A World of New Titles

[...]any new Neil Gaiman release is automatically going to get my attention. First catching my attention was Antoine Laurain's The President's Hat (Gallic, dist. by Consortium, Sept.). Winner of the Prix Médicis for nonfiction, The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga (Rizzoli Ex Libris, Sept.) recalls Sylvain Tesson's experiment in isolation and solitude on Russia's Lake Baikal with only his notebooks, his books, and many bottles of vodka to keep him company: "I'd promised myself that before I turned forty, I would live as a hermit deep in the woods." Besides chopping wood for his stove, fishing, and skating on the lake, Tesson spent a lot of time reading from his carefully selected library of 70 titles. [...]with Legends, Icons & Rebels: Music that Changed the World (Tundra, Oct.), authors Robbie Robertson (singer-songwriter and member of The Band), his son Sebastian Robertson, Jim Guerinot, and Jared Levine have penned profiles of famous figures in modern music history, including Billie Holiday, Sam Cooke, Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, and more--aimed at both young readers and their parents.