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	State by State  •  Matt Weiland  •  Sean Wilsey TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 572 PAGES Modeled after the inspired WPA-era American Guides, this delightful book pairs one writer for each of these fifty states, including essays by Rick Moody (Connecticut), Jhumpa Lahiri (Rhode Island) and Jonathan Franzen (New York). (USA325, $29.95)
	Home Ground, Language for an American Landscape  •  Barry Lopez NATURAL HISTORY •  2006 •  HARD COVER  • 480 PAGES Barry Lopez (Arctic Dreams) assembles 45 writers known for their intimate connection to place in this annotated glossary of American geography. Each of the 850 entries by Gretel Ehrlich (Wyoming), William Kittredge (Montana) Terry Tempest Williams (Colorado Plateau) and other luminaries deftly sketches a distinctive physical feature from 'a'a (Hawaii's rough lava floes) and aquifer to slot canyon, slough, tableland, wharf and woodlot. With 100 line drawings and quotes for the works of American authors including by Willa Cather, Truman Capote, John Updike, Cormac McCarthy, and others. (USW488, $29.95)
	Atlas of the United States  •  Harm J. De Blij REFERENCE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 208 PAGES This timely reference features dazzling state and city maps, an A-to-Z gazetteer and an outstanding introductory section by geographer de Blij. (USA143, $27.95)
	Travels with Charley  •  John Steinbeck TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2002 •  PAPER  • 214 PAGES On the road in a van but with a poodle, John Steinbeck -- like Jack Kerouac, William Least-Heat Moon and Bill Bryson -- sets out to discover America. This short, wonderfully written account of his journey from Maine to California is a classic. (USA32, $14.00)
	On the Road  •  Jack Kerouac LITERATURE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 416 PAGES Kerouac's now-classic account of his travels across 1950's America, famously presented to his publisher as one continuous 120-foot-long roll of paper in all its raw and unedited authenticity. (USA16, $16.00)
	1000 Places to See Before You Die, US & Canada  •  Patricia Schultz TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2007 •  PAPER  • 992 PAGES Squeaking in (barely) at under 1,000 pages and indeed including 1,000 places, the phenomenal and awfully nice Patricia Schultz here turns her attention to favorite, celebrated, unusual and otherwise noteworthy hotels, attractions and experiences throughout these 50 states (and Canada). (USA152, $19.95)

	American Earth  •  William McKibben   • REFERENCE  •  This superb anthology collects essential American environmental writings from the past two centuries and considers their influence on the way people view the natural world. With essays by Henry David Thoreau, John Muir and John James Audubon. (NAT139, $40.00)
	Historical Atlas of the United States  •  Derek Hayes   • REFERENCE • NEW  •  Geographer Hayes assembles an impressive array of original maps in this stunning visual history of America from European discovery and exploration through western expansion, railroads, the growth of cities to Interstates and the Cold War. (USA150, $45.00)
	National Geographic Guide to Scenic Highways and Byways  •   National Geographic   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An illustrated guide to 275 blue highways and other scenic roads. With maps, directions and the highlights of each suggested route. (USA03, $25.00)
	Rand McNally the Road Atlas & Travel Guide, U.S./Canada/Mexico  •   Rand McNally Maps   • REFERENCE  •  The bestselling road atlas to the United States and Canada (with an overview of Mexico). (USA153, $24.95)
	Rough Guides USA 25 Ultimate Experiences  •   Rough Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Subtitled Make the Most of Your Time on Earth, these colorful pocket guides, 25 in all, published in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Rough Guides, celebrate remarkable, not-to-be-missed things to do and places to go, certain to inspire. (USA164, $5.99)
	The Sibley Guide to Birds  •  David Sibley   • GUIDEBOOK • FAVORITE  •  With 6,600 original paintings, full-color detailed range maps and Sibley's mania for accuracy, this is the book that every North American birder must own. It's beautiful, too. (FG48, $35.00)
	American Places, A Writer's Pilgrimage to Sixteen of This Country's Most Visited and Cherished Sites  •  William Zinsser   • HISTORY  •  Mount Rushmore, Yellowstone, Niagara, The Alamo, Disneyland, Rockefeller Center, Pearl Harbor and Omaha Beach, William Zinsser writes of 16 iconic sites as a pilgrim and historian, rediscovering what it means to be American. The author of On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (now out in a 25th anniversary edition), Zinsser's essays are honed to perfection. (USA167, $14.95)
	Christmas in America, A Photographic Celebration of the Holiday Season  •  Peter Guttman   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An eye-catching, colorful survey of sleigh rides, cozy inns, trees and holiday traditions across these United States by the exuberant Peter Guttman. (USA187, $24.95)
	Overthrow, America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq  •  Stephen Kinzer   • HISTORY • NEW  •  In this compelling review of American adventures overseas, Kinzer crisply outlines the events, politics and personalities of 14 cases in which America has brought down foreign governments over the last 110 years. (USA148, $16.00)
	The Wide Open, Prose, Poetry, and Photographs of the Prairie  •  Susan O'Connor   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Personal or poetic, journalistic or scientific, the diverse stories and photogaphs collected in this handsome book eloquently attest to the allure, abundance and open spaces of the American West. The stories are as diverse as the tellers, ranging from fiction by Barry Lopez, Richard Ford, and William Kittredge, to the childhood histories of Mary Clearman Blew and Judy Blunt and the nonfiction tales of Jim Harrison, Gretel Ehrlich, and Rick Bass. (USW570, $39.95)
	The Wordy Shipmates  •  Sarah Vowell   • HISTORY  •  Public radio regular Vowelll brings her usual wit and flair to these essays on Puritanism in these United States, combining biography with an exploration of their beliefs, ideals, colonial history and anecdote. (USA326, $25.95)
	Abraham Lincoln  •  Thomas Keneally   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A stimulating biographical essay in the Penguin Lives series by the prolific and talented Keneally. (USA147, $19.95)
	Blue Highways, A Journey into America  •  William Least Heat Moon   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  On the road with Ghost Dancing (his van), William Least Heat-Moon criss-crosses the country on its backroads, discovering some pretty wonderful personalities en route in this portrait of a multi-faceted eccentric America. (USA31, $15.99)
	Cross Country  •  Robert Sullivan   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • NEW  •  Sullivan's marvelously digressive chronicle of a cross-country car trip, the history of the Interstate system, fast-food, variety of to-go coffee cup lids, the marvels of the roadside attraction and many, many other subjects. (USA135, $14.95)
	The Lost Continent, Travels in Small Town America  •  Bill Bryson   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Heading out from his native Des Moines, Bryson makes his way through 38 of these United States, tossing off hilarious observations of the American character and roadscapes. Forgive Bryson's cheap shots at fat people and "hicks," he's an acerbic, witty guide to the country with an irrepressible sense of the absurd. (USW180, $14.95)
	The Unsettling of America  •  Wendell Berry   • LITERATURE  •  This classic of American letters, a clarion call for local food, locally produced, rings as true as when it was first published in 1977. (USA151, $13.95)
	A Natural History of North American Trees  •  Donald Culross Peattie  •  Verlyn Klinkenborg   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  This handsome omnibus edition of Culross Peattie's graceful essays on life in America and its forests, originally published in the 1950s, includes the original black-and-white etchings and some of the finest writing on the mighty oak, stately birch, magnificent beech and other trees. (NAM40, $40.00)
	Timeless: A National Parks Odyssey  •  David Fortney   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Fortney's mix of aerial, still, and time lapse photography is put to marvelous use in this captivating journey across 18 national parks. (USA149, $14.99)
	Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America  •  Roger Tory Peterson   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This revised combo edition of Peterson's classic field guides, published in celebration of the centennial of his birth, includes all new maps and digital enhancements to the master's original paintings. (NAM42, $26.00)

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