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December 12, 2007
Maps: Finding Our Place in the World, Edited by James R. Akerman and Robert W. Karrow
The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild, Craig Childs
Gastroanomalies: Questionable Culinary Creations from the Golden Age of American Cookery, James Lileks
White Heat: The Extreme Skiing Life, Wayne Johnson
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, and Charles Foley
Puff, the Magic Dragon, Peter Yaroow & Lenny Lipton, with paintings by Eric Puybaret
2008 Wild Men of Wild Nevada Calendar
2008 Nevada Historical Calendar

December 5, 2007
Dempsey in Nevada, Guy Clifton
Paris Café: The Select Crowd, Noel Riley Fitch
Built by Animals: The natural history of animal architecture, Mike Hansell
The Onion: Our Dumb World, Atlas of the Planet Earth (Now with 30% More Asia)
The Night Before Christmas: A Magical Cut-Paper Edition, Clement C. Moor and Niroot Puttapupat
The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story, Lemony Snicket

November 28, 2007
On God: An Uncommon Conversation, Norman Mailer with Michael Lennon
Book Smart: Your Essential Reading List for Becoming a Literary Genius in 365 Days, Jane Mallison
Woman on the Rocks: The Mountaineering Letters of Ruth Dyar Mendenhall, Edited by Valerie Mendenhall Cohen
The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers, Edited by Mary Morris with Larry O’Connor
Famiglia E Cucina: Stories and Recipes from Northwestern Nevada’s
Italian-American Community

November 21, 2007
How to Cook Everything Vegetarian, Mark Bittman
Yurts: Living in the Round, Becky Kemery
2008 New York Times Almanac
Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life, Steve Martin
Bad Dogs Have More Fun, John Grogan
Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, Lawrence Weschler

November 14, 2007
How to Build an Igloo and Other Snow Shelters, Norbert E. Yankielun
Cross-Country Skiing in the Sierra Nevada: The Best Resorts and Touring Centers in California and Nevada, Tim Hauserman
The Authentic Confucius: A Life in Though and Politics, Annping Chin
Ad Infinitvm: A Biography of Latin, Nicholas Ostler
Listening is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American  Life from the Storycorps Project, Dave Isay
The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (on a shag rug) in the Seventies, Thomas Hine

November 7, 2007
The Curious Gardener’s Almanac: Centuries of Practical Garden Wisdom, Niall Edworthy
Blue Moo, Sandra Boynton
The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z! Steve Martin and Roz Chast
The Bookaholics’ Guide to Book Blogs, Rebecca Gillieson and Catheryn Kilgarriff
Boom! Voices of the Sixties, Tom Brokaw
Vietnam Zippos: American Soldiers’ Engravings and Stories 1965-1973, Sherry Buchanan

October 31, 2007 Happy Halloween!
Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Muse, David N. Meyer
Transit Maps of the World, Mark Ovenden
Over the Mountains: An Aerial View of Geology, Michael Collier
The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner, Edited by Page Stegner
Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink, Edited by David Remnick
The Rejection Collection Volume 2: MORE Cartoons You’ve Never Seen, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker, Edited by Matthew Diffee

October 24, 2007
Marco Polo from Venice to Xanadu, Laurence Bergreen
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, Edited by Dave Eggers
Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch’s Assault on America’s Fundamental Rights, Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
Gonzo the Life of Hunter S. Thompson, Jann S. Wenner & Corey Seymour
Touch and Go, Studs Terkel
Book of the Dead, Patricia Cornwell

October 17, 2007
The Snow Leopard, Jackie Morris
The Wild West Pop-Up Book, Anton Radevsky
Bundt Cake Bliss, Susanna Short
Classics for Pleasure, Michael Dirda
The American Idea: The Best of Atlantic Monthly, Edited by Robert Vare
Singer Upholstery, Steve Cone
Inside China, National Geographic

October 10, 2007
I Am America (And So Can You!), Stephen Colbert
Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Most Outrageous Sexual Puns, Paulina Kiernan
Can’t Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America, Jonathan Gould
World Without End, Ken Follett
Clapton, Eric Clapton
Jimi Hendrix And Illustrated Experience, Janie L. Hendrix & John Mcdermott

October 3, 2007
The Art of Simple Food, Alice Waters
Women of Courage: Intimate Stories from Afghanistan, Katherine Kiviat & Scott Heidler
A Russian Diary: A Journalist’s Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin’s Russia, Anna Politkovskaya with a forward by Scott Simon
Song Without Words: The Photographs and Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy, Leah Bendavid-Val
The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking
Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula, Eric Nuzum
Frankenstein: A Cultural History, Susan Tyler Hitchcock

September 26, 2007
One Hundred Great Catholic Books From the Early Centuries to the Present
The Best American Short Stories, Stephen King, Editor
Tipis, Tepees, Teepees: History and Design of the Cloth Tipi, Linda A. Holley
The Coldest Winter, David Halberstam
Other Colors: Essays and a Story, Orhan Pamuk
Playing for Pizza, John Grisham
Dexter in the Dark, Jeff Lindsay
End Games, Michael Dibdin

September 12, 2007
Words Words Words, David Crystal
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
Reading Like a Writer, Francine Prose
State of Denial, Bob Woodward
Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast, Edward Abbey, Edited by David Peterson
Ines of My Soul, Isabel Allende
Father Knows Less Or: “Can I Cook My Sister?” One Dad’s Quest to Answer His Son’s Most Baffling Questions, Wendell Jamieson
Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me, Pattie Boyd

September 5, 2007
One Good Turn, Kate Atkinson
Brother, I’m Dying, Edwidge Danticat
Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Michael Palin Diaries 1969-1979 The Python Years
I Walked the Line, My Life with Johnny, Vivian Cash
Desert Gothic, Don Waters

August 28, 2007
Historic Houses and Buildings of Reno, Nevada, Holly Walton-Buchanan
This is Your Brain on Music, Daniel Levitin
The Echo Maker, Richard Powers
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan
Bones to Ashes, Kathy Reichs
Ike An American Hero, Michael Korda

August 22, 2007
Minimal Damage: Stories of Veterans by H. Lee Barnes
Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA by Julia Alvarez
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language by Christine Kenneally
Painting Chinese: A Lifelong Teacher Gains the Wisdom of Youth by Herbert Kohl
Saint Francis & the Wolf by Jane Langton and Ilse Plume
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis

August 15, 2007
The Better World Shopping Guide, Ellis Jones
2008 Movie Guide, Leonard Maltin
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul, Karen Abbott
The Sutras of Abu Ghraib: Notes from a Conscientious Objector in Iraq, Aidan Delgado
The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham and the Presidents, Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy
Burning Book: A Visual History of Burning Man, Jessica Bruder
James Crawford: Master of the Mint at Carson City – A Short Full Life, Rusty Goe

August 8, 2007
The Al Qaeda Reader, Raymond Ibrahim
The Americano, Aran Shetterly
Best of the Brain from Scientific American, Floyd E. Bloom, M.D.
Spook Country, William Gibson
Sandworms of Dune, Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson
Tahoe Silence, Todd Borg
Christietown, Susan Kandel

August 1, 2007
Lincoln Highway The Great American Road Trip, Michael Wallis and Michael S. Williamson
Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada, John Muir Laws
Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West, Michael Punke
The Humboldt Current, Aaron Sachs
Shaggy Muses The Dogs who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Bronte, Maureen Adams
The World is Flat, Thomas Freidman
TahoeWildflowers, Laird R. Blackwell
Weather and Climate of the Reno Carson City Lake Tahoe Region, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

July 18, 2007
Chasing Kangaroos, Tim Flannery
Nourishing Traditions, Sally Fallon
Football Genius, Tim Green
So Many Fish, So Little Time, Mark D. Williams
Just When You Thought Things Couldn’t Get Worse, Edward Sorel
A Little Peace, Barbara Kerley
Catopia, Anne Mortimer

July 11, 2007
Eating India, Chitrita Banerji
Motherland, Lesley Chamberlain
World Without Us, Alan Weisman
Hive, Bee Wilson
Thank You and Okay, David Chadwick
Twisted Pinon Golf Club, Berta Kirchner

June 27, 2007
Passage Through India, An Expanded and Illustrated Edition, Gary Snyder
The Young Man and the Sea, Recipes and Crispy Fish Tales from Esca, David Pasternack and Ed Levine
A Moveable Thirst, Tales and Tastes from a Season in Napa Wine Country, Rick Kushman and Hank Beal
Dishwasher, Pete Jordan
Dogs Days, Dispatches from Bedlam Farm, Jon Katz
24 Weekend Projects for Pets, Black and Decker
Off the Grid Homes, Case Studies for Sustainable Living, Lori Ryker
The Lincoln Highway, Michael S. Williamson

June 20, 2007
The Bloomin’ Desert, Juniper Rose
Shelter, Susan Palwick
The Art of the Funerary Violin, Rohan Kriwaczek
Lean Mean Thirteen, Janet Evanovich
The Culture of the Amateur, Andrew Keen
Peeling the Onion, Gunter Grass
The Clean Tech Revolution, Ron Pernick & Clint Wilder

June 6, 2007
Strange Weirdos, Music from and Inspired by the Film All Knocked Up, Loudon Wainwright III
On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day, Philip Matyszak
Willie Nelson, The Outlaw, Graeme Thomson
National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Birds of North America, Edward S. Brinkley
The Thirtymile Fire, John N. Maclean
The Buried Book The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh, David Damrosch
Burning Man, Art in the Desert, A. Leo Nash
House of Worship, Sacred Spaces in America, Dominique Browning

May 30, 2007
Rotten English, Dohra Ahmad
Richard Lederer’s Classic Literary Trivia from Mythology, Shakespeare, and the Bible
Richard Lederer’s Literary Trivia
The Love Letter, Cathleen Schine
Between the Bridge and the River, Craig Ferguson
Let Us Compare Mythologies, Leonard Cohen
The Studs Terkel Reader My American Century
The Boy Mechanic Makes Toys, The Editors of Popular Mechanics
The Dangerous Book for Boys, Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden

May 23, 2007
Blessed Unrest, Paul Hawken
Passion and Principle John and Jessie Fremont, the Couple Whose Power, Politics, and Love Shaped Nineteenth-Century America, Sally Denton
Almost a Miracle The American Victory in the War of Independence, John Ferling
Joy of Backpacking, Brian Beffort
Redemption Song the Ballad of Joe Strummer, Chris Salewicz
The Din in the Head, Cynthia Ozick

May 9, 2007
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
What the Bleep Do We Know, William Arntz, Betsy Chase and Mark Vicente
Hillside Letters A to Z, A Guide to Hometown Landmarks, Evelyn Corning
Lighthouses, Sara E. Wermiel
American Bloomsbury, Susan Cheever
Cowboy Junkies XX

May 2, 2007
American Windmills, T. Lindsay Baker
Preludes rare and unreleased recordings, Warren Zevon
I ll sleep when I m dead, Crystal Zevon
Silence of the Songbirds, Bridget Stutchbury
Mahalia Mouse Goes to College, John Lithgow
Motel Life, Willy Vlautin
Mockingbird A Portrait of Harper Lee, Charles J. Shields
Uncommon Carriers, John Mcphee
The Whistling Season, Ivan Doig

April 25, 2007
Hikayat Short Stories by Lebanese Women, Roseanna Saad Khalaf, Editor
Qissat Short Stories by Palestinian Women, Jo Glanville, Editor
The First English Dictionary 1604, Robert Cawdrey
Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast
Book Crush For Kids and Teens, Nancy Pearl
The Lady Upstairs Dorothy Schiff and the New York Post, Marilyn Nissenson
Gertrude Bell Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations, Georgina Howell
How to Pick a Peach, Russ Parsons
Bloomsbury Review March April 2007

April 18, 2007
White Flag Americas First 9/11, Wayne Atillo Capurro
Monsters in the Woods Backpacking With Children, Tim Hauserman
Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box, Elizabeth Bishop
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
Blink The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell
The Great Transformation, Karen Armstrong

April 11, 2007
Food not Lawns How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community, H.C. Flores
American Green The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn, Ted Steinberg
Beatrix Potter A Life in Nature, Linda Lear
Einstein His Life and Universe, Walted Isaacson
Reading Like a Writer, Francine Prose
Words Without Borders 28 works of literature never before published in English recommended by writers, Introduction by Andre Dubus III
Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis, Cara Black
Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky

April 4, 2007
Poets Choice, Edward Hirsch
Jackpot Nation: Rambling and Gambling Across Our Landscape of Luck, Richard Hoffer
Unnatural Landscapes: Tracking Invasive Species, Ceiridwen Terrill
Mrs. Spitzers Garden, Edith Pattou
Designing With Succulents, Debra Lee Baldwin
The Encyclopedia of Grasses, Rick Darke
Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, Thomas McNamee

March 29, 2007
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy, Barbara Ehrenreich
Perfect From Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life, John Sellers
American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips
Donkey: The Mystique of Equus Asinua, Michael Tobias & Jane Morrison
Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole, Benjamin R. Barber
The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement by Mark Hamilton Lytle

March 21, 2007
Atlas of Breeding Birds of Nevada, Ted Floyd, Chris C. Elphick, Graham Chisholm, Kevin Mack, Robert G. Elston, Elisabeth Ammon, and John Boone
The Tahoe Rim Trail, Tim Hauserman
Monsters in the Woods: Backpacking with Children, Tim Hauserman
Misquoting Jesus, Bart D. Ehrman
Grace (Eventually) Thoughts on Faith, Anne Lamott
Boomsday, Christopher Buckley
Sweet Promised Land, 50th Anniversary Edition, Robert Laxalt
Bird of Another Heaven, James D. Houston

March 14, 2007
Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction, Terry Tamminen
Sunset Western Garden Book Completely Revised and Updated
To Lives to Fly The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt, John Kruth
The Label The Story of Columbia Records, Gary Marmorstein
Deep Economy The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, Bill McKibben
C is for Caboose Riding the Rails from A to Z, Chronicle Books

February 28, 2007
Billy the Kid The Endless Ride, Michael Wallis
Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom, Andy Fletcher
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories From History and the Arts, Clive James
The Heirs of Muhammed: Islams First Century and the Origins of the Sunni-Shia Split, Barnaby Rogerson
Poor People, William T. Vollman
Penguins: Photographs by Brutus Ostling, Text by Susanne Akesson

February 21, 2007
The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts, Milan Kundera
Ten Days in the Hills, Jane Smiley
Charisma: The Gift of Grace and How It Has Been Taken Away from Us, Philip Rieff
Its Good to be King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks, James Robert Parish
Ornamental Grasses for Western Gardens, Marilyn Raff
Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War I, William Stevenson

February 14, 2007
A Fine Place to Daydream: Racehorses, Romance, And the Irish, Bill Barich
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, Bart D. Ehrman
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
My Father Before Me: How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Throughout Their Lives, Michael J. Diamond
The Vaticans Exorcist: Driving Out the Devil in the 21st Century, Tracy Wilkinson
Incredible Good Fortune: New Poems, Ursula K. Le Guin
House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest,
Greg Childs
The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books, J. Peder Zane

February 7, 2007
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Daniel C. Dennett
The Philosophers Diet: How to Lose Weight and Change the World, Richard Watson
Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a surprising number of which are not about marriage, Pete Dexter
Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
The Place You Love is Gone: Progress Hits Home, Melissa Holbrook Pierson
New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories From America and Beyond, Robert Shapard and James Thomas, Editors
Great American Billboards: 100 Years of History by the Side of the Road, Fred E. Basten

January 31, 2007
The Planetary Tambourine, Sonnets by Steven Nightingale
The Fate of Mice, Susan Palwick
100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know, American Heritage Dictionaries
Naked in the Marketplace: The Lives of George Sand, Benita Eisler
About Alice, Calvin Trillin
A Fighters Heart: One Mans Journey Through the World of Fighting, Sam Sheridan

January 24, 2007
Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Jeff Lindsay
You Suck, Christopher Moore
Back on the Fire, Gary Snyder
Banker to the Poor, Muhammad Yunus
The Weather Makers, Tim Flannery
Literature from the Axis of Evil, Words Without Borders
A Man Without A Country, Kurt Vonnegut
Geisha, Stanley & Elizabeth Burns

January 10, 2007
The Road to Reality, Roger Penrose
The Rejection Collection, Matthew Diffee
Our Story, 2007 Calendar
Regional Green Building & Living Resource Guide
Maya Script, Maria Longhena
Grave Matters, Mark Harris
The Gospel of Food, Barry Glassner
Finding Atlantis, David King

January 3, 2007
Chow Baby! The Travelers Guide to Cheap, Healthy Cooking, Mike Hedley
The Perfect Day: Lonely Planet Insider Secrets to 100 Cities
Lonely Planet Blue List: The Best in Travel 2007
Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches, Jill Fredston
Triumph, Jeremy Schaap
Enough, Juan Williams
Death by Black Hole, Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Yurts, Becky Kemery

December 20,2006
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists, Gideon Defoe
Moments  in Time, Dirck Halstead
Nevada Ghost Towns and Mining Camps, Stanley Paher
Nevada Ghost Towns and Mining Camps Atlas, Stanley Paher
Snowshoe Trail Tahoe, Mike White
Nevada Towns and Tales Volume I –North, Stanley Paher, Editor
To the Edge of the World, Harry Thompson
Universe: Stunning Satellite Imagery from Outer Space, Heather Couper

December 13,2006
New and Used, Marc Joseph
Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, Barry Lopez, Editor
Art of Skiing, Jenny de Gex
Winter’s Gift, Jane Monroe Donovan
Celebrations, Maya Angelou
The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog, Dave Barry
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World, John Wood
Jazz Age Beauties, Robert Hudovernik

December 6, 2006
Zagat to Go, Zagats
Lovemarks effect: Winning in the Consumer Revolution, Kevin Roberts
Klezmer, Joann Sfar
Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Book, Deirdre Dolan
How Language Works, David Crystal
Yosemite: Art of an American Icon, Amy Scott
Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America, Harm de Blij
San Francisco in Maps & Views, Sally Woodbridge

November 28, 2006
Women at the Washington Zoo, Marjorie Williams
Next, Michael Crichton
The Solzhenitsyn Reader, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Off the Grid, Lori Ryder
The Eternal Sea, Philip Plisson
Dog Dialed 911: Book of Lists, Smoking Gun

November 22, 2006
The Artist and the Mathematician, Amir D. Aczel
Talking with My Mouth Full, Bonny Wolf
Nature’s Ways: lore, legend, fact and fiction, Ruth Binny
The Sting of the Scorpion, Karl Breckenridge
Nature Girl, Carl Hiassen
Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon

November 16, 2006
Peterpan in Scarlet, Geraldine McCaughrean
Nature Girl, Carl Hiaasen
Dreaming of the East: Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient, Barbara Hodgson
Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and its Discontents, Robert Irwin
Truck a Love Story, Michael Perry
UltimateBuilding Book, Steven Caney
Library Lion, Michelle Knudsen

November 8, 2006
Since Then: How I Survived Everything and Lived to Tell About It, David Crosby Y Carl Gottlieb
Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man, Dale Peterson
The Harvest of Lesser Burdens: Art in the Fields of Medicine, Shaun Griffin, Stephen Davis, & Sharon Maczko
Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran, Jason Elliot
The View from Castle Rock: Alice Munro
Ines of My Soul, Isabel Allende
The Onion Presents Homeland Insecurity, Onion Staff Writers

November 1, 2006
Through the Children’s Gate, Adam Gopnick
The Old Way, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
 Mysteries of the Middle Ages, Thomas Cahill
French Women for All Seasons, Mirerlle Guiliano
The Lives of Rocks, Rick Bass
Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama

October 11, 2006
How To Kazoo, Barbara Stewart
A Crack in the Edge of the World, Simon Winchester
Are Men Necessary?  Maureen Dowd
Cave Painters,  Gregory Curtis
The Classical World,  Robin Lane Fox
The Lighthouse,  PD James
I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg, Bill Morgan
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, Amy Sedaris
Looking East, Steve McCurry

October 3, 2006
War of the World, Niall Ferguson
Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris
Jokes Over, Ralph Steadman
Driving With the Devil,  Neal Thompson
Out of Thin Air, Peter D. Ward
Best American Mystery Stories, Scott Turow
Oh, Give Me A Home, Ann Ronald

September 27, 2006
The Truth with Jokes, Al Franken
Saving Fish From Drowning, Amy Tan
Oh, Give Me A Home, Ann Ronald
Mommy? Maurice Sendak  with Arthur Yorinks & Matthew Reinhart
Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
Typecasting: On the Arts & Sciences of Human Inequality, Ewan & Ewan
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
City of Falling Angels, John Berendt
Big Box Swindle, Stacy Mitchell

September 20, 2006
Marinades, Jim Tarantino
Free Press, Jean-Francois Bizot
Knit 2 Together, Tracy Ullman & Mel Clark
The Curious Adventure, Susan Zerga
Creationists, E.L. Doctorow
Moral Disorder, Margaret Atwood
Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn, Donald Spoto

September 13, 2006
Is There Really a Human Race? Jamie Lee Curtis & Laura Cornell
Work: The World in Photographs, National Geographic
Murder in Amsterdam, Ian Buruma
The March, E.L. Doctorow
Postcards from Ed, Edward Abbey (David Peterson, Editor)
Thirst, Mary Oliver
Paint it Black, Janet Fitch
Sticks Stones Mud Homes, Nigel Noyes

September 6, 2006
The Mind in the Cave, David Lewis-Williams
Let My People Go Surfing, Yvon Chouinard
The Company They Kept, Robert B. Silvers & Barbara Epstein
All Governments Lie! The Life & Times of I.F. Stone, Myra McPherson
Good Poems, Garrison Keillor
The Painted Drum, Louise Erdrich
The Bon Appetit Cookbook, Barbara Fairchild

August 23, 2006
Perennial Fall, Maggie Dietz
James Tiptree, Jr, Julie Phillips
Jo’s Girls, Christian McEwan
Perfect $100,000 House, Karrie Jacobs
Flotsam, David Wiesner

August 16, 2006
Tender Bar, J R Moeringer
Bobbed Hair & Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties, Marion Meade
Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk
This Is Burning Man, Brian Doherty
Humbolt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration & the Roots of American Environmentalism, Aaron Sacks
God’s Silence, Poems, Franz Wright

August 9, 2006
Leonard Maltin’s 2007 Movie Guide
Everything Bad is Good For You, Steven Johnson
Madame Tussaud: A Life in Wax, Kate Berridge
The First Idea, Stanley Greenspan
Curious Adventure: A Summer Deer Tale, Karen Wilson & Susan Zerga
Lucille Lost, Margaret George & Christopher Murphy
Bats at the Beach, Brian Lies

August 2, 2006
Afoot & Afield Reno-Tahoe, Mike White
Mexico in Mind an Anthology, Maria Finn (ed)
Simply Green Parties, Danny Seo
Bowerman an the Men of Oregon, Kenny Moore
Talk Talk, T. C. Boyle
Hollow Earth, David Standish

July 26, 2006
Living with Books, Alan Powers
Eats, Shoots, Leaves, (for kids) Lynne Truss
Way Out West, Miles Backer
Tour America: A Journey Through Poems & Art, Diane Siebert
Seaworthy, T.R. Pearson
Bait & Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich
The Alaska Reader, Anne Hanley & Carolyn Kremers

July 5, 2006
Cross Bones,  Kathy Reichs
Fire Sale,  Sara Paretsky
Pardonable Lies,  Jacqueline Winspear
Until I Find You,  John Irving
The Good Good Pig,  Sy Montgomery
No Star Too Beautiful,  Joachim Neugroschel
From My People,  Daryl Cumber Dance

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