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September 2008
The Terra Cotta Army: China's First Emperor and
The Birth Of A Nation, John Man (Da Capo) [9/3]
August 2008
The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld And The Fight
Over Presidential Power, Jonathan Mahler (Farrar,
Straus And Giroux) [8/13]
Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You, Sam
Gosling (Basic Books) [8/7]
Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do (And What It
Says About Us), Tom Vanderbilt (Alfred A. Knopf)
[8/6]
Society's Child: My Autobiography, Janis Ian
(Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin) [8/12]
Without A Backward Glance, Kate Veitch
(A Plume Book) [8/1]
July 2008
A Brief History Of Anxiety [Yours And Mine],
Patricia Pearson (Bloomsbury) [7/31/]
Firebrand Of Liberty: The Story Of Two Black
Regiments That Changed The Course Of The Civil War,
Stephen V. Ash (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.) [7/30]
The Case For Make Believe: Saving Play In A
Commercialized World, Susan Linn (The New Press)
[7/29]
Furious Improvisation: How The WPA And A Cast Of
Thousands Made High Art Out Of Desperate Times,
Susan Quinn (Walker & Company) [7/28]
Anytime Playdate: Inside The Preschool
Entertainment Boom Or How Television Became My Baby's
Best Friend, Dade Hayes (Free Press) [7/25]
How To Watch TV News, Neil Postman and Steve
Powers (Penguin Books) [7/24]
American Priestess: The Extraordinary Story Of
Anna Spafford And The American Colony In Jerusalem, Jane
Fletcher Geniesse (Doubleday) [7/23]
Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy
And Who We Are, Rob Walker (Random House) [7/22]
The Cubs: The Complete Story Of Chicago Cubs
Baseball, Glen Stout (Houghton Mifflin Company)
[7/18]
Washington: The Making Of The American Capital,
Fergus M. Bordewich (Amistad) [7/17]
The Last Days Of Old Beijing: Life In The
Vanishing Backstreets Of A City Transformed, Michael
Meyer (Walker & Company) [7/16]
Central Park In The Dark: More Mysteries Of Urban
Wildlife, Marie Winn (Farrar, Straus And Giroux)
[7/15]
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,
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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)
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Rick Steves' Europe Through The Back Door 2005:
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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
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They Made America From The Steam Engine To The
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Evans with Gail Buckland and David Lefer (Little, Brown
and Company) [2/1]
January 2005
The United States Of Europe: The New Superpower
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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
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(Viking) [1/25]
Cities Ranked & Rated: More than 400 Metropolitan
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& 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
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The Music Internet Untangled: Using Online Services
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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.);
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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
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[12/20]
As Easy As Breathing: Reclaiming
Power For Healing And Transformation Poems, Letters And
Inner Listening, Margaret Dubay Mikus (Writers Club
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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
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(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
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(Random House) [12/10]
The Sinking Of The Eastland:
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Press) [12/7]
Classical Music For Dummies,
David Pogue and Scott Speck (Wiley Publishing, Inc.)
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The Business Of Holidays, edited
by Maud Lavin (The Monacelli Press) [12/7]
Restless Skies: The Ultimate Weather
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Let Me Tell You A Story: A Lifetime
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Born To Buy: The Commercialized Child
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Doug's Rooms: Transforming Your
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The Coming Generational Storm: What
You Need To Know About America's Economic Future,
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November 2004
Men Of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters
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Shanghai Diary: A Young Girl's
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Bacon (M Press) [11/22]
Hip: The History, John Leland (Ecco)
[11/19]
Free World: America, Europe, And The
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(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
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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
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Kyvig (Ivan R. Dee) [11/4]
Attitude! Eight Young Dancers Come Of
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11th Month, 11th Day, 11th Hour
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Joseph E. Persico (Random House) [11/2]
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Can God & Caesar Coexist? Balancing Religious
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The Family Thing, Karl Shook (iUniverse, Inc.)
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Apple Pie: An American Story, John T. Edge (G.
P. Putnam's Sons) [10/27]
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Beating Back The Devil: On The Front Lines With
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Had A Good Time: Stories From American Postcards,
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As Easy As Breathing: Reclaiming Power For Healing
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The Gourmet Cookbook: More Than 1000 Recipes Over
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So You Wanna Be A Rock & Roll Star: How I
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The Complete Cartoons Of The New Yorker,
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On Their Own: What Happens To Kids When They Age
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May Contain Nuts: A Very Loose Canon Of American
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Exuberance: The Passion For Life, Kay Redfield
Jamison (Alfred A. Knopf) [10/12]
Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison: The Making Of A
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A Dog's History Of American: How Our Best Friend
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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,
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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
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September 2004
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel: A Novel,
Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury) [9/30]
Change Your Underwear Twice A Week: Lessons From
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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:
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[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
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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
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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
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Driving By Moonlight: A Journey Through Love, War,
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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,
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(Doubleday)
THE RIGHT NATION:
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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
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THE SCIENCE FICTION FILM READER, edited by Gregg
Rickman (Limelight Editions)
THE COMPLETE GRAND ILLINOIS TRAIL GUIDEBOOK: THE
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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
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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
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