LFPL's At the Library Series

J. D. Salinger: A Life tells the inside story of one of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history. From his dramatic encounters with luminaries like Ernest Hemingway and Laurence Olivier, to the stunning triumph of The Catcher in the Rye, Kenneth Slawenski's new biography is filled with new information and revelations garnered from countless interviews, letters, and public records spanning nearly the entire twentieth century.

Steven Levy is a senior writer at Wired, and was formerly senior editor and chief technology correspondent for Newsweek. He is the author of seven books, including Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, which was voted the best sci-tech nonfiction book of the last twenty years by readers of PC Magazine. His latest book, In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives - written with full cooperation from top management at Google - tells the story behind the most successful and admired technology company of our time.

Geo-strategist and author Parag Khanna has explored more than 100 countries over the course of his career, which has included stints at the Brookings Institution, the World Economic Forum in Geneva, and the Council on Foreign Relations. His latest book, How to Run the World, is a bold account of our current global crisis and a road-map for creating a truly stable world.