Dave Bledin
Bank (Little Brown)
A debut novel about a twenty-something associate at an investment bank who discovers that high-paying jobs come at a high price, in the tradition of The Frog King and Liar's Poker.

Cliff Conner
A People's History of Science (Nation Books)
A revolutionary account of how science was developed by ordinary people, rather than a few geniuses.

Dan Crane
To Air is Human: The Rise and Fall of Bjorn Turoque (Riverhead)
A humorous and poignant account of the author's quest to become the greatest air guitarist in the world.

Martin Duberman
The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein (Knopf)
A life of the great impresario and driving force in American modernism.

Martin Espada
The Republic of Poetry (W.W. Norton)
The eighth collection of poems by "the Pable Neruda of North American authors" (Sandra Cisneros).

Joan Friedman
Emotionally Healthy Twins (Da Capo Lifelong)
The seven simple concepts to raising twins as emotionally healthy individuals even while encouraging them to cherish their special sibling relationship.

Barry Golson
Retirement Without Borders (Scribner)
Barry Golson and his wife Thia explore all the ways in which retiring abroad is becoming a viable alternative to Sun City and Florida, giving advice, locations, and practical tips for resettling.

Bruce Grierson
U-Turn (Bloomsbury USA)
A highly original anatomy of the "secular conversion," the experience of throwing over one's beliefs and crossing over to the other side.

Jacob Hacker
The Great Risk Shift (Oxford)
Yale political scientist Hacker’s groundbreaking study showing the accelerating transfer of economic risk from corporations and the government onto families and individuals.

Deborah Harkness
The Jewel House of Art and Nature: Science in Elizabethan London (Yale)
A fascinating exploration of science in bustling, raucous Elizabethan London.

Kristin Henderson
While They're At War: The True Story of American Families on the Homefront (Houghton Mifflin)
How military spouses and families survive when their loved ones are deployed abroad.

Harriet McBryde Johnson
Accidents of Nature (Holt Books for Young Readers)
This stirring book tells the story of Jean, a 17-year-old with cerebral palsy, who attends a camp for the disabled, where all her assumptions are turned upside down.

Ann Jones
Kabul in Winter (Metropolitan/Holt)
A shattering ground-level view of real life in Afghanistan after the Taliban.

Seth Kantner
Ordinary Wolves (Milkweed)
The stunning tale of Cutuk, a caucasian boy growing up with the Arctic Inupiaq.

Camilo Mejia
The Road from Ar Ramadi (New Press)
The memoir of a soldier in Iraq who refused to go back, and now speaks out against the war.

Stephanie Mencimer
Blocking the Courthouse Door (Free Press)
How corporations and right-wing politicians are taking away your right to sue, and getting away with murder.

Craig Murray
Dirty Diplomacy (Scribner)
Former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Murray was ousted when he became an outspoken critic of the "War on Terror." A vivid, gripping memoir. (Published in the UK summer 2006.)

Denis O'Hearn
Only an Unfinished Song: A Biography of Bobby Sands (NationBooks)
The first biography of the Irish prison activist and hunger striker.

Heather O'Neill
Lullabies for Little Criminals (HarperPerennial)
Baby is 12-going-on-20, growing up on the streets in Montreal; a luminous debut novel, winner of the Canada Reads competition for 2007.

Miriam Peskowitz (with Andrea Buchanan)
The Daring Book for Girls (HarperCollins)
The follow-up to the smash hit Dangerous Book for Boys--a compendium of activities and lore for girls.

Frances Fox Piven
The War at Home (New Press)
The true domestic costs of Bush's military adventurism.

Adrienne Rich
The School Among the Ruins (Norton)
New poems by one of America's foremost poets.

Julia Scheeres
Jesus Land (Counterpoint)
A riveting debut memoir about growing up in a white fundamentalist Christian family with two adopted black brothers.

Mark Scroggins
The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky (Shoemaker & Hoard)
A life of the singular Louis Zukofsky, a poet whose work spanned the divide from modernism to postmodernism.

Clancy Sigal
A Woman of Uncertain Character (Carrol & Graf)
The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to be a Respectable Jewish Mom).

Joe Samuel Starnes
Calling (Jefferson Press)
The story of a fallen Southern Baptist preacher and a burned-out country music deejay--a gritty exploration of radio, religion and manhood.

Cass Sunstein
Radicals in Robes (Basic)
Why extreme right-wing courts are wrong for America.

Tom Tomorrow
Hell in a Handbasket (Tarcher/Putnam)
The latest collection of the bitingly satirical comic strip This Modern World. In full color!


Martha Ackmann
Vesuvius at Home: Ten Days in the Life, Loves and Mystery of Emily Dickinson (Smithsonian)
A narrative exploration of the forces that shaped the author as a poet, seen through the prism of ten pivotal days, including her struggles with God, secret anguish, and passionate love.

Monika Bauerlein
Becoming: Love, Death and the First Nine Months of Life (Bloomsbury USA)
How medical and technological advances are changing the terms of the abortion debate faster than courts and politicians, and how the pro-choice movement must come to grips with these changes to meet the challenges of the "biological century."

Edwin Burrows
Prisoners of New York (Basic)
The untold story of the British abuse of American POW's in New York during the Revolutionary War, by the co-author of Gotham.

Pratap Chatterjee
Halliburton's War (Nation Books)
The inside story of the oil company that took America to war.

Dorothy Cotton
If Your Back's Not Bent: The Civil Rights Movement, from Victim to Victory (Atria)
A memoir and stirring call to action by the only woman member of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s inner circle, who headed up the Citizenship Education Program which trained activists like Rosa Parks in nonviolent action.

Mollie Caldwell Crosby
Asleep: The Epidemic That Became Medicine's Greatest Mystery (Berkley)
The forgotten story of encephalitis lethargica or "sleeping sickness," an epidemic that plagued New York City during the 1920's, affecting 5 million people worldwide, in which victims fell into a deep sleep, many dying, but thousands more surviving, their minds permanently damaged and spending the rest of their lives in mental asylums.

Susanne Freidberg
Fresh: A Perishable History (Harvard)
A history of the global trade in fresh foods, and how it has transformed our diet and our ideas of what food is and should be.

Ronnie Gilbert
A Radical Life with Songs (California)
A memoir by the only female member of the iconic American singing group, The Weavers, who survived blacklisting and the McCarthy era.

Jennifer Heath
The Veil: Women Writers on its History, Lore and Politics (University of California)
An anthology of essays by internationally prominent women scholars and authors, the first to deal with the culture and politics of the veil in Islam, Judaism and Christianity.

Dale Hrabi
The Perfect Baby Handbook: A Guide for the Excessively Motivated New Parent (HarperCollins)
Former editor-in-chief of Blender and Radar editor Dale Hrabi's mock child-rearing manual -- a hilarious illustrated guide in the tradition of The Official Preppy Handbook.

Steven Jaffe
New York at War (Basic)
A history of New York during wartime--how New York has been a strategic focal point in all of our wars, as a key port, as an industrial and financial center, and as a symbol of American power.

Fred Jerome
Einstein on Israel (St. Martin's)
Einstein's little-known writings on Israel and Palestine, in support of a bi-national state, compiled and annotated by the author of THE EINSTEIN FILE.

Chris Lombardi
I Ain't Marching Anymore (University of California)
The history of soldiers and veterans who have opposed war in America, from the Revolutionary War to Iraq.

Martha Nussbaum
Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality (Basic)
How the Founding Fathers got it right when they separated church and state, and why that's the key to American democracy.

Robert Paquette
A Grand Carnage (Yale)
The first account of the largest and bloodiest slave rebellion in American history.

John Siceloff and Jason Maloney
Your America (Palgrave)
From the producers of the PBS series NOW with David Brancaccio: profiles of local activists who are taking bold intiatives to change their communities.

Tom Tomorrow
The Very Bad Mayor (Candlewick)
The first book for kids from Tom Tomorrow, author of This Modern World. A fable for our times.

Jamie Trecker
Kicking Out, Kicking On (Harcourt)
Fox Soccer Channel commentator and New York Times contributor Jamie Trecker's rollicking look at the World's Biggest Sporting Event, the World Cup, in Germany this year.

Siva Vaidhyanathan
The Googlization of Everything (University of California)
How Google is transforming modern culture, commerce and communication...not necessarily for the better. UK rights sold to Profile Books.

Jay Wexler
Free Exercise, Expensive Gas (Beacon)
Boston University Law School professor and humor writer Jay Wexler's slightly skewed tour of First Amendment battle sites, where some of the most important struggles over free speech, press, religion, and assembly have taken place.

Ian Williams
US vs. UN (Tarcher/Putnam)
Williams, veteran journalist and UN correspondent for The Nation magazine, examines the conservative vendetta against the UN.