New Releases at Red Hill for the week of December 28th!

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel Pink
Pink, the author of the perennially best-selling A Whole New Mind is back with a new book that looks at the disconnect between what science tells us about human motivation and what actually happens in business, and how that disconnect informs every aspect of our lives.

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, by Liaquat Ahamed
One of the New York Times Books Review's Best Books of the Year is now out in a less-doorstopish paperback edition. Fascinating and accessible, Lords demonstrates how the Great Depression was actually triggered by the mistakes of a small group of powerful bankers, rather than a series of world events beyond any one person's or government's control. In these precarious economic times, Lords is a potent reminder of the sometimes-global effects and far-reaching consequences of human fallability.

Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fforde
For anyone who has not yet discovered the silly joy of reading Fforde's Thursday Next series (especially The Eyre Affair, let us take this as a opportunity to introduce you. Fforde's novels are bookish amalgams of mystery, sci-fi, and the comic novel- think Terry Pratchett blended with P.G. Wodehouse, with a dash of Jane Austen and classic noir. Shades of Grey is one of Fforde's very few stand-alone novels, and promises to be just as funny and dystopian as his others. Highly recommended for folks looking for a light, genre-bending read that delights as much as we do in groan-worthy literary puns and other dorky manifestations of bibliophilia.

The Women, by T.C. Boyle
Boyle's novel about the women in eccentric architect Frank Lloyd Wright's life is now out in paperback! Like Boyle's earlier novel The Inner Circle, which focuses on sexologist Alfred Kinsey's life and work, The Women is a deft and totally entertaining recreation of a particular historical moment, told through the eyes of some of its lesser known participants. Read in combination with Nancy Horan's novel Loving Frank for an especially rich fictional experience.