Daily Book Picks September 2009:

Sept. 30:

Cobra Alliance by Timothy Zahn (BAEN Books) Cobra Alliance: Cobra War: Book One
 

Deployment by Karen Petty (Redleaf Press) Deployment: Strategies for Working with Kids in Military Families
 

I Fill This Space by Lawrence Newman (Gallaudet University Press) I Fill This Small Space: The Writings of a Deaf Activist
 

Thinking About Almost Everything...edited by Ash Amin & Michael O'Neill (Profile Books Limited) Thinking About Almost Everything: New Ideas to Light up Minds

Have a Little Faith: A True Story by Mitch Albom (Hyperion) Have a Little Faith: A True Story
 

Traffyck by Michael Beres (Medallion Press) Traffyck (Lazlo Horvath Thriller)

Sorrow Wood by Raymond L. Atkins (Medallion Press) Sorrow Wood

Soldiers Of Fortune by Tony Geraghty (Pegasus Books) Soldiers of Fortune: A History of the Mercenary in Modern Warfare

Sept. 29:

There Be Dragons by Heather Graham (Medallion Press) There Be Dragons

Empire by Graham McNeill (BL) Empire (Time of Legends: Sigmar Trilogy)
 

The Sacred Rights Of Conscience..edited by Daniel Dreisbach (Liberty Fund) Sacred Rights of Conscience, The: Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding

Dreamwish Beasts And Snarks by Mike Resnick (Golden Gryphon Press) Dreamwish Beasts and Snarks

Its Never Too Late by Donna MacQuigg (Five Star/Gale) It's Never Too Late (Five Star Expressions)

The Nude by Dorothy McFalls (Five Star/Gale) The Nude: A Historical Romance (Five Star Expressions)

Jacko by Darwin Porter (Blood Moon Productions) Jacko, His Rise and Fall, Second Edition: The Social and Sexual History of Michael Jackson

The Spark: The Breakthrough Formula for Losing Weight, Getting Fit, and Transforming Your Life by Chris Downie (Hay House, Inc)
 

Sept. 28:

What To Expect When Your Expecting by Heidi Muirkoff (Workman Publishing)

The Dog Who Loved Tortillas by Benjamin Saenz (Cinco Puntos Press) THE DOG WHO LOVED TORTILLAS=LA PERRITA QUE LE ENCANTABAN LAS TORTILLAS

Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl (Theatre Communications Group) Dead Man's Cell Phone

Thanksgiving Rules by Laurie Friedman (Carol R. Hoda Books) Thanksgiving Rules

Bad News for Outlaws By Vaunda Nelson (Carol R. Hoda Books) Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal (Exceptional Social Studies Titles for Intermediate Grades)

Vignettes Of The Deaf Character by Willy Conley (Gallaudet University Press) Vignettes of the Deaf Character and Other Plays
 

The Secret Doorway:Beyond Imagination (Imagination Publishing) The Secret Doorway

Secret Subway by Martin Sandler (National Geographic) Secret Subway: The Fascinating Tale of an Amazing Feat of Engineering

Sept. 25:

Home After Dark by Darryl Robidoux (Five Star Publications) Home After Dark: One Man's Memories

Campingly Yours by Thomas C. Adler (Five Star Publications) Campingly Yours: A Heartwarming Journey of a Lifetime at Summer Camp

Working For Good by Jeff Klein (Sounds True) Working for Good: Making a Difference While Making a Living

I Can Make You Sleep: Overcome Insomnia Forever and Get the Best Rest of Your Life! by Paul McKenna (Sterling) I Can Make You Sleep: Overcome Insomnia Forever and Get the Best Rest of Your Life

Programming Scala by Venkat Subramaniam (Pragmatic Bookshelf) Programming Scala: Tackle Multi-Core Complexity on the Java Virtual Machine (Pragmatic Programmers)

Shamrock Alley by Ronald Damien Malfi (Medallion Press) Shamrock Alley

Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions) Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government
 

High On Arrival by Mackenzie Phillips High On Arrival
 

Sept. 24:

Alien Hand Syndrome by Alan Bellows (Workman) Alien Hand Syndrome

The House Of Hope And Fear by Audrey Young, M.D. (Sasquatch Books) The House of Hope and Fear: Life in a Big City Hospital

Hemingway's Cuban Son by Rene & Paul Villarreal (Kent State University Press) Hemingway's Cuban Son
 

Lethal Witness by Andrew Rose (Kent State University Press) Lethal Witness: Sir Bernard Spilsbury, Honorary Pathologist (True Crime History Series)

Some Dream For Fools by Faiza Guene (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Some Dream for Fools

Trust Me by Jeff Abbott (Dutton Hardcover) Trust Me

The Bell At Sealey Head by Patricia McKillip (Ace Trade Paperback) The Bell at Sealey Head

The Sword Of The Lady by S.M. Stirling (Roc Harcover) The Sword of the Lady: A Novel of the Change (Change Series)

Sept. 23:

Campingly Yours by Thomas C. Adler (Five Star Publications) Campingly Yours: A Heartwarming Journey of a Lifetime at Summer Camp

Elfland by Freda Warrington (A Tor Hardcover) Elfland
 

Modular Java by Craig Walls (Pragmatic Bookshelf) Modular Java: Creating Flexible Applications with OSGi and Spring (Pragmatic Programmers)

Practicing Catholic by James Carroll (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Practicing Catholic

Exiles In The Garden by Ward Just (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Exiles in the Garden

John The Revelator by Peter Murphy (Houghon Mifflin Harcourt) John the Revelator

The Pattern In The Carpet by Margaret Drabble (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws

Last Known Address by Theresa Schwegel (Minotaur Books/SMP) Last Known Address

Sept. 22:

Upon Secrecy by Selene Castrovilla (Boyds Mills Press) Upon Secrecy

By The Sword by Selen Castrovilla (Calkins Creek/Boyd Mills Press) By the Sword

Upon Secrecy by Selene Castrovilla (Calkins Creek/Boyd Mills Press) Upon Secrecy

Alibi by Teri Woods (Grand Central Publishing) Alibi

From The Marrow-bone by John F. Deane (Dufour Editions) From the Marrow-bone: The Religion of Poetry: The Poetry of Religion

Vanessa And Virginia by Susan Sellers (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Vanessa and Virginia

Resurrection by Jim Dent (Thomas Dunne Books/SMP) Resurrection: The Miracle Season That Saved Notre Dame

Chambers Of Death by Priscilla Royal (Poisoned Pen Press) Chambers of Death (Medieval Mysteries (Poison Pen))

Sept. 21:

Total Immunity by Robert Ward (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Total Immunity: A novel of crime

Home After Dark by Darryl E. Robidoux (Five Star Publications) Home After Dark: One Man's Memories

Fugue State by Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press) Fugue State

Merv Griffin by Darwin Porter (www.BloodMoonProductions.com) Merv Griffin: A Life in the Closet

 
Lights Out, Nights Out by William Boniface (Accord Publishing/Andrews McMeel) Lights Out, Night's Out (AniMotion)
 

Health & Economic Status Of Older Women...edited by A. Regula Herzog (Baywood Publishing)
 

Whispering Pines by Jason Schneider (ECW Press) Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music . . . from Hank Snow to The Band

Always Compete by Steve Bisheff (St. Martin's Press) Always Compete: An Inside Look at Pete Carroll and the USC Football Juggernaut

Sept. 18:

Power's Garden by Dianne Ebertt Beeaff (Five Star Publications)  Power's Garden

Better by John O'Brien (Akashic Books) Better

  Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk (HarperStudio) Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

The Test Of Our Times by Tom Ridge (Thomas Dunne Books/SMP) The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege...And How We Can Be Safe Again

The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books/SMP) The Brutal Telling (An Armand Gamache Novel)

Interactivity by Joshua Noble (O"Reilly) Programming Interactivity: A Designer's Guide to Processing, Arduino, and openFrameworks

The Laws Field Guide To The Sierra Nevada by John Muir Laws (Heyday Books) The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada (California Academy of Sciences) (California Academy of Sciences)
 

Medicine Trails by Mavis McCovey (Heyday Books) Medicine Trails: A Life in Many Worlds

Sept. 17:

The King And I by Howdy Giles (Triumph Books) The King and I: An Unlikely Journey from Fan to Friend

The Lost Origins Of The Essay...edited by John D'Agata (Graywolf Press) The Lost Origins of the Essay

So I Need To Lose 15 Pounds by Shiho Torii (One Peace Books) So I Need to Lose 15 Pounds

Naming Nature by Carol Kaesuk Yoon (W.W. Norton) Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science

We Are Americans by William Perez (Stylus Publishing) We Are Americans: Undocumented Students Pursuing the American Dream

We Were Pirates by Robert Schultz (Naval Institute Press) We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman's Pacific War

Saving Freedom by Jim Demint (Fidelis Books) Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America's Slide into Socialism

Instinct by Michael A. Smerconish (Globe Pequot Press) Instinct: The Man Who Stopped the 20th Hijacker

Sept. 16:

The World's Easiest Astronomy Book by Hitoshi Nakagawa (One Peace Books) The World's Easiest Astronomy Book
 

Everyone She Loved by Sheila Curran (Atria Books) Everyone She Loved: A Novel

Rising Plague by Brad Spellberg, MD (Prometheus Books) Rising Plague: The Global Threat from Deadly Bacteria and Our Dwindling Arsenal to Fight Them

How Shall I Tell The Dog? by Miles Kington (Newmarket Press) How Shall I Tell the Dog?: And Other Final Musings

Stitches by David Small (W.W. Norton) Stitches: A Memoir

The Shadow Of Sirius by W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press) The Shadow of Sirius

Container Gardening...editors of Fine Gardening (The Taunton Press) Container Gardening: 250 Design Ideas & Step-By-Step Techniques

Grillin' With Gas by Fred Thompson (The Taunton Press) Grillin' with Gas: 150 Mouthwatering Recipes for Great Grilled Food

Sept. 15:

Chasing The 400 by Sheilah Vance (The Elevator Group) Chasing the 400

The Bordeaux Betrayal by Ellen Crosby (Pocker Books/S&S) The Bordeaux Betrayal: A Wine Country Mystery (Wine Country Mysteries)

To Wake The Dead by Marina Belozerskaya (W.W. Norton) To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology

The Upside Of The Downturn by Geoff Colvin (Portfolio/Penguin) The Upside of the Downturn: Ten Management Strategies to Prevail in the Recession and Thrive in the Aftermath

With Hitler To The End by Heinz Linge (Skyhorse Publishing) With Hitler to the End: The Memoir of Hitler's Valet

The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha (Broadway Books/Random House) The Crying Tree: A Novel

The Art Of Harvey Kurtzman by Denis Kitchen (Abrams ComicArts) The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics

Traitor's Gate by Kate Elliott (A Tor Hardcover) Traitors' Gate (Crossroads)

Sept. 14:

La Ranfla And Other New Mexico Stories by Martha Egan (Papalote Press) La Ranfla and Other New Mexico Stories
 

The Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending
by Jon Land (Tantor Media) The Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending

Beg, Borrow, Steal by Michael Greenberg (Other Press) Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life

The White Queen by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone Books/S&S) The White Queen: A Novel

The Test by Patricia Gussin (Oceanview Publishing) The Test: A Novel

The Surrogates by Robert Venditti (Top Shelf Productions) The Surrogates (Surrogates )

Eat This Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide: The No-Diet Weight Loss Solution by David Zinczenko (Rodale Press) Eat This Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide: The No-Diet Weight Loss Solution

The Grave Thief by Tom Lloyd (PYR) The Grave Thief (Twilight Reign)

Sept. 11:

Fidel And Che by Simon Reid-Henry (Walker & Company) Fidel and Che: A Revolutionary Friendship
 

Lift Every Voice by Patricia Sullivan (The New Press) Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
 

Getting It Through My Thick Skull by Mary Jo Buttafuoco (HCI) Getting It Through My Thick Skull: Why I Stayed, What I Learned, and What Millions of People Involved with Sociopaths Need to Know
 

Welcome To The Company (or What It's Really like Working Here by Eileen McVety (Inkwater Press) Welcome to the Company (or what it's really like working here)
 

Confronting The Chaos by Sean M. Maloney (Naval Institute Press) Confronting the Chaos: A Rogue Military Historian Returns to Afghanistan

A Bad Day For Sorry by Sophie Littlefield (Minotaur Books/SMP)  A Bad Day for Sorry: A Crime Novel

  The Last Pope by Luis Miquel Rocha (G.P. Putnam's Sons) The Last Pope

Following The Water by David M. Carroll (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook

Sept. 10:

Sowing Crisis by Rashid Khalidi (Beacon Press) Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East

Rurak Dimentions Of Welfare Reform...edited by Bruce Weber (W.E. Upjohn) Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform

A Future Of Good Jobs...edited by Timothy J. Bartik (W.E. Upjohn) A Future of Good Jobs?: America's Challenge in the Global Economy

Wearing Smaller Shoes by Chip Haynes (New Society Publishers) Wearing Smaller Shoes: Living Light on the Big Blue Marble

Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery (Europa Editions) Gourmet Rhapsody

Little Fingers by Filip Florian (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Little Fingers

Better by John O'Brien (Akashic Books) Better

The Fitzgerald Ruse by Mark De Castrique (Poisoned Pen Press) Fitzgerald Ruse (Sam Blackman Mysteries)

Sept. 9:

What Is Dreaming by Etan Boritzer (DeVorss and Company) What is Dreaming? (What Is?)

The Big Idea: How to Make Your Entrepreneurial Dreams Come True, from the Aha Moment to Your First Million by Donny Deutsch (Hyperion) Big Idea, The: How to Make Your Entrepreneurial Dreams Come True, From the Aha Moment to Your First Million

Making Music And Having A Blast by Bonnie Blanchard (Indiana University Press) Making Music and Having a Blast!: A Guide for All Music Students (Music for Life)

Hypnotizing Maria by Richard Bach (Hampton Roads) Hypnotizing Maria

An Echo in the Bone (Outlander Series #7)
by Diana Gabaldon (Dell Publishing) An Echo in the Bone: A Novel
 

The Quiet War by Paul McAuley (PYR) The Quiet War

Dawnthief by James Barclay (PYR) Dawnthief (Chronicles of the Raven)

For Love And Money by Dr. Bellandra B. Foster (Pleasant Word) For Love and Money

Sept. 8:

Fireman by George Kreuscher (www.fire-book.com) Fireman

Parenting Bully-Proof Kids by Ben Leichtling (www.bulliesbegone.com) Parenting Bully-Proof Kids: How to Stop School Bullies in Their Tracks

Thanks God It's Monday by Andrea Williams (www.emmerichgroup.com) Thank God It's Monday!: How to Create a Workplace You and Your Customers Love

Be Healthy Stay Balanced by Susan Smith Jones, PhD (www.susansmithjones.com) Be Healthy - Stay Balanced

A Legacy Of Silence by Delia Sellers (Delfans Publishing) A Legacy of Silence

Blowing The Whistle On Credit Card Debt by John Gliha (www.johngliha.com) Blowing the Whistle on Credit Card Debt

ONO by Marc Warnke (www.onobook.com) ONO, Options Not Obligations: Enrich Your Personal Life by Rethinking Your Financial Life

Sept. 3:

Absent A Miracle by Christine Lehner (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Absent a Miracle

The Lost Origins Of The Essay by John D'Agata (Graywolf Press) The Lost Origins of the Essay

Programming The Semantic Web by Toby Segaran (O'Reilly) Programming the Semantic Web

Your Body by Matthew MacDonald (O'Reilly) Your Body: The Missing Manual

Land Of The Dead by Thomas Harlan (Tor Hardcover) Land of the Dead

Cargo Of Coffins by L. Ron Hubbard (Galaxy Press) Cargo of Coffins (Stories from the Golden Age)

Intimate Stranger by Breyten Breytenbach (Archipelago Books) Intimate Stranger

Darwin's Armada by Iain McCalman (W.W. Norton) Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution

Sept. 2:

Understanding NLP by Frances Kay (Kogan Page) Understanding NLP: Strategies for Better Workplace Communication... Without the Jargon

The End Of The Long Summer by Dianne Dumanoski (Crown) The End of the Long Summer: Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth

King Of Heists by J. Norton Conway (Globe Pequot Press) King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked America

Bangkok Dragons, Cape Cod Tears by Randall Peffer (Big Earth Publishing) Bangkok Dragons, Cape Cod Tears

100 Classic Golf Tips by Christopher Obetz (Random House) 100 Classic Golf Tips (100 Golf Tips)

Elegies For The Water by Philip Lee Williams (Mercer University Press) Elegies for the Water: Poems

In The Graveyards Of Empires by Seth Jones (W.W. Norton) In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan

Road Trip USA by Jamie Jensen (Avalon Travel) Road Trip USA Pacific Coast Highway

Sept. 1:

Give A Goat by Jan West Schrocl (Tilbury House Publishers) Give a Goat

Salamander by Nick Kyme (BL) Salamander (The Tome of Fire Trilogy)

The Cry Of The Sloth by Sam Savage (Coffee House Press) The Cry of the Sloth

One Night In Frogtown (Arnica Publishing) One Night in Frogtown

The Tillamook Cheese Cook Book (Arnica Publishing) The Tillamook Cheese Cookbook: Celebrating 100 Years of Excellence

Collision Of Evil by John J. Le Beau (Oceanview Publishing) Collision of Evil: A Novel

Betrayal by Andrew Kirtzman (Harper) Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff

On The Brink of Bliss and Insanity by Lisa  Cerasoli www.OntheBrinkofBliss.com.
(Five Star Publications)

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