Alden Graves' Northshire Bookstore picks for 9/18/07:

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• At Large & At Small by Ann Fadiman
• Christine Falls by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville)
• White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s by Joe Boyd
• Voodoo Heart by Scott Snyder
• The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
• Edmund & Rosemary Go to Hell by Bruce Eric Kaplan

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• They Take Our Jobs and 20 other myths about immigration by Aviva Chomsky
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
• Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
• Short Bus by Jonathan Mooney
• Death of a Dutch Uncle by M. E. Kemp
• Ocean in the Closet by Yuko Taniguchi
• Still Life with Chickens by Catherine Goldhamer
• Origin by Diana Abu-Jaber
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

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• James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years by Wayne Franklin
• Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape by Linda Ferber
• Nine Ways to Cross a River: Midstream Reflections on Swimming and Getting There from Here by Akiko Busch
• Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West by Michael Punke
• The Navigator by Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos
• Little Tiny Teeth by Aaron Elkins
• Saint Iggy by K. L. Going
• Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Titan's Curse - Book 3 By Rick Riordan
• If: A Father's Advice to His Son by Kipling, Rudyard Charles R. Smith Jr.

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• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Wild Braid by Stanley Kunitz
• A Peculiar Grace by Jeffrey Lent
• Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
• The River Wife by Jonis Agee
• St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised By Wolves by Karen Russell
• On Agate Hill by Lee Smith Million
• Nightingales by Susan Straight
• Birds in Fall by Brad Kessler
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichi Chimamanda
• In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
• Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam

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• The Mistress's Daughter by A. M. Homes
• Echoing Silence : Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing - Robert Inchausti (Editor)
• A Book of Hours by Thomas Merton, Kathleen Deignan (Editor),
• Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
• Dog Years by Mark Doty
• Chaos: A novella & Stories by Edmund White
• Dark Reflections by Samuel R. Delany
• McSweeney's 23 by McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (Dave Eggers, Editor)
• The Monk Upstairs by Tim Farrington
• The Kids' Book Club Book by Judy Gelman & Vicki Levy Krupp
• No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire And Pursuit of Venice by Judith Martin with Eric Denker, cicerone
• Henry Hudson: Dreams and Obsession by Corey Sandler
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
• The Great American Hot Dog : Recipes and Side Dishes from Across America by Becky Mercuri

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• Back Luck and Trouble by Lee Child
• Boomsday by Chrtopher Buckley
• On the Wrong Track by Steve Hockensmith
• Requiem for an Assassin by Barry Eisler
• Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season by Jonathan Eig The Overlook by Michael Connelly

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• Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham By Carolyn Brown
• On the Porch By James M. Crisp
• Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and Other Wily Characters By Patricia C. McKissack
• George Kennan: A Study of Character By John Lukacs
• The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization By Daniel Manus Pinkwater
• Taj Mahal: Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire By Diana Preston
• Eating Like a King: A History of Royal Recipes By Michele Brown
• The Elvis Impersonation Kit: A Step-By-Step Guide to Becoming the King By Laura Lee
• The Voyage of the Vizcaina: The Mystery of Christopher Columbus's Last Ship By Klaus Brinkbaumer
• Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science By David Lindley

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• The Headmaster Ritual by Taylor Antrim
• The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
• Long Time Leaving by Roy Blount, Jr.
• Window Poems by Wendell Berry
• Soaring With Fidel by David Gessner
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
• Paper Trails by Pete Dexter

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• The Big Turnoff by Ellen Currey-Wilson
• Digital Destiny by Jeff Chester
• Waging Peace by Scott Ritter
• Target Iran by Scott Ritter
• Maxed Out by James Scurlock
• Dead Money by Rudy Stegemoeller
• Apartment Therapy by Max Gillingham-Ryan
• Mapping the World of Harry Potter by Mercedes Lackey
• Mugglenet.com's What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7 by Mugglenet.com
• The End of Harry Potter by David Langford
• Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
• The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

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• Stealing Home: Jackie Robinson: Against the Odds by Robert Burleigh, Illustrator Mike Wimmer
• Map: Satellite by Philip Eales
• Why Beauty Is Truth: The Story of Symmetry by Ian Stewart
• Marshes: The Disappearing Edens by William Burt
• Butterflies of the East Coast: An Observer's Guide by Rick Cech
• A Natural History of North American Trees by Donald Culross Peattie
• The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston
• Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, Illustrator Robert Ingpen
• The Dowry: A Novel of Ireland by Walter Keady
• Poetry Speaks to Children with CD (Audio) by Elise Paschen

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• Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
• The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay
• Astrid and Veronika by Lina Olsson
• Finn by John Clinch
• Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
• An Inconvenient Truth: the Crisis of Global WarmingbyAdapted for a New Generation (for kids) by Al Gore

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• Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron (Newbery Award Winner)
• Flotsam by David Wiesner(Caldecott Award Winner)
• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson (National Book Award Winner)
• The Adventures of Marco Polo by Russell Freedman (Golden Kite Award)
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (Printz Award)
• Alabama Moon by Watt Key (E.B. White Read Aloud Award for Older Readers)
• Houndsley and Catina by James Howe (E.B. White Read Aloud Award for Picture Books)

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• Post Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook by Albert Bates
• Don't Call the Thrift Shop by Susannah Ryder
• Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things by Reader's Digest
• Twinkie Deconstructed by Steve Ettlinger
• Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
• Roma by Steven Saylor
• The Book of Art and Shadows by Michael Gruber
• Food Not Lawns by H.C. Flores

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• Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to KnowbyAnd Doesn't By Stephen Prothero
• Napoleon's Pyramids By William Dietrich
• Turning the Solomon Key: George Washington, the Bright Morning Star, and the Secrets of Masonic Astrology By Robert Lomas
• Turning the Hiram Key: Rituals of Freemasonry Revealed By Robert Lomas
• Three Empires on the Nile: The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1899 By Dominic Green
• The English National Character: The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair By Peter Mandler
• The Last Forest: The Amazon in the Age of Globalization By Mark London
• National Geographic Investigates: Ancient Iraq: Archaeology Unlocks the Secrets of Iraq's Past By Beth Gruber
• Never Tease a Weasel By Jean Conder Soule illustrated by George Booth
• David Beckham's Soccer Skills By David Beckham
• Build Your Own Stonehenge with Book
• The Day My Mother Left By James Prosek

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• What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
• The Watchman by Robert Crais
• By the Time You Read This by Giles Blunt
• The Cloud of Unknowing by Thomas H. Cook
• Nerve Damage by Peter Abrahams
• The Analyst by John Katzenbach

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• Words of a Feather by Murray Suid
• Traveler by Ron McLarty
• Knitting Circle by Ann Hood
• A Day Apart by Chris Ringwald
• Failing America's Faithful by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
• American Fascists by Chris Hedges
• Jesus for the Non-Religious by John Shelby Spong
• Astrid and Veronika by Linda Olsson
• The Blood Spilt by Asa Larsson
• In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
• Getting Stoned with Savages by J. Maarten Troost

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• Baby Steps by Peter McCarty
• Moon Plane by Peter McCarty
• The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists by Gregory Curtis
• Secret Societies: Inside the World's Most Notorious Organizations by John Lawrence Reynolds
• The Secret Life of Cows by Glen Wexler
• The Alexandria Link by Steve Berry
• Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
• Dog by Matthew Van Fleet
• Encyclopedia of Hardy Plant: Annuals, Bulbs, Herbs, Perennials, Shrubs, Trees, Vegetables, Fruits and Nuts by Derek Fell
• Kai Meyer and the DARK REFLECTIONS trilogy

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• Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration by Deepa Fernandes
• Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
• Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben
• The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish by Elise Blackwell
• The Light Within the Light: Portraits of Donald Hall, Richard Wilbur, Maxine Kumin & Stanley Kunitz by Jeanne Braham with engravings by Barry Moser

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• Wisdom in the Telling: Finding Inspiration and Grace in Traditional Folktales and Myths Retold By Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi
• The Road Not Taken: A Selection of Robert Frost's Poems By Robert Frost
• Where I Lived, and What I Lived for By Henry David Thoreau
• Walden and Civil Disobedience By Henry David Thoreau
• Henry Climbs a Mountain By Donald B. Johnson
• Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation By L. David Mech
• Never Cry Wolf By Farley Mowat
• How Will I Ever Sleep in This Bed? By Della Ross Ferreri
• The Human Fly and Other Stories By T. Coraghessan Boyle
• The Navigator By Eoin McName
• My Father Married Your Mother: Writers Talk about Stepparents, Stepchildren, and Everyone in Between By Anne Burt
• Hurty Feelings By Helen Lester
• Prehistoric Past Revealed: The Four Billion Year History of Life on Earth By Douglas Palmer
• The Personal Organizing Workbook: Solutions for a Simpler, Easier Life by Meryl Starr
• The Home Organizing Workbook: Clearing Your Clutter, Step by Step by Meryl Starr

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• Pure Evil by Greg Iles
• The Blade Itself by Marcus Sakey
• In the Rain by SJ Rozan
• The Second Mouse by Archer Mayor
• The Killing Moon by Chuck Hogan

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• The Lenox School of Jazz, by Jeremy Yudken
• The Road Washes out in Spring, by Baron Wormser
• Unformed Landscape, by Peter Stamm
• After the Flood: Photos of Post-Katrina New Orleans by photographer Robert Polidori
• In My Blood, Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family by John Sedgwick

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• Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 by Rafe Equith
• Chasing Rumi: A Fable About Finding the Heart's True Desire by Roger Housden
• Solitude: Poems selected by Carmela Ciuraru(in the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
• Persian Poets edited by Peter Washington (in the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
• Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists by the Editors of McSweeney's

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• The Old Way: A Story of the First People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
• Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners: Compliments, Charades and Horrible Blunders by Josephine Ross
• The Pedant's Revolt: Know What Know-It-Alls Know by Andrea Barham
• Late Youth: An Anthology Celebrating the Joys of Being Over Fifty by Susanna Johnston
• Green Inheritance: Saving the Plants of the World by Anthony Julian Huxley
• Treasure of Khan by Clive Cussler
• Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by F. B. M. De Waal
• The Rise and Fall of the Taconic Mountains: A Geological History of Eastern New York
• Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis by Kim Todd
• The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, the Anonymous Genius Who Proved Newton Wrong and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone,Among Other Surprising by Andrew Robinson
• 1066 and All That by Walter Carruthers Sellar
• When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Sturgeon: And Other Wrong Things Kids Write by Gini Graham Scott
• The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs
• John James Audubon and "The Birds of America": A Visionary Achievement in Ornithology Illustration by Lee A. Vedder

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• The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens
• Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
• Echo Maker by Richard Powers
• Genuis of Impeachment: The Founders’ Cure for Royalism by John Nichols
• The Lonely Planet Guide to the Middle of Nowhere
• A Photographer’s Life 1990 – 2005 Annie Leibowitz

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• Little Tree by e.e. cummings
• Hanukkah at Valley Forge by Stephen Krensky
• The Old Shepherd's Tale by Christopher Nye
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville, illlustrated by Patrick Benson
• Flotsam by David Wiesner Mommy by Maurice Sendak, Arthur Yorinks and Matthew Reinhart
• The Wandmaker's Guidebook by Ed Masessa

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• Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
• The Deception of the Emerald Ring by Lauren Willig
• The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig
• The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
• Decca by Jessica Mitford
• Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn by Caroline Moorehead
• Selected Letters of E. B. White by E. B. White
• Theories of Everything by Roz Chast
• Empire by Orson Scott Card
• Blind Submission by Debra Ginsberg
• (Waiting, Raising Blaze, About My Sisters) His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
• Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
• Black Powder War by Naomi Novik

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• Willy and Friends by Don Estes
• A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005 by Annie Leibovitz
• Fish: 77 Great Fish of North America by Ford Flick
• The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth by E O Wilson
• The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter by Colin Tudge
• Classification Phylogenetique Du Vivant by Guillaume Lecointre
• Emily Dickinson's Herbarium by Emily Dickinson
• Rivers of America by Tim Palmer
• Historical Atlas of the United States by Derek Hayes
• The Essential Hybrid Car Handbook: A Buyer's Guide by Nick Yost

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• The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian
• The R. Crumb Handbook by R. Crumb
• R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz and Country by R. Crumb
• The Sweeter Side of R. Crumb by R. Crumb
• We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction - by Joan Didion
• The Sunlight Dialogues by John Gardner
• Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

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• Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
• The Wrong Man by John Katzenbach
• Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
• The Second Mouse by Archer Mayor
• The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker
• Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song by Les Beletsky

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• Unbowed by Wangari Maathai
• Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie
• Portrait of War by Peter Krass
• Monique and the Mango Rains: two Years with a Midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway
• Birth by Tina Cassidy
• Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church is Trandforming the Faith by Diana Butler Bass
• Mom Are You Listening by Kathy Cohen
• Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• Silence of the Grave by arnaldur indridason
• Static by Amy and David Goodman

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• A Kids Guide to Giving by Freddi Zeiler
• Us and World in One Polybag by American Map Corporation
• World Almanac Notebook Atlas by Hammond World Atlas
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (the Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart
• The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions by Karen Armstrong
• Make Your Own President by Amy Pastan
• Spy: The Funny Years by Kurt Andersen, George Kalogerakis, Graydon Carter
• The Man Who Smiled by Henning Mankell
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
• The American Congress: The Building of Democracy by Julian E. Zelizer
• World Religions: The Great Faiths Explored & Explained by John Bowker
• The American Story: 100 True Tales from American History by Jennifer Armstrong
• The Electoral College by Suzanne LeVert

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• The Impeachment of George W. Bush: A Practical Guide for Concerned Citizens By Elizabeth Holtzman and Cynthia L. Cooper
• The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
• The Republic of Poetry: Poems by Martîn Espada
• Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway
• The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them Edited by Roxanne J. Coady and Joy Johannessen
• Christmas Remembered by Tomie dePaola

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• The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn
• Through the Children's Gate, by Adam Gopnik
• The Tree by Colin Tudge
• The Teeth of the Lion by Anita Sanchez
• Size Matters by Stephen Hall
• The Innocent Man by John Grisham
• Jimmy Stewart: A Biography, by Marc Eliot
• The Intellectual Devotional by David S. Kidder & Noah D. Oppenheim

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• The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within by Stephen Fry
• Colors of the Mountain by Da Chen
• Brothers: a Novel by Da Chen
• Mona Lisa Awakening by Sunny
• Under Orders by Dick Francis
• The Great Tree of Avalon trilogy by T A Barron
• Child of the Dark Prophecy
• Shadows on the Stars
• The Eternal Flame
• The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
• Christmas Remembered by Tomi dePaola
• The Night Before Christmas by Will Moses
• Arundel by Kenneth Roberts

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