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February 27, 2008
Nonfiction
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker.
Easter Rising: A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion by Michael Patrick MacDonald.
X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking by Jeff Gordinier.
Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey by James Attlee.
In the World but Not of It by Bret Grainger.
Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter by Seth Lerer.
Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Hearing Voices and the Borders of Sanity by Daniel B. Smith.
Binu and The Great Wall by Su Tong.
Shakespeare: The Thinker by A. D. Nuttall.
My Father's Heart: A Son's Journey by Steve McKee.
The Secret of Fame by Gabriel Zaid.
Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal by Rob Riemen.
The Soul of Creative Writing by Richard Goodman.
Side Effects: A Bestselling Drug on Trial by Alison Bass.
Freddie & Me: A Coming-of-Age (Bohemian) Rhapsody by Mike Dawson.
FDR: The First Hundred Days by Anthony J. Badger.
Travel Pictures by Heinrich Heine.
Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir From an Atomic Town by Kelly McMasters.
Origins by Amin Mallouf.
Dress Sense edited by Donald Clay Johnson and Helen Bradley Foster.
Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene by Masha Gessen.
A Church of Her Own: What Happens When a Woman Takes the Pulpit by Sarah Sentilles.
Light Years by Susanna Moore.
Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath's Art of the Visual edited by Kathleen Connors and Sally Bayley.
Torrijos: The Man and The Myth by Graciela Iturbide; essay by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Blue Eggs & Yellow Tomatoes: Recipes from a Modern Kitchen Garden by Jeanne Kelley.
Drawing Words & Writing Pictures by Jessica Abel and Matt Madden.
Breaking News: A Stunning and Memorable Account of Reporting from Some of the Most Dangerous Places in the World by Martin Fletcher.
Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art by Simon Louvish.
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina.
My Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Usby Jessica Mills.
A Wild Haruki Chase: Reading Murakami Around the World compiled by The Japan Foundation.
Open: Love, Sex and Life in an Open Marriage by Jenny Block.
The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad by John Stape.
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Fiction
The Girl from the Chartreuse by Pierre Peju.
Ghosts of el Grullo by Patricia Santana.
Opa Nobody by Sonya Huber.
Mittee by Daphne Rooke.
Ratoons by Daphne Rooke.
Wizards' Country by Daphne Rooke.
Breath by Tim Winton.
More Than it Hurts You by Darin Strauss.
Serve The People! by Yan Lianke.
Be Good by Stacey May Fowles.
Theft by N. S. Koenings.
The Labrador Pact by Matt Haig.
The God of Spring by Arabella Edge.
Once in a Promised Land by Laila Halaby.
The Voyage of the Short Serpent by Dernard du Boucheron.
Courting Shadows by Jem Poster.
Monster, 1959 by David Maine.
Cost by Roxana Robinson.
Lush Life by Richard Price.
The Outcast by Sadie Jones.
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski.
Girl Factory by Jim Krusoe.
Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love by Lara Vapnyar.
Ask for a Convertible by Danit Brown.
Small Lives by Pierre Michon.
Hyperion by Friedrich Holderlin.
Songs of Insurgency by Spencer Dew.
The View from the Seventh Layer by Kevin Brockmeier.
The Foreigner by Francie Lin.
Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan.
Blood Alley by Tom Coffey.
The Dark Lantern by Gerri Brightwell.
Mozart's Ghost by Julia Cameron.
Tarnished Beauty by Cecilia Samartin.
The Boat by Nam Le.
Black Flies by Shannon Burke.
A Separate Star: Selected Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson edited by Michelle Burnham.
Missy by Chris Hannan.
Sorry by Gail Jones.
The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China edited by Shouhua Qi.
The Resurrectionist by Jack O'Connell.
The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
Julian Parme by Florian Zeller.
The Open Door by Elizabeth Maguire.
The Spa by Fay Weldon.
Willing by Scott Spencer.
Life and Death are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan.
Shade by John B. Olson.
Mack to the Rescue by Jim Lehrer.
God is an Atheist by N. Nosirrah.
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Poetry
But a Passage in Wilderness by Margo Berdeshevsky.
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time by Marie Howe.
Factory of Tears by Valzhyna Mort.
A Draft of Light by John Hollander.
Red Shifting by Aleksandr Skidan.
Unbecoming Behavior by Kate Colby (Ugly Ducking Presse).
Unspoiled Air by Kaisa Ullsvik Miller.
Rogue Hemlocks by Carl Martin.
19 Names for our Band by Jibade-Khalil Huffman.
Quaker Guns by Caroline Knox.
Sleeping with a Famous Poet by Cathleen Calbert.
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Graphic Novels
Andromeda Stories 3 by Keiko Takemiya.
Burnout by Rebecca Donner.
Water Baby by Ross Campbell.
The Guin Saga, Book Three: The Battle of Nospherus by Kaoru Kurimoto.
The Third Eye by Mike Rogers.
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February 12, 2008
Fiction
A Little Stranger by Kate Pullinger.
Shadow of Light by James E. Cherry.
Attachment by Isabel Fonseca.
The Rich Man of Pietermartizburg by Sibusiso Nyembezi.
The Whistler by Ondjaki.
The Count of Concord by Nicholas Delbanco.
The Legal Limit by Martin Clark.
Balancing on the Edge of the World by Elizabeth Baines.
Blood Kin by Ceridwen Dovey.
Obedience by Will Lavender.
Real World by Natsuo Kirino.
How Perfect Is That by Sarah Bird.
Gossip of the Starlings by Nina de Gramont.
Unexplained Presence by Tisa Bryant.
The Nightingales of Troy by Alice Fulton.
Pretty Little Things to Fill Up The Void by Simon Logan.
Making Faces by John Bullock.
Seal Woman by Solveig Eggerz.
A Vengeful Longing by R.N. Morris.
Judas Horse: An FBI Special Agent Ana Grey Mystery by April Smith.
The Waitress Was New by Dominique Fabre.
Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher.
I Kill by Giorgio Faletti.
Madapple by Christina Meldrum.
Cathy's Key by Sean Stewart and Jordan Weisman.
Farther Along by Donald Harrington.
Personal Days by Ed Park.
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk.
In Hoboken by Christian Bauman.
Softcore by Tirdad Zolghadr.
Old School Bones by Randall Peffer.
My Liar by Rachel Cline.
The Year of Disappearances by Susan Hubbard.
Resistance by Owen Sheers.
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen.
Big Brown Bag by Mark D'Anna.
The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt.
Severance Package by Duane Swierczynski.
The Potential Hazards of Hester Day by Mercedes Helnwein.
How This Night Is Different by Elisa Albert.
Dervishes by Beth Helms.
The Wolfman by Nicholas Pekearo.
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz.
Kethani by Eric Brown.
The Pakistani Bride by Bapsi Sidhwa.
Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith.
Oh Don't Ask Why by Dennis Must.
Sideways In Crime edited by Lou Anders.
Infoquake by David Louis Edelman.
Motel Girl: Stories by Greg Sanders.
Salt Hill 20 edited by Daneil Torday and Tara Warman.
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Nonfiction
Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison by John A. McClure.
Fucking Daphne edited by Daphne Gottleib.
Isherwood on Writing edited by James J. Berg.
Metro Sop Paris by Gregor Dallas.
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker by Steven Greenhouse.
The Woman's Field Guide to Exceptional Living by Corrie Woods.
The Storks' Nest by Laura Lynne Williams.
The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and The Conspiracy That Set Its Sails by Erik Calonius.
Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller.
Have You Found Her by Janice Erlbaum.
Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships by John T. Price.
Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen by Susan Griffin.
Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature by Leonard S. Marcus.
Women For President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns by Erika Falk.
This May Help You Understand The World by Lawrence Potter.
Mired in the Health Care Morass by Neil Davis.
The Maternal is Political edited by Shari Macdonald Strong.
The Life of the Skies by Jonathan Rosen.
An Arrow to the Heart: A Commentary on the Heart Sutra by Ken McLeod.
The Jewish Writings: Hannah Arendt edited by Jerome Kohn and Ron H. Feldman.
Grape vs. Grain by Charles Bamforth.
Curse and Berate in 69+ Languages by R.V. Branham.
Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father's German Village by Mimi Schwartz.
A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants by Jaed Coffin.
A Secret History of the English Language by M.J. Harper.
Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land by Amy Irvine.
Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir by Dan Mathews.
Churchill and America by Martin Gilbert.
God and the New Ahteism by John F. Haught.
Sprawling Places by David Kolb.
The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation by Philip Shenon.
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Poetry
Stroke by Sidney Wade.
Undertow by Anne Shaw.
This Dirty Little Heart by B.T. Shaw.
Wild Flight by Christine Rhein.
Some Identity Problems by Corey Mesler.
Dog Watch by Valerie Lawson.
The True Keeps Calm Biding Its Story by Rusty Morrison.
Realm Sixty-Four by Kristi Maxwell.
Poets on the Psalms edited by Lynn Domina.
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