The Secret of the Great Pyramid

How One Man’s Obsession Led to the Solution of Ancient Egypt’s Greatest Mystery

HarperCollins

Egyptologist Brier (AKA “Mr. Mummy”) is a world-renowned professor lauded both for his expertise and his exciting story-telling.

Bob Brier is also the author of:
The Murder of Tutankhamen; Ancient Egyptian Magic

GONE

Belle Books

Photographer and architect Nell Dickerson explores antebellum homesteads in GONE, a powerfully moving volume of photographs that will change how you see the forgotten buildings across the Southern landscape.

Can I Have a Cell Phone for Hanukkah?

Broadway

Sharon Duke Estroff is an internationally syndicated columnist whose articles on parenting issues within a Jewish context appear in more than fifty publications and reach nearly two million readers.

Storycraft

A Complete Guide to Narrative Nonfiction

University of Chicago Press

A former managing editor of the Portland Oregonian, now professor at the University of Oregon, “Hart’s writing is a model of the craft he so eloquently dissects,” says Booklist of Hart’s WRITER’S COACH.

Jack Hart is also the author of:
A Writer’s Coach

A School for My Village

A Promise to the Orphans of Nyaka

Viking

Jackson is co-founder of the human rights organization Human Rights Concerns and a voice of compassion for the plight of AIDS orphans in Africa.

The Motivation Breakthrough

Six Secrets to Turning On the Tuned-Out Child

Touchstone

Lavoie is the country’s foremost expert on raising and teaching children with learning issues.

Richard Lavoie is also the author of:
It’s So Much Work To Be Your Friend

The Law of Connection

The Science of Using NLP to Create Ideal Personal and Professional Relationships

Grand Central

This motivational speaker travels the world to explain the secret to getting what you wish using the Law of Attraction.

International bestselling author

Michael Losier is also the author of:
Law of Attraction

Life Is Friends

A Complete Guide to the Lost Art of Connecting in Person

St. Martin’s

This humorist and social arbiter helps today’s busy everyman
(and -woman) dig deeper friendships.

Jeanne Martinet is also the author of:
The Art of Mingling; Truer Than True Romance

Be Cents Able

How to Cut Your Household Budget in Half

Plume

These entrepreneurial moms leverage their popular website on saving money.

Tradestream Your Way to Profits

Building a Killer Portfolio in the Age of Social Media

Wiley

Miller is managing director of a boutique investment firm and an occasional guest on CNBC’s Squawk Box.

THE SUCCESSFUL ARTIST’S CAREER GUIDE: FINDING YOUR WAY IN THE BUSINESS OF ART

North Light

Professional costume painter and dyer for Broadway and author of INKBLOT: A Fun Tool for Seeing and Freeing Your Creative Self (Boyds Mills Press) and MAKE YOUR MARK (Chronicle). Her newest book, THE SUCCESSFUL ARTIST’S CAREER GUIDE: FINDING YOUR WAY IN THE BUSINESS OF ART (North Light) will be published in February 2012.

AMERICAN CHICK IN SAUDI ARABIA

Sasson is a women’s rights advocate, an authority on the Middle East, and the author of the #1 international bestseller PRINCESS: Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia.

International bestselling author

Jean Sasson is also the author of:
Princess: Life Behind the Veil; Growing Up Bin Laden: Osama’s Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World; Mayada, Daughter of Iraq; Love in a Torn Land

Stress Less

The New Science That Shows Women How to Rejuvenate the Body and the Mind

Hudson Street

Singer has a gift for taking complicated science from Nobel Prize–winning scientists and presenting it in an accessible way for a general audience.

Zeus

A Journey Across Greece in the Footsteps of a God

Bloomsbury

Stone is a historian, food writer and the author of six books about Greece and Greek culture and language.

Tom Stone is also the author of:
The Summer of My Greek Taverna

Meanwhile, Back at Café Du Monde...

Life Stories About Food

Pelican Publishing

Based on the “Meanwhile, Back at Café du Monde...” live shows, these 67 food stories will invoke your tasty memories of life, love, family and friends; they will warm your heart, feed your soul and make you pause to savor the sweetness of life.