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Massachusetts Book Census for the Year 2006

Each year the Massachusetts Center for the Book will report on books published by Massachusetts writers or about Commonwealth themes. Contact us to add a book published in 2006 to the list at massbook@hampshire.edu.

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Fiction

Barnes, Linda. Heart of the World (St. Martin's Press / Minotaur) Suffolk
Barr, Nancy Verde. Last Bite, a novel of Culinary Romance (Algonquin) Bristol
Berne, Suzanne. Ghost in the Table (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) Middlesex
Beveridge, MaryEllen. Looking for Signs (iUniverse, Inc.) Middlesex
Brink, Elisabeth. Save Your Own (Houghton Mifflin) Essex
Craig, Philip R. Dead in Vineyard Sand (Scribner / Simon & Schuster) Dukes
Crittenden, Gaz. Jungle Rules, a novel of Viet-Nam (Dan River Press) Plymouth
Cyr, Myriam. Letters of a Portuguese Nun (Miramax Books / Hyperion) Suffolk
Duberstein, Larry. The Day the Bozarts Died (Permanent Press) Middlesex
Epstein, Leslie. The Eighth Wonder of the World (Other Press) Norfolk
Fairstein, Linda. Death Dance (Scribner / Simon & Schuster) Dukes
Franklin, Emily. The Girls' Almanac (HarperCollins / Avon Trade) Norfolk
Frederick, K. C. Inland (The Permanent Press) Middlesex
Fumento, Rocco. Lesser Saint (PublishAmerica) Berkshire
Giardina, Anthony. White Guys (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Hampshire
Glass, Julia. The Whole World Over (Pantheon Books / Random House) Essex
Gunning, Sally. The Widow's War (HarperCollins / William Morrow) Barnstable
Haines, Lise. Small Acts of Sex and Electricity (Unbridled Books) Middlesex
Hairston, Andrea. Mindscape (Aqueduct Press) Hampshire
Halpin, Brendan. Long Way Back (Random House) Suffolk
Heppner, Mike. Pike's Folly (Alfred A. Knopf / Random House) Middlesex
Isleib, Roberta. Final Fore (Berkley Publishing Group / Penguin) Connecticut
Jacobsen, Mary. Blood Sisters: a novel of an epic friendship (Haworth Press) Middlesex
Just, Ward. Forgetfulness (Houghton Mifflin) Dukes
Kadish, Rachel. Tolstoy Lied, A Love Story (Houghton Mifflin) Middlesex
Kalechofsky, Roberta. K'tia, a Savior of the Jewish People (Micah Publications) Essex
Koenings, N.S. The Blue Taxi (Little, Brown and Co.) Middlesex
Lehane, Dennis. Coronado (HarperCollins / William Morrow) Suffolk
Lipman, Elinor. My Latest Grievance (Houghton Mifflin) Hampshire
Matson, Suzanne. The Tree-Sitter (W.W. Norton) Middlesex
McGovern, Cammie. Eye Contact (Viking Press / Penguin Group) Hampshire
McLarin, Kim. Jump at the Sun (HarperCollins / William Morrow) Norfolk
Medwed, Mameve. How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved my Life (HarperCollins) Middlesex
Messud, Claire. The Emperor's Children (Alfred A. Knopf / Random House) Middlesex
Page, Katherine Hall. Body in the Ivy (HarperCollins / William Morrow)
Parker, Robert. Blue Screen (G. P. Putnam's Sons / Penguin) Suffolk
Parker, Robert. Hundred Dollar Baby (G. P. Putnam's Sons / Penguin) Suffolk
Pearl, Matthew. The Poe Shadow (Random House) Middlesex
Pitlor, Heidi. The Birthdays (W.W. Norton) Suffolk
Pywell, Sharon. Everything After (G. P. Putnam's Sons / Penguin) Middlesex
Shepard, Karen. Don't I Know You? (HarperCollins / William Morrow) Berkshire
Simon, Clea. Cattery Row (Poisoned Pen Press) Middlesex
Strauss, Victoria. The Awakened City (HarperCollins / William Morrow) Hampshire
Updike, John. Terrorist (Alfred A. Knopf / Random House) Essex
White, Jenny. The Sultan's Seal (W.W. Norton) Middlesex
Zigman, Laura. Piece of Work (Warner Books / Hachette Book Group) Middlesex

Nonfiction

Arnold, Gordon. The Afterlife of America's War in Vietnam (McFarland) Worcester
Bakke, Kit. Miss Alcott's Email (David R. Godine, Publisher) Seattle, WA
Barnes, Jennette, et al. A Nossa Vida, The Portuguese Experience (SouthCoast) Plymouth
Birnbaum, Phyllis. Glory in a Line: a Life of Foujita (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Middlesex
Blackbourn, David. The Conquest of Nature (W.W. Norton) Middlesex
Blechman, Andrew D. Pigeons, the Fascinating Saga .. (Grove/Atlantic) Berkshire
Bok, Derek. Our Underachieving Colleges (Princeton University Press) Middlesex
Bose, Sugata. Hundred Horizons (Harvard UP) Middlesex
Brennessel, Barbara. Diamonds in the Marsh (University Press of New England) Norfolk
Buderi, R. and G. T. Huang. Guanxi, the Art of Relationships (Simon & Schuster) Middlesex
Burns, James MacGregor. Running Alone (Basic Books / Perseus Books Group) Berkshire
Caldwell, Gail. A Strong West Wind (Random House) Middlesex
Carroll, James. House of War (Houghton Mifflin) Suffolk
Cassidy, Tina. Birth, the Surprising History of How We are Born (Grove / Atlantic) Suffolk
Chaplin, Joyce. The First Scientific American (Basic Books) Middlesex
Cheever, Susan. American Bloomsbury (Simon & Schuster) New York City
Chomsky, Noam. Failed States (Henry Holt and Company) Suffolk
Coe, Michael D. The Line of Forts (University Press of New England) Franklin
Craig, Philip R. & Shirley. Delish! A Martha's Vineyard Cookbook (Vineyard Stories) Dukes
Dennett, Daniel C. Breaking the Spell (Viking Press / Penguin Group) Essex
Dershowitz, Alan M. Preemption (W.W. Norton) Middlesex
Dornstein, Ken. The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky (Random House) Middlesex
English, Beth. A Common Thread (University of Georgia Press) Out of State
Felton, R. Todd. Journey into the Transcendentalists' New England (Roaring Forties) Hampshire
Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. Pathfinders, a Global History of Exploration (W.W. Norton) Suffolk
Foster, Thomas A. Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man (Beacon Press) Chicago, IL
Fuller, William C. The Foe Within (Cornell University Press) Norfolk
Garrison, Julia Fox. Don't Leave Me This Way (HarperCollins) Essex
Gilbert, Daniel. Stumbling on Happiness (Alfred A. Knopf / Random House) Middlesex
Gingerich, Owen. God's Universe (Harvard UP / Belknap) Middlesex
Ginsburg, Richard, et al. Whose Game is it Anyway (Houghton Mifflin) Middlesex, Suffolk
Goldhammer, Catherine. Still Life with Chickens (Hudson Street Press) Plymouth
Goldstein, Rebecca. Betraying Spinoza (Schocken Books / Random House) Middlesex
Golson, Terry. The Farmstead Egg Cookbook (St. Martin's Press) Middlesex
Green, James. Death in the Haymarket (Pantheon Books / Random House) Middlesex
Halley, Janet. Split Decisions (Princeton University Press) Middlesex
Henderson, Diana E. Collaborations with the Past (Cornell University Press) Suffolk
Henry, Frances. Flame, Jewel, Friend (East Branch Press) Hampshire
Hirsch, James. Cheating Destiny (Houghton Mifflin) Norfolk
Holder, Doug. Louisa Solano, The Grolier Poetry Bookshop (Ibbetson Street Press) Middlesex
Human, Mark. Ultra-Metabolism (Scribner) Berkshire
Hunt, Swanee. Half-Life of a Zealot (Duke University Press) Middlesex
Junger, Sebastian. A Death in Belmont (W.W. Norton) New York City
Kaplan, Justin. When the Astors Owned New York (Viking Press / Penguin Group) Middlesex
Kennedy, David. Of War and Law (Princeton University Press) Middlesex
Kennedy, Edward M. America, Back on Track (Viking Press / Penguin Group) Barnstable
Kennedy, Roger G. Wildfire and Americans (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Suffolk
Kenslea, Timothy. Sedgwicks in Love (University Press of New England) Norfolk
Kohn, Alfie. The Homework Myth (Da Capo Press / Perseus Books) Middlesex
Kolbert, Elizabeth. Field Notes from a Catastrophe (Bloomsbury USA) Berkshire
Landes, David. Dynasties, Fortunes and Misfortunes… (Viking) Middlesex
Lewis, Paul. Cracking Up, American Humor in a Time of Conflict (U of Chicago) Middlesex
Lloyd, Seth. Programming the Universe (Alfred A. Knopf / Random House) Middlesex
MacDonald, Michael Patrick. Easter Rising (Houghton Mifflin) Brooklyn, NY
Maier, Charles S. Among Empires (Harvard UP) Middlesex
Mann, William J. Kate, the Woman who was Hepburn (Henry Holt and Company) Barnstable
McGillivray, David J. The Last Pick (Rodale, Inc.) Essex
Miller, Marla R. The Needle's Eye (University of Massachusetts Press) Hampshire
Minsky, Marvin. The Emotion Machine (Simon & Schuster) Suffolk
Mnookin, Seth. Feeding the Monster (Simon & Schuster) Middlesex
Mollica, Richard F. Healing Invisible Wounds (Harcourt) Middlesex
Montgomery, Lee. The Things Between Us (Free Press / Simon & Schuster) Portland, OR
Montville, Leigh. The Big Bam, the Life and Times of Babe Ruth (Doubleday) Suffolk
Morgenroth, Lynda. Boston Firsts (Beacon Press) Suffolk
Nelson, Julie A. Economics for Humans (University of Chicago Press) Middlesex
Noonan, William S. Forever Young, my Friendship with JFK, Jr. (Viking Press) Barnstable
Nowak, Martin A. Evolutionary Dynamics. (Harvard University Press) Middlesex
O'Neil, Jr., Edward. Awakening Hippocrates (American Medical Association) Middlesex
Orbanes, Philip E. Monopoly, the World's Most Famous Game (Da Capo Press) Essex
Pendas, Devin O. Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965 (Cambridge UP) Middlesex
Peterson, Dale. Jane Goodall, the Woman who Redefined Man (Houghton Mifflin) Middlesex
Petrulionis, Sandra Harbert. To Set This World Right (Cornell University Press) Out of State
Philbrick, Nathaniel. Mayflower (Viking Press / Penguin Group) Nantucket
Phillips, Alysa. Stranger in My Skin (Word Warriors Press) Middlesex
Pierce, Charles P. Moving the Chains (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Middlesex
Pories, Susan, et al. Soul of a Doctor: Harvard medical students (Algonquin) Various
Ramseyer, Valerie. The Transformation of a Religious Landscape (Cornell UP) Middlesex
Sargent, William. Writing Naturally, a Memoir (University Press of New England) Essex
Schaeffer, Frank. AWOL, The Unexcused Absence ... (HarperCollins) Essex
Scrimgeour, J.D. Themes for English B (University of Georgia Press) Essex
Seasholes, Nancy S. Walking Tours of Boston's Made Land (MIT Press) Middlesex
Sen, Amartya. Identity and Violence (W.W. Norton) Middlesex
Shandler, Nina. The Strange Case of Hellish Nell (Da Capo Press / Perseus Books) Hampshire
Shea, John. Rat Bastards (HarperCollins / William Morrow) Suffolk
Silliman, Matthew R. Sentience and Sensibility (Parmenides Publishing) Berkshire
Silvey, Anita. 500 Great Books for Teens (Houghton Mifflin) Norfolk
Skocpol, Theda, et al. What a Mighty Power We Can Be (Princeton UP) Middlesex
Slavitt, David R. Blue State Blues (Wesleyan University Press) Middlesex
Smith, Janna Malamud. My Father is a Book (Houghton Mifflin) Norfolk
Smith, Thomas G. Green Republican: John Saylor (University of Pittsburgh Press) Worcester
Suleiman, Susan Rubin. Crisis of Memory and the Second World War (Harvard UP) Middlesex
Sullivan, James. Jeans: a cultural history of an American icon (Gotham Books) Essex
Surkis, Judith. Sexing the Citizen (Cornell University Press) Middlesex
Sutherland, Amy. Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched (Viking Press / Penguin Group) Suffolk
Tanner, Laura E. Lost Bodies (Cornell University Press) Norfolk
Tenenbaum, Frances. Gardening at the Shore (Timber Press) Suffolk
Traver, Tim. Sippewissett, or, Life on a Salt Marsh (Chelsea Green Publishing) Vermont
Trynin, Jen. Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be (Harcourt) Middlesex
Various. Of Time and the River, Saugus, 1900-2005. (Saugus Millennium Book Comm.) Essex
Weeks, Kevin. Brutal (HarperCollins / Regan Books) Suffolk
Weintraub, David. Walking the Cape and Islands (Menasha Ridge Press) Barnstable
Whiting, Allen. A Painter at Sixty (Vineyard Stories) Dukes
Wilson, E.O. The Creation (W.W. Norton) Middlesex
Wolfe, Alan. Does American Democracy Still Work? (Yale University Press) Norfolk

Poetry

Aaron, Jonathan. Journey to the Lost City (Ausable Press) Middlesex
Barber, David. Wonder Cabinet (Northwestern University Press) Middlesex
Brown, Crystal Senter. Doubledutch (SenterBrown Press) Hampden
Collins, Martha. Blue Front (Graywolf Press) Suffolk
Coyle, Bill. The God of this World to his Prophet (Ivan R. Dee) Middlesex
Eisenberg, Susan. Blind Spot (Backwaters Press) Suffolk
Espada, Martin. The Republic of Poetry (W.W. Norton) Hampshire
Fein, Richard. Reversion (BrickHouse Books) Middlesex
Getty, Sarah. Bring Me Her Heart (Higganum Hill Books) Middlesex
Gluck, Louise. Averno (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Middlesex
Harrison, Jeffrey. Incomplete Knowledge (Four Way Books) Norfolk
Hodgen, John. Grace (University of Pittsburgh Press) Worcester
Holladay, Hilary. Dreams of Mary Rowlandson (Loom Press) Middlesex
Houlihan, Joan. The Mending Worm (New Issues Poetry and Prose) Middlesex
Lindsay, Frannie. Lamb (Perugia Press) Middlesex
Lloyd, Margaret. Moment in the Field (Plinth Books) Hampshire
Marion, Paul. What is the City? (Evening Album Media) Middlesex
Michelson, Richard. Battles & Lullabies (University of Illinois Press) Hampshire
Monahan, Jean. Mauled Illusionist (Orchises Press) Essex
Nicol, Alfred (editor). Powow River Anthology (Ocean Publishing) Essex
Nikolayev, Philip. Letters from Aldenderry (Salt Publishing) Middlesex
Olstein, Lisa. Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (Copper Canyon Press) Middlesex
Pawlak, Mark. Official Versions (Hanging Loose Press) Middlesex
Peseroff, Joyce. Eastern Mountain Time (Carnegie Mellon University Press) Middlesex
Pinsky, Robert. First Things to Hand (Sarabande Books) Middlesex
Rivard, David. Sugartown (Graywolf Press) Middlesex
Slavitt, David. William Henry Harrison and Other Poems (LSU Press) Middlesex
Surin, Enzo. Higher Ground (Finishing Line Press) Suffolk
Thibodeau, William. American Icon and other Poems (SoloPerformer.com) Suffolk
Various. World of Water, World of Sand (Shank Painter Publishing Co.) Various
Watson, Ellen Dore. This Sharpening (Tupelo Press) Franklin
Wier, Dara. Remnants of Hannah (Wave Books) Hampshire
Willis, Elizabeth. Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan University Press) Hampden
Wollman, Richard. Evidence of Things Seen (Sheep Meadow Press / UPNE) Essex
Woodward, Jon. Rain (Wave Books) Suffolk
Wright, Franz. God's Silence (Alfred A. Knopf / Random House) Middlesex

Children's/Young Adult Literature