To The Best of Our Knowledge

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• Gordon MacKenzie, Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace (Viking)
• Liam Mahony and Luis Enrique Eguren, Unarmed Bodyguards: International Accompaniment for the Protection of Human Rights (Kumarian Press)
• Nancy Mairs, Waist-High in the World (Beacon)
• Albert Manguel, A History of Reading Viking
• Roger Manley, Self-Made Worlds: Visionary Folk Art Environments Aperture
• Charles Mann, Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Species Knopf
• Jonathan Mantle, Car Wars: Fifty Years of Greed, Treachery and Skulduggery in the Global Marketplace Arcade
• Gina Maranto, The Quest for Perfection: The Drive to Breed Better Human Beings Scribner
• Karal Ann Marling, Graceland: Going Home with Elvis (Harvard University Press)
• Joseph Marshall, Jr. and Lonnie Wheeler, Street Soldier: One Man's Struggle to Save a Generation One Life at a Time (Delta)
• John F . Marszalek, The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House (Free Press)
• Jerry Martien, Shell Game: A True Accountof Beads and Money in North America Mercury House
• Judith Martin, Miss Manners Rescues Civilization Crown
• Ruben Martinez with photographer Joseph Rodriguez, The New Americans
• Jeffrey Masson, Dogs Never Lie About Love Crown
• Angeles Mastretta, Bordering on Chaos Little, Brown
• David Mas Masumoto, Harvest Son: Planting Roots in American Soil (Norton)
• David Mas Masumoto, Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm (Harper San Francisco)
• Simon Mawer Mendel's Dwarf (Harmony)
• Charlotte Mayerson, Goin' to the Chapel: Dreams of Love, Realities of Marriage Basic Books
• Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy (Chronicle)
• Peter Mayle, Anything Considered Knopf
• Sharon Mazur Professional Wrestling: Sport and Spectacle (University of Mississippi Press)
• Robert W. McChesney, Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy Seven Stories Press
• Robert W. McChesney and Edward S. Herman, The Global Media: the new missionaries of global capitalism Cassell
• John McCormack, Friend of the Flock Crown
• Joseph McCormick and Susan Fisher-Hoch, Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC Turner
• Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes Scribner
• Grant McCracken, Big Hair: a journey into the Transformation of Self Viking
• David McCumber, Playing Off the Rail: A Pool Hustler's Journey Random House
• Howard McCurdy, Space and the American Imagination (Smithsonian)
• Eileen McDonagh, Breaking the Abortion Deadlock: From Choice to Consent Oxford University Press
• Deborah McDowell, Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin Scribner
• Susan Chernak McElroy, Animals as Guides for the Soul: Stories of Life-Changing Encounters(Ballantine)
• Patrick McGilligan & Paul Buhle, Tender Comrades: a backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist St. Martin's Press
• George McGovern, Terry: My Daughter's Life and Death Struggle with Alcoholism Villard
• Diane McGuinness, Why Our Children Can't Read and What We Can Do About it (Free Press)
• Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages Knopf
• Nellie McKay and Henry Louis Gates, The Norton Anthology: African American Literature Norton
• Bill McKibben, Hundred Dollar Holiday (Simon & Schuster)
• Bill McKibben, Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single-Child Families (Simon & Schuster)
• Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, Please Kill Me: the uncensored oral history of Punk Grove Press
• William H. McNeill, Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History (Harvard University)
• James Alan McPherson, Crabcakes: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster)
• Lucan Medlar & Durian Gray, The Decadent Cookbook (Dedalus)
• James Medoff and Andrew Harless, The Indebted Society: Anatomy of an Ongoing Disaster Little, Brown
• Gita Mehta, Snakes and Ladders: Glimpses of Modern India Doubleday
• Gita Mehta, Karma Cola Vintage
• Gita Mehta, A River Sutra Vintage
• Susan Meiselas, Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (Random House)
• Maurice Meisner, The Deng Xiaoping Era: An Inquiry into the Fate of Chinese Socialism Hill and Wang
• Bernard Mergen, Snow in America (Smithsonian)
• Daphne Merkin, essay in Women on Divorce: A Bedside Companion, edited by Penny Kaganoff and Susan Spano (Harcourt Brace)
• Richard Meyer, Cemeteries and Gravemakers: Voices of American Culture (University of Michigan Press)
• Jeffrey Meyers, Robert Frost: a biography Houghton Mifflin
• Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces Knopf
• Ellen Mickiewicz, Changing Channels: Television and the Struggle for Power in Russia (Oxford University)
• Ross Miller, Here's the Deal: The Buying and Selling of a Great American City (Knopf)
• Scott Minerbrook, Divided to the Vein: a journey into race and family Harcourt Brace
• Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance Vintage
• Jacqueline Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean Viking
• Stephen Mitchell, Genesis: a new translation of the classic biblical stories Harper Collins
• Steven Mithen, The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science Thames and Hudson
• Kristen Renwick Monroe, The Heart of Altruism: Preceptions of a Common Humanity Princeton University Press
• Rick Moody, Purple America Little Brown
• Michael Moore, Downsize This! Crown
• Thomas Moore, The Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love (Harper Collins)
• Thomas Moore, The Care of the Soul (Walker & Co) heard on both Religion & Psychology and Sex in America
• Thomas Moore, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life Harper Collins
• Kyoko Mori, Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures (Henry Holt)
• Charles Morris, American Catholics Times Books
• Debbie Morris, Forgiving the Dead Man Walking (Zondervan)
• Simon Conway Morris, The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals (Oxford)
• Toni Morrison, Paradise (Knopf)
• Charles Moskos and John Sibley Butler, All That We Can Be: Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way Basic Books
• Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, I've Been Gone Far Too Long RDR Books, Oakland, CA
• Karin Muller, Hitchhiking Vietnam (Globe Pequot)
• Melissa Muller, Anne Frank: The Biography (Metropolitan Books)
• Philip Van Munching, Beer Blast: The Inside Story of the Brewing Industry's Bizarre Battles for Your Money (Times Books)
• David Mura, Where the Body Meets Memory: an odyssey of race, sexuality and identity Anchor Books
• Charles Murray, What It Means to be a Libertarian: a personal interpretation Broadway
• Janet H. Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace Free Press

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• Gary Paul Nabhan, Cultures of Habitat: On Nature, Culture and Story Counterpoint
• Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind (Simon & Schuster)
• Peter Nelson, Home Tree Home: Principles of Treehouse Construction and other Tall Tales (Penguin)
• Richard Nelson, Heart and Blood: Living With Deer in America Knopf
• Agate Nesaule, A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile SOHO
• Annalee Newitz and Matt Wray, White Trash: Race and Class in America Routledge
• Itabari Njeri, The Last Plantation: Color, Conflict, and Identity: Reflections of a New World Black Houghton Mifflin
• David F. Noble, The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention Knopf
• Richard Noll, The Aryan Christ: The Secret Life of Carl Jung (Random House)
• Kathleen Norris, Cindy Spiegel (editors), Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith (Putnam)
• Kathleen Norris, Cloister Walk Riverhead Books
• Michael Novak, Business as a Calling: Work and the Examined Life Free Press
• Sherwin Nuland, The Wisdom of the Body Knopf
• Sigrid Nunez, Mitz: The Bloomsbury Marmoset Harper Flamingo
• Hanna Nyala, Point Last Seen: A Woman Tracker's Story Beacon
• Naomi Shihab Nye, The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems & Paintings from the Middle East (Simon & Schuster)
• Naomi Shihab Nye, Red Suitcase (Boa Editions, Ltd)
• Naomi Shihab Nye, Fuel (Boa Editions, Ltd.)

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• Edna O'Brien, Down by the River FSG
• Geoffrey O'Connor, Amazon Journal: Dispatches from a Vanishing Frontier Chelsea Green
• Mark O'Donnell, Let Nothing You Dismay Knopf
• Brian Patrick O'Donoghue, My Lead Dog Was a Lesbian: Mushing Across Alaska in the Iditarod - the world's most grueling race Vintage
• Nuala O'Faolain, Are you Somebody, (Henry Holt)
• Redmond O'Hanlon, No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo Knopf
• Buck O'Neil, I Was Right on Time Simon and Schuster
• Iona Opie, My Very First Mother Goose (illustrated by Rosemwary Wells) Candlewick
• Andres Oppenheimer, Bordering on Chaos Little, Brown
• Dean Ornish, Love & Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy (Harper Collins)
• Robert Ornstein, The Right Mind: Making Sense of the Hemispheres Harcourt Brace
• Jamie Otis, My Experiments with Silence not yet published
• Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats (Viking)

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• Nell Irvin Painter, Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol Norton
• Orhan Pamuk, The New Life Farrar, Straus, Giroux
• Richard Panek, Seeing and Believing: How the Telescope Opened Our Eyes and Minds to the Heavens (Viking)
• Gareth Patterson, With My Soul Amongst Lions St. Martin's Press
• Phil Patton, Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Rosewell and Area 51 (Villard)
• Stanton Peele, The Truth About Addiction and Recovery Simon and Schuster
• Candace Pert, Molecules of Emotion: Why You feel the Way You Feel (Scribner)
• Margot Peters, May Sarton: a biography Random House
• Henry Petroski, Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering (Knopf)
• Adam Phillips, The Beast in the Nursery: On Curiosity and other Appetites (Pantheon)
• Rodney Phillips, The Hand of the Poet: Poems & Papers in Manuscript (Rizzoli)
• Rosalind Picard, Affective Computing (MIT)
• Clifford Pickover, Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen (Plenum)
• Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Perfect Vehicle: What it is about Motorcycles Norton
• Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works Norton
• Constancio Pinto and Matthew Jardine, East Timor's Unfinished Struggle Scribner
• Mary Pipher, The Shelter of Each Other; Rebuilding Our Families, (Grosset/Putnam)
• George Plimpton, Truman Capote: In Which His Various Friend's, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
• Mark Plotkin, Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice Penguin
• Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Lynn Ponton, The Romance of Risk: Why Teenagers Do the Things They Do Basic Books
• Joyce Poole, Coming of Age With Elephants Hyperion
• David Popenoe, Life Without Father Free Press
• Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (Norton)
• John Prag with Richard Neave, Making Faces Texas A&M
• Richard Preston, The Cobra Event Random House
• Richard Price, The Convict and the Colonel (Beacon Press)
• Stephen Pyne, Vestal Fire (University of Washington Press)

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• David Quammen, Wild Thoughts from Wild Places (Scribner)
• David Quammen, The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions Scribners