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April 25, 2009
Nonfiction
Blood and Politics: The White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream by Leonard Zeskind
Soldiers from the War Returning: The Greatest Generation's Troubled Homecoming from WWII by Thomas Childers
The Mad Ones: Crazy Joe Gallo and the Revolution at the Edge of the Underworld by Tom Folsom
Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home by Lise Funderburg
Fresh: A Perishable History by Susanne Freidberg
Daughters of Aquarius: Women of the 60s Counterculture by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo
How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
A Final Arc of Sky: A Memoir of Critical Care by Jennifer Culkin
Not Now, Voyager by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
The Occupied Garden: A Family Memoir of War-Torn Holland by Kristen den Hartog
Beaumarchais: A Biography by Maurice Lever
Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness by Willard Spiegelman
The Woman Who Can't Forget: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science by Jill Price
Fugitive Visions: A Memoir by Jane Jeong Trenka
Johnny Cash: And the Paradox of American Identity by Leigh H. Edwards
Losing Mum and Pup by Christopher Buckley
Sealing Their Fate: Twenty-Two Days that Decided the Second World War by David Downing
This Lovely Life: A Memoir of Premature Motherhood by Vicki Forman
Hiding in the Spotlight: A Musical Prodigy's Story of Survival by Greg Dawson
Thousands of Broadways: Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town by Robert Pinsky
The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines by Mike Madrid
Famine: A Short History by Cormac O Grada
Oxford Revisited by Justin Cartwright
Jam Today: A Diary of Cooking with what You've Got by Tod Davies
Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia by Richard E. Cytowic and David M Eagleman
The Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death and Pretty Much Everything Else by Christopher R Beha
Seven Tenths: The Sea and Its Thresholds by James Hamilton-Paterson
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
James Lovelock: In Search of Gaia by John and Mary Gribbin
Inventing Niagara by Ginger Strand
Annie's Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret by Steve Luxenberg
A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States by Stephen Mihm
Compassionate Carnivore by Catherine Friend
The Book of Dads: Essays on the Joys, Perils, and Humiliations of Fatherhood edited by Ben George
Work Hard, Be Nice by Jay Mathews
On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction by Brian Boyd
The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On Origin of Species annotated by James T Costa
Spectacle in the White City: The Chicago 1893 World's Fair by Stanley Appelbaum
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 02:23 PM
Fiction
The Scenic Route by Binnie Kirshenbaum
God's Dogs by Mitch Wieland
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Amplified: Fiction from Leading Alt-Country, Indie Rock, Blues, and Folk Musicians edited by Julie Schaper and Steven Horwitz
Circulation by Tim Horvath
Love and Obstacles: Stories by Aleksandar Hemon
Entrapment and Other Writings by Nelson Algren
Brighter Graphite: Two Novellas by Michael Horvath
Forms at War: FC2 1999-2009 edited by RM Berry
Wit's End by Karen Joy Fowler
A Robe of Feathers by Thersa Matsuura
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman
North Arrow by Dennis Barone
The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal by Sean Dixon
Wanting by Richard Flanagan
Drag the Darkness Down by Matt Baker (No Record)
Hold Love Strong by Matthew Aaron Goodman
The Idea of Love by Louise Dean
Long Slow Distance by Thomas Phillips
Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner
Wait Until Twilight by Sang Pak
Something Missing by Matthew Dicks
The Most Beautiful Book in the World by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim
Impotent by Matthew Roberson
Dust and Shadow by Lyndsay Faye
Far Bright Star by Robert Olmstead
My Soul to Take by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit by Michael Zadoorian
Exiles by Elliot Krieger
The Illustrated Version of Things by Affinity Konar
Prelude by William Coles
Mighty Angel by Jerzy Pilch
In Their Father's Country by Anne-Marie Drosso
The Sheriff of Yrnameer by Michael Rubens
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Fall by Colin McAdam
To Heaven by Water by Justin Cartwright
Lambrusco by Ellen Cooney
Ground Up by Michael Idov
The Alternative Hero by Tim Thornton
Erased by Jim Krusoe
The Complete Fiction by Francis Wyndham
Snail by V. Ulea
Icehouse and Thirteen Keys to Talmud by Hugh Fox
Sometimes Never by GX Jupitter Larsen
Asphalt Flowerhead by Forrest Armstrong
Driftless by David Rhodes
A Stone's Fall by Iain Pears
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 01:25 PM
April 12, 2009
Poetry
Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch (WW Norton)
Salt Lick by Glenna Luschei (West End)
Boy Returning Water to the Sea: Koans for Kelly Fearing by Andrea Selch (Cockeyed Press)
Pendulums of Euphoria by Dana Killmeyer (Six Gallery Press)
Startling by Andrea Selch (Cockeyed Press)
The Tangled Line by Tod Marshall (Canarium)
Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Campbell McGrath (Ecco)
Memory Glyphs by Radu Andriescu, Iustin Panja, and Cristian Popescu (Twisted Spoon)
Union! by Ish Klein (Canarium)
Sonata Mulattica by Rita Dove (WW Norton)
Substrate by Jim Powell (Pantheon)
Inseminating the Elephant by Lucia Perillo (Copper Canyon)
Falling Forward by Rebecca Schumejda (Sunnyoutside)
Voice Over: A Nomadic Conversation with Mahmoud Darwish by Breyten Breytenbach (Archipelago)
Becoming Billie Holliday by Carole Boston Weatherford (Wordsong)
In Search of Small Gods by Jim Harrison (Copper Canyon)
A Million in Prizes by Justin Marks (New Issues)
Usher by BH Fairchild (WW Norton)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 12:57 PM
April 11, 2009
Fiction
Juan the Landless by Juan Goytisolo
The God of War by Marisa Silver
Everything Asian by Sung J Woo
Yes, My Darling Daughter by Margaret Leroy
Amigoland by Oscar Casares
Alice Fantastic by Maggie Estep
The Blindfold Test by Barry Schechter
The Merry Misogynist by Colin Cotterill
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl
Lux the Poet by Martin Millar
It's Beginning to Hurt by James Lasdun
Mercury Station by Mark von Schlegell
Noon: 2009
White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
White Fungus: Issue 10
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Lake Overturn by Vestal McIntyre
Saints in Limbo by River Jordan
Blood Moon by Garry Disher
The Exchange-Rate Between Love and Money by Thomas Leveritt
A Secret Alchemy by Emma Darwin
Women Up on Blocks by Mary Akers
Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan
A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome by Alberto Angela
The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt by Eduardo Mendoza
Perforated Heart by Eric Bogosian
Hello Goodbye by Emily Chenoweth
Thought You Were Dead by Terry Griggs
The Wandering Heart by Mary Malloy
Right of Thirst by Frank Huyler
Quickening by Terry Griggs
Salvation Army by Abdellah Taia
The Last Bridge by Teri Coyne
One Foot Wrong by Sofie Laguna
Mouroir by Breyten Breytenbach
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
Where the Money Went by Kevin Canty
Castle by J Robert Lennon
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer by Ernest Weiss
Plants Don't Drink Coffee by Unai Elorriaga
The Proof of the Honey by Salwa al Neimi
This is How by M J Hyland
The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime edited by Michael Sims
Water Ghosts by Shawna Yang Ryan
The Bride's Farewell by Meg Rosoff
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 09:23 PM
Nonfiction
American Romances: Essays by Rebecca Brown
The Islamist: Why I Became an Islamic Fundamentalist, What I Saw Inside, and Why I Left by Ed Husain
Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend by Joshua Blu Buhs
Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love and Desire by Lisa M. Diamond
A Spiritual Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe: Travel Tips for the Spiritually Perplexed by Paul Rademacher
Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry by Stephen Burt
The Canary Sang but Couldn't Fly: The Fatal Fall of Abe Reles, the Mobster Who Shattered Murder Inc's Code of Silence by Edmund Elmaleh
For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age Chicago by Simn Baatz
I Love You, Miss Huddleston: And Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood by Philip Gulley
The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World by Paul Collins
Thanks for Coming: One Young Woman's Quest for an Orgasm by Mara Altman
Live Nude Elf: The Sexperiments of Reverend Jen
Eiffel's Tower: And the World's Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count by Jill Jonnes
Che's Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image by Michael Casey
Gothic Charm School: An Essential Guide for Goths and Those Who Love Them by Jillian Venters
Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids by Julie Salamon
Descent into Chaos: The US and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid
Waiting for the Sun: A Rock n Roll History of Los Angeles by Barney Hoskyns
Turtle Feet: The Making and Unmaking of a Buddhist Monk by Nikolai Grozni
Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown by Jennifer Scanlon
Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times by Amy and David Goodman
Books and Rough Business: A Memoir by Tullio Pironti
The Johns: Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It by Victor Malarek
Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate by Terry Eagleton
Florence 1900: The Quest for Arcadia by Bernd Roeck
Life in Rewind by Terry Weible Murphy
The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan edited by Kevin JH Dettmar
Notes on Sontag by Phillip Lopate
In the Womb: Animals by Michael Sims
Jacob's Wound: A Search for the Spirit of Wildness by Trevor Herriot
Of Mule and Man by Mike Farrell
An Intellectual History of Cannibalism by Catalin Avramescu
A Narrative Compass: Stories that Guide Women's Lives edited by Betsy Hearne and Roberta Seelinger Trites
Jantsen's Gift: A True Story of Grief, Rescue, and Grace by Pam Cope
The Ride: A Shocking Murder, and a Bereaved Father's Journey from Rage to Redemption by Brian MacQuarrie
Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents by Minal Hajratwala
Thy Neighbor's Wife by Gay Talese
Honor Thy Father by Gay Talese
Faith and Will: Weathering the Storms in Our Spiritual Lives by Julia Cameron
The Book Shopper: A Life in Review by Murray Browne
Swimming with Crocodiles by Will Chaffey
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 07:57 PM