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Bill Clinton could go miles toward repairing his Karma by freeing Native American leader LEONARD PELTIER, whose memoir, Prison Writings (St. Martin's), shows him unbowed, despite 23 years in federal prison for a crime he most likely did not commit.

Also this month: The great white writer rises (with a little help from son Patrick) in True at First Light (Scribner), ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S fictional memoir of his final he-manly rompings in Africa. Five years ago, a cult leader under siege roasted his entire flock, except for 12 children; now those children are disappearing in HOWARD and SUSAN KAMINSKY'S suspense story, The Twelve (St. Martin's). In In the Blink of an Eye (Random House), veteran A.P. reporter PAT MILTON sifts through the F.B.I.'s files on the unsolved mystery of the crash of TWA Flight 800. Get into ERIC KOHLER'S swingy In the Groove (Chronicle), album-cover graphics from the 1940s to the 1960s. The works of the architect commissioned to design the Berlin Holocaust Memorial are showcased in Peter Eisenman: Diagram Diaries (Universe). GIOIA DILIBERTO'S bio A Useful Woman (Scribner) delivers the vitals on Jane Addams, early-20th-century do-gooder deity to the poor. To benefit UNICEF'S educational programs, swanky-bag fanciers such as Henry Kissinger, Grandmaster Flash, and Sharon Stone play | ball with the Louis Vuitton World Cup soccer ball in Rebonds (Louis Vuitton/uNiCEF). In A Certain Age (Doubleday), former lit-brat-packer TAMA JANOWITZ satirizes that increasingly commonplace creature, the female desperate to marry well—before her biological clock blows up. Fifty years after its original publication, E. B. WHITE'S timeless memoir, Here Is New York (the Little Bookroom), recounts his early days in 1940s Manhattan. A quarter-century after Nixon's resignation, BOB WOODWARD revisits the scandal that made him and examines how Watergate's heritage continues to infect and inform our cultural history in Shadow (Simon & Schuster). STEVEN HELLER and LOUISE FILI put together a glorious typographical history from the Victorian era to the Digital Age in Typology (Chronicle). STACEY RICHTER goes for the absurd jugular in her warped and witty stories in My Date with Satan (Scribner). It's my guess that more people lose their virginity in the summer than at any other time of year—pop your cherry with Virgin Fiction 2 (Rob Weisbach Books), collected short fiction by previously unpublished writers. Go forth and conquer.

ELISSA SCHAPPELL