Daily Book Picks July 2007

July 31:

Healthy Living Spaces by Dan Stih (www.healthylivingspaces.com) Healthy Living Spaces: Top 10 Hazards Affecting Your Health

Excuse Me, Your Life Is Now by Doreen Banaszak (Hampton Roads) Excuse Me, Your Life Is Now: Mastering the Law of Attraction

Drop Edge Of Yonder by Donis Casey (Poisoned Pen Press) The Drop Edge of Yonder (Large Type Edition): an Alafair Tucker Mystery

Charging The Net by Cecil Harris and Larryette Kyle-DeBose (Ivan R. Dee) Charging the Net: A History of Blacks in Tennis from Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe to the Williams Sisters

Blind Spots by Madeleine L. Van Hecke, PhD (Prometheus Books) Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things

Off I Went Into The Wild Blue Yonder by John James Knudsen (Pelican) Off I Went into the Wild Blue Yonder

William Wilberforce by Stephen Tomkins (Wm. B. Eerdmans) William Wilberforce: A Biography

American Aria by Sherrill Milnes (Amadeus Press/Limelight Editions) American Aria: From Farm Boy to Opera Star

July 30:

Tiger Force by Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss (Back Bay) Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War

Gin For Breakfast by W. Dale Nelson (Syracuse University Press) Gin Before Breakfast: The Dilemma of the Poet in the Newsroom

The Mirador by Sarah Monette (Ace Hardcover) The Mirador

The Rest Of Her Life by Laura Moriarty (Hyperion) REST OF HER LIFE, THE

Last One In by Nicholas Kulish (Harper Collins) Last One In

Her Way by Jeff Garth and Don Van Natta Jr. (Little Brown/Hachette) Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton

My Space For Moms And Dads by Connie Neal (Zondervan)

The Ruins by Scott Smith (Vintage Books/Anchor Books) The Ruins

July 28:

Healthy Kid-HappyKid by Colleen A. Sundermeyer, Ph.D. (CS Publishing)

Gables And Fables by Anne Bloomfield and Arthur Bloomfield (Heyday Books) Gables and Fables: A Portrait of San Francisco's Pacific Heights

The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes (Harper Collins) The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

Forbidden Lego (No Starch Press) Forbidden LEGO: Build the Models Your Parents Warned You Against!

Flavor Point Cookbook by Colleen A. Sundermeyer, Ph.D. (CS Publishing) Flavor Point Cookbook: All the Flavor Without the Extra Calories

A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny (St. Martin's Minotaur) A Fatal Grace: A Three Pines Mystery (Three Pines Mysteries)

The Executor's Handbook by Theodore E. Hughes (Checkmark Books) The Executor's Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide to Settling an Estate for Personal Representatives, Administrators, and Beneficiaries

Empires, Wars And Battles by T.C.F. Hopkins (A Forge Hardcover) Empires, Wars, and Battles: The Middle East from Antiquity to the Rise of the New World

July 27:

Dog Days by Jon Katz (Villard Books Hardcover) Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm

Dark Bargain by Lawrence Goldstone (Bloomsbury PB) Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution

Little Heathers by Mildred Armstrong Kalish (Bantam)

Encyclopedia Of Conspiracies And Conspiracy Theories by Michael Newton (Facts On File) The Encyclopedia of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories

Conqueror Time's Tapestry Book Two by Stephen Baxter (Ace Hardcover) Conqueror: Time's Tapestry Book Two (Time's Tapestry)

Bright Of The Sky, Book One by Kay Kenyon (PYR) Bright of the Sky: Book One of the Entire and the Rose

Body Of Lies by David Ignatius (W.W. Norton) Body of Lies: A Novel

Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan (Harcourt Trade) Be Near Me

July 26:

Back-To-School Chats by George Bradt (Durban House) Back to School Chats: Advice from Fathers to Their Sons

Alice In Sunderland by Bryan Talbot (Dark Horse) Alice In Sunderland

A Living Lens...edited by Alania Newhoase (W.W. Norton) A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward

Wearing The Spider by Susan Schabb (Galavant Press) Wearing the Spider

  Who's Sitting On Your Nest Egg? by Robin S. Davis, CFP (Bridgeway Books) Who's Sitting on Your Nest Egg?: Why You Need a Financial Advisor and Ten Easy Tests for Finding the Best One

Year the Music Died: 1964-1972: A Commentary on the Best Era of Pop Music, and an Irreverent Look at the Musicians and Social Movements of the Time by Dwight Rounds (Bridgeway Books) The Year the Music Died, 1964-1972: A Commentary on the Best Era of Pop Music, and an Irreverent Look at the Musicians and Social Movements of the Time
 

Days Of Valor by Robert L. Tonsetic (Casemate Publishing) DAYS OF VALOR: An Inside Account of the Bloodiest Six Months of the Vietnam War

Love That Works by Bruce Brander (Templeton Foundation Press) Love That Works: The Art And Science Of Giving

July 25:

Hume's Fork by Ron Cooper (Bancroft Press) Hume's Fork

The Birth Of Graffiti by Jon Naar (Prestel) The Birth of Graffiti

  Power Points by Harry Mills (AMACOM) Power Points!: How to Design and Deliver Presentations That Sizzle and Sell

The Hundred-Year Lie by Randall Fitzgerald (Plume Books) The Hundred-Year Lie: How Food and Medicine Are Destroying Your Health

30 Days To A More Powerful Memory by Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D. (AMACOM) 30 Days to a More Powerful Memory

28 by Stephanie Nolen (Walker & Company) 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa

Katrinaville Chronicles by David G. Spielman (Louisiana State University Press) Katrinaville Chronicles: Images and Observations from a New Orleans Photographer

  The Rammed Earth House by David Easton (Chelsea Green) The Rammed Earth House (Real Goods Independent Living Book)

July 24:

Of Song And Water by Joseph Coulson (Archipelago Books) Of Song and Water

Lessons On Leadership by Jack Stahl (Kaplan Publishing) Lessons on Leadership: The 7 Fundamental Management Skills for Leaders at All Levels

Mr. Right And My Left Kidney by Joan Saltzman (Peripety Press) Mr. Right and My Left Kidney

Thrive by Mike Cook (St. Lynn's Press) Thrive: Standing on Your Own Two Feet in a Borderless World

Kingdom Of Ten Thousand Things by Gary Geddes (Sterling Publishing) Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas

The Fragile Edge by Julia Whitty (Hougton Mifflin) The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific

Twelve Steps To Raw Food by Victoria Boutenko (North Atlantic Boooks) 12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food

Do the Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra
by Wendy Lichtman (HarperCollins Publishers) Do the Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra

July 23:

Stigma And The Cave by D.H. Mellen (Syracuse University Press) Stigma & The Cave (Patrimonies)

  Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (Graywolf Press) Out Stealing Horses: A Novel

  Rewind, Replay, Repeat by Jeff Bell (HCI) Rewind, Replay, Repeat: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

The Grand Experiment by Madren Campbell, Gayle Gregory and Karen Johnson (Hood River) The Grand Experiment, an Expedition of Self-Discovery

Western National Parks' Lodges Cookbook by Kathleen Bryant (Northland Books) Western National Park Lodges Cookbook

I Miss You! by Beth Andrews (Prometheus Books) I Miss You!: A Military Kid's Book About Deployment

Help! by Pamela J. Holland & Marjorie Brody (www.brodycommunications.com) Help! Was That a Career Limiting Move?

A Picture History Of The Grenville Family Of Rosedale House (Rizzoli International Publications) A Picture History of Mr. and Mrs. Grenville of Rosedale House: An Album by Mary Yelloly, Nine Years Old

July 21:

Grave Of Light by Alice Notley (Wesleyan University Press) Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2005 (Wesleyan Poetry)

Where One Voice Ends Another Begins...edited by Robert Hedin (Minnesota Historical Society Press) Where One Voice Ends Another Begins: 150 Years of Minneosta Poetry

Ivy Briefs by Martha Kimes (Atria Books) Ivy Briefs: True Tales of a Neurotic Law Student

  Half Life by Meghhan O'Rourke (W.W. Norton)

From The Gulag To The Killing Fields...edited by Paul Hallander (ISI Books) From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist States

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter #7) by J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandPre (Illustrator), Mary GrandPre (Illustrator) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)

Gradisil by Adam Roberts (Pyr/Prometheus Books) Gradisil

The Mystique Of Conspiracy by Brian Bugge (www.provocativeideas.net) The Mystique of Conspiracy: Oswald, Castro, and the CIA

July 20:

Donatello's Version by James Scully (Curbstone Press) Donatello's Version: Poems

Why Monkey's Live In Trees by Raoulf Mama (Curbstone Press) Why Monkeys Live in Trees And Other Stories from Benin

The Linden Tree by Ellie Mathews (Milkweed Editions) The Linden Tree

Luminous Fish by Lynn Margolis (Chelsea Green) Luminous Fish: Tales of Science and Love (Sciencewriters)

Healing What Hurts by Dr. David Y. Wong (Basic Health Publications) Healing What Hurts: Fast Ways to Get Safe Relief from Aches and Pains

  A Naturalist & Other Beasts by George B. Schaller (University of California Press) A Naturalist and Other Beasts: Tales From a Life in the Field

More Than Miracles by Syeve de Shager and Yvonne Dolan (The Haworth Press) More Than Miracles: The State of the Art of Solution-focused Brief Therapy (Haworth Brief Therapy)

  The Extreme Makeover Of Hillary (Rodman) Clinton by Bay Buchanan (Regnery Publishing) The Extreme Makeover of Hillary (Rodham) Clinton

July 19:

Waugh In Abyssinia by Velyn Waugh (Louisiana State University Press) Waugh in Abyssinia (From Our Own Correspondent)

Texas In Poetry 2...edited by Billy Bob Hill (TCU Press Books) Texas in Poetry 2

Provincetown by Karen Christel Krahulik (NYU Press) Provincetown: From Pilgrim Landing To Gay Resort (American History and Culture)

The Senator And The Socialite by Lawrence Otis Graham (Harper Perennial) The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black Dynasty

A Day At The Beach by Helen Schulman (Houghton Mifflin) A Day at the Beach

Dancing Backward In Paradise by Vera Jane Cook (iUniverse) Dancing Backward In Paradise: A Novel

The Unnatural History Of Cypress Parish (Unbridled Books) The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish

Cucina Del Sole by Nancy Harmon Jenkins (William Morrow) Cucina del Sole: A Celebration of Southern Italian Cooking

July 18:

Afterwards by Rachel Seiffert (Pantheon Books) Afterwards: A Novel

  A Buffalo In The House by R.D. Rosen (The New Press) A Buffalo in the House: The True Story About a Man, an Animal, and the American West

The Road To Grace by Mike Genung (Blazing Grace Publishing) The Road to Grace; Finding True Freedom from the Bondage of Sexual Addiction

Encyclopedia Of Native American Tribes by Carl Waldman (Facts On File) Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes

The Green Mill Murder by Kerry Greenwood (Poisoned Pen Press) The Green Mill Murder (Phryne Fisher Mysteries)

The Voodoo That They Did So Well by Stefan Kanfer (Ivan R. Dee) The Voodoo That They Did So Well: The Wizards Who Invented the New York Stage

Cool Stuff by Kent & Kyle Healy (www.coolstuffmedia.com) "Cool Stuff" They Should Teach in School

The Golden Touch Blackjack Revolution by Franks Scoblete ((SmartGaming.com) Golden Touch Blackjack Revolution

July 17:

Road From Ar Ramadi by Camilo Majia (The New Press) Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Mejía

The Song Of Kahunsha by Anosh Irani (Milkweed Editions) The Song of Kahunsha

Confessions by Kang Zhengguo (W.W. Norton) Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China

The Chronology Of American Indian History (Updated Edition) by Liz Sonneborn (Facts On File/Checkmark Books) Chronology of American Indian History (Chronology)

China Ghosts by Jeff Gammage (William Morrow) China Ghosts: My Daughter's Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood

Cabins Of Minnesota by Bill Holm (Minnesota Historical Society Press) Cabins of Minnesota (Minnesota Byways)

  Brave New West by Jim Stiles (The University of Arizona Press) Brave New West: Morphing Moab at the Speed of Greed

Cullotta by Frank Cullotta (Huntington Press) Cullotta: The Life of a Chicago Criminal, Las Vegas Mobster and Government Witness

July 16:

Brothers by David Talbott (Free Press) Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years

Brasyl by Ian McDonald (PYR) Brasyl

  A Sister's Secret by Wanda E. Brunstetter (Barbour Books) A Sister's Secret (Holmes County Series #1)

Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani (Hachette Book Group) The Blood of Flowers: A Novel

Big & Rich by Big Kenny and John Rich (Center Street/Hachette Book Group) Big & Rich: All Access

A Century Of Horrors by Alain Besancon (ISI Books) A Century of Horrors: Communism, Nazism, and the Uniqueness of the Shoah (Crosscurrents)

Jazz Consciousness by Paul Austerlitz (Wesleyan University Press) Jazz Consciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity (Music Culture)

The Last Mrs. Astor by Frances Kiernan (W.W. Norton) The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story

July 14:

Real Abortion Stories...edited by Barbara Horak (Strive For The Best Publishing) Real Abortion Stories: The Hurting and The Healing

How To Get A Job And Keep It by Susan Morem (Checkmark Books) How to Get a Job and Keep It: An Essential Guide to Landing Your Ideal Job and Making the Most of It

Oasis by Eva Marie Everson (Revell) Oasis: A Spa for Body and Soul

The Big Question by Chuck Barris (S&S) The Big Question: A Novel of Reality Television by the Author of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Apples Are Square by Susan Smith Kuczmarski and Thomas D. Kuczmarski (Kaplan Publishing) Apples Are Square: Thinking Differently About Leadership

Low Budget Shooting by Cyrill Harnishmacher (Rocky Nook) Low Budget Shooting: Do It Yourself Solutions to Professional Photo Gear

Dreamweaver CS3 by David Sawyer McFarland (O'Reilly Computer Books) Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual

Yellow Eyes by John Ringo and Tom Kratman (Baen Books) Yellow Eyes (Posleen War Series #8)

July 13:

Small Strangers by Melissa Klapper (Ivan R. Dee) Small Strangers: The Experiences of Immigrant Children in America, 1880-1925 (American Childhoods)

Porch Talk by Philip Gulley (Harper San Francisco) Porch Talk: Stories of Decency, Common Sense, and Other Endangered Species

Guardian Of The Veil by Gregory Spencer (Howard Books/S&S) Guardian of the Veil: A Three-Dimensional Tale

Disturbing The Dead by Sandra Parshall (Poisoned Pen Press) Disturbing the Dead

Beneath The Surface by Bruce Carlson (Minnesota Historical Society Press) Beneath the Surface: A Natural History of a Fisherman's Lake

A Good Day's Work by Dwight W. Hoover (Ivan R. Dee) A Good Day's Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression

Dwelling by Mary Beth Lagerborg (Revell) Dwelling: Living Fully from the Space You Call Home

Avalanche by Steve Sanduski and Ron Carson (Kaplan Publishing) Avalanche: The 9 Principles for Uncovering True Wealth

July 12:

What Lies Beneath by The South End Press Collective, Editors (South End Press) What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, And the State of the Nation

Essential ActionScript 3.0 by Colin Moock (O'Reilly) Essential ActionScript 3.0 (Essential)

Kenneth Burke On Shakespeare...edited by Scott L. Newstok (Parlor Press) Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare

  Street-Smart Advertising by Margo Berman (Rowman & Littlefield) Street-Smart Advertising: How to Win the Battle of the Buzz

The Danger Dance by Caro Soles (The Haworth Press) The Danger Dance

A Whole Foods Primer by Beatrice Trum Hunter (Basic Health Publications) A Whole Foods Primer: A Comprehensive, Instructive, And Enlightening Guide to the World of Whole Foods

The Age Of Abundance by Brink Lindsey (Collins) The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture

101 Philosophy Problems by Martin Cohen (Routledge) 101 Philosophy Problems

July 11:

Motherless Mothers by Hope Edelman (Harper Paperbacks) Motherless Mothers: How Mother Loss Shapes the Parents We Become

The Kingdom Wars by Jack Cavanaugh (Howard Book/S&S) A Hideous Beauty (Kingdom Wars Series #1)

  Snow, Ashes by Alyson Hagy (Graywolf Press) Snow, Ashes: A Novel

How to Get Organized without Resorting to Arson: A Step-by-Step Guide to Clearing Your Desk without Panic or the Use of Open Flame by Liz M. Franklin (Publisher: Fyer, Clara Books)
 How to Get Organized Without Resorting to Arson: A Step-By-Step Guide to Clearing Your Desk Without Panic or the Use of Open Flame

  Little Wave And Old Swell by Jim Ballard and Ken Blanchard (Atria/Beyond Words) Little Wave and Old Swell: A Fable of Life and Its Passing

Love Kills by Edna Buchanan (S&S) Love Kills: A Britt Montero Novel (Britt Montero Mysteries)

History Of Madness by Michel Foucault (Routledge) HISTORY OF MADNESS

101 Ethical Dilemmas by Martin Cohen (Routledge) 101 Ethical Dilemmas

July 10:

The Lace Reader by Brubonia Barry (Flapjacket Press) The Lace Reader

Ubuntu For Non-Geeks, 2nd Edition by Rickford Grant (No Starch Press) Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks: A Pain-Free, Project-Based, Get-Things-Done Guidebook

Lincoln by Allen Jayne (Prometheus Books) Lincoln: And the American Manifesto

Aircraft Carriers At War by Adm. James L. Holloway III (Naval Institute Press) Aircraft Carriers at War: A Personal Retrospective of Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviet Confrontation

Suicide Bombers In Iraq by Mohammed M. Hafez (United States Institute Of Peace) Suicide Bombers in Iraq: The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom

Blood Money by T. Christian Miller (Back Bay Books/Little Brown) Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq

Challenging China...edited by Sharon Hom and Stacy Mosher (The New Press) Challenging China: Struggle and Hope in an Era of Change

  Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff (Human Kinetics) Yoga Anatomy

July 9:

Perennial Vegetables by Eric Toens Meier (Chelsea Green) Perennial Vegetables: From Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, A Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious and Easy to Grow Edibles

  UNbridled by Samantha Elphick (AuthorHouse) UNbridled

The Man Who Melted by Jack Dann (PYR) The Man Who Melted

The Gold Of Thrace by Aileen G. Baron (Poisonedpenpress) Gold of Thrace, The

The Door Of No Return by William St. Clair (BlueBridge) The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade

  Breakaway by Joel Shepard (Pyr/Prometheus Books) Breakaway: A Cassandra Kresnov Novel

The Matador's Cape by Stephen Holmes (Cambridge University Press) The Matador's Cape: America's Reckless Response to Terror

Why Is That So Funny? by John Wright (Hal Leonard/Limelight Editions) Why Is That So Funny?: A Practical Exploration of Physical Comedy

July 7:

Tango For A Torturer by Daniel Chavarria (Akashic Books) Tango for a Torturer

Pure Magic by Judika Illes (Red Wheel) Pure Magic: A Complete Course in Spellcasting

  The Atlanteans by Dorothy Cora Moore (www.theatlanteans.com) The Atlanteans: A Contemporary Novel

The Life Of Kingsley Amis (Pantheon) The Life of Kingsley Amis

Indian Yell by Michael Blake (Northland Books) Indian Yell: The Heart of an American Insurgency

The Work At Home Work Book by Lesley Spencer Pyle (HBWM.com)

TV Year: Volume 1 by John Kenneth Muir (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books) TV Year: Volume 1: The Prime Time 2005-2006 Season (TV Year)

John, Paul, George and Ben
by Lane Smith, Lane Smith (Illustrator) John, Paul, George & Ben

July 6:

Right Livelihoods by Rick Moody (Hachette Book Group) Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas

I Love Female Orgasm by Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller (Marlowe & Company/Avalon) I Love Female Orgasm: An Extraordinary Orgasm Guide

State Of The Middle East by Dan Smith (University of California) The State of the Middle East: An Atlas of Conflict and Resolution

Kitchen Con by Trevor White (Arcade Publishing) Kitchen Con: Writing On The Restaurant Racket

  121 Ways To Live 121 Years by Dr. Ronald Klatz and Dr. Robert Goldman (Basic Health Publications) 121 Ways to Live 121 Years Prescription for Longevity

Camelot And The Cultural Revolution by James Piereson (Encounter Books) Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism

Alias The Cat by Kim Deitch (Pantheon Books) Alias the Cat

1634/The Bavarian Crisis by Eric Flint and Virginia Dimarci (Baen Books) 1634: The Bavarian Crisis (The Ring of Fire)