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Hey, ladies! In a once-randy New Jersey suburb, a high school's staging of Aristophanes' Lysistrcita bewitches the local female population into rebuffing the amorous advances of their male partners, much to everyone's consternation: In The Uncoupling (Riverhead) stealth feminist Meg Wolitzer expertly teases out the socio-sexual power dynamics between men and women. As if adolescence isn't freaky enough, the charmingly sassy teen dwarf in Rachel DeWoskin'sBig Girl Small (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) becomes the victim of a cruel and compromising prank.

Carolyn Burke honors the iconic French chanteuse Edith Piaf, who lived her life with No Regrets (Knopf). Meghan O'Rourke offers The Long Goodbye (Riverhead), a poetic and luminous memoir of her late mother. In Molly

Peacock'sThe Paper Garden (Bloomsbury), Mary Delany, inspired by a fallen petal, begins creating cut-paper botanicals, thus inventing the art of collage. Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton spin the lives of The Record Players (Grove/Black Cat), D.J. revolutionaries from rock to disco to techno. Michael Crummey'sGalore (Other Press) is a feat of Newfoundland-style magic realism. Gaze in wonder (or horror) at Aerotropolis (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay's vision of the next era of globalization, a combination airport/planned city/shipping port. Why can John Boehner blubber like a toddler, but Hillary Clinton must not weep? Boardroom-savvy Anne Kreamer considers the roles emotion and gender play in the workplace, because it's never just business, It's Always Personal (Random House). Not tonight, dear, I've got a headache. -ELISSA SCHAPPELL

Ted Danson'sOceana (Rodale) is an SOS to save our seas. Scott Gummer catches Little League Parents Behaving Badly (Touchstone). Harold Bloom delves into The Anatomy of Influence (Yale). Charles Fishman taps into the truth about water in The Big Thirst (Tantor Media).

Tim Flannery records the evolution of life Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet (Atlantic). Diane Ackerman proposes One Hundred Names for Love (Norton). Howard Gardner has a vision of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed (Basic Books). Howard Schultz brews up the transformation of Starbucks in Onward (Rodale). Sheryl Crow and Chuck White say eat it If It Makes You Healthy (St. Martin's). David Duffy's antihero, a former K.G.B. operative, is the Last to Fold (Thomas Dunne). Paula Fox's stories and essays trumpet News from the World (Norton). Nonagenarian Roy Rowan shows that it's Never Too Late (Lyons) to cut loose. Carl Bernstein probes The CIA and the Media:

An Unfinished History (MCM). A boy and a kitten pal around in John Patrick Byrne'sDonald & Benoit (Universe). Luanne Rice floats in The Silver Boat (Viking). Jennet Conant carries on A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the O.S.S. (Simon & Schuster). Jim Rasenberger plunges back into the Bay of Pigs in The Brilliant Disaster (Scribner).

ELISSA SCHAPPELI