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AUTOBIOGRAPHY (HARDCOVER)
Lauren Bacall by Myself
- Lauren Bacall
Barbara Gordon - I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can
John Houseman – Front and Center
William Saroyan – Obituaries

AUTOBIOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK)
And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918-1978
- Malcolm Cowley
BIOGRAPHY (HARDCOVER)
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
- Edmund Morris
Millicent Bell - Marquand: An American Life
Leon Edel – Bloomsbury: A House of Lions
Ernest Samuels - Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur

BIOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK)
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
- A. Scott Berg
W. Jackson Bate - Samuel Johnson
William Manchester - American Caesar
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. - Robert Kennedy and His Times

CHILDREN'S BOOKS (HARDCOVER)
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal
- Joan W. Blos
David Kherdian - The Road from Home
E.L. Konigsburg - Throwing Shadows
Ouida Sebestyen - Words by Heart

CHILDREN'S BOOKS (PAPERBACK)
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
- Madeleine L'Engle
Myron Levoy - Alan and Naomi
Arnold Lobel - Frog and Toad Are Friends
Katherine Paterson - The Great Gilly Hopkins
Maurice Sendak - Higglety Pigglety Pop!: Or There Must Be More to Life

CURRENT INTEREST (HARDCOVER)
Julia Child and More Company
- Julia Child
Raymond Lifchez and Barbara Winslow - Design for Independent Living: The Environment and Physically Disabled People
Gay Gaer Luce - Your Second Life: Vitality and Growth in Middle and Later Years
Nathan Pritikin with Patrick M. McGrady, Jr. - The Pritkin Program for Diet and Exercise
Robert Ellis Smith – Privacy: How to Protect What’s Left of It

CURRENT INTEREST (PAPERBACK)
The Culture of Narcissism
- Christopher Lasch
Frances Wells Burck – Babysense: A Practical and Supportive Guide to Baby Care
Farallones Institute - The Integral Urban House: Self-Reliant Living in the City
Tracy Hotchner - Pregnancy and Childbirth
Calvin Trillin - Alice, Let's Eat

FICTION (HARDCOVER)
Sophie's Choice
- William Styron
James Baldwin - Just Above My Head
Norman Mailer - The Executioner's Song
Philip Roth - The Ghost Writer
Scott Spencer - Endless Love

FICTION (PAPERBACK)
The World According to Garp
- John Irving
Paul Bowles - Collected Stories
Gail Godwin - Violet Clay
John Updike - Too Far to Go

FIRST NOVEL
Birdy
- William Wharton
Terry Davis - Vision Quest
Stratis Haviaras - When the Tree Sings
Philip F. O'Connor - Stealing Home
Alan Saperstein - Mom Kills Kids and Self
GENERAL NONFICTION (HARDCOVER)
The Right Stuff
- Tom Wolfe
Frances FitzGerald - America Revised
David Halberstam - The Powers That Be
Frederic Morton - A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888-1889
Thomas Powers - The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA

GENERAL NONFICTION (PAPERBACK)
The Snow Leopard
- Peter Matthiessen
Sissela Bok – Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
Barry Lopez - Of Wolves and Men

GENERAL REFERENCE BOOKS (HARDCOVER)
The Complete Directory
- Elder Witt, ed.
Frederick M. Kaplan, Julian M. Sopin and Stephen Andors - Encyclopedia of China Today
Bernard Karpel - Arts in America: A Bibliography
J. Gordon Melton - The Encyclopedia of American Religions, Vols. I & II
Carolyn Sue Peterson, ed. And Ann D. Fenton, ed. - Index to Children's Songs

GENERAL REFERENCE BOOKS (PAPERBACK)
The Complete Directory of Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946-Present
- Tim Brooks & Earle Marsh
Cynthia W. Cooke, M.D. and Susan Dworkin - The Ms. Guide to a Woman's Health
Editors of Solar Age magazine - The Solar Age Resource Book
Stuart Berg Flexner - I Hear America Talking: An Illustrated History of American Words and Phrases
Elizabeth L. Scharlatt, ed. – Kids: Day In and Day Out

HISTORY (HARDCOVER)
The White House Years
- Henry A. Kissinger
Robert Dallek - Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy
George F. Kennan - Decline of Bismarck's European Order: Franco-Russian Relations, 1875-1890
Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel - Utopian Thought in the Western World
Telford Taylor – Munich: The Price of Peace

HISTORY (PAPERBACK)
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
- Barbara W. Tuchman
James Lincoln Collier - The Making of Jazz: A Comprehensive History
Daniel J. Kevles - The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America
Allen Weinstein – Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case
Theodore H. White - In Search of History: A Personal Adventure

MYSTERY (HARDCOVER)
The Green Ripper
- John D. MacDonald
Lucille Kallen - Introducing C.G. Greenfield
William X. Kienzle - The Rosary Murders
Arthur Maling - The Rheingold Route
Lawrence Meyer - False Front

MYSTERY (PAPERBACK)
Stained Glass
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
R. Wright Campbell - The Spy Who Sat and Waited
Sean Flannery - The Kremlin Conspiracy
Tony Hillerman - Listening Woman
Michael Kurland - The Infernal Device

POETRY
Ashes
- Philip Levine
Stanley Kunitz - The Poems of Stanley Kunitz
David Wagoner - In Broken Country

RELIGION/INSPIRATION (HARDCOVER)
The Gnostic Gospels
- Elaine Pagels
Peter L. Berger - The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation
Brevard S. Childs - Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture
Peter J. Kreeft - Love is Stronger than Death
Jack B. Rogers and Donald K. McKim - The Authority and Interpretation of the Bible: An Historical Approach

RELIGION/INSPIRATION (PAPERBACK)
A Severe Mercy
- Sheldon Vanauken
Richard Bach – Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Catherine Marshall - The Helper

SCIENCE (HARDCOVER)
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- Douglas Hofstadter
Freeman Dyson - Disturbing the Universe
Douglas Faulkner and Richard Chesher - Living Corals
Bernd Heinrich - Bumblebee Economics
Horace Freeland Judson - The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology

SCIENCE (PAPERBACK)
The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
- Gary Zukav
William J. Kaufman, III - Black Holes and Warped Spacetime
Thomas S. Kuhn - The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change
Anne W. Simon - The Thin Edge: Coast and Man in Crisis

SCIENCE FICTION (HARDCOVER)
Jem
- Frederik Pohl
John Crowley - Engine Summer
Thomas M. Disch - On Wings of Song
Jerry Pournelle - Janissaries
Kate Wilhelm - Juniper Time

SCIENCE FICTION (PAPERBACK)
The Book of the Dun Cow
- Walter Wangerin, Jr.
Samuel R. Delany - Tales of Neveryon
Vonda N. McIntyre - Dreamsnake
Norman Spinrad - The Star-Spangled Future
John Varley - The Persistence of Vision

TRANSLATION
Cesare Pavese's Hard Labor
- William Arrowsmith
Osip E. Mandelstam's Complete Critical Prose and Letters
- Jane Gary Harris & Constance Link
George L. Hart, III – George Hart’s Poets of the Tamil Anthologies

WESTERN
Bendigo Shafter
- Louis L'Amour
Benjamin Capps - Woman Chief
Loren D. Estleman - The High Rocks
Brian Garfield - Wild Times
G. Clifton Wisler - My Brother, the Wind


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