| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
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| Black Elephants Karol Nielsen The RALPH Folio Who the Hell Is This Dude Letters We Never Finished Reading Gold Mining Farm |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Twelve Great Readings | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | A Dozen of Our Best Readings Drawn from The Pages of the Books We Are Reviewing |
| Breasts* A Natural and Unnatural History |
Florence Williams | (Norton) | A Study of Things Mammalian Along with Warnings of The Chemical Poisoning of Mothers and their Suckling Infants |
| The Car Thief | Theodore Weesner | (Astor + Blue) | A Reality Novel of a Boy Who Just Cannot Stop Steallng Cars |
| Life Everlasting The Animal Way of Death |
Bernd Heinrich | (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) | A Man Obsessed by Death in Animals And How It Provides Food For All the Others |
| Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy |
James, E L [Erika Leonard] |
(Vintage) | The Usual Coitus with a Heady Mix of Interruptus B&D |
| A Visit to a Geezer Jail |
Dr. Phage | [Article] | Being Lost in Happy Acres With an Old (and Demented) Friend |
| To Capture the Sun Gold of Ancient Panama |
Carol Haralson | (Gilcrease Museum) | A Study of the Golden Figurines of 16th Century Central America |
| Heaven: A Definition | Erik Campbell | [Poem] | Heaven as Just Another Bad Argument |
| The Patagonian Hare* A Memoir | Claude Lanzmann | (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | The Life Story of One of the Original French Intellectuals of Post-War Paris |
| The Majesty of Mobile | Jim Fraiser | (Pelican) | The Victorian Architecture of A Glorious Forgotten American City |
| Peterson: Field Guide to Moths Of Northeastern America |
David Beadle Seabrooke Leckie |
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) | 1,500 Important Mid-Western Moths Pictured and Described |
| Teenie Harris Photographer Image, Memory, History |
Cheryl Finley, et. al | (University of Pittsburgh Press) | A Small Collection from over 73,000 Pictures from this Black Pioneering Pitsburgh Photographer |
| Treblinka I & II | Claude Lanzmann | [Readings] | On Visiting This Polish Village in 1985 |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samuel Johnson's Psoriasis Prisoners of War in Borneo Lay and Lie The Flat Tax Cocaine and Freud |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Ten Testy Reviews | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Ten of Our Most Bilious Reviews and Equally Bilious Responses |
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Change Your Life Not Your Wife Marriage Saving Advice for Success Driven People | Tony Ferretti, PH. D., Peter J. Weiss, M. D. | (Heathrow) | Lots of Advice for Married Couples Whose Married Life is Drifting Away |
| Orientation* And Other Stories | Daniel Orozco | (Faber & Faber) | Several Short Stories Whose Focus May Be Those Around Us Who We Never See |
| Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes | Martha Long | (Seven Stories) | Life in the Slums in Dublin With a Wicked Step-Father |
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Publish Like the Pros A Brief Guide to Quality Self-Publishing | Michele DeFilippo | (Cadence Group) | Some Advice on Publishing Your Own Book |
| American Boy | Larry Watson | (Milkweed) | Growing Up in the Mid-West and Finding Love (No Matter How Demented) |
| Married at Fourteen A True Story | Lucille Lang Day | (Heyday) | Married at Fourteen Divorced at Sixteen |
| Pacific Standard Time Los Angeles Art: 1945 - 1980 | Rebecca Peabody et al | (Getty Research Institute) |
An Attempt to Squish All L.A. Art Into a Fairly Tiny Thirty-Five Years |
| Hard Times* | Charles Dickens Anton Lesser, Reader | (Naxos Audiobooks) | Dickens' Great 1850's Labor Novel |
| The Volcano Adventure Guide[G] | Rosaly Lopes | (Cambridge University) | How to Love Your Neighboring Eruption |
| No Exit | Mike Erwin | [Article] | On Getting Trapped in Your Local Nursing Home |
| The Revelation in The Dining Room | Charles Dickens | [Reading] | A Man's Lies Suddenly Revealed to All |
| The Exploding Whale | Bernd Heinrich | [Reading] | What Happens When the Behemoths Die on Your Beach, Fill with Gas |
| On Beauty Mercer Street | James Longenbach | [Poem] | Painting Easter Eggs With Your Daughter Living Next Door to Einstein |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Noisiest Book Review in The Known World Our Review of Hitchens' Mortality Samuel Johnson and Psoriasis This Business is Secret | The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
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| Twelve Great Poems | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Twelve of the Most Lovely Poems From Our First 18 Years | |
| Human Anatomy* A Visual History from The Renaissance to The Digital Age |
Benjamin A. Rifkin Michael J. Ackerman Judith Folkenberg |
(Abrams) | Illustrations of the Bones of The Body from the Last 500 Years | |
| The Better End Surviving (and Dying) on Your Own Terms in Today's Modern Medical World |
Dan Morhaim | (Johns Hopkins) | Suggestions to Help You to Die the Way You Want Not Those Others | |
| It's Fine by Me A Novel | Per Petterson | (Graywolf Press) | Growing Up Bitter And Yet Surviving | |
| The Night They Pinched My Poke | L. W. Milam | [Article] | Getting Robbed at 1 a.m. In Your Own Home | |
| Me, Who Dove into The Heart of the World* | Sabina Berman | (Henry Holt) | Growing Up Autistic And Finally Succeeding | |
| Mortality | Christopher Hitchens | (Twelve) | The Last Days of The Master Trouble-Maker | |
| Two Poems | Ellen Bryant Voigt | [Poetry] | Poems about Love and Marriage | |
| One Night | Quim Monzó | [Reading] | The Prince and the Girl Sleeping | |
| Summer of Hate | Chris Kraus | (Semiotext(e)) | A Sensible Woman (And a Very Boring Love) | |
| Trinity: A Graphic History of The First Atomic Bomb | Jonathan Fetter-Vorm | (Hill & Wang) | The Bomb --- but in Graphic (Very Graphic) Form |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carol Ann Duffy Spark in My Heart Crick Levels Kufic Stone-Inscriptions |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Twelve Great Novels | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Twelve Great and Rare Novels Drawn frm Our First Eighteen Years Of Reviews |
| Seekers and Travellers Contemporary Art of the Pacific Northwest Coast | Gary Wyatt | (University of Washington Press) | Paintings, Drawings and Engravings From Thirty Young Artists Of the Vancouver Area |
| Rapture | Carol Ann Duffy | (Faber & Faber) | Fifty or So Contemporary Poems From the Present Poet Laureate of England |
| My CIA* A Memoir |
Katherine McCord | (Telling Our Stories Press) | Several Dozen Intense Ovbservations About Raising Kids, Beaing Married, and Worrying about the CIA |
| Hidden America* From Coal Miners to Cowbys, An Extraordinary Exploration of The Unseen People Who Make This Country Work |
Jeanne Marie Laskas | (Putnam) | An Irreverent Look at Several Institutions --- Garbage, Coal, Immigrant Labor, et al --- That Keep America Afloat |
| Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah | Patricia Smith | (Coffee House Press) | Over Fifty Poems about Growing Up Poor In Poorest Chicago |
| Kind One A Novel |
Laird Hunt | (Coffee House Press) |
America in Pre-Civil War Years By One Who Was a Slave-Holder And, at the Same Time, a Slave |
| Chameleons | Chris Mattison Nick Garbutt |
(Firefly) | A Lovely and Colorful Exploration of the Delicate Designs of the Chameleon Family |
| Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails A Memoir |
Anthony Swofford | (Twelve) | A Fairly Obnoxious Account Of the Family Drama of A Drunk and His Obnoxious Son |
| The Voice of The Poet: Howl | Allen Ginsberg | (Random House Audio) | The Famous Poem As Read by the Auhor |
| My Brilliant Career | Dr. Page | [Article] |
The Importance of Sleep Deprivation In Important University Science Departments |
| We Need Two Suns | Katherine McCord | [Reading] | The Best Way To Avoid Having to Sleep |
| The Rolls-Royce Of Landfills | Jeanne Marie Laskas | [Reading] | A View of One of the Best Landfill/Dumps in the Whole World |
| Thief of Tongues | Patricia Smith | [Poem] | Going to a Speech Clinic To Learn to Stop Talking Southern |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| More about Carol Ann Duffy Deborah M. Gordon and Ants |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
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| In Flanders Fields The 1917 Campaign |
Leon Wolff | (Viking Press) | WWI Revisited |
| To A Former Mistress, Now Dead |
John Updike | [Poem] | An Old Love Remembered |
| Wind & Sand | Lyanne Wescott | (Eastern Acorn Press) | Orville and Wilbur Wright in North Carolina |
| Rats Lice and History | Hans Zinsser | [Reading] | The Lowly Louse Remembered |
| The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter |
Riyuku, Trans. E. Pound | [Poem] | One of Pound's Early Translations from the Chinese |
| A Piece of Meat on a Yellow Tray | Lawrence Shainberg | [Reading] | Thoughts on Neurosurgery |
| The Lamed-Vovnik | Andre Schwarz-Bart | [Reading] | The Holy Men Described |
| Another Stinky Dog Story | R. P. Warren | [Reading] | A Dog in Need of Some Certs |
| The Notebooks 1936-1940 |
Andre Malraux | [Reading] | Some Writings from the Existentialist Master |
| The Meaning of Life | The Mahabarata | [Reading] | Sixteen Paradoxes |
| Death Fugue | Paul Celan | [Poem] | "Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown" |
| Don't Tread on Me | The Selected Letters of S. J. Perelman |
(Viking) | Letters from the Master |
| The Odor of Death | Abraham Verghese | [Reading] | The Various Manifestations of Dying |
| The Ghost Writer | Philip Roth | [Reading] | How to Write |
| Hurricanes, Slaves, and Gold | David E. Fisher | [Reading} | Columbus and Slaves |
| Mother Tongue | Bill Bryson | [Reading] | English & How It Got That Way |
| The Battle At Little Bull Run | T. F. Bierly | [Poem] | The Civil War and Family Love |
| Glaucoma | David Wojahn | [Poem] | Vision and Touch |
| Kicking Doors | Richard Wright | [Reading] | Peace and the Very Religious Family |
| Ambivalent Zen | Lawrence Shainberg | [Reading] | The Paradox of Zen |
| His father rebukes him again And also pleads a little |
Amos Oz | [Reading] | The Same Sea |
| Most of Me Surviving My Medical Meltdown | Robyn Michele Levy | (Greystone) | Getting Parkinson's and Cancer at the Same Time |
| The Lighthouse Road | Peter Geye | (Unbridled) | Odd Falls in Love with His Almost Mother |
| Dog Eat Dog | Niq Mhlongo | (Ohio University Press) | A Sordid Tale out of Post-Apartheid South Africa |
| My Last Sigh[G] | Luis Buñuel | (University of Minnesota Press) | Life Story of the Great Film Director |