January...

• One Soldier's War
  Author: Babchenko, Arkady
  Publisher: PGW $ 25 ISBN: 9780802118608 Date: 2008
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  One Soldier's War is a visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldiers experience in the Chechen wars that brilliantly captures the fear, drudgery, chaos, and brutality of modern combat.
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted
  Author: Boylan, Jennifer Finney
  Publisher: Bantam $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780767921749 Date: 2008
  LJ PW
  From the bestselling author of She's Not There comes another buoyant, unforgettable memoir about growing up in a haunted house--and making peace with the ghosts that dwell in the heart.
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• Strong at the Broken Places: Voices of Illness, a Chorus of Hope
  Author: Cohen, Richard M.
  Publisher: HarperCollins $24.95 ISBN: 9780060763114 Date: 2008
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  The "New York Times" bestselling author of Blindsided offers an honest and inspirational perspective on living with chronic illness, witnessed through the lives of five remarkable individuals.
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• The Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
  Author: Faust, Drew Gilpin
  Publisher: Knopf $ 27.95 ISBN: 9780375404047 Date: 2008
  LJ
  Eminent historian Faust presents an illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War.
  Updated 11.19.07
  
• In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
  Author: Pollan, Michael
  Publisher: Penguin $ 21.95 ISBN: 9781594201455 Date: 2008
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  From the author of the bestselling The Omnivore's Dilemma comes this bracing and eloquent manifesto that shows readers how they might start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich their lives and enlarge their sense of what it means to be healthy.
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• Her Last Death: A Memoir
  Author: Sonnenberg, Susanna
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 24 ISBN: 9780743291088 Date: 2008
  Booklist LJ
  A searing, beautifully written, and compulsively readable memoir by a daughter who grew up with a narcissistic and addictive mother. Sonnenberg mines her painful and often startling memories as she examines her struggle to break free of her mother's all-consuming influence.
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
  Author: Weiner, Eric
  Publisher: Grand Central $ 25.99 ISBN: 9780446580267 Date: 2008
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  Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness."
  Updated 2.27.08
  

February...

• The Predictably Irrational: A Behavioral Economist's Startling Insights for Irrationally Better Life
  Author: Ariely, Dan
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780061353239 Date: 2008
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  In the tradition of Freakonomics and Blink a behavioral economist argues that human behavior is often anything but rational--that thoughts are not random, but instead are systematic and predictable.
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• The Good Rat: A True Story
  Author: Breslin, Jimmy
  Publisher: Ecco $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780060856663 Date: 2008
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  From Pulitzer Prize-winner Breslin comes the streetwise saga of the Mafias golden era and its decadent demise.
  Updated 11.19.07
  
• The Perfect Scent: A Year Behind the Scenes of the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York
  Author: Burr, Chandler
  Publisher: Holt $ 25 ISBN: 9780805080377 Date: 2008
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  From the "New York Times" perfume critic comes a stylish, fascinating, unprecedented insiders view of an industry and its charismatic characters. Writing with wit and elegance, Burr juxtaposes the stories of two perfumes--one created for a luxury-goods house, the other made by a giant international corporation.
  Updated 10.31.07
  
• Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir
  Author: Flynn, Laura M.
  Publisher: PGW $23 ISBN: 9781582433851 Date: 2008
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  Set in 1970s San Francisco, Swallow the Ocean is a searing, beautifully written memoir of a childhood under siege and three young girls determined to survive despite their mothers mental instability. In luminous prose, this memoir paints an intimate portrait of what might have been a catastrophic childhood.
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• Storming Las Vegas
  Author: Huddy, John
  Publisher: Ballantine $ 26 ISBN: 9780345487452 Date: 2008
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  Huddy tells the memorable true-crime story of how a Cuban-born, Soviet-trained commando takes down the Las Vegas Strip to the tune of five world-class hotels, three armored cars, and three million dollars, over a 16-month period.
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed
  Author: Kodas, Michael
  Publisher: Hyperion $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781401302733 Date: 2008
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  Kodas details how the recent infusion of wealth into mountaineering has brought about the age-old lust for glory. Through others accounts, as well as his own, the author illustrates the mountain's ability to reduce climbers to their essential selves--revealing villains as well as heroes.
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street
  Author: Nicholl, Charles
  Publisher: Penguin $ 26.95 ISBN: 9780670018505 Date: 2008
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  Acclaimed writer Nicholl presents a brilliantly drawn detective story with entirely new insights into Shakespeare's life, in this atmospheric and exciting book.
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• The Life of the Skies
  Author: Rosen, Jonathan
  Publisher: FSG $ 24 ISBN: 9780374186302 Date: 2008
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  In this illuminating and charming book, Rosen shows us the poetry, the philosophy, and the history--natural and human--of the strange modern pastime of bird-watching.--Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct and The Stuff of Thought.
  Updated 1.3.08
  
• Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret
  Author: Shulman, Seth
  Publisher: Norton $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780393062069 Date: 2008
  Booklist PW
  Shulman challenges the reputation of an icon of invention, rocks the foundation of a corporate behemoth, and offers a probing meditation on how little Americans know about their own history.
  Updated 2.27.08
  

March...

• Major: A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World's Fastest Human Being
  Author: Balf, Todd
  Publisher: Random $ 24 ISBN: 9780307236586 Date: 2008
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  Balf brings to life the fascinating story of cyclist Major Taylor, America's first African-American sports mega-celebrity and his quest to beat out his white, racist rival for the title of the Fastest Man in the World at the turn of the century.
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• Jumbo: This Being the True Story of the Greatest Elephant in the World
  Author: Chambers, Paul
  Publisher: Steerforth $ 23.95 ISBN: 9781586421410 Date: 2008
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  This biography of the most famous elephant to ever live--his name entered the lexicon as an adjective for oversized things, and he was the inspiration for Walt Disney's "Dumbo"--draws on new material to tell a rich, deeply moving tale.
  Updated 11.19.07
  
• Have You Found Her: A Memoir
  Author: Erlbaum, Janice
  Publisher: Random $ 14 ISBN: 9780812974577 Date: 2008
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  Twenty years after she lived at a homeless shelter for teens, Erlbaum went back to volunteer. There she met Sam, a 19-year-old junkie savant whod been surviving alone on the streets since she was 12. Written with startling candor, this is the story of one womans quest to save a girl's life.
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People
  Author: Goodison, Lorna
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780061337550 Date: 2008
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  In lush, vivid prose, textured with the cadences of Creole speech, Goodison weaves together memory and mythology to create a vivid tapestry of her ancestors and the places they called home.
  Updated 2.27.08
• Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human
  Author: Hess, Elizabeth
  Publisher: Bantam $ 23 ISBN:9780553803839 Date: 2008
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  Hess delivers the heart-tugging true story of Nim, a baby chimpanzee whose human-like manners and behavior have made him a celebrity in 1973. Nims story is by turns moving, tragic, and hilarious, and has raised profound questions about what it means to be human.
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• Love and Consequences: A Memoir of Hope and Survival
  Author: Jones, Margaret B.
  Publisher: Penguin $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781594489778 Date: 2008
  LJ Booklist
  This memoir is the stunning account of a mixed-race girl growing up in gang-ridden South Central Los Angeles, where she followed her foster brothers into the Bloods before she hit puberty. Jones chronicles what she witnessed, how she survived, and--against all odds--thrived.
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• Amalia's Tale: A Poor Peasant, and Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice
  Author: Kertzer, David I.
  Publisher: Houghton $ 24 ISBN: 9780618551064 Date: 2008
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  National Book Award finalist Kertzer presents the unforgettable true story and landmark case of a woman's struggle for basic human rights in 19th-century Italy. "Amalia's Tale" chronicles a rural woman whose life was ruined and the lawyer who would not stop until he had seen justice done.
  Updated 10.31.07
  
• The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
  Author: Lee, Jennifer 8
  Publisher: Grand Central $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780446580076 Date: 2008
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  Readers take an unexpected and entertaining journey through culinary, social, and cultural history in this delightful first book on the origins of the customary after-Chinese-dinner treat by "New York Times" reporter Lee.
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre
  Author: Richard, Grant
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 15 ISBN: 9781416534402 Date: 2008
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  Part gonzo misadventure, part cultural history, God's Middle Finger explores a fascinating land--the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico--where few outsiders are foolish enough to venture.
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction
  Author: Sheff, David
  Publisher:Houghton $ 24 ISBN: 9780618683352 Date: 2008
  LJ Booklist
  Sheffs story tells of his teenage sons addiction to meth in this real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the familys gradual emergence into hope.
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• Cheer! A Year in the Extreme World of Competitive College Cheerleading
  Author: Torgovnick, Kate
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781416535966 Date: 2008
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  Bring It On meets Pledged in this fascinating odyssey through the world of competitive college cheerleading.
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien: A Yankqui's Missteps in Argentina
  Author: Winter, Brian
  Publisher: Perseus $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781586483708 Date: 2008
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  In a book that is part travelogue, part history, a young American reporter moves to Argentina and struggles to learn the tango. He discovers that the tango, with its tales of jealousy, melodrama, and lost glory, may hold the secret to the country that is inexplicably disintegrating before his eyes.
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• A Step from Death
  Author: Woiwode, Larry
  Publisher: PGW $ 24 ISBN: 9781582433738 Date: 2008
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  Larry Woiwode's literary fame began with his first novel, the 1969 classic What I'm Going to Do, I Think, and continued unabated through his brilliant 2000 memoir What I Think I Did. In this deeply affecting follow-up to the latter, Woiwode addresses his son as heir to his emotional interior. With vibrant wordcraft and a poetic sensibility, Woiwode begins his story by relating a near-death experience with a malfunctioning hay baler 2; the kind of mistake that can kill a novice farmer. This episode is the first skein in a rich tapestry of memories, from colorful snippets of Woiwode7;s time in New York as a young writer working with the late, great William Maxwell, to his days as a young father, husband, and teacher trying to scrape enough together to buy a ranch in western North Dakota, and finally to the prospect of an empty nest and the step from death that he finds rapidly approaching.
  Updated 2.27.08
  

April...

• I Was Told There'd Be Cake
  Author: Crosley, Sloane
  Publisher: Penguin $ 14ISBN: 9781594483066 Date: 2008
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  Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. Crosby's strikingly original voice chronicles the struggles and unexpected beauty of modern urban life.
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• The Execution of Willie Francis
  Author: King, Gilbert
  Publisher: Perseus $ 26 ISBN: 9780465002658 Date: 2008
  Kirkus LJ
  The inspiration behind A Lesson Before Dying meets the best of John Grisham as a young Cajun lawyer fights to save a black teenager from the electric chair.
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• The Soloist: A Lost Dream, and Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
  Author: Lopez, Steve
  Publisher: Penguin $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780399155062 Date: 2008
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  Soon to be a major motion picture from DreamWorks, The Soloist is a beautifully told story of friendship and the redeeming power of music.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• Panama Fever: The Epic History of One of the Greatest Engineering Triumphs of All Time: the Building of the Panama Canal
  Author: Parker, Matthew
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 30 ISBN: 9780385515344 Date: 2008
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  A tale of exploration, conquest, money, politics, and medicine, Panama Fever charts the challenges that marked the long, labyrinthine road to the building of one of the greatest engineering feats in human history.
  Updated 10.31.07
  
• Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
  Author: Roach, Mary
  Publisher: Norton $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780393064643 Date: 2008
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  The bestselling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and infectious wit on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. In Bonk, Roach shows how and why sexual arousal and orgasm can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to make the bedroom a more satisfying place.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared
  Author: Robbins, Christopher
  Publisher: Norton $ 24 ISBN: 9780977743384 Date: 2008
  Kirkus LJ
  In this funny and revealing travelogue of Kazakhstan--a blank in Westerners' collective geography--Robbins reveals the country to be diverse, tolerant, and surprisingly modern. A superlative addition to the literature of travel--"The Observer" (UK).
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• The Suspicions of Mr.Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
  Author: Summerscale, Kate
  Publisher: Walker $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780802715357 Date: 2008
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  In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land.
  Updated 10.31.07
  

May...

• The Prince of Frogtown
  Author: Bragg, Rick
  Publisher: Random $ 24 ISBN: 9781400040407 Date: 2008
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  In this final volume of the memoir that began with All Over but the Shoutin and continued in Ava's Man, Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found
  Author: Brenner, Marie
  Publisher: FSG $ 24 ISBN: 9780374173524 Date: 2008
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  In her exposes of Big Tobacco and Enron, Brenner unveiled the secret networks and simmering malevolence behind the corporate facade. Now the reporter trains her eye on the complexities of her own family dynamics and what makes them stick together.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, a Son, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
  Author: Coates, Ta-nehesi
  Publisher: Bantam $ 22.95 ISBN: 9780385520362 Date: 2008
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  This powerful memoir about coming of age in inner-city Baltimore during the cracked-out 1980s is written with a stunning poetic awareness and gorgeous immediacy (James McBride, author of "The Color of Water")
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Last Campaign
  Author: Clarke, Thurston
  Publisher: Holt $ 25 ISBN: 9780805077926 Date: 2008
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  Clarke provides an absorbing historical narrative of the action-packed 82 days of Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign as well as the heightened personal, racial, and political dramas of the time.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Memoir
  Author: Dawidoff, Nicholas
  Publisher: Twelve $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780375400285 Date: 2008
  LJ PW
  From the author of the bestselling The Catcher Was a Spy comes his most original work yet: a memoir of two cities, a family, and a boy who never quite fits in anywhere--and how baseball helps him find his place.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• That Summer in Italy: A Love Story
  Author: De Blasi, Marlena
  Publisher: Ballantine $ 24 ISBN: 9780345497659 Date: 2008
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  From the national bestselling author of "A Thousand Days in Venice" and "A Thousand Days in Tuscany" comes a magical, beautifully-written true story of life, love, and the magic of Sicily.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes...
  Author: Edison, Mike
  Publisher: FSG $ 25 ISBN: 9780865479647 Date: 2008
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  "Half the time I spent reading this laugh-out-loud saga of depravity and mayhem, I found myself wishing I'd lived this life; the other half, I was thanking sweet heaven I didn't. In a world where many would-be rebels (myself included) would like to consider themselves or their work 'anti-establishment' or 'punk rock, ' Mike Edison hasn't just talked the talk, he's walked the walk. May God have mercy on his soul." --Todd Hanson, writer and editor, "The Onion"
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
  Author: Fuller, Alexandra
  Publisher: Penguin $ 23.95 ISBN: 9781594201837 Date: 2008
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  From the bestselling author of "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight" comes the unforgettable true story of a boy who comes of age in the oil fields and open plains of Wyoming.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• Falcon Fever: A Falconer in the Twenty-First Century
  Author: Gallagher, Tim
  Publisher: Hougton $ 25 ISBN: 9780618805754 Date: 2008
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  Gallagher mines his lifelong obsession with falcons in this engaging volume, interweaving memoir, history, and travelogue.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Obsession, Commerce and Adventure
  Author: Gollner, Adam Leith
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 25 ISBN: 9780743296946 Date: 2008
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  Gollner takes readers on a fascinating journey through the world of fruit--from the jungles of Borneo to American supermarkets--in this broadly appealing and vividly written tale of horticultural obsession.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest
  Author: Hall, Lincoln
  Publisher: Tarcher $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781585426461Date: 2008
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  Australian mountain climber Hall chronicles the amazing story of his rescue following a night spent near the summit of Mount Everest, where he had been left for dead by the other members of his expedition.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• Can't Remember What I Forgot: Closing in on a Cure for Memory Loss
  Author: Halpern, Sue
  Publisher: Random $ 24 ISBN: 9780307406743 Date: 2008
  Booklist LJ
  Halpern offers this essential foray into the world of cutting-edge memory research that unveils findings about memory loss that are only now available to general readers.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death, and Country Music
  Author: Jennings, Dana
  Publisher: FSG $ 24 ISBN: 9780865479609 Date: 2008
  PW Booklist
  In "Sing Me Back Home," Dana Jennings pushes past the iconic voices and images to get at what classic country music truly means to us today. Yes, country tells the story of rural America in the twentieth century--but the obsessions of classic country were obsessions of America as a whole: drinking and cheating, class and the yearning for home, God and death. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
  Author: Manguso, Sarah
  Publisher: FSG $ 22 ISBN: 9780374280123 Date: 2008
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  At 21, Manguso was faced with a wildly unpredictable disease that appeared suddenly, paralyzing her for weeks at a time. In this captivating story, she recalls her nine-year struggle with arduous blood cleansings, collapsed veins, multiple chest catheters, addiction, and depression.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Mysterious Montague: A True Tale of Hollywood, Golf and Armed Robbery
  Author: Montville, Leigh
  Publisher: Bantam $ 26 ISBN: 9780385520331 Date: 2008
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  From the glamour of 1930s Hollywood and John Montague's extraordinary skill on the golf course to the shady world of Adirondack rumrunners and bootleggers, a "New York Times"-bestselling author captures a man and an era with extraordinary color and energy.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Bishop's Daughter
  Author: Moore, Honor
  Publisher: Norton $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780393059847 Date: 2008
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  Paul Moore's vocation as an Episcopal priest took him from prominence as an activist to two decades as the bishop of New York. "The Bishop's Daughter" is a daughter's story of that complex, visionary man, in a memoir that engages the reader in the great issues of life.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• American Nerd: The Story of My People
  Author: Nugent, Benjamin
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 20 ISBN: 9780743288019 Date: 2008
  Booklist PW
  "American Nerd" explores the concept of nerdiness and the history of the nerd subculture: how they developed and how they have manifested in media, literature, schools, the workplace, and in the general public.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
  Author: Winchester, Simon
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 27.95 ISBN: 9780060884598 Date: 2008
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  The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Professor and the Madman" and "Krakatoa" returns with the remarkable story of the growth of a great nation, and the eccentric and adventurous scientist who defined its essence for the world.
  Updated 5.29.08
  

June...

• Me of Little Faith
  Author: Black, Lewis
  Publisher: Penguin $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781594489945 Date: 2008
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  From the hilariously mad-as-hell "Daily Show" regular and "New York Times "-bestselling author comes a ferociously funny exploration of religion and faith.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• No Man's Land
  Author: Fowler, Ruth
  Publisher: Penguin $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780670019397 Date: 2008
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  Fowler offers a gritty memoir of her descent into the world of strip clubs and how she pulled herself out, in this provocative look at the underground economy of sexual service and the costs it exacts.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family
  Author: Fisher, Paul
  Publisher: Holt $ 35 ISBN: 9780805074901 Date: 2008
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  Revealing the fascinating complexities of one of history's most brilliant, eccentric, and daring families, House of Wits looks at how the James family was traumatized by the restrictive standards of their times but reached out for new ideas and ways to live.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars
  Author: Pham, Andrew X.
  Publisher: Random $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780307381200 Date: 2008
  Booklist PW Kirkus
  From the award-winning author of "Catfish and Mandala" comes a son's searing memoir of his Vietnamese father's experiences over the course of three wars.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Wild Places
  Author: Macfarlane, Robert
  Publisher: Penguin $ 15 ISBN: 9780143113935 Date: 2008
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  Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? That is the question that Macfarlane poses to himself as he embarks on a series of breathtaking journeys through some of the archipelago's most remarkable landscapes.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• When You Are Engulfed in Flames
  Author: Sedaris, David
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 25.99 ISBN: 9780316143479 Date: 2008
  Kirkus PW
  In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life to the most deeply resonant human truths. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, his sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You
  Author: Gosling, Sam
  Publisher: Basic $ 25 ISBN: 9780465027811 Date: 2008
  LJ
  For the last 10 years, psychologist Gosling has been studying how people project, and protect, their inner selves. Now he looks at what can be learned about people simply from looking at their stuff; what he has discovered is astonishing.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town
  Author: Kurlansky, Mark
  Publisher: Ballantine $ 25 ISBN: 9780345487278 Date: 2008
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  From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Cod, Salt," and "The Big Oyster" comes the colorful story of a way of life that for hundreds of years has defined much of America's coastlines but is slowly disappearing.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Monster of Florence
  Author: Preston, Douglas
  Publisher: Grand Central $ 25.99 ISBN: 9780446581196 Date: 2008
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  In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt ("Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"), "New York Times"-bestselling author Preston presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence, Italy.
  Updated 5.29.08
  

July...

• Why I Came West
  Author: Bass, Rick
  Publisher: Houghton $ 24 ISBN: 9780618596751 Date: 2008
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  A poignant look at the 30-year journey of one of the country's great naturalist writers, "Why I Came West" explores how Bass fell in love with the mystique of the West and describes his role as a reluctant environmental activist, unwilling to stand by and watch this treasured place disappear.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
  Author: Dolnick, Edward
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 26.95 ISBN: 9780060825416 Date: 2008
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  The Edgar Award-winning author of "The Rescue Artist" is back with the riveting story of the brilliant con man--the world's most famous art forger ("New York Times")--who perpetrated the greatest art hoax of the 20th century.
  Updated 5.29.08
  

August...

• Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bazaar
  Author: Theroux, Paul
  Publisher: Houghton $ 28 ISBN: 9780618418879 Date: 2008
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  Thirty years after his classic The Great Railway Bazaar, Theroux revisits Eastern Europe, Central Asia, India, China, Japan, and Siberia. Wherever he goes, his omnivorous curiosity and unerring eye for detail never fail to inspire, enlighten, inform, and entertain.
  Updated 8.1.08
  
• How Fiction Works
  Author: Wood, James
  Publisher: FSG $ 22 ISBN: 9780374173401 Date: 2008
  PW Kirkus LJ
  What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions Wood answers in "How Fiction Works," a book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Updated 5.29.08
  

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