Pamela Katz’s The Partnership: Brecht, Weill, Three Women, and Germany on the Brink, a freshly researched group portrait of the Weimar-era working relationship between Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, which resulted in the masterpieces “The Threepenny Opera” and “The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” and the three women–Lotte Lenya, Helene Weigl and Elisabeth Hauptmann–who were their wives, lovers, and sometimes unacknowledged collaborators. To Doubleday for Nan A. Talese Books.

Pulitzer Prize winner Debby Applegate’s That Infamous Woman Polly Adler: a story of gangsters, gamblers, and the NY literati, and how prostitution played a key role in the emergence of women in the work force, from seamstresses to starlets. To Knopf Doubleday

Scientific American editor George Musser’s Emergent Space, a book that brings together research that suggests that space may not be fundamental, and that if we can figure out how it emerged, we may finally make sense of the origin and ultimate fate of the universe. To Simon & Schuster.

Wesleyan Science and Society fellow Gretchen Bakke’s The Grid, a revelatory narrative about America’s need for electricity, the dangers of the fragile system that brings it to us, and the future of energy. To Bloomsbury.

Director of U. Va’s Center for Politics Larry Sabato’s The Kennedy Half-Century, the story of how Kennedy’s death has never stopped affecting and influencing the general  public, the media, and every president who followed him, based on interviews with ordinary citizens and major political and media figures, original polling, and new archival finds, to tie in with a PBS special marking the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination in 2013. To Bloomsbury

Howard Megdal’s Step Right Up, a humorous self-portrait of one obsessed fan and his quest to become the general manager of the New York Mets. To Bloomsbury.

ACLU President Susan Herman’s “Cheating on the Constitution: The War on Terror and the Corrosion of American Rights,” about how the Patriot Act and other domestic anti-terror laws have adversely affected the lives of ordinary Americans.  To Oxford University Press.

Author of How to Sew a Button: And Other Nifty Things Your Grandmother Knew, Erin Bried’s How to Build a Fire: And Other Handy Things Your Grandfather Knew, a practical, back-to-basics handbook for life, containing more than 100 step-by-step essential how-tos, as told by grandfathers, from the basic (change a flat tire), to the sweet (make homemade ice cream), to the serious (be brave), to the celebratory (play the harmonica). To Ballantine.

Ellen Forney’s Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me, a graphic novel in which the artist chronicles her own wild manias and deep depressions, while weaving stories of famous bipolar artists and writers throughout, to explore the relationship between “craziness” and creativity. To Gotham.

Hubble Space Telescope scientist and author of Is God a Mathematician, Mario Livio’s Blunders: Insights from the Colossal Mistakes of the Greatest Thinker, which examines the fascinating errors made by some of history’s greatest scientists (Darwin, Einstein, etc), showing that such blunders sometimes led to great insights instead of disastrous results.  To Simon & Schuster.

Fred Guterl’s Endgame, describing the numerous threats to human existence,and showing how advanced technology—the very thing that puts us at risk—is the only thing that can save us. To  Bloomsbury.

Betty Caroli’s Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Story of the Marriage that Shaped Johnson: a long-overdue re-examination of the role Lady Bird played in Lyndon’s life, in politics, and in the marriage.To Simon & Schuster

Helen Zia’s Exodus, Shanghai: Fleeing Mao, Changing the World, the first history of the Shanghai diaspora at the end of the Chinese civil war and how it changed the futures of Taiwan, Hong Kong, the US, and China, based on original research uncovered during her Fulbright in China. To Ballantine.

Former Gawker.com writer Sheila McClear’s The Last of the Live Nude Girls, in which she chronicles her life as a former peep show dancer, explores the underbelly of the new Times Square, and wonders over the universal impulse to look — and be seen. To Soft Skull Press.

Jennette Fulda’s Chocolate & Vicodin: And Other Failed Cures for the Headache that Wouldn’t Go Away, in which the author humorously explores the twisted maze of eastern and western medicine as she visits doctors, acupuncturists, and chiropractors, and ingests pills, pot, and obscene amounts of ice cream, all in search of the elusive cure for her chronic pain. To Pocket.

Lucy Knisley’s Relish, a graphic memoir of her coming-of-age in a family of foodies, as she travels with her chef mother and gourmand father through different countries and cultures and develops her own complex palate, which includes an appreciation for everything from foie gras to McDonald’s french fries; in full-color. To First Second Books.

Baseball Prospectus’s annual Baseball Prospectus 2010, 2011, and 2012, the think tank’s guide to and analysis of the baseball season. To Wiley.

CIA scholar Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’s In Spies We Trust: A History of International Intelligence and National Security in the West, a sweeping survey of the development of the modern intelligence agency in the US and Europe. To Oxford.

Artist and ‘zinester Nicole Georges’s Calling Dr. Laura, chronicling the author’s adventures in uncovering a dark family secret - her father isn’t dead as her mother led her to believe - during which she enlists the help of a psychic, a right wing radio talk show host, punk rockers, and animal friends. To Beacon Press.

New York Times reporter Kate Stone Lombardi’s The Bond: A New Look at Mothers and Sons, based on dozens of highly revealing interviews about the new closeness many mothers feel with their sons, and its effect on family relationships, marriage, and masculinity. To Avery/Dutton

Historian Amy Greenberg’s The Frightful Struggle: How four Men and One War Changed America, a narrative of the US-Mexico War, a bad war that left an indelible signature on America’s identity and purpose, through the eyes of four key participants transformed by it - James Polk, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln, and Nicholas Trist. To Knopf.

Independent scholar (Yale Ph.D) and essayist Pamela Haag’s Marriage and Its Discontents, a probing, yet often humorous guide to the author’s own generation’s struggles to revitalize marriage; a portrait of the surprises that overtook a generation of women ready to throw off the old marital script but not fully prepared for the twists and turns that come with rewriting the rules. To HarperCollins.

UCLA Research Psychiatrist Dr. Jeffrey M. Schwartz, and UCLA Research Psychiatrist and on-air Psychiatrist in A&E’s new TV show OBSESSED, Rebecca Gladding’s Free Will and Free Won’t: How to Achieve Long Term-Relief from Panic Attacks to Rages, Anxiety to Phobias, Obsession, Compulsions and Depression, which builds on the highly successful program Schwartz developed to treat OCD and Schwartz and Gladding extended to all the bad brain urges. To Avery Books.

Pulitzer finalist for nonfiction,William Hitchcock’s The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s, a history of the Eisenhower years. To The Free Press.

University of Chicago professor Martha Nussbaum’s Capabilities, a primer on her theory explaining the meaning of justice, and how we can achieve equality even in the face of varying economic circumstances. To Harvard University Press.

Investor’s Business Daily columnist and ESPN.com contributor Jonah Keri’s The Impossible Team: How a Bunch of Baseball Outsiders Turned Failure into Fortune, about how the Tampa Bay Rays brough Wall Street principles to the baseball diamond. To Ballantine/ESPN.

Bruce Tulgan’s It’s Okay to Manage the Boss, his follow-up book to his highly successful It’s Okay to Be the Boss, which argues that in today’s business environment of shifting relationships and short-term assignments, learning how to manage multiple bosses to obtain the support and resources you need is critical for success. To Jossey-Bass

Recent Today Show guest, popular blogger, and author of the widely publicized essay Fat is Contagious, Kimberly Brittingham’s Read My Hips, her unflinching, humorous and uplifting story of how she learned to ditch dieting, love her body, and live life to the fullest no matter what her jean size. To Harmony Books/Random House.

Oklahoma State Associate Professor of English Linda Leavell’s Possessed to Write: The Biography of Marianne Moore, the first biography to be written with the full cooperation of the Moore Estate, and the first to relate Moore’s unusual private life to her poetry. To Farrar, Straus.

University of Hawaii Anthropology professor Terry Hunt and California State University associate professor of Anthropology Carl Lipo’s untitled work on their various explorations of the archeology of Polynesia. To the Free Press.

Visiting Scholar at Berkeley’s History of Science department Joshua Roebke’s The Invisible World, a sweeping historical narrative of what physicists accomplished in the twentieth century in their quest to understand the fundamental laws and fabric of the universe–and a cultural history that illuminates what that tumultuous century, in all its beauty and terror, did, in turn to them. To Farrar, Straus.

Professor Emeritus, UCal Santa Barbara, and author of The Little Ice Age, Brian Fagan’s Water, a majestic history spanning five thousand years that shows that our current water management attitudes and policies have deep, if inconspicuous, roots in the recent past, to be followed by a second book, Decoding the Oceans. To Bloomsbury Press.

Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, historian John Fonte’s Sovereignty or Submission: Will Americans Rule Themselves or Be Ruled by Others?, which will explain why the 21st century may see liberal democracy and the nation state come to exist in name only; the story of the global governance movement, how it has created a post-democratic Europe through the European Union, and how it threatens to create a post-democratic United States through a weakening of national sovereignty, national identity, mass immigration without integration, and the formation of a bi-national state. To Encounter Books.

Curve magazine columnist Gina Daggett’s debut novel Jukebox: A Love Story, chronicling the heart-wrenching and ultimately uplifting adventures of two debutantes who fall deeply in love - with each other, to Bella Books.

University of Chicago professor Martha Nussbaum’s Loving the Nation: Toward a New Patriotism, to be written with her student, Jeffrey Israel, as they offer a redefinition of patriotism as an essential quality of the citizen who would do good in the community, the nation, and the world. To Yale University Press.

Author of The CIA and American Democracy and The FBI: A History scholar Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’s Triumph of the Left, the story of how progressives have set America’s political agenda since the early twentieth century. To the University of California Press.