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July 25, 2006
Nonfiction
west of Jesus: Surfing, Science, and the Origins of Belief by Steven Kotler
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City by Anonymous
Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War by Anthony Shadid
Mommies Who Drink by Brett Paesel
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
Into the Hearts of the Amazons: In Search of a Modern Matriarchy by Tom DeMott
To Cherish the Life of the World: The Selected Letters of Margaret Mead by Margaret Caffrey and Patricia Francis
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Fiction
The Ghost at the Table by Suzanne Berne
The Dolphin Smiles by David Salvage
Boys & Murderers by Hermann Ungar
Hook House and Other Horrors by Sherry Decker
Yann Andrea Steiner by Marguerite Duras
The Dream Sequence by Kate Hunter
See You Next Tuesday by Steven Coy
Her Body Knows by David Grossman
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July 22, 2006
Nonfiction
A People's History of the Supreme Court by Peter Irons
Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir by Robert Hughes
Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion by Jennifer Saginor
There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights by Jason Sokol
Whose Freedom? The Battle over America's Most Important Idea by George Lakoff
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July 20, 2006
Fiction
The Initials of the Earth by Jesus Diaz
Hydroplane by Susan Steinberg
Surviving Mae West by Priscilla A. Rodd
Mary by Janis Cooke Newman
A Way From Home by Nancy Clark
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
To Feel Stuff by Andrea Seigel
Casual by Oksana Robski
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July 13, 2006
Graphic Novels
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
But I Like It by Joe Sacco
Jetlag by Etgar Keret and Actus Comics
Slowpoke: America Gone Bonkers by Jen Sorensen
Sam and Twitch: The Brian Michael Bendis Collection
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John is having trouble with his e-mail so please send review copy requests to jessa@bookslut.com. Thanks.
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July 07, 2006
Nonfiction
Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea by Frank Delaney
Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain
vCorks & Forks: Thirty Years of Wine and Food by Robert Finigan
Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth by Kim Paffenroth
Germs: A Memoir of Childhood by Richard Wollheim
If You Really Want to Hear About It: Writers on JD Salinger and His Work by Catherine Crawford
The Fun of It by Amelia Earhart
A Mirror for Witches: The Woodcuts of Robert Gibbings by Esther Forbes
A Land Without Time: A Peace Corps Volunteer in Afghanistan by John Sumser
That Undeniable Longing: My Road to and from the Priesthood by Mark Tedesco
Letters from Prague: 1939-1941 by Raya Czerner Shapiro and Helga Czerner Weinberg
Mother and Me: Escape from Warsaw 1939 by Julian Padowicz
Fleeing Fundamentalism: A Minister's Wife Examines Faith by Carlene Cross
Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond by Pankaj Mishra
Hide-and-Seek with Angels: A Life of JM Barrie by Lisa Chaney
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die by David Crystal
The Heart to Artemis: A Writer's Memoir by Bryher
The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World by Alan Downs, Ph.D.
Last of the Cold War Spies: The Life of Michael Straight, the Only American in Britain's Cambridge Spy Ring by Roland Perry
Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare by Clare Asquity
Locker Room Diaries: The Naked Truth about Women, Body Image, and Re-Imagining the "Perfect" Body by Leslie Goldman
Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford by Peter Y. Sussman
God on Your Own: Finding a Spiritual Path Outside Religion by Joseph Dispenza
Boffo! Hollywood in the Trenches by Peter Bart
Going to Heaven: The Life and Election of Bishop Gene Robinson by Elizabeth Adams
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July 06, 2006
Poetry
The Hunting Ground by Lise Tremblay
Official Versions by Mark Pawlak
Pas de Deux by Nina Berkhout
Musee Mechanique by Rodney Koeneke
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Fiction
Conversations with Professor Y by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Empress by Shan Sa
Blood on the Saddle by Rafael Reig
Little Star of Belalua by Luana Monteiro
Triangle by Katharine Weber
Bornholm Night-Ferry by Aidan Higgins
The Painter's Wife by Monique Durand
The Nubian Prince by Juan Bonilla
Sweet Tooth by Yves Navarre
A Song for Alice Loom by Scott Ely
Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto
The Zero by Jess Walter
Grief by Andrew Holleran
Into the Desperate Country by Jeff Vande Zande
Murder at the Heartbreak Hospital by Henry Slesar
Death of a Writer by Michael Collins
Goodnight, Texas by William J. Cobb
The Texicans by Nina Vida
The Killing Sun by Thomas Sanfilip
Famous Writers School by Steven Carter
Errors and Omissions by Paul Goldstein
Hollywoodland by Jennifer Banash
Hide & Seek by Clare Sambrook
Save Your Own by Elisabeth Brink
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Destiny's Telescope and Other Stories by Richard Scarsbrook
Nate by P. Lewis
How This Night is Different by Elisa Albert
Rain Village by Carolyn Turgeon
The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
Permanent Visitors by Kevin Moffett
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