IN SHORT

Aleksandar Hemon is on fire in The Making of Zombie Wars (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Kate Betts comes of age in My Paris Dream (Spiegel & Grau). Tom Brokaw anchors A Lucky Life Interrupted (Random House). H. W. Brands gives Reagan (Doubleday) his due. Andrea Mays recites The Millionaire and the Bard (Simon & Schuster). Mika Brzezinski advises Grow Your Value (Weinstein). Mark Z. Danielewski warps in The Familiar (Pantheon). Peter Davis conjures up a Girl of My Dreams (Open Road). Matthew Dennison sees Vita Sackville-West Behind the Mask (St. Martin's). C.I.A. veteran Michael J. Morell fought The Great War of Our Time (Twelve). Nisid Hajari'sMidnight's Furies (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) revisits India's partition. Stevie Phillips relives her show-business days in Judy & Liza & Robert & Freddie & David & Sue & Me ... (St. Martin's). Mina Holland savors The World on a Plate (Penguin). Amitava Kumar has Lunch with a Bigot (Duke). Sara Novic breaks out with Girl at War (Random House). Howard Schatz presents Schatz Images (Glitterati). DW Gibson records how The Edge Becomes the Center (Overlook). William Green probes The Great Minds of Investing (FinanzBuch Verlag). Dean Jobb uncovers an Empire of Deception (Algonquin). Jacob Lief realizes I Am Because You Are (Rodale), with Andrea Thompson.

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