To The Best of Our Knowledge

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• Gary Paul Nabhan, Cultures of Habitat: On Nature, Culture and Story Counterpoint
• Gerald Nachman, Raised on Radio (Pantheon)
• Greg Nagan, The 5-Minute Iliad and Other Instant Classics (Fireside)
• Gina B. Nahai, Sunday's Silence: a novel (Harcourt)
• V.S. Naipul, Half a Life (Knopf)
• Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind (Simon & Schuster)
• Sena Jeter Naslund, Ahab's Wife or, The Star-Gazer (William Morrow)
• Alexander Nehamas, The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucalt (University of California)
• 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
• Richard John Neuhaus, Death on a Friday Afternoon: Meditations on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross (Basic Books)
• Brian Newhouse, A Crossing: A Cyclist's Journey Home (Pocket Books)
• Cathy Newman, Perfume: The Art and Science of Scent (National Geographic Society)
• Katherine S. Newman, No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City (Knopf)
• Annalee Newitz and Matt Wray, White Trash: Race and Class in America Routledge
• Peter Nichols, Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat (Viking)
• Nigel Nicolson, Virginia Woolf (Viking)
• Dr. Jerri Nielsen with Maryanne Vollers, Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole (Hyperion)
• Linda Niemann and Lina Bertucci, Railroad Voices (Stanford University)
• Thisbe Nissen, The Good People of New York (Knopf)
• Rob Nixon, Dream Birds: The Strange History of the Ostrich in Fashion, Food, and Fortune (Picador)
• 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)
• Martin F. Norden, The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies (Rutgers University)
• Julie K. Norem, The Positive Power of Negative Thinking: Using Defensive Pessimism to Harness Anxiety and Perform at Your Peak (Basic Books)
• Allen Noren, Storm: A Motorcycle Journey of Love, Endurance, and Transformation Travelers' Tales
• Kathleen Norris, Cindy Spiegel (editors), Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith (Putnam)
• Kathleen Norris, Cloister Walk (Riverhead Books)
• Also in 98-01-04-A: Catholic Identity
• John Norquist, The Wealth of Cities: Revitalizing the Centers of American Life (Addison- Wesley)
• Michael Novacek, Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Ancient Mammals from Montana to Mongolia (FSG)
• Michael Novak, Business as a Calling: Work and the Examined Life Free Press
• Sherwin Nuland, Leonardo da Vinci (Viking)
• 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, What Have You Lost? (Photographs by Michael Nye) (Greenwillow)
• 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.)

O

• Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde: A Novel (Harper Collins)
• Joyce Carol Oates, Faithless: tales of transgression (Harper Collins)
• Joyce Carol Oates, Where I've Been, and Where I'm Going (Plume)
• Thomas O'Boyle, At Any Cost: Jack Welch, General Electric, and the Pursuit of Profit (Knopf)
• 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)
  also heard in the "Irish Stories" program, number 99-03-14-A
• Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You (Riverhead)
• Redmond O'Hanlon, No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo Knopf
• S. Jay Olshansky and Bruce Carnes, The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging (Norton)
• Stewart O'Nan, A Prayer for the Dying (Henry Holt)
• Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost (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
• Susan Orlean, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People (Random House)
• Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Random House)
• 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
• Dennis Overbye, Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance (Viking)
• Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats (Viking)

P

• Ani Pachen and Adelaide Donnelley, Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of A Tibetan Warrior Nun (Kodansha)
• Nell Irvin Painter, Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol Norton
• Mary Palevsky, Atomic Fragments: A Daughter's Questions (University of California)
• Vivian Gussin Paley, The Kindness of Children (Harvard)
• Jessica Pallingston, Lipstick (St. Martin's Press)
• Bryan Palmer, Cultures of Darkness: Night Travel in the Histories of Transgression (Monthly Review)
• Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (Jossey-Bass)
• Stephen Palumbi, The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change (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)
• Robert Park: Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud (Oxford)
• Russ Parsons, How to Read a French Fry: and Other Stories of Intriguing Kitchen Science (Houghton Mifflin)
• Tony Parsons, Man And Boy (Sourcebooks)
• Zorba Paster, The Longevity Code: Your Personal Prescription for a Longer, Sweeter Life (Clarkson Potter)
• Michael Paterniti, Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain (Dial Press)
• Katherine Paterson, The Bridge to Tarabithia and The Great Gilly (Harper Trophy)
• 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)
• John Allen Paulos, Once Upon A Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories (Basic)
• Gary Paulsen, Brian's Return Delacorte Press
• Anna Pavord, The Tulip: The Story of a Flower That Has Made Men Mad (Bloomsbury)
• Anna Pavord, is also heard in Celebrating Spring
• Molly Peacock, How to Read a Poem — And Start a Poetry Circle (Riverhead)
• Molly Peacock, is also heard in Celebrating Spring
• Stanton Peele, The Truth About Addiction and Recovery Simon and Schuster
• Kathy Peiss, Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture (Metropolitan)
• Mark Pendergrast, Uncommon Grounds: the history of coffee and how it transformed our world (Basic Books)
• David Perkins, The Eureka Effect: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking (Norton)
• Sidney Perkowitz, Universal Foam: From Cappuccino to the Cosmos (Walker)
• Anne Perry, Half Moon Street (Ballantine)
• Joseph E. Persico, Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage (Random House)
• Candace Pert, Molecules of Emotion: Why You feel the Way You Feel (Scribner)
• Mark Pesce, The Playful World: How Technology Is Transforming Our Imagination (Ballantine)
• Allen Peterkin, One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair (Arsenal Pulp Press)
• Margot Peters, May Sarton: a biography Random House
• Brenda Peterson and Linda Hogan, The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World (North Point Press)
• Henry Petroski, The Book on the Bookshelf (Knopf)
• Henry Petroski, Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering (Knopf)
• Susan Phelps, A Guide to Hermit Living: Do You Have What It Takes? (Ashton Productions)
• Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Viking)
• Adam Phillips, The Beast in the Nursery: On Curiosity and other Appetites (Pantheon)
• Caryl Phillips, The Atlantic Sound (Knopf)
• Christopher Phillips, Socrates Café: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy (Norton)
• Rodney Phillips, The Hand of the Poet: Poems & Papers in Manuscript (Rizzoli)
• Rosalind Picard, Affective Computing (MIT)
• Clifford Pickover, Surfing Through Hyperspace: Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons (Oxford)
• 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
• Daniel H. Pink, Free Agent Nation: How America's New Independent Workers Are Transforming the Way We Live (Warner)
• Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works Norton
• Constancio Pinto and Matthew Jardine, East Timor's Unfinished Struggle Scribner
• Robert Pinsky, The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Mary Pipher, The Shelter of Each Other; Rebuilding Our Families, (Grosset/Putnam)
• Sadie Plant, Writing on Drugs (FSG)
• George Plimpton, Truman Capote: In Which His Various Friend's, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
• Mark Plotkin, Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets (Viking)
• Mark Plotkin, Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice Penguin
• Jacqueline Hornor Plumez, Mother Power : Discover the Difference That Women Have Made All over the World (Sourcebooks)
• Norman Podhoretz, Ex-Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer (Free Press)
• Neal Pollack, The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature (McSweeney's Books)
• Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World (Random House)
• Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: a plant's-eye view of the world (Random House)
• 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
• Steven Poolee, "Trigger Happy: Video Games and the Entertainment Revolution" (Arcade)
• David Popenoe, Life Without Father Free Press
• Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (Norton)
• John Portmann, In Defense of Sin (Palgrave)
• John Portmann, When Bad Things Happen to Other People (Routledge)
• Ann Powers, Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America (Simon & Schuster)
• Ron Powers, Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore: childhood and murder in the heart of America (St. Martin's Press)
• John Prag with Richard Neave, Making Faces Texas A&M
• Mark Prendergast, The Ambient Century: From Mahler to Trance – the Evolution of Sound in the Electronic Age (Bloomsbury)
• Richard Preston, The Cobra Event Random House
• Jennifer Price, Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America (Basic Books)
• Ms. Price was heard in both Fine Feathered Friends and Buying Stuff
• Richard Price, The Convict and the Colonel (Beacon Press)
• Robert Proctor, The Nazi War on Cancer (Princeton)
• Stephen Prothero, Purified By Fire: A History of Cremation in America (University of California)
• Robert Provine, Laughter: A Scientific Investigation (Penguin)
• Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, No 3) (Knopf)
• Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle, ed., Nabokov's Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings (Beacon)
• Robert Pyle, Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage (Houghton Mifflin)
• Stephen Pyne, Vestal Fire (University of Washington Press)
• Darden Asbury Pyron, Liberace: An American Boy (Chicago)

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• David Quammen, Wild Thoughts from Wild Places (Scribner)
  • Nature in the City
  • Conservation Stories
• David Quammen, The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions Scribners
• Joe Queenan, My Goodness: A Cynic's Short-Lived Search for Sainthood (Hyperion)

R

• Jonathan Raban, Bad Land: An American Romance (Pantheon)
• Jonathan Raban, Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings (Pantheon)
• Alan Rabinowitz, Beyond the Last Village: A Journey of Discover in Asia's Forbidden Wilderness (Island Press)
• Dominique Raccah, series editor, Elise Paschen, Rebekah Presson Mosby, eds. Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath (includes 3 cd's) (Sourcebooks Trade)
• Janice Radway, A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the -Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire (University of North Carolina Press)
• Louise Rafkin, Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Adventures from Cape Cod to Kyoto (Algonquin Books)
• V.S. Ramachandran, Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (Morrow)
• Sabrina Ramet, Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives Routledge
• Arnold Rampersad, Jackie Robinson: a biography Knopf
• Mamphela Ramphele, Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South Africa Woman Leader The Feminist Press
• Katherine Ramsland, Ghost: Investigating the Other Side (St. Martin's Press)
• Janisse Ray, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (Milkweed)
• Chet Raymo, Skeptics and True Believers Walker and Co.
• Hilda Raz, Divine Honors Wesleyan/New England
• Terrance Real, I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression Scribner
• Martin Rees, Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe (Basic)
• Cheri Register, Packinghouse Daughter: a memoir (Perennial/HarperCollins)
• Jesse Reklaw, Dreamtoons (Shambhala)
• Elwood Reid, If I Don't Six (Doubleday)
• Elwood Reid, What Salmon Know (Doubleday)
• Benjamin Reiss, The Showman And The Slave: Race, Death, And Memory in Barnum's America
  (Harvard University Press)
• Paisley Rekdal, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In (Pantheon)
• David Remnick, King of the World (Random House)
• Boyce Rensberger, Life Itself: Exploring the Realm of the Living Cell Oxford
• David Reynolds, One World Divisible: A Global History since 1945 (Norton)
• Glenn Reynolds with Peter Morgan, The Appearance of Impropriety Free Press
• Paul Rezendes, The Wild Within: Adventures in Nature and Animal Teachings (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam)
• Richard Rhodes, Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist (Knopf)
• Adrienne Rich, Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998 (Norton)
• Frank Rich, Ghost Light: a memoir (Random House)
• Katherine Russell Rich, The Red Devil: A Memoir About Beating the Odds (Three Rivers)
• Joan Richards, Angles of Reflection: Logic and A Mother's Love (Freeman)
• John Richardson, The Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 - The Painter of Modern Life Random House
• Keith Richberg, Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa Basic Books
• Donald Richie, A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with A Selective Guide to Videos and DVDs (Kodansha International)
• Emma Richler, Sister Crazy (Anchor Books)
• Laurence Rickels, The Vampire Lectures (University of Minnesota)
• Thomas Ricks, Making the Corps Simon and Schuster
• Rick Ridgeway, Below Another Sky: A Mountain Adventure in Search of a Lost Father (Henry Holt)
• Matt Ridley, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Harper Collins)
• Matt Ridley, The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts & the Evolution of Cooperation (Viking)
• Robert Rieber, Manufacturing Social Distress (Plenum)
• Jeremy Rifkin, The Biotech Century JP Tarcher
• Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson, Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age(Norton)
• Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Why She Left Us (Harper Collins)
• Graham Robb, Victor Hugo: A Biography (Norton)
• Graham Robb, Rimbaud: a Biography (W.W. Norton & Co)
• Peter Robb, M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio (Henry Holt)
• Monty Roberts , The Man Who Listens to Horses Random House
• Jill Robinson, Past Forgetting: My Memory Lost and Found (Cliff Street)
• John P. Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey, Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time (Pennsylvania State University Press)
• Lillian S. Robinson, Ryan Bishop Night Market: Sexual Cultures and the Thai Economic Miracle (Routledge)
• Harriet Welty Rochefort, French Fried (St. Martins)
• Fred Rochlin, Old Man in a Baseball Cap(Harper Collins)
• Claudia Roden, The New Book of Middle Eastern Food (Knopf)
• Max Rodenbeck, Cairo: The City Victorious (Knopf)
• Luis J. Rodriguez, The Republic of East L.A. (Rayo)
• Luis J. Rodriguez, Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times (Seven Stories)
• Richard Rodriguez, Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father (Viking)
• David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class Verso
• Joel Rogers, Ruy Teixeira, America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters (Basic)
• Pattiann Rogers, Eating Bread and Honey Milkweed
• Pattiann Rogers, Song of the World Becoming: New and Collected Poems, 1981-2001 (Milkweed Press)
• Stuart Rojstaczer, Gone for Good: Tales of University Life after the Golden Age (Oxford)
• Lisa Roney, Sweet Invisible Body: Reflections on a Life with Diabetes (Henry Holt)
• Robert Root-Bernstein and Michelle Root-Bernstein, Honey Mud Maggots and other Medical Marvels Houghton Mifflin
• Daniel Asa Rose, Hiding Places: A Father and His Sons Retrace Their Family's Escape from the Holocaust (Simon & Schuster)
• Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open (Viking)
• Ron Rosenbaum, Explaining Hitler (Random House)
• Ron Rosenbaum, The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms (Random)
• Ron Rosenbaum is heard in Hidden Cultures, Secret Lives, Old Tales, New Truths and Holy Politics!,
• Mort Rosenblum, Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit North Point Press
• Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D., The Emotional Revolution: How the New Science of Feelings Can Transform Your Life (Citadel Press)
• Norman Rosenthal, St. John's Wort: The Herbal Way to Feeling Good Harper Collins
• Bernat Rosner and Frederic Tubach, An Uncommon Friendship (California)
• Andrew Ross, The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney's New Town (Ballantine)
• Mark C. Ross, Dangerous Beauty: Life and Death in Africa: True Stories from a Safari Guide (Talk Miramax Books)
• Colette Rossant, Memories of a Lost Egypt: A Memoir with Recipes (Potter)
• Walter Roth and Joe Krause, An Accidental Anarchist (Rudi - order at 800-999-6901)
• David Rothman, NetWorld!: What People Are Really Doing on the Internet, and What it Means to You (Prima Publishing)
• Carl T. Rowan, The Coming Race War in America: a wake-up call Little Brown
• J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Arthur A. Levine)
• Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things Random House
• William Rubenstein, The Myth of Rescue Routledge
• Lillian Rubin, The Transcendent Child: Tales of Triumph Over the Past Freeman
• Greg Ruggiero, Microradio & Democracy: (Low) Power to the People (Seven Stories)
• Michael Ruhlman: Wooden Boats: In Pursuit of the Perfect Craft at an American Boatyard (Viking)
• Al Runte, National Parks: The American Experience (University of Nebraska Press)
• Salman Rushdie, Fury (Random House)
• Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Henry Holt)
• Steve Rushin, Road Swing: One Fan's Journey Into the Soul of American Sports (Doubleday)
• Douglas Rushkoff, Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say (Riverhead)
• Douglas Rushkoff, Playing the Future: How Kids' Culture Can Teach Us to Thrive, (Harper Collins)
• Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow (Fawcett), Children of God (Fawcett)
• Sharman Apt Russell, When the Land Was Young Addison Wesley
• Gus Russo, The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America (Bloomsbury)
• Richard Russo, Straight Man Random House
• Scott Rutherford, The American Roller Coaster Foreword by Mike Schafer (Motorbooks International)
• Frank Ryan, Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues Out of the Present and Into the Future Little Brown
• Terry Ryan, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less (Simon & Schuster)