Flesh and Blood Michael Cunningham

Open Sources various (Raymond, Stallman, Wells, etc.) on the Open Source/Free Software movement

Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life Sherwood Anderson

Zinn Reader Howard Zinn

Political thought in the United States: a documentary history

Safire's Washington William Safire

Watergate and afterward: the legacy of Richard M. Nixon

America in modern times: since 1890 Alan Brinkley

Liberalism and its discontents Alan Brinkley

Gerald R. Ford and the politics of post-Watergate America 2vols

Ford White House: the diary of a speechwriter Jack Casserly

Demanding the Impossible: a history of anarchism Peter Marshall

Blood Orchid: an unnatural history of America Charles Bowden

Campaign for President: 1980 in retrospect

Four unposted letters to Catherine Laura Riding

How Jimmy won: the victory campaign from Plains to the White House Kandy Stroud

Killing the Hidden Waters Charles Bowden

Promises to Keep: Carter's first hundred days Robert Shogan

Selection of the Poems of Laura Riding Laura Riding

Trojan ending Laura (Riding) Jackson

Only One Point of the Compass: Willa Cather in the Northeast - A librarian, a Miss Overton, told Cather about a fishing island in the Bay of Fundy in the winter of 1919-1920. She went to Grand Manan, New Hampshire and Maine and wrote 13 of her 17 volumes published before her death in 1947. This little book is a kind introduction to her time spent beating the heat of New York City each summer. It is not a scholarly work, but a collection of small stories about an interesting writer.

Southern New England | The Smithsonian Guides to Historic America - I wanted to take time to learn about the region I'm now living in. I spent all of my life learning about Texas. Audrey got me this book. My friend, Paul, gave me The Smithsonian Guide to Natural America. Both books are beautifully presented and well organized; full of pictures and things of interest. Worth a look, if you get a chance to discover one written about your own region.

Cities of the Plain Cormac McCarthy - The end of the trilogy. I am one of the, hopefully, many who were introduced to McCarthy through Suttree or Blood Meridian. Full of vivid images as I expected. Mystical enough to make you question. Not his best, but very good McCarthy. Excellent end to the story. You gotta love the man with rented warehouses full of books scattered throughout this country's lands. He knows that books are our greatest treasure. He's the mind pirate of the deserts and mesas. Well...along with Abbey...

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the literary imagination Toni Morrison - had to reread this to remind myself what she really thinks...because I was quite amazed with her comments over the weekend [01.02.99]. Must read if you are intrigued by the writer Morrison. Nobel Prize winner and involved citizen.

1998

Later the Same Day Grace Paley - a word to the already wise- you can not read your way to wisdom or intelligence, but Grace has found a way to make you believe you that you might. | short stories

High Fidelity Nick Hornby - are you dating a man? if so, read this! hysterical without too much of the bitterness | good vacation novel, too

Fever Pitch Nick Hornby - have you read Hornby? do you know how men think? are you a fan? obsessive?

Cloudsplitter Russell Banks - about 1840s america | antislavery | John Brown (Owen) | terrorism as a catalyst for principles | fascinating and provocative

Blindness : a novel Jose Saramago - are we as humanity together strong
enough to bear our misery?

The Contract of Mutual Indifference Norman Geras - I can't allow myself peace with history.

Community Denied James Hoopes - If I label myself, what am I?

Touched with Fire Kay Redfield Jamison - how's the mind feeling today?

Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts Jones and Donaldson, eds. - definitions of femininity and masculinity while evaluating the south and the bounty of literary characterization

The History of Jazz Ted Gioia - everything I don't know about american music, american history, american races, american loves, and beautific creatures who warm the night air.

American Indians: Stereotypes and Realities Devon Mihesuah - everything I don't know about my own presuppositions, prejudices, and whitebread mentality.