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June 17, 2008
Nonfiction
Up For Renewal: What Magazines Taught Me About Love, Sex and Starting Over by Cathy Alter.
Five Ring Circus: Myths and Realities of the Olympics by Christopher A. Shaw.
Slackonomics: Generation X in the Age of Creative Destruction by Lisa Chamberlain.
Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson by William McKeen.
Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States by George R. Stewart.
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects by Dmitry Orlov.
The No-Nonsense Guide to the United Nations by Maggie Black.
Painter in a Savage Land by Miles Harvey.
Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy by Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton.
Last Days in Babylon: The Exile of Iraq's Jews, the Story of my Family by Marina Benjamin.
When the Guillotine Fell: The Bloody Beginnings and Horrifying End to France's River of Blood, 1791-1977 by Jeremy Mercer.
The Elements of Cooking by Michael Ruhlman.
Writing in the Dark by David Grossman.
Enemies of Promise by Cyril Connolly.
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher.
River of No Return: Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Woman he Loved by Jeffrey Buckner Ford.
Napoleon's Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped by Tony Perrottet.
Simplicity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple) by Jeffrey Kluger.
What Rhymes with Bastard? by Linda Robertson.
Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again by Graham Vickers.
Art of Darkness: Ingenious Performances by Undercover Operatives, Con Men and Others by Sara K. Schneider.
The Shameless Carnivore by Scott Gold.
God on Trial: Dispatches from America's Religious Battlefields by Peter Irons.
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer.
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane.
Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cezanne, Monet and Rodin by Ruth Butler.
American Priestess: The Extraordinary Story of Anna Spafford and the American Colony in Jerusalem by Jane Fletcher Geniesse.
Leaving Resurrection: Chronicles of a Whale Scientist by Eva Saulitis (Boreal Books).
Between the Monster and the Saint: Reflections on the Human Condition by Richard Holloway (Canongate).
Posted by Jessa Crispin at June 17, 2008 05:18 PM