It's President's Day Eve, that magical time when your loved ones decorate the cherry tree and wait for Honest Abe to come down the chimney. Here's some presents he may be bringing - you know, ones that you won't have to borrow from the library and walk five mile to return.

FICTION: 

Innocent in Death by J. D. Robb

Writing as J.D. Robb, the pseudonym she uses for her futuristic romantic suspense series set in New York in the mid-2000s, the prolific Nora Roberts follows NYPSD cop Lt. Eve Dallas in her endeavor to investigate the murder — with suspects galore — of a popular history teacher at posh academy. At the same time — and this time it's personal! — she needs to deal with an unexpected threat to her marriage with her brilliant billionaire husband as an old flame comes back into his life and rekindles some amorous fires.

Finn by Jon Clinch

In a highly intriguing debut by a new voice in fiction, Jon Clinch, building on recent trends in Twain scholarship, delves into the life and mind of one of American literature's most cryptic figures, Huckleberry Finn's father. In the course of the book, Clinch, lighting out for new literary territory, not only provides us with the back story, he reimagines “Finn” in a remarkable and striking way.

Lord of the Silent Kingdom by Glen Cook

Pandora's Legion: Harold Coyle's Strategic Solutions, Inc. by Harold Coyle, Barrett Tillman

The Hooded Hawke: An Elizabeth I Mystery by Karen Harper

Cat Pay the Devil by Shirley Rousseau Murphy

The Fifth Vial by Michael Palmer

The Edge of Winter by Luanne Rice

Beyond the Gap by Harry Turtledove

NON-FICTION:

Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives? By Sara Davidson

Thirty years ago, Sara Davidson wrote the bestseller Loose Change, the quintessential book about the baby-boomer generation coming of age in the turbulent 1960s. Now the journalist takes her baby-boomer readership on a long, strange trip through middle age and beyond, to answer that subtitled question: "What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives?" You kids get off my lawn!

1001 People Who Made America by Alan Axelrod

Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics by Jennifer Baumgardner

Trust: The Secret Weapon of Effective Business Leaders by Kathy Bloomgarden

Somebody's Gotta Say It by Neal Boortz

It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush by Joe Conason

Final Analysis: The Untold Story of the Susan Polk Murder Case by Catherine Crier, Cole Thompson

Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science by David Lindley

All American: Why I Believe in Football, God, and the War in Iraq by Robert McGovern