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January 2007
01-28-07 Literacy and Longing In L.A.
February 2007
02-11-07 The Shadow of the Wind
02-18-07 Window Beyond The World
March 2007
03-11-07 How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
April 2007
04-01-07 Confederate Heroines
04-15-07 A Gentle Madness
04-29-07 Kingdom of Shadows

January 2006
01-29-06 Party Girl
February 2006
02-12-06 Lolita
02-26-06 Twilight Sleep
March 2006
03-19-06 Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin, Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
03-26-06 Sex Wars
June 2006
06-18-06 The Treasure of Montsegur
06-25-06 Moura, The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg
July 2006
07-02-06 Elements of Style
07-23-06 Absurdistan
August 2006
08-13-06 Suite Francaise
08-27-06 The Debutante Divorcee
November 2006
11-12-06 The Plot Against America
11-19-06 Anna of All the Russias, the Life of Anna Akhmatova

January 2005
01-16-05 Middlesex
01-23-05 Apprentice to the Flower Poet Z
February 2005
02-06-05 The Reluctant Guardian
02-13-05 Dreams of My Russian Summers
02-27-05 Honoring Sergeant Carter: Redeeming a Black World War II Hero's Legacy
March 2005
03-20-05 For Her Own Good, Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women
03-06-05 Jane Eyre
03-27-05 Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
April 2005
04-03-05 The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
04-24-05 Fresh Lipstick, Redressing Fashion and Feminism
May 2005
05-01-05 The Orthodox Church;
The Orthodox Study Bible, New Testament and Psalms

05-08-05 Mother
05-22-05 Them, A Memoir of Parents
July 2005
07-31-05 Hard Currency
August 2005
08-07-05 Reading Lolita in Tehran
08-14-05 L'Affaire
08-021-05 The Historian
08-28-05 The Romanov Prophecy
October 2005
10-23-05 The Undomestic Goddess
November 2005
11-13-05 Eleanor of Aquitaine, A Life

January 2004
01-11-04 Creating Good Karma
01-25-04 The Piano Tuner
February 2004
02-01-04 The Bookseller of Kabul
02-15-04 Dude, Where's My Country?
02-22-04 Life of Pi
March 2004
03-07-04 The Hunt for Willie Boy
03-14-04 Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment
03-21-04 The Da Vinci Code
03-28-04 America's Meltdown, The Lowest-Common-Denominator Society
April 2004
04-04-04 Talking Correctly For Success: A Practical Guide to Sounding 'Right' for Business, Professional and Social Success
04-11-04 "Eastern Orthodox Christianity" and "Eastern Orthodox Theology"
04-18-04 Ghost Orchid
04-25-04 Americana: Dispatches from the New Frontier
May 2004
05-16-04 Call of the Mall
05-30-04 Romanov Autumn: Stories from the Last Century of Imperial Russia
June 2004
06-06-04 The Botox Diaries
06-20-04 The Big Bing
July 2004
07-11-04 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
07-18-04 A King's Ransom
07-25-04 Bergdorf Blondes
August 2004
08-08-04 Night Soldiers
08-15-04 Wakefield
08-22-04 Funny in Farsi, A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
08-29-04 Fashion Victim

September 2004
09-19-04 What People Read This Summer
09-26-04 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
October 2004
10-03-04 The Fashionista Files: Adventures in Four-Inch Heels and Faux Pas
10-31-04 Corpus Christi
November 2004
11-28-04 Wild East: Stories from the Last Frontier
December 2004
12-26-04 The Bad Beginning: A Series of Unfortunate Events

January 2003
01-05-03 Fast Food Nation
01-12-03 The Man Who Ate the 747
01-19-03 Prague
01-26-03 An invitation for a Library Literary Salon
February 2003
02-02-03 The Evidence of Things Not Seen
02-09-03 The Emperor of Ocean Park
02-16-03 "The Lover" & "The War"
March 2003
03-02-03 The Truth That Killed
03-09-03 Red Love
03-30-03 Wild Women
April 2003
04-06-03 What Southern Women Know
04-13-03 Princess Sultana's Daughters
04-20-03 Hunting Season
May 2003
05-11-03 Words of Love: The Best Gift of All
05-18-03 Leaving Katya
05-25-03 The Devil Wears Prada
June 2003
06-01-03 The Russian Debutante's Handbook
06-08-03 The Spooky Art, Some Thoughts on Writing
06-15-03 "Dreaming War, Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta" and "Why Are We At War?"
06-22-03 Leisure, the Basis of Culture
06-29-03 Unwise Passions
July 2003
07-06-03 The Fabulous Girl's Guide to Decorum
07-13-03 Ignorance
07-20-03 The Wind Done Gone
07-27-03 Imperial Legend, The Mysterious Disappearance of Tsar Alexander I
August 2003
08-03-03 Maneater
08-10-03 Sappho's Leap
08-17-03 Lenin's Mistress, the Life of Inessa Armand
08-31-03 Modigliani
September 2003
09-07-03 The Road to Home, My Life and Times
09-14-03 Eleonora Duse
09-21-03 The Republic of East L.A.: Stories
09-28-03 Forever Amber
October 2003
10-05-03 Under the Tuscan Sun
10-12-03 The Knight of Maison-Rouge
10-19-03 Athenais, The Life of Louis XIV's Mistress, the Real Queen of France
10-26-03 Emily Post's the Gift of Good Manners
November 2003
11-02-03 Books About Coping With Loss
11-23-03 James Dean Died Here
December 2003
12-07-03 Who Killed Daniel Pearl?
12-14-03 Clara

January 2002
01-13-02 The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B
01-20-02 Tales of Passion, Tales
of Woe

01-27-02 The Last Great Dance
on Earth
February 2002
02-03-02 Reinventing Government
02-10-02 The African American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country
02-24-02 The Assassination of Lumumba
March 2002
03-03-02 Ali and Nino
03-10-02 The Dictionary of Art
03-24-02 Portrait in Sepia
03-31-02 The Passion of Artemisia
April 2002
04-07-02 Picasso, My Grandfather
04-14-02 Voices from the River
04-21-02 Three Weeks in Paris
04-28-02 The New Taste of Chocolate
May 2002
05-12-02 Art Lover, A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim
05-19-02 The Empress of Farewells, the Story of Charlotte, Empress of Mexico
05-26-02 The Nanny Diaries
June 2002
06-09-02 Secrets of Attraction, the Universal Laws of Love, Sex, and Romance
06-16-02 Fathers and Sons
06-23-02 The Bush Dyslexycon, Observations on a National Disorder
July 2002
07-07-02 Merrick
07-14-02 Ah, What to Read?
07-21-02 Working Toward a Brighter Future
August 2002
08-04-02 Travel Books
08-11-02 Evening Class
08-25-02 Seducing Mr. Heywood
September 2002
09-01-02 The University of Mississippi
09-08-02 Firehouse
09-15-02 The Sisters, the Saga of the Mitford Family
09-22-02 High Maintenance
09-30-02 Political Correctness - The Most Insidious Censor
October 2002
10-6-02 The Heaven of Mercury
10-13-02 Doctor Zhivago
10-20-02 Measuring Eternity, The Search for the Beginning of Time
10-27-02 The Grapes of Wrath
November 2002
11-03-02 Potemkin
11-10-02 Snobbery, the American Version
11-24-02 Handbags, the Power of the Purse
December 2002
12-01-02 Woe Is I, The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English
12-08-02 Collection of Books on Community Revitalization and Rebuilding
12-15-02 About Christmas
12-22-02 Children's Christmas Books

January 2001
01-07-01 House of Mirth
01-14-01 Hyper Parenting
01-21-01 Great Gatsby
01-28-01 Captain's Daughter
February 2001
02-11-01 Pushkin
02-18-01 W. E. B. Dubois Biography
02-25-01 Alice Walker's Short Stories
March 2001
03-11-01 Eastward to Tartary
03-18-01 Hooking Up
03-25-01 Women of Achievement Literary Quiz
April 2001
04-01-01 Madame de Staël
04-08-01 Sex & Power
04-15-01 As the Romans Do
04-22-01 Paris to the Moon
04-29-01 Real Life in the White House
May 2001
05-06-01 And God Created Wrinkles
05-13-01 Beatrice's Goat
05-20-01 The Constant Gardener
05-27-01 Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup
June 2001
06-03-01 He Shall Thunder in the Sky
06-10-01 Future of Success
06-24-01 ALA 2001
July 2001
07-01-01 Rose Grower
07-08-01 Sun Never Sets
07-15-01 Gino, the Countess & Chagall
07-22-01 Give War a Chance
07-29-01 A Year in Van Nuys
August 2001
08-19-01 Nickel and Dimed, On (Not) Getting By in America
September 2001
09-02-01 The Worst Years of Our Lives
09-09-01 Listening to the Page
09-16-01 Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years
09-30-01 The Chocolate War
October 2001
10-14-01 LIBER
10-28-01 Magazines
November 2001
11-11-01 Ravenburn
December 2001
12-09-01 Very Special Holiday Gifts
12-16-01 Esoteric Holiday Gift Books
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