American Bar Association
Garner on Language and Writing (Sept., $59.95) by Bryan Garner anthologizes over 100 of the expert's essays on writing, language and style.
Antique Collectors' Club
Soviet Impressionist Painting (Nov., $125) by Vern Swanson contributes a complete reference to a genre considered to be a vibrant and powerful school of art.
Collins Reference
The Greatest Presidential Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy (Oct., $18.95) by Rick Beyer gathers little-known stories about the nation's leaders.
Mafia: The Government's Secret File on Organized Crime (Oct., $39.95) compiles the government's Black Book of Organized Crime circa 1960, featuring the 800 most lethal figures in the Mafia.
Faber & Faber
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Nov., $35) by John Truby is the first book by a Hollywood storytelling teacher, based on lessons from his award-winning Great Screenwriting class.
5 Continents
(dist. by antique collectors' club)
Baule: Visions of Africa (Oct., $34.95) by Alain-Michel Boyer investigates the art of the Baule people, which is so varied that it seems to come from different cultures.
Langenscheidt/Hammond
The Hammond Concise World Atlas (Oct., $29.95) presents updated relief maps as well as population figures and other statistics.
Hamlyn
(dist. by Sterling)
Top 10 of Everything 2008 (Oct., $24.95) by Russell Ash gathers 600 new and updated lists of the best, worst, deadliest, richest and more—from movies to natural disasters.
Scala Publishers
(dist. by antique collectors' club)
America's Treasures at Bayou Bend: Celebrating Fifty Years (Sept., $45) by Michael K. Brown highlights one of the world's greatest collections of American furniture, paintings and decorative arts.
Univ. of Arizona Press
The Great Cacti: Ethnobotany and Biogeography (Dec., $59.95) by David Yetman provides a references for more than 100 species of columnar cacti; includes 366 color photos.
Writer's Digest Books
Legends of Literature: The Best Articles, Interviews, and Essays from the Archives ofWriter's DigestMagazine (Sept., $19.99), edited by Phillip Sexton, culls from more than 80 years of issues and includes many author profiles.
