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October 26, 2006
Graphic Novels
Graphic Classics: Jack London by Arnold Arre, Hunt Emerson, Anne Timmons, and Mark A. Nelson
Spawn Collected Edition Volume 2 by Todd McFarlane
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Nonfiction
The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind by Justin Pollard and Howard Reid
Typecasting: On the Arts and Scienceds of Human Inequality by Ewen and Ewen 7
Ecovillages: New Frontiers for Sustainability by Jonathon Dawson
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma
Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child by Alissa Quart
Peace Be Upon You: The Story of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence by Zachary Karabell
Challenging the Pacific: The First Woman to Row the Kon-Tiki Route by Maud Fontenoy
Bookworm by Rosamond Purcell
Boeing Versus Airbus: The Inside Story of the Greatest International Competition in Business by John Newhouse
The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World
Cultures of Fetishism by Louise J. Kaplan
Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America by Peter Quinn
The Infiltrator: My Undercover Exploits in Right-Wing America by Harmon Leon
Pascal's Wager: The Man Who Played Dice with God by James A. Connor
America on Notice: Stemming the Tide of Anti-Americanism by Glenn E. Schweitzer with Carole D. Schweitzer
Naked in the Marketplace: The Lives of George Sand by Benita Eisler
The End of the Wild by Stephen M. Meyer
Car Sick: Solutions for our Car-addicted Culture by Lynn Sloman
Chasing Dreamtime: A Sea-Going Hitchhiker's Journey Through Memory and Myth by Neva Sullaway
Ace of Spades by David Matthews
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Poetry
A Ragged Pen by Robert Finley, Patrick Friesen, Aislinn Hunter, Anne Simpson, and Jan Zwicky
What Feeds Us by Diane Lockward
For the Corporate Dead by Kevin Young
You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am by Tao Lin
Black Box by Erin Belieu
The Persistence of Objects by Richard Garcia
Everything Is Burning by Gerald Stern
The Return Message by Tessa Rumsey
The Second Child by Deborah Garrison
Collected Poems by C.K. Williams
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Fiction
Agamemnon's Daughter by Ismail Kadare
Rust and Bone by Craig Davidson
House of Meetings by Martin Amis
Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlman
Giraffe by J.M. Ledgard
Four Walls by Vangelis Hatziyannidis
De la Sole by Lisa Dempsey
Remainder by Tom McCarthy
Poste Restante by Derek White
My Name Is Bosnia by Madeline Gagnon
A Miracle of Catfish by Larry Brown
The Quick-Change Artist by Cary Holladay
Paradise, Or the Part That Dies by Dana Killmeyer
Dancing the Dark by Caryl Phillips
The Lives of Rocks by Rick Bass
Matters of Honor by Louis Begley
The Time It Takes to Fall by Margaret Lazarus Dean
Napolean's Pyramids by William Dietrich
Finn by Jon Clinch
Cadenza for the Schniedermann by Joshua Cohen
The Seeker Academy by L.D. Gussin
King by Tanya Chapman
Get Down by Asali Solomon
A Simple Distance by K.E. Silva
I, City by Pavel Bryez
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October 22, 2006
nonfiction
F.T. Marinetti: Critical Writings edited by Gunter Berghaus
Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth by Kim Paffenroth
Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books by Ted Bishop
The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life by John Maeda
Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: A True Story from Hell on Earth by Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait, and Andrew Thomson
Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now by George McGovern and William R Polk
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean B. Carroll
I, Goldstein: My Screwed Life by Al Goldstein and Josh Alan Friedman
Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War by Nicholas Lemann
Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North by Jennifer L. Weber
What Paul Meant by Garry Wills
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book by Anthony Grafton and Megan Williams
Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market by Katherine S. Newman
Cross X: The Amazing True Story of How the Most Unlikely Team from the Most Unlikely of Places Overcame Staggering Obstacles at Home at the School to Challenge the Debate Community on Race, Power, and Education by Joe Miller
Witness to Nuremberg: The Chief American Interpreter at the War Crimes Trials by Richard W. Sonnenfeldt
Creatures of Accident: The Rise of the Animal Kingdom by Wallace Arthur
American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers by Marc Hartzman
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October 08, 2006
Nonfiction
The E-Bomb: How America's New Directed Energy Weapons Will Change the Way Future Wars Will Be Fought by Doug Beason, Ph.D.
Violin Dreams by Arnold Steinhardt
Read the Beatles: Classic and New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter by June Skinner Sawyers
Gnomes by Rien Poortuliet and Wil Huggen
God's War: A New History of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman
The Reason Driven Life by Robert M. Price
Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision by George Lakoff
A Life on the Ledge: Reflections of a New York City Window Cleaner by Ivor Hanson
Satyr Square: A Year, A Life in Rome by Leonard Barkan
The Man Who Saved Britain: A Personal Journey into the Disturbed World of James Bond by Simon Winder
Lawless World: The Whistle-Blowing Account of How Bush and Blair Are Taking the Law into their Own Hands by Philippe Sands
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Poetry
The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems 1937-1952 by Allen Ginsberg
Selected Poems by James Fenton
Why Speak? by Nathaniel Bellows
The End of the Poem by Paul Muldoon
Little Ease by Aaron McCollough
Case Sensitive by Kate Greenstreet
Darling Vulgarity by Michael Waters
A Voice for my Grandmother by Ron Singer
Grief by Donald Lev
The Burning of Troy by Richard Foerster
Horse Latitudes by Paul Muldoon
Lizzie Borden in Love by Juilanna Baggott
Honey and Junk by Dana Goodyear
Nude with Anything by James D'Agostino
Only the Senses Sleep by Wayne Miller
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Fiction
Everybody Loves Somebody by Joanna Scott
Measuring the World byh Daniel Kehlmann
The Light of Evening by Edna O'Brien
Sabine by A.P.
Mappa Mundi by Justina Robson
Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Future Is Queer edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
The Uses of Enchantment by Heidi Julavits
Tales from the Town of Widows and Chronicles from the Land of Men by James Canon
Get Down by Asali Solomon
Parallel Play by Thomas Rayfiel
Secondhand World by Katherine Min
The Rhythm of the Road by Albyn Leah Hall
Famous Writers School by Steven Carter
The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag
The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride by Julia C. Collins
Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami
The Communist's Daughter by Dennis Bock
Still Life with Husband by Lauren Fox
Thanksgiving Night by Richard Bausch
Skylark Farm by Antonia Arslan
Red Cat by Peter Spiegelman
Dreaming of Gwen Stefani by Evan Mandery
Salon Fantasique by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
The Dead Fathers' Club by Matt Harg
The Pressure of Darkness by Harry Shannon
Small Town Punk by John Sheppard
The Invented Life of Kitty Duncan by Kat Meads
Pop by Aury Wallington
Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
The Ruby in her Navel by Barry Unsworth
Newsworld by Todd James Pierce
The Initials of the Earth by Jesus Diaz
Laura Warholic; or The Sexual Intellectual by Alexander Theroux
Black Girl, White Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
Restless by William Boyd
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Graphic Novels
Tophats and Flappers by Russell Patterson
Project: Romantic
Unholy Kinship by Naomi Nowak
Recess Pieces by Bob Fingerman
The Long Chalkboard and Other Stories by Jenny Allen and Jules Feiffer
Abandon the Old in Tokyo: Stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
The Complete Peanuts by Charles Schulz
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