You, the readers, have spoken, and your choice for the next Book Talk with AnnArbor.com discussion — scheduled for Tuesday, July 27 at 7 p.m. in our community space at 301 E. Liberty St. — is Jack Rakove's "Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America."

"Revolutionaries" presents the founding fathers — often depicted by our history books as super-humans — as reluctant rebels who had their own dreams of professional success and private happiness.

The New York Times offered this mixed review of the book, while a critic for The New American had nothing but positive things to say. Below, you can check out Rakove's appearance on "The Daily Show" to talk about his book.

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We hope you'll join us on July 27 at 7 p.m. to discuss Rakove's take on this chapter of American history.

And looking ahead, we have three new potential selections for August.

* Julie Orringer, who spent her adolescence in Ann Arbor, made a splash with her debut short story collection, "How to Breathe Underwater," so it's no surprise now that her just-released first novel, "The Invisible Bridge," is getting quite a bit of attention.

Telling the story of three Hungarian-Jewish brothers living in different parts of Europe in the 1930s, "Bridge" largely focuses on one who, while studying architecture in Paris, falls for an older ballet teacher before he is deported back to Hungary.

The Los Angeles Times offered this glowing review of "Bridge"; and The Chicago Sun-Times' critic also had good things to say.

* "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," by Rebecca Skloot, is a non-fiction account of a black mother of five who died of cervical cancer in 1951.

Lacks' doctor, without asking for the patient's permission, removed tissue both healthy and cancerous from Lacks' body before she died; and while previous attempts to sustain and use cells for scientific research had failed, Lacks' cells thrived, and were subsequently used to develop the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, and genetic mapping, among other medical breakthroughs.

Both word-of-mouth and strong reviews have made Skloot's book - which inevitably touches on issues of race, American history, medical ethics and care, biology and more - a bestseller.

The Washington Post had this positive assessment, and The New York Times also offered a positive review.

* Popular author John Irving's most recent book, "Last Night in Twisted River," just came out in paperback, telling the story of a widower and his young son on the lam from authorities over the course of decades.

Why? Because the son bludgeoned a female neighbor with a skillet when he mistook her for a bear (this is an Irving book, after all, so bears must be involved).

The Washington Post's reviewer pretty much gushed about "River," but a New York Times critic wasn't nearly as enthusiastic. (Indeed, it's precisely this "love it or hate it" quality in Irving's work that makes his novels ripe for discussion.)

Jenn McKee is the entertainment digital journalist for AnnArbor.com. Reach her at jennmckee@annarbor.com or 734-623-2546, and follow her on Twitter @jennmckee.