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January...

• Death by Leisure: A Cautionary Tale
  Author: Ayres, Chris
  $ 24 ISBN:9780871139641 Date: 2009
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  The hilariously intrepid young author of War Reporting for Cowards returns from Iraq only to dive head-first into another absurd, terrifying world: the American leisure class. Like Hunter Thompson crossed with one of David Brooks's bobos in paradise, Ayres embeds himself in LA's "liesuretocracy": an over-the-top world of caviar facials, billionaire charity balls, souped-up SUVs, and monster home loans . . . not to mention $1,000-a-night brothels and million-dollar poker tournaments. Ayres's highly leveraged lifestyle lands him a surreal night with a supermodel, a date at Michael Jackson's birthday party in Neverland Ranch (Ayres bribes the organizers five grand to get in), and a wife courtesy of Craigslist. But disaster is never far away. In the book's brutal final section, Ayres is forced to confront the excesses of his generation at a scene of apocalyptic destruction: the Katrina-ravaged South. Told with a blend of offbeat irreverence, genuine pathos, and incisive social commentary, Death by Leisure is a savage and darkly humorous odyssey that taps directly into the contemporary psyche. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 5.21.09
  
• Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees
  Author: Deakin, Roger ISBN: 9781416593621 Date: 2009
  Kirkus PW
  In the late British nature writer's glorious meditation on what he has called the fifth element, or wood--as it exists in nature, in the soul, in culture, and in life--the reader is swept along on a quest through the woods in search of what lies behind humankind's profound and enduring connection with trees.
  Updated 5.21.09
  
• The Well Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself
  Author: Holmes, Hannah
  $ 25 ISBN: 9781400065417 Date: 2009
  LJ PW
  Stiff meets Your Inner Fish in this surprising, humorous, and edifying description of Homo sapiens, as if humans were a newly-discovered animal.
  Updated 5.21.09
  
• The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks
  Author: Romm, Robin
  $ 22 ISBN: 9781416567882 Date: 2009
  Kirkus LJ
  From the critically acclaimed author of The Mother Garden comes a stirring and intimate memoir about the three weeks before her mother's death.
  Updated 5.21.09
  
• Sand: The Never-Ending Story
  Author: Welland, Michael
  $24.95 ISBN: 9780520254374 Date: 2009
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  From individual grains to desert dunes, from the bottom of the sea to the landscapes of Mars, and from billions of years in the past to the future, this is the extraordinary story of one of nature's humblest, most powerful, and most ubiquitous materials. Told by a geologist with a novelist's sense of language and narrative, "Sand "examines the science--sand forensics, the physics of granular materials, sedimentology, paleontology and archaeology, planetary exploration--and at the same time explores the rich human context of sand. Interwoven with tales of artists, mathematicians, explorers, and even a vampire, the story of sand is an epic of environmental construction and destruction, an adventure in staggering scales of time and distance, yet a tale that encompasses the ordinary and everyday. Sand, in fact, is all around us--it has made possible our computers, buildings and windows, toothpaste, cosmetics, and paper, and it has played dramatic roles in human history, commerce, and imagination. In this luminous, kinetic, revelatory account, we do indeed find the world in a grain of sand. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 5.21.09
  

February...

• Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans
  Author: Baum, Dan
  $ 26 ISBN: 9780385523196 Date: 2009
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  Originating in a heralded series of "New Yorker" articles, Nine Lives explores New Orleans through the lives of nine characters over 40 years, bracketed by two epic hurricanes. It brings back to life the doomed city, its wondrous subcultures, and the rich and colorful lives that played themselves out within its borders.
  Updated 5.21.09
  
• Why Evolution Is True
  Author: Coyne, Jerry A.
  $ 28 ISBN: 9780670020539 Date: 2009
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  In crisp, lucid prose accessible to a wide audience, Why Evolution Is True dispels common misunderstandings and fears about evolution and clearly confirms that this amazing process of change has been firmly established as a scientific truth.
  Updated 6.17.09
  
• Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthlme
  Author: Daughtery, Tracy
  $ 35 ISBN: 9780312378684 Date: 2009
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  Daugherty examines the life of Donald Barthelme, who came to prominence as the leader of the Postmodern movement in the 1960s. Some of Barthelme's works include the short stories "Me and Miss Mandible" and "A Shower of Gold" and the novel Snow White.
  Updated 6.17.09
  

March...

• The Sisters Antipodes
  Author: Alison, Jane
  $ 23 ISBN: 9780151012800 Date: 2009
  Kirkus PW
  The Sisters Antipodes is a unique window on the intimate devastations of family betrayal, in equal measure unsettling and engrossing. Two girls are thrown into a state of silent combat for the affections of their absent fathers--a contest that would prove tragic.
  Updated 6.18.09
  
• Yogi Berra; Eternal Yankee
  Author: Barra, Allen
  $ 28 ISBN: 9780393062335 Date: 2009
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  Yogi Berra is one of the most popular former athletes in American history, and the most-quoted American since Abraham Lincoln. The gripping biography of the legendary Hall-of-Famer is replete with n early 100 photos and countless Yogi-isms, offering hilarious insights into many of baseball's greatest moments.
  Updated 6.17.09
• Plain Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution
  Author: Beeman, Richard
  $ 30 ISBN: 9781400065707 Date: 2009
  Kirkus LJ PW
  Plain, Honest Men is a full-scale narrative account of the deliberations of the Founding Fathers at the Constitutional Convention. Beeman takes readers behind the scenes and into the streets, taverns, and mansions of Philadelphia to show how the Constitution was forged.
  Updated 6.18.09
  
• Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Enengy in the Universe
  Author: Gates, Evelyn
  $ 26 ISBN: 9780393062380 Date: 2009
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  Based on Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravitational lensing--known as Einstein's Telescope--is enabling new discoveries that are taking researchers toward the next revolution in scientific thinking--one that may change forever the notions of where the Universe is headed. Illustrated.
  Updated 6.17.09
  
• Happens Every Day: An All-To- True Story
  Author: Gillies, Isabel
  $ 25 ISBN: 9781439110072 Date: 2009
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  Gillies pens a fast-paced, intriguing memoir in which she is forced to come to terms with the swift destruction of her picture-perfect life after her husband leaves her for another woman--something her rival reminds her, happens every day.
  Updated 5.21.09
  
• The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obssesion in the Amazon
  Author: Grann, David
  $ 27.50 ISBN: 9780385513531 Date: 2009
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  After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed "New Yorker" writer Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration mystery of the 20th century: what happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z?
  Updated 6.17.09
  
• Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love
  Author: Gwartney, Debra
  $ 24 ISBN: 9780547054476 Date: 2009
  Kirkus LJ
  Live Through This--as emotionally wrenching and ultimately redemptive as David Sheff 's Beautiful Boy--follows Gwartney's frantic effort to recover her beautiful, intelligent daughters from their lives on the street.
  Updated 6.18.09
  
• Judas: A Biography
  Author: Gubar, Susan
  $ 27.95 ISBN: 9780393064834 Date: 2009
  LJ PW
  In this expansive cultural biography of Judas, a prominent scholar explores the meaning of Jesus' betrayer over 20 centuries. Gubar shows how Jesus' most notorious disciple has provoked profound reflections on the problem of evil that still resonate today.
  Updated 5.21.09
  
• I Wouldn't Start From Here: The 21st Century and Where It All Went Wrong
  Author: Mueller, Andrew
  $ 16.95 ISBN: 9781593762186 Date: 2009
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  What is a jaded rock journalist doing dodging landmines to talk to mercenaries and terrorists? And what kind of conversation can a man who prefers hunting for perfect three-minute pop songs and tubes of beer have with devotees of fasting and ferocity? Sarajevo. Jerusalem. Kabul. Belfast. Kosovo. Gaza. Basra. New York City. Every place where recent history advertises the stubbornness, intolerance, bloodlust, and cowardice that sully our collective record, there the intrepid Andrew Mueller goes. With considerable skill, Mueller skids around the globe from failed state to ravaged war zone to desolate no-man's-land to try to unpick why we humans seem so prone to plucking war from the jaws of peace. En route, he meets various influential panjandrums (Al Gore, Gerry Adams, Bono, Paddy Ashdown), any number of assorted warlords and revolutionaries, and a sprinkling of peacemakers and do-gooders. He also manages to get shot at a couple of times, locked up once, and taken on a guided tour by one of the world's most infamous terrorist organizations. It's like a Bond film with much, much less sex, and might appear for that and other reasons to be substantially a story of disappointment. Yet it's a surprisingly sunny book given the mire in which he finds himself. And it is a notably entertaining and eye-opening tour of the world's moral basements in the vein of P. J. O'Rourke's Holidays in Hell. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 5.21.09
  
• The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in the Interconnected World
  Author: Novogratz, Jacqueline
  $ 25 ISBN: 9781594869150 Date: 2009
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  Eleven years after donating her blue sweater to Goodwill, Novogratz spotted a young boy in Africa wearing that very sweater. In that moment, she realized how all people are connected, which set the author on a lifelong course to fight poverty worldwide.
  Updated 6.18.09
  
• You are Here: A Portable History of the Universe
  Author: Potter, Christopher
  $ 26.99 ISBN: 9780061137860 Date: 2009
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  You Are Here shows the cosmos as it has never been seen before. With wisdom and wonder, Potter traverses the universe from its formation to its eventual end--while exploring everything in between.
  Updated 5.21.09
  
• When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood
  Author: Sayrafiezadeh, Said
  $ 22 ISBN: 9780385340687 Date: 2009
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  With a profound gift for capturing the absurd in life, and a deadpan wisdom that comes from surviving a surreal childhood in the Socialist Workers Party, Sayrafiezadeh has crafted an unsentimental, funny, heartbreaking memoir.
  Updated 5.21.09
  
• How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Educations That Made Them
  Author: Wolff, Daniel
  $ 26 ISBN: 9781596912908 Date: 2009
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  Wolff presents an engaging, provocative history of American ideas, told through the educations (both in and out of school) of 12 great figures, from Benjamin Franklin to Elvis Presley.
  Updated 6.18.09
  

April...

• Take Your Shirt Off and Cry: A Memoir of Near-Fame Experiences
  Author: Balbier, Nancy
  $ 16 ISBN: 9781596914780 Date: 2009
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  In this strikingly candid memoir, Nancy Balbirer distills two decades of drama school, auditions, bit parts, cameos, and off-Broadway plays into an account by turns hilarious and horrifying . From studying theater in college under the searing purism of David Mamet ("Being a woman in [show] business, you'll be asked to do only two things in every fucking role you ever play: take your shirt off and cry. That's it. Take your shirt off and cry.") to weathering advice from her brazenly insensitive L.A. agent ("I didn't think it was possible. But you managed to bore Luke Perry") to scoring a Saturday Night Live audition based on a drunken Debra Winger impersonation, Balbirer's adventures are sometimes bizarre, sometimes painful, and always unforgettable. Between run-ins with an eccentric cast of all-too-real characters, including an infatuated acting teacher who introduces Nancy to the joys of firearms, a former sex symbol desperately seeking a toilet, and a jazz musician who fancies himself a reincarnated Jack Kerouac, Balbirer wrestles with her own ambitions and disappointments, struggling to determine what she really wants and who she really is. She may not be destined for Hollywood stardom, but as Take Your Shirt Off and Cry makes clear, she is definitely a one-of-a-kind talent. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 6.17.09
  
• Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future
  Author: Bowden, Charles
  $ 24 ISBN: 9780151013951 Date: 2009
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  The author of Blood Orchid and Blues for Cannibals concludes his "accidental trilogy" with this work that offers a fearless look into Earth's seemingly doomed future.
  Updated 5.21.09
  
• Summerworld: A Season of Bounty
  Author: Heinrich, Bernd
  $ 26.99 ISBN: 9780060742171 Date: 2009
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  From the bestselling author of Winter World comes this highly anticipated, accessible, and eloquent illumination of animal survival during the summer season.
  Updated 6.18.09
  
• One Square Inch of Silence: One Man's Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World
  Author: Hempton, Gordon
  $ 26 ISBN: 9781416559085 Date: 2009
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  Emmy Award-winning acoustic ecologist Hempton pens a beautifully written call to arms against the agents of manmade noise, in this eloquent defense of natural quiet that comes packaged with the author's astounding recordings of nature.
  Updated 6.17.09
  
• Closing Time
  Author: Queenan, Joe
  $ 27 ISBN: 9780670020638 Date: 2009
  Kirkus PW
  A deeply funny and affecting memoir about a great escape from a childhood of poverty, Closing Time recounts Queenan's Irish Catholic upbringing in a family dominated by his erratic father.
  Updated 5.21.09
  
• Not Becoming My Mother
  Author: Reichl, Ruth
  $ 20 ISBN: 9781594202162 Date: 2009
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  Bestselling author Reichl embarks on a clear-eyed, openhearted investigation of her mother's life, piecing together the journey of a woman she comes to realize she never really knew.
  Updated 5.20.09
  
• One Nation Under Dog: Adventures in the New World of Prozac-Popping Puppies, Dog-Park Politics, and Organic Pet Food
  Author: Schaffer, Michael
  $ 24 ISBN: 9780805087116 Date: 2009
  LJ PW
  A witty, insightful, and affectionate examination of how and why people spend billions of dollars on their pets, One Nation Under Dog is about America's pet obsession--the explosion, over the past generation, of an industry full of pet masseuses, professional dog-walkers, and organic kibble.
  Updated 6.18.09
  
• The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
  Author: Stiles, T.J.
  $ 37.50 ISBN: 9780375415425 Date: 2009
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  From the award-winning author of Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War comes the first full, authoritative look at the life of Cornelius Vanderbilt--the complex and combative man whose genius and force of will gave birth to modern capitalism.
  Updated 6.18.09
  
• Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa
  Author: Scoti, R.A.
  $ 25 ISBN: 9780307265807 Date: 2009
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  Scotti's riveting, ingeniously realized account of the 1911 theft of the "Mona Lisa" and its aftermath is a masterful portrait of a world in transition, transforming itself into the modern while enjoying a last carefree fling before the onset of war.
  Updated 6.18.09
  
• The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger
  Author: Wilkinson, Alec
  $ 23 ISBN: 9780307269959 Date: 2009
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  A true American original is brought to life in this rich and lively portrait of Pete Seeger, who, with his musical grace and inextinguishable passion for social justice, transformed folk singing into a form of peaceful protest.
  Updated 5.21.09
  
• Corvus: A Life With Birds
  Author: Woolfson, Esther
  $ 25 ISBN: 9781582434773 Date: 2009
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  Ever since her daughter rescued a fledgling rook years ago, Esther Woolfson has been fascinated with corvids, the bird group that includes crows, rooks, magpies, and ravens. Today, the rook, named Chicken, is a member of the Woolfson family, along with a talking magpie named Spike, a baby crow named Ziki, a starling, a parrot, and others. From their elaborate bathing rituals to their springtime broodiness and tendency to cache food in the most unlikely places, these corvids share a bond with humans that one might never have imagined before reading this book. Letting her experience speak for itself, Woolfson likens the fears and foibles of corvids to those of humans, taking into account the science of bird intelligence, evolution, song, and flight. She highlights their big personalities and capacity for affection: Chicken hates computers and machines, while she loves evening neck scratches on Woolfson's knee. It is through this intimate lens that Woolfson invites us to reconsider the kind of creature capable of being man's best friend. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 6.17.09
  
• Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde
  Author: Wright, Thomas
  $ 27 ISBN: 9780805089936 Date: 2009
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  An entirely new kind of biography, Built of Books explores the mind and personality of Oscar Wilde through his taste in books.
  Updated 6.18.09
  

May...

• After Etan: The Missing Child Case That Held America Captive
  Author: Cohen, Lisa R.
  $ 26 ISBN: 9780446582513 Date: 2009
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  A former "60 Minutes" producer unravels the full story of Etan Patz--a six-year-old boy who disappeared in 1979. Cohen reveals his family's desperate search, the heroic efforts to bring the kidnapper to justice, and the investigation into a decades-long mystery.
  Updated 6.18.09
  
• The Art of the Heist: Confessions of a Master Art Thief, Rock-And-Roller, and Prodigal Son
  Author: Connor, Myles & Jenny Siler
  $ 26.99 ISBN: 9780061672286 Date: 2009
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  From New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to Boston's Museum of Fine Art, no museum had been off-limits to legendary art thief Connor. The Art of the Heist tells the story of a roller-coaster ride of a life, by a man who had been drawn to misadventure at every turn.
  Updated 4.22.09
  
• Mirrors: An Almost Universal History
  Author: Galeano, Eduardo
  $ 27 ISBN: 9781568584232 Date: 2009
  Booklist PW
  One of the world's most celebrated writers delivers his most ambitious book to date--an epic history of the human adventure, told backwards, forwards, sideways, through past, present, and future.
  Updated 6.17.09
  
• Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits
  Author: Hoskyns, Barney
  $ 30 ISBN: 9780767927086 Date: 2009
  LJ Booklist
  With his trademark growl, carnival madman persona, haunting music, and unforgettable lyrics, Tom Waits is one of the most revered and acclaimed singer-songwriters alive today. Hoskyns delivers the first serious biography to make sense of the life and career of this beloved icon.
  Updated 6.18.09
  
• Paul Newman: A Life
  Author: Levy,Shawn
  $ 29.99 ISBN: 9780307353757 Date: 2009
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  Film critic and pop-culture historian Levy gives readers the ultimate behind-the-scenes examination of actor Paul Newman's life, offering a fascinating portrait of an extraordinarily gifted man, who gave back as much as he got out of life.
  Updated 4.22.09
  
• Annie's Ghost
  Author: Luxenberg, Steve
  $ 24.99 ISBN: 9781401322472 Date: 2009
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  Combining the power of reportage with the intrigue of mystery, Annie's Ghosts explores the nature of self-deception and self-preservation. The result is equal parts memoir and riveting detective story as one son seeks to uncover family secrets.
  Updated 4.22.09
  
• Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting
  Author: Perry, Michael
  $ 26 ISBN: 9780061240430 Date: 2009
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  In over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and baby due any minute, the acclaimed author of Truck: A Love Story gives readers a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country.
  Updated 5.21.09
  
• Where Did You Sleep Last Night? A Personal History
  Author: Senna, Danzy
  $ 23 ISBN: 9780374289157 Date: 2009
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  In the tradition of James McBride's The Color of Water, Where Did You Sleep Last Night? is at once a potent statement of personal identity, a challenging look at the murky waters of American ancestry and race, and an exploration of personal narratives.
  Updated 6.17.09
  

June...

• The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
  Author: de Botton, Alain
  $ 26 ISBN: 9780375424441 Date: 2009
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  Peering closely at details of the workday and workplace, de Botton gets at the whys and wherefores of routine, practice, and process, focusing a new and unexpectedly revealing light on the essential meaning of work.
  Updated 5.21.09
  
• Lost Cellos of Lev Aronson
  Author: Brent, Frances
  $ 24 ISBN: 9781934633113 Date: 2009
  LJ
  A chronicle of the life and fate of Lev Aronson, the world-renowned cellist and Holocaust survivor, and the quest for his lost cello
  Updated 6.18.09
  
• K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude
  Author: Carlson, Peter
  $ 27 ISBN: 9781586484972 Date: 2009
  Booklist LJ
  This hilarious account of Khrushchev's 1959 U.S. tour is also a supremely entertaining evocation of the history and atmosphere of Cold War America.
  Updated 6.18.09
  
• Farm City
  Author: Carpenter, Novella
  $ 26 ISBN: 9781594202216 Date: 2009
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  Urban and rural collide in this wry, inspiring memoir of a woman who turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farm.
  Updated 6.18.09
  
• Shop Class as Soulcraft
  Author: Crawford, Matthew B.
  $ 26 ISBN: 9781594202230 Date: 2009
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  In this wise and often funny book, a philosopher/mechanic systematically destroys the pretensions of the high-prestige workplace and makes an irresistible case for working with one's hands.
• Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
  Author: Grandin, Greg
  $ 27.50 ISBN: 9780805082364 Date: 2009
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  The stunning, never-before-told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon, Fordlandia depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch.
  Updated 6.17.09
  
• Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save the Wild
  Author: Kuipers, Dean
  $ 25 ISBN: 9781596914582 Date: 2009
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  As the environmental movement gains followers and momentum, Kuipers presents an insider's look at its radical wing and its uneasy relationship with the mainstream.
  Updated 6.17.09
  
• Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist
  Author: Levenson, Thomas
  $ 25 ISBN: 9780151012787 Date: 2009
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  In 1695, counterfeiter William Chaloner was rapidly rising in London's underworld. Then he crossed paths with the formidable new Warden of His Majesty's Mint--renowned scientist Isaac Newton--and the two played out an epic game of cat-and-mouse.
  Updated 6.18.09
  
• The Bolter
  Author: Osborne, Frances
  $ 30 ISBN: 9780307270146 Date: 2009
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  Published in England to unanimous acclaim, The Bolter tells the life story of the beautiful, fearless Idina Sackville--descendant of one of England's oldest families--who had been the cause of one of the great scandals of Edwardian England.
  Updated 5.20.09
  
• The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget
  Author: Rice, Andrew
  $ 26 ISBN: 9780805079654 Date: 2009
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  From Rwanda to Sierra Leone, African countries recovering from tyranny and war are facing an impossible dilemma: to overlook past atrocities for the sake of peace or to seek catharsis through tribunals and truth commissions. In this work, Rice reports on Idi Amin's legacy and the limits of reconciliation.
  Updated 6.18.09
  
• Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa
  Author: Seal, Mark
  $ I26 SBN: 9781400067367 Date: 2009
  LJ Booklist
  "Vanity Fair" contributing editor Seal tells the mesmerizing story of the captivating life and shocking death of world-renowned naturalist Joan Root.
  Updated 6.18.09
  
• The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army
  Author: Talty, Stephan
  $ 27 ISBN: 9780307394040 Date: 2009
  LJ
  At the height of his power, Napoleon was unstoppable. But the tiny typhus microbe would test Napoleon to his limit. This work tells the tale of these two unstoppable historical forces meeting on the road to Moscow in a clash of killer pathogen and peerless army.
  Updated 6.18.09
  
• In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
  Author: White, Neil
  $ 26 ISBN: 9780061351600 Date: 2009
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  White tells his emotional, incredible true story of crime and redemption, vanity and spirituality, as he discovers happiness and fulfillment in an unlikely place--imprisonment in The Long Center, the last leper colony in the U.S.
  Updated 5.21.09
  

July...

• The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana
  Author: Bass, Rick
  $ 26 ISBN: 9780547055169 Date: 2009
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  In his account of life in Montana, Bass emerges not just as a writer but as a father, a neighbor, and a gifted observer, ensuring that though the wilderness is increasingly at risk, the voice of the wilderness will not disappear.
  Updated 6.19.08
  
• An Irreverent Curiousity: In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddest Town
  Author: Farley, David
  $ 25 ISBN: 9781592404544 Date: 2009
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  Farley offers a tour through a bizarre Italian town in search of an unbelievable relic: the foreskin of Jesus Christ. Blending history, travel, and perhaps the oddest story in Christian lore, An Irreverent Curiosity is a weird and wonderful tale of conspiracy and misadventure.
  Updated 6.18.09
  
• The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
  Author: Keefe, Patrick Radden
  $ 27.50 ISBN: 9780385521307 Date: 2009
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  Updated 6.17.09
  
• Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie De La Tour Du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era
  Author: Moorehead, Caroline
  $ 28 ISBN: 9780061684418 Date: 2009
  LJ
  Moorehead's compelling biography offers the captivating true story of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, an utterly remarkable yet little-known woman who was observer, commentator, and participant in the major social upheavals of late 18th- and early 19th-century Europe.
  Updated 5.21.09
  
• Rocket Men
  Author: Nelson, Craig
  $ 28 ISBN: 9780670021031 Date: 2009
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  The thrilling story of the Apollo Moon mission restores the mystery and majesty to an event that may have become too familiar for most people to realize what a stunning achievement it represented in planning, technology, and execution.
  Updated 6.17.09
  
• Guts: Combat, Hell-Raising, Cancer, Business Start-Ups, and Undying Love: One American Guy's Reckless, Lucky Life
  Author: Nylen, Robtert
  $ 25 ISBN: 9781400067763 Date: 2009
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  Hilarious and moving, Guts is a sharp and wry meditation on American manhood. Nylen, a self-confessed reckless jerk, never backs down from a good fight--and he has the scars to prove it.
  Updated 6.17.09
  
• The Lady in Red: An Eighteenth Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce
  Author: Rubenhold, Hallie
  $ 26 ISBN: 9780312359942 Date: 2009
  LJ
  In February 1782, England opened its newspapers to read the details of Sir Richard and Lady Worsleys' scandalous sexual arrangements, voyeuristic tendencies, and bed-hopping antics. This lively true history presents a rarely seen picture of aristocratic life in the Georgian era.
  Updated 6.18.09
  
• Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places
  Author: Streever, Bill
  $ 25 ISBN: 9780316042918 Date: 2009
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  From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to "The Year Without Summer," Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year-long search for cold--real, icy, 40-below cold.
  Updated 6.18.09
  
• A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare's "The Tempest"
  Author: Woodward, Hobson
  $ 26 ISBN: 9780670020966 Date: 2009
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  A gripping tale of shipwreck and survival, A Brave Vessel is the fascinating account of a near-miss in the settling of Virginia, the true story behind Shakespeare's "The Tempest," and the tragedy of the man who failed as an author but who contributed to the creation of a masterpiece.
  Updated 6.18.09
  

August...

• I'm Dying Up Here
  Author: Knoedelseder, WIiliam
  $ 25 ISBN: 9781586483173 Date: 2009
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  Updated 6.17.09
  
• The Natural History of Unicorns
  Author: Lavers, Chris
  $ 27 ISBN: 9780060874148 Date: 2009
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  Updated 6.18.09
  
• The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
  Author: Taraborrelli, J. Randy
  $ 27 ISBN: 9780446580823 Date: 2009
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  Updated 6.18.09
  
• Imperial
  Author: Volmann, WIlliam
  $ 55 ISBN: 9780670020614 Date: 2009
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  Updated 6.17.09
  

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• Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder That Rocked New Orleans
  Author: Brown, Ethan
  $ 25 ISBN: 97805088939 Date: 2009
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  Updated 6.17.09
  
• Strength in What Remains
  Author: Kidder, Tracy
  $ 26 ISBN: 9781400066216 Date: 2009
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  Updated 6.17.09
  
• The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans
  Author: Sublette, Ned
  $ 28 ISBN: 9781556528248 Date: 2009
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  Updated 6.17.09
  
• Stitches: A Memoir
  Author: Small, David
  $ 25 ISBN: 9780393068573 Date: 2009
  Kirkus Booklist LJ
  Telling his story in a graphic-novel style, the prize-winning children's author depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive memoir.
  Updated 7.20.09
  

October...

• Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
  Author: Chabon, Michael
  $ 26 ISBN: 9780061490187 Date: 2009
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  Updated 6.18.09
  

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