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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
Twenty-One After Days by Lisa Lubasch
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
Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time by David Goodwillie
Penguin Special by Jeremy Lewis
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
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 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
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
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
Babylon and other stories by Alix Ohlin
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
From a Crooked Rib by Nuruddin Farah
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
The Placebo Man by Tomer Hanuka
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Girls Vol 2 by Luna Brothers
Tron by Landry Walker and Eric Jones
The Awake Field by Ron Rege Jr
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
Boston Blackie: Bloody Shame by Stefan Petrucha
A.L.I.E.E.E.N. by Lewis Trondheim
A Skanner Darkly by Philip K Dick
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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