May 14, 2008
What Now? Ann Patchett
Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America, Cullen Murphy
The Importance of Music to Girls, Lavinia Greenlaw
The American Resting Place, Marilyn Yalom
The Lonesome Puppy, Yoshitomo Nara
Side by Side: New Poems Inspired by Art Around the World, Edited by Jan Greenberg

May 7, 2008
Zen Ties, Jon J Muth
The Legend of Colton H. Bryant, Alexandra Fuller
Bog-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses, Stacy Mitchell
Moyers on Democracy, Bill Moyers
The Man Who Loved China, Simon Winchester
American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, The Birth of the “It” Girl and the Crime of the Century, Paula Uruburu

April 30, 2008
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World, Tony Horwitz
i before e (except after c) old-school ways to remember stuff, Judy Parkinson
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism, Kevin Phillips
Northline, Willy Vlautin
Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children’s Literature, Leonard Marcus
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, Michael Chabon
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
The Plague of Doves, Louise Erdrich

April 23, 2008
Willie Nelson: An Epic Life, Joe Nick Patoski
Adios Amigos: Tales of Sustenance and Purification in the American West, Page Stegner
Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen, Susan Griffin
Wordless Books: The Original Graphic Novels, David A. Berona
Dwellings, Paul Oliver
Black Velvet Masterpieces, Carl Baldwin & Caren Anderson

 

April 16, 2008
Lavinia, Ursula Le Guin
How Can I Keep From Singing, David Dunaway
Shakespeare's Wife, Germaine Greer
Rough Guide to Travel with Babies and Young Children, Fawzia Rasheed
All Over Coffee, Paul Madonna

April 9, 2008
Sunflowers (The Secret History), Joe Pappalardo
Blessed Unrest, Paul Hawken
I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron
Red Bird, Mary Oliver
Girls Like Us, Sheila Weller
Green Homes, Sergi Costa Duran

April 2, 2008
Armageddon in Retrospect, Kurt Vonnegut
The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez, Translated by Robert Bly
Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway, by Joyce Carol Oates
Wit’s End, Karen Joy Fowler
Winter Study, Nevada Barr
The Last Photographic Heroes: American Photographers of the Sixties and Seventies, Gilles Mora

March 26, 2008
Roger, Jeremy Gerlis, Alan Capel and Tim Cordell
The Pocket Guide to Mischief, Bart King
Crimini: The Bitte Lemon Book of Italian Crime Fiction, edited by Giancarlo de Cataldo
The Ultimate Teen Book Guide, Edited by Daniel Han and Leonie Flynn
Dolly and Zane Grey: Letters From a Marriage, Candice Kant
Newspapers, Pennies, Cardboard and Eggs for Growing a Better Garden, Roger Yepsen
Luminous Mountains: The Sierra Nevada of California, Tim Palmer

March 19, 2008
Common Wealth, Jefferey Sachs
The Naming of America, John Hessler
Down and Dirty: 43 Fun and Funky First-Time Projects & Activities to Get you Gardening, Ellen Zachos
An Incomplete Revenge, A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Jacqueline Winspear
Knight: Noble Warrior of England 1200-1600, Christopher Gravett

 

March 12, 2008
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization, Nicholson Baker
The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby
Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing, Michael Dregni
Where Does the Money Go? Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis, Scott Bittle & Jean Johnson
England’s Child: The Carillon and the Casting of Big Bells, Jill Johnston
High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed, Michael Kodas

March 5, 2008
The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger, Chris Fujiwara
Wallace Stegner and the American West, Philip L. Fradkin
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, Bill McKibben
Grace (Eventually) Thoughts on Faith, Anne Lamott
Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate, At Work in the Wild and the Cultivated World, Wendy Johnson with illustrations by Davis Te Selle
Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain, Martha Sherrill

February 20, 2008
Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure, Edited by Smith Magazine
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, Chalmers Johnson
Desperate Passage: The Donner Party’s Perilous Journey West, Ethan Rarick
Where Light Takes its Color from the Sea: A California Notebook, James D. Houston
The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, Edited by Otto Penzler
Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son’s Memoir, David Rieff

February 13, 2008
A Grave in Gaza, Matt Beynon Rees
The Collaborator of Bethlehem, Matt Beynon Rees
Heart Stones, Josie Iselin
Things I’ve Learned From Women Who Dumped Me, Edited by Ben Karlin
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, Chris Hedges
Contact: Mountain Climbing and Environmental Thinking, Edited by Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy
My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro,
Edited by Jeffrey Eugenides

January 30, 2008
Jack Pine, Christopher Patton
Duma Key, Stephen King
The Appeal, John Grisham
Bohemia: Where Art, Angst, Love and Strong Coffee Meet, Herbert Gold
Creating A World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus
I Was Cuba: Treasures From the Ramiro Fernandez Collection, Kevin Kwan

January 23, 2008
Eight Women, Two Model Ts, and the American West, Joanne Wilke
Adventures in the West: Stories for Young Readers, Susanne George Bloomfield and Eric Melvin Reed, Editors
Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell
Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-Up in the 1970s Changed America, Richard Zoglin

 

January 15, 2007
Refresh, Refresh, Benjamin Percy
The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys, Klara Glowczewska, Editor
The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Michael Pollan
This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust
God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215, David, Benjamin Percy
The Conde Nast Levering Lewis

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