August 13, 2008
White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Brenda Wineapple
Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of “Energy Independence”, Robert Bryce
Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir, Sidney Offit
Tuna: A Love Story, Richard Ellis
American Fashion, Assouline

July 30, 2008
Society's Child, Janis Ian
A Buffalo in the House, R.D. Rosen
Tahoe Avalanche, Todd Borg
Edible Estates, Fritz Haeg
Peterson's Field Guide to Birds of North America, Roger Troy Peterson
The Complete Nevada Traveler, David Toll

July 23, 2008
Basho: Complete Haiku, Matsuo Basho
This Land is Thier Land, Barbara Ehrenreich
Celebrity Vinyl, Tom Hamling
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Paul Theroux
Grammer Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips, Mignon Fogarty
Books, Larry McMurtry
What's Math Got to Do With It? Jo Boaler
Artemis Flow: The Time Paradox, Eoin Colfer
The Wild Places, Robert MacFalane

July 16, 2008
Home to Roost: A Backyard Farmer Chases Chickens Through the Ages, Bob Sheasley
Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer, Tim Stark
A Nuclear Family Vacaion: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry, Nathan Hodge & Sharon Weinberger
How the States Got Their Shapes, Mark Stein
Plato and Playpus Walk into a Bar . . .Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes, Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein
Havana Nocturne: How the Mob owned Cuba and then lost it to the revolution, TJ English
How to Watch TV News, Neil Postman & Steve Powers

June 25, 2008
He Flies Through the Air with the Greatest of Ease: A William Saroyan Reader
House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest, Craig Childs
On Their Own: Women Journalists and the American Experience in Vietnam, Joyce Hoffman
Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America, Miles Harvey
Why I Came West, Rick Bass
Lake Tahoe: A Fragile Beauty, Thomas Bachard

June 18, 2008
The Edict: A Novel from the Beginning of Golf, Bob Cupp
Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel: The Gun that Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It, Julia Keller
Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children’s Literature, Leonard S. Marcus
Custom Kicks, Maki
Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory, Mickey Rapkin
Smithsonian Atlas of World Aviation, Dana Bell

June 11, 2008
Classic Novels: from Don Quixote to American Pastoral, Simon Mason
Ready, Set, Green: Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living, Graham Hill & Meaghan O'Neill
When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance,Gavin Menzies

May 28, 2008
Into the Wind: The Art of the Kite, Hans Silvester
Toilets of the World, Morna E. Gregory and Sian James
Devil May Care: The New James Bond Novel By Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming
Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound, David Rothenberg
Sea Change, Jorie Graham
Smithsonian Field Guide to Birds of North America, Ted Floyd
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon, Crystal Zevon

May 21, 2008
Dead Lucky, Lincoln Hall
Everything They Had, David Halberstam
Snuff, Chuck Palahniuk
Opium Debates, Diana Ahmad
Novel Destinations, Shannon McKenna
Modern Shoestring, Susanna Sirefman
Breach of Peace, Eric Etheridge

May 14, 2008
What Now? Ann Patchett
Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America, Cullen Murphy
The Importance of Music to Girls, Lavinia Greenlaw
The American Resting Place, Marilyn Yalom
The Lonesome Puppy, Yoshitomo Nara
Side by Side: New Poems Inspired by Art Around the World, Edited by Jan Greenberg

May 7, 2008
Zen Ties, Jon J Muth
The Legend of Colton H. Bryant, Alexandra Fuller
Bog-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses, Stacy Mitchell
Moyers on Democracy, Bill Moyers
The Man Who Loved China, Simon Winchester
American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, The Birth of the “It” Girl and the Crime of the Century, Paula Uruburu

April 30, 2008
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World, Tony Horwitz
i before e (except after c) old-school ways to remember stuff, Judy Parkinson
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism, Kevin Phillips
Northline, Willy Vlautin
Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children’s Literature, Leonard Marcus
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, Michael Chabon
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
The Plague of Doves, Louise Erdrich

April 23, 2008
Willie Nelson: An Epic Life, Joe Nick Patoski
Adios Amigos: Tales of Sustenance and Purification in the American West, Page Stegner
Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen, Susan Griffin
Wordless Books: The Original Graphic Novels, David A. Berona
Dwellings, Paul Oliver
Black Velvet Masterpieces, Carl Baldwin & Caren Anderson

 

April 16, 2008
Lavinia, Ursula Le Guin
How Can I Keep From Singing, David Dunaway
Shakespeare's Wife, Germaine Greer
Rough Guide to Travel with Babies and Young Children, Fawzia Rasheed
All Over Coffee, Paul Madonna

April 9, 2008
Sunflowers (The Secret History), Joe Pappalardo
Blessed Unrest, Paul Hawken
I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron
Red Bird, Mary Oliver
Girls Like Us, Sheila Weller
Green Homes, Sergi Costa Duran

April 2, 2008
Armageddon in Retrospect, Kurt Vonnegut
The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez, Translated by Robert Bly
Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway, by Joyce Carol Oates
Wit’s End, Karen Joy Fowler
Winter Study, Nevada Barr
The Last Photographic Heroes: American Photographers of the Sixties and Seventies, Gilles Mora

March 26, 2008
Roger, Jeremy Gerlis, Alan Capel and Tim Cordell
The Pocket Guide to Mischief, Bart King
Crimini: The Bitte Lemon Book of Italian Crime Fiction, edited by Giancarlo de Cataldo
The Ultimate Teen Book Guide, Edited by Daniel Han and Leonie Flynn
Dolly and Zane Grey: Letters From a Marriage, Candice Kant
Newspapers, Pennies, Cardboard and Eggs for Growing a Better Garden, Roger Yepsen
Luminous Mountains: The Sierra Nevada of California, Tim Palmer

March 19, 2008
Common Wealth, Jefferey Sachs
The Naming of America, John Hessler
Down and Dirty: 43 Fun and Funky First-Time Projects & Activities to Get you Gardening, Ellen Zachos
An Incomplete Revenge, A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Jacqueline Winspear
Knight: Noble Warrior of England 1200-1600, Christopher Gravett

 

March 12, 2008
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization, Nicholson Baker
The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby
Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing, Michael Dregni
Where Does the Money Go? Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis, Scott Bittle & Jean Johnson
England’s Child: The Carillon and the Casting of Big Bells, Jill Johnston
High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed, Michael Kodas

March 5, 2008
The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger, Chris Fujiwara
Wallace Stegner and the American West, Philip L. Fradkin
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, Bill McKibben
Grace (Eventually) Thoughts on Faith, Anne Lamott
Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate, At Work in the Wild and the Cultivated World, Wendy Johnson with illustrations by Davis Te Selle
Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain, Martha Sherrill

February 20, 2008
Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure, Edited by Smith Magazine
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, Chalmers Johnson
Desperate Passage: The Donner Party’s Perilous Journey West, Ethan Rarick
Where Light Takes its Color from the Sea: A California Notebook, James D. Houston
The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, Edited by Otto Penzler
Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son’s Memoir, David Rieff

February 13, 2008
A Grave in Gaza, Matt Beynon Rees
The Collaborator of Bethlehem, Matt Beynon Rees
Heart Stones, Josie Iselin
Things I’ve Learned From Women Who Dumped Me, Edited by Ben Karlin
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, Chris Hedges
Contact: Mountain Climbing and Environmental Thinking, Edited by Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy
My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro,
Edited by Jeffrey Eugenides

January 30, 2008
Jack Pine, Christopher Patton
Duma Key, Stephen King
The Appeal, John Grisham
Bohemia: Where Art, Angst, Love and Strong Coffee Meet, Herbert Gold
Creating A World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus
I Was Cuba: Treasures From the Ramiro Fernandez Collection, Kevin Kwan

January 23, 2008
Eight Women, Two Model Ts, and the American West, Joanne Wilke
Adventures in the West: Stories for Young Readers, Susanne George Bloomfield and Eric Melvin Reed, Editors
Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell
Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-Up in the 1970s Changed America, Richard Zoglin

 

January 15, 2008
Refresh, Refresh, Benjamin Percy
The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys, Klara Glowczewska, Editor
The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Michael Pollan
This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust
God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215, David, Benjamin Percy
The Conde Nast Levering Lewis

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