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July 2008
Society's Child: My Autobiography, Janis Ian
(Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin) [7/29]
American Priestess: The Extraordinary Story Of
Anna Spafford And The American Colony In Jerusalem, Jane
Fletcher Geniesse (Doubleday) [7/23]
The Cubs: The Complete Story Of Chicago Cubs
Baseball, Glen Stout (Houghton Mifflin Company)
[7/18]
The Last Days Of Old Beijing: Life In The
Vanishing Backstreets Of A City Transformed, Michael
Meyer (Walker & Company) [7/16]
First Stop In The New World Mexico City,
The Capital Of The 21ST Century, David Lida
(Riverhead Books) [7/14]
Final Salute: A Story Of Unfinished Lives, Jim
Sheeler (The Penguin Press) [7/10]
The Dinner Diaries: Raising Whole Wheat Kids In A
White Bread World, Betsy Block (Alongonquin Books of
Chapel Hill) [7/9]
When I'm Sixty-four: The Plot Against Pensions And
The Plan To Save Them, Teresa Ghilarducci (Princeton
University Press) [7/8]
High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives Of
American Families, Peter Gosselin (BasicBooks)
[7/2]
Oxygen: A Novel, Carol Cassella (Simon &
Schuster) [7/1]
June 2008
Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus
Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God And Diversity On
Steroids, Julie Salamon (The Penguin Press) [6/30]
Side Effects: A Prosecutor, A Whistleblower, And A
Bestselling Antidepressant On Trial, Alison Bass
(Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) [6/27]
For The Love Of Animals: The Rise Of The Animal
Protection Movement, Kathryn Shevelow (Henry Holt
And Company) [6/26]
Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death, And Country Music,
Dana Jennings (Faber and Faber, Inc.) [6/24]
Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy
And Who We Are, Rob Walker (Random House) [6/23]
River Ghosts: A Novel, B. R. Robb (Five Star)
[6/19]
Right Of The Dial: The Rise Of Clear Channel And
The Fall Of Commercial Radio, Alec Foege (Faber and
Faber, Inc.) [6/13]
The Faithful: A History Of Catholics In America,
James M. O'Toole (Harvard University Press) [6/12]
Bottlemania: How Water Went On Sale And Why We
Bought It, Elizabeth Royte (Bloomsbury) [6/11]
A Pocketful Of History: Four Hundred Years Of
America--One State Quarter At A Time, Jim Noles (Da
Capo Press) [6/10]
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley's Journal
(Amulet Books), Jeff Kinney and Diary Of A Wimpy Kid:
Roderick Rules, Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books) [6/9]
Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions Of "Energy
Independence", Robert Bryce (Public Affairs) [6/9]
All Things Must Fight To Live: Stories Of War And
Deliverance In Congo, Bryan Mealer (Bloomsbury)
[6/5]
Blue Eggs And Yellow Tomatoes: Recipes From A
Modern Kitchen Garden, Jeanne Kelley (Running Press)
[6/3]
May 2008
Minders Of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs,
And The Shaping Of American Children's Literature,
Leonard S. Marcus (Houghton Mifflin Company) [5/20]
America At Home: A Close-Up Look At How We Live,
Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt (Running Press) [5/14]
Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, And Lies,
Ginger Strand (Simon And Schuster) [5/13]
Reagan's Disciple: George W. Bush's Troubled Quest
For A Presidential Legacy, Lou Cannon and Carl M.
Cannon (Public Affairs) [5/12]
The Time Of My Life: Writers On The Heartbreak,
Hormones, And Debauchery Of The Prom, Rob Spillman
(Broadway Books) [5/9]
Return To Warden's Grove: Science, Desire, And The
Lives Of Sparrows, Christopher Norment (University
of Iowa Press) [5/9]
Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music In A Sea Of Sound,
David Rothenberg (Basic Books) [5/8]
A Voyage Long And Strange: Rediscovering The New
World, Tony Horwitz (Henry Holt And Company) [5/6]
April 2008
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth,
And Happiness, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R.
Sunstein (Yale University Press) [4/29]
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times For The American
Worker, Steven Greenhouse (Alfred A. Knopf) [4/28]
The Loss Of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed
Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder, Allan V.
Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield (Oxford University
Press) [4/24]
Changing Rhythms Of American Family Life,
Suzanne M. Bianchi, John P. Robinson, and Melissa A.
Milkie (Russell Sage Foundation) [4/22]
The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming A Life Through
The Pages Of A Lost Journal, Lily Koppel (Harper)
[4/18]
Sizwe's Test: A Young Man's Journey Through
Africa's AIDS Epidemic, Jonny Steinberg (Simon &
Schuster) [4/18]
Head Cases: Stories Of Brain Injury And Its
Aftermath, Michael Paul Mason (Farrar, Straus And
Giroux) [4/17]
Note By Note: A Celebration Of The Piano Lesson,
Tricia Tunstall (Simon & Schuster) [4/16]
Hubert's Freaks: The Rare-Book Dealer, The Times
Square Talker, And The Lost Photos Of Diane Arbus,
Gregory Gibson (Harcourt, Inc.) [4/15]
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare
And How It Changed America, David Hajdu (Farrar,
Straus And Giroux) [4/14]
Learning A New Land: Immigrant Students In
American Society, Carola Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M.
Suarez-Orozco, Irina Todorova (Harvard University Press)
[4/11]
Walking On Eggshells: Navigating The Delicate
Relationship Between Adult Children And Parents,
Jane Isay (Flying Dolphin Press/Broadway Books) [4/9]
When God Looked The Other Way: An Odyssey Of War,
Exile, and Redemption, Wesley Adamczyk (University
of Chicago Press) [4/4]
March 2008
Thumbs, Toes, And Tears And Other Traits That Make
Us Human, Chip Walter (Walker & Company) [3/28]
The Scalpel And The Soul: Encounters With Surgery,
The Supernatural, And The Healing Power Of Hope,
Allan J. Hamilton (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin) [3/27]
Comedy At The Edge: How Stand-Up In The 1970s
Changed America, Richard Zoglin (Bloomsbury) [3/26]
Welcome To Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys
But Never Forget How To Drive And Other Puzzles Of
Everyday Life, Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang
(Bloomsbury) [3/25]
The Rockabilly Legend: They Called It Rockabilly
Long Before The Called It Rock And Roll, Jerry
Naylor and Steve Halliday (Hal Leonard) [3/24]
Closing The Food Gap: Resetting The Table In The
Land Of Plenty, Mark Winnie (Beacon Press) [3/19]
The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, And The
Trial That Ushered In The Twentieth Century, Harold
Schechter (Ballentine Books) [3/18]
The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, And
The Creation Of Roget's Thesaurus, Joshua Kendall
(G. P. Putnam's Sons) [3/14]
Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance Of
Samuel Sewall, Eve LaPlante (HarperOne) [3/13]
Summers With Lincoln: Looking For The Man In The
Monuments, James A Percoco (Fordham University
Press) [3/12]
Caught In The Middle: America's Heartland In The
Age Of Globalism, Richard C. Longworth (Bloomsbury)
[3/11]
The Amish Of Illinois' Heartland: A News-Gazette
Book, Rebecca Mabry with photos by Vanda Bidwell
(The News-Gazette) [3/10]
The Geography Of Bliss: One Grump's Search For The
Happiest Places In The World, Eric Weiner (Twelve)
[3/7]
In Search Of The Blues, Marybeth Hamilton
(Basic Books) [3/5]
My Mother Your Mother: Embracing "Slow Medicine",
The Compassionate Approach To Caring For Your Aging
Loved Ones, Dennis McCullough, M.D. (Harper) [3/4]
Winter In White: A Mini Pop-Up Treat, Robert
Sabuda (Little Simon) [3/3]
February 2008
The Lost Ravioli Recipes Of Hoboken: A Search For
Food And Family, Laura Schenone (W. W. Norton &
Company) [2/29]
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped To Freedom
Including Their Own Narratives Of Emancipation,
David W. Blight (Harcourt, Inc.) [2/28]
Awkward A Detour, Mary Cappello (Bellevue
Literary Press) [2/27]
Elder Tales: Stories Of Wisdom And Courage From
Around The World, Dan Keding (Libraries Unlimited)
[2/26]
Alice Paul And The American Suffrage Campaign,
Katherine H. Adams and Michael L. Keene (University of
Illinois Press) [2/26]
Seneca Falls And The Origins Of The Women's Rights
Movement, Sally G. McMillen (Oxford University
Press) [2/25]
Did Lincoln Own Slaves? And Other Frequently Asked
Questions About Abraham Lincoln, Gerald J.
Prokopowicz (Pantheon Books) [2/22]
The Body Has A Mind Of Its Own: How Body Maps In
Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better,
Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee (Random House)
[2/21]
Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War,
Jimmie Briggs (Basic Books) [2/20]
Broken: My Story Of Addiction And Redemption,
William Cope Moyers with Katherine Ketcham (Penguin
Books) [2/20]
Saviors Or Sellouts: The Promise And Peril Of
Black Conservatism, From Booker T. Washington To
Condoleezza Rice, Christopher Alan Bracey (Beacon
Press) [2/19]
One Year To An Organized Life: From Your Closets
To Your Finances, The Week-By-Week Guide To Getting
Completely Organized For Good, Regina Leeds (Da Capo
Life Long) [2/13]
Joseph Cornell: Navigating The Imagination,
Lynda Roscoe Hartigan (Yale University Press) [2/12]
Damned to Eternity: The Story Of The Man Who They
Said Caused The Flood, Adam Pitluk (Da Capo Press)
[2/8]
The Dog Listener: Learn How To Communicate With
Your Dog For Willing Cooperation, Jan Fennell
(Quill) [2/7]
The Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-It-Yourself
Guide To Placemaking, Jay Walljasper (New Society
Publishers) [2/5]
Cowboy Octopus, Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (Viking)
[2/4]
January 2008
Older Americans, Vital Communities: A Bold Vision
For Societal Aging, W. Andrew Achenbaum (The Johns
Hopkins University Press) [1/31]
Around The World: The Grand Tour In Photo Albums,
Barbara Levine and Kirsten M. Jensen (Princeton
Architectural Press) [1/30]
The Big Eddy Club: The Stocking Stranglings And
Southern Justice, David Rose (The New Press) [1/30]
The Missing Class: Portraits Of
The Near Poor In America, Katherine S. Newman and
Victor Tan Chen (Beacon Press) [1/29]
Heart In The Right Place: A Memoir, Carolyn
Jourdan (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) [1/28]
Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story Of People And Pants
In The Borderless World Of Global Trade, Rachel
Louise Snyder (W. W. Norton & Company) [1/25]
The Dictionary Of Love, John Stark with Will
Hopkins and Mary K. Baumann (Avon) [1/24]
Everyman News: The Changing American Front Page,
Michele Weldon (University of Missouri Press) [1/24]
The Second Circle: How To Use Positive Energy For
Success In Every Situation, Patsy Rodenburg (W. W.
Norton & Company) [1/23]
Desserts By The Yard: From Brooklyn To Beverly
Hills Recipes From The Sweetest Life Ever, Sherry
Yard (Houghton Mifflin Company) [1/22]
Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned In A Combat
Hospital, Heidi Squier Kraft (Little, Brown And
Company) [1/22]
Brands Of Faith: Marketing Religion In A
Commercial Age, Mara Einstein (Routledge) [1/18]
Hotel: An American History, A.K. Sandoval-Strausz
(Yale University Press) [1/17]
Brass Diva: The Life And Legends Of Ethel Merman,
Caryl Flinn (University of California Press) [1/16]
The Warmest Room In The House: How The Kitchen
Became The Heart Of The Twentieth-Century American Home,
Steven Gdula (Bloomsbury) [1/15]
101 Foods That Could Save Your Life, David Grotto
(Bantam Books) [1/14]
American Chestnut: The Life,
Death, And Rebirth Of A Perfect Tree, Susan Freinkel
(University of California Press) [1/11]
Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, From White House
Princess To Washington Power Broker, Stacy A.
Cordery (Viking) [1/10]
The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries Of Jewish
Voices In America, Beth S. Wenger (Doubleday) [1/8]
Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese
Americans, Jean Pfaelzer (Random House) [1/7]
America's Three Regimes: A New Political History,
Morton Keller (Oxford University Press) [1/3]
2500 Recipes: Everyday To Extraordinary,
Andrew Schloss with Ken Bookman (Robert Rose)
[1/2]
December 2007
Folksongs Of Illinois, Bucky
Halker and Nicole Saylor (Illinois Humanities Council)
[12/20]
No: Why Kids--Of All Ages--Need To
Hear It And Ways Parents Can Say It, David Walsh
(Free Press) [12/18]
The Boy Who Cried Freebird: Rock &
Roll Fables And Sonic Storytelling, Mitch Myers (HarperentEntertainment)
[12/17]
The Ordeal Of Elizabeth Marsh: A
Woman In World History, Linda Colley (Pantheon
Books) [12/14]
Silent Movies: The Birth Of Film
And The Triumph Of Movie Culture, Peter Kobel and
The Library of Congress (Little, Brown And Company)
[12/13]
Powerhouse: Arrington From Illinois, Taylor
Pensoneau (American Literary Press) [12/12]
Hug Time, Patrick McDonnell
(Little, Brown And Company) [12/11]
Cartographia: Mapping
Civilizations, Vincent Virga and The Library of
Congress (Little, Brown And Company) [12/11]
How To Build An Igloo And Other
Snow Shelters, Norbert E. Yankielun (W.W. Norton And
Company) [12/10]
Schulz And Peanuts: A Biography,
David Michaelis (Harper) [12/10]
The Great Funk: Falling Apart And
Coming Together (On A Shag Rug) In The Seventies,
Thomas Hine (Farrar, Straus And Giroux) [12/6]
Wake Up And Smell The Planet: The
Non-Pompous, Non-Preachy Grist Guide To Greening Your
Day, edited by Brangien Davis and Katharine Wroth (Skipstone)
[12/5]
America Beyond Black And White:
How Immigrants And Fusions Are Helping Us Overcome The
Racial Divide, Ronald Fernandez (The University of
Michigan Press) [12/5]
November 2007
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History, Laurel
Thatcher Ulrich (Alfred A. Knopf) [11/29]
The Motivation Breakthrough: 6 secrets To Turning
On The Tuned-Out Child, Richard Lavoie (A Touchstone
Book) [11/28]
I Was Cuba: Treasures From The Ramiro Fernandez
Collection, Kevin Kwan (Chronicle Books) [11/27]
Treatment Kind And Fair: Letters To A Young
Doctor, Perri Klass (Basic Books) [11/27]
The Motivation Breakthrough: 6 Secrets To Turning
On The Tuned-Out Child, Richard Lavoie (A Touchstone
Book) [11/21]
The Day Of Battle The War In Sicily And Italy,
1943-1944, Rick Atkinson (Henry Holt And Company)
[11/20]
Ann Drew Jackson, Joan Clark (APC) [11/19]
Boone: A Biography, Robert Morgan (Algonquin
Books of Chapel Hill) [11/16]
The Everlasting Stream: A True Story Of Rabbits,
Guns, Friendship, And Family, Walt Harrington (Grove
Press) [11/15]
Hauntings And Other Tales Of Danger, Love, And
Sometimes Loss, Betsy Hearne (Greenwillow Books;
and Seven Brave Women, Betsy Hearne (Greenwillow
Books) [11/14]
The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan And
The Time When America Helped Save Europe, Greg
Behrman (Free Press) [11/14]
Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms The
Middle Class, Robert H. Frank (University of
California Press) [11/12]
The Ordeal Of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman In World
History, Linda Colley (Pantheon Books) [11/9]
Taking Things Seriously: 75 Objects With
Unexpected Significance, Joshua Glenn & Carol Hayes
(Princeton University Press) [11/8]
Down in New Orleans: Reflections From A Drowned
City, Billy Sothern (University of California Press)
[11/6]
Cooking The Gullah Way Morning, Noon, & Night,
Sallie Ann Robinson (The University of north Carolina
Press) [11/1]
Consumer Guide To Home Energy Savings,
9th Edition, Jennifer Thorne Amann, Alex Wilson, and
Katie Ackerly (New Society Publishers) [11/1]
October 2007
Peony In Love: A Novel, Lisa See (Random
House) [10/31]
Nobody Knows Where Our Bus Driver Goes, Jeff
Mondak (Jeff Mondak) [10/30]
Chic Ironic Bitterness, R. Jay Magill, Jr.
(The University of Michigan Press) [10/30]
American Band: Music, Dreams, And Coming Of Age In
The Heartland, Kristen Laine (Gotham Books) [10/29]
The Surprising Power Of Family Meals: How Eating
Together Makes Us Smarter, Stronger, Healthier, And
Happier, Miriam Weinstein (Steerforth Press) [10/26]
Home Forgotten: The Campbells Of The North River,
Rev. James A. Campbell (NorthBooks) [10/25]
All The Money In The World: How The Forbes 400
Make--And Spend--Their Fortunes, Peter W. Bernstein
and Annalyn Swan (Alfred A. Knopf) [10/25]
Backyard Giants: The Passionate, Heartbreaking,
And Glorious Quest to Grow The Biggest Pumpkin Ever,
Susan Warren (Bloomsbury) [10/24]
The Voice Of Harriet Taylor Mill, Jo Ellen
Jacobs (Indiana University Press) [10/24]
'They Say' Ida B. Wells And The Reconstruction Of
Race, James West Davidson (Oxford University Press)
[10/23]
Still Summer: A Novel, Jacquelyn Mitchard
(Warner Books) [10/22]
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story, Diane
Ackerman (W.W. Norton & Company) [10/19]
The Old Farmer's Almanac 2008 (The Old
Farmer's Almanac) [10/17]
The Nine: Inside The Secret World Of The Supreme
Court, Jeffrey Toobin (Doubleday) [10/17]
A Class Apart: Prodigies, Pressure, And Passion
Inside One Of America's Best High Schools, Alec
Klein (Simon & Schuster) [10/16]
Sunday: A History Of The First Day From Babylonia
To The Super Bowl, Craig Harline (Doubleday) [10/12]
The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal,
Jonathan Mooney (Walker And Company) [10/11]
Cafe Indiana: A Guide To Indian's Down-Home Cafes,
Joanne Raetz Stuttgen (University of Wisconsin Press)
[10/10]
Takeover: The Return Of The Imperial Presidency
And The Subversion Of American Democracy, Charlie
Savage (Little, Brown And Company) [10/10]
War Trauma Lessons Unlearned From Vietnam To Iraq,
Raymond Monsour Scurfield (Algora Publishing) [10/8]
Father Knows Less Or: "Can I Cook My Sister?: One
Dad's Quest To Answer His Son's Most Baffling Questions,
Wendell Jamieson (G. P. Putnam's Sons) [10/4]
The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, And Why,
Jabari Asim (Houghton Mifflin) [10/2]
September 2007
Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life Of Pham
Xuan An A Time Magazine Reporter And Vietnamese Communist
Agent, Larry Berman (Smithsonian Books) [9/28]
A Thousand Names For Joy: Living In Harmony With
The Way Things Are, Byron Katie and Stephen Mitchell
(Harmony) [9/26]
Crazy '08: How A Cast Of Cranks, Rogues,
Boneheads, And Magnates Created The Greatest Year In
Baseball, Cait Murphy (Smithsonian) [9/25]
Plain Secrets: An Outsider Among The Amish,
Joe Mackall (Beacon Press) [9/21]
Women Who Light The Dark, Paola Gianturco (powerHouse
Books) [9/20]
Why Size Matters: From Bacteria To Blue Whales,
John Tyler Bonner (Princeton University Press) [9/19]
The Cult Of The Amateur: How Today's Internet Is
Killing Our Culture, Andrew Keen (Currency) [9/18]
God's Harvard: A Christian college On A Mission To
Save America, Hanna Rosin (Harcourt, Inc.) 9/18]
The Frodo Franchise: The Lord Of The Rings And
Modern Hollywood, Kristin Thompson (University of
California Press) [9/14]
Doomsday Men: The Real Dr. Strangeglove And The
Dream Of The Superweapon, P.D. Smith (St. Martin's
Press) [9/13]
15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three
Generals Who Saved The American Century, Stanley
Weintraub (Free Press) [9/12]
Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think,
Brian Wansink (Bantam Books) [9/11]
The Lighthouse Mouse, Susan Anderson Coons,
illustrated by P. Anderson-Undis (Vinland Press) [9/10]
First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness
Dispatches On Post-Atomic Japan And Its Prisoners Of War,
Anthony Weller (Crown Publishers) [9/10]
10 Days To A Less Distracted Child: The
Breakthrough Program That Gets Your Kids To Listen,
Learn, Focus And Behave, Jeffrey Bernstein (Marlowe
& Company) [9/6]
The Guerilla Art Kit: Everything You Need To Put
Your Message Out Into The World For Fun, Non-Profit, And
World Domination
Keri Smith (Princeton Architectural Press) [9/5]
August 2007
Tested: One American School Struggles To Make The
Grade, Linda Perlstein (Henry Holt And Company)
[8/31]
A Moveable Feast: Ten Millennia Of Food
Globalization, Kenneth F. Kiple (Cambridge
University Press) [8/30]
China Road: A Journey Into The Future Of A Rising
Power, Rob Gifford (Random House) [8/29]
The Maverick And The Machine Governor Dan Walker
Tells His Story, Dan Walker (Southern Illinois
University) [8/28]
Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That
Turned A Provincial Playwright Into The Bard, Jack
Lynch (Walker & Company) [8/24]
Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, And Power In The
Contemporary World, Carolyn Nordstrom (University of
California Press) [8/21]
Her Way: The Hopes And Ambitions Of Hillary Rodham
Clinton, Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr. (Little,
Brown And Company) [8/17]
The Original Knickerbocker: The Life Of Washington
Irving, Andrew Burstein (Basic Books) [8/16]
Becoming The Kind Father: A Son's Journey,
Calvin Sandborn (New Society Publishers) [[8/15]
The Hazards Of Space Travel: A Tourist's Guide,
Neil F. Comins (Villard) [8/15]
Same Time, Same Station: Creating American
Television, 1948-1961, James L. Baughman (The Johns
Hopkins University Press) [8/13]
First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness
Dispatches On Post-Atomic Japan And Its Prisoners Of War,
Anthony Weller (Crown Publishers) [8/3]
Sin In The Second City: Madams, Ministers,
Playboys, And The Battle For America's Soul, Karen
Abbott (Random House) [8/2]
The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith With Our
Values In A Dangerous World, Anne-Marie Slaughter
(Basic Books) [8/1]
July 2007
The Economic Naturalist: In Search Of Explanations
For Everyday Enigmas, Robert Frank (Basic Books)
[7/31]
The Zen Of Fish: The Story Of Sushi, From Samurai
To Supermarket, Trevor Corson (HarperCollinsPublishers)
[7/30]
Retained By The People: The "Silent" Ninth
Amendment And The Constitutional Rights Americans Don't
Know They Have, Daniel A. Farber (Basic Books)
[7/26]
Chicago, Cynthia Davis (The University of
Michigan Press) [7/25]
The Sun Farmer: The Story Of A Shocking Accident, A
Medical Miracle, And A Family's Life-And-Death Decision,
Michael McCarthy (Ivan R. Dee) [7/25]
300 Stir-Fry Recipes, Nancie McDermott (Robert
Rose) [7/24]
Steve Goodman Facing The Music, Clay Eals (ECW
Press) [7/23]
Home Staging The Winning Way To Sell Your House
For More Money, Barb Schwarz with Mary Seehafer
Sears (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) [7/23]
Dog Days: Dispatches From Bedlam Farm, Jon
Katz (Villard) [7/20]
With Speed And Violence: Why Scientists Fear
Tipping Points In Climate Change, Fred Pearce
(Beacon Press) [7/19]
Underwater To Get Out Of The Rain: A Love Affair
With The Sea, Trevor Norton (Da Capo Press) [7/18]
Send: The Essential Guide To Email For Office And
Home, David Shipley and Will Schwalbe (Alfred A.
Knopf) [7/17]
Leviathan: The History Of Whaling In America,
Eric Jay Dolin (W. W. Norton & Company) [7/17]
..And His Lovely Wife: A Memoir From The Woman
Beside The Man,Connie Schultz (Random House) [7/16]
The Shadow Catcher: A Novel, Marianne Wiggins
(Simon & Schuster) [7/12]
Heart Care For Life: Developing The Program That
Works Best For You, Barry L. Zaret and Genell J.
Subak-Sharpe (Yale University Press) [7/12]
Third Coast: OutKast, Timbaland, And How Hip-Hop
Became A Southern Thing, Roni Sarig (Da Capo Press)
[7/11]
Carved In Sand: When Attention Fails And A Memory
Fades In Midlife, Cathryn Jakobson Ramin (HarperCollinsPublishers)
[7/11]
The Thumpin': How Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats
Learned to be Ruthless and Ended the Republican
Revolution, Naftali Bendavid (Doubleday) [7/10]
Rethinking Thin: The New Science Of Weight
Loss--And The Myths And Realities Of Dieting, Gina
Kolata (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [7/2]
June 2007
I'm A Lebowski, You're A Lebowski Life, The Big
Lebowski, And What-Have-You, Bill Green, Ben Peskoe,
Will Russell & Scott Shuffitt (Bloomsbury [6/290]
Untapped: The Scramble For Africa's Oil, John
Ghazvinian (Harcourt, Inc.) [6/29]
Everything Conceivable: How Assisted
Reproduction Is Changing Men, Women, And The World,
Liza Mundy (Alfred A. Knopf) [6/28]
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: a Memoir of Africa,
Peter Godwin (Little, Brown and Company) [6/26]
Green To Gold: How Smart Companies Use
Environmental Strategy To Innovate, Create Value, And
Build Competitive Advantage, Daniel C. Esty and
Andrew S. Winston (Yale University Press) [6/27]
Small Strangers: The Experiences Of Immigrant
Children In America, 1880-1925, Melissa R. Klapper
(Ivan R. Dee ) [6/25]
The Fabric Of America: How Our Borders And
Boundaries Shaped The Country And Forged Our National
Identity, Andro Linklater (Walker & Company) [6/22]
Building The Empire State: A Rediscoverd 1930s
Notebook Charts The Construction Of The Empire State
Building, Carol Willis, editor (W. W. Norton &
Company in association with The Skyscraper Museum)
[6/21]
A Short Drive Through The 21st Century: The Future
Of Energy, Trade, And Demographics, Noel Brodsky
(Fringe Lunatic Perss) [6/15]
Silence Of The Songbirds, Bridget Stutchbury
(Walker & Company) [6/15]
Twice as Good Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to
Power, Marcus Mabry (Modern Times) [6/14]
Taj Mahal: Passion And Genius At The Heart Of The
Moghul Empire, Diana and Michael Preston (Walker &
Company) [6/12]
War Torn: Stories Of War From The Women Reporters
Who Covered Vietnam, (Random House) [6/6]
American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an
Age of New Media, Neil Henry (University of
California Press) [6/5]
May 2007
The Happiness Myth: Why What We Think Is Right Is
Wrong, Jennifer Michael Hecht (HarperSanFrancisco)
[5/31]
Way Off The Road: Discovering The Peculiar Charms
Of Small Town America, Bill Geist (Broadway
Books)[5/30]
Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of
Christian America, Matthew Avery Sutton (Harvard
University Press) [5/30]
Oxford American Southern Movie Issue (56) 2007
One Perfect Day The Selling of the American
Wedding, Rebecca Mead (the Penguin Press) [5/24]
Tearing Down The Gates Confronting The Class
Divide In American Education, Peter Sacks
(University of California Press) [5/22]
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour Of The Beautiful
Basics Of Science, Natalie Angier (Houghton Mifflin
Company) [5/18]
Otherwise Normal People Inside the Thorny World of
Competitive Rose Gardening, Aurelia C. Scott
(Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) [5/16]
Bento Box In The Heartland My Japanese Girlhood In
Whitebread America: A Food Memoir, Linday Furiya
(Seal Press) [5/16]
How To Pick A Peach: The Search For Flavor From
Farm To Table, Russ Parsons (Hougthon Mifflin
Company) [5/15]
Sick: the Untold Story Of America's Health Care
Crisis--And The People Who Pay the Price, Jonathan
Cohn (HarperCollinsPublishers) [5/14]
My River Home: A Journey From The Gulf War To The
Gulf Of Mexico, Marcus Eriksen (Beacon Press) [5/11]
28: Stories Of AIDS in Africa, Stephanie Nolen
(Walker & Company) [5/8]
Ending The Food Fight: Guide Your Child To A
Healthy Weight In A Fast Food/Fake Food World, David
Ludwig (Houghton Mifflin Company) [5/7]
The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama, And Death
In Nineteenth-Century America, Nigel Cliff (Random
House) [5/3]
Rescuing Da Vinci: Hitler And The Nazis Stole
Europe's Great Art America And Her Allies recovered It, Robert M. Edsel (Laurel
Publishing, LLC) [5/2]
April 2007
The Architecture Of Happiness, Alain de Botton
(Pantheon Books) [4/30]
West From Appomattox: The Reconstruction Of
America After The Civil War, Heather Cox Richardson
(Yale University Press) [4/27]
Even The Hollow My Body Made Is Gone: Poems,
Janice N. Harrington (BOA Editions Limited) [4/26]
The Chicken Chasing Queen Of Lamar County,
Janice N. Harrington, pictures by Shelley Jackson
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [4/26]
Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey To Discover How
The Ingredients Found In Processed Foods Are Grown,
Mined (Yes, Minded), And Manipulated Into What America
Eats, Steve Ettlinger (Hudson Street Press) [4/26]
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier,
Ishamel Beah (Farrar, Straus And Giroux) [4/25]
The Long Exile: A Tale Of Inuit Betrayal And
Survival In The High Arctic, Melanie McGrath (Alfred
A. Knopf) [4/24]
Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, Thomas Brothers
(W. W. Norton & Company) [4/23]
Abraham's Rhyme: The Story Of An American Family,
Louis W. Liebovich (Nightengale Press) [4/20]
A Fractured Mind: My Life With Multiple
Personality Disorder, Robert B. Oxnam (Hyperion)
[4/10]
Inside North Korea, Mark Edward Harris
(Chronicle Books) [4/9]
Eating Between The Lines: The Supermarket
Shopper's Guide To The Truth Behind Food Labels,
Kimberly Lord Stewart (St. Martin's Griffin) [4/4]
Baking From My Home To Yours, Dorie Greenspan
(Houghton Mifflin Company) [4/2]
March 2007
Cat vs. Cat: Keeping Peace When You Have More Than
One Cat, Pam Johnson-Bennett (Penguin) [3/30]
The Father Of All Things: A Marine, His Son, And
The Legacy Of Vietnam, Tom Bissell (Pantheon Books)
[3/29]
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories From History
And The Arts, Clive James (W. W. Norton & Company)
[3/28]
Women Who Dare Women Explorers, Sharon M.
Hannon (Pomegranate Communications, Inc.) [3/28]
Polar Dream: The First Solo Expedition By A Woman
And Her Dog, Helen Thayer (Simon & Schuster) [3/28]
Walking The Gobi: Desert Of Dreams And Despair,
Helen Thayer (Mountaineer Books, forthcoming September
2007) [3/28]
Lost & Found: Reclaiming The Japanese American
Incarceration, Karen L. Ishikzuka (University of
Illinois Press) [3/27]
The Grid: A Journey Through The Heart Of Our
Electrified World, Phillip F. Schewe (Joseph Henry
Press) [3/22]
Leap! What Will We Do With The Rest Of Our Lives?
Reflections From The Boomer Generation, Sara
Davidson (Random House) [3/21]
The Eighth Promise: An America Son's Tribute To
His Toisanese Mother, William Poy Lee (Rodale)
[3/15]
A Royal Affair: George III And His Scandalous
Siblings, Stella Tillyard (Random House) [3/14]
Vaccine: The Controversial Story Of Medicine's
Greatest Lifesaver, Arthur Allen (W. W. Norton &
Company) [3/13]
Unstrange Minds: Remapping The World Of Autism,
Roy Richard Grinker (Basic Books) [3/12]
Agrarianism And The Good Society: Land, Culture,
Conflict, And Hope, Eric T. Freyfogle (The
University of Kentucky Press) [3/9]
Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook: Recipes From Hunan
Province, Fuchsia Dunlop (W. W. Norton & Company)
[3/8]
The Long And Short Of It: The Madcap History Of
The Skirt, Ali Basye (HarperEntertainment) [3/7]
The Illinois Report 2007 (The Institute of
Government & Public Affairs of the University of
Illinois) [3/7]
The Unquiet Grave: The FBI And The Struggle For The
Soul Of Indian Country, Steve Hendricks (Thunder's
Mouth Press) [3/6]
February 2007
The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog And Other Stories
From A Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized
Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, And Healing,
Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz (Basic Books) [2/28]
The Sound The Stars Make Rushing Through The Sky:
The Writings Of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Robert
Dale Parker, Ed. (University of Pennsylvania Press) [2/27]
Lowering The Bar: Lawyer Jokes & Legal Culture,
Marc Galanter (The University of Wisconsin Press) [2/26]
Better But Not Well: Mental Health Policy In The
United States Since 1950, Richard G. Frank and
Sherry A. Glied (The Johns Hopkins University Press)
[2/23]
White House Chef: Eleven Years, Two Presidents,
One Kitchen, Walter Scheib and Andrew Friedman (John
Wiley & Sons, Inc.) [2/22]
Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story Of
Rock-And-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe,
Gayle R. Wald (Beacon Press) [2/22]
The Gospel Of The Blues, Sister Rosetta Tharpe
(MCA/Decca/Chronicles) [2/22]
The Marines Of Montford Point: America's First
Black Marines, Melton A. McLaurin (The University of
North Carolina Press) [2/21]
Fighting For Air: The Battle To Control America's
Media, Eric Klinenberg (Metropolitan Books) [2/20]
The Power Of Play: How Spontaneous, Imaginative
Activities Lead To Happier, Healthier Children,
David Elkind (Da Capo Lifelong Books) [2/16]
The Strange Career Of The Black Athlete: African
Americans And Sports, Russell T. Wigginton (Praeger)
[2/15]
he Arkansas Traveler: Music From Little House On
The Prairie, Butch Baldassari and Dale Cockrell
(Pa's Fiddle Recordings); and Happy Land: Musical
Tributes To Laura Ingalls Wilder, Butch Baldassari
and Dale Cockrell (Pa's Fiddle Recordings) [2/15]
The Annotated Cat Under The Hats Of Seuss And His
Cats, Philip Nel (Random House) [2/13]
Oil On The Brain: Adventures From The Pump To The
Pipeline, Lisa Magonelli (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
[2/13]
A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits Of Disorder,
Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman (Little, Brown And
Company) [2/8]
Made To Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive And Others
Die, Chip Heath & Dan Heath (Random House) [2/7]
American Islam: The Struggle For The Soul Of A
Religion, Paul M. Barrett (Farrar, Straus And
Giroux) [2/1]
January 2007
The Arkansas Traveler: Music From Little House On
The Prairie, Butch Baldassari and Dale Cockrell
(Pa's Fiddle Recordings) [1/31]
The Wake Of War: Encounters With The People Of
Iraq And Afghanistan, Anne Nivat (Beacon Press)
[1/31]
Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir, Bich Minh
Nguyen (Viking) [1/30]
Fans, Bloggers, And Gamers: Exploring
Participatory Culture; The Wow Climax: Tracing The
Emotional Impact Of Popular Culture; and
Convergence Culture: Where Old And New Media Collide,
Henry Jenkins (New York University Press) [1/29]
AntiBabel, Reggie Watts and Yungchen Lhamo
(Pop! Tech) [1/25]
Flower Confidential: The Good, The Bad, And The
Beautiful In The Business Of Flowers, Amy Stewart
(Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) [1/25]
Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections On Mortality,
Pauline W. Chen (Alfred A. Knopf) [1/24]
In Spite Of The Gods: The Strange Rise Of Modern
India, Edward Luce (Doubleday) [1/22]
The Sister Knot: Why We Fight, Why We're Jealous,
And Why We'll Love Each Other No Matter What, Terri
Apter (W. W. Norton & Company) [1/19]
Mysteries Of Sex: Tracing Women & Men Through
American History, Mary P. Ryan (The University of
North Carolina Press) [1/18]
Kingfish: The Reign Of Huey P. Long, Richard
D. White, Jr. (Random House Trade Paperbacks) [1/17]
Almost Heaven: The Story Of Women In Space,
Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles (The MIT Press) [1/16]
Where We Lived: Discovering The Places We Once
Called Home The American Home From 1775 to 1840,
Jack Larkin (The Taunton Press) [1/12]
The Incredible Shrinking Critic 75 pounds And
counting: My Excellent Adventure In Weight Loss,
Jami Bernard (Avery) [1/10]
American Singing Groups: A History From 1940 To
Today, Jay Warner (Hal Leonard) [1/10]
The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History Of
Vegetarianism From 1600 To Modern Times, Tristram
Stuart (W. W. Norton & Company) [1/9]
Strange Son: Two Mothers, Two Sons, And The Quest
To Unlock The Hidden World Of Autism, Portia Iversen
(Riverhead Books) [1/8]
Ethical Realism: A Vision For America's Role In
The World, Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman (Pantheon)
[1/4]
Your Green Home: A Guide To Planning A Healthy,
Environmentally Friendly New Home, Alex Wilson (New
Society Publishers) [1/3]
December 2006
Walt Disney: The Triumph Of The American
Imagination, Neal Gabler (Alfred A. Knopf) [12/19]
Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man,
Dale Peterson (Houghton Mifflin Company) [12/15]
Same Sex Different States: When Same-Sex Marriages
Cross State Lines, Andrew Koppelman (Yale University
Press) [12/14]
A Life In Smoke: A Memoir, Julia Hansen (Free
Press) [12/13]
The Few: The American "Knights Of The Air" Who
Risked Everything To fight In The Battle Of Britain,
Alex Kershaw (Da Capo Press) [12/13]
The Book Thief: The True Crimes Of Daniel
Speigelman, Travis McDade (Praeger) [12/12]
Baking: From My Home To Yours, Dorie Greenspan
(Houghton Mifflin Company) [12/12]
A Killer Life: How An Independent Film Producer
Survives Deals And Disaster In Hollywood And Beyond,
Christine Vachon (Simon & Schuster) [12/11]
Her Best Shot: Women And Guns In America,
Laura Browder (The University of North Carolina Press)
[12/8]
Historical Atlas Of The United States With
Original Maps, Derek Hayes (University of California
Press) [12/7]
Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens Wartime,
Kenneth I. Helphand (Trinity University Press) [12/7]
America By The Yard: Cirkut Camera Images From The
Early Twentieth Century, Robert B. MacKay (W.W.
Norton & Company) [12/5]
Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions Of World War
II, Michael Bess (Alfred A. Knopf) [11/5]
Rescued: Saving Animals From Disaster Life Saving
Stories And Practical Suggestions, (Allen & Linda
Anderson New World Library) [12/1]
November 2006
Strong Women, Strong Backs: Everything You Need To
Know To Prevent, Treat, And Beat Back Pain, Miriam
E. Nelson (G. P. Putnam's Sons) [11/30]
On Her Trail: My Mother, Nancy Dickerson TV News'
First Woman Star, John Dickerson (Simon & Schuster)
[11/28]
Cross-X, Joe Miller (Farrar, Straus And
Giroux) [11/28]
Off The Books: The Underground Economy Of The
Urban Poor, Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (Harvard
University Press) [11/27]
The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America
And How To Get It Back On Track, Thomas E. Mann and
Norman J. Ornstein (Oxford University Press) [11/22]
Skin: A Natural History, Nina G. Jablonski
(University of California Press) [11/21]
Thunderstruck, Erik Larson (Crown Publishers)
[11/20]
When We Were Young: New Perspectives On The Art Of
The Child, edited by Jonathan Fineberg (University
of California Press) [11/17]
Oxford American 8th Annual Music Issue, Marc
Smirnoff (Oxford American) [11/15]
The Lost: A Search For Six Of Six Million,
Daniel Mendelsohn (HarperCollins) [11/15]
Life Platinum Anniversary Collection: 70 Years Of
Extraordinary Photography, Robert Sullivan (Life
Books) [11/14]
Eavesdropping: A Memoir Of Blindness And Listening,
Stephen Kuusisto (W. W. Norton & Company) [11/14]
Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation Of
The Global Energy Industry, Travis Bradford (The MIT
Press) [11/13]
Iwo Blasted Again, Ray Elliott (Tales Press)
[11/8]
Speak Now, Kaylie Jones (Akashic Books)
[[11/8]
The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will
Shape The Future, Vali Nasr (W. W. Norton & Company)
[11/7]
From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, The War, And A
Dog Named Lava, Jay Kopelman with Melinda Roth (The
Lyons Press) [11/3]
Teahouse Of The Almighty, Patricia Smith
(Coffee House Press) [11/2]
Big Towns, Big Talk, Patricia Smith (Zoland
Books) [11/2]
Close To Death, Patricia Smith (Zoland Books)
[11/2]
Secrets Of A Civil War Submarine: Solving The
Mysteries Of The H.L. Hunley, Sally M. Walker (Carolrhoda
Books) [11/1]
The Perfect $100,000 House: A Trip Across America
And Back In Pursuit Of A Place To Call Home, Karrie
Jacobs (Viking) [11/1]
October 2006
A Walk Around The Pond: Insects In And Over The
Water, Gilbert Waldbauer (Harvard University Press)
[10/31]
America's Songs: The Stories Behind The Songs Of
Broadway, Hollywood, And Tin Pan Alley, Philip Furia
and Michael Lasser (Routledge) [10/31]
100 Words To Make You Sound Smart From The
Editors Of The American Heritage Dictionaries (Houghton
Mifflin) [10/30]
Shock: The Healing Power Of Electroconvulsive
Therapy, Kitty Dukakis and Larry Tye (Avery) [10/30]
Pictures Of A Dying Man, Agymah Kamau (Coffee
House Press) [10/26]
Flickering Shadows, Kwadwo Agymah Kamau
(Coffee House Press) [10/26]
The Librettist Of Venice: The Remarkable Life Of
Lorenzo Da Ponte Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, And
Italian Opera's Impresario In America, Rodney Bolt
(Bloomsbury) [10/25]
Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life, Linda H.
Davis (Random House) [10/24]
The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook,
Revised Edition, The Editors At America's Test Kitchen
(America's Test Kitchen) [10/23]
The Chicago Marathon, Andrew Suozzo
(University of Illinois Press) [10/19]
Prayer: A History, Philip Zaleski & Carol
Zaleski (Houghton Mifflin Company) [10/19]
Soldier: The Life Of Colin Powell, Karen
DeYoung (Alfred A. Knopf) [10/18]
Who Owns Culture? Appropriation And Authenticity
In American Law, Susan Scafidi (Rutgers University
Press) [10/17]
Brothers: A Novel, Da Chen (Shaye Areheart
Books) [10/16]
Music From Apartment 8: New And Selected Poems,
John Stone (Louisiana State University Press) [10/13]
1491 New Revelations Of The Americas Before
Columbus, Charles C. Mann (Vintage Books) [10/13]
Understanding Cancer: A Patient's Guide To
Diagnosis, Prognosis, And Treatment, 2d ed., C.
Norman Coleman (Johns Hopkins University Press) [10/10]
Perfect, Once Removed: When Baseball Was All The
World To Me, Phillip Hoose (Walker & Company) [10/9]
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait Of
Charles Darwin And The Making Of His Theory Of Evolution,
David Quammen (W. W. Norton & Company) [10/9]
Mellon: An American Life, David Cannadine
(Alfred A. Knopf) [10/5]
Jeans: A Cultural History Of An American Icon,
James Sullivan (Gotham Books) [10/4]
Secondhand World, Katherine Min (Alfred A.
Knopf) [10/3]
September 2006
The Shakespeare Wars: Chasing Scholars, Public
Fiascoes, Palace Coups, Ron Rosenbaum (Random House)
[9/29]
Teleliteracy: Taking Television Seriously,
David Bianculli (Syracuse University Press) [9/28]
Spying On The Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence
From Nazi Germany To Iran And North Korea, Jeffrey
T. Richelson (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. [9/27]
The Box: How The Shipping Container Made The World
Smaller And The World Economy Bigger, Marc Levinson
(Princeton University Press) [9/25]
Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction And
Economics, Paul Ormerod (Pantheon) [9/22]
Mirror Mirror: History Of The Human Love Affair
With Reflection, Mark Pendergrast (Basic Books)
[9/21]
The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History Of The
Arctic World, Robert McGhee (Oxford University
Press) [9/20]
Orson Welles: Road To Xanadu, Volume One,
Simon Callow (Viking) and Orson Welles: Hello
Americans, Volume Two, Simon Callow (Viking)
Are We Ready? Public Health Since 9/11, David
Rosner and Gerald Markowitz (University of California
Press) [9/13]
The Producer: John Hammond And The Soul Of
American Music, Dunstan Prial (Farrar, Straus And
Giroux) [9/12]
There Goes My Everything: White Southerners In The
Age Of Civil Rights, 1945-1975, Jason Sokol (Alfred
A. Knopf) [9/8]
The Human Voice: How This Extraordinary Instrument
Reveals Essential Clues About Who We Are, Anne Karpf
(Bloomsbury) [9/7]
I'm Proud Of You: My Friendship With Fred Rogers,
Tim Madigan (Gotham Books) [9/6]
August 2006
My Freshman Year: What A Professor Learned By
Becoming A Student, Rebekah Nathan (Penguin Books)
[8/31]
Moss Hart: A Prince Of The Theatre, Jared
Brown (Back Stage Books) [8/30]
Special Topics In Calamity Physics, Marisha
Pessl (Viking) [8/29]
Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods And How They Grew,
Samuel Fromartz (Harcourt, Inc.) [8/29]
Millish (Millish) [8/28]
The Gecko's Foot: Bio-Inspiration--Engineering New
Materials From Nature, Peter Forbes (W. W. Norton &
Company) [8/25]
The Yellow Dog; Lock 14; and A Man's Head: An Inspector Maigret Mystery,
Georges Simenon (Penguin Books) [8/24]
Redesigning Women: Television After The Network
Era, Amanda D. Lotz (University of Illinois Press)
[8/24]
Talk Talk, T. Coraghessan Boyle (Viking)
[8/21]
The Shark God: Encounters With Ghosts And
Ancestors In The South Pacific, Charles Montgomery (HarperCollinsPublishers)
[8/18]
National Geographic Desk Reference To Nature's
Medicine, Steven Foster and Rebecca L. Johnson
(National Geographic) [8/17]
Ten Worlds: Everything That Orbits The Sun,
Ken Crosswell (Bonds Mills Press) [8/15]
Cross Country: Fifteen Years And 90000 Miles On
The Roads And Interstates Of America With Lewis
And Clark, A Lot Of Bad Motels, A Moving Van,
Emily Post, Jack Kerouac, My Wife, My Mother-in-Law, Two
Kids, And Enough Coffee To Kill An Elephant, Robert
Sullivan (Bloomsbury) [8/15]
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History Of
Women Who Surrendered children For Adoption In The
Decades Before Roe v. Wade, Ann Fessler (The Penguin
Press) [8/3]
July 2006
Shades Of Glory: The Negro Leagues And The Story
Of African-American Baseball, Lawrence D. Hogan
(National Geographic) [7/31]
Letter In A Woodpile: Essays From NPR All Things
Considered Commentator, Ed Cullen (Cool Springs
Press) [7/28]
America's Songs: The Stories Behind The Songs Of
Broadway, Hollywood, And Tin Pan Alley, Philip Furia
and Michael Lasser (Routledge) [7/27]
Medicating Young Minds: How To Know If Psychiatric
Drugs Will Help Or Hurt Your Child, Glen R. Elliott
(STC Healthy Living) [7/26]
Simple Courage: A True Story Of Peril On The Sea,
Frank Delaney (Random House) [7/25]
An Infinity Of Little Hours: Five Young Men And
Their Trial of Faith In The Western World's Most Austere
Monastic Order, Nancy Klein Maguire (Public Affairs)
[7/25]
The Emotional Survival Guide For Caregivers:
Looking After Yourself And Your Family While Helping An
Aging Parent, Barry J. Jacobs (The Guilford Press)
[7/24]
Challenging Nature: The Clash Of Science And
Spirituality At The New Frontiers Of Life, Lee M.
Silver (Ecco) [7/21]
House Calls And Hitching Posts: Stories From Dr.
Elton Lehman's Career Among The Amish (Good Books)
[7/20]
Profiles From The Kitchen: What Great Cooks Have
Taught Us About Ourselves And Our Food, Charles A.
Baker-Clark (The University Press of Kentucky) [7/19]
The President's Counselor: The Rise To Power Of
Alberto Gonzales, Bill Minutaglio (Rayo) [7/18]
Arctic Wings: Birds Of The Artic National
Wildlife Refuge, Stephen Brown, Editor (The Mountaineers
Books, Seattle and Manomet Center For Conservation
Sciences) [7/17]
Breach Of Faith: Hurricane Katrina And The Near
Death Of A Great American City, Jed Horne (Random
House) [7/14]
Friendship: An Expose, Joseph Epstein
(Houghton Mifflin) [7/13]
English Folktales, edited by Dan Keding and
Amy Douglas (Libraries Unlimited) [7/12]
Son Of The Rough South: An Uncivil Memoir,
Karl Fleming (Public Affairs) [7/12]
Snapshot Chronicles: Inventing The American Photo
Album, Barbara Levine and Stephanie Snyder
(Princeton Architectural Press) [7/11]
Crash-Proof Your Kids: Make Your Teen A Safer,
Smarter Driver, Timothy C. Smith (Simon & Schuster)
[7/11]
Aglow In The Dark: The Revolutionary Science Of
Biofluorescence, Vincent Pieribone and David F.
Gruber (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
[7/6]
June 2006
Millennium Park: Creating A Chicago Landmark,
Timothy J. Gilfoyle (The University of Chicago Press)
[6/29]
Healthy Anger: How To Help Children And Teens
Manage Their Anger, Bernard Golden (Oxford
University Press) [6/28]
Red Weather: A Novel, Pauls Toutonghi (Swaye
Areheart Books) [6/27]
Whose Game Is It, Anyway? A Guide To
Helping YOur Child Get The Most From Sports, Organized
By Age And Stage, Richard D. Ginsburg, Stephen
Durant, with Amy Baltzell (Houghton Mifflin Company)
[6/27]
Every Mother Is A Daughter: The Neverending Quest
For Success, Inner Peace, And A Really Clean Kitchen,
Perri Klass and Sheila Solomon Klass (Ballentine Books)
[6/26]
The Short Life And Long Times Of Mrs. Beeton,
Kathryn Hughes (Alfred A. Knopf) [6/23]
Copycat, Erica Spindler (Mira) [6/22]
New News Out Of Africa: Uncovering Africa's
Renaissance, Charlayne Hunter-Gault (Oxford
University Press) [6/22]
Sorcerers' Apprentices: 100 Years Of Law Clerks At
The United States Supreme Court, Artemus Ward and
David L. Weiden (New York University Press) [6/21]
Gardening With Heirloom Seeds: Tried-And-True
Flowers, Fruits, And Vegetables For A New Generation,
Lynn Coulter (The University of North Carolina Press)
[6/20]
The Pichuas Of H.G. Wells: A Burlesque Diary,
Gene K. Rinkel and Margaret E. Rinkel (The University of
Illinois Press) [6/19]
Flushed: How The Plumber Saved Civilization,
W. Hodding Carter (Atria Books) [6/19]
By A Slow River: A Novel, Philippe Claudel
(Alfred A. Knopf) [6/15]
When Sex Goes To School: Warring Views On Sex--And
Sex Education--Since The Sixties, Kristin Luker (W.
W. Norton & Company) [614]
Made To Break: Technology And Obsolescence In
America, Giles Slade (Harvard University
Press) [6/12]
Moonlight Hotel: A Novel, Scott Anderson
(Doubleday) [6/9]
Crime Beat: A Decade Of Covering Cops And Killers,
Michael Connelly (Little, Brow And Company) [6/8]
Love In The Time Of Cholesterol: A Memoir With
Recipes, Cecily Ross (McGraw-Hill) [6/7]
Stumbling On Happiness, Daniel Gilbert (Alfred
A. Knopf) [6/6]
Chal To Yinilo Frog Brings Rain, Patricia
Hruby Powell (Salina Bookshelf, Inc.) [6/2]
Mayflower: A Story Of Courage, Community, And War,
Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking) [6/1]
May 2006
My Life In France, Julia Child with Alex
Prud'homme (Alfred A. Knopf) [5/31]
Carib's Leap: Selected And New Poems Of The
Caribbean, Laurence Lieberman (Peepal Tree) [5/24]
The Disposable American: Layoffs And Their
Consequences, Louis Uchitelle (Alfred A. Knopf)
[5/23]
Public Radio: Behind The Voices, Lisa A.
Phillips (cds Books) [5/22]
The Ruby Slippers, Madonna's Bra, And Einstein's
Brain: The Locations Of America's Pop Culture Artifacts,
Chris Epting (Santa Monica Press) [5/18]
Donuts: An American Passion, John T. Edge (G.P.
Putam's Sons) [5/16]
Raising Less Corn, More Hell: The Case For The
Independent Farm And Against Industrial Food, George
Pyle (Public Affairs) [5/15]
Republican Women: Feminism And Conservatism From
Suffrage Through The Rise Of The New Right,
Catherine E. Rymph (The University of North Carolina)
[5/12]
Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work
1888-2006, Rebekah Presson Mosby, editor (Shout)
[5/11]]
One Small Boat: The Story Of A Little Girl, Lost
Then Found, Kathy Harrison (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin)
[5/10]
Marry Your Baby Daddy, Maryann Reid (St.
Martin's Press) [5/9]
Where Men Hide, James B. Twitchell,
Photographs by Ken Ross (Columbia University Press)
[5/8]
The Dog Listener: Learn How To Communicate With
Your Dog For Willing Cooperation, Jan Fennell
(Quill) [5/5]
The Collar: A Year Of Striving And Faith Inside A
Catholic Seminary, Jonathan Englert (Houghton Mifflin
Company) [5/4]
Flavor Of The Month: Why Smart People Fall For
Fads, Joel Best (University of California Press)
[5/3]
Poet's Choice, Edward Hirsch (Harcourt, Inc.)
[5/2]
April 2006
Send In The Idiots: Stories From The Other Side Of
Autism, Kamran Nazeer (Bloomsbury) [4/28]
Windswept: The Story Of Wind And Weather, Marq
de Villiers (Walker & Company) [4/25]
Blue Skies Above, Matt & Shannon Heaton (EatsRecords)
[4/24]
Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental
Health Madness, Pete Earley (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
[4/21]
You Must Set Forth At Dawn: A Memoir, Wole
Soyinka (Random House) [4/19]
The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, And The
Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries, Marilyn Johnson (HarperCollinsPublishers)
[4/18]
A Temple Of Texts, William Gass (Alfred A.
Knopf) [4/17]
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography, Paul
Rusesabagina with Tom Zoellner (Viking) [4/14]
1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, And The
Birth Of Post-Sixties America, Andreas Killen
(Bloomsbury) [4/12]
The Brightening Glance: Imagination And Childhood,
Ellen Handler Spitz (Pantheon Books) [4/11]
Fantasyland: A Season On Baseball's Lunatic Fringe,
Sam Walker (Viking) [4/10]
"Looking Good Was Never My Problem": Steps For
Living With Metastatic Cancers Or Other Chronic
Illnesses, Ellen M. Stahl (authorhouse) [4/10]
When Words Heal: Writing Through Cancer,
Sharon Bray (North Atlantic Books) [4/5]
Private Lives/Public Consequences: Personality And
Politics In Modern America, William H. Chafe (Harvard
University Press) [4/5]
What's Out There: Images From Here To The Edge Of
The Universe, Mary K. Baumann, et al. (Duncan Baird
Publishers) [4/3]
March 2006
Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide To Hoaxes And
Other B.S., Alex Boese (Harcourt, Inc.) [3/31]
A Church In Search Of Itself: Benedict XVI And The
Battle For The Future, Robert Blair Kaiser [3/29]
Be Bop Your Best! Red Grammer (Red Note
Records) and Teaching Peace, Red Grammer (Red
Note Records) [3/28]
A Handful Of Dust, David Plowden (W. W. Norton
& Company) [3/28]
The Three-Pound Enigma: The Human Brain And The
Quest To Unlock Its Mysteries, Shannon Moffett
(Algonquin Books Of Chapel Hill) [3/23]
Songbird Journeys: Four Seasons In The Lives Of
Migratory Birds, Miyoko Chu (Walker & Company)
[3/22]
Digging Deep: Unearthing Your Creative Roots
Through Gardening, Fran Sorin (Warner Books) [3/21]
At Canaan's Edge: America In The King Years
1965-68, Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster) [3/17]
Why It's Hard To Be Good, Al Gini (Routledge)
[3/14]
The World To Come: A Novel, Dara Horn (W. W.
Norton & Company) [3/13]
Picturing Faith: Photography And The Great
Depression, Colleen McDannell (Yale University
Press) [3/10]
The Rock From Mars: A Detective Story On Two
Planets, Kathy Sawyer (Random House) [3/9]
Accidental Genius: How John Cassavetes Invented
The American Independent Film, Marshall Fine
(Hyperion) [3/8]
Lighting The Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern
America, Karenna Gore Schiff (Hyperion) [3/7]
La Porte, Indiana, Jason Bitner (Princeton
University Press) [3/6]
A Special Education: One Family's Journey Through
The Maze Of Learning Disabilities, Dana Buchman and
Charlotte Farber (erseus Books) 3[/2]
The Race For Timbuktu: In Search Of Africa's City
Of Gold, Frank T. Kryza (Ecco) [3/1]
February 2006
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story Of Those Who
Survived The Great American Dust Bowl, Timothy Egan
(Houghton Mifflin Company) [2/28]
Chatter: Dispatches From The Secret World Of
Global Eavesdropping, Patrick Radden Keefe (Random
House) [2/27]
Advice And Consent: The Politics Of Judicial
Appointments, Lee Epstein and Jeffrey A. Segal
(Oxford University Press) [2/24]
This Day In The Life: Diaries From Women Across
America, edited by Joni B. Cole, Rebecca Joffrey,
and B. K. Rakhra (Three Rivers Press) [2/23]
Team Of Rivals: The Political Genius Of Abraham
Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster)
[2/22]
While They're At War: The True Story Of American
Families On The Homefront, Kristin Henderson
(Houghton Mifflin Company) [2/21]
Sea Of Gray: The Around-The-World Odyssey Of The
Confederate Raider Shenandoah, Tom Chaffin (Hill And
Wang) [2/17]
Are You Really Listening? Keys To Successful
Communication, Paul J. Donoghue and Mary E. Siegel (Sorin
Books) [2/13]
Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook, Beth
Hensperger (Harvard Common Press) 2/10]
Right, Wrong, And Risky: A Dictionary Of Today's
English Usage, Mark Davidson (W. W. Norton &
Company) [2/9]
You're Wearing That? Understanding Mothers And
Daughters In Conversation, Deborah Tannen (Random
House) [2/7]
January 2006
Byron Katie On Love, Sex And Relationships,
edited by Stephen Mitchell (Byron Katie International,
Inc.); and, I Wish My Body Were, Byron Katie
(Byron Katie International, Inc.) [1/30]
Pattern Language: Clothing As Communicator,
Judith Hoos Fox and Ingrid Amy Schlegel, editors (Tufts
University) [1/25]
Dream Boogie: The Triumph Of Sam Cooke, Peter
Guralnick (Little, Brown And Company) [1/25]
Behind The Lines: Powerful And revealing American
and Foreign War Letters--And One Man's Search To Find
Them, edited by Andrew Carroll (Scribner) [1/25]
Take Charge Of Your Child's Sleep: The All-In-One
Resource For Solving Sleep Problems In Kids And Teens,
Judy A. Owens and Jodi A. Mindell (Marlowe & Company)
[1/23]
Taught By America: A Story Of Struggle And Hope In
Compton, Sarah Sentilles (Beacon Press) [1/20]
Us And Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind,
David Berreby (Little, Brown And Company) [1/18]
Not In Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale Of How Magic
Is Transforming America, Christine Wicker (HarperSanFrancisco)
1/17
My Detachment: A Memoir, Tracy Kidder (Random
House) [1/16]
Pages From The Past: History & Memory In American
Magazines, Carolyn Kitch (The University of North
Carolina Press) [1/5]
Phyllis Schlafly And Grassroots Conservatism: A
Woman's Crusade, Donald T. Critchlow (Princeton
University Press) [1/4]
December 2005
Mad Magazine January 2006 issue [12/23]
The River Of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest
Journey, Candice Millard (Doubleday) [12/16]
Imaging America: Icons Of 20th-Century American
Art, John Carlin and Jonathan Fineberg (Yale
University Press) [12/9]
Imaging America: Icons Of 20-Century American Art,
A Film by John Carlin, Jonathan Fineberg and Hart Perry,
(Perry Films and MUSE Film and Television in association
with Funny Garbage and Public Media, Inc. [12/9]
Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged A
President And Fueled His Greatness, Joshua Wolf
Shenk (Houghton Mifflin Company) [12/8]
Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical
And Spiritual Well-Being, Andrew Weil (Alfred A.
Knopf) [12/6]
November 2005
In The Company Of Crows And Ravens, John M.
Marzluff and Tony Angell (Yale University Press) [11/28]
In The Can, Lou Harry and Eric Furman (Emmis
Books) [11/28]
Turning The Tables: Restaurants From The Inside
Out, Steven A. Shaw (HarperCollinsPublishers)
The Smaller Majority, Piotr Naskrecki (The
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) [11/18]
The All-American Dessert Book, Nancy Baggett
(Houghton Mifflin Company) [11/17]
The Dancing Girls Of Lahore: Selling Love And
Saving Dreams In Pakistan's Ancient Pleasure District,
Louise Brown (Fourth Estate) [11/16]
In Search Of Myths And Heroes: Exploring Four Epic
Legends Of The World, Michael Wood (University of
California Press) [11/15]
Hidden Kitchens: Stories, Recipes, And More From
NPR's The Kitchen Sisters, Nikki Silva and Davia
Nelson (Rodale Books) [11/15]
Maximum City: Bombay Lost And Found, Suketu
Mehta (Vintage Books) [11/11]
Alan J. Pakula: His Films And His Life, Jared
Brown (Back Stage Books) [11/10]
Swarthmoor, Peter Morton (Harbourtown CD)
[11/9]
A Left-Hand Turn Around The World: Chasing The
Mystery And Meaning Of All Things Southpaw, David
Wolman (Da Capo Press) [11/2]
Confessions Of A French Baker: Breadmaking
Secrets, Tips, And Recipes, Peter Mayle and Gerard
Auzet (Alfred A. Knopf) [11/8]
Women's Letters: America From The Revolutionary
War To The Present, edited by Lisa Grunwald and
Stephen J. Adler (The Dial Press) [11/3]
The Grail Bird: Hot On The Trail Of The
Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Tim Gallagher (Houghton
Mifflin) [11/2]
Saving Fish From Drowning: A Novel, Amy Tan
(G. P. Putnam's Sons) [11/1]
October 2005
Spook: Science Tackles The Afterlife, Mary
Roach (W. W. Norton & Company) [10/28]
Between Two Worlds: Escape From Tyranny: Growing
Up In The Shadow Of Saddam, Zainab Salbi and Laurie
Becklund (Gotham Books) [10/26]
The Culinary Institute Of America Breakfasts &
Brunches (Lebhar-Friedman Books) [10/25]
Katz On Dogs: A Commonsense Guide To Training And
Living With Dogs, Jon Katz (Villard) [10/25]
The Planets, Dava Sobel (Viking) [10/24]
Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's
Lightning Rod And The Invention Of America,
Philip Dray (Random House) [10/21]
Girl Sleuth And The Women Who Created Her,
Melanie Rehak (Harcourt, Inc.) [10/19]
Perfect Recipes For Having People Over, Pam
Anderson (Houghton Mifflin Company) [10/17]
Untouchables: My Family's Triumphant Journey Out
Of The Caste System In Modern India, Narendra Jadhav
(Scribner) [10/13]
Between Two Worlds Escape From Tyranny: Growing Up
In The Shadow Of Saddam, Zainab Salbi and Laurie
Becklund (Gotham Books) [10/]
The Complete New Yorker, Introduction by David
Remnick (Random House) [10/12]
Are You Really Listening? Keys To Successful
Communication, Paul J. Donoghue and Mary E. Siegel (Sorin
Books) [10/11]
Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind The
Rhyme, Chris Roberts (Gotham Books) [10/10]
Autism, Art, And Children: The Stories We Draw,
Julia Kellman (Bergin & Garvey [10/6]
Understanding Jihad, David Cook (University of
California Press) [10/5]
Jackson Whole Wyoming, Joan Clark (Autism
Asperger Publishing Company) 10/5]
Sick To Death And Not Going To Take It Anymore!
Reforming Health Care For The Last Years Of Life,
Joanne Lynn (University of California Press) [10/4]
September 2005
Little Piece Of Time, Walkin' Jim Stoltz (Wild
Wind Records) [9/30]
3 Nights In August: Strategy, Heartbreak, And Joy
Inside The Mind Of A Manager, Buzz Bizzinger
(Houghton Mifflin Company) [9/30]
Wine For Every Day And Every Occasion: Red, White,
And Bubbly To Celebrate The Joy Of Living, Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher
(HarperCollins) [9/28]
Faith At War: A Journey On The Frontlines Of
Islam, From Baghdad To Timbuktu, Yaroslav Trofimov
(Henry Holt And Company) [9/26]
Reporting From Washington: The History Of The
Washington Press Corps, Donald A. Ritchie (Oxford
University Press) [9/19]
The Genius Factory: The Curious History Of The
Nobel Prize Sperm Bank, David Plotz (Random House)
[9/9]
August 2005
Michelle Latimer Sings & Plays, Michelle
Latimer (Cool Note) [8/29]
Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives Of Middle
Schoolers, Linda Perlstein (Ballentine Books) [8/26]
It's So Much Work To Be Your Friend: Helping The
Child With Learning Disabilities Find Social Success,
Richard Lavoie (A Touchstone Book) [8/25]
"The Counselor", Sara Catania, Mother Jones 30
(4) July August 2005, 44-48, 88 [8/24]
The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth
Of Democracy And The Struggle To Create America,
Gary B. Nash (Viking) [8/23]
Twilight In The Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock
And The World Economy, Matthew R. Simmons (John
Wiley & Sons, Inc.) [8/17]
Microbe: Are We Ready For The Next Plague?
Alan P. Zelicoff and Michael Bellomo (AMACOM) [8/16]
Marketing Nutrition: Soy, Functional Foods,
Biotechnology, And Obesity, Brian Wansink
(University of Illinois) [8/10]
Madhouse: A Tragic Tale Of Megalomania And Modern
Medicine, Andrew Scull (Yale University Press) [8/9]
Good Cops: The Case For Preventive Policing,
David A. Harris (New Press) [8/4]
Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading The
Fight To Change The Church, Angela Bonavoglia (Regan
Books) [8/3]
Uninsured In America: Life & Death In The Land Of
Opportunity, Susan Starr Sered and Rushika
Fernandopulle (University of California Press) [8/2]
July 2005
Midnight Assassin: A Murder In America's Heartland,
Patricia L. Bryan & Thomas Wolf (Algonquin Books of
Chapel Hill ) [7/29]
Great Little Museums Of The Midwest, Christine
Des Garennes (Trails Books)
[7/27]
John Brown Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed
Slavery, Sparked The Civil War, And Seeded Civil Rights,
David S. Reynolds (Alfred A. Knopf) [7/27]
Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion And Feminism,
Linda M. Scott (Palgrave) [726]
Degunking Your Personal Finances, Shannon
Plate (Paraglyph Press) [7/25]
On American Soil: How Justice Became A Casualty Of
World War II, Jack Hamann (Algonquin Books Of Chapel
Hill) [7/20]
The Sixteenth Minute: Life In The Aftermath of
Fame, Jeff Guinn and Douglas Perry (Jeremy P.
Tarcher/Penguin) [7/19]
Death's Little Helpers: A John March Novel,
Peter Spiegelman (Alfred A. Knopf) [7/19]
The Best American Recipes 2004-2005, edited by
Fran McCullough and Molly Stevens (Houghton Mifflin
Company) [7/18]
Meet You In Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay
Frick, And The Bitter Partnership That Transformed
America, Les Standiford (Crown Publishers) [7/15]
The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold
Case Squad, Stacy Horn (Viking) [7/14]
A Natural History Of The Chicago Region, Joel
Greenberg (The University of Chicago Press) [7/14]
Armed Gunmen, True Facts, And Other Ridiculous
Nonsense: A Compendium Of Repetitive Redundancies,
Richard Kallan (Pantheon Books) [7/13]
Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's
Supreme Court Journey, Linda
Greenhouse (Times Books) [7/13]
The Lady And The Panda: The True Adventures of The
First American Explorer To Bring Back China's Most
Exotic Animal, Vicki Constantine Croke (Random
House) [7/12]
PaperOrPlastic: Searching For Solutions To An
Overpackaged World, Daniel Imhoff (Sierra Club
Books) [7/11]
Stories Of Hope And Spirit: Folktales From Eastern
Europe, Dan Keding (August House Publishers, Inc.)
[7/8]
Dying To Win: The Strategic Logic Of Suicide
Terrorism, Robert A. Pape (Random House) [7/8]
The Informant: The FBI, The Ku Klux Klan, And The
Murder Of Viola Liuzzo, Gary
May (Yale University Press) [7/6]
Zov: Recipes And Memories From The Heart, Zov
Karamardian (Zov's Publishing, LLC.) [7/1]
June 2005
The Long Emergency: Surviving The Converging
Catastrophes Of The Twenty-First Century, James
Howard Kunstler (Atlantic Monthly Press) [6/30]
Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, And The
High-And-Tight: Gender, Folklore, And Changing Military
Culture, Carol Burke (Beacon Press) [7/29]
Snow Flower And The Secret: A Novel, Lisa See
(Random House) [6/28]
"Assisted Living: How Much Assistance Can You Really
Count On?" Consumer Reports July 2005
Extreme Weather: A Guide & Record Book,
Christopher C. Burt (W. W. Norton & Company) [6/27]
Lucky Child: A Daughter Of Cambodia Reunites With
The Sister She Left Behind,, Loung Ung (HarperCollinsPublishers)
[6/23]
Where Soldiers Fear To Tread: A Relief Worker's
Tale Of Survival, John S. Burnett (Bantam Books)
[6/22]
The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova (Little,
Brown And Company) [6/21]
A World Apart: Women, Prison, And Life Behind Bars,
Christina Rathbone (Random House) [6/17]
Sweetwater: A Novel, Roxana Robinson (Random
House Trade Paperbacks) and A Perfect Stranger And
Other Stories, Roxana Robinson (Random House) [6/15]
Fathoming The Ocean: The Discovery And Exploration
Of The Deep Sea, Helen M. Rozwadowski (The Belknap
Press of Harvard University Press) [6/14]
Ninth Letter Vol. 2 No. 1 Spring Summer 2005
(University of Illinois) [6/13]
At Day's Close: Night In Times Past, A Roger
Ekirch (W. W. Norton & Company)
[6/8]
Out Of Eden: An Odyssey Of Ecological Invasion,
Alan Burdick (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) [6/7]
A Return To Family Picnics, Russell
Cronkhite (Multnomah Gifts) [6/3]
The Untelling: A Novel, Tayari Jones (Warner
Books) [6/2]
The Survivor: Bill Clinton In The White House,
John F. Harris (Random House)
[6/1]
May 2005
Justice On The Grass: Three Rwandan Journalists,
Their Trial For War Crimes, And A Nation's Quest For
Redemption, Dina Temple-Raston (Free Press) [5/18]
Foreign Babes In Beijing: Behind The Scenes Of A
New China, Rachel DeWoskin (W. W. Norton & Co.,
Inc.) [5/17]
Bees In America: How The Honey Bee Shaped A Nation,
Tammy Horn (The University Press of Kentucky) [5/17]
Images Of America Kankakee 1853-1910, Norman
S. Stevens and The Kankakee County Historical Society
(Arcadia) [5/13]
The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most
Embattled Emblem, John M. Coski (The Belknap Press
of Harvard University Press) [5/13]
When The Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire,
Intrigue, Murder, And The New Madrid Earthquakes,
Jay Feldman (Free Press) [5/12]
Eat This Book: Cooking With Global Fresh Flavors,
Tyler Florence (Clarkson Potter/Publishers) [5/11]
Sleeping Through The Night: How Infants, Toddlers,
And Their Parents Can Get A Good Night's Sleep,
Jodi A. Mindell (HarperResource) [5/10]
Fun Is Good: How To Create Joy & Passion In
Your Workplace & Career, Mike Veeck & Pete
Williamson (Rodale) [5/9]
A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, And The Quest
For The Color Of Desire, Amy Butler Greenfield (HarperCollinsPublishers)
[5/5]
Kosher By Design Entertains, Susie Fishbein (Mesorah
Publications, Ltd.) [5/4]
What Einstein Told His Cook 2 The Sequel: Further
Adventures In Kitchen Science, Robert L. Wolke with
recipes by Marlene Parrish
(W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.) [5/4]
Zounds! A Browser's Dictionary of Interjections,
Mark Dunn and Sergio Aragones (St. Martin's Griffin)
[5/3]
MouthSounds: How To Whistle, Pop, Boing, And Honk
For All Occasions...And Then Some, Fred Newman
(Workman Publishing) [5/2]
April 2005
13 Seconds: A Look Back At The Kent State
Shootings, Philip Caputo (Chamberlain Bros.) [4/29]
Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story, Lila
Perl and Marion Blumenthal Laza (An Avon Camelot Book)
[4/27]
Bound For Freedom: Black Los Angeles In Jim Crow
America, Douglas Flamming (University of California
Press) [4/26]
Doctors From Hell: The Horrific Account Of
Nazi Experiments On Humans, Vivien Spitz (Sentient
Publications, LLC) [4/25]
Standing Alone In Mecca: An American Woman's
Struggle For The Soul Of Islam, Asra Q. Nomani (HarperSanFrancisco)
[4/25]
Movies As Politics, Jonathan Rosenbaum
(University of California Press) and Placing Movies:
The Practice Of Film Criticism (University of
California Press) and Movie Mutations: The Changing
Face Of World Cinephilia, edited by Joanathan
Rosenbaum and Adrian Martin (bfi publishing) [4/22]
A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues And The Women Who
Sing Them, Buzzy Jackson (W. W. Norton & Co.) [4/20]
How Men Pray: Poems, Philip F. Deaver (Florida
Poetry Series) [4/19]
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, And The
Birth Of America, Stacy Schiff (Henry Holt And
Company) [4/15]
Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life Of
America's First Lady Of Food, Susan Marks (Simon &
Schuster) [4/14]
Sixteen Acres: Architecture And The Outrageous
Struggle For The Future Of Ground Zero, Philip Nobel
(Henry Holt and Company) [4/12]
Zinaida Vengerova: In Search Of Beauty, Rosina
Neginsky (Peter Lang) [4/11]
And The Money Kept Rolling In (And Out): Wall
Street, The IMF, And The Bankrupting Of Argentina,
Paul Blustein (Public Affairs) [4/8]
No God But God: The Origins, Evolution, And Future
Of Islam, Reza Aslan (Random House) [4/7]
Assassination Vacation, Sarah Vowell (Simon &
Schuster) [4/6]
Courtroom 302: A Year Behind The Scenes In An
American Criminal Courthouse, Steve Bogira (Alfred
A. Knopf) [4/6]
Ghost Wars: The Secret History Of The CIA,
Afghanistan, And Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion To
September 10, 2001, Steve Coll (Penguin Books) [4/5]
Ireland: A Novel, Frank Delaney (HarperCollinsPublishers)
[4/1]
March 2005
Wetback Nation: The Case For Opening The
Mexican-American Border, Peter Laufer (Ivan R. Dee)
[3/29)
Chatter: Dispatches From The Secret World Of
Global Eavesdropping, Patrick Radden Keefe (Random
House) [3/16]
Hard News: The Scandals At
The New York Times And Their Meaning For American Media,
Seth Mnookin (Random House) [3/15]
The Meaning Of Wife, Anne Kingston (Farrar,
Straus And Giroux) [3/14]
Good Night, Sleep Tight: The Sleep Lady's Gentle
Guide To Helping Your Child Go To Sleep, Stay Asleep,
And Wake Up Happy, Kim West with Joanne Kenen (cds
books) [3/14]
The Professor's Daughter: A Novel, Emily
Raboteau (Henry Holt) [3/11]
Spices Of Life: Simple And Delicious Recipes For
Great Health, Nina Simonds (Alfred A. Knopf) [3/10]
The Orientalist: Solving The Mystery Of A Strange
And Dangerous Life, Tom Reiss (Random House) [3/10]
Half Moon Bay, Gerry O'Beirne (Gerry O'Beirne)
[3/9]
Arc Of Justice: A Saga Of Race, Civil Rights, And
Murder In The Jazz Age, Kevin Boyle (Henry Holt And
Company) [3/9]
At Home, Rosie Shipley and Matt Mulqueen with
Peter and Trevor Shipley (Shipwhistle Productions, Inc.)
[3/9]
Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk And The Conquest Of
Polio, Jeffrey Kluger (G. P. Putnam's Sons) [3/8]
Notes From The Divided Country [Poems], Suji
Kwock Kim (Louisiana State University Press) [3/2]
If Only: How To Turn Regret Into Opportunity,
Neal Roese (Broadway Books) [3/3]
China Inc.: How The Rise Of The Next Superpower
Challenges America And The World, Ted C. Fishman
(Scribner) [3/1]
February 2005
The Biographer's Library: A Novel, Jon Fasman
(The Penguin Press) [2/28]
American Cancer Society's Complete Guide To
Prostate Cancer, edited by David G. Bostwick, etc.
(American Cancer Society) [2/28]
Reef Madness Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz,
And The Meaning Of Coral, David Dobbs (Pantheon
Books) [2/25]
The Bonus Army: An American Epic, Paul Dickson
and Thomas B. Allen (Walker & Company) [2/24]
Raven Song: A Natural And Fabulous History Of
Ravens And Crows, Catherine Feher-Elston (Jeremy P.
Tarcher/Penguin) [2/23]
Mystery Of The Nile: The Epic Story Of The First
Descent Of The World's Deadliest River, Richard
Bangs and Pasquale Scaturro (G. P. Putnam's Sons) [2/23]
Heirs Of The Fisherman: Behind The Sciences Of
Papal Death And Succession, John-Peter Pham (Oxford
University Press) [2/22]
Blue Streak: Inside JetBlue, The Upstart That
Rocked An Industry, Barbara S. Peterson
(Portfolio) [2/18]
Eyeing The Flash: The Education Of A Carnival Con
Artist, Peter Fenton (Simon & Schuster) [2/17]
Something Old, Something New: A Collection of
Songs By Nancy Moran (Azalea Music) and A Woman's
Gotta Do Her Thing: Sally Fingerett (Shanachie) and
Some Assembly Required, Four Bitchin' Babes (Shanchie)
[2/16]
Do Elephants Jump?, David Feldman (HarperCollinsPublishers)
[2/11]
Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide To Better
English In Plain English, Patricia T. O'Conner
(Riverhead Books) [2/11]
The Whole Hog: Exploring The Extraordinary
Potential Of Pigs, Lyall Watson (Smithsonian Books)
[2/10]
Rick Steves' Europe Through The Back Door 2005:
The Travel Skills Handbook (Avalon Travel) [2/9]
Rick Steves' Best Of Europe 2005 (Avalon
Travel) [2/9]
Rick Steves' French, Italian & German Phrase Book
(Avalon Travel) [2/9]
Cat VS. Cat: Keeping Peace When You Have More Than
One Cat, Pam Johnson-Bennett (Penguin Books) [2/8]
The Hopes Of Snakes & Other Tales From The Urban
Landscape, Lisa Couturier (Beacon Press) [2/4]
Parkland Works: A 1966-2001 History, Sally
Foster Wallace (Board of Trustees, Parkland College)
[2/3]
The Distance Between Us, Masha Hamilton
(Unbridled Books) [2/2]
They Made America From The Steam Engine To The
Search Engine: Two Centuries Of Innovators, Harold
Evans with Gail Buckland and David Lefer (Little, Brown
and Company) [2/1]
January 2005
The United States Of Europe: The New Superpower
And The End Of American Supremacy, T. R. Reid (The
Penguin Press) [1/31]
A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court And The
Future Of Constitutional Law, Mark Tushnet (W. W.
Norton & Company) [1/28]
The Whole Equation: A History Of Hollywood,
David Thomson (Alfred A. Knopf)
[1/27]
Trawler: A Journey Through The North Atlantic,
Redmond O'Hanlon (Alfred A. Knopf) [1/26]
American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, And
A Nation's Drive To End Welfare, Jason DeParle
(Viking) [1/25]
Cities Ranked & Rated: More than 400 Metropolitan
Areas Evaluated In The U.S. & Canada, Bert Sperling
& Peter Sander (Wiley Publishing, Inc.)
How To Organize Just About Every-Thing, Peter
Walsh (Free Press) [1/24]
Not So Prime Time: Chasing The Trivial On American
Television, Howard Rosenberg (Ivan R. Dee) [1/21]
The Music Internet Untangled: Using Online Services
To Expand Your Musical Horizons, Andy Breeding (Giant
Path Publishing) [1/20]
Tilt: A Skewed History Of The Tower Of Pisa,
Nicholas Shrady (Penguin Books) [1/19]
Critical Condition: How Health Care In America
Became Big Business & Bad Medicine, Donald L.
Barlett & James B. Steele (Doubleday) [1/19]
Full Bloom: The Art And Life Of Georgia O'Keeffe,
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp (W.W. Norton & Company) [1/17]
Drawn To Extremes: The Use And Abuse Of Editorial
Cartoons, Chris Lamb (Columbia University Press)
[1/14]
A Woman's Guide To Sleep Disorders, Meir H.
Kryger, M.D. (McGraw-Hill) [1/13]
Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across
Victorian America, Linda Lawrence Hunt (Anchor
Books) [1/12]
Consumer Reports, February 2005 (Consumers
Union) [1/12]
American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life Of Anne
Hutchinson The Woman Who Defied The Puritans, Eve
LaPlante (HarperSanFrancisco) [1/11]
The Beast In The Garden: The True Story Of A
Predator's Deadly Return To Suburban America, David
Baron (W. W. Norton & Company) [1/10]
Explorers House: National Geographic And The World
It Made, Robert M. Poole (The Penguin Press) [1/6]
Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fall Or
Succeed, Jarred Diamond (Viking) [1/5]
Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl,
Tonya Bolden (Harry N. Abrams. Inc. Publishers) [1/4]
December 2004
Stories Of Hope And Spirit: Folktales From Eastern
Europe, Dan Keding (August House Publishers, Inc.);
and The Gypsy Wagon And Other Neighborhood Tales,
Dan Keding (Daniel
Keding) [12/22]
Obsessive Genius: The Inner World Of Marie Curie,
Barbara Goldsmith (W. W. Norton & Company/Atlas Books)
[12/21]
General Washington's Christmas Farewell,
Stanley Weintraub (A Plume Book) [12/20]
Confessions Of A Tax Collector: One Man's Tour Of
Duty Inside The IRS, Richard Yancey (Perennial)
[12/20]
As Easy As Breathing: Reclaiming
Power For Healing And Transformation Poems, Letters And
Inner Listening, Margaret Dubay Mikus (Writers Club
Press) [12/17]
I Am The Cat, Don't Forget That:
Feline Expressions, photographs by Valerie Shaff and
text by Roy Blount Jr. (HarperCollinsPublishers)
[12/15]
Spirit And Flesh: Life In A
Fundamentalist Baptist Church, James M. Ault, Jr.
(Alfred A. Knopf) [12/15]
Perilous Times: Free Speech In
Wartime From The Sedition Act Of 1798 To The War On
Terrorism, Geoffrey R. Stone (W. W. Norton &
Company) [12/14]
Mixed Nuts: America's Love Affair
With Comedy Teams From Burns And Allen To Belushi And
Aykroyd, Lawrence J. Epstein (Public Affairs)
[12/13]
Lidia's Family Table, Lidia
Matticchio Bastianich with David Nussbaum (Alfred A.
Knopf) [12/10]
American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth
And The Lincoln Conspiracies, Michael W. Kauffman
(Random House) [12/10]
The Sinking Of The Eastland:
America's Forgotten Tragedy, Jay Bonansinga (Citadel
Press) [12/7]
Classical Music For Dummies,
David Pogue and Scott Speck (Wiley Publishing, Inc.)
[12/9]
The Business Of Holidays, edited
by Maud Lavin (The Monacelli Press) [12/7]
Restless Skies: The Ultimate Weather
Book, Paul Douglas (Barnes & Noble Books) [12/7]
Let Me Tell You A Story: A Lifetime
In The Game, John Feinstein (Little, Brown And
Company) [12/3]
Born To Buy: The Commercialized Child
And The New Consumer Culture, Juliet B. Schor
(Scribner) [12/2/]
Doug's Rooms: Transforming Your
Spaces One Room At A Time, Douglas A. Wilson
[Clarkson Potter] [12/1]
The Coming Generational Storm: What
You Need To Know About America's Economic Future,
Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Scott Burns (The MIT Press)
[12/1]
November 2004
Men Of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters
And The Birth Of The Comic Book, Gerard Jones
(Basic Books) [11/29],
Shadows Of War: Violence, Power, And International
Profiteering In The Twenty-First Century, Carolyn
Nordstrom (University of California Press) [11/23]
Shanghai Diary: A Young Girl's
Journey From Hitler's Hate To War-Torn China, Ursula
Bacon (M Press) [11/22]
Hip: The History, John Leland (Ecco)
[11/19]
Free World: America, Europe, And The
Surprising Future Of The West, Timothy Garton Ash
(Random House) [11/15]
Cemeterying With Hope, Holly Hope
Labisky (For More Than Pavement) [11/12]
Falling Down To Heaven, Barb
Ryman (Renegade){cd} [11/11]
Osama: The Making Of A Terrorist,
Jonathan Randal (Alfred A. Knopf) [11/10]
The Cult Of Personality: How
Personality Tests Are Leading Us To Miseducate Our
Children, Mismanage Our Companies, And Misunderstand
Ourselves, Annie Murphy Paul (Free Press) [11/9]
Nightingales: The Extraordinary
Upbringing And Curious Life Of Miss Florence Nightingale,
Gillian Gill (Ballentine Books) [11/8]
Daily Life In The United States,
1920-1940: How Americans LIved Through The "Roaring
Twenties" And The Great Depression, David E.
Kyvig (Ivan R. Dee) [11/4]
Attitude! Eight Young Dancers Come Of
Age At The Ailey School, Katharine Davis Fishman (Tarcher/Penguin)
[11/3]
11th Month, 11th Day, 11th Hour
Armistice Day, 1918: World War I And Its Vilent Climax,
Joseph E. Persico (Random House) [11/2]
October 2004
Can God & Caesar Coexist? Balancing Religious
Freedom & International Law, Robert F.
Drinan (Yale University Press) [10/29]
The Family Thing, Karl Shook (iUniverse, Inc.)
[10/28]
Apple Pie: An American Story, John T. Edge (G.
P. Putnam's Sons) [10/27]
Fried Chicken: An American Story, John T. Edge
(G. P. Putnam's Sons) [10/27]
Beating Back The Devil: On The Front Lines With
The Disease Detectives Of The Epidemic Intelligence
Service, Maryn McKenna (Free Press) [10/26]
The Guess Who What When & Where Picture Trivia
Book Series: The Movies, created by Dave Cutler
(GreyCore Press) [10/20]
When I Wished I Was Alone, written and illustrated by
Dave Cutler (GreycoreKids) [10/20]
Had A Good Time: Stories From American Postcards,
Robert Olen Butler (Grove Press) [10/20]
As Easy As Breathing: Reclaiming Power For Healing
And Transformation Poems, Letters And Inner Listening,
Margaret Dubay Mikus (Writers Club Press) [19]
The Gourmet Cookbook: More Than 1000 Recipes Over
60 Years In The Making, edited by Ruth Reichl
(Houghton Mifflin) [10/19]
So You Wanna Be A Rock & Roll Star: How I
Machine-Gunned A Roomful Of Record Executives And Other
True Tales From A Drummer's Life, Jacob Slichter
(Broadway Books) [10/18]
The Complete Cartoons Of The New Yorker,
edited by Robert Mankoff (Black Dog & Leventhal
lPublishers) [10/18]
Hour Of The Mango Moon, Laurence Lieberman (Peepal
Tree) [10/15]
On Their Own: What Happens To Kids When They Age
Out Of The Foster Care System, Martha Shirk and Gary
Strangler (Westview) [10/15]
How To Change The World: Social Entrepreneurs And
The Power Of New Ideas, David Bornstein (Oxford
University Press) [10/14]
May Contain Nuts: A Very Loose Canon Of American
Humor, Edited by Michael J. Rosen (Perennial Currents)
[10/13]
Exuberance: The Passion For Life, Kay Redfield
Jamison (Alfred A. Knopf) [10/12]
Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison: The Making Of A
Masterpiece, Michael Streissguth (Da Capo Press)
[10/12]
A Dog's History Of American: How Our Best Friend
Explored, Conquered, And Settled A Continent, Mark
Derr (North Point Press) [10/12]
Alice Walker: A Life, Evellyn C. White (W.W.
Norton & Company, Inc.) [10/11]
More Damned Lies And Statistics: How Numbers
Confuse Public Issues, Joel Best (University of
California Press) [10/8]
In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits,
Robb Kendrick (National Geographic Society) [10/7]
At War With Ourselves: Why America Is Squandering
Its Chance To Build A Better World, Michael Hirsh
(Oxford University Press) [10/7]
Jungle Drums, Graeme Base (Harry N. Abrams,
Inc.) [10/6]
House By House, Block By Block: The Rebirth Of
America's Urbana Neighborhoods, Alexander Von
Hoffman (Oxford University Press) [10/6]
Eating Well Through Cancer: Recommendations During
And After Treatment, Gerald Miletello and Holly
Clegg (Wimmer) [10/4]
September 2004
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel: A Novel,
Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury) [9/30]
Change Your Underwear Twice A Week: Lessons From
The goldne Age Of Classroom Filmstrips, Danny
Gregory (Artisan) [9/28]
Godzilla On My Mind: Fifty Years Of The King Of
Monsters, William Tsutsui (Palgrave Macmillan)
[9/28]
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents America
(The Book): a Citizen's Guide To Democracy Inaction,
writers of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart
(Warner Books) [9/22]
All The President's Spin: George W. Bush, The
Media, And The Truth, Ben Fritz, Bryan Keefer, and
Brendan Nyhan (Fireside) [9/23]
If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything:
Leadership Begins At Home, Ann Crittenden (Gotham)
[9/21]
Creating Habitats And Homes For Illinois Wildlife,
Debbie Scott Newman, Richard E. Warner, and Phil Mankin
(Department of Natural Resources of the University of
Illinois) [9/17]
The Falls: A Novel, Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco/An
Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers) [9/17]
Queen: The Life And Music Of Dinah Washington,
Nadine Cohodas (Pantheon Books) [9/15]
The Failures Of Integration: How Race And
Class Are Undermining The American Dream, Sheryll
Cashin (Public Affairs) [9/14]
Welcome To Lizard Motel Children, Stories, And The
Mystery Of Making Things Up: A Memoir, Barbara
Feinberg (Beacon Press) [9/10]
The Film Comedy Reader, edited by Gregg
Rickman (Limelight Editions) [9/9]
The Craggy Hole In My Heart And The Cat Who Fixed
It: Over The Edge And Back With My Dad, My Cat, And Me,
Geneen Roth (Harmony Books) [9/8]
Whose View Of Life? Embryos, Cloning, And Stem
Cells, Jane Maienschein (Harvard University Press)
[9/8]
101 Sports Nutrition Tips, Susan Kundrat
(Coaches Choice) [9/7]
Presidential Voices: Speaking Styles From George
Washington To George W. Bush, Allan Metcalf
(Houghton Mifflin Company) [9/2]
Driving By Moonlight: A Journey Through Love, War,
And Infertility, Kristin Henderson (Seal Press)
[9/1]
AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION: A HISTORY, Jon Reyhner and
Jeanne Eder (University of Oklahoma Press)
AMERICAN MUSIC IS, Nat Hentoff (Da Capo Press)
THE WISDOM OF CROWDS: WHY THE MANY ARE SMARTER THAN
THE FEW AND HOW COLLECTIVE WISDOM SHAPES BUSINESS,
ECONOMIES, SOCIETIES, AND NATIONS, James Surowiecki
(Doubleday)
THE RIGHT NATION:
CONSERVATIVE POWER IN AMERICA, John Micklethwait &
Adrian Wooldridge (The Penguin Press)
LAST DANCE IN HAVANA: THE
FINAL DAYS OF FIDEL AND THE START OF THE NEW CUBAN
REVOLUTION, Eugene Robinson (Free Press)
WHY WE LIE: THE EVOLUTIONARY ROOTS OF DECEPTION AND
THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND, David Livingstone Smith (St.
Martin's Press)
THE BOUNTY: THE TRUE STORY
OF THE MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY, Caroline Alexander (Penguin
Books)
ANIMAL HEART: A NOVEL, Brenda Peterson (Sierra Book
Clubs)
OUTSIDE MAGAZINE'S URBAN ADVENTURE CHICAGO, Lynn
Schnaiberg (W.W. Norton & Company)
MOVING ON: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DOWNSIZING THE FAMILY
HOME, Linda Hetzer & Janet Hustrand (Stewart, Tabori
Chang)
BLACKBIRD HOUSE, Alice Hoffman (Doubleday)
A MAN'S GUIDE TO A CIVILIZED
DIVORCE: HOW TO DIVORCE WITH GRACE, A LITTLE CLASS, AND
A LOT OF COMMON SENSE, Sam Margulies (Rodale)
THE SCIENCE FICTION FILM READER, edited by Gregg
Rickman (Limelight Editions)
THE COMPLETE GRAND ILLINOIS TRAIL GUIDEBOOK: THE
MIDWEST'S BIGGEST OUTDOOR ADVENTURE, Todd Volker (FirstServePress)
GIRLS ROCK! FIFTY YEARS OF WOMEN MAKING MUSIC, Mina
Carson, Tisa Lewis, and Susan M. Shaw (University of
Kentucky Press)
MEMORYFITNESS: A GUIDE FOR SUCCESSFUL AGING, Gilles
O. Einstein & Mark A. McDaniel (Yale University
Press)
SOMEWHERE IN AMERICA: UNDER THE RADAR WITH CHICKEN
WARRIORS, LEFT-WING PATRIOTS, ANGRY NUDISTS, AND OTHERS,
Mark Singer (Houghton Mifflin Company)
PACIFIERS, BLANKETS, BOTTLES & THUMBS: WHAT EVERY
PARENT SHOULD KNOW ABOUT STARTING AND STOPPING, Mark L.
Brenner (Simon & Schuster A Fireside Book)
SOMETHING FROM THE OVEN: REINVENTING DINNER IN 1950S
AMERICA, Laura Shapiro (Viking)
THE GREAT DIVIDE: THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN THE AMERICAN
MIND, Gary Ferguson (W. W. Norton & Company)
WOE IS I: THE GRAMMARPHOBE'S
GUIDE TO BETTER ENGLISH IN PLAIN ENGLISH, Patricia T.
O'Conner (Riverhead Books)
CONGRESS ONLINE: BRIDGING
THE GAP BETWEEN CITIZENS AND THEIR REPRESENTATIVES,
Dennis W. Johnson (Routledge)
SEVEN DAYS OF POSSIBILITIES: ONE TEACHER, 24 KIDS,
AND THE MUSIC THAT CHANGED THEIR LIVES FOREVER, Anemona
Hartocollis (Public Affairs)
WE'RE FRIENDS RIGHT? INSIDE KIDS' CULTURE, William A.
Corsaro (Joseph Henry Press)
RISING FROM THE RAILS: PULLMAN PORTERS AND THE MAKING
OF THE BLACK MIDDLE CLASS, Larry Tye (Henry Holt And
Company)
BECOMING A TIGER: HOW BABY ANIMALS LEARN TO LIVE IN
THE WILD, Susan McCarthy (HarperCollinsPublishers)
JOHN F. KERRY: THE COMPLETE BIOGRAPHY BY THE
BOSTON GLOBE REPORTERS WHO KNOW HIM BEST, Michael
Kranish, Brian C. Mooney, Nina J. Easton (Public Affairs
Reports)
GENERATION KILL: DEVIL DOGS, ICEMAN, CAPTAIN AMERICA
AND THE NEW FACE OF AMERICAN WAR, Evan Wright (G. P.
Putnam's Sons)
AT MESA'S EDGE: COOKING AND RANCHING IN COLORADO'S
NORTH FORK VALLEY, Eugenia Bone (Houghton Mifflin
Company)
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