsellers, and staff picks. Find these new books on the East side of the ground floor or the browsing shelf next to Cowles Cafe.

The time paradox : the new psychology of time that will change your life / Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd BF468 .Z56 2008

The three laws of performance : rewriting the future of your organization and your life / Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan. BF481 .Z23 2009

Finding beauty in a broken world / Terry Tempest Williams. BH39 .W554 2008

The politics of life : 25 rules for survival in a brutal and manipulative world / Craig Crawford. BJ1521 .C73 2007

Red, white, and Muslim : my story of belief / Asma Gull Hasan. BP67 .U6 H3 2009

Murder by family : the incredible true story of a son's treachery & a father's forgiveness / Kent Whitaker. BV4529.17 .W53 2008

What every American should know about the Middle East / Melissa Rossi. DS44 .R75 2008

Here are just 26 of the 72 new titles added to the Cowles catalog: hot fiction, bestsellers, and staff picks. Find these new books on the East side of the ground floor or the browsing shelf next to Cowles Cafe.

The pleasure instinct : why we crave adventure, chocolate, pheromones, and music / Gene Wallenstein

Uncommon : finding your path to significance / Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker

Fakers : hoaxers, con artists, counterfeiters, and other great pretenders / Paul Maliszewski

Freedom in my heart : voices from the United States National Slavery Museum / [edited by Cynthia Jacobs Carter]

Abraham Lincoln's extraordinary era : the man and his times / Karen Kostyal