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- The $800 Million Pill: The Truth behind the Cost of New Drugs - Merrill Goozner
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus - Charles C. Mann
- 1968 : The Year That Rocked the World - Mark Kurlansky
- 24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Uncovered the Lies that - Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller
- 25 to Life: The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth - Leslie Crocker Snyder and Tom Shachtman
A
- A.L.T.: A Memoir - Andre Leon Talley
- Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths - Bruce Feiler
- Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point - David Lipsky
- Accidental Playboy: Caught in the Ultimate Male Fantasy - Leif Ueland
- Adam's Curse: A Future without Men - Bryan Sykes
- The Afterlife Is Where We Come - Alma Gottlieb
- The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism - Haynes Johnson
- The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream - H. W. Brands
- Aged by Culture - Margaret Morganroth Gullett
- Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow
- All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated - Nell Bernstein
- All Fishermen Are Liars: True Tales from the Dry Dock Bar - Linda Greenlaw
- All I Did Was Ask - Terry Gross
- All the Centurions: A New York City Cop Remembers His Years on the Street, 1961-1981 - Robert Leuci
- Always Wear Joy: My Mother Bold and Beautiful - Susan Fales-Hill
- An Amazing Adventure: Joe and Hadassah's Personal Notes on the 2000 Campaign - Joseph I. Lieberman, Hadassah Lieberman, and Sarah Crichton
- Ambulance Girl:How I Saved Myself By Becoming an EMT - Jane Stern
- America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between the United States and Its Enemies - George Friedman
- American Hostage : A Memoir of a Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq and the Remarkable Battle to Win His Release - Micah Garen, Marie-Hélène Carleton
- American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads - Pascale Le Draoulec
- American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer - Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
- American Traveler: The Life and Adventures of John Ledyard, the Man Who Dreamed of Walking the World - James Zug
- The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness - Jerome Groopman, M.D.
- Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You - Laurie Lynn Drummond
- Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy - Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks
- Are My Blinkers Showing?: Adventures in Filmmaking in the New Russia - Michael York
- Arthur and George - Julian Barnes
- Ash Wednesday: A Novel - Ethan Hawke
BC
- Babe Ruth : Launching the Legend - Jim Reisler
- Backstory - Ken Auletta
- The Baghdad Blog - Salam Pax
- Bandbox: A Novel - Thomas Mallon
- Bat Boy: My True Life Adventures Coming of Age with the New York Yankees - Matthew McGough
- The Battle for New York : The City at the Heart of the American Revolution - Barnet Schecter
- Bay of Souls - Robert Stone
- Beating Around the Bush - Art Buchwald
- Being America - Jedediah Purdy
- Belushi - Judy Belushi Pisano, Tanner Colby
- The Best American Magazine Writing 2002 - American Society of Magazine
- The Best American Science Writing 2002 - Matt Ridley, Jesse Cohen
- Better Off - Eric Brende
- Better Than Sane: Tales from a Dangling Girl - Alison C. Rose
- Between You and Me - Mike Wallace
- Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science - Bill Bass, Jon Jefferson
- Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism - Jeanne Guillemin
- The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage - Cathi Hanauer
- The Black Prince of Baseball - Donald Dewey and Nicholas Acocella
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature - Steven Pinker
- Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
- Blood and Soap: stories - Linh Dinh
- Blue Blood - Edward Conlon
- Blue Days, Black Nights : A Memoir - Ron Nyswaner
- Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before - Tony Horwitz
- Blue Shoe - Anne Lamott
- The Body of Jonah Boyd : A Novel - David Leavitt
- Bold Women, Big Ideas: Learning to Play the High-Risk Entrepreneurial Game - Kay Koplovitz with Peter Israel
- The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo - Clea Koff
- Boogers Are My Beat : More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism - Dave Barry
- Bookmark Now - Kevin Smokler
- The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World - Michael Pollan
- Boyos: A Novel - Richard Marinick
- Boys: Stories and a Novella - David Lloyd
- Brand Sense: Build Powerful Brands through Touch, Taste, Smell, Sight, and Sound - Martin Lindstrom
- Breaking Clean - Judy Blunt
- Breaking the Ice: The Black Experience in Professional Hockey - Cecil Harris
- The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil - George Saunders
- Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller - Gregg Herken
- The Buffalo Soldier: A Novel - Chris Bohjalian
- Bug: The Strange Mutations of the World's Most Famous Automobile - Phil Patton
- Bull's-Eye: Unraveling the Medical Mystery of Lyme Disease - Jonathan A. Edlow, M.D.
- Bury the Chains : Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves - Adam Hochschild
- Bush Versus the Environment - Robert S. Devine
- The Buzzing - James Knipfel
- Captain of the Sleepers - Mayra Montero
- Caramba! A Tale Told in Turns of the Card - Nina Marie Martínez
- Caramelo - Sandra Cisneros
- Carnival : A Novel - Robert Antoni
- The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization - Richard W. Bulliet
- Chatter - Patrick Radden Keefe
- Chef, Interrupted : Delicious Chefs' Recipes That You Can Actually Make at Home - Melissa Clark
- Child of My Heart - Alice McDermott
- The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton - Jerome Karabel
- The City: A Global History - Joel Kotkin
- Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law - Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler
- The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet - David Kahn
- Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture - Thomas Doherty
- Color Stories: Behind the Scenes of America's Billion-Dollar Beauty Industry - Mary Lisa Gavenas
- The Common Thread: Mothers, Daughters, and the Power of Empathy - Martha Manning
- Confederacy Of Silence: A True Tale of the New Old South - Richard Rubin
- The Confessions of Max Trivoli - Andrew Sean Greer
- Confessions of a Street Addict - James J. Cramer
- Confessions of a Tax Collector - Richard Yancy
- Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story - Kurt Eichenwald
- The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film - Michael Ondaatje
- Cooking at De Gustibus: Celebrating 25 Years of Culinary Innovation - Arlene Feltman Sailhac, Arlene Feltman-Sailhac
- Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy - Robert F. Kennedy
- Crossing California: A Novel - Adam Langer
- Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web - Lynn H. Nicholas
- Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo - Ned Sublette
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel - Mark Haddon
DE
- DNA: The Secret of Life - James D. Watson with Andrew Berry
- Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard Of - David Carlyon
- Dangerous Doses: How Counterfeiters Are Contaminating America's Drug Supply - Katherine Eban
- Daniel Boulud's Cafe Boulud Cookbook: French-American Recipes for the Home Cook - Daniel Boulud and Dorie Greenspan
- Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town - Paul Theroux
- The Darling - Russell Banks
- A Deadly Secret:The Strange Disappearance of Kathie Durst - Matt Birkbeck
- Dean and Me: A Love Story - Jerry Lewis, James Kaplan
- Dear Mr. President: Stories and a Novella - Gabe Hudson
- The Death Penalty on Trial: Crisis in American Justice - Bill Kurtis
- Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution - Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner
- Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker - James Gavin
- The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story - Richard Preston
- Derailed - James Siegel
- The Dew Breaker - Edwidge Danticat
- The Disappointment Artist: Essays - Jonathan Lethem
- DisneyWar - James B. Stewart
- Doctored Evidence: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery - Donna Leon
- Dogwalker: Stories - Arthur Bradford
- Drastic: Stories - Maud Casey
- Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance - Barack Obama
- Dying to Cross: The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History - Jorge Ramos
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves - Lynne Truss
- Einstein Defiant: Genius Versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution - Edmund Blair Bolles
- Eleanor Rigby: A Novel - Douglas Coupland
- The Electric Meme: A New Theory of How We Think - Robert Aunger
- Empire - Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri
- Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power - Niall Ferguson
- The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century - Charles A. Kupchan
- Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age - Bill McKibben
- Escape From Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity -— and My Journey to Freedom in America - Francis Bok with Edward Tivnan
- Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism - Dominic Sandbrook
- Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914? - David Fromkin
- Eventide - Kent Haruf
- Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair - Richard Moran
- Explorer's House: National Geographic and the World It Made - Robert M. Poole
- The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos - Robert P. Kirshner
FG
- The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality - Brian Greene
- Fabulous Small Jews - Joseph Epstein
- The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios - Yann Martel
- Faith at War : A Journey on the Frontlines of Islam, from Baghdad to Timbuktu - Yaroslav Trofimov
- Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America - Arianna Huffington
- Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World - Greg Critser
- Featherstone: A Novel - Kirsty Gunn
- A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies: Stories - John Murray
- Five Families : The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires - Selwyn Raab
- The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World - Nicholas Dawidoff
- Forewarned: Why the Government Is Failing to Protect Us - and What We Must Do to Protect Ourselves - Michael Cherkasky
- Four Sisters of Hofei: A History - Annping Chin
- Fourteen: Growing Up Alone in a Crowd - Stephen Zanichkowsky
- The Fourth Network - Dan Kimmel
- Funny Letters from Famous People - Charles Osgood
- Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America - Firoozeh Dumas
- The Gate - Francois Bizot
- The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College - Jacques Steinberg
- Gates of Injustice: The Crisis in America's Prisons - Alan Elsner
- The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome - Jake Morrissey
- The Genius of Genesis: A Psychoanalyst and Rabbi Examines the First Book of the Bible - Dennis G. Shulman
- Get to Work: A Manifesto For Women of the World - Linda Hirhsman.
- Getting Mother's Body - Suzan-Lori Parks
- Getting Mother's Body - Suzan-Lori Parks
- Gilead: A Novel - Marilynne Robinson
- Gilgamesh: A New English Version - Stephen Mitchell
- Girl Cook: A Novel - Hannah McCouch
- Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir - Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir - Jeannette Walls
- Goat: A Memoir - Brad Land
- God In The Equation: How Einstein Became the Prophet of the New Religious Era - Corey Powell
- God Lives in St. Petersburg - Tom Bissell
- God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America - Naomi Schaefer Riley
- God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible - Adam Nicolson
- Godtalk: Travels in Spiritual America - Brad Gooch
- The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number - Mario Livio
- Gone to New York: Adventures in the City - Jamaica Kincaid (Foreword), Ian Frazier
- Good Faith - Jane Smiley
- The Good, the Bad, and Me: In My Anecdotage - Eli Wallach
- Graceland: A Novel - Chris Abani
- The Grail Bird - Tim Gallagher
- Grass Roof, Tin Roof: A Novel - Dao Strom
- Great Neck - Jay Cantor
- The Great Tax Wars: Lincoln to Wilson--The Fierce Battles over Money and Power That Transformed the Nation - Steven R. Weisman
- The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century - Paul Krugman
- The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy - Leonard Steinhorn
- Guantanamo: What the World Should Know - Michael Ratner, Ellen Ray, Anthony Lewis
HI
- The Ha-Ha - Dave King
- The Half Brother : A Novel - Lars Saabye Christensen
- Hamlet's Dresser: A Memoir - Bob Smith
- Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks - Michael R. Gardner
- Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage Stories - Alice Munro
- Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme - Chris Roberts
- Hello to the Cannibals: A Novel - Richard Bausch
- High And Mighty: SUVs - The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way - Keith Bradsher
- High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis - Max Frankel
- His Excellency: George Washington - Joseph J. Ellis
- Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military - Bryan Mark Rigg
- Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military - Bryan Mark Rigg
- The Holy Thief: A Con Man's Journey from Darkness to Light - Mark Borovitz and Alan Eisenstock
- Home Land - Sam Lipsyte
- Homeland - Dale Maharidge
- The Honeymoon: A Novel - Justin Haythe
- Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times - Studs Terkel
- Hot Property: The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization - Pat Choate
- House of Happy Endings: A Memoir - Leslie Garis
- How to Lose Friends & Alienate People - Toby Young
- The Hunt for Bin Laden: Task Force Dagger - Robin Moore
- I Am Madame X: A Novel - Gioia Diliberto
- I Like It Better When You're Funny: Working in Television and Other Precarious Adventures - Charles Grodin
- I Want That! How We All Became Shoppers - Thomas Hine
- I'll Take You There: A Novel - Joyce Carol Oates
- I, Wabenzi : A Souvenir - Rafi Zabor
- In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization - Deborah Meier
- In the Absence of Sun: A Korean American Woman's Promise to Reunite Three Lost Generations of Her Family - Helie Lee
- In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran - Christopher De Bellaigue, Christian Hardyment
- In the Shadow of Fame: A Memoir by the Daughter of Erik Erikson - Sue Erikson Bloland
- The Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo - Gary May
- The Inner Circle - T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Inside the Oval Office: The White House Tapes from FDR to Clinton - William Doyle
- Into a Paris Quartier - Diane Johnson
- Into the Mirror: The Life of Master Spy Robert P. Hanssen - Lawrence Schiller
- Inventing Beauty : A History of the Innovations that Have Made Us Beautiful - Teresa Riordan
- The Invention of Everything Else - Samantha Hunt
- The Invisible Century: Einstein, Freud, and the Search for Hidden Universes - Richard Panek
- Ireland: A Novel - Frank Delaney
- It's My Party, Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America - Christine Todd Whitman
JKL
- JOY Comes in the MORNING - Jonathan Rosen
- Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles - Anthony Swofford
- Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda - Gary Berntsen and Ralph Pezzullo
- Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism - Roger Wilkins
- Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War - T. J. Stiles
- Joan Nathan's Jewish Holiday Cookbook - Joan Nathan
- John James Audubon: The Making of an American - Richard Rhodes
- Join Me - Danny Wallace
- Joined at the Heart: The Transformation of the American Family - Al and Tipper Gore
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel - Susanna Clarke
- Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran - Roya Hakakian
- Julie and Julia - Julie Powell
- Just Lucky I Guess: A Memoir of Sorts - Carol Channing
- The Killer Strain: Anthrax and a Government Exposed - Marilyn W. Thompson
- Krakatoa:The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 - Simon Winchester
- LIES: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them—A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right - Al Franken
- The Lady and the Unicorn - Tracy Chevalier
- Land's End: A Walk Through Provincetown - Michael Cunningham
- The Last American Man - Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Last Good Season: Sports & Recreation - Baseball Hist - Michael Shapiro
- Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster - Melissa Fay Greene
- Last Night - James Salter
- A Lawyer's Life - Johnnie L. Cochran
- The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World - Peter Ward and Don Brownlee
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness - Joshua Wolf Shenk
- The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
- Live From New York: An Oral History of Saturday Night Live - Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller
- Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain - Antonio Damasio
- The Lost Painting: The Search for a Caravaggio Masterpiece - Jonathan Harr
- Love, War, and Circuses: The Age-Old Relationship Between Elephants and Humans - Eric Scigliano
- The Lovely Bones: A Novel - Alice Sebold
- Low Carb 1-2-3: 225 Simply Great 3-Ingredient Recipes - Rozanne Gold, Helen Kimmel
- Lunar Park - Bret Easton Ellis
- Lush Life - Richard Price
- Lying Together: My Russian Affair - Jennifer Beth Cohen
M
- Made From Scratch: Reclaiming the Pleasures of the American Hearth - Jean Zimmerman
- A Man After His Own Heart: A True Story - Charles Siebert
- The Man Who Warned America: The Life and Death of John O'Neill, the FBI's Embattled Counterterror Warrior - Murray Weiss
- A Man without a Country - Kurt Vonnegut
- Mandela, Mobutu, and Me: A Newswoman's African Journey - Lynne Duke
- The Match: Althea Gibson & Angela Buxton - Bruce Schoenfeld
- Matches - Alan Kaufman
- The Measure Of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World - Ken Alder
- Measuring America : How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy - Andro Linklater
- Meet You in Hell - Les Standiford
- Melville: His World and Work - Andrew Delblanco
- The Memory of Running: A Novel - Ron McLarty
- Metropolis - Elizabeth Gaffney
- Middlesex: A Novel - Jeffrey Eugenides
- A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
- The Minimalist Cooks at Home: Recipes That Give You More Flavor from Fewer Ingredients in Less Time - Mark Bittman
- The Miracle of Edgar Mint - Brady Udall
- Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin - John Hope Franklin
- Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood - Naomi Wolf
- More than Moody: Recognizing and Treating Adolescent Depression - Harold Koplewicz
- Mr. Paradise : A Novel - Elmore Leonard
- Mrs. Kimble: A Novel - Jennifer Haigh
- My Life in Heavy Metal: STORIES - Steve Almond
- My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru - Tim Guest
- My Losing Season - Pat Conroy
- My Mentor: A Young Man's Friendship with William Maxwell - Alec Wilkinson
- Mystery of the Nile: The Epic Story of the First Descent of the World's Deadliest River - Richard Bangs, Pasquale Scaturro
NO
- The Naked Chef - Jamie Oliver
- Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq war as seen by NPR's correspondent - Anne Garrels
- Natasha: And Other Stories - David Bezmozgis
- The Nearly Departed - Brenda Cullerton
- Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power - Garry Wills
- The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century - Robert J. Shiller
- A New Kind of Science - Stephen Wolfram
- The New York Chronology - James Trager
- The Newman's Own Organics Guide to a Good Life - Nell Newman and Joseph D'Agnese
- News from the New American Diaspora and Other Tales of Exile - Jay Neugeboren
- Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler - Michael Rosenthal
- Night Draws Near : Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War - Anthony Shadid
- Not One More Mother's Child - Cindy Sheehan
- Nowhere Man - Aleksandar Hemon
- Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World - Gordon Chang
- Nuremberg: The Reckoning - William F. Buckley Jr.
- Nursing Against the Odds - Suzanne Gordon
- Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie (Great Discoveries) - Barbara Goldsmith
- Oh, the Things I Know! A Guide to Success, or, Failing that, Happiness - Al Franken Ph.D. (hon.)
- Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop - Joseph Lelyveld
- On Broadway Men Still Wear Hats - Robert Simonson
- On This Day - Nathaniel Bellows
- On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction - Karl Iagnemma
- Once Upon a Tart ... Soups, Salads, Muffins, and More - Frank Mentesana
- One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer - Nathaniel C. Fick
- Only Connect - Rudy Crew
- Only Son: A Memoir - John Johnson, with Jeff Coplon
- The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course - Richard N. Haass
- Oryx and Crake: A Novel - Margaret Atwood
- Our Ecstatic Days: A Novel - Steve Erickson
- Our Own Devices:The Past and Future of Body Technology - Edward Tenner
PQR
- The Partly Cloudy Patriot - Sarah Vowell
- Pasadena: A Novel - David Ebershoff
- Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
- Paul Gauguin: An Erotic Life - Nancy Mowll Mathews
- The Pearl Diver : A Novel - Jeff Talarigo
- The Peloponnesian War - Donald Kagan
- The People and the President: America's Conversation with FDR - Lawrence W. Levine and Cornelia R. Levine
- Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track: The Letters Of Richard P. Feynman - Timothy Ferris (Foreword), Richard P. Feynman, Michelle Feynman
- The Point of Return: A Novel - Siddhartha Deb
- Poker Face - Katy Lederer
- Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time - Michael Perry
- Port Mungo - Patrick McGrath
- Prague - Arthur Phillips
- Present Company - W.S. Merwin
- Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy - Edited by William Kristol and Robert Kagan
- Pro-Growth Progressive: A Strategy for Shared Prosperity in a Changing Economy - Gene B. Sperling
- Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems - Nikki Giovanni
- Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite Movies - Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner
- A Radical Line - Thai Jones
- Rape : A Love Story - Joyce Carol Oates
- Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended - Jack Matlock
- The Real Price of War: How You Pay for the War on Terror - Joshua S. Goldstein
- The Rebbe's Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch - Sue Fishkoff
- Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-In House - Sarah Messer
- Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market - Eric Schlosser
- The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia - Piers Vitebsky
- Reporting Back: Notes on Journalism - Lillian Ross
- Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941-1963 - Clayborne Carson, David J. Garrow, Bill Kovach, Carol Polsgrove
- Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America - Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
- Resistance - Barry Lopez
- The Restless Sleep : Inside New York City's Cold Case Squad - Stacy Horn
- A Return to Cooking - Eric Ripert
- Reversible Errors - Scott Turow
- The Rise and Fall of a 10th Grade Social Climber - Lauren Mechling, Laura Moser
- The Rise of the Creative Class - Richard Florida
- Rising from the Rails - Larry Tye
- The Roosevelts and the Royals - Will Swift
- The Root of Wild Madder - Brian Murphy
- Route 66 A.D.:On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists - Tony Perrottet
- Running On Empty - Peter G. Peterson
- The Rural Life - Verlyn Klinkenborg
- The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy - Strobe Talbott
S
- Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism - Marion Nestle
- Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition - Robert W. Merry
- Sandy Koufax: A Lefty`s Legacy - Jane Leavy
- A Seahorse Year : A Novel - Stacey D'Erasmo
- Search For The Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure in Pursuit of a New Species - Sy Montgomery
- The Secret - Eva Hoffman
- Secret Father: A Novel - James Carroll
- Secrets of a Tabloid Reporter - Barbara Sternig
- Seeing In The Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril - Timothy Ferris
- Sex and the Seasoned Woman - Gail Sheehy
- Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto - Chuck Klosterman
- Shark Trouble: True Stories About Sharks and the Sea by the author of Jaws - Peter Benchley
- Shockwave : Countdown to Hiroshima - Stephen Walker
- A Short History of Myth (Myths) - Karen Armstrong
- Sick Girl - Amy Silverstein
- Sight Hound: A Novel - Pam Houston
- Sightseeing: Stories - Rattawut Lapcharoensap
- Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala - Daniel Wilkinson
- The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy - Noreena Hertz
- The Sky Isn't Visible from Here - Felicia Sullivan
- Sleepaway School: Stories from a Boy's Life - Lee Stringer
- Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude - Robert Baer
- The Slow Food Guide to New York City: Restaurants, Markets, Bars - Patrick Martins, Ben Watson
- The Slynx: A Novel - Tatyana Tolstaya
- Snobbery: The American Version - Joseph Epstein
- Snow - Orhan Pamuk
- So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star - Jacob Slichter
- Soldier's Heart - Gary Paulsen
- Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy - Paul Hendrickson
- The Sounds of Slavery - Shane White and Graham White
- Specimen Days - Michael Cunningham
- Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio - Jeffrey Kluger
- Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq - Larry Diamond
- Stalin's Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953 - Jonathan Brent and Vladimir Naumov
- Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar - Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael - Richard M. Sudhalter
- The Stone Fields: An Epitaph for the Living - Courtney Angela Brkic
- The Substance of Style - Virginia Postrel
- Survival City: Adventures among the Ruins of Atomic America - Tom Vanderbilt
- The Survivor : Bill Clinton in the White House - John F. Harris
TU
- TALKING HANDS: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind - Margalit Fox
- A Tale of Love and Darkness - Amos Oz and Nicholas de Lange (Translator)
- Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators - Riccardo Orizio
- Ten Minutes from Normal - Karen Hughes
- The Tender Bar: A Memoir - J.R. Moehringer
- They Made America - Harold Evans
- This Cold Country - Annabel Davis-Goff
- This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience - Juan Williams
- A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts - Christiane Bird
- Three Junes - Julia Glass
- Three Junes - Julia Glass
- Three Nights in August - Buzz Bissinger
- Tietam Brown - Mick Foley
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