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January 26, 2007
Fiction
I Think of You: Stories by Ahdaf Soueif
The Sultan's Seal by Jenny White
The Heart of Mars by Chuck Rosenthal
Zoology by Ben Dolnick
Lazy Eye by Donna Daley-Clarke
All Will Be Revealed by Robert Anthony Siegel
Later, at the Bar by Rebecca Barry
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #1 edited by Jonathan Strahan
The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue by Manuel Munoz
Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon
Human Resources: Stories by Josh Goldfaden
The Tattoo by Chris McKinney
Devotion by Howard Norman
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Poetry
The Body is No Machine by Jennifer Perrine
Fold Books by Stephen Hemenway
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January 25, 2007
Nonfiction
The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman edited by Stephen Pascal
Pesach for the Rest of Us: Making the Passover Seder Your Own by Marge Piercy
Eagle Pond by Donald Hall
Terror: How Israel Has Coped and What America Can Learn by Leonard A. Cole
Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music by Hugh Barker and Yuval Taylor
Fame Junkies: The Hidden Truths Behind America's Favorite Addiction by Jake Halpern
God: The Failed Hypothesis by Victor J. Stenger
Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a 17th Century Forbidden Love by Myriam Cyr
Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires by Pete Dexter
Edith Wharton: A Biography by Hermione Lee
The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts by Milan Kundera
Aftermath, Inc.: Cleaning Up After CSI Goes Home by Gil Reavill
Otherwise Normal People: Inside the Obsessive and Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening by Aurelia C. Scott
Satisfaction: Women, Sex, and the Quest for Intimacy by Anita H. Clayton MD
Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays by Joan Acocella
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January 22, 2007
Fiction
Skylark Farm by Antonia Arslan
Red Cat by Peter Spiegelman
Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay
Vain Art of the Fugue by Dumitru Tsepeneag
Long After Dark by Todd Robert Petersen
Kindred Spirits by Christopher Kimball Bigelow
Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand
Openwork by Adria Bernardi
The New Yorkers by Cathleen Schine
Part of the World by Robert Lopez
The Revisionist by Miranda Mellis
Christopher's Ghosts by Charles McCarry
Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski
Still Life with Husband by Lauren Fox
The Uncertain Hour by Jesse Browner
The Time It Takes to Fall by Margaret Lazarus Dean
Dancing to Almendra by Mayra Montero
Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him by Danielle Ganek
Red Hook by Reggie Nadelson
Hick by Andrea Portes
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January 13, 2007
Fiction
Everyone I Know Lives on Roads by Trevor Dodge
The Fabric of Night by Christoph Peters
Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos
View from a Burning Bridge by Sarah Goodyear
Bloodline Reckoning by Kate Cary
Converting Kate by Beckie Weinheimer
The Secret City by Carl Emshwiller
Devils in the Sugar Shop by Timothy Schaffert
The Speed of Light by Javier Cercas
Hush, Little Baby by Katharine Davies
Good Money After Bad by Donald G. Evans
100 Ways to Improve the World by Giles Ward
Home Remedies by Angela Pneuman
Anxious Pleasures by Lance Olsen
Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
The Wayward Muse by Elizabeth Hickey
Self Storage by Gayle Brandeis
Consolation by Michael Redhill
Reality by Jeff Havens
Astrid & Veronika by Linda Olsson
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
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Nonfiction
French Seduction: An American's Encounter with France, Her Father, and the Holocaust by Eunice Lipton
A Power Governments Cannot Supress by Howard Zinn
Homelands: Women's Journeys Across Race, Place, and Time edited by Patricia Justine Tumang and Jenesha de Rivera
Race Manners for the 21st Century: Navigating the Minefield Between Black and White Americans in the Age of Fear by Bruce A. Jacobs
Bambi Vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business by David Mamet
Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran: Iran and the Future of Liberalism by Danny Postel
The Great Negro Plot: A Tale of Conspiracy and Murder in 18th Century New York by Mat Johnson
Wisdom from the Batcave: How to Live a Super, Heroic Life by Cary A. Friedman
Wake Up to Your Stories: Using the Art of Personal Narrative to Heal Your Past, Nurture Your Relationships & Ask for What You're Worth by Alyson Mead
When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race by Judith Stone
Mr. Wrong: Real-Life Stories About the Men We Used to Love edited by Harriet Brown
Dark at the Roots by Sarah Thyre
Talk to the Snail: Ten Commandments for Understanding the French by Stephen Clarke
Only Child: Writers on the Singular Joys and Solitary Sorrows of Growing Up Solo edited by Deborah Siegel and Daphne Uviller
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Poetry
A Map by a Dim Lamp by Ron Starr
Radish King by Rebecca Loudon
W is for War by George Held
The Logan Topographies by Alena Hairston
Wayne's College of Beauty by David Swanger
Inkblot and Altar by Laura van Prooyen
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January 05, 2007
Graphic Novels
The Scribbler by Dan Schaffer
The Last Christmas by Gerry Duggan and Brian Posehn
Noble Cause: Hidden Agendas by Jay Faerber and Fran Bueno
Outlaw Nation by Jamie Delano, Goran Sudzuka, and Goran Parlov
Luba: Three Daughters by Gilbert Hernandez
Breaking Up by Aimee Friedman and Christine Norrie
God Save the Queen by Mike Carey and John Bolton
Spawn: Godslayer by Holguin, Anacleto, Medina, and Haberlin
Wonderfool World by David Sandlin
Monsieur Lambert by Jean-Jacques Sempe
An Orgy of Playboy's Edlon Dedini
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Poetry
Twentieth-Century German Poetry Edited by Michael Hofmann
Airstream Land Yacht by Ken Babstock
Hands Washing Water by Chris Abani
F2F by Janet Holmes
Forty-Five by Frieda Hughes
Beholding Eye by Grace Bauer
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January 04, 2007
Fiction
Twin Study: Stories by Stacey Richter
Scags at 7 by Deborah Emin
The Seventh Heaven: Supernatural Stories by Naguib Mahfouz
O Street by Corrina Wycoff
The End As I Know It by Kevin Shay
The Other Side of You by Salley Vickers
Brass Ankle Blues by Rachel Harper
The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish by Elise Blackwell
Underneath It All by Margo Candela
Everybody Loves Somebody by Joanna Scott
The Dinner Club by Saskia Noort
The Last Blue Mile by Kim Ponders
The Invented Life of Kitty Duncan by Kat Meads
Hudson Lake by Laura Mazzuca Toops
A Handbook to Luck by Christina Garcia
Conjugal Love by Alberto Moravia
Crippen by John Boyne
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison
The Thief of Time by John Boyne
Banker's Holiday by Gary Clemenceau
Piercing by Ryu Murakami
The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
The Marchesa by Simonetta Agnello Hornby
Knots by Nuruddin Farah
Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
The Interloper by Antoine Wilson
Of Song and Water by Joseph Coulson
The Rhythm of the Road by Albyn Leah Hall
The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton
The Truth About Lou by Anglea von der Lippe
Crazy in Love by Dandi Daley MacKall
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Nonfiction
The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age by Sven Kirkerts
Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne: The Tragic True Story of Japan's Crown Princess by Ben Hill
In the Name of Heaven: 5,000 Years of Religious Persecution by Mary Jane Engh
Read the Music: Essays on Sound by Beth Winegarner
The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma by Thant Myint-U
Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam by Michel Onfray
Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life by Sari Nusseibeh
Dark at the Roots: A Memoir by Sarah Thyre
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life by Allen Shawn
The Physics of the Buffyverse by Jennifer Ouellette
The Best Day The Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon by Donald Hall
Beyond the Techno-Cave: A Guerrilla Writer's Guide to Post-Millenial Culture by Harold Jaffe
Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams by Michael D'Antonio
Freud's Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones by Brenda Maddox
Tango: The Art History of Love by Robert Ferris Thompson
The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, From World War I to Iraq Zlata's Filipovic
The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience Edited by Sean Manning
Hollywood's Celebrity Gangster: The Incredible Life and Times of Mickey Cohen by Bradley Lewis
Balenciaga and His Legacy by Myra Walker
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Nonfiction
The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age by Sven Kirkerts
Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne: The Tragic True Story of Japan's Crown Princess by Ben Hill
In the Name of Heaven: 5,000 Years of Religious Persecution by Mary Jane Engh
Read the Music: Essays on Sound by Beth Winegarner
The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma by Thant Myint-U
Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam by Michel Onfray
Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life by Sari Nusseibeh
Dark at the Roots: A Memoir by Sarah Thyre
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life by Allen Shawn
The Physics of the Buffyverse by Jennifer Ouellette
The Best Day The Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon by Donald Hall
Beyond the Techno-Cave: A Guerrilla Writer's Guide to Post-Millenial Culture by Harold Jaffe
Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams by Michael D'Antonio
Freud's Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones by Brenda Maddox
Tango: The Art History of Love by Robert Ferris Thompson
The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, From World War I to Iraq Zlata's Filipovic
The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience Edited by Sean Manning
Hollywood's Celebrity Gangster: The Incredible Life and Times of Mickey Cohen by Bradley Lewis
Balenciaga and His Legacy by Myra Walker
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