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Little Bee Chris Cleave Simon & Schuster, 9781416589631, $24.00 We won’t spoil the surprises in this hauntingly beautiful volume. Let’s just say that there is a severed finger; a sixteen-year-old, female, Nigerian refugee; and a four-year-old British boy who believes that he is Batman. There are many on our staff that consider Little Bee to be one of the finest reads of 2009. More on our New Fiction page...   The Monuments Men Robert Edsel Center Street, 9781599951492, $26.99 In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Momuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture. More on our New Non-Fiction page... I Shudder And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey Paul Rudnick Harper, 9780061780189, $23.99 This is a side-splittingly funny collection of essays from Paul Rudnick, one of America’s preeminent humorists. Rudnick, who writes for The New Yorker, shares his hilarious observations on life in New York City and New Jersey, the perils of show business, and dealing with one’s family, however crazy they may be. As David Sedaris says, “There’s no book wiser, or half as funny, as I Shudder.” More on our Staff Picks page...   The Magician's Elephant Kate DiCamillo Candlewick Press, 9780763644109, $16.99 When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her. More on our Childrens page...