IN SHORT

Stacy A. Cordery pledges fidelity to the founder of the Girl Scouts, Juliette Gordon Low (Viking). Amy FranklinWillis debuts with The Lost Saints of Tennessee (Atlantic Monthly Press). Alec Wilkinson climbs aboard The Ice Balloon (Knopf). Ali Wentworth tumbles comically through Ali in Wonderland (Harper). Lauren Winner has a mid-faith crisis in Still (HarperOne). South African novelist Zakes Mda recalls his political skirmishes in Sometimes There Is a Void (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Wael Ghonim launches Revolution 2.0 (Houghton Mifflin). Toby Lester paints the genius of Leonardo in Da Vinci's Ghost (Free Press). Count Harry Kessler takes us on a Journey to the Abyss (Pantheon). Veteran nightlife reporter George Gurley shows that all you need is love and a couples' therapist to combat your commitment issues in George & Hilly (Gallery). Philip Boehm translates one of Gregor von Rezzori's earliest novels of ideas, An Ermine in CzernopoI (New York Review Books).