Domke offers a dynamic study of the rise of religion in American politics, examining the public messages of political leaders over the past seventy-five years. The God Strategy concludes that U.S. politics today are defined by a calculated, deliberate and partisan use of faith that is unprecedented in modern politics. Domke’s work documents how this occurred, who has done it and why, and what it means for the American experiment in democracy.

Hagel, Nebraska’s senior Senator, and a respected politician, uses common sense and frankness to remind Americans of what they like best about their country in his new book. Hagel looks to the nation’s founding principles and gives his clear-eyed view of the state of our nation. In four separate sections, Hagel illustrates his personal perspectives, historical analysis and carefully considered solutions to the economic, foreign policy, national security, political, domestic, and leadership challenges facing America.

The Stem Cell Dilemma delivers the complete story of stem cell science, starting with Renaissance artist, engineer, and anatomist Leonardo da Vinci to the present. The authors explain the latest developments in stem cell science and how it can revolutionize the world of medicine with new treatments and cures for devastating injuries and disease. Through thoughtful analysis, The Stem Cell Dilemma also addresses the bio ethical and biological questions raised and the economic impact around the globe.  Gain valuable insights into this new bio-renaissance and what it means to be human in a technological age.

Tanghe, along with agricultural journalist Tim King, presents a collection of recipes from Minnesota’s outstanding restaurants with a special commitment to locally grown, organic, sustainable cookery in The Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook. Combining the rich traditions and cultural cuisines and familiar comfort foods from Minnesota’s finest local restaurants, this book provides illustrated profiles of each restaurant, chef and locale.

Bibel explains the significance of not only the infamous black box and its contents, but also how past plane crash investigations have increased our current standard of airline safety.  Beyond the Black Box provides a behind-the-scenes look at plane wreck investigation from 1931 to the present. Bibel explains why crashes occur and how forensic experts, scientists, and engineers analyze factors like impact, debris, loading, fire patterns, metallurgy, fracture, crash testing, and human tolerances to improve aircraft design and safety. Using detailed graphs, diagrams and photographs, Bible shows that plane crashes are rare and quite survivable.

Buettner, along with a team of demographers and scientists, set out to uncover the secrets of the Blue Zones—four geographic regions where small populations are living remarkably long and healthy lives.  Based on research into their unique lifestyles and recent studies that show habits determine up to 90% of our life expectancy, Buettner details exactly how to incorporate these same powerful lifestyle characteristics into your daily routine. The Blue Zone not only identifies good habits, but also offers action plans from leading behavior experts to help you achieve the best results.

Buettner recommends the Vitality Compass, a longevity measuring tool created in conjunction with the Minnesota School of Public Health, to give readers a starting point against which to measure their lifestyle factors.

Bloomfield and El-Fakahany, leading scientists,deliver a comprehensive toolkit for aspiring scientists who are trying to decide what degree to seek, whether to go to graduate school, how to select a mentor and how to secure a position. This book is intended to help beginning scientists not just cope, but excel in the rewarding and competitive field of scientific research.

Phillips investigates the decline of the dollar over the last six years, a result of Washington’s debt-financed and botched, petroleum-driven invasion of Iraq, and explores the political and commercial implications of the dollar’s plummeting value.  The loss of manufacturing jobs, the growth of the financial services industry and the mortgage crisis all point to the economic shifts in our nation. Phillips, who warned of the perils of U. S. dependence on oil and credit in his book American Theocracy, is back with his latest work to show how economics and politics intersect and pinpoints issues and themes which every candidate and citizen will need to consider.

Farah delivers the unforgettable portrait of a woman searching for her identity in a land where women are under constant threat of violence and rape as Cambara, a Somali-Canadian, returns to her home land of Mogadiscio. Here she faces the challenge of being a stranger in a foreign land as she wrestles with the repressive mores and intolerances—including the wearing of the veil that she views as an assault to her dignity and a major inconvenience. Yet Cambara soon discovers her new identity as a veil-wearer provides her with anonymity in a city where standing out invites violence.

 Knots is the second book in Farah’s trilogy that began with Links.

Burroughs opens old wounds and exposes the rot and chaos of psychological abuse, cruelty, and abandonment he experienced at the hands of his distant, alcoholic father in A Wolf at the Table.
This heart-rending memoir of one man’s struggle to rationalize his turbulent childhood as he struggles through the spaces between love and hate, adoration and abhorrence, and life and death is Burroughs at his most uncompromising and most vulnerable.

Burroughs is the best-selling author of Sellevision, Running with Scissors, Dry, Magical Thinking, and Possible Side Effects.

Burroughs will sign copies of his book following the discussion.