Here are some books that you may want to keep your eye on that have just been released:

Handle with Care (Jodi Piccoult) Description: “Handle with Care” explores the knotty tangle of medical ethics and personal morality. When faced with the reality of a fetus who will be disabled, should a parent have the right to consider termination? Bestselling author Picoult explores a timely yet controversial issue in her latest novel.

Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption (Jennifer Thompson-Cannin) Description: What happened in this book will change what you think of the criminal justice system in this country. Each of [the authors] tells an extraordinary story about crime . . . but it’s their shared spiritual journey toward reconciliation and forgiveness that is even more compelling and profound.–Barry C. Scheck.

A Lion Called Christian (Anthony Bourke) Description: In 2008 an extraordinary two-minute film clip appeared on YouTube and immediately became an international phenomenon. It captures the moving reunion of two young men and their pet lion Christian, after they had left him in Africa with Born Free’s George Adamson to introduce him into his rightful home in the wild. A Lion Called Christian tells the remarkable story of how Anthony “Ace” Bourke and John Rendall, visitors to London from Australia in 1969, bought the boisterous lion cub in the pet department of Harrods. For several months, the three of them shared a flat above a furniture shop on London’s King’s Road, where the charismatic and intelligent Christian quickly became a local celebrity, cruising the streets in the back of a Bentley, popping in for lunch at a local restaurant, even posing for a fashion advertisement. But the lion cub was growing up—fast—and soon even the walled church garden where he went for exercise wasn’t large enough for him. How could Ace and John avoid having to send Christian to a zoo for the rest of his life? A coincidental meeting with English actors Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, stars of the hit film Born Free, led to Christian being flown to Kenya and placed under the expert care of “the father of lions” George Adamson. Incredibly, when Ace and John returned to Kenya to see Christian a year later, they received a loving welcome from their lion, who was by then fully integrated into Africa and a life with other lions. Originally published in 1971, and now fully revised and updated with more than 50 photographs of Christian from cuddly cub in London to magnificent lion in Africa,A Lion Called Christian is a touching and uplifting true story of an indelible human-animal bond. It is is destined to become one of the great classics of animal literature.

New York Times Best Seller List for Fiction this week:

1. HANDLE WITH CARE, by Jodi Picoult. A woman whose daughter has a dangerous birth defect must decide whether to sue her obstetrician, an old friend.
2. CORSAIR, by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul. Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon search for a missing secretary of state whose plane has been shot down.
3. THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham. An idealistic law-school graduate is forced to take a job at a large, brutalizing law firm.
4. THE HOST, by Stephenie Meyer. One woman won’t surrender to the aliens who have taken control.
5. RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. A New York detective raising 10 children alone must stop a killer.
6. PROMISES IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb. Lt. Eve Dallas investigates a colleague’s murder; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.
7. THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. A journalist travels to the island of Guernsey to meet residents who resisted the Nazi occupation.
8. HEART AND SOUL, by Maeve Binchy. A doctor establishes a heart clinic in a Dublin neighborhood.
9. ONE DAY AT A TIME, by Danielle Steel. A Hollywood mother and her two daughters all find love.
10. DEAD SILENCE, by Randy Wayne White. Doc Ford searches for a kidnapped boy.

New York Times Best Seller List for Non-Fiction this week:

1. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed, from the author of “Blink.”
2. A LION CALLED CHRISTIAN, by Anthony Bourke and John Rendall. Two men buy a pet lion cub in London, bring him to Africa when he is grown, and later have a heartwarming reunion; an update of a 1971 book.
3. HOUSE OF CARDS, by William D. Cohan. The fall of Bear Stearns and the beginning of the Wall Street collapse.
4. THE YANKEE YEARS, by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci. The former Yankee manager (1996-2007) on his years with the team.
5. THE LOST CITY OF Z, by David Grann. A New Yorker writer searches for a British explorer who disappeared 80 years ago in the Amazon.
6. MY BOOKY WOOK, by Russell Brand. A memoir of sex, drugs and stand-up from a British comedian.
7. INSIDE THE REVOLUTION, by Joel C. Rosenberg. The power of three groups in the Middle East: Islamic radicals, moderate reformers and Muslims who are becoming Christians.
8. DEWEY, by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter. The kitten left freezing in the returned-book slot of an Iowa public library and his rise to fame.
9. A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY, by Bill O’Reilly. The Fox News commentator on his upbringing and career.
10. THE UNFORGIVING MINUTE, by Craig M. Mullaney. A soldier’s coming-of-age.

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