If the conscious mind—the part you consider to be you—is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing? In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why can your foot move halfway to the brake pedal before you become consciously aware of danger ahead? Why do you hear your name being mentioned in a conversation that you didn’t think you were listening to? What do Ulysses and the credit crunch have in common? Why did Thomas Edison electrocute an elephant in 1916? Why are people whose names begin with J more likely to marry other people whose names begin with J? Why is it so difficult to keep a secret? And how is it possible to get angry at yourself—who, exactly, is mad at whom? Taking in brain damage, plane spotting, dating, drugs, beauty, infidelity, synesthesia, criminal law, artificial intelligence, and visual illusions, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Pantheon, $26.95) is a thrilling subsurface exploration of the mind and all its contradictions. 8pm

Note: This event is in Spanish. Participe de un encuentro con Ivette Vian presentada por su amigo y colega Santiago Rodríguez. Ivette Vian Altarriba, es natural de Santiago de Cuba, reside y trabaja en La Habana desde 1964, es reconocida nacional e internacionalmente por su literatura infantil que ha sido publicada extensamente en Cuba. Se leerán brevemente algunos de sus cuentos infantiles que serán comentados por la autora quien departirá espontáneamente sobre su trayectoria como escritora literaria, su experiencia como guionista de televisión y del contexto que condujo a su filiación intelectual. Ivette es parte de una generación de artistas e intelectuales que permanecieron durante el llamado Quinquenio Gris, un periodo (1971-1975) que influyó en la vida y obra de sus protagonistas. Gran parte de esa estirpe, afectados por el destierro o dediciones igualmente extremas, desarrollaron su obra en el exilio, muchos otros como Ivette igualmente perturbados, optaron por vivir en la isla sorteando la intrincada topografía del escenario nacional. Su éxito como guionista en la televisión cubana con las series infantiles,‘La Sombrilla Amarilla’ y ‘Tato y Carmina’, (1999-2001), puede compararse con el de Sesame Street en otros países. 8pm

In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why are people whose names begin with J more likely to marry other people whose names begin with J? Why can your foot move halfway to the brake pedal before you become consciously aware of danger ahead? Why is it so difficult to keep a secret? And how is it possible to get angry at yourself—who, exactly, is mad at whom? Taking in brain damage, plane spotting, dating, drugs, beauty, infidelity, synesthesia, criminal law, artificial intelligence, and visual illusions, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Pantheon, $26.95) is a thrilling subsurface exploration of the mind and all its contradictions. 6pm

Ben Franklin saved the American Revolution by seducing French Women. A gay love affair between President James Buchanan and Senator William King aided the secession movement. Woodrow Wilson’s girlfriend dictated his letters to the German Kaiser. And lesbian relationships inspired Eleanor Roosevelt to become a revolutionary crusader for equal rights. The colorful sex lives of America’s most powerful leaders have influenced social movements, government policies, elections and even wars, yet they are so whitewashed by historians that people think Thomas Jefferson and Abe Lincoln were made of marble, not flesh and blood. But the truth is about to come out. In One Nation Under Sex (Palgrave, $25) , free speech activist and notorious Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt teams up with Columbia University history professor David Eisenbach to peek behind the White House bedroom curtains and document how hidden passions have shaped public life. They unpack salacious rumors and outright scandals, showing how private affairs have driven pivotal decisions — often with horrific consequences. 8pm
Coral Gables Gallery Night: Photography by students from Palmetto Senior High School, curated by their photography professor Rob Friedman, 7-10pm.
Live Music in the Courtyard: Federico Britos and Jorge Garcia, 7pm-midnight

Finally, the first big book of manners for the more than 15 million lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the United States and Canada and the people who love them, work with them, and live with them — Steven Petrow’s Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners (Workman, $17.95) . This is the definitive book of LGBT etiquette, written by Steven Petrow, the go-to authority on the subject. He’s the same-sex wedding expert at The New York Times and a columnist for The Huffington Post, Yahoo’s Shine, GayWeddings.com, and the “Q” Syndicate (with distribution to more than 100 LGBT newspapers and websites). Encyclopedic in its approach, filled with practical wisdom, lively wit, and much insight, Steven Petrow’s Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners covers everything: from coming out to being out in the workplace; from dealing with the joy and complexity of same-sex weddings and commitment ceremonies (including how to propose and write meaningful vows) to handling the legal paperwork every couple needs. There’s a chapter on sex etiquette, and another on the challenges and opportunities of raising a family, plus sections on travel, bullying, entertaining, meeting new friends, introducing your partner to your family, a primer on gay pride, and so much more. 7pm

Note: This event is in Spanish. Como inauguración del Ciclo “Literatura Argentina de Ayer y de Hoy”que ofrecen el Centro Cultural Argentino y la Audiovideoteca de Buenos Aires se exhibirá la charla que Ricardo Piglia realizara en la librería “Eterna Cadencia”, de Buenos Aires el 5 de abril del 2011. Ricardo Piglia es considerado uno de los mejores novelistas de Argentina, y acaba de publicar su última novela “Blanco nocturno”, y es además – caso inusual – professor de las Universidades de Buenos Aires y Princeton, y crítico literario. En esta charla hace, precisamente, un análisis de su obra y sus influencias. El ciclo es auspiciado por Books & Books y ofrecerá filmaciones de conferencias, análisis literario y presentación de libros realizados en Buenos Aires, y mantenidos por la ciudad de Buenos Aires. como una memoria audiovisual de la cultura. 5pm
Live Music in the Courtyard: Max Farber Trio, 8pm-midnight

In Second Time Around (Createspace, $13) , an exceptional young teacher, Jeffrey, becomes a disillusioned idealist who takes action against a corrupt and dysfunctional educational system. When the State Board of Regents investigates charges against Borough Hall High, a national think-tank, The Center for Educational Progress, hires Jeffrey, the whistle-blower, to go undercover as a student. First a prep school then an inner city school reveal to “student” Jeffrey the malpractice, mismanagement, cronyism, fraud, and test mania. His mission is threatened while falling in love with his math teacher who unsettles and ultimately unmasks him. Jeff’s successes in converting teacher Verna Kimler to his cause are short lived due to inner city riots and Verna’s father, a minister who carries unbelievably negative baggage and hell-fire rule over Verna. The characters in Henry Greenfield’s Second Time Around are not unlike friends, neighbors, antagonists, perverts, snobs, conspirators, or control freaks one encounters in daily existence. Jeffrey’s interaction with them marks his path to actualization. 8pm

When does dieting end and an eating disorder begin? When is a diet too extreme? Much more than a diary, Lost: Diary of an Eating Disorder (Xlibris Corp., $19.99) takes you through the different phases of disordered eating. From the very first distorted self-images to the full-blown disorder, to treatment and recovery. It is in sight fully written through poetry and diary entries. “Lost” is brutally honest and it also shows the reader how, at any age, it is possible to live a happy, healthy, and authentic life. May Betancourt Jr. is a National Board Certified Teacher and has been honored as Teacher of the year at her school. She teaches Fourth grade in a bi-lingual program and is an advocate for St Jude Children’s Hospital & UNICEF. She is a humanitarian by nature and is active in bringing public awareness to animal cruelty. 6:30pm
Note: This event is in Spanish. Letra Urbana Encuentros en Books & Books y el Florida Center for the Literary Arts presentan: “El otro tigre: Borges y los límites del lenguaje” Presentación a cargo de Cristina Bulacio conmemorando el 25° Aniversario de la muerte de Jorge Luis Borges. La obra de Jorge Luis Borges posee un perfil latinoamericano y universal. Formado en la tradición europea pudo aunar, en una producción literaria única, lo mejor de ambos lados del Atlántico. Su estilo emite un resplandor del que es difícil sustraerse. No es un escritor que genere adhesiones ni cree fanatismos; es más grave aún, crea adictos; los juegos de inteligencia, las ironías, las tramas de sus cuentos, reverberan en nosotros mucho tiempo. Transitar por la obra de Borges es una celebración de la palabra. Y la palabra es pensamiento. Borges experimenta con el lenguaje; su literatura es una búsqueda incesante de la palabra plena, palabra inalcanzable que le hace sentir -en carne propia- los límites del lenguaje. “Los sustantivos se le inventamos a la realidad”, dice el autor argentino. Se trata, entonces, de una invitación a pensar juntos la literatura borgeana. 8pm

In The Fund (Forge, $24.99) by H.T Narea, U.S. defense intelligence operative Kate Molares is investigating a suspicious international money trail. Her instincts place her at the center of a plot involving a terrifying new kind of terrorism—financial terrorism— perpetrated by a suave, handsome Middle Eastern hedge fund mogul. His goal is to wreck the West by bringing the global economy to its knees. Kate’s mission takes her from the defense intelligence command center on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. to the oil-fueled economy of Caracas, Venezuela; from the Beaux-Arts buildings of Old Havana in Cuba to a hedge fund king’s magnificent back-country estate in Greenwich, Connecticut; from the United Nations to the site of a deadly Islamic conspiracy in the Iberian Peninsula. Kate is in a race against time to fit together the pieces of this global puzzle… or risk the catastrophic destruction of the world’s financial markets. 6:30pm

Throughout Trader of Secrets (HarperLuxe, $26.99) , Steve Martini weaves a story of intrigue and suspense. Defense attorney Paul Madriani is embroiled in a case as perilous as any he has ever faced, one that involves an angry killer who will stop at nothing short of vengeance, and, the other, two missing NASA scientists who are holding secrets that a government desperately wants to purchase—in blood if they must. Madriani’s daughter narrowly evades the man known as Liquida, who has stalked her across the country. Meanwhile, in California, two men argue over millions in cash and a scheme involving government technology-for-sale that could rock the world. Paul Madriani, his companion Joselyn Cole, and his law partner Harry Hinds begin to track Liquida and a missing scientist across the globe, and find themselves falling into a vortex of international terror. They must find the men before they can unleash a weapon of mass destruction that will set the world ablaze. 8pm

Swami Dwarkananda started his Yoga practices in 1959 under the direct instruction of his Guru, Yogi Gupta, one of the great Yoga Masters of India. He is one of the pioneers in teaching pranayama breathing techniques in the West and also teaches a rare and unique Yoga technique for the development of psychic powers that helps yoga practitioners and non-practitioners alike reach their goals in life through the focused use of their hidden, mental faculties. All of the great yogis and masters of India have practiced these techniques which are based on natural laws of universal attraction and not on dogmatic or religious beliefs. By learning and applying these laws one can tap the enormous power of the higher mind in everyday life. Tonight’s talk and Q&A will highlight this particular teacher’s expertise in the science of yoga, including: Psychic Development: To achieve peace of mind, control of emotions and reshape the mental patterns that attract/determine circumstances in our lives; Pranayama: The science of breath control to normalize the flow of the underlying vital energy within the breath known as prana. As the life force of every cell in the body, prana needs to be balanced and to flow harmoniously in order to maintain a healthy body and balanced mind; Meditation: As the gateway to Self-realization and the primary technique to achieve peace of mind, radiant health and to inspire spiritual development. Books & Books Recommends: 108 Pearls of Wisdom by Swami Chidananda to complement this talk. 8pm
Live Music in the Courtyard: Jazzilla, 7pm-midnight

Live Music in the Courtyard: Out of Three, 8pm-midnight

I’ll Find a Way (Authorhouse, $14.65) is about the heart and soul of what love can do when confronted with life’s challenges. Sexual orientation differs, but a parent’s decision to love his/her children leaves no choices. Author Deon Davis’ son Ricky suffered from self inflicted pain, depression, suicidal thoughts, and the fear of acceptance of himself. With the love and support of his family and friends he found his way and accepted his life — an intelligent, honorable, respected gay young man. 6pm

Join us for the play reading of Imaginary Men by author Cynthia Joyce Clay. Imaginary Men is set in an alternate universe where men literally can not be seen, heard, or touched until a girl’s menses have regularized. Tansy is a late bloomer, physically speaking, and is only now at 16 approaching the date of her Viewing Party, the celebration that will open her perception to men. However, Tansy is determined to be a scientist and there is no hard core evidence men exist. Tansy does not believe in men to the consternation of all the women around her who try, and fail, to convince her otherwise. Seeing is believing, but will Tansy be able to see men? 4pm
The International Views Discussion Group is pleased to host Movie Night in the Courtyard. Please join us for refreshments at 6:00 pm, followed by our feature film, the Academy-award winning Inside Job by Charles Ferguson. For more information about this event, or the International Views Discussion Group, please contact Paola at iviewsgroup@aol.com. 7pm

Note: This event is in Spanish. En el año 2003 Marisa Brel era una periodista, especializada en el mundo artístico, de primer nivel, exitosa, en su país, Argentina. En lo profesional no podía pedir más y en lo afectivo también corría con viento a favor, pues estaba felizmente casada. Pero le faltaba algo: ser madre. Por desgracia, la empresa no resultó sencilla y Brel debió recurrir a la ciencia. Cinco intentos de embarazo a través de la fertilización in vitro fallaron, hasta que a la sexta ocasión tuvo éxito y quedó en estado de Paloma, que hoy es una niña rozagante y plena, de 8 años. Todos esos vaivenes son narrados, de una manera sencilla pero atrapante, por la escritora en Voy a ser madre a pesar de todo. “Es la historia de un duro proceso en busca de un hijo que no llega rápidamente”, define la autora, quien estima que entre Argentina, Uruguay, México, Chile y Paraguay se han vendido más de 30.000 ejemplares del texto, que en Buenos Aires agotó la cuarta edición y acaba de lanzar su quinta edición en castellano neutro para todo el mundo de habla hispana en todo el planeta. Brel y su criatura literaria llegan a Miami como parte de un desembarco que también incluye a otros países de esta parte del Continente. 8pm

Greece, 1940. Not sunny vacation Greece: northern Greece, Macedonian Greece, Balkan Greece—the city of Salonika. In that ancient port, a tense political drama is being played out. On the northern border, the Greek army has blocked Mussolini’s invasion, pushing his divisions back to Albania. But Adolf Hitler cannot tolerate such freedom; the invasion is coming, and the people of Salonika can only watch and wait. At the center of this drama is Costa Zannis, a senior police official, head of an office that handles special “political” cases. As war approaches, the spies begin to circle, from the Turkish legation to the German secret service. There’s a British travel writer, a Bulgarian undertaker, and more. Costa Zannis must deal with them all. And he is soon in the game, securing an escape route—from Berlin to Salonika, and then to a tenuous safety in Turkey, a route protected by German lawyers, Balkan detectives, and Hungarian gangsters. And hunted by the Gestapo. Declared “an incomparable expert at his game” by The New York Times, Alan Furst out does even his own finest novels in this thrilling new book. With extraordinary authenticity, a superb cast of characters, and heart-stopping tension as it moves from Salonika to Paris to Berlin and back, Spies of the Balkans (Random House, $26.00) is a stunning novel about a man who risks everything to right—in many small ways—the world’s evil. 8pm

The world is changing at a dizzying pace and people everywhere are looking for new ways of thinking that can bring about real solutions to modern problems; and spiritual serenity at a time when it is increasingly difficult to find one’s bearings. Both as individuals and as a greater community, we find ourselves struggling harder to find answers to such concerns as world affairs, spiritual connection, and our own personal relationships that only become more elusive. In Do You QuantumThink? (Select Books, $24.95) , author Dianne Collins provides us with the understanding and the methodology to rise above these problems by laying the foundation to an entirely new way to think. Part science, part philosophy, part spirituality, Do You Quantum Think? draws from the latest developments in all of these disciplines to help reveal the heart of universal wisdom and show us a new way of thinking. Presented in collaboration with Miami Center for Spiritual Living. 8pm

At the age of fifteen, Kelle Groom found that alcohol allowed her to connect with people and explore intimacy in ways she’d never been able to experience before. She began drinking before class, often blacked out at bars, and fell into destructive relationships. At nineteen, already an out-of-control alcoholic, she was pregnant. Accepting the heartbreaking fact that she was incapable of taking care of her son herself, she gave him up for adoption to her aunt and uncle. When he was nine months old, the boy was diagnosed with leukemia—but Kelle’s parents, wanting the best for her, kept her mostly in the dark about his health. When Tommy died he was only fourteen months old. Having lost him irretrievably, Kelle went into an accelerating downward spiral of self-destruction. She emerged from this free fall only when her desire to stop drinking connected her with those who helped her to get sober. In stirring, hypnotic prose, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Free Press, $23) explores the most painful aspects of Kelle’s addiction and loss with unflinching honesty and bold determination. Through her family’s history and the story of her son’s cancer, Kelle traces with clarity and breathtaking grace the forces that shape a life, a death, and a literary voice. 6:30pm
Lauren Kate asked. You voted. And Miami won! By popular demand, the author of the bestselling Fallen series is coming to Books & Books for an All for Love Party celebrating Passion (Delacorte, $17.99) – Book 3 in this story of enduring love. And every love story has its beginnings. Before Luce and Daniel met at Sword & Cross and fought immortals at Shoreline, they lived many lives. Search time. Search history. Break the curse. Risk it all for love. Click here to enter our contest to be the official live blogger at the All for Love Party.  And click here to watch the new trailer for Passion. 8pm

Senator Bob Graham was Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, a presidential candidate with 18 years of service in the United States Senate, and a two-term Governor of Florida. Now, based on actual events, he has written a compelling political thriller, Keys to the Kingdom (Vanguard Press, $25.99) . With a story line that cuts chillingly close to true-life dealings, it raises penetrating questions and all-too-real, alarming predictions. Retired U.S. Senator John Billington, a co-chair of the 9/11 Congressional Inquiry Commission, sets off a firestorm of protest when he suggests in a New York Times op-ed that Saudi Arabia — aka “The Kingdom” — was behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Billington asks: Will Saudi Arabia assist in future attacks within the U.S., does the Kingdom have the bomb, and why is the Administration engaged in a comprehensive, sustained cover-up to keep answers from the American people? 6:30pm

Senator Bob Graham was Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, a presidential candidate with 18 years of service in the United States Senate, and a two-term Governor of Florida. Now, based on actual events, he has written a compelling political thriller, Keys to the Kingdom (Vanguard Press, $25.99) . With a story line that cuts chillingly close to true-life dealings, it raises penetrating questions and all-too-real, alarming predictions. Retired U.S. Senator John Billington, a co-chair of the 9/11 Congressional Inquiry Commission, sets off a firestorm of protest when he suggests in a New York Times op-ed that Saudi Arabia — aka “The Kingdom” — was behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Billington asks: Will Saudi Arabia assist in future attacks within the U.S., does the Kingdom have the bomb, and why is the Administration engaged in a comprehensive, sustained cover-up to keep answers from the American people? 8pm
Live Music in the Courtyard: Negroni Trio 7pm-midnight

Live Music in the Courtyard 8pm-midnight
Lip Service After Party 10pm

Senator Bob Graham was Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, a presidential candidate with 18 years of service in the United States Senate, and a two-term Governor of Florida. Now, based on actual events, he has written a compelling political thriller, Keys to the Kingdom(Vanguard Press, $25.99) . He’ll be signing copies of his new book today. 4pm

Mark Kurlansky, beloved author of the award-winning bestseller Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, offers a riveting new book for kids about what’s happening to fish, the oceans, and our environment, and what, armed with knowledge, kids can do about it. World Without Fish (Workman, $16.95) connects all the dots—biology, economics, evolution, politics, climate, history, culture, food, and nutrition—in a way that kids can really understand. It describes how the fish we most commonly eat, including tuna, salmon, cod, and swordfish, could disappear within 50 years, and the domino effect it would have—oceans teeming with jellyfish and turning pinkish orange from algal blooms; seabirds disappearing, then reptiles, then mammals. Each beautifully illustrated chapter opener links to form a larger fictional story that complements the text. Hand in hand, they create a Silent Spring for a new generation. 12pm

Jennifer Grant is the only child of Cary Grant, who was, and continues to be, the epitome of all that is elegant, sophisticated, and deft. Almost half a century after Cary Grant’s retirement from the screen, he remains the quintessential romantic comic movie star. Good Stuff (Knopf, $24.95) is an enchanting portrait of the profound and loving relationship between a daughter and her father, who just happens to be one of America’s most iconic male movie stars. Cary Grant’s own personal childhood archives were burned in World War I, and he took painstaking care to ensure that his daughter would have an accurate record of her early life. In Good Stuff, Jennifer Grant writes of their life together through her high school and college years until Grant’s death at the age of eighty-two. For the last twenty years of his life, his daughter experienced the full vital passion of her father’s heart, and she now—delightfully—gives us a taste of it. Good Stuff captures his special quality. It gives us the magic of a father’s devotion (and goofball-ness) as it reveals a daughter’s special odyssey and education of loving, and being loved, by a dad who was Cary Grant. 8pm

In her most powerful novel yet, Dreams of Joy (Random House, $26) , Lisa See returns to timeless themes, continuing the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl’s strong-willed nineteen-year-old daughter, Joy.  Reeling from newly uncovered family secrets, and anger at her mother and aunt for keeping them from her, Joy runs away to Shanghai in early 1957 to find her birth father—the artist Z.G. Li, with whom both May and Pearl were once in love. Dazzled by him, and blinded by idealism and defiance, Joy throws herself into the New Society of Red China, heedless of the dangers in the communist regime. Devastated by Joy’s flight and terrified for her safety, Pearl is determined to save her daughter, no matter the personal cost. From the crowded city to remote villages, Pearl confronts old demons and almost insurmountable challenges as she follows Joy, hoping for reconciliation. Yet even as Joy’s and Pearl’s separate journeys converge, one of the most tragic episodes in China’s history threatens their very lives. Acclaimed for her richly drawn characters and vivid storytelling, Lisa See once again renders a family challenged by tragedy and time, yet ultimately united by the resilience of love. 12pm

Continuing the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, Lisa See’s new novel opens with 19-year-old Joy throwing herself into the New Society of Red China, heedless of the dangers in the communist regime. Devastated by Joy’s flight and terrified for her safety, Pearl is determined to save her daughter, no matter the personal cost. From the crowded city to remote villages, Pearl confronts old demons and almost insurmountable challenges as she follows Joy, hoping for reconciliation. In her most powerful novel yet, Dreams of Joy (Random House, $26) , Lisa See returns to timeless themes. 7pm

Beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Oscar Hijuelos, turns his pen to the real people and places that have influenced his life and, in turn, his literature. Growing up in 1950’s working-class New York City to Cuban immigrants, Hijuelos journey to literary acclaim is the evolution of an unlikely writer. In his first work of nonfiction, Hijuelos writes from the heart about the people and places that inspired his international bestselling novels. Born in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights to Cuban immigrants in 1951, Hijuelos introduces readers to the colorful circumstances of his upbringing. The son of a Cuban hotel worker and exuberant poetry- writing mother, his story, played out against the backdrop of an often prejudiced working-class neighborhood, takes on an even richer dimension when his relationship to his family and culture changes forever. During a sojourn in pre-Castro Cuba with his mother, he catches a disease that sends him into a Dickensian home for terminally ill children. The yearlong stay estranges him from the very language and people he had so loved. With a cast of characters whose stories are both funny and tragic, Thoughts Without Cigarettes (Gotham, $27.50) follows Hijuelos’s subsequent quest for his true identity into adulthood, through college and beyond – a mystery whose resolution he eventually discovers hidden away in the trappings of his fiction, and which finds its most glorious expression in his best-known book, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Illuminating the most dazzling scenes from his novels, Thoughts Without Cigarettes reveals the true stories and indelible memories that shaped a literary genius. 8pm

Live Music in the Courtyard: Chris Gaskell Quartet 7pm-midnight

Live Music in the Courtyard: Max Farber Trio, 8pm-midnight

If our memories define us, who would we be if we had none? For Christine Lucas, the narrator of the gripping new suspense novel by S. J. Watson, this is a central question; memories of her former life are erased every night when she goes to sleep and each morning she is plunged into a nightmare of an unfamiliar life. Before I Go To Sleep (Harper, $25.99) is a taut psychological thriller that will leave readers guessing until the very last page. Suffering from a rare form of amnesia, Christine Lucas can only hold a day’s worth of memories before her mind is wiped clean each night. She wakes up each morning next to a stranger who introduces himself as her husband, Ben, and explains how a tragic accident decades ago robbed her of her memory. Photos of their past life line the bathroom mirror, her husband’s attempt to reassure her of happier times. But despite Ben’s efforts at comforting her, Christine is plagued by a gnawing sense that there is more he is not telling her. As puzzle pieces of her life accumulate, Christine struggles to fit them together, knowing that the biggest riddle of all—the circumstances of the accident that took away her memory—is the one that will finally unlock all of her secrets. Told with a narrative dexterity that is unmatched in recent fiction, Before I Go To Sleep marks the arrival of a fresh and exciting new voice. 8pm

Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him (Hyperion, $22.99) is the story of former Captain Luis Carlos Montalván, who returned from his second tour of duty in Iraq, having survived stab wounds, a traumatic brain injury, and three broken vertebrae, and like many servicemen, found himself unable to reenter civilian life. Montalván, who earned a Combat Action Badge, two Bronze Stars, and Purple Heart, enlisted in the army out of duty and honor but sustained physical, mental, and emotional wounds that necessitated his premature retirement and left him with PTSD. The trauma stayed with him even after he left Iraq, leading to a severe drinking problem and seclusion from the outside world. And then, Montalván found Tuesday. Tuesday is a beautiful and sensitive golden retriever trained as a service dog for veterans. Tuesday had undergone his own set of problems, having lived among prisoners and at a home for troubled boys, before connecting with Luis and—for the first time—finding his perfect match. Tuesday has been specially trained to work with both physical and psychological wounds. He can sense stress levels, fetch items, and provide balance, among his many other skills. Until Tuesday is a powerful and raw account of Montalvan’s experiences in Iraq and his life after war. It’s an uplifting and hopeful story that captures the struggle returning veterans often face and the support and assistance that service dogs provide. 8pm

Magick and reality collide in a new, fast-paced Max August thriller, The Plain Man (Tor, $24.99) by Steven Englehart. Max August is not invulnerable, but he never ages—a gift he earned while studying under the legendary alchemist Cornelius Agrippa. August, now an alchemist himself, is using his magickal abilities to fight the right-wing conspiracy known as the FRC, which seeks to control all aspects of society. At the top of the FRC is a nine-member cabal, each member of which is a powerful force in one area of society, such as media, politics, finance…and wizardry. When Max learns that two members of the cabal are en route to Wickr, a Burning Man–like festival held in the American Southwest, he stages a plan to gather information from them and, he hopes turn one member against the others. Max has been careful not to leave a trail, but the cabal sees all, and an “accident” at a nuclear waste facility just 100 miles from the festival would send a clear message to those who oppose the FRC. Max may be timeless, but he is running out of time to stop the FRC and save millions of lives. 8pm