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You've Got It Made by Dianne Philips (www.harvardcommonpress.com)
The Bunko Babes
by Leah Starr Baker (Emerald Pointe Books)
Women For
President by Erika Falk (www.press.uillinois.edu)
Salary Facts
Handbook by Laurence Shatkin (www.jist.com)
Race
To Win by Derek Daly (Motorbooks)
Postcards From
Ed by Edward Abbey (Milkweed Editions)
Selected Prose,
Daybooks, And Papers by George Oppen (University of California Press)
Last Wild Wolves
by Ian McAllister (University of California Press)
The Lost
Battalion Of Tet by Charles A. Krohn (Naval Institute Press)
Long
Journey Home...edited by James W. Brown and Rita T. Kohn (Indiana University
Press)
Hello Charlie by
Charlie Hess and David Seay (Atria Books)
Escape from
Auschwitz 
Day Of Reckoning
by Patrick J. Buchanan (St. Martin's Press)
The Blue Door by
David Fulmer (www.harcourtbooks.com)
Black Magic
Woman by Justin Gustainis (www.solarisbooks.com)
American Juries
by Neil Vidmar and Valerie P. Hans (www.prometheusbooks.com)
The Horus Heresy
Vol I: Visions of War 
This Forsaken
Earth: Book Two of The Sea Beggars (Sea Beggers Series# 2) by Paul Kearney
(Bantam Books )
The Anatomy Of A
Story by John Truby (Faber & Faber/FSG)
Crossover: A
Cassandra Kresnov Novel 
Cruising On The
Queen Elizabeth 2 by Bernard M. Patten (www.prometheusBooks.com)
The Humble
Little Condom by Aine Collier (www.prometheusbooks.com)
Ready, Fire,
Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat 
Basic Black: The
Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life) by Cathie Black (Crown
Publishing Group )
Making Great
Decisions in Business and Life 
Fulgrim: Visions
of Treachery, Book 5 (The Horus Heresy Series) by Graham McNeill (Games Workshop
)
The Mutt: How to
Skateboard and Not Kill Yourself 
Voices Of My
Comrades by Sen. Ted Stevens (New York University Press)
French Betrayal
of America by Kenneth R. Timmerman (Crown Publishing Group )
Preachers of
Hate: Islam and the War on America 
Evil Genes by
Barbara Oakley (www.prometheusbooks.com)
Take No
Prisoners by Marvin Davis (www.amacombooks.org)
Naming the
World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer by Bret Anthony Anthony
Johnston (Editor) (Random House Publishing Group )
Japanese Kosher
Cooking by Kinue Weinstein (KTAV Publishing House)
How We Missed
The Story by Roy Gutman (www.usip.org)
Chase's Calendar
Of Events (www.books.mcgraw-hill.com)
Science and
Ethics by Bernard E. Rollin (Cambridge University Press )
Lonely Planet:
The Africa Book by Matt Phillips, Roz Hopkins (Lonely Planet Publications)
Claw Of The
Dragon by Bruce Algozin (Mirrorstone)
The Dragon's
Nine Sons by Chris Roberson (www.blpublishing.com)
Beautiful Women
by Nancy Bruno (www.bridgewaybooks.net)
A Ticket To Ride
by Paula McLain (Ecco)
Energy Victory
by Robert Zubrin (www.prometheusbooks.com)
No Cure for
Cancer by Dennis Leary, Denis Leary (Knopf Publishing Group )
Bleeding Kansas
by Sara Paretsky (Penguin Group (USA)
Vanilla Bright
Like Eminem by Michael Faber (Harcourt Trade)
101 Accessible
Vacations by Candy B. Harrington (Demos Medical Publishing)
Blood King: Book
Two in the Chronicles of the Necromancer by Gail Martin (BL Publishing )
Freeing Yourself
From The Narcissist In Your Life by Linda Martinez-Lewi, Ph.D. (Tarcher/Penquin)
The Joy Of
Physics by Arthur W. Wiggins (www.prometheusbooks.com)
Expert Resumes
for Military-to-Civilian Transitions 
Harriet And
Isabella by Patricia O'Brien (Touchstone Books)
When The Ground
Turns In Its Sleep by Sylvia Sellers-Garcia (Riverhead Books)
The Abyssinian
Proof by Jenny White (W.W. Norton)
Death in the
Pot: The Impact of Food Poisoning in History by Morton Satin (Prometheus Books )
Happy For No
Reason by Marci Shimoff (www.simonsays.com)
Queen of Fats:
Why Omega-3s Were Removed from the Western Diet and What We Can Do to Replace
Them by Susan Allport (University of California Press )
Emergency Sex: A
True Story from Hell on Earth 
How Come That
Idiot's Rich And I'm Not by Robert Shermin (Crown)
Black Sheep by
Ben Peek (www.prime-books.com)
Freedom
America's Competitive Advantage In The Global Market by William Gamble
Sir Gawain And
The Green Knight...translated by Simon Armitage (W.W. Norton)
Warhammer
Fantasy Roleplay: A Grim World of Perilous Adventure by Green Ronin (Simon &
Schuster Adult Publishing Group )
Behind My Eyes
by Li-Young Lee (W.W. Norton)
Reading
Orientalism by Daniel Martin Varisco (University Of Washington Press)
Guilty by Anna
Kavan (Dufour Editions)
A Force Of
Nature by Richard Reeves (W.W. Norton)
Death Before
Wicket by Kerry Greenwood (Poisoned Pen)
A Perfect Mess
by Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freeman (Back Bay Books/Little Brown)
My First Movie:
Take Two...edited by Stephen Lowenstein (Pantheon Books)
Little Moscow by
Mick Scully (Dufour Editions)
Sellout by
Randall Kennedy (Pantheon Books)
Ysabel by Guy
Gavriel Kay (Penguin Group (USA)
Mystery
Date...edited by Denise Little (DAW)
Marseguro by
Edward Willett (DAW)
Fire at Will: A
Battletech Novel (Mechwarrior: Dark Age Series #28) by Blaine Lee Pardoe
(Penguin Group (USA)
Whitechapel Gods
by S.M. Peters (Roc)
Her Last Death
by Susanna Sonnenberg (Scribner/S&S)
Magic of
Twilight: Book One of the Nessantico Cycle 
The Book Of U.S.
Government Jobs by (10th Edition) by Dennis V. Damp (Bookhaven Press)
The Prairie
Table Cookbook by Bill Kurtis with Michelle M. Martin (Sourcebooks)
The Power Of
Unreasonable People by John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan (www.HBSPress.org)
At The Grammy's:
Behind the Scenes of Music's Biggest Night by Ken Erlich (Hal Leonard
Corporation ) 
Spark by John J.
Ratey, MD (Little, Brown)
God Save The Fan
by Will Leitch (Harper Collins Publishers)
Magic In The
Mirrorstone...edited by Steve Berman (Mirrorstone)
The Girls' Guide
To Building A Million-Dollar Business by Susan Wilson Solovic (AMACOM)
The AMA Handbook
Of Project Management...edited by Paul C. Dinsmore (AMACOM)
Ghost Army Of
World War II by Jack M. Kneece (Pelican Publishing)
Forgotten Ellis
Island by Lori Conway (Harper Collins)
Laura Warholic
by Alexander Theroux (Fantagraphics)
The Kingdom
Where Nobody Dies by Kathleen Hills (Poisoned Pen)
Abraham
Lincoln's Execution by John Chandler Griffin (Pelican Publishing)
The New Human
Capital Strategy by Bradley W. Hall, Ph.D. (AMACOM)
Bond Of Fire by
Diane Whiteside (Berkley Sensation)
Kniting Bones by
Monica Ferris (Berkley Prime Crime)
The Fattening Of
America by Eric A. Finkelstein & Laurie Zuckerman (Wiley)
Gotta Keep on
Tryin' 
Kill The Devil
by T.K. Marion (www.tkmarion.com)
Red Dragon Codex
by R.D. Henham (Mirrorstone)
Detroit
Noir...edited by John C. Hocking & E.J. Olsen (Akashic Noir Series)
Working
Wilderness by Nathan Sayre (Rio Nuevo)
Endgame, 1945 by
David Stafford (Little Bown/Hachette)
Havana
Noir...edited by Achy Obejas (Akashic Noir Series)
Manhattan by
Helene Cixous (Fordham University Press)
Dragons Wild by
Robert Asprin (Ace Trade)
Captain's Fury:
Book Four of the Codex Alera 
Water by Alyce
Miller (www.sarabandebooks.org)
Fixing American
Healthcare by Richard N. Fogoros (Publish or Perish)
How Can I Talk
If My Lips Don't Move by Tito Rajrshi Mukhppadhyay (Arcade Publishing)
Paws And Effect
by Sharon Sakson (www.alyson.com)
A Life Of One's
Own by Ilana Simons (www.penguingroup.com)
The Way To Black
Belt by Lawrence Kane & Kris Wilder (www.ymaa.com)
Heaven Of Drums
by Ana Gloria Moya (www.curbstone.org)
Unquiet Dreams
by Mark Del Franco (Ace Mass Market)
Excuse Me, Your
Soul Mate Is Waiting by Marla Martenson (www.hrpub.com)
Homecoming by
Berhard Schlink (one.org)Pantheon Books)
Power and
Paradox of Physical Attractiveness 
The Landmark
Herodotus...edited by Robert B. Strassler (Pantheon Books)
The Meaning Of
Sunglasses by Hadley Freeman (Viking)
The Last
Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon
Charlie Wilson's
War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA
Agent Changed the History of Our Times by George Crile (Grove/Atlantic, Inc. )
Listening To
Cougar by Jane Goodall (University of Oklahoma Press)
They Called Me
Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the
Holocaust 
Nexus Archives
Volume 6 
Learning
Together with Young Children: A Curriculum Framework for Reflective Teachers by
Deb Curtis, Margie Carter (Redleaf Press )
Uncommon Reason by
Colin D. Mallard (BookSurge, LLC )
Darkling by
Yasmine Galenorn (Berkley Mass Market)
Airs And Graces
by Toby Bishop (Ace Mass Market)
World of Wonder:
People and Places 
Test-Drive Your
Dream Job: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding and Creating the Work You Love by
Brian Kurth, Robin Simons (Grand Central Publishing )
Salt River by
James Sallis (Walker & Company)
Luck Be a Lady,
Don't Die: A Rat Pack Mystery 
Killer Riff by
Sheryl J. Anderson (St. Martin's Minotaur)
The Grandluxe
Express: Traveling in High Style 
Betrayal
(Chasing Yesterday Series #2), Vol. 2 
The Unnatural
Inquirer: A Novel of the Nightside 
Zippy: From Here
to Absurdity (Zippy Annual Series), Vol. 5 by Bill Griffith (Fantagraphics Books
)
Deliver Us from
Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism by Sean Hannity
(HarperCollins Publishers )
Bombers Broadside 2008 (www.maplestreetpress)
The Ultimate
Yankees Companion by...edited by Gary Gillette and Pete Palmer (www.maplestreetpress.com)
Predicting the
Unpredictable: How Neural Networks Enhance Predictability and Performance in
Portfolio Management 
Chronic Crisis:
Critical Care for America's Collapsing Healthcare System by Selvoy M. Fillerup
(Acacia Publishing, Inc. AZ )
Something Really
New: Three Simple Steps to Creating Truly Innovative Products by Denis J.
Hauptly (AMACOM )
Soul of the
Rhino: A Nepali Adventure with Kings and Elephant Drivers, Billionaires and
Bureaucrats, Shamans and Scientists and the Indian Rhinoceros by Hemanta R.
Mishra, Jim Ottaway (Editor) (Lyons Press, The )
Windcatcher: New
and Selected Poems 1964-2006 
Beginner's Greek
by James Collins (Little, Brown & Company )
The Cat Bible:
Everything Your Cat Expects You to Know by Tracie Hotchner (Penguin Group (USA)
Cat, or, how I
Lost Eternity 
Beyond The
Secret by Alexandra Bruce (The Disinformation Company)
Dance With The
Dragon by David Hagberg (A Forge Hardcover)
Refresh, Refresh
by Benjamin Percy (Graywolf Press)
UM... by Michael
Erard (Pantheon)
Signed, Mata
Hari by Yannick Murphy (Little, Brown and Company)
The Session by
Aaron Petrovich (www.hotelstgeorgepress.com)
Amberlight by Sylvia Kelso (Juno)
Dancing With
Werewolves by Carol Nelson Douglas (Juno)
The Match: A
Novel by Romesh Gunesekera (New Press, The )
The Sorcerers'
Plague: Book One of Blood of the Southlands by David B. Coe (Doherty, Tom
Associates, LLC )
The Carnivorous
Lamb 
Ronald Reagan
And Margaret Thatcher by Nicholas Wapshott (Sentinel)
365 Ways To
Become A Millionaire by Brian Koslow (Plume Books)
Your Internet
Cash Machine by Joe Vitale and Jillian Coleman Wheeler (Wiley)
The Unknown
Black Book...edited by Joshua Rubenstein and Ilya Altman (Indiana University
Press)
Only In Death by
Dan Abnett (BL Publishing)
Infernal Device:
Machinery of Torture and Execution by Erik Ruhling (Disinformation Company, The
)
How of
Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want by Sonja
Lyubomirsky (Penguin Group (USA)
Erase The Years
by James C. Fairfield, MD (www.cmderm.com)
Do You Believe
by Antonio Monda (A Vintage Books)
It's Up to You:
A Practice to Change Your Life by Changing Your Mind by Karen Casey (Red Wheel/Weiser
)
After Mass
Crime: Rebuilding States and Communities by Beatrice Pouligny (Editor), Simon
Chesterman (Editor), Albrecht Schnabel (Editor), Albrecht Schnabel (Editor),
Simon Chesterman (Editor) (P&R Publishing )
My Brother's
Madness by Paul Pines (Curbstone)
India Arriving:
How This Economic Powerhouse Is Redefining Global Business by Rafiq Dossani (AMACOM
)
Hartsburg, USA
by David Mizner (Bloomsbury)
Death By
Supermarket by Nancy Deville (Barricade Books)
The Solaris Book
Of New Science Fiction...edited by George Mann (www.blacklibrary.com)
Spa Living:
Ideas, Tips, and Recipes for Revitalizing Body-Mind-Spirit 
Precious Blood
by Jonathan Hayes (Harper Collins)
Intellectual
Property: The Tough New Realities That Could Make or Break Your Business by Paul
Goldstein (Penguin Group (USA)
Exposed: The
Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power by
Mark Schapiro (Chelsea Green Publishing )
The Joy of
Freedom: An Economist's Odyssey 
The Cult Of
Perfection by Cooper Lawrence (Globe Pequot/Skirt)
Blue Ocean
Strategy by W. Chan Kim (HBS Press)
The Bankruptcy Handbook by John Ventura (Kaplan Publishing)
Arthur Conan
Doyle: A Life in Letters