Bossypants by Tina Fey
Category: Autobiography
Published by Little, Brown and Company
First Line: “My brother is eight years older than I am.”
The Belly Fat Diet Cookbookby John Chatham
Category: Self-Help, Cookbook
Published by Rockridge University Press, Berkeley, California
First Line: “Everything we think we know about belly fat is wrong.”
Lose Weight WITHOUT Dietingby David Nordmark
Category: Self-Help
Published by David Nordmark
First Line: “Think about what most traditional approaches to dieting entail.”
Unless It Moves the Human Heart by Roger Rosenblatt
Category: Self-Help, Autobiography
Published by HarperCollins
First Line: “Jasmine, Inur, and Kristie took my Modern Poetry class last semester.”
Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt
Category: Autobiography
Published by HarperCollins
First Line: “The trick when foraging for a tooth lost in coffee grounds is not to be misled by the clumps.”
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Category: Fiction
Published by HarperCollins
First Line: “A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.”
The Round Houseby Louise Erdrich
Category: Fiction
Published by HarperCollins
First Line: “Small trees had attacked my parents’ house at the foundation.”
Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owlsby David Sedaris
Category: Humor; Essays
Published by Little, Brown and Company
First Line: “One thing that puzzled me during the American health-care debate was all the talk about socialized medicine and how ineffective it’s supposed to be.”
Pirate King by Laurie R. King
Category: Fiction; Mystery
Published by Bantam Books
First Line: “Honestly, Holmes? Pirates?”
Garment of Shadows by Laurie R. King
Category: Fiction; Mystery
Published by Bantam Books
First Line: “The big man had the brains of a tortoise, but even he was beginning to look alarmed.”
The Bones of Paris by Laurie R. King
Category: Fiction; Mystery
Published by Bantam Books
First Line: “The envelope reached Bennett Grey early Wednesday Afternoon.”
Low Pressure by Sandra Brown
Category: Fiction; Mystery
Published by Hatchette Book Group
First Line: “The rat was dead, but no less horrifying than if it had been alive.”
The Witch’s Daughter by Paula Brackston
Category: Fiction
Published by Thomas Dunne Books
First Line: “Bess ran.”
The Big-Ass Book of Crafts by Mark Montano
Category: Craft
Published by Simon Spotlight Entertainment
First Line: “Be warned, my friends.”
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Category: Fiction; Science Fiction
Published by Alfred A. Knopf
First Line: “I keep the Beast running, I keep the 100 low lead on tap, I foresee attacks.”
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
Category: Historical Fiction
Published by Little, Brown and Company
First Line: “Sitting on the edge of the bed in the front room, Blanche stoops to rip at the laces of her gaiters.”
Death in Bloodhound Red by Virginia Lanier
Category: Fiction; Mystery
Published by Harper Collins
First Line: “I turned left off the highway onto a narrow county dirt road.”
The Silver Starby Jeanette Walls
Category: Fiction
Published by Scribner
First Line: “My sister saved my life when I was just a baby.”
The Quarter-Acre Farm by Spring Warren
Category: Food/Gardening/Memoir
Published by Seal Press
First Line: “With my limited yard space, every decision I made about what to grow on the Quarter Acre Farm loomed large.”
Drawing Conclusions by Donna Leon
Category: Fiction; Mystery
Published by Random House
First Line: “Because she had worked for decades as a translator of fiction and non-fiction from English and German to Italian, Anna Maria Giusti was familiar with a wide range of subjects.”
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