FIRST PERSON
September BookPage interviews:

Christopher Paolini's dragon ride to publishing success

Jane Smiley, reading 100 books one page at a time

Myla Goldberg: Author follows up her smash debut with a story of the 1918 flu epidemic

Sharon G. Flake is helping children cope with violence

Meet Laurent de Brunhoff

Meet Anita Diamant

FEATURES

Paula Deen cooks up Southern Classics

Carnton Plantation: The house that inspired Robert Hicks' Civil War novel

Well Read: Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder shares his wartime experiences

Investing: Making the most of your money

FICTION

The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch

Vita by Melania G. Mazzucco

The Diviners by Rick Moody

Third Girl from the Left by Martha Southgate

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis

Remains Silent by Michael Baden and Linda Kenney

Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell

Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel

Out of Season by Robert Bausch

The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich

The Myth of You & Me by Leah Stewart

The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette by Carolly Erickson

Effendi by Jon Courtenay Grimwood

BOOK CLUBS

Selections in new paperback releases

Flush by Carl Hiaasen

Mercy Watson to the Rescue by Kate DiCamillo

The Giants and the Joneses by Julia Donaldson

Leonardo the Terrible Monster by Mo Willems

Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert

New Arrivals: Books to welcome baby
Who's That Baby? by Sharon Creech
If You Were My Baby by Fran Hodgkins
Bad Baby by Ross MacDonald
Dear Baby by Sarah Sullivan

NONFICTION

Media
Talking Back by Andrea Mitchell

History
First Families by Bonnie Angelo
Moondust by Andrew Smith
The Interpreter by Alice Kaplan
My Face Is Black Is True by Mary Frances Berry

Science
Stargazer by Fred Watson

Biography
Edmund Wilson by Lewis M. Dabney

Memoir
The Tulip and the Pope by Deborah Larsen

Law
Storming the Court by Brandt Goldstein

Sports
A Necessary Spectacle by Selena Roberts