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November 19, 2007
Graphic Novels
Eating Steve by J. Marc Schmidt
Shuteye #4 "Carrefour" by Sarah Becan (Short Pants Press)
Betsy and Me by Jack Cole
Rememberance of Things Past, Part Three: Swann in Love by Marcel Proust adapted by Stephane Heuet
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Fiction
The Kept Man by Jami Attenberg
School For Scumbags by Danny King
No More Angels by Ron Butlin
Acts of Love by Emily Listfield
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Downriver: Short Stories by Jeanne M. Leiby
The Resurrectionist by Jack O'Connell
The Standing Ground by Jan Fortune-Wood
Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories by Steven Milhauser
Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories by Tobias Wolff
Death of a Dutchman by Magdalen Nabb
Flaw by Magdalena Tulli translated by Bill Johnston
Sweet Potatoes by Lou Rowan (ahadada press "resonances of Rebelais, Voltaire and Mickey Spillane")
My Last Days by Lou Roward (ahadada press)
Devil's Cape by Rob Rogers
Last Dragon by J. M. McDermott
Firefly Rain by Richard Dansky
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Poetry
Sleeping with Houdini by Nin Andrews (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
the immigrant suite: hey xenophobe! who you calling a foreigner? by Hattie Gosestt (Sever Stories Press)
Meanwhile Take My Hand by Kirmen Uribe Translated by Elizabeth Macklin (Graywolf Press)
The Lyrics by Fanny Howe (Graywolf Press)
American Music by Chris Martin (Copper Canyon Press)
The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain 950-1492 edited by Peter Cole
Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994-2004 by Harry Clifton (Wake Forest University Press)
The Myth of the Simple Machines by Laurel Snyder (No Tell Books)
THe Kingdom of Ordinary Time by Marie Howe (W.W. Norton)
How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic by Peter Jay Shippy (Rose Metal Press)
In Praise of the Unfinished by Julia Hartwig, translated by John and Bogdana Carpenter (Knopf)
A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor by Maram Al-Massri
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Nonfiction
Murder of Medici Princess by Caroline L. Murphy
The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction by Mark E. Neely Jr.
Benjamin Franklin's Numbers: An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey by Paul C. Pasles
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation by David W. Blight
Revolution Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of America's Founding Fathers by Gary Kowalski
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson
Marie Therese Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie-Antoinette's Daughter by Susan Nagel
Bella Abzug: How one tough broad from the bronx fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed off Jimmy Carter, Battle for the Rights of Women and Workers, Rallied Against War and for the Planet, and Shook up Politics Along the Way. An Oral History by Suzanne Braun Levine and Mary Thom.
Trying Leviathan: The Nineteeth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature by D. Graham Burnett
A Pratical Guide to Racism by C. H. Dalton
Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers and the Environment by Tom McCarthy
Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer by Chuck Thompson
A View of the Ocean: A Memoir by Jan De Hartog
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November 07, 2007
Graphic Novels
As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan
Henry V: The Graphic Novel by William Shakespeare (this comes in three version, Original Text, PLain Text, or Quick Text)
The Fart Party by Julia Wertz
Wonton Soup: Space Trucker Opera by James Stoke
Scott Pilgram Get It Together by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Cairo by G. Willow Wilson
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Poetry
This is What Happened in Our Other Life by Achy Obejas (A Midsummer Night's Press)
Shy Green Fields by Hugh Behm-Steinberg (No Tell Books)
Harlot by Jill Alexander Essbaum (No Tell Books)
Human Scale by Michael Kelleher (BlazeVOX)
Slow Fire by Pamela Alexander
Mine by Tung-Hui Hu (Ausable Press)
Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems by John Ashberry
Beloved Idea by Ann Killough (Alice James Books)
Archaic Design by Clayton Eshleman
Kevin White: Poems by Ed Barrett (Pressed Wafer)
The Enemy by Rafael Camp (Duke University)
The Gravity Soundtrack: Poems by Erin Keane (Wordfarm)
How to be Perfect: Poems by Ron Padgett (Coffee House Press)
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Nonfiction
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great American Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu
In the Blood: A Memory of my Childhood by Andrew Motion
The Haunted Observatory: Curiosities from teh Astronomer's Cabinet by Richard Baum
Nobody Likes a Quitter(and other reasons to avoid rehab): The Loaded Life of an Outlaw Booze Writer by Dan Dunn
The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink by Robert D. Morris
Douglas and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union by Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick
Book Smart: Your Essential Reading List for Becoming a Literary Genuis in 365 Days by Jane Mallison
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg
The Tokyo Look Book: Stylish to Spectacular, Goth to Gyaru, Sidwalk to Catwalk by Philomena Keet, photography by Yuri Manabe
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the XIVth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer
Putting "America" on the Map by Seymour I. Schwartz
Then, Again: The Art of Time in Memoir by Sven Birkerts
The Half-Life of an American Essayist by Arthur Krystal
Straddling Worlds: The Jewish-American Journey of Professor Richard W. Leopold by Steven J. Harper
Murder in Mayberry: Green, Death and Mayhem in a Small Town by Mary Kinney Branson and Jack Branson
Are You There, God? It's Me, Kevin: A Memoir by Kevin Keck
St. Peter's by Keith Miller
Journeys With Justine by Janine Canan
Goddesses, Goddesses: Essays by Janine Canan
The Happiest Man in the World: An Account of the Life of Poppa Neutrino by Alec Wilkinson
Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land by Amy Irvine
The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art and Music Drive New York City by Elizabeth Currid
Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of The New Global Economy by John Bowe
Off the King's Road: Lost and Found in London, a memoir by Phyllis Raphael
Walled: Israeli Society at an Impasse by Sylvain Cypel
A Guest in my Own Country: A Hungarian Life by George Konrad
The Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie
Sex and Isolation and other Essays by Bruce Benderson
The White Book: The Beatles, the Bands, and the Biz: An Insider's Look at an Era by Ken Mansfield
Bones, Rocks, and Stars: The Science of When Things Happened by Chris Turney
Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak by Jean Hatzfeld
Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships by David Levy
Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age by Joel N. Shurkin
The Sixth Wife by Suzannah Dunn
On Empire: America, War, and Global Supremacy by Eric Hobsbawm
Somebody Scream! Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power by Marcus Reeves
Merton and Friends: A Joint Biography of Thomas Merton, Robert Lax, and Edward Rice by James Hartford
My Family and Other Saints by Kirin Narayan
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Fiction
A Monk Jumped Over a Wall by Jay Nussbaum
Flying to America by Donald Barthelme
Last Seen Leaving by Kelly Braffet
Grub by Elise Blackwell
Hour Sets by Michael C. Boyko
No Star Is Lost by James T. Farrell
A Heaven of Others by Joshua Cohen with art by Michael Hafftka
Resistence by Owen Sheers
Selling Out (Quantum Gravity Book )2 by Justina Robson
All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
Song Yet Sung by James McBride
Willing by Scott Spencer
Lush Life by Richard Price
Sex For America: Politically Inspired Erotica Edited by Stephen Elliott
The Queen of Bedlam by Robert McCammon
The Late Hector Kipling by David Thewlis
Big Fat Manifesto by Susan Vaught
The Secret Gospel of Mary Magdalene by Michele Roberts
Yalo by Elias Khoury
Sitting Practice by Caroline Adderson
Terminal Vibrato by Stanford Pritchard
Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness by Sheila Kohler
Farewell, Shanghai by Angel Wagenstein
In Her Absence by Antonio Munoz Molina
The Folded World by Amita Gaige
Twin Time: or, How Death Befell Me by Veronica Gonzalez
Split Estate by Charlotte Bacon
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
The Trouble with Being Born by Jeffery DeShell
Correction of Drift by Pamela Ryder
The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery
The Gateway: Stories by T. M. McNally
The Littlest Hilter: Stories by Ryan Boudinot
Wildness Lies In Wait by Stirling Noh (Devine Liberation Press)
Signed Mata Hari by Yannick Murphy
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