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October 22, 2007
Graphic Novels
Joseph by Nicolas Rebel (D & Q Petit Livres)
All the Rage: Boondocks Past and Present by Aaron McGruder
Incognegro by Mat Johnson Art by Warren Pleece
Kidnapped by Alan Grant and Cam Kennedy
I am Blind and my Dog is Dead by S. Gross (Overlook Press)
Skyscrapers of the Midwest Issue No. 4 by Joshua Cotter
ZigZag Issue No. 2 by J. CHris Campbell
Johnny Hiro No. 2 by Fred Chao
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Poetry
Forty-Nine Guaranteed Ways to Escape Death by Sandy Mcintosh (Marsh Hawk Press)
A Gathering of Matter / a Matter of Gathering by Dawn Lundy Martin (University of Georgia Press)
Sensational Spectacular by Nate Pritts (BlazeVOX)
Orient Point by Julie Sheehan (W. W. Norton)
Wild Tongue by Rebecca Seiferle
The Insomniac Liar of Topo by Norman Dubie (Copper Canyon Press)
When Winter Come: The ascension of york by Frank X Walker (University Press of Kentucky)
Sum By Yonat Hafftka (Six Gallery Press)
Being With a Bullet by Stephen Paul Miller (Talisman House)
Che in Verse edited by Gavin O'Toole and Georgina Jimenez (Aflame Books)
The Boys I Borrow by Heather Sellers (New Issues / Western Michigan University)
Undid in the Land of Undone by Lee Upton (New Issues)
Dog Watch by Valerie Lawson (Ragged Sky)
Drift & Pulse by Kathleen Halme (Carnegie Mellon)
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Fiction
A Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev
The Unforeseen by Christian Oster
Echo Detained by Joshua Daniel Cochran
A Free Life by Ha Jin
American Skin by Ken Bruen
Ohio River Dialogues by William Zink
In A Bear's Eye: Stories by Yannick Murphy
The Fall of Troy by Peter Achroyd
The Crawfish Mountain by Ken Wells
Gentleman of the Road by Michael Chabon
A Father's Law by Richard Wright
Hornet's Nest by Edyr Augusto
Mercury Under My Tongue by Sylvain Trudel
The Chameleon's Shadow by Minette Walters
The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller
Detective Story by Imre Kertesz
Mortarville by Grant Bailie
The Book of Samson by David Maine
The Sex Club by L. J. Sellers
The Best of Gowanus II: More New Writing from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean edited by Thomas J. Hubschman
The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Wastelands: Stories of Life After Apocalypse by Edited by John Joseph Adams
The Spare Wife by Alex Witchel
The Cure for Remembering by Ruth E. Weissberger
Slivers of Bone by Ray Garton
Got to Kill Them All by Denis Etchison
The Sixth Form by Tom Dolby
Sand Devil by Michael Oren
Ghost by Alan Lightman
Alarm by Mike Daily
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
Dream Lives of Butterflies by Jaimee Wriston Colbert
The Mother Garden by Robin Romm
Losing Kei by Suzanne Kamata
The Painter of Battles by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Civil and Strange by Clair Ni Aonghusa
Writers Under Seige: Voices of Freedom From Around the World edited by Lucy Popescu and Carole Seymour-Jones
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Nonfiction
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A personal view of the search for God by Carl Sagan
The Humble Little Condom: A History By Aine Collier
Griffin by Albert Goldbarth
Under the Gnu in Iraq: My year training the Iraqi Police by Robert Cole
The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the woman he loved by Judith Freeman
The Lost Saranac Interviews: Forgotton Conversations with Famous Writers by Joe David Bellamy & Connie Bellamy
Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda
Circling my Mother: A Memoir by Mary Gordon
UFO Religion: Inside Flying Saucer Cults and Culture by Gregory L. Reece
Introducing Modernism by Chris Rodrigues and Chris Garratt
Listening Is and Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life From the Storycorps Project Edited by Dave Isay
Deluxe: How luxury lost its luster by Dana Thomas
The Faith Between Us: A Jew and A Catholic search for teh meaning of God by Peter Bebergal and Scott Korb
Elizabeth and Leicetser: Power, Passion, Politics by Sarah Gristwood
Schulz and Peanuts: A Biograph by David Michaelis
The Gashouse Gang: How Dizzy Dean, Leo Durocher, Branch Rickey, Pepper Martin, and their colorful, come-from-behind ball club won the world series - and America's Heart - During the Great Depression by John Heidenry
Privacy in Peril: How we are sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Confidence by James B. Rule
The Unaffordable Nation: Searching for a Decent Life in America by Jeffery D. Jones
Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine by Omer Bartov
Motoring: The Highway Experience in America by John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle
Tipping the Sacred Cow: The Best of LiP: Informed Revolt 1996-2007 edited by Brian Awehali
Against Happiness by Eric G. Wilson
Circle in The Sand: The Bush Dynasty in Iraq by Christian Alfonsi
Sacred Spring: God and the Birth of Modernism in Fin de Siecle Vienna by Robert Weldon Whalen
Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism by Ibn Warraq
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm
Biting the Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a Language Fanatic by Elizabeth Little
Silence Kills: Speaking out and Saving Lives by Lee Gutkind
American Wars American Peace: Notes from a Son of the Empire by Philip D. Beidler
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October 08, 2007
Poetry
Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 by Robert Hass
The Scented Fox by Laynie Browne (Wave Books)
Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death by Christopher Kennedy (BOA Editions)
Sleeping with Houdini by Nin Andres (BOA Editions)
29 Inches by Mark Amerika (Chiasmus Prsss)
The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005 by Afaa Michael Weaver (Univ. Of Pittsburgh)
Infamous Landscapes by Prageeta Sharma (Fence Books)
Carrying a Knife into the Gunfight by Eddie Kilowatt (Full Contact Publishing)
The Outernationale by Peter Gizzi (Wesleyan)
For Kid Rock Total Freedom by Michael Scharf (Spectacular Books)
How Else to Love the World by Myrna Stone (Browser Books Publishing)
The Glass Age by Cole Swenson (Alice James Books)
Equivocal by Julie Carr (Alice James Books)
Novel Pictorial Noise by Noah Eli Gordon
Lilies Without by Laura Ksischke (Ausable Press)
Resurrection of the Dust by John McKernan (The Backwaters Press)
Ice, Mouth, Song by Rachel Contreni Flynn (Tupelo Press)
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Graphic Novels
Incredible Change-Bots by Jeffery Brown
The Best American Comics 2007 Edited By Chris Ware
Mendel's Daughter: A Memoir by Martin Lemelman
MOME: Fall 2007 by Gary Groth and Eric Reynolds
I Killed Adolf HItler by Jason
Injury, Issue Number 1 by Ted May
Elvis Road by X. Robel and H. Raumann
Comic Art Annual No. 9 by X. Robel and H. Raumann
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Nonfiction
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner
C.C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race: The True Story of the 1928 Coast-To-Coast Run Across America by Geoff Williams
Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge by Don Lattin
Boone: A Biograph by Robert Morgan
Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire by Judith Thurman
Bagels and Grits: A Jew on the Bayou by Jennifer Anne Moses
Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy by Eric D. Weitz
The Unheard: a memoir of deafness and africa by Josh Swiller
The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In by Hugh Kennedy
The Pepsi Challenge: The inspirational story of breaking the color barrier in American Business by Stephanie Capparell
The Agnostic Reader edited by S.T. Joshi
The Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from and Embedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq by Dahr Jamail
The Wreck of the Medusa: The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century by Jonathan Miles
Bad Faith: THe Danger of Religious Extremism by Neil J. Kressel
Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire by Matt Taibbi
Emshwiller: Infinity X Two - The Art and Life of Ed and Carol Emshwiller by Luis Ortiz
Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood by Joanne Jacobson
Musicophila: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop by Francisco Goldman
Are There Closets in Heaven? A Catholic Father and Lesbian Daughter Share Their Story by Carol Curoe and Robert Curoe
The Eccentric Billionaire: John D. MacArthur - Empire Builder, Reluctant Philathropist, Relentless Adversary by Nancy Kriplen
Roman's Journey: a memoir of survival by Roman Halter
Et Tu Brute? A Short HIstory of Political Murder by Greg Woolf
The Death of Socrates by Emily Wilson
The Florist's Daughter by Patricia Hampl
Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future by Iain Carson and Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran
The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England by Emerson W. Baker
Honoralb Bandit: A Walk Across Corsica by Brian Bouldrey
Nureyev: The Life by Julie Kavanagh
The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century by Harold Schechter
Sweat: The Story of The Fleshtones, America's Garage Band by Joe Bonomo
One Day the Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in War by Charles London
Damned to Eternity: The story of the man who they said caused the flood by Adam Pitluk
Intern: A Doctor's Initiation by Sandeep Jauhar
Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet by Christian Wiman
The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food by Judith Jones
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From dating, shopping, and praying to going to war and becoming a billionaire - two evolutionary psychologists explain why we do what we do by Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa
An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba by Ruth Mayol
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Fiction
Hero by Perry Moore
Symphony of the Dead by Abbas Maroufi
Careless by Deborah Robertson
Rock On: An Office Power Ballad by Dan Kennedy
Wrestling With Angels: New and Colelcted Stories by John J. Clayton
Matrimony by Joshua Henkin
Redemption Falls by Joseph O'Connor
The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
Miss Alcott's E-mail: Yours for Reforms of All Kinds by Kit Bakke
My Life as a Traitor by Zarah Ghahramani with Robert Hillman
The Electric Church: Salvation Through Eternity by Jeff Somers
This is a Bust by Ed Lin
Stories From the Afterlife by Quinn Dalton
I Never Saw Paris by Harry I. Freund
Kath Trevelyan by Jeremy Cooper
The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B and Other Stories Edited by Jeremy Akerman and Eileen Daly
Theatre of Incest by Alain Arias-Misson
John by Niall Williams
Submarine by Joe Dunthorne
Serve the People! by Yan Lianke
Chatter by Perrin Ireland
Beautiful Children by Charles Bock
It was Like my Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature by Diane Williams
Kissed By by Alexandra Chasin
Kissssss By by Steve Katz
All Things are Labor by Katherine Arnoldi
Best New American Voices 2008 edited by Richard Bauch
A Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev
Natural Disaster by Al Burian
Bleeding Kansas by Sarah Paretsky
Flet by Joyelle McSweeney
The Journal of Dora Damage by Belinda Starling
Egrets to the Flames by Barbara Anton
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007 edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin J. Grant
The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump by Aharon Megged
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
Big Dog and Flyboys by Sam Michel
The Last Days of Madame Rey: A Stephan Raszer Investigation by A. W. Hill
a nobody's nothings by Denis Sheeham
The Texicans by Nina Vida
The Rowing Lesson by Anne Landsman
The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yoko Ogawa
Ruby Rest by Tyler Oaks
Flawless: A Novel of Medical Suspense by Joshua Spanogle
The Coup by Jamie Malanowski
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