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February, 2008 Reviews
- Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
- The Guards by Ken Bruen
- The World to Come by Dara Horn
- The Dirt on Clean by Katherine Ashenburg
- The Guynd: a Scottish Journal by Belinda Rathbone
January, 2008 Reviews
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry
- The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
- The Savage Garden by Mark Mills
December, 2007 Reviews
- The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
- A Free Life by Ha Jin
- A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
- Point of Honour by Madeleine Robins
- Run Afoul by Joan Druett
November, 2007 Reviews
- Longs Peak: the Story of Colorado's Favorite Fourteener by Dougald MacDonald
- A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
- The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
- Stanley Park by Timothy Taylor
- Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind: a Novel by Ann B. Ross
October, 2007 Reviews
- The Crime Writer by Gregg Hurwitz
- Babyproofing Your Marriage: How to Laugh More, Argue Less and Communicate Better as Your Family Grows by Stacie Cockrell, Cathy O'Neill and Julia Stone
- A Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
- Ten Second Staircase by Christopher Fowler
- Cupid and Psyche by Apuleius
September, 2007 Reviews
- Bitsy's Bait and BBQ by Pamela Morsi
- Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
July and August, 2007 Reviews
- Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
- Echo Park by Michael Connelly
- Dissolution by C.J. Sansom
- The 7 Stages of Motherhood: Making the Most of Your Life as a Mom by Ann Pleshette Murphy
- Last Bite by Nancy Verde Barr
June, 2007 Reviews
- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
- Love Don’t Live Here No More: A Novel by Snoop Dogg and David E. Talbert
- Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
- The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean
- Truck, a Love Story by Michael Perry
May, 2007 Reviews
- A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- How to cook your daughter by Jessica Hendra
- Rip it up and start again : postpunk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds
- Walking in circles before lying down by Merrill Markoe
- Cage of Stars by Jacquelyn Mitchard
April, 2007 Reviews
- The Terror by Dan Simmons
- Sea Change by Robert B. Barker
- Lady of the Light by Donna Gillespie
- The Blade Itself by Marcus Sakey
- Children of Chaos by Dave Duncan
March, 2007 Reviews
- Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
- Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
- Love in the Driest Season by Neely Tucker
- Villete by Charlotte Bronte
- The Great Stink by Clare Clark
February, 2007 Reviews
- The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
- The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
- The Gallery of Regrettable Food by James Lileks
- Correcting the Landscape by Marjorie Kowalski Cole
- Eifelheim by Michael Flynn
January, 2007 Reviews
- Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor
- One Good Turn: A Novel by Kate Atkinson
- The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk by Jennifer Niven
- Hidden Camera by Zoran Zivkovic
- Firetrap: A Novel of Suspense by Earl Emerson
December, 2006 Reviews
- Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
- The Amber Room: The Fate of the World’s Greatest Lost Treasure by Catherine Scott-Clark & Adrian Levy
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terror and Build Nations One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
- Hood by Stephen R. Lawhead
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
November, 2006 Reviews
- Middle Church: Reclaiming the Moral Values of the Faithful Majority From the Religious Right by Bob Edgar
- Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford
- Shalimar: A Novel (of Romance and Espionage in Nineteenth-Century Kashmir) by Rebecca Ryman
- Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
- The Ruins by Scott Smith
October, 2006 Reviews
- When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
- Miracles on the Water; the Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack by Tom Nagorski
- For the Time Being by Annie Dillard
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
- The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G. B. Edwards
- The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard
September, 2006 Reviews
- Monkeyluv by Robert M. Sapolsky
- Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash by Elizabeth Royte
- A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
- Ironfire: A Novel of the Knights of Malta and the Last Battle of the Crusades by David Ball
- The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
August, 2006 Reviews
- The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden by William Alexander
- 1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies
- To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
- Heart of the West by Penelope Williamson
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
July, 2006 Reviews
- Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak
- I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti
- A Season for the Dead by David Hewson
- The Myth of You and Me by Leah Stewart
- A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
June, 2006 Reviews
- Roadside Religion: In Search of the Sacred, the Strange, and the Substance of Faith by Timothy K. Beal
- Limits of Enchantment by Graham Joyce
- Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, a Lost Generation Love Story by Amanda Vaill
- Perfect by Marne David Kellogg
- Appaloosa by Robert B. Parker
May, 2006 Reviews
- Charms for the Easy Life by Kay Gibbons
- Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
- The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be by Farley Mowat
- Generation Debt: Why Now Is a Terrible Time to Be Young by Anya Kamenetz
- Prince of Darkness by Sharon Kay Penman
April, 2006 Reviews
- Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane Dunn
- The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- The Secret Life of Lobsters by Trevor Corson
- Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll
- The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
March, 2006 Reviews
- The Singular Pilgrim by Rosemary Mahoney
- Meet the Beatles: A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender and the World by Steven D. Stark
- Patriots Club by Christopher Reich
- Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
- The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
February, 2006 Reviews
- Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
- Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America by Stephen Bloom
- Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
- The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G. B. Edwards
- Open Season by C. J. Box
January, 2006 Reviews
- Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table by Linda Ellerbee
- Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin
- Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities by Alexandra Robbins
- Night Fall by Nelson DeMille
- A Test of Wills by Charles Todd
December, 2005 Reviews
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
- Revenge: A Story of Hope by Laura Blumenfeld
- Away with the Fairies by Kerry Greenwood
- Colorado Campgrounds: The 100 Best and All the Rest by Gil Folsom
- Most Wanted by Michele Martinez
November, 2005 Reviews
- The Miracle Detective by Randall Sullivan
- Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming
- Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan
- Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb
- The Storyteller's Daughter by Saira Shah
October, 2005 Reviews
- The Descent by Jeff Long
- Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
- Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
- Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married by Marian Keyes
- Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah MacDonald
September, 2005 Reviews
- The Book of the Cosmos: Imagining the Universe from Heraclitus to Hawking, edited by Dennis Richard Danielson
- An Act of State: the Execution of Martin Luther King, by William Pepper
- Diary: A Novel, by Chuck Palahniuk
- The Smoke Room, by Earl Emerson
- Aspen Pulp, by Patrick Hasburgh
August, 2005 Reviews
- The Memory of Running, by Ron McLarty
- The Fool's Tale, by Nicole Galland
- Nectar from a Stone, by Jane Guill
- Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood, by Jennifer Traig
- Guests of the Sheik, by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea