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August 28, 2006
Fiction
A Trout in the Sea of Cortez by John Salter
Good Brother by Peter Markus
It's Superman! by Tom de Haven
All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones
Rumo and His Miraculous Adventures by Walter Moers
Behind Everyman by David Israel
Everyday Life by Lydie Salvayre
Memorial by Bruce Wagner
The Mystery Guest by Gregoire Bouillier
Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen
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August 27, 2006
Poetry
Three, Breathing by S.A. Stepanek
Poems (1945-1971) by Miltos Sachtouris
The Magical Breasts of Britney Spears by Ryan G. Van Cleave
The Book of Jobs by Kathryn Maris
Incomplete Knowledge by Jeffrey Harrison
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Fiction
Trigger by Susan Vaught
Tokyo Tango by Rika Yokomori
Long in the Tooth by David Turrill
A Cabinet of Wonders by Renee Dodd
Cotton Song by Tom Bailey
The Mannequin Man by Luca Di Fulvio
The One from the Other by Philip Kerr
Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman
Cress Delahanty by Jessamyn West
Soul Kitchen by Poppy Z Brite
The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag
A German Requiem by Philip Kerr
The Right Madness by James Crumley
Sor Juana, or the Breath of Heaven by Paul Anderson
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Nonfiction
The History of Swimming by Kim Powers
The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere by Debra Marquart
More Papers from the Potting Shed: A New Collection of Unpredictable Essays on Gardens, Gardeners, and Garden History by Charles Elliott
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic -- and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
Crossing Sexual Boundaries: Transgender Journeys, Uncharted Paths by J. Ari Kane-DeMaios
Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik: One Woman's Solo Misadventures Across Africa by Marie Javins
The Many Faces of God: Science's 400 Year Quest for Images of the Divine by Jeremy Campbell
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger by Amy Wilentz
Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface by David Standish
Who are You People: A Personal Journey into the Heart of Fanatical Passion in America by Shari Caudron
Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention by Charlotte Gray
The Strange Case of Hellish Nell: The True Story of Helen Duncan and the Witch Trial of World War II by Nina Shandler
On Looking: Essays by Lia Purpura
Indestructible: The Unforgettable Story of a Marine Hero at the Battle of Iwo Jima by Jack H. Lucas
Chris Marker by Nora M. Alter
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August 17, 2006
Nonfiction
Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way by Bruce Campbell (Anyone want to interview Bruce Campbell? E-mail me.)
Sleeping with Bad Boys: Literary New York in the Fifties and Sixties by Alice Denham
In Defense of Hypocrisy by Jeremy Lott
Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York by Adam Gopnik
The Town on Beaver Creek: The Story of a Lost Kentucky Community by Michelle Slatalla
Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books by Gary Giddins
Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 by Michael Punke
The Journals: Volume Two: 1966-1990 by John Fowles
Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen
Pedro Almodovar by Marvin D'Lugo
The Unhappy Child: What Every Parent Needs to Know
King Alfred: Burnt Cakes and Other Legends by David Horspool
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by John Wood
The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups by Ron Rosenbaum
Wrestling with Gravy: A Life, with Food by Jonathan Reynolds
The Girl with the Gallery: Edith Gregor Halpert and the Making of the Modern Art Market by Lindsay Pollock
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August 16, 2006
Fiction
Sons of the Rapture by Todd Dills
To Hold Infinity by John Meaney
Catalyst by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
The Way to Get Here by Gavin Pate
Benighted by Kit Whitfield
Year's Best Fantasy 6 by David G Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
Twilight by William Gay
Running Away with Frannie by Renee Manfredi
Pound for Pound by F.X. Toole
Saratoga by David Garland
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories by Valerie Martin
Last Notes and Other Stories by Tamas Dobozy
Magic Man by Ron Base
Flash Fiction Foward: 80 Very Short Stories edited by James Thomas and Robert Shapard
In the Wake by Per Petterson
Mask Market by Andrew Vachss
The Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men by Randy F. Nelson
Spit Baths by Greg Downs
Return to Manure by Raymond Federman
The Bitter Half by Toby Olson
The Complete Tales of Merry Gold by Kate Bernheimer
Mappa Mundi by Justina Robson
Why Moms are Weird by Pamela Ribon
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August 11, 2006
Poetry
Teahouse of the Almighty by Patricia Smith
Some Holy Weight in the Village Air by Ira Joe Fisher
The Architecture of Language by Quincy Troupe
Less by Ted Washington
The Wanton Sublime by Anna Rabinowitz
Red Summer by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
This Sharpening by Ellen Dore Watson
Saving Daylight by Jim Harrison
Remnants of Hannah by Dara Wier
Shelley Gave Jane a Guitar by Richard Meier
The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance translated by Edith Grossman
The Narrow Road to the Interior by Kimiko Hahn
Spectral Waves by Madeline Defrees
Bilingual books published by the Instituto de Mexico:
Personal Anthology by Tino Villanueva/La Ciudad y le Viaje Interminable by Jorge Humberto Chavez
Translations of Light by John Oliver Simon/Bacantes y otros poemas by Elsa Cross
Book I: As Life Was by Jimmy Santiago Baca/A Contracorriente by Marco Antonio Campos
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