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2007 Reviews:

Donald Westlake: What's so funny?

Lisa Alther: Kinfolks falling off the family tree: the search for my Melungeon ancestors

Carl Hiaasen: Nature Girl

Mary Pope Osborne: Magic Tree House #37: Dragon of the Red Dawn

James Patterson: The 6th Target

James D. Scurlock: Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit, and the Era of Predatory Lenders

Deborah Rodriquez: Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil

Jill Davis: Ask Again Later

Janet Hirshenson and Jane Jenkins with Rachel Kranx A Star is Found

Kiran Desai: Inheritance of Loss

Patricia Reilly Giff: Water Street

Megan Whalen Turner: The King of Attolia

Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma: a Natural History of Four Meals

Stephen Prothero: Religious Literacy--What Every American Needs to Know--and Doesn't

Thomas B. Cavanagh: Head Games

Jeanne Kaogridis: I, Mona Lisa

Peter Carey : Theft: A Love Story

Joan Carris/Noah Z. Jones, Illustrator: Welcome to the Bed and Biscuit

Lisa Gardner: Hide

Lalita Tademy: Red River

Judith Gould: Secret Heiress

Irene Nemirosky: Suite Francaise

Marla Frazee: Walk On! A Guide for Babies of All Ages

Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005

 

2006 Reviews by Title:

Lemony Snicket: The End

Fannie Flagg: Can't Wait to Get to Heaven

Richard Kurin: Hope Diamond: the Legendary History of a Cursed Gem

Sara Gruen: Water For Elephants

Brian Tacang: The Misadventures of Millicent Madding: Bully-Be-Gone

Michael Lavigne: Not Me: A Novel

Anne Tyler: Digging To America

Sebastian Junger: A Death In Belmont

Charlaine Harris: Grave Sight

Anne Perry: Dark Assassin

Henry J. Zeiter, MD: From Lebanon to California: A Marriage of Two Cultures

Markus Zusak: The Book Thief

William F. Buckley, Jr.: The Fall of the Berlin Wall

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Memories of My Melancholy Whore

Tracy Salcedo-Chourré: A Falcon Guide to California's Missions and Presidios: a guide to exploring California's Spanish and Mexican Heritage

Jeanne Huber : Decorative Concrete

 

2005

January 1, 2005 -- Alan Shepard: The First American in Space

January 8, 2005 -- Escape in Iraq

January 15, 2004 -- My Kind of Place

January 22, 2005 -- Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World

January 29, 2005 -- Be More Chill

February 12, 2005 -- The Children’s Blizzard

February 19, 2005 -- Tripping Over the Lunch Lady

February 26, 2005 -- The Pine Island Paradox

March 12, 2005 -- French Women Don't Get Fat

March 19, 2005 -- Da Wild, Da Crazy, Da Vinci

April 2, 2005 -- Do Elephants Jump?

April 9, 2005 -- REM World

April 16, 2005 -- Crossing the Threshold of Hope

April 23, 2005 -- The Finishing School

April 30, 2005 -- Abner and Me

May 7, 2005 -- The Long Goodbye

May 14, 2005 -- Downtown Stockton

May 21, 2005 -- I Walk In Dread

 

2004

January 10, 2004 -- The Scarlet Letters

January 24, 2004 -- Olive's Ocean

February 7, 2004 -- Coyote Moon

February 14, 2004 -- Crossing Over

February 28, 2004 -- Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter

March 6, 2004 -- Welcome Home or Someplace Like it

March 13, 2004 -- Lyra's Oxford

March 27, 2004 -- Applied Economics

April 27, 2004 -- Louis Riel; a Comic-Strip Biography

May 1, 2004 -- Truly Winnie

June 5, 2004 -- Telegram

June 12, 2004 -- Stanley, California

June 19, 2004 -- Where in the World

June 26, 2004 -- When Difficult Relatives Happen to Good People: Surviving Your Family and Keeping Your Sanity

July 3, 2004 -- Don’t Look Back

July 10, 2004 -- Mister Monday

August 1, 2004 -- Mosaic; Techniques and Traditions

August 7, 2004 -- Chasing Vermeer

August 14, 2004 -- Lost and Found

August 21, 2004 -- Ain't She Sweet?

August 28, 2004 -- What Not to Wear for Every Occasion

September 11, 2004 -- Funny in Farsi

September 18, 2004 -- The Fine Art of Flower Arranging

September 25, 2004 -- Ophie Out of Oz

October 2, 2004 -- Churchill's Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq

October 9, 2004 -- High Country Fall

October 16, 2004 -- And If I Perish

October 30, 2004 -- Queer Eye for the Straight Guy

November 6, 2004 --

November 13, 2004 -- Second Grade Rules, Amber Brown

November 20, 2004 -- Memory of Fire: book one of the World Gates

November 27, 2004 -- Shoot the Moon

December 4, 2004 -- He's Just Not Into You

December 11, 2004 -- Mao’s last dancer; a memoir by Li Cunxin

December 18, 2004 -- In The Night Room

 

2003

January 4, 2003 -- Coraline

January 11, 2003 -- Any Small Goodness

January 18, 2003 -- Last Man Down: a Firefighter's Story of Survival and Escape from the World Trade Center

January 25, 2003 -- Hoot

February 1, 2003 -- Voyage of the Arctic Tern

February 8, 2003 -- Choosing Naia; A Family’s Journey

February 14, 2003 -- Stuart's Cape

February 22, 2003 -- Four Seasons in Five Senses: Things worth Savoring

March 8, 2003 -- The Silver Lining: the Benefits of Natural Disasters

March 15, 2003 -- Arabat

March 22, 2003 -- The Annoyance Bureau

March 29, 2003 -- A Miracle for St. Cecilia's

April 5, 2003 -- Drop City

April 19, 2003 -- City of the Beasts

April 26, 2003 -- Patrick, Son of Ireland

May 10, 2003 -- The Da Vinci Code

May 17, 2003 -- The Silent Boy

May 24, 2003 -- Matisse Picasso

May 31, 2003 -- Profiles of the Presidents

June 7, 2003 -- Money for Nothing

June 14, 2003 -- Monkeewrench

June 21, 2003 -- Small Wonder

June 28, 2003 -- Abhorsen

July 5, 2003 -- The Big Meow

July 12, 2003 -- Cat in a Neon Nightmare: a Midnight Louie mystery

July 19, 2003 -- The Life You Save May be Your Own

July 26, 2003 -- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

August 2, 2003 --

August 9, 2003 -- Disappearing Act

August 16, 2003 -- Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

August 23, 2003 --

August 30, 2003 -- Easter Island

September 6, 2003 -- Appetites: Why Women Want

September 13, 2003 -- Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What do You See?

September 20, 2003 -- Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan

September 27, 2003 -- Isle of Palms

October 4, 2003 -- In the Shadows of War

October 11, 2003 -- Persepolis; the Story of a Childhood

October 18, 2003 -- The Wolves in the Walls

October 25, 2003 -- The Long Haul

November 1, 2003 --

November 8, 2003 -- Dogs Don't Bite When a Growl Will Do

November 15, 2003 -- Jennifer Government

November 22, 2003 -- Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia

November 29, 2003 -- Vulture Capital

December 6, 2003 -- A Christmas Journey

December 13, 2003 -- Coercing Virtue: the Worldwide Rule of Judges

December 20, 2003 -- In Time of War

December 27, 2003 -- Polly's Absolutely Worst Birthday Ever

 

2002

January 5, 2002 -- Peace Like a River

January 12, 2002 -- I Knew a Woman: The Experience of the Female Body

January 19, 2002 -- Till Tomorrow

January 26, 2002 -- The Price of Terror: One Bomb, One Plane, 270 Lives; the History Making Struggle for Justice after Pan Am 103

February 2, 2002 -- Farewell to Manzanar

February 9, 2002 -- Amelia Earhart’s shoes: is the mystery solved?

February 16, 2002 -- Winnie Dancing on Her Own

March 2, 2002 -- The Things I Know Best

March 9, 2002 -- The Heart of the Soul

March 16, 2002 -- Remembering Korea: The Korean War Veterans Memorial

March 23, 2002 -- The Eyre Affair

March 30, 2002 -- Burning Marguerite

April 6, 2002 -- Pet of a Pet, and Five Creatures

April 13, 2002 -- J.K. Rowling: The Wizard Behind Harry Potter

April 13, 2002 -- Dear Miss Breed

April 27, 2002 -- The Secret Ingredient

May 4, 2002 -- Losing My Mind

May 11, 2002 -- George Speaks

May 18, 2002 -- Funny Frank

May 25, 2002 -- Put a Lid On It

June 1, 2002 --

June 8, 2002 -- The Biggest Job We'll Ever Have: The Hyde School Program for Character-Based Education and Parenting

June 15, 2002 -- Losers

June 22, 2002 -- Nature’s Army: when soldiers fought for Yosemite

June 29, 2002 -- The Confessions and Secrets of Howard J. Fingerhut

July 6, 2002 -- Missing from Haymarket Square

July 13, 2002 -- Where have all the Flowers gone?: The Diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty

July 27, 2002 -- Daddy's Little Girl

August 3, 2002 -- The Mulberry Tree

August 10, 2002 -- When the Circus came to Town

August 17, 2002 -- Elijah's Cup

August 24, 2002 -- The Egyptian Box

August 31, 2002 -- Red Rabbit

September 7, 2002 -- Among the Betrayed

September 14, 2002 -- You Don't Know Me

September 21, 2002 --

September 28, 2002 -- Gooney Bird Greene

October 5, 2002 -- A Summer to Remember

October 12, 2002 -- Lovely Bones

October 19, 2002 -- Lemony Snickett: the Unauthorized Biography

November 2, 2002 -- Hobart

November 9, 2002 -- Blessings

November 16, 2002 -- Crispin: the Cross of Lead

November 23, 2002 --

November 30, 2002 -- Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

December 7, 2002 -- The Lighthouse Family: the Storm

December 14, 2002 --

December 21, 2002 -- Christmas in Harmony

December 28, 2002 -- Then Came Christmas

 
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