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September 24, 2009
Nonfiction
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage by Elizabeth Gilbert
Incest and Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England by Adam Kuper
Healing the Broken Mind: Transforming America's Failed Mental Health System by Timothy A. Kelly
Stoking the Fire of Democracy: Our Generation's Introduction to Grassroots Organizing by Stephen Noble Smith
A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa by Dominique Lapierre
Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Guttenberg to Gates by Adrian Johns
Instinct: The Man Who Stopped the 20th Hijacker by Michael A. Smerconish
Patience with God: Faith for People Who Don't Like Religion (or Atheism) by Frank Schaeffer
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
Neverland: J.M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side of Peter Pan by Piers Dudgeon
The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker
Chocolate Fortunes: The Battle for the Hearts, Minds, and Wallets of China's Consumers by Lawrence L. Allen
Poisoned Pens: Literary Invective from Amis to Zola edited by Gary Dexter
Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day by Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor
They Dared to Return: The Untold Story of Jewish Spies Behind the Lines in Nazi Germany by Patrick K. O'Donnell
Iranian Rappers and Persian Porn: A Hitchhiker's Guide in the New Iran by Jamie Maslin
The Enemy Within: A Short History of Witch-Hunting by John Demos
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Brief Lives: Alexander Pushkin by Robert Chandler
Flawed Light: American Women Poets and Alcohol by Brett C. Miller
The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America by Steven Johnson
The Story About the Story: Great Writers Explore Great Literature edited by J.C. Hallman
Hesitating at the Gate: Reflections on Aging by Ann Tudor
Thoughts of Sorts by Georges Perec
Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson: A Tercentenary Celebration edited by Peter Martin
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
A Path Strewn with Flowers and Bones by Tulku Sherdor
The Earwig's Tail: A Modern Bestiary of Multi-Legged Legends by May R. Berenbaum
The New Age of Adventure: Ten Years of Great Writing edited by John Rasmus
Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean by Roz Savage
Posted by Caroline Eick at 03:57 AM
September 21, 2009
Comics and Graphic Novels
Locas II by Jame Hernandez
Madame Xanadu: Disenchanted by Matt Wagner
All and Sundry by Paul Hornschemeier
A.D. New Orleans: After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld
Stalking the Dragon by Mike Resnick
Filthy Rich by Brian Azzarello
Dark Entries by Ian Rankin
The Badlands Saloon by Jonathan Twingley
Recorded Attacks by Max Brooks
Refresh Refresh by Danica Novgorodoff
Poem Strip by Dino Buzzati
Posted by Caroline Eick at 01:28 AM
Poetry
Escape from Combray by Rick Snyder (Ugly Ducking Presse)
She Heads into the Wilderness by Anne Marie Macari (Autumn House Press)
Niv: 39 & 27 by Nicholas Alexander Hayes (BlazeVOX)
What the Right Hand Knows by Tom Healy (Four Way Books)
Home by Now by Meg Kearney (Four Way Books)
The Arrival by Daniel Simko (Four Way Books)
Sediment by Sandy Tseng (Four Way Books)
The Inner Sky: Poems, Notes, Dreams by Rainer Maria Rilke (David R. Godine)
The Ravenous Audience by Kate Durbin (Black Goat)
Museum of Accidents by Rachel Zucker (Wave Books)
Posted by Caroline Eick at 01:23 AM
Fiction
By Blood We Live edited by John Joseph Adams
Siamese by Stig Saeterbakken
Weeping Under the Same Moon by Jana Laiz
Gloryland by Shelton Johnson
Johnny Future by Steve Abee
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
Prima Donna by Megan Chance
The Truth About Love by Josephine Hart
Life a User's Manual by Georges Perec
Playing House by Fredrica Wagman
The Gigolo Murder by Mehmet Murat Somer
Cairo Modern by Naguib Mahfouz
The White Garden by Stephanie Barron
Waiting for Rescue by Lucy Honig
Just Breathe Normally by Peggy Shumaker
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
The Broken Teaglass by Emily Arsenault
The Suicide Run by William Styron
Hoosier Life and Casualty by Ian Woollen
The Puzzle King by Betsy Carter
Peter & Max by Bill Willingham
The Rage of Achilles by Terence Hawkins
Picking Bones from Ash by Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Psycho Too by Will Self
The Man from Kinvara by Tess Gallagher
Then Came the Evening by Brian Hart
Pilgrims by Garrison Kellor
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
AM/PM by Amelia Gray
As God Commands by Niccolo Ammaniti
Knife Song Korea by Richard Selzer
A Storm in the Blood by Jon Stephen Fink
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Scary Stuff by Sharon Fiffer
Spinning Tropics by Aska Mochizuki
The Mothering Coven by Joanna Ruocco
Shadow Play by Norman Lock
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Word Book by Mieko Kanai
Shadow Baby by Alison McGhee
The Geometry of God by Uzma Aslam Khan
The Easter House by David Rhodes
Calvin by William Littlejohn
The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi
Jarrettsville by Cornelia Nixon
Posted by Caroline Eick at 12:43 AM