Cross, Gary: Kids' Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood.
Cronin, Anthony: Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist.
Cowen, Lauren and Jayne Wexler: Daughters and Mothers.
al: The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore
Comer, James P.: Waiting for a Miracle: Why Schools Can't Solve Our Problems - and How We Can.
Collins, Gail: Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity, and American Politics.
Cole, K.C.: The Universe and the Teacup.
Colamosca, Anne and William Wolman: The Judas Economy.
Cohen, Charles E.: The Art of Giovanni Antonio Da Pordenone.
Clegg, Claude Andrew: An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad.
Claude-Pierre, Peggy: The Secret Language of Eating Disorders.
Clampitt, Amy: The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt.
Churchill, Winston S.: His Father's Son: The Life of Randolph Churchill.
Chatterjee, Sankar: The Rise of Birds: 225 Million Years of Evolution.
Charyn, Jerome: The Dark Lady From Belorusse.
Chandra, Vikram: Love and Longing in Bombay.
Caws, Mary Ann: The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter.
Casey, John: The Half-Life of Happiness.
Carroll, Andrew (Editor): Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters.
Carlson, Richard: Don't Worry, Make Money.
Cannon, Lou: Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD.
Campbell, Bebe Moore: Singing in the Comeback Choir.
Callahan, David: Unwinnable Wars: American Power and Ethnic Conflict.
Calkins, Lucy: Raising Lifelong Learners.
Butler, Robert Olen: The Deep Green Sea.
Buckles, Mary Parker: Margins: A Naturalist Meets Long Island Sound.
Brown, Patricia Fortini: Venice and Antiquity: The Venetian Sense of the Past.
Brosterman, Norman: Inventing Kindergarten.
Brooks, Geraldine: Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey From Down Under to All Over.
Bronfman, Edgar M.: Good Spirits: The Making of a Businessman.
Brodeur, Paul: Secrets: A Writer in the Cold War.
Brinkley, Douglas and Townsend Hoopes: FDR and the Creation of the U.N.
Brewer, John: The Pleasures of the Imagination.
Brennan, Maeve: The Springs of Affection.
Braun, Lilian Jackson: The Cat Who Sang for the Birds.
Bratton, William and Peter Knobler: Turnaround: How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic.
Brand, Dionne: In Another Place, Not Here.
Weston DeWalt: The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
Bok, Derek: The State of the Nation: Government and the Quest for a Better Society.
Bloomberg, Michael: Bloomberg by Bloomberg.
and Mary Gail Snyder: Fortress America: Gated Communities in the United States
Biederman, Patricia Ward and Warren Bennis: Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative.
Bernardi, Joseph Cardinal: The Gift of Peace: Personal Reflections.
Bergreen, Laurence: Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life.
Benyus, Janine M.: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature.
Benson, Richard and John Szarkowski: A Maritime Album: 100 Photographs and Their Stories.
Bennis, Warren and Patricia Ward Biederman: Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration.
DiLorenzo: Cancerscam: Diversion of Federal Cancer Funds to Politics
Benfey, Christopher: Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable.
Bauer, Douglas: The Book of Famous Iowans.
Bauby, Jean-Dominique: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Bass, Rick: The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness.
Bakis, Kirsten: Lives of the Monster Dogs.
Bacon, Charlotte: A Private State: Stories.
Assouline, Pierre: Simenon: A Biography.
Ashbery, John: The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry".
Annan, Noel: Changing Enemies: The Defeat and Regeneration of Germany.
Anderson, Jon Lee: Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life.
Anderson, David C.: Sensible Justice: Alternatives to Prison.
Altman, Billy: Laughter's Gentle Soul: The Life of Robert Benchley.
Allison, Karen Hubert: How I Gave My Heart to the Restaurant Business.
Alcorn, Alfred: Murder in the Museum of Man.
Ahmed, Akbar S.: Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity.
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