Booksellers unanimously recommend the Barack Obama memoir, A Promised Land. Whether speaking or writing, Obama knows how to turn a phrase. In A Promised Land, he colorfully captures his early life and political career, then goes on to chronicle his 2004 Senatorial campaign, his presidential campaign and his first presidential term. Slide 2 of 10 Readers' Books store owner Andy Weinberger can sell them and write them too. His second installation in a three-part murder mystery series, A Slide 3 of 10 Jude Sales gives high praise to Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell's fictionalization of Shakespeare’s life with his wife Anne Hathaway and their two children. This Elizabethan period drama enchants; it even brought tears to Sales’s eyes.