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American Food Writing: An Anthology by Molly O’Neill (Dec 2008)

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver (Feb 2008, Jun 2009)

The Art of Social War by Jodi Wing (Jun 2009)

Atonement by Ian McEwan (Jul 2008)

Aunt Dimity takes a Holiday by Nancy Atherton (Mar 2007)

Austenland by Shannon Hale (Oct 2007)

Away by Amy Bloom (Oct 2007)

Barron's how to prepare for the SAT by (Mar 2008)

"The Bear came Over the Mountain" by Alice Munro (Jun 2008)

Beloved by Toni Morrison (Aug 2007)

Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes (Feb 2008)

The Big Book of Home How-to by Better Homes and Gardens (Mar 2009)

Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam (Nov 2007)

The Book That Changed My Life by Roxanne J. Coady (Jan 2009)

Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo (Nov 2007)

Chamomile Mourning by Laura Childs (Mar 2007)

Chez Panisse Cooking by Paul Bertolli (Dec 2008)

Consequences by Penelope Lively (May 2008)

Count the Ways, Little Brown Bear by Jonathan London (Apr 2008)

A Countrywoman's Year by Rosemary Verey (Apr 2007)

The Cure for Anything is Salt Water by Mary South (Sep 2008)

The Dance of Intimacy by Harriet Lerner (Apr 2008)

Death at the Spring Plant Sale by Ann Ripley (Mar 2007)

December by Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop (Jan 2009)

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: an African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller (Jan 2007)

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (May 2009)

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (Jul 2008)

The Essential Rumi by (Apr 2008)

Faith and Doubt: An Anthology of Poems by Patrice Vecchione (Dec 2007)

The Family Man by Elinor Lipman (Jun 2009)

A Few Thousand Words about Love by Mickey Pearlman (Apr 2008)

The Five Things We Cannot Change by David Richo (Mar 2009)

Fools’ Puzzle by Earlene Fowler (Mar 2007)

From the Ground Up by Amy Stewart (Apr 2007)

The Frugal Duchess by Sharon Harvey Rosenberg (Mar 2009)

Gardening Weekends by Olwen Woodier (Apr 2007)

Gardening with Children by Beth Richardson (Apr 2007)

Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl (Jan 2007)

Get a Life by Nadine Gordimer (Feb 2007)

Get Ready for Standardized Tests by (Mar 2008)

The Godmother by Carrie Adams (Nov 2007)

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (May 2008)

The Good, Good Pig by Sy Montgomery (Jan 2007, Dec 2007)

Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life by Sophie Uliano (Nov 2008)

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Feb 2007)

The Great Neighborhood Book: a do-it-yourself guide to Placemaking by Jay Walljasper (Nov 2008)

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (Sep 2008)

Happiness Sold Separately by Lolly Winston (May 2008)

Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin (May 2008)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (Jun 2007)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (Sep 2007)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (Jul 2007)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Jul 2007)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (Jul 2007, Jul 2008)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (Jun 2007)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (Jun 2007)

Hazel’s Amazing Mother by Rosemary Wells (Apr 2008)

Honeymoon with My Brother by Franz Wisner (Jan 2007)

Horticulture by (Apr 2007)

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (Aug 2007)

The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Jun 2008)

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (Jun 2008)

I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron (Oct 2007)

I Love You, Sun I Love You, Moon by Karen Pandell (Apr 2008)

If You Lived Here by Dana Sachs (Oct 2007)

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (Dec 2008)

In the Driver’s Seat by Helen Simpson (Feb 2008)

Iron Shoes by Molly Giles (Feb 2007)

The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler (Jun 2008)

Kaleidoscope by Dorothy Gilman (Mar 2007)

Keeping the World Away by Margaret Foster (Oct 2007)

The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Feb 2007)

The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez (Oct 2007)

Leave the Grave Green by Deborah Crombie (Mar 2007)

Listening is an Act of Love: a celebration of American life from the StoryCorps project by David Isay (Sep 2008)

Love and Survival by Dean Ornish (Apr 2008)

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (May 2009)

Love’s a Sweet by Clyde Watson (Apr 2008)

Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland (May 2008)

The Marc by E.L. Doctorow (Aug 2007)

March by Geraldine Brooks (Aug 2007)

Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers (Jul 2008)

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Aug 2007)

The Maytrees by Annie Dillard (May 2008)

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards (May 2009)

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus by John Gray (Apr 2008)

Mr. Putter and Tabby Pour the Tea by Cynthia Rylant (Apr 2008)

Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station by Dorothy Gilman (Feb 2008)

My Last Supper by Melanie Dunea (Dec 2008)

My Life in France by Julia Child (Dec 2007)

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (Jan 2009)

Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier (Sep 2008)

The 9/11 Report: a graphic adaptation by Sid Jacobson (Jan 2009)

Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson (Feb 2007)

Old School by Tobias Wolff (Feb 2007)

One Around the Track by Sharyn McCrumb (May 2008)

One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson (Nov 2007, Feb 2008)

Parent's Guide to School Projects by Kathie Weir (Mar 2008)

Parents' Guide to the California Star Program by Cynthia Johnson (Mar 2008)

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (Jun 2009)

The Photograph by Penelope Lively (May 2008)

Physician’s Desk Reference by (Mar 2009)

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (Nov 2008)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Jun 2008)

Red Bird by Mary Oliver (Jun 2009)

Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (Jul 2008)

River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (Jan 2007)

Rough Weather by Robert B. Parker (May 2009)

The Russia House by John Le Carre (Jun 2008)

Sane Living in a Mad World by Robert Rodale (Nov 2008)

Scholastic Explains Homework by (Mar 2008)

She May Not Leave by Fay Weldon (Nov 2007)

Snow by Orhan Pamuk (May 2009)

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (May 2009)

Soup for Every Body by Joanna Pruess (Mar 2009)

Sunset by (Apr 2007)

Take Big Bites: adventures around the world and across the table by Linda Ellerbee (Jan 2007, Sep 2008)

Thirst by Mary Oliver (Apr 2008)

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Nov 2007)

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson (Sep 2008)

Trail of Crumbs by Kim Sunee (Dec 2008)

Trowel and Error by Sharon Lovejoy (Apr 2007)

True love: a Practice for Awakening the Heart by Thich Nhat Hanh (Apr 2008)

Vanity and Vexation by Kate Fenton (Oct 2007)

Vegetarian Suppers by Deborah Madison (Mar 2009)

Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattulo Beals (Dec 2007)

What your 5th grader needs to know by (Mar 2008)

When we were Romans: a novel by Matthew Kneale (Sep 2008)

When Will There Be Good News by Kate Atkinson (Jun 2009)

Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers (Mar 2007)

The Windsor Knot by Sharyn McCrumb (Mar 2007)

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine Lengle (Dec 2007)

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Aug 2007)

You Grow Girl by Gayla Trail (Apr 2007)

Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez (Mar 2009)

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