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December 17, 2007
Poetry
The Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War by Frances Richey (Viking)
The Door: Poems by Margaret Atwood, including a CD of poems read by the author(Houghton-Mifflin)
New Collected Poems by Eavan Boland(W. W. Norton)
earthly poems by Erica Funkhouser (Houghton-Mifflin)
Old War, poems by Alan Shapiro (Houghton-Mifflin)
Mission Work, poems by Aaron Baker (Mariner Books)
God Particles by Thomas Lux (Houghton-Mifflin)
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Graphic Novels
Dark Wraith of Shannara by Terry Brooks
World War III Illustrated #38: Facts on the Ground
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Fiction
Orpheus Lost by Janette Turner Hospital
Remembering The Bones by Frances Itani
Soul by Tobsha Learner
The Child by Sarah Schulman
The Delivery Man by Joe McGinniss Jr.
Breathing the Ghost Out by Kirk Curnutt
Wolves of the Crescent Moon by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
The Life Room by Jill Bialosky
Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch
Now You Know by Susan Kelly
Jazz by Wonda Coleman
Tales from the Town of Widows by James Canon
Theft by N. S. Koenings
House of Widows by Askold Melnyckuk (Graywolf Press)
37 by Maria Beaumont
The Rich Man of Pietermaritzburg by Sibusiso Nyembezi
The Whistler by Ondjaki
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
Between Two Seas by Carmine Abate
A Paragon of Virtue by Christian Von Ditfurth
Fall of Frost by Brian Hall
The Jewish Messiah by Arnon Grunberg
Sarah Warholic or, The Sexual Intellectual by Alexander Theroux
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Nonfiction
Drifting Towards Life: Black, Brown, Gay and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York by Hai Wright
Family Skeleton: A Brother and Sister's Journey from Murder to Truth by Andre Carmichael, Sabrina Carmichael-Yaw, and Aurora Mackey
The Sky Isn't Visible from Here: Scenes from a Life by Felicia C. Sullivan
Brooklyn was Mine, Essays by Jennifer Egan, Darin Strauss, Dinaw Mengestu, Jonathan Lethem, Emily Barton and more.
Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, a biography by Elisabeth Bumiller
My Father's Heart: A Son's Journey by Steve McKee
Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford by Julia Fox
Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up by John Allen Paulos
How to be Useful: A Beginner's Guide to Not Hating Work by Megan Hustad
King: Pilgrimage to the Mountain Top by Harvard Stikoff
Twice as Good: Condoleezzaa Rice and her Path to Power by Marcus Mabry
A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today by David A. Andelman
My Life as a Traitor by Zarah Ghahramani
Bigger Than Life: a Murderer, a Memoir by Dinah Lenney
The Monkey's Bridge: Mysteries of Evolution in Central America by David Rains Wallace
Deathtripping: The Extreme Underground by Jack Sargeant
A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants, a Memoir by Jaed Coffin
A Broom of One's Own: Words on Writing, Housecleaning and Life by Nancy Peacock
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December 10, 2007
Poetry
The Guin Saga, Book One: The Leopard Mask by Kaoru Kurimoto
World Over Water by Robert Gibb (University of Arkansas Press)
My Father Says Grace Donald Platt (University of Arkansas Press)
A Wall of Two by Henia Karmel and Ilona Karmel (University of California Press)
Figured Dark by Greg Rappleye (University of Arkansas Press)
Mouth, poetry by Lisa Chen (Kaya Press)
Mystery Schools by Bruce MacKinnow (Washington Writers' Publishing House)
Writing Anew: New and Selected Poems by Emanuel Di Pasquale (Bordighera Press)
The Bad Wife Handbook by Rachel Zucker (Wesleyan Press)
Beloved Idea by Ann Killough (Alice James Books)
No Issue No. 6 (Lots of poetry but also some art, a play, and fiction)
In Line for the Exterminator by Jim Daniels (Great Lakes Books Series)
Foiled Again by J. Allyn Rosser (Ivan R. Dee)
The Baghdad Blues by Sinan Antoon (Harbor Mountain Press)
Cell Mate by Ana Merino (Harbor Mountain Press)
Be That Empty, Apologia for Air by Alice B. Fogel (Harbor Mountain Press)
The Alchemy of Grief by Emily Ferrara translated from the Italian by Sabine Pascarelli
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Graphic Novels
Lust: Kinky Online Personal Ads from Seattle's The Stranger adapted by Ellen Forney
Yearbook Stories 1976-1978 by Chris Staros (Top Shelf Productions)
Essex County Vol. 2 Ghost Stories by Jeff Lemire
Lower Regions by Alex Robinsons
Secret Agent Jack Stalwart Issues 1-3 by Elizabeth Singer Hunt
Otto's Orange Day: A Toon Book by Frank Cammuso and Jay Lynch (ages 4+)
Silly Lilly and the Four Seasons: A Toon Book by Agnes Rosenstiehl
Benny and Penny in Just Pretend: a Toon Book by Geoffery Hayes
Guin Saga Manga Vol. 1, The Seven Magi by Kazuaki Yanagisawa
Zombies Calling by Faith Erin Hicks (SLG Publishing)
Paris by Andi Watson and Simon Gane (SLG Publishing)
Character Sketches Anthology 2007 Trauma and Joy (Gestalt Comics)
Slow News Day by Andi Watson (SLG Publishing)
Vowels by Sky Ogden (Gestalt Comics)
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Nonfiction
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison
The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea by Steve LeVine
Sexier Sex: Lessons from the Brave New Sexual Frontier by Regina Lynn
Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon by Andrea Di Robilant
Against the Grain: The Literary Life of a Poet, a Memoir by Reed Whittemore
Godly Republic: A Centrist Blueprint for America's Faith-Based Future by John J. DiIulio Jr.
Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class by Robert H. Frank
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David R. Montgomery
Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves by Kevin Bales
American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media
Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir by John Hemingway
Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal by Randall Kennedy
Edwin Arlington Robinson, A Poet's Life by Scott Donaldson
The Forms of Youth: 20th-Century Poetry and Adolescence by Stephen Burt
Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language by Seth Lerer
What Do Gay Men Want? An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity by David M. Halperin
Ellery's Protest: How One Young Man Defied Tradition and Sparked the Battle over School Prayer by Stephen D. Solomon
Chic Ironic Bitterness by R. Jay Magill, Jr.
Into Hot Air: Mounting Mount Everest by Chris Elliott
Selected Letters of Aldous Huxley, edited by James Sexton
Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
The Best Sport Writing of Pat Jordan, edited by Alex Belth
Seduced: Art & Sex From Antiquity to Now by Maria Wallace
A Guinea Pig's History of Biology by Jim Endersby
Diary of A Witness, 1940-1943: The Ordeal of the Jews of France During the Holocaust by Raymound-Raoul Lambert
A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television by David Everitt
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food by Jennifer 8. Lee
Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil by Robert Zubrin
The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century by Harold Schechter
America's Child: A Woman's Journey through the Radical Sixties, a memoir by Susan Sherman
My Brother's Madness: A Memoir by Paul Pines
Robert E. Lee, Icon for a Nation by Brian Holden Reid
Washington Irving, An American Original, by Brian Jay Jones
Richard and John: Kings at War by Frank McLynn
A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII by Dan Kurzman
Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science by Prof. Mark L. Brake and Rev. Neil Hook
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Fiction
The Truth about Sascha Knisch by Aris Fioretos
The Metatemporal Detective by Michael Moorcock
Beet by Roger Rosenblatt
The Lost City by Henry Shukman
I Love Dollars and other stories of China by Zhu Wen
Debatable Space: A brilliantly plotted and audaciously executed tale of revenge and revolution in the far future by Philip Palmer
Queens Noir edited by Robert Knightly
You Must Be This Happy to Enter, Stories by Elizabeth Crane
The Musical Illusionist and Other Tales by Alex Rose
Alex and the Ironic Gentleman by Adrienne Kress
Matter by Iain M. Banks
The Resurrectionist/a> by Jack O'Connell
The Well and the Mine: A Novel by Gin Phillips
Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy by Ekaterina Sedia
Woman's World by Graham Rawle
Blind Faith by Sagarika Ghose
Voices of the Lost and Found by Dorene O'Brian
The Sound of Language by Amulya Malladi
The Blue Star by Tony Earley
Dirty Girls: Erotica For Women edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel
The Edge of the World by Gail Vida Hamburg
Standing Still by Killy Simmons
Omega Minor by Paul Verhaeghen
Last Last Chance by Fiona Maazel
Shame in the Blood by Tetsuo Miura
A Perfect Waiter by Alain Claude Sulzer
When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep by Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
Now You're One of Us by Asa Nonami
Shadows of Colossus by T. L. Higley
Girl by Blake Nelson
The Steep Approachable to Garbadale by Iain Banks
The Boys in the Trees by Mary Swan
The Guin Saga, Book One: The Leopard Mask by Kaoru Kurimoto
The Trail of the Technology Tyrant: Specular Adventure with Web Hunter and Donna Matrix, Vol. 1 by Flankie Wilco
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