This week’s sponsor is Perseus, publisher of five big books for fall reading. Please thank them for supporting Unshelved by investigating all of them!

• John Quincy Adams by Harlow Unger
• Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen by Stephen Bown
• Diary of a Stage Mother’s Daughter: A Memoir by Melissa Francis
• Bully: An Action Plan for Teachers, Parents, and Communities to Combat the Bullying Crisis by Lee Hirsch & Cynthia Lowen
• Lincoln: A President for the Ages by Karl Weber & Participant Media