We recently re-introduced the B&N Recommends program - highlighting books our booksellers can’t stop talking about – with William Landay’s Defending Jacob. Landay’s gripping, thought-provoking book was a huge hit among B&N readers, and went on to become a New York Times bestseller.

Now we’re ready to reveal our newest B&N Recommends selection, Jonah Lehrer’s fascinating book Imagine: How Creativity Works. Imagine is available for pre-order now, but to help introduce NOOK readers to Lehrer’s previous books, we’re offering a limited-time price reduction on How We Decide and Proust was a Neuroscientist.

How We Decide —an engaging and useful book exploring how neuroscience can help us make better decisions—is only 99 cents, today only. The best decision you can make today? Downloading this excellent and insightful book at a great price.

Lehrer’s debut book, Proust Was a Neuroscientist, was a B&N Discover Great New Writers pick at the time of publication, and holds up as one of the most interesting reflections on the intersection of art and science that you’ll ever read. It’s currently available for just $3.99, and offers an accessible investigation of great artists—including Proust, Cézanne & George Eliot—and how their art unlocked some of science’s greatest mysteries.

Once you’ve read these two impressive books, you’ll be eagerly awaiting Imagine—yet another groundbreaking work from a talented science writer at the top of his game.

Free sample excerpts from these books are available for download on the product pages now!

NOOK owners: go to shop and search for “Jonah Lehrer” to download his exceptional books.

In addition to today’s New Release Tuesdays news, we’re also excited to announce the re-launch of our B&N Recommends program. Titles selected for the B&N Recommends program are the books our booksellers can’t stop talking about. Thought-provoking and uniquely engaging, B&N Recommends selections are chosen for sheer reading pleasure and their perfect fit as book club picks. Past B&N Recommends titles include The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls, and  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson among many other reader favorites.

The newest B&N Recommends title is one of our best yet—William Landay’s outstanding, genre-busting, page-turning, conversation-starting novel, Defending Jacob. Family loyalties go on trial in Landay’s gripping new novel, our first B&N Recommends selection for the new year. What would you do if your child was accused of murder?

You can learn more about Defending Jacob and explore the full list of past BN Recommends titles here.

A free sample excerpt from this book is available for download on the product page now!

NOOK owners: go to shop and search for “William Landay” to download the newest B&N Recommends selection.