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Notable Nonfiction 2008
| AUTHOR | TITLE | DATE | STARS | ISBN | PUBLISHER | PRICE | SUBJECT | Overbooked Stars Update |
| Cooper, Helene | The House at Sugar Beach | Sep-08 | Kirkus | 9780743266246 | Simon & Schuster | $26.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Kennedy, Pagan | The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex and Other True Stories | Sep-08 | PW | 9780977679935 | Santa Fe Writers Project | $14.00 | Essays | |
| Burk, Kathleen | Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning | Oct-08 | LJ | 9780871139719 | PGW | $35.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Bishop, Bill | The Big Sort: How Living Near People Just Like You Is Pulling America Apart | May-08 | Kirkus, Booklist | 9780618689354 | Houghton Mifflin | $25.00 | Political Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Bragg, Rick | The Prince Of Frogtown | May-08 | PW | 9781400040407 | Random House Inc | $24.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Brenner, Marie | Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found | May-08 | Kirkus | 9780374173524 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $24.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Clarke, Thurston | The Last Campaign | May-08 | Kirkus | 9780805077926 | Henry Holt & Co | $25.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Coates, Ta-nehesi | The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, a Son, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood | May-08 | Booklist, Kirkus | 9780385520362 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $22.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Creed, Patrick | Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11 | May-08 | Kirkus | 9780891419051 | Ballantine Books | $27.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Crystal, David | By Hook or By Crook | May-08 | Kirkus, Booklist | 9781590200612 | Overlook | $27.95 | Language | 4/21/2008 |
| Dawidoff, Nicholas | The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Memoir | May-08 | LJ, PW | 9780375400285 | Random House Inc | $24.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Dawn, Karen | Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals | May-08 | PW | 9780061351853 | Harpercollins | $19.95 | Nature | 4/21/2008 |
| De Blasi, Marlena | That Summer In Sicily: A Love Story | May-08 | Kirkus | 9780345497659 | Ballantine Books | $24.00 | Travel | 4/21/2008 |
| Edison, Mike | I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the | May-08 | Kirkus | 9780865479647 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $25.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Farley, Tom, Jr. | The Chris Farley Show | May-08 | Kirkus | 9780670019236 | Penguin Group USA | $26.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Fuller, Alexandra | The Legend of Colton H. Bryant | May-08 | Booklist | 9781594201837 | Penguin Group USA | $23.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Gallagher, Tim | Falcon Fever: A Falconer in the Twenty-first Century | May-08 | Booklist | 9780618805754 | Houghton Mifflin | $25.00 | Nature | 4/21/2008 |
| Gilmour, David | The Film Club | May-08 | Kirkus | 9780446199292 | Twelve | $21.99 | Film Criticism | 5/2/2008 |
| Gollner, Adam Leith | The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Obsession, Commerce and Adventure | May-08 | PW | 9780743296946 | Simon & Schuster | $25.00 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Hall, Lincoln | Dead Lucky: Life after Death on Mount Everest | May-08 | Booklist | 9781585426461 | Tarcher | $24.95 | Biography | 5/2/2008 |
| Halpern, Sue | Can't Remember What I Forgot: Closing in on a Cure for Memory Loss | May-08 | Booklist, LJ | 9780307406743 | Random House Inc | $24.00 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Hollis, Leo | London Rising; The Men Who Made Modern London | May-08 | Booklist | 9780802716323 | Walker | $26.99 | History | 5/2/2008 |
| Hood, Ann | Comfort: A Journey Through Grief | May-08 | PW | 9780393064568 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $19.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Horwitz, Gordon J. | Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City | May-08 | PW | 9780674027992 | Harvard Univ Pr | $29.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Iacoboni, Marco | Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect With Others | May-08 | LJ | 9780374210175 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $25.00 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Iacoboni, Marco | Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect With Others | May-08 | Booklist, LJ | 978037421075 | FSG | $25.00 | Science | |
| Jennings, Dana | Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death, and Country Music | May-08 | PW, Booklist | 9780865479609 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $24.00 | Music | 4/21/2008 |
| Klein, Maury | The Power Makers: America and the Electrical Revolution | May-08 | PW , Kirkus | 9781596914124 | St Martins Pr | $29.99 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Kynaston, David | Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 | May-08 | Kirkus, PW | 9780802716934 | St Martins Pr | $45.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Manguso, Sarah | The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir | May-08 | PW | 9780374280123 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $22.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Marcus, Leonard C. | Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature | May-08 | Booklist | 9780395674079 | Houghton Mifflin | $28.00 | Literature | 4/21/2008 |
| Montville, Leigh | The Mysterious Montague: A True Tale of Hollywood, Golf, and Armed Robbery | May-08 | Kirkus | 9780385520331 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $26.00 | True Crime | 4/21/2008 |
| Moore, Honor | The Bishop's Daughter | May-08 | Booklist, Kirkus, PW | 9780393059847 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $25.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Muller, Gilbert H. | William Cullen Bryant: Author of America | May-08 | Booklist | 9780791474679 | State Univ of New York Pr | $30.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Neiman, Susan | Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists | May-08 | Booklist | 9780151011971 | Harcourt | $27.00 | Philosphy | 4/21/2008 |
| Nugent, Benjamin | American Nerd: The Story of My People | May-08 | Booklist, PW | 9780743288019 | Simon & Schuster | $20.00 | Social Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Perlstein, Rick | Nixonland: America's Second Civil War and the Divisive Legacy of Richard Nixon, 1965-1972 | May-08 | PW | 9780743243025 | Simon & Schuster | $37.50 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Rennebohm, Craig | Souls in the Hands of a Tender God: Stories of the Search for Home and Healing on the Streets | May-08 | PW | 9780807000427 | Houghton Mifflin | $23.95 | Religion | 4/21/2008 |
| Rothenberg, David | Thousand-Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound | May-08 | Booklist | 9780465071289 | Perseus Books Group | $27.50 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Salamon, Julie | Hospital | May-08 | PW | 9781594201714 | Penguin Group USA | $25.95 | Social Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Schrag, Ariel | Potential | May-08 | Booklist, Kirkus | 9781416552352 | Simon & Schuster | $15.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Sheeler, Jim | Final Salute | May-08 | Kirkus, PW | 9781594201653 | Penguin Group USA | $25.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Smith, Larry | Iwo Jima: World War II Veterans Remember the Greatest Battle of the Pacific | May-08 | Kirkus | 9780393062342 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $26.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Sorensen, Ted | Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History | May-08 | Kirkus, PW | 9780060798710 | Harpercollins | $27.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Steinmeyer, Jim | Charles Fort | May-08 | LJ | 9781585426409 | Tarcher | $24.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Swift, Will | The Kennedys Amidst the Gathering Storm: A Thousand Days in London, 1938-1940 | May-08 | Kirkus | 9780061173561 | Harpercollins | $26.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Thirlwell, Adam | The Delighted States: A Book of Novels, Romances, & Their Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents, & Accompanied by Maps, Portraits, Squiggles | May-08 | PW | 9780374137229 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $30.00 | Literature | 4/21/2008 |
| Tian, Hao Jiang | Along the Roaring River: My Wild Ride from Mao to the Met | May-08 | LJ | 9780470056417 | Wiley | $27.95 | Music | 5/2/2008 |
| Walters, Barbara | Audition: A Memoir | May-08 | Booklist, PW | 9780307266460 | Random House Inc | $29.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Wilentz, Sean | The Age of Reagan: 1974-2008 | May-08 | PW | 9780060744809 | Harpercollins | $27.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Winchester, Simon | The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom | May-08 | PW, LJ | 9780060884598 | Harpercollins | $27.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Zakaria, Fareed | Post-American World | May-08 | PW | 9780393062359 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $25.95 | Political Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Blackmon, Douglas A. | Slavery by Another Name: The Final Chapter of American Slavery 1865-1945 | Mar-08 | PW | 9780385506250 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $29.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Bracewell, Michael | Re-Make Re-Model: Becoming Roxy Music | Mar-08 | LJ | 9780306814006 | Perseus Books Group | $17.95 | Music | 4/21/2008 |
| Chambers, Paul | Jumbo: The Greatest Elephant in the World | Mar-08 | LJ | 9781586421410 | Random House Inc | $23.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Cummings, Claire Hope | Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds | Mar-08 | Booklist, LJ | 9780807085806 | Houghton Mifflin | $24.95 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Donovan, James | A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn- the Last Great Battle of the American West | Mar-08 | Kirkus, LJ | 9780316155786 | Little Brown & Co | $26.99 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Duras, Marguerite | Wartime Writings, 1943-1949 | Mar-08 | PW | 9781595582003 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $26.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Fletcher, Martin | Breaking News: A Stunning and Memorable Account of Reporting from Some of the Most Dangerous Places in the World | Mar-08 | Kirkus | 9780312371180 | St Martins Pr | $24.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Fritzsche, Peter | Life and Death in the Third Reich | Mar-08 | LJ | 9780674027930 | Harvard Univ Pr | $27.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Giddings, Paula J. | Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching | Mar-08 | Booklist, LJ | 9780060519216 | Harpercollins | $35.00 | Social Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Glatthaar, Joseph T. | General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse | Mar-08 | Kirkus | 9780684827872 | Simon & Schuster | $35.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Goodison, Lorna | From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island | Mar-08 | PW | 9780061337550 | Harpercollins | $24.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Grant, Richard | God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre | Mar-08 | PW | 9781416534402 | Simon & Schuster | $15.00 | Travel | 4/21/2008 |
| Greene, Gayle | Insomniac | Mar-08 | PW, LJ | 9780520246300 | Univ of California Pr | $29.95 | Health | 4/21/2008 |
| Hajdu, David | The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America | Mar-08 | PW | 9780374187675 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $26.00 | Graphic Works | 4/21/2008 |
| Hari, Daoud | The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur | Mar-08 | Kirkus, LJ | 9781400067442 | Random House Inc | $23.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Hastings, Max | Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 | Mar-08 | Booklist | 9780307263513 | Random House Inc | $35.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Hedges, Chris | I Don't Believe in Atheists | Mar-08 | Booklist | 9781416567950 | Simon & Schuster | $25.00 | Religion | 4/21/2008 |
| Huler, Scott | No Man's Lands: One Man's Odyssey through The Odyssey | Mar-08 | Booklist | 9781400082827 | Crown | $24.95 | Travel | 4/21/2008 |
| Iyer, Pico | The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Xivth Dalai Lama | Mar-08 | Booklist, PW | 9780307267603 | Random House Inc | $24.00 | Religion | 4/21/2008 |
| Kaiser, David | The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy | Mar-08 | LJ, PW | 9780674027664 | Harvard Univ Pr | $35.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Kaku, Michio | Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel | Mar-08 | Kirkus, LJ | 9780385520690 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $26.95 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Kertzer, David I. | Amalia's Tale: An Impoverished Peasant Woman, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice | Mar-08 | PW | 9780618551064 | Houghton Mifflin | $24.00 | Law | 4/21/2008 |
| King, David | Vienna, 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna | Mar-08 | LJ | 9780307337160 | Random House Inc | $27.50 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| King, Gilbert | The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South | Mar-08 | Kirkus, LJ | 9780465002658 | Perseus Books Group | $26.00 | True Crime | 4/21/2008 |
| Lane, Charles | The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction | Mar-08 | PW | 9780805083422 | Henry Holt & Co | $27.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Lee, Jennifer 8 | The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food | Mar-08 | PW, LJ | 9780446580076 | Grand Central Pub | $24.99 | Social Science | 4/21/2008 |
| McDougall, Walter A. | Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877 | Mar-08 | Kirkus, Booklist | 9780060567514 | Harpercollins | $34.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| McKibben, Bill | The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life | Mar-08 | LJ, PW | 9780805076271 | Henry Holt & Co | $18.00 | Essays | 4/21/2008 |
| Nagel, Susan | Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter | Mar-08 | Booklist, LJ | 9781596910577 | St Martins Pr | $39.99 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Parker, Matthew | Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time--The Building of the Panama Canal | Mar-08 | PW | 9780385515344 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $29.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Price, John | Man Killed by Pheasant: And Other Kinships | Mar-08 | Booklist | 9780306816055 | Perseus Books Group | $25.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Read, Anthony | The World on Fire: 1919 and the Battle With Bolshevism | Mar-08 | PW | 9780393061246 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $27.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Rothkopf, David | Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making | Mar-08 | PW | 9780374272104 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $26.00 | Social Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Skinner, E. Benjamin | A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery | Mar-08 | Kirkus | 9780743290074 | Simon & Schuster | $26.00 | Social Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Stape, John | The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad | Mar-08 | Booklist | 9781400044498 | Random House Inc | $30.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Tharps, Lori L. | Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain | Mar-08 | PW | 9780743296472 | Pocket Books | $23.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Torgovnick, Kate | Cheer!: Three Teams on a Quest for college Cheerleading's Ultimate Prize | Mar-08 | Kirkus | 9781416535966 | Simon & Schuster | $24.95 | Education | 4/21/2008 |
| Volkov, Solomon | The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn | Mar-08 | Kirkus | 9781400042722 | Random House Inc | $30.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Waldman, Steven | Founding Faith: The Birth of Religious Freedom in America | Mar-08 | Kirkus, PW | 9781400064373 | Random House Inc | $26.00 | Religion | 4/21/2008 |
| Winter, Brian | Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien: A Yanqui's Missteps in Argentina | Mar-08 | Kirkus | 9781586483708 | Perseus Books Group | $24.95 | Social Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Wintle, Justin | Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmas Prisoner of Conscience | Mar-08 | PW, Booklist | 9781602392663 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $27.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Black, Lewis | Me of Little Faith | Jun-08 | PW | 9781594489945 | Penguin Group USA | $24.95 | Humor | 4/21/2008 |
| Dobbs, Michael | One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War | Jun-08 | PW | 9781400043583 | Random House Inc | $27.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Engel, Richard | War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq | Jun-08 | Booklist | 9781416563044 | Simon & Schuster | $35.00 | Social Science | |
| Fisher, Paul | House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family | Jun-08 | Kirkus | 9780805074901 | Henry Holt & Co | $35.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Fowler, Ruth | No Man's Land | Jun-08 | Booklist | 9780670019397 | Penguin Group USA | $24.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Gilbert, Avery | What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life | Jun-08 | Kirkus | 9781400082346 | Random House Inc | $23.95 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Gill, A. A. | Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There | Jun-08 | Kirkus | 9781416572497 | Simon & Schuster | $14.00 | Travel | 4/21/2008 |
| Gosling, Sam | Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You | Jun-08 | LJ | 9780465027811 | Basic | $25.00 | Psychology | |
| Hague, William | William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-slave Trade Campaigner | Jun-08 | Kirkus | 9780151012671 | Harcourt | $35.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Kurlansky, Mark | The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town | Jun-08 | PW, Booklist | 9780345487278 | Ballantine | $25.00 | History | |
| Lerer, Seth | Children's Literature: A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter | Jun-08 | LJ | 9780226473000 | Univ of Chicago | $30.00 | Children's Literature | |
| Macfarlane, Robert | The Wild Places | Jun-08 | PW | 9780143113935 | Penguin Group USA | $15.00 | Nature | 4/21/2008 |
| Meyer, Michael | The Last Days of Old Beijing: Tales from the New City | Jun-08 | LJ | 9780802716521 | St Martins Pr | $25.99 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Pham, Andrew X. | The Eaves Of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars | Jun-08 | Booklist, PW, Kirkus | 9780307381200 | Random House Inc | $24.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Pisani, Elizabeth | Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS | Jun-08 | LJ | 9780393066623 | Norton | $25.95 | Medical | 5/2/2008 |
| Preston, Douglas | The Monster of Florence | Jun-08 | PW | 9780446581196 | Grand Central Pub | $25.99 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Sedaris, David | When You Are Engulfed in Flames | Jun-08 | Kirkus, PW | 9780316143479 | Little Brown & Co | $25.99 | Humor | 4/21/2008 |
| Shehadeh, Raja | Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape | Jun-08 | Booklist, LJ, PW | 9781416569664 | Simon & Schuster | $15.00 | Political Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Vidal, Gore | The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal | Jun-08 | Kirkus, PW | 9780385524841 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $27.50 | Political Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Ward, Andrew | The Slaves' War: A History of the Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves | Jun-08 | Booklist, LJ | 9780618634002 | Houghton Mifflin | $28.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Wax, Steven T. | Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror, a Public Defender's Inside Account | Jun-08 | PW | 9781590512951 | Random House Inc | $25.95 | Law | 4/21/2008 |
| Weintraub, Pamela | Cure, Unknown: Lyme and the Making of an Epidemic | Jun-08 | Booklist | 9780312378127 | St Martins | $27.95 | Medical | |
| Bass, Rick | Why I Came West | Jul-08 | Kirkus, Booklist | 9780618596751 | Houghton | $24.00 | Bio | 5/2/2008 |
| Dolnick, Edward | The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century | Jul-08 | PW, Kirkus | 9780060825416 | HarperCollins | $26.95 | Art | 5/2/2008 |
| Ellis, Richard | Tuna: A Love Story | Jul-08 | LJ | 9780307267153 | Random House Inc | $26.95 | Nature | 4/21/2008 |
| Gardner, Daniel | The Science of Fear | Jul-08 | Kirkus | 9780525950622 | Dutton | $24.95 | Psycholgy | 5/2/2008 |
| Harvey, Miles | The Painter and the Savages: the Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America | Jul-08 | PW | 978140061204 | Random | $27.00 | Art | 5/2/2008 |
| Levy, Buddy | Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs | Jul-08 | LJ | 9780553805383 | Bantam | $27.50 | History | |
| Stuart, Nancy Rubin | The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation | Jul-08 | LJ | 9780807055168 | Beacon | $28.95 | History | 5/2/2008 |
| Babchenko, Arkady | One Soldier's War | Jan-08 | Kirkus | 9780802118608 | PGW | $25.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Bainbridge, David | Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain | Jan-08 | Booklist, LJ | 9780674026100 | Harvard Univ Pr | $25.95 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Boylan, Jennifer Finney | I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted | Jan-08 | LJ, PW | 9780767921749 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $23.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Burr, Chandler | The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York | Jan-08 | PW | 9780805080377 | Henry Holt & Co | $25.00 | Health | 4/21/2008 |
| Carr, Nicholas | The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google | Jan-08 | Booklist | 9780393062281 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $25.95 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Cohen, Richard M. | Strong at the Broken Places: Voices of Illness, a Chorus of Hope | Jan-08 | Booklist | 9780060763114 | Harpercollins | $24.95 | Health | 4/21/2008 |
| Di Robilant, Andrea | Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon | Jan-08 | Booklist | 9781400044139 | Random House Inc | $24.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Faust, Drew Gilpin | This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War | Jan-08 | LJ | 9780375404047 | Random House Inc | $27.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Flynn, Laura M. | Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir | Jan-08 | Booklist | 9781582433851 | PGW | $23.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Herald, Diana Tixier & Bonnie Kunzel | Fluent in Fantasy: The Next Generation | Jan-08 | Booklist | 9781591581987 | Libraries Unlimited | $52.00 | Library Science | |
| Lewis, Anthony | Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment | Jan-08 | Kirkus | 9780465039173 | Perseus Books Group | $25.00 | Law | 4/21/2008 |
| Lewis, David Levering | God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570 to 1215 | Jan-08 | PW | 9780393064728 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $29.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Nicholl, Charles | The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street | Jan-08 | Kirkus | 9780670018505 | Penguin Group USA | $26.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Pollan, Michael | In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto | Jan-08 | PW | 9781594201455 | Penguin Group USA | $21.95 | Health | 4/21/2008 |
| Shubin, Neil | Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body | Jan-08 | Booklist, Kirkus | 9780375424472 | Random House Inc | $24.00 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Shulman, Seth | Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret | Jan-08 | Booklist, PW | 9780393062069 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $24.95 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Sonnenberg, Susanna | Her Last Death: A Memoir | Jan-08 | Booklist, LJ | 9780743291088 | Simon & Schuster | $24.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Weiner, Eric | The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World | Jan-08 | PW | 9780446580267 | Grand Central Pub | $25.99 | Travel | 4/21/2008 |
| Ariely, Dan | Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions | Feb-08 | Kirkus | 9780061353239 | Harpercollins | $25.95 | Business | 4/21/2008 |
| Balf, Todd | Major: A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World's Fastest Human Being | Feb-08 | Booklist | 9780307236586 | Random House Inc | $24.00 | Sports | 4/21/2008 |
| Breslin, Jimmy | The Good Rat: A True Story | Feb-08 | Booklist | 9780060856663 | Harpercollins | $24.95 | True Crime | 4/21/2008 |
| Delaney, Bob | Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob | Feb-08 | PW | 9781402754432 | Sterling Pub Co Inc | $19.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Depastino, Todd | Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front | Feb-08 | Kirkus | 9780393061833 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $27.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Erlbaum, Janice | Have You Found Her: A Memoir | Feb-08 | Booklist | 9780812974577 | Random House Inc | $14.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook | Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend | Feb-08 | LJ | 9780060510732 | Harpercollins | $24.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Guelzo, Allen C. | Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America | Feb-08 | Kirkus, LJ, Booklist | 9780743273206 | Simon & Schuster | $26.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Harris, Mark | Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood | Feb-08 | Booklist, Kirkus, LJ, PW | 9781594201523 | Penguin Group USA | $27.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Hess, Elizabeth | Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human | Feb-08 | PW | 9780553803839 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $23.00 | Nature | 4/21/2008 |
| Hodgkinson, Will | Song Man: A Melodic Adventure, Or, My Single-minded Approach to Songwriting | Feb-08 | Booklist | 9780306815812 | Perseus Books Group | $16.95 | Music | 4/21/2008 |
| Huddy, John | Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cards, and Millions of Dollars | Feb-08 | PW | 9780345487452 | Ballantine Books | $26.00 | True Crime | 4/21/2008 |
| Irvine, Amy | Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land | Feb-08 | Booklist | 9780865477032 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $25.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Jacoby, Susan | The Age of American Unreason | Feb-08 | Booklist | 9780375423741 | Random House Inc | $26.00 | Philosphy | 4/21/2008 |
| Kahr, Brett | Who's Been Sleeping in Your Head?: The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies | Feb-08 | LJ | 9780465037667 | Perseus Books Group | $28.00 | Psychology | 4/21/2008 |
| Kodas, Michael | High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed | Feb-08 | Kirkus | 9781401302733 | Hyperion Books | $24.95 | True Crime | 4/21/2008 |
| Le Breton, Binka | The Greatest Gift: The Courageous Life and Martyrdom of Sister Dorothy Stang | Feb-08 | PW | 9780385522182 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $21.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Li, Charles N. | The Bitter Sea: Coming of Age in a China Before Mao | Feb-08 | LJ | 9780061346644 | Harpercollins | $25.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Mcelwain, Jason | The Game of My Life: A True Story of Challenge, Triumph, and Growing Up Autistic | Feb-08 | Booklist | 9780451223012 | Penguin Group USA | $23.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Miller, William Lee | President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman | Feb-08 | Kirkus, PW | 9781400041039 | Random House Inc | $30.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Mortimer, Gavin | The Great Swim | Feb-08 | Booklist | 9780802715951 | St Martins Pr | $24.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Nakazawa, Donna Jackson | The Autoimmune Epidemic: Bodies Gone Haywire in a World Out of Balance--and the Cutting-edge Science That Promises Hope | Feb-08 | Booklist | 9780743277754 | Simon & Schuster | $25.00 | Health | 4/21/2008 |
| Power, Samantha | Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira De Mello and the Fight to Save the World | Feb-08 | Booklist, LJ | 9781594201288 | Penguin Group USA | $32.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Roahen, Sara | Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table | Feb-08 | Booklist | 9780393061673 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $24.95 | Education | 4/21/2008 |
| Rosen, Jonathan | The Life of the Skies | Feb-08 | LJ, PW | 9780374186302 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $24.00 | Nature | 4/21/2008 |
| Sheff, David | Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction | Feb-08 | Booklist, LJ | 9780618683352 | Houghton Mifflin | $24.00 | Psychology | 4/21/2008 |
| Steinberg, Jonny | Sizwe's Test: A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS Epidemic | Feb-08 | PW | 9781416552697 | Simon & Schuster | $26.00 | Health | 4/21/2008 |
| Taylor, Nick | American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work | Feb-08 | Kirkus, PW | 9780553802351 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $27.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Woiwode, Larry | A Step from Death: A Memoir | Feb-08 | Kirkus, PW | 9781582433738 | PGW | $24.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Theroux, Paul | Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bazaar | Aug-08 | Booklist | 9780618418879 | Houghton | $28.00 | Travel | |
| Wood, James | How Fiction Works | Aug-08 | PW, Kirkus, LJ | 9780374173401 | FSG | $22.00 | Literature | 4/21/2008 |
| Ackroyd, Peter | Newton: Ackroyd's Brief Lives | Apr-08 | Booklist | 9780385507998 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $21.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Allende, Isabel | The Sum of Our Days | Apr-08 | PW | 9780061551833 | Harpercollins | $26.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Andrews, Julie | Home: A Memoir of My Early Years | Apr-08 | PW | 9780786865659 | Hyperion Books | $26.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Bernstein, Harry | The Dream: A Memoir | Apr-08 | PW | 9780345503749 | Ballantine Books | $24.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Bernstein, William J. | A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World | Apr-08 | Kirkus | 9780871139795 | PGW | $30.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Burroughs, Augusten | A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father | Apr-08 | PW | 9780312342029 | St Martins Pr | $24.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Coll, Steve | The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century | Apr-08 | Kirkus | 9781594201646 | Penguin Group USA | $35.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Crosley, Sloane | I Was Told There'd Be Cake | Apr-08 | PW | 9781594483066 | Penguin Group USA | $14.00 | Humor | 4/21/2008 |
| Delbridge, Melissa J. | Family Bible | Apr-08 | Booklist | 9781587296512 | Univ of Iowa Pr | $23.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Engler, Mark | How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle over the Global Econom | Apr-08 | Kirkus | 9781568583655 | Perseus Books Group | $16.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Foote, Donna | Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches With Teach for America | Apr-08 | Booklist | 9780307265715 | Random House Inc | $24.95 | Education | 4/21/2008 |
| Frazier, Ian | Lamentations of the Father | Apr-08 | LJ | 9780374281625 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $22.00 | Essays | 4/21/2008 |
| Glenny, Misha | Mcmafia: A Journey Through the Global Underworld | Apr-08 | PW | 9781400044115 | Random House Inc | $27.95 | Social Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Gorgani, Fakhraddin | Vis & Ramin | Apr-08 | Booklist | 9781933823171 | Mage Pub | $45.00 | Literature | 4/21/2008 |
| Greenlaw, Lavinia | The Importance of Music to Girls | Apr-08 | Kirkus, Booklist, PW | 9780374174545 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $23.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Greer, Germaine | Shakespeare's Wife | Apr-08 | LJ | 9780061537158 | Harpercollins | $26.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Groneberg, Jennifer Graf | Road Map to Holland: How I Found My Way Through My Son's First Two Years with Down Syndrome | Apr-08 | LJ | 9780451222954 | Penguin Group USA | $14.00 | Family | 4/21/2008 |
| Hornbacher, Marya | Madness: A Bipolar Life | Apr-08 | LJ | 9780618754458 | Houghton Mifflin | $25.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Horwitz, Tony | A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World | Apr-08 | Booklist | 9780805076035 | Henry Holt & Co | $27.50 | Travel | 4/21/2008 |
| Jones, Tom | Working at the Ballpark: The Fascinating Lives of Baseball People--from Peanut Vendors and Broadcasters to Players and Managers | Apr-08 | LJ | 9781602392267 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $17.95 | Sports | 4/21/2008 |
| Jordan, Pat | Very Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan | Apr-08 | Booklist | 9780892553396 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $27.95 | Sports | 4/21/2008 |
| Judt, Tony | Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotton Twentieth Century | Apr-08 | PW | 9781594201363 | Penguin Group USA | $29.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Kershaw, Alex | Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew | Apr-08 | PW | 9780306815195 | Perseus Books Group | $26.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Khudayyir, Muhammad | Basrayatha: The Story of a City | Apr-08 | PW | 9781844672332 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $15.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Kohnstamm, Thomas | Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, and Professional Hedonism | Apr-08 | Kirkus | 9780307394651 | Random House Inc | $13.95 | Travel | 4/21/2008 |
| Lopez, Steve | The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendhsip, and the Redemptive Power of Music | Apr-08 | PW, Booklist, LJ | 9780399155062 | Penguin Group USA | $25.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Mason, Michael P. | Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath | Apr-08 | LJ, PW | 9780374134525 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $25.00 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Masur, Louis P. | The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photography that Shocked America | Apr-08 | Booklist, PW | 9781596913646 | Bloomsbury | $24.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| McKibben, Bill (EDT) | American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau | Apr-08 | Booklist, PW | 9781598530209 | Penguin Group USA | $40.00 | Nature | 4/21/2008 |
| Patoski, Joe Nick | Willie Nelson: An Epic Life | Apr-08 | Kirkus | 9780316017787 | Little Brown & Co | $27.99 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Persico, Joseph | Franklin And Lucy: An Intimate Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the Other Remarkable Women Who Shaped Fdr's Life | Apr-08 | LJ | 9781400064427 | Random House Inc | $28.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Queller, Jessica | Pretty Is What Changes: Tough Choices, the Breast Cancer Gene, and Learning How to Live in the DNA Age | Apr-08 | LJ | 9780385520409 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $24.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Roach, Mary | Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex | Apr-08 | Kirkus, LJ, Booklist | 9780393064643 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $24.95 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Robbins, Christopher | Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared | Apr-08 | LJ, Kirkus | 9780977743384 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $24.00 | Travel | 4/21/2008 |
| Rosenthal, Neal I. | Reflections of a Wine Merchant | Apr-08 | PW | 9780374248567 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $24.00 | Cooking | 4/21/2008 |
| Rovina, Nesta | Tree Barking: A Memoir | Apr-08 | LJ | 9781597140812 | Heyday Books | $14.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Samuels, David | Only Love Can Break Your Heart | Apr-08 | PW | 9781595581877 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $26.95 | Essays | 4/21/2008 |
| Styron, William | Havanas In Camelot: Personal Essays | Apr-08 | Kirkus | 9781400067190 | Random House Inc | $23.00 | Essays | 4/21/2008 |
| Summerscale, Kate | The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective | Apr-08 | PW | 9780802715357 | St Martins Pr | $24.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Tunstall, Tricia | Note by Note: A Celebration of the Piano Lesson | Apr-08 | PW, Booklist | 9781416540502 | Simon & Schuster | $24.00 | Music | 4/21/2008 |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Armageddon in Retrospect: And Other New and Unpublished Writings on War and Peace | Apr-08 | PW | 9780399155086 | Penguin Group USA | $24.95 | Essays | 4/21/2008 |
| Yang, Kao Kalia | Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir | Apr-08 | PW | 9781566892087 | Consortium Book Sales & Dist | $14.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Yiwu, Liao | The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up | Apr-08 | PW | 9780375425424 | Random House Inc | $25.00 | Political Science | 4/21/2008 |