Tell-alls to memoirs, how-tos to hefty tomes, the few to the far between... 

Life with My Sister Madonna
By Christopher Ciccone, With Wendy Leigh

I still think the pop queen/home-wrecker can best be summed up in David Letterman’s words: “You know, I have a theory about that Madonna: She loves to shock.” There, I’ve just saved you $26.00 on a greedy brother’s sleazy tell-all chronicling his sister’s lifetime of scandal.

Lessons from My Uncle James: Beyond Skin Color to the Content of Our Character
By Ward Connerly

Stressing the virtues of personal accountability over the culture of victimhood, Ward Connerly has successfully campaigned to ban racial preferences in state institutions in California, Washington and Michigan. In Lessons from Uncle James, Connerly argues that even after we move beyond the color of our skin, we must still address the content of our character in the goal toward achieving a color-blind society.

Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches
By John W. Creswell

Comparing three different approaches to inquiries in the human and social sciences, the Professor of Educational Psychology (University of Nebraska at Lincoln) looks at the claims, and explains the processes of research design and writing. Written to aid those preparing proposals for scholarly journals or dissertations, the text takes readers through the steps of the process of research, addressing the different approaches of the three methods.

Journey of a Thousand Miles: My Story
By Lang Lang, David Ritz

The 25-year-old Chinese piano prodigy chronicles his coming of age. By the age of five, he won first place in the Shenyang Piano Competition, and his father soon pressed him to become the number one pianist in the world. Through a series of loosely connected anecdotes, Lang Lang recounts the story of his father's fierce determination to have Lang Lang win at all costs and his father's willingness to sacrifice almost everything — his parents’ marriage, financial security, Lang Lang’s childhood, and the family’s reputation in China’s insular classical music world — for his son's success. Following acclaim in China and Europe, Lang and his father move to Philadelphia, where Lang enrolls in the prestigious Curtis School of Music at age 14. By 17, Lang substituted for André Watts at the Ravinia Festival in suburban Chicago and launched his career. An engaging cultural commentator who bridges East and West, Lang Lang has written an autobiography that also opens a door to China, where Lang Lang is a cultural icon.