The Experts’ Guide to Doing Things Faster By: Samantha Ettus
(Clarkson Potter)
This useful guide to ordinary tasks will help you win the race against the clock!

John Lennon: The Life By: Philip Norman
(Ecco)
This massive biography gives insight into the amazing career and rocky personal path of the “intellectual” Beatle.

The Tsarina’s Daughter By: Carolly Erickson
(St. Martin’s Press)
This historical novel is the romantic story of doomed Tatiana Romanov (daughter of czar Nicholas).

The Private Patient By: P.D. James
(Knopf)
James’ 14th Adam Dalgliesh mystery features an engros-sing narrative centered on a journalist’s murder.

Time of My Life By: Allison Winn Scotch
(Shaye Areheart)
Jillian wakes up seven years in the past and must choose between her future husband and past boyfriend.

Passive Aggressive Notes By: Kerry Miller
(Collins)
This hilarious collection of hostile yet polite notes will have you recalling your own Post-it note debacles.

Knit Two By: Kate Jacobs
(Putnam Adult)
The follow-up to Friday Night Knitting Club finds Georgia’s daughter, Dakota, at college, working at a yarn shop part time.

Influence By: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
(Razorbill)
The Olsen twins abandon tween fare with this pretentious fashion tome — a listing of sartorial favorites and fashion figures who influence the mini moguls’ personal tastes.

A Mercy By: Toni Morrison
(Knopf)
Nobel laureate Morrison presents another powerful, poetic tale of the foundations of race relations in America. Set in 1682, when a young slave girl winds up on a Maryland farm with other displaced women.

Thin Is the New Happy By: Valerie Frankel
(St. Martin’s Press)
In this fresh, insightful weight-loss memoir, Frankel shares her experiences, from childhood dieting to eating disorders at Mademoiselle to gaining self-acceptance.