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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.
Posted by Jessa Crispin at April 28, 2008 06:26 PM