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September 22, 2006
Graphic Novels
Afterworks 2
Captain Amazing by Scott Kurtz and Chris Jackson
Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi
12 Reasons Why I Love Her by Jamie S. Rich and Joelle Jones
The Sweeter Side of R. Crumb by Robert Crumb
Journey into Mohawk Country by H.M. van der Bogaert and Mike O'Connor
Billy Hazelnuts by Tony Millionaire
The Best of Curse of the Spawn by Alan McElroy
Grounded Vol. 1: Powerless by Mark Sable and Paul Azaceta
I Love Led Zepplin by Ellen Forney
The Everlasting by Jamie S. Rich
Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan
Cancer Vixen by Marisa Acocella Marchetto
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Poetry
American Religious Poems: An Anthology by Harold Bloom
If These Streets Could Talk from NY Writers Coalition
The Republic of Poetry by Martin Espada
The Queen's Desertion by Carol Frost
My American Kundiman by Patrick Rosal
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Nonfiction
Up iis Up But So Is Down: New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992 by Brandon Stousy
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia by Christopher Clark
Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland, and Vichy France
Cry Hope: The True Story of One Woman's Harrowing Quest for Justice by Bill Lueders
Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights by Trevor Paglen and A.C. Thompson
New Orleans: Playing a Jazz Chorus by Samuel Charters
Hitler's Raid to Save Mussolini: The Most Infamous Commando Operation of World War II by Greg Annussek
Rooms of Our Own by Susan Gubar
Fighting Words: A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right by Robin Morgan
The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred, and the Jews by David Mamet
Mr. Ding's Chicken Feet: On a Slow Boat from Shanghai to Texas by Gillian Kendall
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir by Gore Vidal
A History of the Jews in the Modern World by Howard M. Sachar
Jazz Encyclopedia by Richard CookAmerica on Notice: Stemming the Tide of Anti-Americanism by Glenn E. Schweitzer with Carole D. Schweitzer
Incognito Street: How Travel Made Me a Writer by Barbara Sjoholm
Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World by Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman
Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew who Gave Us Modernity by Rebecca Goldstein
Alternadad by Neal Pollack
Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika by Giles Foden
Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television by Elana Levine
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Fiction
Suspension by Robert Westfield
Death of a Department Chair by Lynn C. Miller
The Disapperance by Ilan Stavans
Lately by Sara Pritchard
Fear of the Dark by Walter Mosley
City of God by Paulo Lins
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
Part of Me by Kimberly Willis Holt
When Madeline Was Young by Jane Hamilton
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
Triangle by Katharine Weber
Traveler by Ron McLarty
Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Young People Living in Rented Rooms by Nim Wunnan
Skinny by Ibi Kaslik
Oasis by Laureen Vonnegut
Forgetfulness by Ward Just
Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison
The Marriage Diaries by Rebecca Campbell
The Floor of the Sky by Pamela Carter Joern
Necessary Lies by Kerry Neville Bakken
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr.
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September 17, 2006
Graphic Novels
The Louche and Insalubrious Escapades of Art d'Ecco by Andrew & Roger Langridge
Sloth by Gilbert Hernandez
You Call This Art?!!: A Greg Irons Retrospective written and complied by Patrick Rosenkranz
Chewing Gum in Church by Steven Weissman
Alphabetical Ballad of Carnality by David Sandlin
Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall by Bill Willingham
The Art of S. Clay Wilson
Asthma: Ten Short Comics by John Hankiewicz
Lucky by Gabrielle Bell
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Fiction
Vernon Downs by Jaime Clarke
The Littlest Hitler: Stories by Ryan Boudinot
The Other End by John ShirleyAfter This by Alice McDermott
Alligator by Lisa Moore
Trouble by Patrick Somerville
The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
A Dangerous Man by Charlie Huston
I'll Steal You Away by Niccolo Ammaniti
Winter Birds by Jamie Langston Turner
Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski
Threshold Shift by Eric Brown
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Nonfiction
Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams by Paul Hemphill
Parched: A Memoir by Heather King
The End of Medicine: How Silicon Valley (and Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor by Andy Kessler
A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scope's Monkey Trial by H.L. Mencken
Persian Girls: A Memoir by Nahid Rachlin
The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation by David Kamp
Reading Writing by Julien Gracq
Serving Compassionate Conservatives: Why the Christian Taliban is More of a Threat to American Freedom than Islamic Fundamentalism by Bill DeArmond, Ph.D.
Driving to Mars by William L. Fox
The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial by Susan Eaton
The Decency Wars: The Campaign to Cleanse American Culture by Frederick S. Lane
Facing Down Evil: Life on the Edge as an FBI Hostage Negotiator by Clint Van Zandt
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September 12, 2006
Graphic Novels
Between the Devil and Miles David by Lance Tooks
I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors by Bernice Eisenstein
Paper Museum
Iron West by Doug TenNapel
24Seven edited by Ivan Brandon
The Cobbler's Monster by Jeff Amano
Captain Amazing by Scott Kurtz and Chris Jackson
Afterworks 2
Monologues for the Coming Plague by Anders Nilsen
Sardine in Outer Space by Joann Sfar
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Poetry
The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems: 1937-1952 by Allen Ginsberg
Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee edited by Earl G. Ingersoll
Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems edited by Joy Katz and Kevin Prufer
Queen of a Rainy Country by Linda Pastan
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Nonfiction
A Heretic's Guide to Eternity by Spencer Burke and Barry Taylor
Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening by Stephen Kuusisto
Postcards from Ed Abbey: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast edited by David Petersen
Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era by Ken Emerson
Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement by Lauren Sandler
Where Dreams Die Hard: A Small American Town and Its Six-Man Football Team by Carlton Stowers
Anthrax: Bioterror as Fact and Fantasy by Philipp Sarasin
Emma Lazarus by Esther Schor
Character Studies: Encounters with the Curiously Obsessed by Mark Singer
God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad by Charles Allen
A Jew Among the Evangelicals: A Guide for the Perplexed by Mark Pinsky
Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption by William Cope Moyers
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
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Fiction
Electric Flesh by Claro
Lengua Fresca: Latinos Writing on the Edge edited by Harold Augenbraum and Ilan Stavans
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
The Mystery of the Sardine by Stefan Themerson
Return to Manure by Raymond Federman
The Last Flight of Jose Luis Balboa by Gonzalo Barr
Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
Taming the Beast by Emily Maguire
Tale of 2Cities: An American Joyride on Multiple Tracks by Heather Woodbury
Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
The Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists by Gideon Defoe
Uke Rivers Delivers by RT Smith
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September 05, 2006
Nonfiction
Conservatives Without Conscience by John W. Dean
Blackstock's Collections: The Drawings of an Artistic Savant by Gregory L. Blackstock
The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English by Grant Barrett
Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics by Jennifer Ouellette
The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred, and the Jews by David Mamet
Invisible Presence: A Walk through Indiana in Photographs and Poems by Darryl D Jones & Norbert Krapf
Sister Bernadette's Dog Barking: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey
Best Sex Writing 2006 edited by Felice Newman and Frederique Delacorte
Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die by Michael Largo
Power Failure: Politics, Patronage, and the Economic Future of Buffalo, New York by Diana Dillaway
Native Americans and the Criminal Justice System by Jeffrey Ian Ross and Larry Gould
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September 03, 2006
Poetry
A Box of Longing with Fifty Drawers by Jen Benka
Horror Vacui by Thomas Heise
Poems I Wrote While Watching TV by Travis Jeppesen
Becoming the Villainess by Jeannine Hall Gailey
Everything Else in the World by Stephen Dunn
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Fiction
Girls in Peril by Karen Lee Boren
Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides
The Slow Moon by Elizabeth Cox
No God in Sight by Altaf Tyrewala
What We Deserved: Stories from a New York Life by Steven Schrader
The Chains that You Refuse by Elizabeth Bear
Dayshift Werewolf by Jan Underwood
Murambi, The Book of Bones by Boubacar Boris Diop
Julius Winsome by Gerard Donovan
Infoquake by David Louis Edelman
Disobedience by Naomi Alderman
Dark Mondays by Kage Baker
One Tribe by M. Evelina Galang
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro
Accidents by Yael Hedaya
The Willow Field by William Kittredge
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