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The Human Touch : Our Part in the Creation of the Universe by Michael Frayn - With wit, charm, and brilliance, this epic work of philosophy sets out to make sense of our place in the scheme of things. (January 2008)
Fighting for Air : The Battle to Control America's Media by Eric Klinenberg - (January 2008)
The Radical and the Republican : Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery by James Oakes - (January 2008)
The Birthday Party : A Memoir of Survival by Stanley N. Alpert - On January 21, 1998, the night before his thirty-eighth birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert was kidnapped off the streets of Manhattan. (January 2008)
The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder by Daniel Stashower (December 2007)
Dragon Sea : A True Tale of Treasure, Archeology and Greed off the Coast of Vietnam by Frank Pope - (December 2007)
The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts by Milan Kundera - In this entertaining and always stimulating essay, Kundera cleverly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. (December 2007)
A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia by Thomas Keneally (December 2007) 
The Audacity of Hope: thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama - (November 2007)
China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America by James Kynge (October 2007)
Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program by Stephen Grey - The origins and evolution of the CIA-based program for handling terrorism suspects, known generally as "rendition" is investigated by this long standing human-rights reporter. (September 2007)
Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57 by Michael Weisskopf - A powerful account of eighteen months in the lives of three soldiers and a journalist, all patients in Ward 57, Walter Reed’s amputee wing. (September 2007)
State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III by Bob Woodward - (September 2007)
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran - As the Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post, Chandrasekaran has probably spent more time in U.S.-occupied Iraq than any other American journalist, and his intimate perspective permeates this history of the Coalition Provisional Authority headquartered in the Green Zone around Saddam Hussein's former palace. (September 2007)
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal Memoir by Jonathan Franzen - This compact, affecting memoir, begins with the aftermath of his mother's death and ends with a quiet epiphany about love. (August 2007)
The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country by Steve Hendricks (August 2007)
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright - A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11 based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States. (August 2007)
Seaworthy: Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting by T. R. Pearson - Welcome to the daring, thrilling, and downright strange adventures of William Willis, one of the world’s original extreme sportsmen. (June 2007)
The Din in the Head by Cynthia Ozick - With passionate curiosity, discernment, and pleasure in both rigorous thinking and the crafting of decisive and scintillating prose, this is Ozick's latest collection of forthright and tonic essays. (June 2007)
The Architect: Karl Rove and the Master Plan for Absolute Power by James Moore and Wayne Slater - From the authors of Bush's Brain. (May 2007)
Waging Peace by Scott Ritter - Former Marine and UN weapons inspector, argues that there is a growing despondency amongst the anti-war movement. Ritter proposes the anti-war movement seek guidance from sources they normally spurn — that one must study the “enemy” in order to learn the art of campaigning and of waging battles when necessary. They need to understand the pro-war movement’s decision-making cycle, then undertake a comprehensive course of action. (April 2007)
Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to Do with Pigs by Katherine Barber - Canada’s "Word Lady" reveals the entertaining histories behind 500 of the most common words and phrases in the English language. (April 2007)
On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain by Edward W. Said - Said shows how the approaching death of an artist can make its way into his work, examining essays, poems, novels, films, and operas by such artists as Beethoven, Genet, Mozart, Lampedusa, Euripides, Cavafy, and Mann, among others. He uncovers the conflicts and complexity that often distinguish artistic lateness, resulting in works that stood in direct contrast to what was popular at the time and were forerunners of what was to come in each artist's discipline–works of true genius. (April 2007)
Mockingbird: A Portrait of Lee Harper by Charles J. Shields -
Nonfiction biography of the author of the twentieth century’s most widely read American novel. (April 2007) 
The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood by Sy Montgomery - The author chronicles the life of the animal her life revolved around for 14 years, a pig named Christopher Hogwood: 750 pounds of bliss, affection, and good cheer. (April 2007)
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War by Nathaniel Philbrick - Study of the Pilgrim settlement without the myths. (April 2007)
The Great Match Race by John Eisenberg - Long before American football had even been invented, the country devoted itself to horse racing with every bit as much passion as is now aroused by the Super Bowl. (April 2007)
A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger - Imagine how strange and frightening it would be to see a picture of yourself, not quite a year old, with your mother and two men, one of whom is a confessed serial killer. This is what happened to Sebastian Junger, and only a small part of what he recounts in this new book. (April 2007)
Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy by Noam Chomsky - (April 2007)
