Issue #13
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Winter, 1997 - 1998
Title Author Publisher Subject
Bordertown Barry Gifford, David Perry, Photographer Chronicle Border between United States and Mexico
Pictures Speaking of Love Carlos Amantea [Reading] Novel, Latin America
A Gaudy Spree:[B] Literary Hollywood When the West Was Fun Samuel Marx Franklin Watts History of Entertainment Industry
The Insanity File:[B] The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln Mark E. Neely, Jr. and R. Gerald McMurtry Southern Illinois University Press History, Biography
Memories of Mistresses:[B] Reflections of a Life Luigi Barzini Collier Memoirs, Publishing Industry
Poems: 1968 - 1972[B] Denise Levertov New Directions Modern American Poetry
Operas & Plays[B] Gertrude Stein Station Hill Press Anthology
The Green Dusk[B] Mildren Weston Owl Creek Press Modern American Poetry
This Far and No More[B] Andrew H. Malcolm Times Books Biography, ALS
Shifting Gears: [B] Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America Cecelia Tichi University of North Carolina Press Visual aspects of technology
L. A. Lost & Found[B] Sam Hall Kaplan Crown Architectural History, Los Angeles
Tango[B] Daniel Halpern Viking Penguin Modern American Poetry
The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights[B] Paul Hollister, Jr. Paperweight Press Paperweights
Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes:[B] A Life and a Story David Thomson Doubleday Biography, L A Fiction
Home from Nowhere James Howard Kunstler [Reading] American Cities
The Windsor Style Suzy Menkes Salem House Biography
Genetic Engineering Peter F. V. Jones [Poem] Modern American Poetry
Eating Duck Jerome K. Jerome [Reading] Home Economics, England
The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick Richard Norton Smith Houghton Mifflin Biography
A Study of the American Schools Upton Sinclair Upton Sinclair Press H. L. Mencken review
My Journey from Fear to Faith[N] Tonya Flynt-Vega Westminster John Knox Religious Autobiography
Twitch and Shout:[N] A Touretter's Tale Lowell Handler Dutton Tourette's Syndrome
The Space between Our Footsteps:[N] Poems and Paintings from the Middle East Naomi Shihab Nye Simon & Schuster Poetry of the Middle East
Unsinkable:[N] The Full Story of RMS Titanic Daniel Allen Butler Stackpole Titanic
Not Rabies, Baby, But Baby Scabies L. W. Milam [Reading] Medical History
From the Diary of an Almost-Four-Year-Old Hanan Mikha'il 'Ashrawi [Poem] Mid-Eastern Poetry
[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"

Issue #14
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Spring, 1998
Title Author Publisher Subject
Calamus Lovers:[B] Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados Charley Shively, Editor Gay Sunshine Literary Biography
Asia Through the Back Door[B] Rick Steves and John Gottberg Muir Publications Travel
Nobody Wants a Nuclear War[B] Judith Vigna Concept Books Children's
My Father, My Son[B] Elmo Zumwalt Jr. and Elmo Zumwalt III Macmillan Vietnam --- Personal Memoirs
How to Beat Burnout:[B] Help for Men and Women Frank Minirth, et al. Moody Psychotherapy and Religion
The Brooklyn Branding Parlors[B] James Purdy Contact II Poetry
Government Loans:[B] The Road to Real Estate Wealth Wayne Phillips Simon & Schuster How to access government monies
A Continuing Education[B] Samuel F. Pickering, Jr. University Press of New England Memoirs
Death, Intermediate State, and Rebirth in Tibetan Buddhism[B] Lati Rinbochay and Jeffrey Hopkins Snow Lion Religion -- Buddhism
A Preview of the Dream[B] Zack Rogow Gull Poetry
Breaking the Impasse in the War on Drugs Steven Wisotsky Greenwood Press Drug Policy and Problems
The Golden Age Philip Collins Chronicle Antique Radios
Radio Manufacturers of the 1920s Alan Douglas Vestal Antique Radios
A Scientific Man and the Bible Howard A Kelly The Sunday School Times Co. H. L. Mencken review
From the Heart:[N] The Power of Photography --- A Collector's Choice Adam D. Weinberg, Editor Aperture Photographic Collection
The Hindu Way of Awakening:[N] An Essential View of Religion Swami Kriyananda Crystal Clarity Hinduism
How to Think Like a Millionaire[N] Mark Fisher and Marc Allen New World Library How-to-do-it
The Way It Is[N] William Stafford Graywolf Poetry
The World's Most Dangerous Places[N] Robert Young Pelton Fielding Travel
The Bliss of Inner Fire:[N] Heart Practice of the Six Yogas of Naropa Lama Thubten Yeshe Wisdom Tibetan Buddhism
The Case of Pia Mara Selva Palazzoli [Reading] Anorexia
Dialectics of Absurdity: Predialectic Libertarianism and Nihilism Morris Sapp Program in Literature and Cultural Studies [Reading] Libertarianism and Nihilism
Swallowing the Rototiller Douglas Cruickshank [Reading] Memoir
Whigs 'n' Prigs Carlos Amantea [Reading] Memoirs of reading
Thoreau the Buddhist Rick Fields [Reading] Transcendentalism
The Wheels of Change Jerome K. Jerome [Reading] Humor

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

Issue #15
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Summer, 1998
Title Author Publisher Subject
The Box Fan Gary Soto [Poem] Modern American Poetry
A World of Watchers:[B] An Informal History of the American Passion for Birds Joseph Kastner Sierra Club Birdwatching
Be My Guest[B] Conrad Hilton Prentice Hall Autobiography
Discovering the Secrets of Happiness:[B] My Intimate Story Ken Keyes, Jr LoveLine Memoir, Psychology
The City of Joy[B] Dominique Lapierre Warner Fiction
Intercity Bus Lines of the Southwest[B] Jack Rhodes Texas A & M Transportation studies
The Artistry of the English Watch[B] Cedric Jagger Charles E. Tuttle Antique watches
On Vital Reserves[B] William James Christian Classics Essays
Bitter Wounds[B] Robert W. Whalen Cornell Post WWI Disabled Veterans
The Butter Battle Book[B] Dr. Seuss Random Childrens
The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton[B] Michael Mott Houghton Mifflin Biography
Growing Up[B]* Russell Baker NAL Autobiography
All That Spring[B] Samuel Beckett Hull Drama
The Worst Journey in the World* Apsley Cherry-Garrard Penguin Travel --- Antarctic
Through the Danakil Desert L. M. Nesbitt [Reading] Travel --- Africa
Fighting With Rotifers, or A Journey to Sciatica Dr. Phage [Article] Science Fiction and Computers
Bob Poole and Poole's Paradise L. W. Milam [Article] American Radio 1946
A Guide to Raising Beef Cattle[N] Heather Smith Thomas Storey Murder Mystery
The Gospel According to the Son[N] Norman Mailer Random House Fiction
Dachau, April 1945[N]: The Rainbow Liberation Memoirs Sam Dann, Editor Texas Tech Memoirs and Official Documents
Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Verso Memoirs
The Case of Lisa Mara Selva Palazzoli [Reading] Anorexia
Smells Michael Ingall [Article] Memoirs

[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 #16
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Early Fall, 1998
Title Author Publisher Subject
"How Are You?" They Ask New Widow, Hoping She Won't Tell[B] Janet Carncross Chandler Pony Express Poetry of Mourning
Moving Windows:[B] Evaluating the Poetry Children Write Jack Collom Teachers & Writers Poetry for Students
The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens[B] John H. Dryfhout University Press of New England Biography
Government Assistance Almanac:[B] The Guide to All Federal Programs Available to the American Public J. Robert Dumouchel Foggy Bottom How-to-do-it
Healing Through Stress-Management:[B] A Mind Over Matter Approach from a Biblical Point of View Darrell Franken Wellness Publications Self-help
Drawknife[B] Doc Dachtler Konocti Books Poetry
The World Was Flooded with Light:[B] A Mystical Experience Remembered Genevieve W. Foster University of Pittsburgh Press Memoirs --- Carl Jung
The Fortune Sellers: The Big Business of Buying and Selling Predictions William A. Sherden Wiley Theory and practice of predicting financial markets
Confessions of a Former I Hope Super Crip Hugh Gregory Gallagher [Reading] Disability
Hitler's First Photograph Wislawa Szymborska [Poem] Contemporary Polish Poetry
Returning Home Samuel Johnson [Reading] 18th Century Memoir
A Letter on Zen, and War, and Accountability Kigen [Article] War and Buddhism
Man Ray[N] Jed Perl Aperture Photographic Biography
The Clouds Should Know Me By Now:[N] Buddhist Poet Monks of China Red Pine and Mike O'Connor, Editors Wisdom Traditional Poetry
Main Street Blues:[N] The Decline of Small-Town America Richard O. Davies Ohio State Contemporary History
I Am That Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj [Interview] Contemporary Religion --- Eastern
Never to Return: A Modern Quest for Eternal Truth Sharon Janis Blue Dove Autobiography
The Starr Report Kenneth W. Starr A Harlequin Romance Love Story
21 Recettes Pratiques de Mort Violente J. Bruller Self-published --- Paris Review by H. L. Mencken
The Uses of Rubber Bands, or "Var Är Min Paraply" Dr. Phage [Article] Travel, Sweden
The Worst Journey in the World Apsley Cherry-Garrard [Reading] Antarctic Travel

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

Issue #17
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Mid-Fall, 1998
Title Author Publisher Subject
Sleeping Where I Fall[B] Peter Coyote Counterpoint Memoriam
Rhythm Vision:[B] A Guide to Visual Awareness Dennis Roth Intaglio Press Visual Exotics
The House at Otowi Bridge:[B] The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos Peggy Pond Church University of New Mexico Press Biography
Shango[B] James Roberto Curtis Arte Publico Press Fiction
Women in the Wild[B] Lucy McCauley, Editor Travelers' Tales Women's Travel
The Elements of Crime Boris Brasol Oxford Review by H. L. Mencken
Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime Michael E. Hoffman, Editor Aperture Photographic Biography
Nehru, Gandhi, and Elephants Andre Malraux [Reading] Biography
Mars: Discovering the Secrets of the Red Planet Paul Raeburn National Geographic Society Astronomy
Performing without a Stage:[N] The Art of Literary Translation Robert Wechsler Catbird Press Literary Translations
Landscapes of Wonder[N] Bhikkhu Nayanasobhano Wisdom Buddhism and old age
A Far Rockaway of the Heart[N] Lawrence Ferlinghetti New Directions Poetry
The Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship[N] Charles Bukowski Black Sparrow Essays
Violet Pearls at the Hippodrome Jean-Paul Sartre [Reading] Growing up in Paris
Letter from Uppland Dr. Phage [Reading] The Swedish bus system
Me viene, Hay dias Cesar Vallejo [Poem] Contemporary Latino Poetry

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

Issue #18
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Late Fall, 1998
Title Author Publisher Subject
Cinema, Drama, Schema:[B] Eastern Metaphysics in Western Art Hector Currie Philosophical Library Numerology and Optics
Hot Spot[B] Richard Preston Anchor Books Ebola Virus
Pillars of Gold and Silver[B] Beatriz de la Garza Pinata Mexicana Fiction
T'ai Chi Chu'an Wu Style:[B] Body and Mind in Harmony --- The Integration of Meaning and Method Sophia Delza SUNY Press T'ai Chi
The Village Poet[B] Leon Pierre De Quincy International Poetry
The Tree Calendar[B] David Eberhardt Dolphin Moon Poetry
PTV Poetry Television[B] Jim Elgin Cold Drill Poetry
Reporting from Corinth[B] Alice Friman Barnwood Poetry
Lady Chatterley's Lover D. H. Lawrence First Penguin Books Edition Fiction
Let Us Then You and I Go Now and Return to the Vale of Tears O. R. Risley [Poem] Modern American Poetry
Statement Before the Government's Committee on the Proposed Development Rudolf Hoess [Reading] Proposal for construction of concentration camp
Hurricane Fred Pete Winslow [Poem] Modern American Poetry
The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume V: Athens, 478 - 401 B. C. J. B. Bury, S. A. Cooks, and F. E. Adcock, Editors Cambridge Review by H. L. Mencken
Journeys in Microspace: The Art of the Scanning Electron Microscope Dee Berger Columbia Science
Wings in the Snow[N] Jim Oliver Alyson Gay Fiction
Return of the Brute[N] Liam O'Flaherty Roberts Rinehart --- IABC WWI
Can a Good Christian Be a Good Lawyer:[N] Homilies, Witnesses, and Reflections Thomas E. Baker and Timothy W. Floyd, Editors Notre Dame Essays on Law
Honey, Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels[N]* Robert and Michèle Root-Bernstein Mariner Medicine and Traditional Cures
Westward Ha!* S. J. Perelman Burford Humor
Eastward Ha! S. J. Perelman Burford Humor
The Jewel Lies in the Forehead of the Toad L. W. Milam [Article] The Sun Magazine
Where Salmon Come to Die: An Autumn on Alaska's Raincoast Leon Kolankiewicz Pruett Alaska Journal
Letter from Uppland #2 Dr. Phage [Article] Swedish Politics

[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 #19
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Early Winter, 1998
Title Author Publisher Subject
Wild Game Cookery:[B] The Hunter's Home Companion Carol V. Wary Countryman Press How-to-do-it
The Mormon Murders:[B] A True Story of Greed, Forgery, Deceit, and Death* Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith Weidenfeld and Nicholson Religion
I Was Looking for a Street[B] Charles Willeford Countryman Press Autobiography
The Blue Lady's Hands[B] John Champagne Lyle Stuart Fiction
Prairie Sailor[B] W. MacDonald Ryder University Sailing
Roget's International Thesaurus l977 Edition[B] Robert L. Chapman Harper & Row Reference
Frying the Flag Lawrence Durrell [Reading] Pre-WWII Balkans
Letter from Uppland #3 Dr. Phage [Article] Swedish Food
The lllness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition* Arthur Kleinman Basic Disability and Dying
Betty Michael Ingall [Article] The Psychiatry of a Greek Lady Named Betty
An Abundant Life: The Memoirs of Hugh B. Brown Hugh Brown Signature Biography --- LDS
Hindu Mysticism S. N. Dasgupta Open Court Review by H. L. Mencken
Fetish[N]* John Yau, Editor Four Walls Eight Windows Essays on fetishes
Drug Crazy:[N] How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Out Mike Gray Random House U. S. drug policy
Can a Good Christian Be a Good Lawyer:[N] Homilies, Witnesses, and Reflections Thomas E. Baker and Timothy W. Floyd, Editors Notre Dame Essays on the law
Pub Poem Carolyn Creedon [Poem] Modern Poetry
The Ward Bruce Mitchell [Reading] A French Hospital
The Yale Younger Poets Anthology George Bradley, Editor Yale Anthology

[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