AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH by Al Gore (Rodale, $21.95). The former vice president sounds an alarm about global warming in this companion volume to the movie of the same title.
1776 by David McCullough (Simon and Schuster, $18). An account of America's founding year focusing on the inexperienced George Washington and the heroic citizen soldiers.
NIGHT by Elie Wiesel (Hill and Wang, $9). A new translation of an account of the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, first published in English in 1960.
THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95). The tale of an architect and a killer, linked by the Chicago World's Fair of 1893.
THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $14). The author recalls a childhood during which she and her siblings were constantly moved.
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IN COLD BLOOD by Truman Capote (Vintage, $14). A family's murder in Kansas in 1959 and its consequences.
THE TIPPING POINT by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay/ Little, Brown, $14.95). A journalist's study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.
RUNNING WITH SCISSORS by Augusten Burroughs (Picador, $14). In the 1970s, a young boy lives with a crazy psychiatrist in a squalid house.
TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE by Mitch Albom (Broadway, $12.95; Anchor, $6.99). The author tells of his visits to his dying college mentor.
THE PLACES IN BETWEEN by Rory Stewart (Harvest/Harcourt, $14). The author recounts his walk across Afghanistan in the dead of winter, some of it through territory still under Taliban sway.
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WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING by Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg and Sandee Hathaway (Workman, $13.95). Advice for parents-to-be. 276
BOB GREENE'S TOTAL BODY MAKEOVER by Bob Greene (Simon & Schuster, $14). A program of exercise and nutrition.
