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November 19, 2006
Nonfiction
Sex Design by Max Rippon
Putting the Pieces Together: The Graffiti Model for Indie Filmmaking by Benjamin Morgan and the Quality of Life Team
Red Velvet Seat: Women's Writing on the First Fifty Years of Cinema Edited by Antonia Lant
Paris: The Secret History by Andrew Hussey
Color-Blind Justice: Albion Tourgee and the Quest of Racial Equality by Mark Elliot
The Avenger Takes His Place: Andrew Johnson and the 45 Days that Changed the Nation by Howard Means
Delusional Democracy: Fixing the Republic Without Overthrowing the Government by Joel S. Hirschhorn
The After-Death Room: Journey into Spiritual Activism by Michael McColly
The Great Negro Plot: A Tale of Conspiracy and Murder in Eighteenth-Century New York by Mat Johnson
Meta Math!: The Quest for Omega by Gregory Chaitin
Ready or Not?: A Girl's Guide to Making Her Own Decisions about Dating, Love, and Sex by Tina Radzisewicz
Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers by Cris Beam
Theatre of Fish: Travels through Newfoundland and Labrador by John Gimlette
Fighting Words: A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right by Robin Morgan
How I Learned to Cook: Culinary Educations from the World's Greatest Chefs Edited by Kimberly Witherspoon and Peter Meehan
The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements by Sandor Ellix Katz
We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder With the Marines Who Took Fallujah by Patrick K. O'Donnell
Dork Whore by Iris Bahr
Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud by Martha Hanna
Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First by Marsden Wagner, MD, MS
Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights by Trevor Paglen and A.C. Thompson
Rooms of our Own by Susan Gubar
The Comprehensible Cosmos: Where Do the Laws of Physics Come From? by Victor J. Stenger
Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild by Ellen Meloy
The Whistleblower: Confessor of a Healthcare Hitman by Peter Rost MD
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gener and Conformity Edited by Mattilda
Cursed From Birth: The Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs, Jr. by Willam S. Burroughs Jr.
How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights by Ariel Gore
Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of Moors by James Reston, Jr.
Defending the Damned: Inside Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's Office by Kevin Davis
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Poetry
Grit and Tender Membranes by Samantha Barrow
by Taha Muhammad Ali
Galvanized by W. Joe Hoppe
As a Ragged Pen by Robert Finley, Patrick Friesen, Aislinn Hunter, Anne Simpson, and Jan Zwicky
Expectation and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006 by Ralph Angel
The Fever Almanac by Kristy Bowen
The Case Against Happiness by Jean-Paul Pecqueur
Chinese Apples by W.S. Di Piero
How to Make a Life as a Poet by Gary Mex Glazner
How to Make a Living as a Poet by Gary Mex Glazner
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Fiction
On Love and Death by Patrick Suskind
American Genius, a Comedy by Lynn Tillman
The Unbinding by Walter Kirn
A Far Country by Daniel Mason
The Disappearance by Ilan Stavans
The Work of Mercy by Stephen Guppy
Please to Meet You by Caroline Adderson
Clown Girl by Monica Drake
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Be With You by Takuji Ichikawa
Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy
Black & White by Dani Shapiro
Petropolis by Anya Ulinich
Assorted Bonbons by Michel Tremblay
The Visible World by Mark Slouka
Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang
The Blade Itself by Marcus Sakey
Surveillance by Jonathon Raban
Lately by Sara Pritchard
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
Everything Must Go by Elizabeth Flock
The Book of Emma by Marie-Celie Agnant
Pink Icing by Pamela Mordecai
The Budapest Connection by Dr. Henry C. Lee and Jerry Labricola, MD
The God of Spring by Arabella Edge
Valentines by Olaf Olafsson
To My Dearest Friends by Patricia Volk
The King's Nun by Catherine Monroe
Beyond Sleep by Willem Frederik Hermans
Seaview by Toby Olsen
Cannibals by Rex Bowman
Horror's Classic Master Remastered: Volume One Edited by Kurt S. Michaels
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Graphic Novels
Was She Pretty? by Leanna Shapton
Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery by Dave Roman
Aya by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie
Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan
Bluesman: Book Three by Rob Vollmar and Pablo G. Callejo
Emo Boy: Volume One by Steve Emond
The Mother's Mouth by Dash Shaw
Meathaus 8: Headgames
Power of 6: The Twisted Apples Part One by Jon Lewis
Siberia by Blake Ferris
Moomin by Tove Jansson
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November 09, 2006
Fiction
Once in a Promised Land by Laila Halaby
I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch
The Monkey and the Monk: An Abridgment of The Journey to the West
Sister Teresa by Barbara Mujica
Soon the Rest Will Fall by Peter Plate
Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M. T. Anderson
The Senator and the Priest by Andrew M. Greeley
Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith
I Carry a Hammer in My Pocket for Occasions Such as These by Anthony Tognazzini
The Little Girl and the Cigarette by Benoit Duteurtre
The Book of Dave by Will Self
Fires by Nick Antosca
Stray by Sheri Joseph
Sagramanda by Alan Dean Foster
Cotton Song by Tom Bailey
High 5ive: An Anthology of Fiction from Ten Years of Five Points edited by Megan Sexton
The Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men by Randy F. Nelson
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Poetry
Selected Poems by W.H. Auden
The Wash by Adam Clay
Strong is Your Hold by Galway Kinnell
Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel
Official Versions by Mark Pawlak
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