IN SHORT

Carol Weston plays with Ava and Pip (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky). Bill White takes stock of America's Fiscal Constitution (PublicAffairs). Nicholas Kulish and Souad Mekhennet hunt The Eternal Nazi (Doubleday). Nelson George hops on the Soul Train in The Hippest Trip in America (Morrow). Photographer Johnny Moncada snaps Veruschka (Rizzoli). Galadrielle Allman remembers daddy Duane in Please Be with Me (Spiegel & Grau). Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu seek to heal the world with The Book of Forgiving (HarperOne). Arianna Huffington exhorts readers to Thrive (Harmony). Relish Michael Gibney'sSous Chef (Ballantine). Judith Stonehill'sGreenwich Village Stories (Universe/Rizzoli) revisits the hotbed of creativity and cool. Graphic memoirist A. K. Summers'sPregnant Butch (Soft Skull) is straight-up hilarious. Pop open Holly George-Warren's bio of Alex Chilton, A Man Called Destruction (Viking). Bobbi Brown outlines Everything Eyes (Chronicle). And V.F. special correspondent Bob Colacello brings back Holy Terror (Vintage).

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