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	A-Rafting on the Mississip' • Charles Edward Russell • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Aboard a lumber raft was a common way to travel and transport goods along rivers in the nineteenth century (just look at Huck Finn). Charles Edward Russell, a Pulitzer Prize winner and cofounder of the NAACP, details 70 years of lumber rafting on the Upper Mississippi in this volume. (USM44, $18.95)
	The Adventures of Augie March • Saul Bellow • LITERATURE • A celebrated tale of a poor Jewish boy, rich in the life and atmosphere of 1930's Chicago. (USM27, $17.00)
	The Antelope Wife • Louise Erdrich • LITERATURE • Erdrich's tale of urban Indians in Minneapolis is a graceful, multigenerational meditation on Ojibwa history and culture. (USM52, $13.00)
	The Architects and the City: Holabirds & Riche of Chicago, 1180-1918 • Robert Bruegmann • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A marvelously illusrtated account of the work of the Chicago architectural firm, Holabird & Roche. (USM21, $85.00)
	Around the Shores of Lake Michigan, A Guide to Historic Sites • Margaret Beattie Bogue • GUIDEBOOK • With its rich illustrations and practical organization, this historical guide offers a wealth of information about the exciting places along the shoreline of Lake Michigan. (GLK17, $21.95)
	The Arts and Crafts Movement • Wendy Kaplan • Elizabeth Cumming • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A survey of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain, America and Europe, looking at the work of several important designers of furniture, glass, ceramics, metalwork, textiles and architecture. (GBR120, $16.95)
	The Big Year, A Tale Of Man, Nature, And Fowl Obsession • Mark Obmascik • NATURAL HISTORY • Obmascik, himself an over-the-edge birder, recounts with glee and page-turning detail the race to see the most birds in North America in a year. It's an utterly compelling account of a three-way race (roofing contractor, tycoon, software nerd), likely never again to be equaled. (BRD29, $14.00)
	The Birdwatcher's Companion to North American Birdlife • Christopher W. Leahy • Gordon Morrison • NATURAL HISTORY • A handsome, fully illustrated survey of the birds of North America, organized A to Z, covering birds, bird biology, conservation and birdwatching. (NAM21, $19.95)
	Black Elk Speaks • Nicholas Black Elk • John Neihardt • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The remarkable, celebrated biography of an Oglala Sioux spiritual leader (1863-1950), as recorded by John Neihardt. (SWU133, $14.95)
	Black Flag: Guerilla Warfare on the Western Border, 1861-1865 • Thomas Goodrich • HISTORY • A graphic history of guerilla warfare between Union supporters and pro-slavery advocates of the Confederacy. (USM07, $17.95)
	Bloody Hill, The Civil War Battle of Wilson's Creek • William Riley Brooksher • HISTORY • A terrific account of the ferocious Battle of Wilson's Creek. (USM12, $17.95)
	The Bluest Eye • Toni Morrison • LITERATURE • Set in Ohio, this hauntingly beautiful novel describes an African-American girl's desire for beauty. (USM59, $14.00)
	Bonfires and Beacons, Great Lakes Lighthouses • Larry Wright • Patricia Wright • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Great Lakes natives and lighthouse enthusiasts will enjoy the full-page photographs of 43 historic and intriguing lighthouses. With descriptions and anecdotes. (GLK15, $19.95)
	Boss, Richard J. Daley of Chicago • Mike Royko • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A groundbreaking account of the man and his political machine by Chicago's favorite columnist, published in 1970 while Daley was still in office. (USM28, $15.00)
	Branson's Best Day Trips, A Guide to Discovering the Best of Branson and Ozark Mountain Country • Carol A. Shaffer • GUIDEBOOK • Written by a Branson resident, this book shows how to get more out of a trip to Branson than a round of mini-golf. (USW226, $14.95)
	Cahokia, The Great Native American Metropolis • Biloine Whiting Young • Melvin L. Fowler • ARCHAEOLOGY • An archaeological history of the great Indian settlement of Cahokia. (USM45, $24.95)
	Call of the North Wind: Voyages and Adventures on Lake Superior • Marlin Bree • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • An account of the author's sailing adventures on Lake Superior, combining his love of cold weather, storms, and the history of the region. (GLK21, $16.95)
	Chicago and the American Century • Richard Ciccone • HISTORY • A profile of 100 well-known and influential Chicagoans and their impact of the America in the 20th Century. (USM30, $17.95)
	Chicago Architecture and Design • George Larson • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A handsomely illustrated survey of the architecture of Chicago from the building boom that followed the Great Fire of 1871 through the 1992 Harold Washington Library. (USM23, $49.50)
	Chicago Map • Borch Maps • A colorful, laminated map of the city center of Chicago. (USM19, $7.95)
	Chicago's Famous Buildings • Franz Schulze • Kevin Harrington • GUIDEBOOK • This pocket guide includes more than 160 of Chicago's classic legacy of buildings by Adler, Sullivan, Burnham, Root, Wright, and others. (USM15, $14.00)
	Chicago, Growth of a Metropolis • Harold Mayer • Richard Wade • HISTORY • A classic, beautifully illustrated history of Chicago. (USM34, $40.00)
	The Chippewas of Lake Superior • Edmund Jefferson Danziger • HISTORY • A history of the Chippewa Indians covering up through the 1980s. (GLK22, $19.95)
	Christopher Columbus and the Conquest of Paradise • Kirkpatrick Sale • EXPLORATION • A new edition of this wide-ranging and lucid portrait of the man and the legends surrounding him, originally published in 1990. Columbus is no hero in Sale's view but rather a sea-faring adventurer in search of glory, gold and god. (USA134, $19.95)
	Cincinnati Revealed, A Photographic History of the Queen City • Tom White • Kevin Grace • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A visual tour of Cincinnati's history from pioneer town to modern city. (USM54, $19.99)
	City of the Century, The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America • Donald L. Miller • HISTORY • As blustery and swaggering as the Chicago of myth, this monumental biography of the city takes in the sweep of its history from the days of Joliette, Marquette and other explorers, to the celebrated 1893 Chicago Fair . (GLK05, $18.95)
	The Civil War in Missouri, Day by Day, 1861-1865 • Rocky Medley • Carolyn M. Bartels • HISTORY • A historical account of events that transpired during these four years, from raids and pursuit of the outlaws to the tracking down of Southern sympathizers. (USM08, $22.50)
	Compass Guide Chicago • Jack Schaedler • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive, literate guide to Chicago (USM35, $21.00)
	Compass Guide Kentucky • Fodor's • GUIDEBOOK • This compact book is an excellent overview of the state with particular emphasis on history and visitor attractions. Handsomely illustrated with color and archival photographs, it features literary excerpts, good maps and some practical travel information. (USS277, $21.95)
	Compass Guide South Dakota • Compass • GUIDEBOOK • This wonderfully written handbook includes archival photographs, literary excerpts and practical travel information. (USW198, $21.95)
	Compass Guide Wisconsin • Tracy Will • Zane Williams • GUIDEBOOK • This compact book offers an overview of the region, with particular emphasis on history and visitor attractions. (USM03, $21.00)
	The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers and the Rush to Colorado • Elliott West • HISTORY • A history of the Colorado gold rush and its effect on the Great Plains. (USP12, $16.95)
	The Corrections • Jonathan Franzen • LITERATURE • A dazzling novel of life and love and family and holidays that follows the peregrinations of the Lamberts -- father, mother and offspring -- from New York to Philadelphia to Vilnius. (EUR122, $15.00)
	The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright • David A. Hanks • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An illustrated introduction to Frank Lloyd Wright's design work. (GEN201, $19.95)
	The Devil Knows How to Ride, The True Story of William Clarke Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders • Edward E. Leslie • HISTORY • Leslie paints a vivid portrait of Quantril's brutality and savagery. (USM09, $24.00)
	The Emigrants • Vilhelm Moberg • Gustaf Lannestock • LITERATURE • The first in a series of four novels about Swedish emigrants who flee poverty and oppression to make a new life in Minnesota. (SWE14, $18.95)
	Enterprising Women, 250 Years of American Business • Virginia Drachman • HISTORY • Profiles of the most important women in American industry, from colonial times through the twentieth century. (GEN317, $39.95)
	Eureka Springs, Arkansas • Kay Marnon Danielson • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • The history of the town famed for its healing waters, complimented by archival photographs. (USM61, $19.99)
	The Falcon, A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner • Louise Erdrich • John Tanner • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The autobiography of a white man who lived among the Ojibwa in the north woods of Minnesota in the early 19th century. (GLK19, $15.00)
	Favorite Wildflowers of the Great Lakes and the Northeastern U.S. • Richard E. Schinkel • FIELD GUIDE • A compact guide to wildflowers of the region. (GLK03, $16.95)
	A Field Guide to Wildflowers: Northeastern and North-Central North America • Roger Tory Peterson • Rosemary McKenna • FIELD GUIDE • A best-selling guide to wildflowers in a handsome paper edition, featuring drawings, color illustrations, and short descriptions. Covers 1,293 species. (FG38, $19.00)
	Fodor's Chicago's 25 Best • Fodor's • GUIDEBOOK • A shirt-pocket guide to Chicago, this slim book includes an excellent map of the center of the city and essential information on its highlights. (GLK06, $11.95)
	Fodor's Toronto's 25 Best • Fodor's • GUIDEBOOK • A shirt-pocket guide to Toronto, this slim book includes an excellent map of the center of the city and essential information on the best restaurants, shops and sights to see. (GLK07, $11.95)
	Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide, Metrochicago • Thomas Heinz • GUIDEBOOK • A compact, illustrated guide to more than 100 Wright buildings in the Chicago area. (USM24, $40.00)
	Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin and Taliesin West • Kathryn Smith • Judith Bromley • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A photographic tribute to the two Taliesin estates. (USA50, $39.95)
	Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life and His Architecture • Robert C. Twombly • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A biography analyzing Wright's work in relationship to his personal life and political views. (GEN196, $45.00)
	Georgian Bay, An Illustrated History • Mike Grandmaison • Noel Hudson • NATURAL HISTORY • A large-format history of Georgian Bay from prehistory to cottagers with 400 archival photos. (GLK14, $45.00)
	Gilead • Marilynne Robinson • LITERATURE • A story about fathers and sons whose family history intersects with the U.S. Civil War. Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. (USW441, $14.00)
	Grassland, The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of the American Prairie • Richard Manning • NATURAL HISTORY • An environmental history of the great plains. (USW178, $16.00)
	The Great Chicago Fire • Robert Cromie • HISTORY • A brief account of the 1871 fire that consumed the city. (USM16, $18.95)
	Great Lakes Birds • Raymond Leung • James Kavanaugh • FIELD GUIDE • This fold-out reference illustrates almost 150 species in the Great Lakes region. Laminated and pocket-sized, it's a handy item to take along in the field. (GLK24, $5.95)
	Great Lakes Journey, A New Look at America's Freshwater Coast • William Ashworth • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • In an account of a 6,000-mile journey on and around the Great Lakes, Ashworth blends reporting and interviews with history, travel and science. (GLK29, $23.95)
	Great Lakes Map • Hallwag • A wide ranging yet detailed and colorful map of the Great Lakes region. It includes all the Great Lakes from Ontario to Superior at a scale of 1:1,200,000. (GLK13, $12.95)
	Great Lakes Trees and Wildflowers • Raymond Leung • James Kavanaugh • FIELD GUIDE • This laminated fold-out reference illustrates almost 150 plants in the Great Lakes region. (GLK25, $5.95)
	Great Lakes Wildlife • Raymond Leung • James Kavanaugh • FIELD GUIDE • This laminated fold-out reference illustrates almost 150 animals in the Great Lakes region. (GLK26, $5.95)
	Great Lakes, National Geographic Guide to America's Outdoors • Tina Lassen • Mark Godfrey • GUIDEBOOK • Intended for the land-based traveler, this book offers much to anyone traveling in the region. It includes a regional overview, good information on recreational opportunities, natural history and an extensive listing of travel resources. With maps and color photography throughout. (GLK30, $24.00)
	Great Plains • Ian Frazier • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A marvelously digressive, wide-ranging account of 25,000 miles worth of travels criss-crossing throughout the Great Plains, combining first-rate reportage and history. (USW172, $14.00)
	The Great Plains • Walter Prescott Webb • HISTORY • Originally published in 1931, this classic and still provocative book traces the mindset and circumstances that pushed the settlers west. (USW179, $21.95)
	High Water • Richard Bissell • LITERATURE • A towboat crew struggles to keep afloat during a monumental flood on the Mississippi in this novel, first published in 1954. (USM41, $8.95)
	Hill Folks, A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image • Brooks Blevins • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A study of the region's history and the mythology that has sprung up around it. (USM63, $21.95)
	The Idea of Louis Sullivan • John Szarkowski • Terence Riley • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A collection of architectural photographs of Sullivan's major buildings taken in the 1950s. (USM31, $60.00)
	In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences • Truman Capote • LITERATURE • This incredible "non-fiction novel" delves not only into the savageness of the criminal mind, but also the intricacies of small-town life in Kansas. (USP11, $14.95)
	In the Nature of Materials, 1887-1941: The Buidlings of Frank Lloyd Wright • Henry Russell Hitchcock • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A quick, yet wide-ranging survey of the life and architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. (GEN199, $27.50)
	The Indian Tribes of the Upper Mississippi Valley and Region of the Great lakes • Emma Helen Blair • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Important early accounts of aboriginal life in the region, including a memoir by the 17th-century fur trader Nicolas Perrot. (GLK11, $25.00)
	Insiders' Guide to Cincinnati • Felix Winternitz • Sacha Devroomen Bellman • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive, practical guide to the Ohio city. (USM53, $18.95)
	Kingbird Highway, The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand • Kenn Kaufman • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Kaufman's absorbing account of coming-of-age as a Wichita teenager on the road in 1973 with a summer's pay in his pocket and the goal of seeing as many birds as he could in a year. (BRD27, $14.00)
	Know Your Ships 2007: Guide to Boats and Boatwatching on the Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Seaway • Roger LeLievre • FIELD GUIDE • A field guide to the ships on the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes. The freighter fleets of all the shipping companies are listed, along with the vital statistics for each ship. (GLK12, $16.95)
	Lake Country, A Series of Journeys • Kathleen Stocking • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • In this second collection of 21 essays, Stocking writes with great affection and enthusiasm for her native Michigan. Themes of spirituality, nature and humanity permeate her reflections on Michigan's wildlife, small towns, local residents, and the college town of Ann Arbor. (USM05, $19.95)
	The Last Prairie, A Sandhills Journal • Stephen Jones • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • In 20 elegant essays, Jones explores Nebraska's sandhills. (USP01, $19.95)
	A Living History of the Ozarks • Phyllis Rossiter • GUIDEBOOK • A personal guide to the Ozarks, especially useful for those venturing beyond Branson. The author, an Ozarker herself, covers history, culture and sights. With maps and black-and-white photographs. (USM65, $19.95)
	The Long Ships Passing, The Story of the Great Lakes • Walter Havighurst • HISTORY • A vivid popular history of the Great Lakes, rich in anecdote, incident and drama. Havighurst recounts the early days of ships and shipping on the Great Lakes from the time of the early French voyageurs through the industrialization of the region at the turn of the century. (GLK27, $17.95)
	Lost Chicago • David Garrard Lowe • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A magnificent collection of photographs of grand buildings, now long gone, along with a history of the city. (USM32, $29.95)
	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)
	Louis Sullivan and the Chicago School • Nancy Frazier • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A brief survey of Sullivan and his work with color and black-and-white illustrations. (USM29, $19.95)
	Making Hay • Verlyn Klinkenborg • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • The author rhapsodizes on agrarian life in the Midwest as he travels from Iowa to Minnesota to Montana. And make no mistake: the title isn't a metaphor or a pun -- it's the main subject of the book. (USA17, $12.95)
	Mammals of North America • Roland W. Kays • Don E. Wilson • FIELD GUIDE • The most comprehensive guide to mammals found north of Mexico. (NAM11, $19.95)
	The Middle Ground, Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 • Richard White • HISTORY • A historical account of the relationship between the Indians and Europeans of the Great Lakes region. (GLK18, $30.99)
	Missouri Map • Rand McNally Maps • A colorful map of Missouri at a scale of 1:944,000. (USM13, $4.95)
	Missouri: The WPA Guide to the Show Me State • Federal Writers Project • Walter A. Schroeder • Howard W. Marshall • GUIDEBOOK • A vintage guide that offers a unique portrait of the state circa 1941. (USM68, $24.95)
	Montcalm and Wolfe, The French and Indian War • Francis Parkman • Caleb Carr • John Keegan • HISTORY • This volume, a reprint of the original 1884 edition by the great Francis Parkman, is an extensively researched account of the French and Indian War and of the great generals Montcalm and Wolfe. (CND16, $24.95)
	Moon Handbook Michigan • Tina Lassen • GUIDEBOOK • This practical guidebook features traveling information on the Great Lakes and the Upper Peninsula regions of Michigan. (USM04, $17.95)
	Moose • Valerius Geist • Michael H. Francis • NATURAL HISTORY • A natural history and photographic portrait of the moose. (BST56, $21.95)
	National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America • National Geographic • FIELD GUIDE • From Alaska to Baja California, this field guide, now in its fifth edition is the one to carry. (FG09, $24.00)
	National Geographic United States Atlas for Young Explorers • National Geographic • REFERENCE • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12) • The third edition of this colorful guide to the U.S. -- state by state and region by region. (USA93, $24.95)
	Native Universe, Voices of Indian America • Clifford E. Trafzer • ANTHOLOGY • This sumptuously illustrated cultural history, written exclusively by Native Americans, is published in celebration of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. (USA95, $22.00)
	Nature's Metropolis, Chicago and the Great West • William Cronon • HISTORY • A masterly thought provoking history of the transformation of Chicago from backwater to economic powerhouse. (USM17, $19.95)
	Newcomb's Wildflower Guide • Lawrence Newcomb • FIELD GUIDE • A classic identification guide, which uses a simple dichotomous key for identification. With 1,075 mostly black-and-white drawings, it covers the Northeast and Great Lakes region, south to Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, and most of Tennessee. (FG36, $19.99)
	North Country, A Personal Journey • Howard Frank Mosher • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Novelist Mosher captures the spirit of the north in this wonderfully wrought portrait of borderland places and personalities. (CND02, $14.95)
	The Ohio • R.E. Banta • Thomas Clark • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A vivid natural and cultural history of the Ohio River. (USM55, $39.95)
	The Ohio Frontier, An Anthology of Early Writing • Rita Kohn • Emily Foster • ANTHOLOGY • A collection of firsthand accounts evoking Ohio's untamed frontier. (USM56, $19.95)
	Old Times on the Upper Mississippi, Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863 • George Byron Merrick • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • First published in 1909, these are memories and anecdotes drawn from nine years working through the ranks from cabin boy to pilot on steamboats in the Upper Mississippi. (USM42, $16.95)
	Out of Work, A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (20th Anniversary Edition) • Alice Kessler-Harris • HISTORY • A historical examination of the changing role of women in the workplace in the United States. (GEN318, $24.95)
	Poet of the Appetites, The Lives and Loves of M.F.K. Fisher • Joan Reardon • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A biography of the prolific food and travel writer, who wrote over thirty books from 1943 until her death in 1992. (GEN316, $15.00)
	PrairyErth, An Epic History of the Tallgrass Prairie Country • William Least Heat Moon • HISTORY • A survey of the nature and culture of the tall grass prairie focused on Chase County Kansas. (USW182, $19.95)
	The Race to Save the Lord God Bird • Phillip Hoose • NATURAL HISTORY • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12) • An engaging and well-researched history of the ivory-billed woodpecker, and the struggles surrounding its survival. It's a suspenseful and entertaining book about modern conservation and environmental issues for middle-school readers. (BRD30, $21.00)
	Remember D-Day, Both Sides Tell Their Stories • Ronald J. Drez • David Eisenhower • HISTORY • YOUNG ADULTS • An engaging and well-constructed history of the D-Day invasion for readers in grades 5 to 8, complete with anecdotes from soldiers, black-and-white photographs and plenty of historical information. (USA96, $17.95)
	Return to Wild America, A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul • Scott Weidensaul • NATURAL HISTORY • An eye-opening trek in the footsteps of conservation pioneers Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher, whose 1953 journey across America resulted in the classic Wild America. (USA123, $15.00)
	Roadside Plants and Flowers, A Traveler's Guide to the Midwest and Great Lakes Area • Marian Edsall • FIELD GUIDE • A slim guide to commonly encountered flowers. (FG35, $17.95)
	Rocket Boys, A Memoir • Homer H. Hickam • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • This well told memoir is as much about life in a dying West Virginia mining town as it is about boyhood dreams of rocketry. It also inspired the movie "October Sky." (SCI21, $14.00)
	A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There • Aldo Leopold • NATURAL HISTORY • Leopold memorably opens this much-loved, essential collection of essays on land and nature and his farm in Wisconsin, first published in 1948, with the statement: "there are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot." The book has lost none of its power or beauty over the years. The book is also available in a commemorative hard cover gift edition (NAT111, $40.00) with 85 color photographs. (NAT02, $15.95)
	The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America • David Sibley • FIELD GUIDE • A compact, geographically-specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird with status, habitat, range, voice and identifying marks. (USE262, $19.95)
	So Long, See You Tomorrow • William Maxwell • LITERATURE • A lyrical classic, evocative of childhood, responsibility and life in rural Illinois. (USM50, $12.95)
	Stolen Continents, 500 Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas • Ronald Wright • HISTORY • A powerful history of imperialism and resistance in the Americas, with a focus on the Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee and Iroquois. Wright draws on an impressive range of archival material in reconstructing this classic account. (NAM20, $17.00)
	A Stretch on the River • Richard Bissell • LITERATURE • A semi-autobiographical novel of navigating a towboat along the Upper Mississippi River in the 1940s. (USM40, $8.95)
	A Taliesin Legacy, The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright's Apprentices • Tobias S. Guggenheimer • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An illustrated introduction to the architects and philosophy of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Fellowship in Wisconsin and Arizona. (USE141, $64.95)
	That Dark and Bloody River, Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley • Allan Eckert • HISTORY • This history of the settlement of the Ohio River Valley is written like a novel. (USS276, $17.00)
	They All Fall Down, Richard Nickel's Struggle to Save America's Architecture • Richard Cahan • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An illustrated biography of Richard Nickel and his campaign to save Chicago's architectural heritage. (USM22, $45.00)
	To See Every Bird On Earth: A Father, A Son, And A Lifelong Obsession • Dan Koeppel • NATURAL HISTORY • In this enormously appealing memoir of a life devoted to birds. Koeppel chronicles his father's growing obsession and accomplishment as an elite birdwatcher, one of a handful of people who have tallied 7,000 species. (BRD28, $14.00)
	A Turn in the South • V.S. Naipaul • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • First published in the New Yorker, Naipaul's wandering travel narrative is a poetic but profoundly disturbing portrait of the American South. (USS65, $14.95)
	USA, Central Map • Map Art Maps • A map of the central United States. (USM47, $4.95)
	The Verb to Bird, Sightings of an Avid Birder • Peter Cashwell • NATURAL HISTORY • A memoir of the birding life, its pleasures, obsessions and pitfalls. Based in the Carolinas (where he teaches English), Cashwell recounts in these essays the birds he's encountered, the why and wherefores of the birding life and some very entertaining anecdotes. (BRD26, $14.95)
	Views on the Mississippi, The Photographs of Henry Peter Bosse • Mark Neuzil • Henry Peter Bosse • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A collection of photographs from the late 19th century depicting the landscapes and towns along the Upper Mississippi River. Henry Peter Bosse's blue cyanotype prints are a beautiful introduction to steamboat era in the Midwest. (USM43, $29.95)
	West Virginia, A History • Otis K. Rice • Stephen W. Brown • HISTORY • A comprehensive, straightforward history of the Mountaineer State. (USM57, $40.00)
	Wilson's Creek, The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It • Richard W. Hatcher, III • William Garrett Piston • HISTORY • A detailed history of the Battle of Wilson's Creek. (USM10, $45.00)
	Winesburg, Ohio • Sherwood Anderson • LITERATURE • The classic cycle of short stories evoking life in a 19th-century, Midwest town. (USM60, $5.95)
	The Wright Style • Carla Lind • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An illustrated survey of the architecture and interior design of Frank Lloyd Wright. (GEN198, $50.00)
	Years With Frank Lloyd Wright, Apprentice to Genius • Edgar Tafel • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • An account of Edgar Tafel's time as an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright. (GEN197, $14.95)

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