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.