The following are a few of the hottest books in the region. When you click on the link posted after the books description, you will be directed to a professionally produced video designed to assist you make your book buying choice.

	After the Fire: A True Story of Friendship and Survival by Fisher, Robin Gaby Format:  Hardcover (Cloth) Price:  $24.99 Published: Little Brown and Company, 2008 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days   See all editions of this title. This one is a Harvey Pick Click Here to Watch Video On January 19, 2000, a fire raged through SetonHallUniversity's freshman dormitory, killing three students and injuring 58 others. Among the victims were Shawn Simons and Alvaro Llanos, roommates from poor neighborhoods who made their families proud by getting into college. They managed to escape, but both were burned terribly. AFTER THE FIRE is the story of these young men and their courageous fight to recover from the worst damage the burn unit at Saint Barnabas hospital had ever seen. It is the story of the extraordinary doctors and nurses who work with the burned. It is the story of mothers and fathers, of faith and family and the invisible ties that bind us to each other. It is the story of the search for the arsonists--and the elaborate cover-up that nearly obscured the truth. And it is the story of the women who came to love these men, who knew that real beauty is a thing not seen in mirrors
	Mudbound by Jordan, Hillary Format:  Hardcover (Cloth) Price:  $22.95 Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2008 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days   See all editions of this title. Click Here to Watch Video This one is a Rob Pick In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm--a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not--charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has come home with the shine of a war hero. But no matter his bravery in defense of his country, he is still considered less than a man in the Jim Crow South. It is the unlikely friendship of these brothers-in-arms that drives this powerful novel to its inexorable conclusion. The men and women of each family relate their versions of events and we are drawn into their lives as they become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale. As Kingsolver says of Hillary Jordan, "Her characters walked straight out of 1940s Mississippi and into the part of my brain where sympathy and anger and love reside, leaving my heart racing. They are with me still."
	If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice in America's Time of Need by Jacobs, Jack, Century, Douglas Format:  Hardcover (Cloth) Price:  $25.95 Published: Berkley Publishing Group, 2008 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days   See all editions of this title. Click Here to Watch Video A Medal of Honor recipient looks back at his own service during the Vietnam War and ahead to America's future, as he tells his stirring story of heroism and honor and expounds his views on the nature and necessity of sacrifice