In his new book, journalist David E. Sanger details the problems confronting new President Barack Obama. Chief among them are the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and the war on terror.

David E. Sanger is the chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times. A 1982 graduate of Harvard College, Sanger has been writing for Times for over 24 years covering New York, Tokyo and most recently, Washington, DC.  Sanger has received numerous journalistic awards, including being named twice among The New York Times reporting teams honored with the Pulitzer Prize. First, in 1987, his reporting team won the Pulitzer for national reporting on its investigation of the space agency following the Challenger disaster. Later, he was among another Pulitzer-winning team to write about the Clinton Administration’s struggle to control exports to China.

Tania James' beautiful debut novel  Atlas of Unknowns tells a poignant, funny, and blazingly original story about sisterhood, the tantalizing dream of America, and the secret histories and hilarious eccentricities of families everywhere.  Ms. James was raised in Louisville, KY and graduated from Harvard and Columbia.  Her first publication, "Aerogrammes," was selected as one of the 100 Distinguished Stories of 2008 by Best American Short Stories. She currently lives in New York and teaches fiction at the Gotham Writer's Workshop.

Pam Jenoff, Almost Home

Bestselling author and Quill award nominee Pam Jenoff delivers a rich, ambitious, and startling novel about a woman who must face a past she'd rather forget in order to uncover a dangerous legacy that threatens her future.  Ms. Jenoff is the author of The Kommandant's Girl, which was an international bestseller and nominated for a Quill award, as well as The Diplomat's Wife. She attended George Washington University, Cambridge University and this University of Pennsylvania Law School.  Ms. Jenoff is a former Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Army, an officer of the State Department and currently is an attorney living in Philadelphia, PA.


Dan Baum, Nine Lives

After Hurricane Katrina, Dan Baum moved to New Orleans to write about the city’s response to the disaster for The New Yorker, but quickly realized that Katrina was not the most interesting thing about New Orleans. Nine Lives is a multi-voiced biography of this dazzling, surreal, and imperiled city through the lives of nine characters over forty years and bracketed by two epic storms: Hurricane Betsy, which transformed the city in the 1960’s, and Katrina, which nearly destroyed it. In addition to The New Yorker, Dan Baum has been a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The Asian Wall Street Journal, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He is the author of Citizen Coors: An American Dynasty and Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure. He has written numerous articles for such national magazines as The New York Times Magazine, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and Wired.  Dan and his wife, Margaret Knox, currently live in Boulder, CO.

Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough, Cooking Know How

 
In this unconventional, friendly cookbook, Weinstein and Scarbrough, the authors of the Ultimate cookbook series, have selected 65 basic savory dishes that, taken together, make up a diverse, international repertoire of nightly dinners. A “How to Use” section orients readers to the particular style of the book and some important considerations for translating the general explication to the specific recipe.  Their first cookbook, The Ultimate Ice Cream Book was a smash hit with a quarter million copies in print and was the impetus for their best-selling "ultimate" series that includes ten other cookbooks.  In addition, they’ve authored two other cookbooks and are regular contributors to Eating Well, Today’s Health and Wellness, Cooking Light and weightwatchers.com.  They also host a weekly, on-air food column for the Dave Durian show on WBAL-AM, Baltimore’s largest drive-time radio show.  Weinstrin and Scarbrough currently live in Colebrook, CT.

Jean Hanff Korelitz, Admission
 

Korelitz's fourth novel (after The White Rose) vividly brings to life the incredible stress borne by admissions workers. Readers will experience the challenge of the admissions process at an Ivy League school, where every applicant tends toward the extraordinary.

Jean Hanff Korelitz was born and raised in New York and graduated from Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge. She is the author of one book of poems, The Properties of Breath, and three previous novels, A Jury of Her Peers, The Sattathday River and The White Rose, as well as a novel for children, Interference Powder. She has also published essays in the anthologies Modern Love and Because I said so, and in the magazines Vogue, Real Simple, More, Newsweek, Organic Style, Travel and Leisure (Family) and others. She lives in Princeton, NJ with her husband (Irish poet Paul Muldoon, poetry editor at The New Yorker and Princeton poetry professor) and two children.