THE BLOOMSBURY REVIEW
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| Kathleen Cain | 3 | The Thunder Tree: Lessons from an Urban Wildland by Robert Michael Pyle, Foreword by Richard Louv |
| Tom Wylie | Where the Rain Children Sleep: A Sacred Geography of the Colorado Plateau by Michael Engelhard | |
| Nancy Coggeshall | 4 | Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors |
| Ed Warner | In Search of the African Wild Dog by Roger & Pat de la Harpe | |
| Scott Vickers | 5 | The Black Minutes by Martín Solares, Translated From the Spanish by Aura Estrada & John Pluecker |
| Victoria Amador | 6 | Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1 1981) With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes by Stephen Sondheim |
| Virginia Allen | MGM: Hollywood’s Greatest Backlot by Steven Bingen, Stephen X. Sylvester & Michael Troyan, Foreword by Debbie Reynolds | |
| Nancy J.D. Hazelton | 7 | And Furthermore by Judi Dench, As Told to John Miller |
| Virginia Allen | 8 | Beat Atlas: A State by State Guide to the Beat Generation in America by Bill Morgan, Photographs by Allen Ginsberg & Others, Foreword by Nancy J. Peters |
| Lori D. Kranz | The Encyclopedia of New York City: Second Edition Edited by Kenneth T. Jackson | |
| Yusef Eyore | Meet Me on Lake Erie, Dearie! Cleveland’s Great Lakes Exposition, 1936-1 1937 by John Vacha | |
| R.K. Dickson | Tamarind Touchstones: Fabulous at Fifty, Celebrating Excellence in Fine Art Lithography by Marjorie Devon, Preface by E. Luanne McKinnon | |
| Kim Long | Family by Chris Verene | |
| Virginia Allen | 9 | André Kertész by Michel Frizot & Annie-Laure Wanaverbecq, Translated From the French by Lucy Daniel Anderson, Anthony Roberts &Willard Wood |
| Kim Long | Graffiti Alphabets: Street Fonts From Around the World by Claudia Walde | |
| Virginia Allen | 10 | The Arriviste: A Novel by James Wallenstein |
| Hilary Wermers | Radiant Daughter: A Novel by Patricia Grossman | |
| Nancy J.D. Hazelton | 11 | State of Wonder by Ann Patchett |
| Alexandra Roberts | I Curse the River of Time: A Novel by Per Petterson, Translated From the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund | |
| Michael G. Cornelius | The White Rajah: A Novel by Tom Williams | |
| Alexandra Roberts | 12 | The Bird House: A Novel by Kelly Simmons |
| Ed Warner | 13 | The Scrolls: The Missing Eighteen Years by James W. Mercer |
| Colin Fleming | Rivers Last Longer by Richard Burgin | |
| Ray González | 14 | Recent Books by Individual Poets |
| John A. Murray | John Haines, The Bard of the Far North (1924-2 2011): A Remembrance | |
| Tom Wylie | 17 | The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
| Ray González | Poetry Anthologies | |
| Thomas Crowe | 18 | Sacred Sites: The Secret History of Southern California by Susan Suntree, Foreword by Gary Snyder, Introduction by Lowell John Bean, Photographs by Juergen Nogai |
| Patricia Dubrava | Vanitas by Jane McKinley, Introduction by Robert A. Fink | |
| Laurel Leigh | 19 | A Chinaman’s Chance: New and Selected Poems 1960-2 2010 by Alex Kuo |
| Renee Emerson | The Least of These: Poems by Todd Davis | |
| Q. Lanyard | 20 | The First White House Library: A History and Annotated Catalogue Edited by Catherine M. Parisian, Preface by Mary Regula |
| Asa Bluenge | David Crockett: The Lion of the West by Michael Wallis | |
| Ally Binson Wafer | Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies: Outbuildings and the Architecture of Daily Life in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic by Michael Olmert | |
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| Advertisers' Websites | 6 | |
| Out-of-Bounds Essay | 7 | On Chekhov by Halvard Johnson |
| BiblioFile | 21 | Children's Books |
| Classifieds | 23 | |
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