Forced to puddle-jump for their cocktail fix during Prohibition, many flocked to the American Bar at the Savoy Hotel in London. Now the long out-of-print imbiber’s bible, The Savoy Cocktail Book (Trafalgar Square), is being published for the first time in the United States, providing a new generation with a corking array of rickeys, daisies, slings, shrubs, smashes, fizzes, juleps, and more.

Also this month: A troubled therapist narrates his tale of woe from the ceiling of a pancake house in DONALD ANTRIM'S pitch-black comic novel, The Verificationist (Knopf). Medium ROSEMARY ALTEA talks readers through “unleashing the force within” in You Own the Power (Morrow). Variety editor in chief PETER BART rats out the industry in Who Killed Hollywood? (Renaissance). Journalist JOHN COLAPINTO'S As Nature Made Him (HarperCollins) examines the case of a botched circumcision which turned a baby boy into a girl, creating a real dustup in the nurture-vs.-nature fight. Basil Street Blues: A Memoir (Norton) recounts how renowned biographer MICHAEL HOLROYD dug into what he assumed was his rather ordinary family history, only to get a faceful of dirt. A Season on the Reservation (Morrow) is Laker big man KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR'S tale of coaching a Native American basketball team. The greatest designs of the last century rub shoulders and table legs in the herculean volume World Design (Chronicle). A force of nature in and of himself, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet MARK STRAND'S essays on the art and nature of poetry appear in The Weather of Words (Knopf). STEVEN VARNI surfs a tsunami of family guilt in his arresting debut novel. The Inland Sea (Morrow). Rebuilding the Reichstag (Overlook) charts the progress of SIR NORMAN FOSTER as he reconstructs the German seat of power under an enormous glass dome. RENATA ADLER'S Gone: The Last Days q/ The New Yorker (Simon & Schuster) fairly brims with glorydays gossip and insight into Mr. Shawn and his legacy. Historical novelist THOMAS MALLON'S Two Moons (Pantheon) orbits the worlds of astronomy, politics, and romance. Camera over Hollywood (DAP) offers Depression-era photographer JOHN SWOPES'S glimpses into the workaday world of vintage Tinseltown. Everybody grab a buddy—here are two more to explore: The Global Soul (Knopf) tracks the thrill-seeking multi-culti poster boy PICO IYER'S search for home, and NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE remembers the enigmatic travel writer Bruce Chatwin (Doubleday). Passports ready?