Issue #20
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Mid-Winter, 1998 - 1999
Title Author Publisher Subject
From Versailles to Cybernetics Gregory Bateson [Reading] Cybernetics
Birder Mark Levensky [Reading] Bird-watching
Six Wars at a Time Howard and Audrey Shaff The Center for Western Studies Biography of Gutzon Borglum
Savage Grace[B] Natalie Robins and Steven M. L. Aronson William Morrow Memoirs
Another Man's Poison[B] Charles Fountain Globe-Pequot Biography of George Frazier
The Upper Valley[B]: An Illustrated Tour along the Connecticut River before the 20th Century Jerold Wikoff Chelsea Green Natural History
Pictures from the Water Trade[B]: Adventures of a Westerner in Japan John David Morley Atlantic Monthly Press Japanese Culture
Remorse, Loneliness, and Religious Submission Peter Høeg [Reading] Early Danish History
William Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury: A Critical Case Book Andre Bleikasten Garland Publishing Critical Studies
The Sell-Out of American Broadcasting Carlos Amantea [Article] Deregulation of Broadcasting
Haiku R. H. Blyth, Editor Heian International Japanese Poetry
Ma's Pain H. F. Reid [Poem] Modern American Poetry
Ancient Mexico: The History and Culture of the Maya, Aztecs, and Other Pre-Columbian Peoples Maria Longhena Stewart, Tabori & Chang Mexican History
Civilization H. L. Mencken Harcourt, Brace Review of a Book by Clive Bell
Four Immigrants Manga:[N] A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904 - 1924* Henry Kiyama Stone Bridge Japanese Comic Book
The Derrida Reader[N] Julian Wolfreys, Editor University of Nebraska Philosophy
Paths of Life[N]: Seven Scenarios Alice Miller Pantheon Psychology
What Do You Do When Your PCA Steals From You? L. W. Milam [Article] Disability
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #21
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Late Winter, 1999
Title Author Publisher Subject
Presence in the Flesh: The Body in Medicine* Katharine Young Harvard Modern Medical Practice
Oasis:[B] Under the Spell of South Georgia Tim and Pauline Carr Norton Life in the Antarctic
On a Voiceless Shore[B] Stephen Minta Henry Holt The Last Days of Lord Byron
Let It Come Down[B] Paul Bowles Black Sparrow Fiction, North Africa
Memoirs of a Man Who Lost His Memory P. P. McFeelie [Article] Memories of Peyote
The Lost Tomb: The Incredible Story of KV 5 and Its Excavation Kent R. Weeks Morrow Egyptology and Lost Tombs
Five Men Zbigniew Herbert [Poem] Poem on Executions
Gray Fox:[B] Robert E. Lee and the Civil War Burke Davis Burford The Civil War in the South
The Perfect Storm[B] Sebastian Junger Harper Storms and New England
Reports of My Death:[B] A Distinguished American Poet Looks at the Literary Life of Our Times* Karl Shapiro Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Autobiography
Stepping Westward:[B] The Long Search for Home in the Pacific Northwest Sallie Tisdale Henry Holt Essays on the Pacific Northwest
Titan:[N] The Life of John D Rockefeller, Sr Ron Chernow Random House Biography
Louis Pasteur[N] Patrice Debré Johns Hopkins Biography
Huey Long Invades New Orleans:[N] The Siege of a City, 1934-1936 Garry Boulard Pelican Louisiana History
A Poet in India Karl Shapiro [Reading] Travels in India
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed* James C. Scott Yale The Failure of City Planning
The Return of the Duck L. W. Milam [Article] Disability and Travel
The Word on the Street: Fact and Fable about American English John McWhorter Plenum Thoughts on the English Language
Our Words Are No Longer Engraved in Stone; They're Graved in Light R. R. Doister [Article] Thoughts on Writing and the Internet

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[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #22
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Early Spring, 1999
Title Author Publisher Subject
Dean Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World James Chace Simon & Schuster Biography
Worlds Without End:[B] The Exploration of Planets Known and Unknown John S. Lewis Perseus Astronomy
Polio[B] Thomas M. Daniel and Frederick C. Robbins, Editors University of Rochester Essays on Polio
Necessary Fictions[B] Barbara Croft University of Pittsburgh Short Stories
A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories[B] Victor Pelevin New Directions Short Stories
Five Most Rewarding Books Lolita Lark [Article] List of Five Best Books
A Poem Leading up to a Haiku F. W. V. Thompson [Poem] Haiku
Letter from the Southernmost Part of the Northern Hemisphere Carlos Amantea [Article] Mexico Travel
A House in India J. R. Ackerley [Reading] The Raj in India
Nature Studies John Henry Ryskamp FC2 Memoirs
The Black Box:[N] All New Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts of
In-Flight Accidents
Malcolm MacPherson, Editor Quill/William Morrow Actuality
A Cricket in the Telephone At Sunset[N] Lolita Lark, Editor Mho & Mho Poetry Anthology
Mali Blues:[N] Traveling to an African Beat Lieve Joris Lonely Planet African Travel
Wind:[N] How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and The Land Jan DeBlieu Houghton Mifflin Natural History
The Ogre* Michel Tournier Johns Hopkins Fiction
The Flies Javier Heraud [Poem] Peruvian Poetry

[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #23
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Mid-Spring, 1999
Title Author Publisher Subject
warty bliggins the toad Don Marquis [Poem] Thoughts of a Toad
Phèdre[B] Jean Racine
Farrar Straus Giroux Traditional French Drama
The Great Dismal[B] Bland Simpson University of North Carolina Press The Great Dismal Swamp
The Hunger Winter[B] Henri A van der Zee Bison Holland at the End of WWII
Amsterdam[B] Ian McEwan Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Contemporary Fiction
The Upset that Wasn't[B] Harold I Gullan Ivan R. Dee Truman's 1948 Campaign
Diary: Volume One Witold Gombrowicz [Poem] Contemporary Poetry
Lettre de l'Ile de Frqnce Jean Le Phage [Article] The Village of Gif-sur-Yvette, France
When I Was a German: An English Woman Living in Nazi Germany* Christabel Bielenberg Bison --- University
of Nebraska
Foreigners in WWII Germany
A Man of Few Words Carlos Amantea [Article] Study of Mexican Character
The Irreverent But Indispensable Guide to Hair Loss Solutions[N] L.H. Carson Eads Publishing Cosmetology
In Sam We Trust:[N] The Untold Story of Sam Walton and how Wal-Mart is Devouring America* Bob Ortega Times Business Study of Sam Walton and Wal-Mart
Dark Side of Fortune:[N] Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward L. Doheny Margaret Leslie Davis University of California Biography of Edward L. Doheny
Can a Good Christian Be a Good Lawyer:[N] Homilies, Witnesses, and Reflections Thomas E. Baker and
Timothy W. Floyd, Editors
Notre Dame Ethics and Christianity
Astral Projection for Beginners[N] Edain McCoy Llewellyn Techniques of Astral Projection
Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network Matthew Lasar Temple University Press History of Pacifica Radio
A Little Present in the Cab Marcel Proust [Reading] The "Grand Hotel's" Elevator
Ol' Strom: An Unauthorized Biography of Strom Thurmond Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson Longstreet Political Biography
A Member of the Waffen SS: A Journey with One Who Did the Killings Christabel Bielenberg [Reading] WWII in Germany

[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #24
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Late Spring, 1999
Title Author Publisher Subject
The Practical Guide to Aging: What Everyone Needs to Know Christine K. Cassel, Editor New York University Aging
Art as Politics in the Third Reich Jonathan Petropoulos University of North Carolina Art in Germany, 1933 - 1945
Beer Cans in the Rio de la Plata Jorge Stamadiano Latin American Literary Review Press Modern Latin American Fiction
Faking It:[B] U. S. Hegemony in a "Post-Phallic" Era Cynthia Weber Minnesota Freudian Symbolism and U. S. Foreign Policy in the Caribbean
Flowers from the Royal Gardens of Kew[B] Ruth L. A. Stiff University Press of New England Reproductions from Kew Magazine
The Arcanum:[B] The Extraordinary True Story Janet Gleeson Warner The Evolution of Alchemy
Loves That Bind[B] Julián Ríos Knopf An Alphabetical Love Story
A Visit to the Burning Ghâts Helena Petrovna Blavatsky [Reading] Travel in India, 19th Century
My Sweet Old Lady of the Mountains Carlos Amantea [Article] Curanderas of Mexico
Getting out of a Warm Bed on a Cold Morning Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [Reading] WWII France
I Finally Figured Out About Dying --- And I Wanted To Tell You Before It Was Too Late Robert J. Fretwell [Poem] Modern American Poetry
A Bumpy Trip on an Elephant Helena Petrovna Blavatsky [Reading] Travel in India, 19th Century
Flanders Patricia Anthony Ace Fiction
Warriors of the Prophet:[N] The Struggle for Islam Mark Huband Westview/Perseus Islam and the Jihad
False Witness[N] Melvin Rader University of Washington Witch-Hunting in the 1950s
A Nearly Normal Life:[N] A Memoir Charles L. Mee Little, Brown Disability

[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"

Issue #25
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Early Summer, 1999
Title Author Publisher Subject
The Man Who Gives Lunch to the Bugs of India Helena Petrovna Blavatsky [Reading] Travel in India, 19th Century
Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America* Laura Kipnis Duke University Press Varieties of Sexual Experience
The Collector's Guide to Early Photographs[B] O. Henry Mace Krause Photographic Collectibles
E W Scripps and the Business of Newspapers[B] Gerald J. Baldasty Illinois Biography
Confucius in 90 Minutes[B] Paul Strathern Ivan R. Dee Confucius
The Worst Journey in the World Apsley Cherry-Garrard [Reading] Travel in the Antarctic
Why I Don't Want to Write Another Stupid Book Review for RALPH Elizabeth Gips [Opinion] Anti-Review
Mr. Dimock Explores the Mysteries of the East: Journeys in India* Edward Cameron Dimock Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Travels in Contemporary India
Carl Sandburg:[N] Poems for the People George and Willene Hendrick, Editors Ivan R. Dee Contemporary Poetry
Civil War Railroads:[N] A Pictorial Story of the War Between the States, 1861 - 1865 George B. Abdill Illinois Railroads and the Civil War
Prayer Warriors:[N] The True Story of a Gay Son, His Fundamentalist Christian Family, and the Battle for His Soul Stuart Howell Miller Alyson Gay Biography
Making the Hillsides Blossom with Light L. W. Milam [Reading] Nathan B. Stubblefield and Early Radio
Our Ancestors' Short Lives Wislawa Szymborska [Poem] Contemporary Polish Poetry
The Making of McPaper: The Inside Story of USA Today Peter Prichard Andrews, McMeel and Parker Contemporary Journalistic History
Beaten by an Old Heart Leslie L. Seamans [Poem] Poetry of Aging

[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #26
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Mid-Summer, 1999
Title Author Publisher Subject
Beethoven Zbigniew Herbert [Poem] Contemporary Poetry
The Life and Works of Frank Lloyd Wright[B] Maria Constantino Courage Biography
Erotic Tales of the Victorian Age[B] Anonymous Prometheus Victorian Erotology
Shadows, Fire, Snow:[B] The Life of Tina Modotti Patricia Albers Clarkson Potter Biography
Three Meditations Bo Lozoff [Reading] Autobiography
The Mexican Dalai Lama Carlos Amantea [Article] Mexican Culture
Insight Guide Cuba[N] Danny Aeberhard, Editor Insight Travel, Cuba
Benjamin's Gift[N] Michael Golding Warner Fiction
Heart of Spain:[N] Robert Capa's Photographs of the Spanish Civil War* Leslie A. Martin, Editor Aperture Photographic History
Right of Inspection Jacques Derrida The Monacelli Press Photography and Derrida
The Seduction of Don Juan Lord Byron [Reading] 19th Century Romantic Poetry
Making Tortillas Luis Alberto Urrea [Reading] Life on the US - Mexican Border
Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life Luis Alberto Urrea University of Arizona Press Life on the US - Mexican Border
The X-Rated Videotape Guide --- VII Patrick Riley Prometheus Guide to Pornographic Videos
Pier-Luigi Zucchini J. Gallant [Reading] Biography of the Baroque Composer

[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #27
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Late Summer, 1999
Title Author Publisher Subject
The Arcimboldo Effect: Transformations of the Face from the 16th to the 20th Century Pontus Hulten Abbeville Press Art History
Airborne:[B] The New Dance Photography of Lois Greenfield Designed by William A. Ewing Chronicle Books Photographic Art --- Dance
Daring to Write[B] Mariana L. Ruybalid University Editions Disability Poetry --- Cerebral Palsy
What is Meditation?:[B] Buddhism for Everyone Rob Nairn Shambhala Buddhism
A Curandera from Oaxaca --- III Carlos Amantea [Article] Traditional Mexican Cures
The Eating of Your Fellow Passengers Lord Byron [Reading] Dietary Practices
The Man with the Moveless Hair Helena Petrovna Blavatsky [Article] Travel in India, 19th Century
Mars Fritz Zorn [Reading] Memoirs of a Fatal Illness
Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages Jeffrey Jerome Cohen University of Minnesota Press Traditional vs. Contemporary Giants
The Eads Bridge:[N] Photographic Essay by Quinta Scott Howard S. Miller Missouri Historical Society Study of 19th Century Eads Bridge
Assuming the Position:[N] A Memoir of Hustling Rick Whitaker Four Walls/Eight Windows Gay Autobiography
Lotus in the Fire:[N] The Healing Power of Zen Jim Bedard Shambhala Religion and Sickness
How to Deal with the Priests of Apocalypse Paul Nickel [Article] The False Signs of Apocalypse
The Architecture of Howard Van Doren Shaw Virginia A. Greene Chicago Review Press Turn-of-the-Century American Architecture

[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"

Issue #28
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Quite Late Summer, 1999
Title Author Publisher Subject
KPFA and the Pacifica Foundation: Some Thoughts on the Present Imbroglio L. W. Milam [Article] Commentary
Educating
Esmé:[B] Diary of a Teacher's First Year
Esmé Raji Codell Algonquin Books
of Chapel Hill
Contemporary Problems in Public School Teaching
Slowly Down the Ganges[B] Eric Newby Lonely Planet Traveling by Boat down the Ganges
Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer[B] Kenneth Patchen New Directions Contemporary Memoirs
The Devil's Cup:[B] Coffee, the Driving Force in History* Stewart Lee Allen Soho Press A Worldwide Search for the Perfect Cup of Coffee
The Death of Haidée Lord Byron [Reading] 19th Century Romantic Poetry
From Here to Fraternity Robert Egan Bantam Books American College Fraternity Life
Guanajuato, Mexico, 1925 Everett Gee Jackson [Reading] Travels in Mexico
Lettre d'Ile de France Dr. Phage [Article] Contemporary French Politics
The Wandering Womb:[N] A Cultural History of Outrageous Beliefs about Women Lana Thompson Prometheus History of Women, Medicine, and Women's Rights
Self Publishing Made Easy[N] William Carroll Coda How-to-do-it --- Publishing
The Floating Opera[N]* John Barth Avon Contemporary American Fiction
Lifestyles of the Blind and Paralyzed: Mark O'Brien L. W. Milam [Article] Obituary
British Wood-Engraved Book Illustrations, 1904 - 1940: A Break with Tradition* Joanna Selborne Clarendon Press --- Oxford Illustrated History of Wood Engraving

[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #29
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Early Fall, 1999
Title Author Publisher Subject
Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music Theodor W. Adorno Stanford University Press Theory of Beethoven's Compositions
A World Full of Heroes Carlos Amantea [Article] Disability and Bravery
Deep Blues:[B] Bill Traylor 1854 - 1949 Josef Helfenstein and Roman Kurzmeyer, Editors Yale University Press Primitive Art
Warm Smiles from Cold Mountain:[B] Dharma Talks on Zen Meditation Reb Anderson Rodmell Press Dharma Talks
Philip: Who Had a Mind Like a Damp Box of Matches William Golding [Reading] Memoirs of English Public School
Singing Lessons: A Memoir of Love, Loss, Hope and Healing Judy Collins Pocket Books Autobiography
The Ballad of Hans and Jenny Aquiles Nazoa [Poem] Contemporary South American Poetry
Get a Life![N] William Shatner Pocket Books Star Trek Conventions
Medieval Furniture:[N] Plans and Instructions for Historical Reproductions Daniel Diehl and Mark Donnelly Stackpole Books Building Medieval Furniture
Pack of Two:[N] The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs Caroline Knapp Delta Loving Dogs
Joseph Stalin Eric Hobsbawm [Reading] Stalinism
A Field Guide to American Windmills T. Lindsay Baker University of Oklahoma Press Illustrated Study of Windmills

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"

Issue #30
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Mid-Fall, 1999
Title Author Publisher Subject
We're All Doing Time* Bo Lozoff Human Kindness Foundation Surviving in Prison, Meditational Practices
Investigation of an Angel Zbigniew Herbert [Poem] Contemporary Eastern European Poetry
Vampires:[B] The Occult Truth Kostantinos Llewellyn Contemporary Vampires
The Way of the World:[B] From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the 21st Century David Fromkin Knopf History of the World
Mama Dip's Kitchen:[B] With More Than 250 Traditional Southern Recipes Mildred Council University of North Carolina Southern Cooking
Paris Boat Trips in 1900 Louis-Ferdinand Céline [Reading] Paris 100 Years Ago
Mexican-American Relations & Jude the Obscure Carlos Amantea [Article] Thomas Hardy and Crossing the Border
Conversations with Milovan Djilas Robert Kaplan [Reading] Contemporary History of Europe and Russia
Dr. Laura: The Unauthorized Biography Vickie L. Bane St Martins Biography
A Woman of Rome* Alberto Moravia Steerforth Italia Fiction, WWII Italy
America & the Daguerreotype[N] John Wood, Editor University of Iowa Daguerreotypes
The Autobiography of Howard Hughes[N] Clifford Irving terrificbooks Psychoautobiography
Salinger:[N] A Biography Paul Alexander Renaissance Media Psychobiography
Farm Appliances and How to Make Them [N] George A. Martin The Lyons Press Farm Machinery from the 1880s

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #31
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Late Fall, 1999
Title Author Publisher Subject
The Rapist in Our Living-Room Carlos Amantea [Article] American Television
The Three Principal Aspects of The Path[B] Geshe Sonam Rinchen Snow Lion Tibetan Buddhism
Tornado Alley:[B] Monster Storms of the Great Plains* Howard B. Bluestein Oxford Studies of Tornadoes
The Best of Myles[B] Flann O'Brien Dalkey Archive Articles from Irish Newspapers
How Now Shall We Live? Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcy Tyndale House Tenets of Fundamentalism
The Disabled: Such Interesting People Hugh Gallagher [Reading] Disability
Happy Bird Day Carlos Amantea [Article] Mexico Life
Normal Complement Hugo Williams [Reading] Travel by Boat in the Far East
Family Kaleidoscope: Images of Violence and Healing* Salvador Minuchin Harvard University Press Family Therapy
Treasury of Victorian Murder:[N] The Fatal Bullet Rick Geary Nantier Beall Minoustchine The Death of James A. Garfield
Just Talk:[N] Narratives of Psychotherapy Lillian R. Furst The University Press of Kentucky Modern Novels and Psychotherapy
German Post- Expressionism:[N] The Art of the Great Disorder, 1918 - 1924 Dennis Crockett Penn State Press Post-WWI German Art
Maryland Beaten Biscuits John Barth [Reading] Memories of Maryland
They Can't Hide Us Anymore Richie Havens Spike Autobiography
Spermatorrhea R.N. Barr [Reading] The Evils of Masturbation
Sleeping Late Jacques Prévert [Poem] Modern French Poetry

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #32
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Early Winter, 1999
Title Author Publisher Subject
The Clock of the Long Now: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer Stewart Brand Basic Building a Very Large Clock
Hoover Dam:[B] The Photographs of Ben Glaha Barbara Vilander University of Arizona Building Hoover Dam
Mystery Bruise[B] Terry Wolverton Red Hen Press Contemporary Women's Poetry
Been There, Done That[B] Eddie Fisher Thomas Dunne Books Autobiography
All the Time in the World* Hugo Williams Akadine --- Common Reader 50s Travel Book
Maps and the Bibles of the Poor Marshall McLuhan [Reading] Maps
Bosch, Alice in Wonderland, and MAD Magazine Marshall McLuhan [Reading] The Coming of Technology
Italian Style:[N] Forms of Creativity Omar Calabrese, Editor Skira Ten Aspects of Italian Fashion
Conversations with E. L. Doctorow[N] Christopher D Morris, Editor University Press of Mississippi Twenty-two Interviews
The Secret Lives of Alexandra David-Neel:[N] A Biography of the Explorer of Tibet and its Forbidden Practices Barbara and Michael Foster Overlook Press Tibetan Exploration
The Frog Prince:[N] A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults Stephen Mitchell Harmony/Random House Searching for the Prince
Bangkok, Fireworks, and God Carlos Amantea [Reading] Adventures in the Far East
Time Paul Valéry [Poem] French Poetry
The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation Dick J. Reavis Simon and Schuster Waco --- Five Years After

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #33
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Mid-Winter, 1999
Title Author Publisher Subject
Our Balloonman Which Art In Heaven Carlos Amantea [Reading] Mexico and Disability
Insight Guide: Mexico[B] John Wilcock, Kal Müller, Editors Langenscheidt Mexican Travel Guide
Memoirs of a Minotaur:[B] From Merrill Lynch to Patty Hearst to Poetry Robin Magowan Story Line Press Memoirs of Growing Up in the 50s and 60s
Desserts:[B] Recipes from the Vineyards of Northern California Leslie Mansfield Celestial Arts Cookery
Diego Rivera Pete Hamill Abrams Art --- Diego Rivera
The Million Dollar Mermaid Esther Williams Simon & Schuster Autobiography
Marijuana Rx: The Patient's Fight for Medicinal Pot Robert C. Randall and Alice M. O'Leary Avalon Publishing Group/Thunder's Mouth Press The Case for Medical Marijuana
How Grammar School Is Changing Maurice Kilwein Guevara [Reading] Prose Poem on School
The Chicago 7 Trial (on LSD) Paul Krassner [Reading] Chicago '68
Meeting a Bear David Wagoner [Poem] Contemporary American Poetry
Learning by Heart:[N] Contemporary American Poetry about School* Maggie Anderson, David Hassler, Editors University of Iowa Press 200 Poems
Wooden Churches:[N] A Celebration Rick Bragg Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Traditional Church Architecture
Civilization and the Limpet[N] Martin Wells Perseus Books Zoology for the Layman
Despicable Species:[N] On Cowbirds, Kudzu, Hornworms, and Other Scourges Janet Lembke Lyons Press Nature's Scourges
Trogons, Laughing Falcons, and Other Neotropical Birds[N] Alexander F. Skutch Texas A & M Birds of Costa Rica

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit