Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life

by Allen Shawn

The Castle in the Forest

by Norman Mailer

The Inheritance of Loss

by Kiran Desai

Flags of Our Fathers

a film directed by Clint Eastwood

Letters from Iwo Jima

a film directed by Clint Eastwood

The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

Pages from the Goncourt Journals

by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, edited, translated from the French, and with an introduction by Robert Baldick, and with a foreword by Geoff Dyer

The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter

by Colin Tudge

The Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants, Second Edition

by D.J. Mabberley

Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties

by Robert Stone

Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240–1570

by Eamon Duffy

The UN Exposed: How The United Nations Sabotages America's Security and Fails the World

by Eric Shawn

The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations

by Paul Kennedy

The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power

by James Traub

Emma Lazarus

by Esther Schor

Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems

edited by John Hollander