Titanic's Last Secrets: How Two Wreck Divers Solved the Mystery of the World's Most Notorious Ship by Bradford Matsen
John Chatterton and Richie Kohler are the protagonists of Shadow Divers, the Book Sense Nonfiction Book of the Year in 2004. They are also the hosts of Deep Sea Detectives on The History Channel. Bradford Matsen is the author of many books about the sea and its inhabitants. He was a creative producer for the television series The Shape of Life. His articles on marine science and environmental topics have appeared in Mother Jones, Audubon, and Nature, among other publications.

Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley
Christopher Buckley is the author of twelve books, including Boomsday, Thanks You For Smoking, and No Way To Treat a First Lady, which won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He has published more than fifty comic essays in The New Yorker. In 2002, he received the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence. He is the editor of ForebesLife.

What I Know Now by Henry Alford
Henry Alford is the author of two acclaimed works of investigative humor--Big Kiss: One Actor's Desperate Attempt to Claw His Way to the Top and Municipal Bondage: One Man's Anxiety-Producing Adventures in the Big City. He has been a regular contributor to the New York Times and Vanity Fair, and a staff writer at Spy. He has also written for The New Yorker, GQ, New York, Details, Harper's Bazaar, Travel & Leisure, The Village Voice and Paris Review.

Douglass and Lincoln: The Lives of Self-Made Men by John Stauffer
John Stauffer is Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. His first book, The Black Hearts of Men (Harvard University Press, 2002) was the co-winner of the 2002 Frederick Douglass Book Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Institute and winner of the Avery Craven Book Prize from the Organization of American Historians. He is also the editor of the Modern Library edition of Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom and has written extensively on aspects of biracial friendship.

Nonfiction on FDR and the Supreme Court by Noah Feldman
Noah Feldman is the author of three books, Divided By God: America's Church-State Problem and What We Should Do About It (FSG, 2005); What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building (Princeton University Press, 2004); and After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy (FSG, 2003). In 2003 he was senior constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, and subsequently advised members of the Iraqi Governing Council on the drafting of the Transitional Administrative Law or interim constitution. He is currently a professor at the NYU School of Law, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Apologize, Apologize! by Elizabeth Kelly
Elizabeth Kelly is a magazine editor and award-winning journalist with several Canadian National Magazine Awards and nominations to her credit. Her writing has appeared in many prominent Canadian newspapers and magazines. Her column work was selected to appear in the 2003 edition of Writing Prose (Oxford Press).

A Good Talk by Daniel Menaker
Daniel Menaker has been a part of America's life of letters for almost forty years. As a writer, he has met and talked to thousands of people about their work and their lives. He is widely read and well versed in psychological literature and practices and, as an editor at Random House, has had countless meetings and other exchanges with writers, agents, public figures, and ordinary people. He will be the editorial Producer and presenter of an Internet book project--conversations with writers and others about books--called TitlePage.tv and will also be teaching a course in narrative nonfiction at CUNY starting in February.

Senator Ted Kennedy's Autobiography
Senator Edward M. Kennedy has represented Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate for 45 years. He was elected in 1962 to finish the final two years of the Senate term of his brother, Senator John F. Kennedy, who was elected President in 1960. Since then, Senator Kennedy has been re-elected to seven full terms, and is now the second most senior member of the Senate. He is the youngest of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. This book will be a valuable record for anyone who cares about our government, our politics, and our growth as a nation.

The New Science of Parenting by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
#1 New York Times bestselling author Po Bronson has teamed with Ashley Merryman to write of the surprising, counterintuitive findings from cutting-edge research on child development. Their award-winning journalism, featured in New York magazine, Time and The Guardian, has attracted international attention.

How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still On This Earth) by Henry Alford
Henry Alford is the author of two acclaimed works of investigative humor – Big Kiss: One Actor's Desperate Attempt to Claw His Way to the Top and Municipal Bondage: One Man's Anxiety-Producing Adventures in the Big City. He has been a regular contributor to the New York Times and Vanity Fair, and a staff writer at Spy. He has also written for The New Yorker, GQ, New York, Details, Harper's Bazaar, Travel & Leisure, the Village Voice, and Paris Review.

How we Choose by Sheena Iyengar
For more than a decade, Columbia University professor Sheena Iyengar has studied the contrast between the perceptions and the realities in the way choosers think and behave. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Security Education Program, as well as by numerous businesses. She received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2001, and in 2005 was invited to serve as a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Some of her best-known work was cited in Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, which described her studies of speed-daters and consumers of varying brands of jam.

Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln by John Stauffer
John Stauffer is Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. His first book, The Black Hearts of Men (Harvard University Press, 2002) was the co-winner of the 2002 Frederick Douglass Book Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Institute and winner of the Avery Craven Book Prize from the Organization of American Historians. He is also the editor of the Modern Library edition of Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom and has written extensively on aspects of biracial friendship.

The McMasters Guide to Homicide: Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes
Rupert Holmes is the two-time Edgar and two-time Tony Award winning creator of novels, plays, mystery musicals, and TV series such as: Where the Truth Lies and Swing (fiction); The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Curtains (Broadway musicals); Accomplice and Say Goodnight, Gracie (Broadway plays); Remember WENN (the Emmy award-winning TV "dramedy" series).

Nonfiction on Latino USA by Julia E. Sweig
Julia E. Sweig is the Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow and director for Latin American studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her most recent book is Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century. Her previous book, Inside the Cuban Revolution, won the American Historical Association's Herbert Feis Award for best book of the year by an independent scholar.

The Truth about Liars by Robert S. Feldman
An expert on the phenomenon of deception, Robert S. Feldman is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and an Associate Dean of the College of Social and Behavior Sciences. He has been a recipient of the College Outstanding Teacher Award and is a Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and Association for Psychological Science. For more than 25 years, his research has examined lying and everyday deception. His studies have been supported by grants from the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research.

The Waxman Report by Rep. Henry Waxman
Congressman Henry Waxman has represented the Los Angeles area of California since 1974. His is the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and a member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. During his thirty-plus years in Congress, he has helped craft landmark legislation addressing health and the environment.

Make 'em laugh: The Funny Business of America by Michael Kantor and Laurence Maslon
Michael Kantor is a writer, director and producer whose works include Quincy Jones: In the Pocket for American Masters, Cornerstone for HBO, and The West with Ken Burns. Laurence Maslon is an associate arts professor at New York's University's Tisch School of the Arts. They are the authors of Broadway: The American Musical (Bullfinch), also the companion to an Emmy Award winning, six-part PBS documentary series. Their new work on one-hundred years of comedy in America will also be accompanied by a PBS series.

The Fever or 1721: The Epidemic that Ignited the American Revolution by Stephen Coss
Stephen Coss is a journalist, screenwriter, and former advertising creative director, based in Madison, Wisconsin, where he writes for Madison Magazine and business publications. He first learned about Zabdiel Boylston's groundbreaking inoculation experiment from a "fact-a-day" calendar cube he received as a gift in the mid 1990s. Intrigued by the significance of Boylston's experiment, he began researching the doctor, the procedure, and subsequently, the social, political and religious milieus of 1721 Boston.

P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman by Mitchell Zuckoff
Mitchell Zuckoff is a professor of journalism at Boston University. His writing has been published in The New Yorker and The Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for investigative reporting. He is the author of Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend, a New York Times Editors' Choice book; and Choosing Naia: A Family's Journey, which received the Christopher Award; and co-author of Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders, which was a finalist for the Edgar Award.