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April 28, 2008
Nonfiction
It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways and the Search for the Next American Music by Amanda Petrusich.
The Mind of Your Story: Discover What Drives Your Fiction by Lisa Lenard-Cook.
Africa Doesn't Matter: How the West has Failed the Poorest Continent and What We Can Do About It by Giles Bolton.
Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson Series edited by Rick Riordan.
Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo De' Medici by Miles J. Unger.
Lamentations of the Father by Ian Frazier.
An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas by Diane Wilson.
Inventing Niagra: Beauty, Power, and Lies by Ginger Strand.
Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad by Firoozeh Dumas.
Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee by Dean Cycon.
The Coming Convergence by Stanley Schmidt.
Fat: It's Not What You Think by Connie Leas.
The Last Mrs. Astor by Frances Kiernan.
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Sex Goes to School: Girls and Sex Education before the 1960s by Susan K. Freeman.
Skeletons in the Closet: Stories from the County Morgue by Tobin T. Buhk and Stephen D. Cohle.
Dream Lucky by Roxanne Orgill.
The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully by Joan Chittister.
Gay America: Struggle for Equality by Linas Alsenas.
The Film Club by David Gilmour.
Lives of Mothers & Daughters: Growing Up with Alice Munro by Sheila Munro.
The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Memoir by Patricia Harman.
Best Thought, Worst Thought: On Art, Sex, Work and Death by Don Paterson.
Most Outrageous: The Trials and Trespasses of Dwaine Tinsley and Chester the Molester by Bob Levin.
Science and Nonbelief by Taner Edis.
The Great Medieval Heretics by Michael Frassetto.
Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life by Carl Zimmer.
The Chelsea Whistle by Michelle Tea.
How to be Useful: A Beginner's Guide to Not Hating Work by Megan Hustad.
Prisoner of Tehran: One Woman's Story of Survival Inside an Iranian Prison by Marina Nemat.
The Working Woman's Pregnancy Book by Marjorie Greenfield.
Why Poetry Matters by Jay Parini.
Notes on a Life by Eleanor Coppola.
The Half-Known World: On Writing Fiction by Robert Boswell.
The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Lost Loves and Forgotten Histories by Sadia Shepard.
The Time of My Life: Writers on the Heartbreak, Hormones and Debauchery of the Prom by Rob Spillman.
Confessions of a Former Child: A Therapist's Memoir by Daniel J. Tomasulo.
No-Man's Land: One Man's Journey Through The Odyssey by Scott Huler.
Minders of Make-Believe by Leonard S. Marcus.
How Math Explains the World: A Guide to the Power of Numbers, From Car Repair to Modern Physics by James D. Stein.
The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi by Les Leopold.
Tree Barking: A Memoir by Nesta Rovina.
Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest by Lincoln Hall.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami.
Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention by Gary J. Bass.
Tamar: First Author of The Bible by Walter Lamp.
Maybe You Can Be One Of Us by Daniele Buetti.
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Fiction
Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan.
The Winter of Artifice by Anais Nin.
WifeShopping by Steven Wingate.
Times Queer by Mykola Dementiuk.
Vienna Dolorosa by Mykola Dementiuk.
The Story of Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer.
Translucent Tree by Nobuko Takagi.
How Perfect is That by Sarah Bird.
Palace Council by Stephen Carter.
Knowledge of Hell by Antonio Lobo Antunes.
How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets by Garth Stein.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson.
North of the Port by Anthony Bukoski.
The Baker's Boy by Barry Kitterman.
neo PHOBE by Jim Feast with Ron Kolm.
The Misremembered Man by Christina McKenna.
A Paragon of Virtue by Christian Von Ditfurth.
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich.
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen.
People of the Whale by Linda Hogan.
Candy Everybody Wants by Josh Kilmer-Purcell.
The Wreck of the Godspeed and Other Stories by James Patrick Kelly.
The God of War by Marisa Silver.
The Best Place to Be by Lesley Dormen.
So Brave, Young and Handsome by Leif Enger.
The Duke in his Castle by Vera Hazarian.
Valencia by Michelle Tea.
The O. Henry Prize Stories (2008) edited by Laura Furman.
The Hotel of Irrevocable Acts.
Fear of Animals by Enrique Serna.
Northline by Willy Vlautin.
All One Horse by Breyten Breytenbach.
The Painter from Shanghai by Jennifer Cody Epstein.
The End by Salvatore Scibona.
A Happy Man and Other Stories by Alex Thormahlen.
Starbucks Nation by Chris Ver Wiel.
Shift by Charlotte Agell.
A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness by Amy L. Clark, Elizabeth Ellen, Kathy Fish and Claudia Smith.
The Man Back There and Other Stories by David Crouse.
The Tenth Gift by Jane Johnson.
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng.
What Happened to Anna K. by Irina Reyn.
Flirt: The Interviews by Lorna Jackson.
Cleavage)( by Theanna Bischoff.
Serpent in the Garden of Dreams by Robin Messing.
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith.
A Blessed Child by Linn Ullmann.
Eldorado by Laurent Gaude.
Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander by Ann Herendeen.
The Women's Warrior Society by Lois Beardslee.
Havana Gold by Leonardo Padura.
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon.
City of Theives by David Benioff.
The Fifth Floor by Michael Harvey.
Playing with the Grown-ups by Sophie Dahl.
Canarium One edited by Joshua Edwards and Robyn Schiff (Canarium Books).
Bejeezus Issue 10 edited by Hillary Harrison.
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 05:44 PM
Poetry
Theories of Falling by Sandra Beasley.
C(o)urt Interpretations by Ales Mustar.
The Most of It by Mary Ruefle.
Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry edited by Hayan Charara.
Causeway by Elaine Sexton.
Poets on the Psalms edited by Lynn Domina.
Looking for Cover by Maria Fama.
Anon by Chris Pusateri.
The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin.
Save the Last Dance by Gerald Stern.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy by Tao Lin.
The Border Kingdom by D. Nurkse.
Shorts are Wrong by Mike Topp.
Rising, Falling, Hovering by C.D. Wright.
Letters to a Stranger by Thomas James.
Coeur de Lion by Ariana Reines.
May Day by Phillis Levin.
The Temple Gate Called Beautiful by David Kirby.
Mission Work by Aaron Baker.
Queen of a Rainy Country by Linda Pastan.
Scattered Chapters: New & Selected Poetry by Baron Wormser.
Cuckoo's Blood by Stephen Berg.
The Journey to Kailash by Mike Allen (Curiosities).
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Graphic Novels
The Amazing, Remarkable Monsieur Leotard by Eddie Campbell and Dan Best.
Detective Jermain by Misako Rocks!
Wings. Strings. Meridians. A Blighted Bestiary. by Tara Jane O'Neil.
Dororo by Osamu Tezuka.
The Twilight of the Bums by Federman/Chambers.
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 05:19 PM
April 08, 2008
Fiction
Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay.
The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish by Elise Blackwell.
Hunger by Elise Blackwell.
Lost Sun by M. Allen Cunningham.
No One Tells Everything by Rae Meadows.
Emily Ate The Wind by Peter Conners.
Little Criminals by Gene Kerrigan.
The Locktender's House by Steven Sherrill.
Lady Lazarus by Andrew Foster Altschul.
The Dawn Patrol by Don Winslow.
Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin.
She Was by Janis Hallowell.
The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart.
Dead Hot Shot by Victoria Houston.
Open Line by Ellen Hawley.
Imagine Me & You by Billy Mernit.
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga.
Sweet Mandarin by Helen Tse.
Undiscovered Country by Lin Enger.
The Yoga Teacher by Alexandra Gray.
Occupational Hazards by Jonathan Segura.
The Concubine of Shanghai by Hong Ying.
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit by Nahoko Uehashi.
Timeskipper by Stefano Benni.
Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet by Joanne Proulx.
The Ginseng Hunter by Jeff Talarigo.
Jackfish, the Vanishing Village by Sarah Felix Burns.
So Long at the Fair by Christian Schwarz.
River of Heaven by Lee Martin.
The End of Spring by Sahar Khalifeh.
Train to Trieste by Domnica Radulescu.
A Week in October by Elizabeth Subercaseaux.
A Handbook to Luck by Cristina Garcia.
Anna Begins by Jennifer Davenport.
A Tomb on the Periphery by John Domini.
Pluriel: An Anthology of Diverse Voices edited by Marc Charron, Seymour Mayne and Christiane Melancon.
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Nonfiction
It's A Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments by Amanda Marcotte.
Candy Barr: The Small-Town Texas Runaway who Became a Darling of the Mob and the Queen of Las Vegas Burlesque by Ted Schwarz.
When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race by Judith Stone.
Hitchcock's Music by Jack Sullivan.
Touba and the Meaning of Night by Shahrnush Parsipur.
Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival by Fadumo Korn.
The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts by Tom Farley, Jr. and Tanner Colby.
American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century by Paula Uruburu.
Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science by Rene Bergland.
Flory: A Miraculous Story of Survival by Flory A. Van Beek.
Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives by Jim Sheeler.
Walking Tractor and Other Country Tales by Bruce Patterson.
The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel.
A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America by Dudley Clendinen.
The End of the World as We Know It by Robert Goolrick.
When Frankie Went to Hollywood: Frank Sinatra and American Male Identity by Karen McNally.
Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers edited by Kathryn Kysar.
The Lost Life of Eva Braun by Angela Lambert.
Bar Flower: My Decadently Destructive Days and Nights as a Tokyo Nightclub Hostess by Lea Jacobson.
Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939-1945 by Peter Demetz.
The Push & The Pull by Darryl Whetter.
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life by Ada Louise Huxtable.
E: The Incredibly Strange History of Ecstasy by Tim Pilcher.
The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict edited by Walter Laqueur and Barry Rubin.
Pale Faces: The Masks of Anemia by Charles L. Bardes.
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang.
Re-Make, Re-Model: Becoming Roxy Music by Michael Bracewell.
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Poetry
Jellyfish by Giancarlo Pastore.
Make Loneliness by J. Reuben Appelman.
Things I Must Have Known by A.B. Spellman.
The Romance of Happy Workers by Anne Boyer.
Isle of the Signatories by Marjorie Welish.
Saltwater Empire by Raymond McDaniel.
Secret Weapon by Eugen Jebeleanu.
Rounding the Human Corners by Linda Hogan.
Unlucky Lucky Days by Daniel Grandbois.
The Opposite of Clairvoyance by Gillian Wegener.
Lucky Break by Terry Ehret.
Practice by Dan Bellm.
Spring Salmon, Hurry to Me!:The Seasons of Native California edited by Margaret Dubin and Kim Hogeland.
The Odds of Being by Daneen Wardrop.
Sonnetailia by Marc Nasdor (Roof Books).
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Graphic Novels
Fantasy Classics: Graphic Classics, Volume 15: Hawthorne, Dunsany, Lovecraft, L. Frank Baum.
The Education of Hopey Glass by Jaime Hernandez.
Magic Pickle by Scott Morse.
Drawing Words & Writing Pictures by Jessica Abel & Matt Madden.
Gentleman Jim by Raymond Briggs (Drawn & Quarterly).
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