There are some especially interesting books that have just made their ways to the bookstores. 

I often give books to my special client-friends as a Brian Buffini-style "Pop By" rather than two lollipops with a cute card attached, or an American flag on a stick that was made in China, or whatever.

Here are some books worthy of your consideration along with some comments from me:

TONY BENNETT IN THE STUDIO - A Life of Art and Music.                                                         

As his new manager, Tony Bennett's son repackaged his dad a few years back and, by golly, he made him into a new singing sensation.  This guy's over 80, for goodness sakes.  Nevertheless, his concerts are sold out wherever he goes, and he's on the road most of the year.

Although I am a fan of his music, Mr. Bennett's stronger talent is as an artist -- a painter.  This new three-quarter size coffee table book explores his art, and includes narratives.  It's an extraordinary gift.  You're going to be amazed.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE by Laura Ingraham . #1 on New York Times' Best Seller List

I've followed Laura Ingraham's career since she started squishing out from "regular person anonymity" to finally become the most famous and listened to female political commentator in the U.S.

She's one of the few people I would like to be friends with that I have yet to figure out how to meet and be friends with, if you know what I mean.  I think that's because none of my friends know her, so I can't get an introduction.  I just know we'd like each other because we are traveling the same wave length. 

Anyway, her new book is primarily a formula for the citizens to use to rescue the country from the politicians.  But that's not why I'm recommending it to you.  It's because of the chapters that chronicle how she discovered a place for God in her life, and how she has dealt with the death of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer.  At "just past 40"she was baptized and confirmed as a Roman Catholic.  Before that, she recalls being a Baptist for a handful of years as a child; nothing thereafter.  Now she's passionate about what God offers his children.  I am, too.

GOD'S HARVARD - A Christian College on a Mission to Save America -- by Hanna Rosin.

Hanna Rosin is Jewish, in fact from Israel.  Yet somehow she has become a noted reporter on Christianity, and she does it with great passion.  Her new book reveals what is going on in a small college outside of Washington, D.C., known as Patrick Henry College.  Interestingly it has become significantly populated by home schooled Christian young people.   They have a plan for re-establishing the influence of Christianity in our government.

YIDDISH FOR DOGS by Janet Perr. 

This is a cute book.  It has photos of dogs, some in costume, on the left page, and a Yiddish word on the right page that explains them.  Your Jewish friends will love it.  (I know a lot of Yiddish, so I especially got a kick out of it.)

MY GRANDFATHER'S SON, A MEMOIR, by Mr. Justice Clarence Thomas.

Clarence Thomas, the first black appointment to the US Supreme Court (Appointed by former President George Bush), has written a riveting memoir that should be at the least required read of all Black Americans, persons in the legal profession, and all of his critics. 

Ironically, Laura Ingraham, whose book I mentioned above, was a law clerk for Mr. Justice Thomas.  Interestingly, Mr. Justice Thomas was raised, educated and remains a practicing Roman Catholic.  Laura Ingraham converted to Catholicism after she had worked for him, but attributes that conversion to the influence primarily to that of another friend, and not to Mr. Justice Thomas.

BILL CHERRY'S BIO