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June 17, 2006

Fiction

The Nubian Prince by Juan Bonilla
A Trout in the Sea of Cortez by John Salter
Summer of My Amazing Luck by Miriam Toews
Salaam, Paris by Kavita Daswani
Candy from Strangers by Mark Coggins
Hose Monkey by Tony Spinosa
Yellow by Janni Visman
The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
The Initials of the Earth by Jesus Diaz
Moody Food by Ray Robertson
Hollywoodland: An American Fairy Tale by Jennifer Banash
New Light by Annette Gilson
History Lessons for Girls by Aurelie Sheehan
She May Not Leave by Fay Weldon
Brothers by Da Chen
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
Triangle by Katharine Weber
Little Star of Belalua by Luana Monteiro
Blood on the Saddle by Rafael Reig
The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
Before I Go by Riley Weston
Between, Georgia by Joshilyn Jackson
Harsh Cry of the Heron by Lian Hearn
The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
The Player's Boy by Bryher
A Dangerous Man by Charlie Huston
Crossover by Joel Shepherd
Truck: A Love Story by Michael Perry
The City is a Rising Tide by Rebecca Lee

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June 14, 2006

Nonfiction

Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case by David E. Stannard
Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church by Becky Garrison
Every Second Counts: The Race to Transplant the First Human Heart by Donald McRae
Before the Mortgage: Real Stories of Brazen Loves, Broken Leases, and the Perplexing Pursuit of Adulthood by Christina Amini and Rachel Hutton
God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad by Charles Allen
What Lincoln Believed: The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest President by Michael Lind
Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir by Julia Cameron
For the Love of Music: Invitations to Listening by Michael Steinberg and Larry Rothe
Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict that Divided America by Eyal Press
Born Losers: A History of Failure in America by Scott A. Sandage
Cockeyed: A Memoir by Ryan Knighton
Walking Zero: Discovering Cosmic Space and Time Along the Prime Meridian by Chet Raymo

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June 13, 2006

Fiction

Ruby by Francesca Lia Block
The Transformation by Catherine Chidgey
Crawl Space by Edie Meidav
In the Shadow of the Law by Kermit Roosevelt
Wolves of Memory by Bill James
So This is Love by Gilbert Reid
Martian Dawn by Michael Friedman
Scribblers on the Roof: Contemporary American Jewish Fiction edited by Melvin Jules Bukiet and David G. Roskies
Forgetfulness by Ward Just
Little Beauties by Kim Addonizio
Falling in Love with Natassia by Anna Monardo
American Morons by Glen Hirshberg
Fever by Friedrich Glauser
A Walk in the Dark by Gianrico Carofiglio
Alibi by Joseph Kanon
My Name is Legion by A.N. Wilson
Johnny Mad Dog by Emmanuel Dongala
Malcolm & Jack by Ted Pelton

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Poetry

Poems I Wrote While Watching TV by Travis Jeppesen
A Box of Longing with Fifty Drawers by Jen Benka
Horror Vacui by Thomas Heise

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Nonfiction

Black Virgin Mountain: A Return to Vietnam by Larry Heinemann
La Belle France: A Short History by Alistair Horne
Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee
Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America by Tom Lutz
Posthumous Papers of a Living Author by Robert Musil
Cluny: In Seach of God's Lost Empire by Edwin Mullins
All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity by Robert W. Fuller
Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed by Josie Mendez-Negrete
Simone de Beauvoir's Political Thinking by Lori Jo Marso and Patricia Moynagh
The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O'Hara by William Corbett
James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights by Richard Labunski

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June 07, 2006

Review Books: Poetry

The Crooked Inheritance by Marge Piercy

Saving Daylight by Jim Harrison

Dreaming the End of War by Benjamin Alire Saenz

The Curved Planks by Yves Bonnefoy

Stroke by Stroke by Henri Michaux

Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists by A. Rawlings

Rotogravure by Nanora Sweet

The Book of the Rotten Daughter by Alice Friman


Hapax by AE Stallings

Twenty-One After Days by Lisa Lubasch

Sally's Hair by John Koethe

Eight Days in Lhasa by Christopher Kelen

Apropos of Nothing by Richard Jones

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Review Books: Non-Fiction

Intelligent Thought ed. John Brockman


Ice Cream by Marilyn Powell

Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time by David Goodwillie

Penguin Special by Jeremy Lewis

Australia by Frank Welsh

PP/FF ed. Peter Conners

Hollow Earth by David Standish

Ethical Wills 2nd Ed by Barry K Baines

Values-Driven Business by Ben Cohen and Mal Warwick


The Small-Mart Revolution by Michael H Shuman


Whispering in the Giant's Ear by William Powers


The Soul of a Doctor ed Pories, Jain, and Harper


The Caged Virgin by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Blue Clay People by William Powers

The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright

Life is Meals by James and Kay Salter

Are Women Human? by Catharine A MacKinnon

Proust at the Majestic by Richard Davenport-Hines

A Staggering Revolution by John Raeburn

The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton by Kathryn Hughes

The Cave Painters by Gregory Curtis


Daughters of the Earth ed. Justine Larbalestier

Serious Adverse Events by Celia Farber

The End of Poverty by Jeffrey D Sachs

The End of Romance by Norma Barzman

Grayson by Lynne Cox

Open Wide by Dade Hayes and Jonathan Bing

Untold Stories by Alan Bennett

Zlata's Diary by Zlata Filipovic

Best Sex Writing 2006 ed Felice Newman and Frederique Delacoste

Send in the Idiots by Kamran Nazeer

Confessions of a Memory Eater by Pagan Kennedy

Maharanis by Lucy Moore

Pin-Up Grrrls by Maria Elena Buszek

Black Like You by John Strausbaugh


Death in the Haymarket by James Green


Enduring Lives by Carol Lee Flinders

Burning Rainbow Farm by Dean Kuipers

Decade of Nightmares by Philip Jenkins

Underwater to get out of the Rain by Trevor Norton

The Sentence by Gene Kraig

The Parallax View by Slavoj Zizek

It hit me like a ton of bricks by Catherine Lloyd Burns

Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker

The Elephants Teach by DG Myers

Kingdom Coming by Michelle Goldberg

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Review Books: Fiction

The Littlest Hitler by Ryan Boudinot


The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont


The Last Song of Dusk by Siddarth Dhanvant Shangvhi


You're Not You by Michelle Wildgen

The Travelling Death and Resurrection Show by Ariel Gore


Cast of Shadows by Kevin Guilfoile


Uke Rivers Delivers by RT Smith

A Boy of Good Breeding by Miriam Toews

The Futurist by James P Othmer

The Observations by Jane Harris

The Chrysanthemum Palace by Bruce Wagner

Sweet Tooth by Yves Navarre

The City is a Rising Tide by Rebecca Lee

The Secret River by Kate Grenville


Once Upon a Day by Lisa Tucker


The Woman I left Behind by Kim Jensen


Life, Death & Bialys by Dylan Schaffer

American Short Fiction, Vol. 9, Issue 33

The Book of Bright Ideas by Sandra Kring

The Painter's Wife by Monique Durand

THe Hunting Ground by Lise Tremblay

Riley's Fire by Lee Merrill Byrd

Magic Man by Ron Base

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

Ludmila's Broken English by DBC Pierre

The Nimrod Flip Out by Etgar Keret

The Devil's Father by Minette Walters


Firmin by Sam Savage

Babylon and other stories by Alix Ohlin

Grief by Andrew Holleran


In the Name of Friendship by Marilyn French

Bornholm Night-Ferry by Aidan Higgins

Thieves Like Us by Stephen Cole


The Education of Douglas Finney by Jeffrey Stewart

Red Weather by Pauls Toutonghi

Welcome to Yesterday by Ian Spiegelman

America's Report Card by John McNally

Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan

Kensinton Gardens by Rodrigo Fresan

The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Small Acts of Sex and Electricity by Lise Haines

Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe


Blood Mask by Lauren Kelly

The Attack by Yasmina Khadra

River of Gods by Ian McDonald

Working Stiffs by Simon Wood


From a Crooked Rib by Nuruddin Farah

Stinger by Diana R. Chambers

Multimedia:

At Blackwater Pond by Mary Oliver

Cohabitation by Jill Dorothy Summers

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Review Books: Graphic Novels

Sticky by Dale Lazarov and Steve MacIsaac


The Surrogates by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele

Bob the Angry Flower: Dog Killer by Stephen Notely

Mora by Paul Harmon

The Placebo Man by Tomer Hanuka

Kilroy Is Here by Joe Pruett

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Girls Vol 2 by Luna Brothers

Tron by Landry Walker and Eric Jones

The Awake Field by Ron Rege Jr

Hotwire Comix and Capers

Krazy & Ignatz ed. Bill Blackbeard


The Art of Dan DeCarlo by Bill Morrison

Stagger Lee by Derek McCulloch and Shepherd Hendrix


The Five Fists of Science by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders

Past Lies by Christina Weir, Nuzio Defilippis and Christopher Mitten

Night Trippers by Mark Ricketts and Micah Farritor

Borrowed Time No. 1 by Neal Shaffer and Joe Infurnari

Banana Sunday by Root Nibot and Colleen Coover

Little Star by Andi Watson

Boston Blackie: Bloody Shame by Stefan Petrucha

A.L.I.E.E.E.N. by Lewis Trondheim

Attitude 3 ed. Ted Rall

A Skanner Darkly by Philip K Dick

Buja's Diary by Seyeong O

Vengeance of the Mummy by Justin Gray and Zeu

Raisin Pie No.4 by Rick Altergott and Ariel Bordeaux

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June 05, 2006

Poetry

Do Not Awaken Them with Hammers by Lidija Dimkovska
Orient Point by Julie Sheehan
Riding Westward by Carl Phillips
Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? by Mahmoud Darwish
To a Fault by Nick Laird
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
Man and Camel by Mark Strand
Poems by Miltos Sachtouris
Wonder Cabinet by David Barber
The First Poets by Michael Schmidt
Fallen Prose by Steven Schroeder
br o ken circle by Kerry Shawn Keys

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