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Stacks Spotlight - June 2009

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.

Strokes of genius : Federer, Nadal, and the greatest match ever played / L. Jon Wertheim.

Dumb money : how our greatest financial minds bankrupted the nation / Daniel Gross.

Womenomics : write your own rules for success : how to stop juggling and struggling and finally start living and working the way you really want / Claire Shipman and
Katty Kay.

Busted : life inside the great mortgage meltdown / Edmund L. Andrews.

Boomers : the cold war generations grows up / Victor D. Brooks.

The marvelous hairy girls : the Gonzales sisters and their worlds / Merry Wiesner-Hanks.

Mekong diaries : Viet Cong drawings & stories, 1964-1975 / Sherry Buchanan ; with Nguyen Toan Thi, Tran Thi Huynh Nga & Nam Nguyen.

Mona Lisa in Camelot : how Jacqueline Kennedy and Da Vinci's masterpiece charmed and captivated a nation / Margaret Leslie Davis.

Paul Newman : a life / Shawn Levy.

The winter vault / Anne Michaels.

Relentless / Dean Koontz.

My father's tears : and other stories / John Updike

In-N-Out Burger : a behind-the-counter look at the fast-food chain that breaks all the rules / Stacy Perman.

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