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COMPLETE BACKLIST (THROUGH THE END OF MY TENURE IN 1998)

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fiction titles | Chicano/Latin American titles | nature titles | film titles | staff

A
Alexander, Meena, Manhattan Music
Alexander, Meena, Nampally Road
Arteaga, Alfred, House with the Blue Bed
Artes: An International Reader of Literature, Art, and Music
Avena, Thomas, Dream of Order
Avena, Thomas, Life Sentences: Writers, Artists, & AIDS

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B
Baer-Brown, Leslie, and Bob Rhein, Earth Keepers: A Sourcebook on Environmental Issues and Action
Belletto, René, Eclipse
Bezzi, Tom, Hubble Time
Bles, Mark, Child at War: The True Story of a Young Belgian Resistance Fighter
Bouvier, Nicolas, The Japanese Chronicles
Brancatelli, Robert, The Maiden Ape
Braybrooke, Neville, Seeds in the Wind
Brebner, Ann, Setting Free the Actor
Brinton, William, The Alaska Deception
Brinton, William., & Alan Rinzler eds., Without Force or Lies
Brodkey, Harold, Profane Friendship
Burciaga, José Antonio, In Few Words / En Pocas Palabras: Latino Folk Wit and Wisdom

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C
Carpentier, Alejo, The Harp and the Shadow,, translated by Thomas and Carol Christensen
Carroll, Lewis, The Complete Sylvie and Bruno, illustrated by Renée Flower, introduction by Thomas Christensen
Chambers, Ruth, The Chinaberry Album
Chedid, Andrée, The Multiple Child, translated by Judith Radke
Clarke, Terence, The Day Nothing Happened
Clarke, Terence, The King of Rumah Nadai
Clarke, Terence, My Father in the Night
Cold Mountain, The Songs of Cold Mountain, translated by Red Pine
Conley, Ellen, Bread and Stone
Cook, William O., Honeysuckle, Creosote, and Trainsmoke
Cotten, Jospeh, Vanity Will Get You Somewhere

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D
Davidson, Michael, Lynn Hejinian, Ron Silliman, & Barrett Watten, Leningrad: American Writers in the Soviet Union
Delbée, Anne, Camille Claudel, translated by Carol Cosman
Deming, Alison, Temporary Homelands
Detzer, Eric, Poppies
Dobson, Andrew, The Green Reader
Donald, Anabel, Poor Dear Charlote
Donald, Anabel, Smile, Honey

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E
Eichengreen, Lucille, From Ashes to Life: My Memories of the Holocaust
Emshwiller, Carol, Carmen Dog
Emshwiller, Carol, Leaping Man Hill
Emshwiller, Carol, Ledoyt
Emshwiller, Carol, The Start of the End of It All

Eunson, Dale, Philip's Chair

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F
Farber, Thomas, The Face of the Deep

Farmer, Penelope, Eve: Her Story
Fowler, Gene, Good Night Sweet Prince
Fromer, Rebecca Camhi, The House by the Sea: A Memoir of the Holocaust in Greece
Fuller, Jamie, The Diary of Emily Dickinson

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G
Gabriel, Eric, Waterboys
Gabriel Lehman, Eric, Quaspeck
Gammon, Catherine, Isabel out of the Rain
Gardea, Jesús, Stripping Away the Sorrows from the World
Gerber, Alain, The Slave Trail
Gerber, Alain, The Rumor of an Elephant
Gerber, Alain, The Short Happy Life of Mister Chichka
Gielgud, John, Early Stages
Gish, Lillian, Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me
Goldsmith, Bruce, Blue Numbers
Goldsmith, Bruce, Strange Ailments, Uncertain Cures
Guiles, Fred L., Tyrone Power

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H
Hareven, Shulamith, City of Many Days, translated by Hillel Halkin
Hareven, Shulamith, Thirst: The Desert Trilogy, translated by Hillel Halkin with the author
Hareven, Shulamith, Twilight and Other Stories, translated by Miriam Arad and Others
Hareven, Shulamith, The Vocabulary of Peace: Politics, Culture, and Life in the Middle East, translated by Marsha Weinstein & Others
Harris, David, Dreams Die Hard: Three Men's Journey through the Sixties
Henderson, Simon, Instant Empire
Herbst, Harriet, Chocolate Mouse
Houston, James D., In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey
Howarth, Steven, August '39
Huffhines, Kathy, Foreign Affairs: Video Guide to Foreign Films
Huxley, Laura, This Timeless Moment
Hwang Sun-Won, Shadows of a Sound, edited and translated by J. Martin Holman

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I
Inter Press Service, Story Earth: Native Voices on the Environment

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J
Jameson, Richard, They Went Thataway: Redfining Film Genres
Jangfeldt, Bengt, and Gunnar Harding, Artes 1996
Jangfeldt, Bengt, and Gunnar Harding, Artes 1997
Jangfeldt, Bengt, and Gunnar Harding, Artes 1998
Jovanovski, Meto, Cousins
Junker, Howard, Roots and Branches


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K
Katakis, Michael, Sacred Trusts: Essays on Stewardship and Responsibility
Keough, Peter, Flesh and Blood: On Sex, Violence, and Censorship
Kittredge, William, Who Owns the West?
Kornbluth, Josh, Red Diaper Baby
Kourouma, Ahmadou, Monnew, translated by Nidra Poller

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L
Lao-tzu, Lao-tzu's Taoteching, translated by Red Pine with Selected Commentaries of the Past 2,000 Years
Laufer, Peter, A Question of Consent: Innocence and Complicity in the Glen Ridge Rape Case
Laufer, Peter, Iron Curtain Rising
Laufer, Peter, Nightmare Abroad
Lehr, William, Shrinking
Lesser, Wendy, Hiding in Plain Sight
Lipsett, Suzanne, Remember Me
Lloyd, Susan, No Pictures in My Grave

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M
Macnee, Patrick, Blind in One Ear
Major, Clarence, Dirty Bird Blues
Major, Clarence, Reflex and Bone Structure
Major, Clarence, Such Was the Season
Martien, Jerry, Shell Game: A True Account of Beads and Money in North America
Mautner, Gabriella, Lovers and Fugitives
McNamara, Katherine, Narrow Road to the Deep North: A Journey into the Interior of Alaska
Meltzer, David, Reading Jazz
Meltzer, David, Writing Jazz

Meunier, Jacques & A. M. Savarin, The Amazonian Chronicles, translated by Carol Christensen
Michaels, Leonard, Sylvia
Michaels, Leonard, The Men's Club
Michaels, Leonard, To Feel These Things
Michon, Pierre, Masters and Servants, translated by Wyatt Alexander Mason
Moore, Alison, Small Spaces Between Emergencies
Moore, Alison, Synonym for Love
Morley, Robert, Pleasures of Age
Moscovi, Andrei, Judgment Day Archives
Muir, Charles & Caroline, Tantra: The Art of Conscious Loving



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N
Needleman, Jacob, Sorcerers
Nowicki, Ron, Warsaw: The Cabaret Years

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O
O'Conner, Gary, The Mahabharata
Obenzinger, Hilton, Cannibal Eliot and the Lost Histories of San Francisco
Oldham, Perry, Higher Ground

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P
Painter, Charlotte, Conjuring Tibet
Pendell, Dale, Pharmako/Gnosis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path
Pendell, Dale, Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft
Perera, Victor, Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood
Peters, Robert, Crunching Gravel
Petschull, Jurgen, The Martyr
Philo, Thomas, The Play of Light
Polster, James, Guest in the Jungle
Porter, Bill, Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits
Potter, Jennifer, Long Lost Journey
Potter, Jennifer, The Taking of Agnes

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QR
Rainer, Peter, Love and Hisses: The Hottest Film Controversies
Raspail Jean, Blue Island
Raspail, Jean, Who Will Remember the People?
Red Pine (Bill Porter) cross-references
Renoir, Jean, Renoir, My Father
Rhein, Bob, See Baer-Brown, Leslie
Richardson, Henry, The Getting of Wisdom, introduction by Thomas Christensen
Roberts Mary Jane, Tangled Vines
Romero, Danny, Calle 10
Roth, Sanford, Italy 50's
Roth, Sanford, Paris in the Fifties
Roth, Sanford, Portraits of the Fifties

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S
Saign, Geoffrey C., Green Essentials: What You Need to Know about the Environment
Sand, George, Horace, translated by Zack Rogow
Sarduy, Severo, Christ on the Rue Jacob, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine and Carol Maier
Schurmann, Franz, American Soul
Sennett, Max, & Cameron Shipp, The King of Comedy
Shulman, Irving, Harlow: An Intimate Biography
Siciliano, Enzo, Diamante,
Sokolova, Lydia, Dancing for Diaghilev
Sommer, Mark, Living in Freedom
Sragow, Michael, Produced and Abandoned: The Best Films You've Never Seen
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters, illustrations by Thomas Christensen
Stonehouse, The Zen Works of Stonehouse, translated by Red Pine
Sung Po-Jen, Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom, translated by Red Pine

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T
Tamarov, Vladislav, Afghanistan: Soviet Vietnam
Tarchetti, I. U., Fantastic Tales, translated by Lawrence Venuti, illustrated by Jim Pearson
Tarchetti, I. U., Passion: A Novel, translated by Lawrence Venuti
Taylor-Ide, Daniel, Something Hidden Behind the Ranges: A Himalayan Quest
Thorpe, Douglas, ed, Work and the Life of the Spirit

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UV
von Sternberg, Joseph, Fun in a Chinese Laundry

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W–Z
Wallace, Aubrey, Eco-Heroes
Wallem, Irma, Expect a Worm in Every Apple
Wallem, Irma, I Have a Place
Walpole, Horace, Hieroglyphic Tales, Illustrated by Jill McElmurry, Introduction by Thomas Christensen
Walton, Todd, Night Train
White, Claire, Fragments of Stained Glass
Whiteson, Leonard, A Garden Story
Willis, Meredith Sue, In the Mountains of America
Wilson, Colin, The Psychic Detectives
Wimmer, Dick, Irish Wine

Wilson, Colin, The Personality Surgeon

 

 

 

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