Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music in America
edited by Paul Kingsbury and Alanna Nash (DK Publishing, $40)

This colorful record of the musical genre bursts with vintage and contemporary photos, eye-popping layouts, and nitty-gritty detail. "Music is a motivator," Willie Nelson writes in the foreword for the only official book from the Country Music Hall of Fame. "It will make you leap up and move. It will make you dance. It will make you do jumping jacks." Suffused with its own kinetic energy, this country music tribute will make fans do-si-do with delight.