December 17, 2008
Complete Boxed Set, the Adventures of Tintin, Herge
Jackson Pollock 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle, Pomegranate
Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher
Carchitecture: Frames, Fenders, and Fins, Fredric Winkowski and Frank D. Sullivan
Girligami, Cindy Ng
The One Hundred: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own, Nina Garcia
The Anthropology of Turquoise, Ellen Meloy
Nevada Trails Western Region: Backroads and 4-Wheel Drive Trails, Peter Massey, Angela Titus, Jeanne Wilson
The America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, Revised Edition

December 10, 2008
Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme, Calvin Trillin
The Ramayana: Love and Valour in India’s Great Epic, J.P. Losty
Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando, Stefan Kanfer
Susan Sontag Reborn: Journals & Notebooks 1947-1966, Edited by David Rieff
The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine, Matthew Fox
Reputation: Portraits in Powers, Marjorie Williams, Edited by Timothy Noah
The Spy’s Bedside Book: An undercover collection of fiction, memoir, and tricks of the trade from all-time masters of espionage, Edited by Graham Greene and Hugh Greene
From Demons to Dracula: The Creation of the Modern Vampire Myth, Matthew Beresford

November 27, 2008
The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age
Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife, Sam Savage
A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes, David Tanis
Jazz from A to Z, Carlo Verri
Santa Paws, Rachel Hale
The Darwin Awards Next Evolution, Wendy Northcutt
Holidays on Ice, David Sedaris

November 26, 2008
Once Again to Zelda: The Stories Behind Literature’s Most Intriguing Dedications, Marlene Wagman-Geller
The Canterbury Tales, A New Unabridged Translation by Burton Raffel
Abraham Lincoln: Great American Historians on our Sixteenth President, Brian Lamb & Susan Swain, Editors
Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain: Tales of Romance and Tragedy, Robert K. Oermann
Hot Burritos: The True Story of the Flying Burrito Brothers, John Einarson with Chris Hillman
Promised Land: Thirteen Books that Changed America, Jay Parini

November 13, 2008
The Private Patient, PD James
Reading Dance: A Gathering of Memoirs, Reportage, Criticism, Profiles, Interviews, and Some Uncategorizable Extras, edited and with an introduction by Robert Gottleib
The Writer as Migrant, Ha Jin
Shakespeare Wrote for Money: Two Years of Reading Begat by More Reading, Presented in Easily Digestible, Utterly Hysterical Monthly Installments, Nick Hornby
The Super-Organism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies, Bert Holldobler and EO Wilson
Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell
Reno’s Big Gamble: Image and Reputation in the Biggest Little City, Alicia Barber

November 12, 2008
The White Fawn, Karen Collett Wilson & Susan A. Zerga
Nevada Colors: Northeastern Nevada, Susan Zerga
Ender in Exile, Orson Scott Card
Forgotten Bread: First Generation Armenian American Writers, Edited by David Kherdian
Verses and Version: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry, Selected & Translated by Vladimir Nabokov
Listening is an Act of Love, Edited & with an Introduction by Dave Isay
Sing My Song: A Kid’s Guide to Songwriting, Starring Steve Seskin and a Chorus of Creative Kids

November 5, 2008
Finding Bliss: A Collection of Columns from Erin Breen’s Family File, Erin Meehan Breen
Paper Captain: The Paper Boat Captain’s Manual with 20 Do-It-Yourself Punch-Out Projects
Listening to Stone: Hardy Structures, Perilous Follies, and Other Tangles with Nature, Dan Snow
Lighthouses of the World, Marie-Haude Arzur
Classic Country Singers, compiled by Douglas B. Green
Revolutions in Sound: Warner Brothers Records, the First Fifty Years, Warren Zanes
Country Music: The Masters, Marty Stuart

October 29, 2008
The Economist Book of Obituaries, Keith Colquhoun and Ann Wroe
Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners, Laura Claridge
A Wished-For Song: A Portrait of Jeff Buckley, Merri Cyr
Pink Floyd The Black Strat, Phil Taylor
Slices of the Silver State: Editorial Cartoons by Jeff Hickman, with text by Ron James
Skyscrapers: A History of the World’s Most Extraordinary Buildings, Judith Dupre

October 22, 2008
Poems Bewitched and Haunted, Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories, Peter Haining
The Onion Our Dumb World: Atlas of the Planet Earth – 73rd Edition
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, Amy Sedaris
Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey, William Least Heat-Moon
Pete & Pickles, Berkeley Breathed
Secrets of the Red Lantern: Stories and Vietnamese Recipes from the Heart, Pauline Nguyen with recipes by Luke Nguyen and Mark Jensen
Cobain Unseen, Charles R. Cross

October 16, 2009
The World According to Baxter Black, Baxter Black
Cooking with All Things Trader Joe’s, Deana Gunn &Wona Miniati
White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
When Will There Be Good News, Kate Atkinson
Most Wanted Man, John Lecarre
Children of Hurin, JRR Tolkien
Gonzo, Jann Wenner

October 8, 2008
Ruffen: The Sea Serpent Who Couldn’t Swim, Tor Age Bringsvaerd
The New Annotated Dracula, Bram Stoker
Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha, Jack Kerouac
The Eleventh Man, Ivan Doig
Wild Men of Wild Nevada, 2009 Calendar
Wild Nevada, 2009 Calendar
Amarcord: Marcella Remembers, Marcella Hazan
United Tweets of America: 50 State Birds, Hudson Talbott

October 1, 2008
X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking, Jeff Gordinier
Plug-In Hybrids: The Cars that will Recharge America, Sherry Boschert
Bats at the Library, Brian Lies
Bone Soup, Cambria Evans
The Indie Band Survival Guide, Randy Chertkow & Jason Feehan
True Crime: An American Anthology, Harold Schechter
It Came From Berkeley: How Berkeley Changed the World, Dave Weinstein

September 24, 2008
In the Realm of the Gods: Lands, Myths, and Legends of China, Victoria Cass
Woodsmoke, Wind, and the Peregrine, Shaun T. Griffin
Master Builder Skyscrapers: Build your own models of the world’s most famous structures, Gretchen G. Bank
Master Builder Bridges: Build your own models of the world’s most famous structures, Gretchen G. Bank
South, Patrick McDonnell
Perfect Power: How the microgrid revolution will unleash cleaner, greener, and more abundant energy, Robert Galvin and Kurt Yeager
David Blume’s Alcohol Can Be a Gas! Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century

September 17, 2008
Guernica, Dave Boling
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3, Annie Proulx
Liberty, Garrison Keillor
Indignation, Philip Roth
Best American Short Stories 2008, Salman Rushdie, Editor
Women Who Read Are Dangerous, Stefan Bollman
The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Publishers, Their Editors and Authors, Al Silverman

September 11, 2008
Um: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean, Michael Erard
Ballistics, Billy Collins
Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba, Tom Gjelten
Emigrant Trails: The Long Road to California, Marshall Fey
The One Hundred: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own, Nina Garcia
The Complete Nevada Traveler, David W. Toll
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why we need a green revolution – and how it can renew America, Thomas Friedman

September 3, 2008
A Universal History of the Destruction of Books From Ancient Sumer to Modern Iraq, Fernando Baez
Cacti, Agaves, and Yuccas of California and Nevada, Stephen Ingram
Icarus at the Edge of Time, Brian Greene
The Genius: How Bill Walsh Reinvented Football and Created and NFL Dynasty, David Harris
The Book of Animal Ignorance, John Lloyd & John Mitchinson
Home, Marilynne Robinson

August 26, 2008
Butterflies in My Stomach and Other School Hazards, Serge Bloch
Tahoe Rim Trail: The Official Guide for Hikers, Mountain Bikers, and Equestrians, Tim Hauserman
It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music, Amanda Petrusich
The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL, Mark Bowden
Twenty-Odd Ducks, Lynne Truss illustrated by Bonnie Timmons
The Splendid Table’s How to Eat Supper, Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift

August 20, 2008
Bedrock City, Todd Oldham with an essay by Michael Graves
John Waters, Todd Oldham with an essay by Cindy Sherman
Camp Nest, Todd Oldham with an essay by Camille Paglia
Home Studio Home, Providence, RI, Todd Oldham with an essay by Amy Sedaris
Grammar Girl’s Quick & Dirty Tips for Better Writing, Mignon Fogarty
Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility, Scott Slovic
Day of the Dead Crafts, Kerry Arquette, Andrea Zocchi & Jerry Vigil
The Old Farmers Almanac 2009
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature, Daniel J. Levitin
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami

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

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