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Latest Issue: 07/27/04: Vol. 06, #07

Summer Re-runs

Editor's Choice

This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland

History, Biography, Society

Decent Interval: An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam

Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography

The Road to Oxiana

Mencken Chrestomathy

The Age of Empire: 1875-1914

Taken for a Ride: Detroit's Big Three and the Politics of Air Pollution

Borrowed Finery: A Memoir

Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions

The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-To-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege

Toxic Sludge Is Good for You!: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Science/Technology

The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

Brotherhood of the Bomb : The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller

The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World

Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Fiction

Pattern Recognition

The Minority Report

December 6: A Novel

Cadillac Jack

Pop. 1280

The Lovely Bones: A Novel

Salammbo

Time Enough for Love

Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Briefing For A Descent Into Hell

The Light of Other Days

Beowulf

Auto-da-fé

Children's Books

Nutshell Library

Father Fox's Penny Rhymes

Zeralda's Ogre

Brave Irene

Be a Friend to Trees

Mrs. Armitage and the Big Wave

Disgusting Digestion

The Phantom Tollbooth

The Man Who Made Time Travel

The Neverending Story

It's Our World, Too! Young People Who Are Making a Difference