New books, end September

New this week: Dress Your Best by Clinton Kelly and Stacy London, practical and fun guide to what to wear (and what not to wear) based on your body type; The American Evangelical Story by Douglas A. Sweeney, a short, balanced, and readable history of the religious movement from Jonathan Edwards to the present; Friends, Lovers, Chocolate, the second in the Sunday Philosophy Club series by Alexander McCall Smith; Spenser returns in School Days, Robert Parker’s latest; Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner, author of In Her Shoes; Wicketts’ Remedy by Bee Season author Myla Goldberg; Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan, on many “best of 2004” lists; Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin, a YA novel for fans of The Lovely Bones; and for the little ones, If You Give a Pig a Party by Laura Numeroff.