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The Dixon Collection contains current books of both fiction and nonfiction illustrative of contemporary life and thought. The Dixon Fund, which supports the collection, was given in the memory of William Boulton Dixon '15. These books circulate for four weeks. For questions or suggestions, contact Carol Murphy cwmurphy@princeton.edu or (609) 258-5307.

New Arrivals: January

A Private History of Awe

Scott Russell Sanders

(Dixon)PS3569.A5137Z47 2006

My Colombian War: A Journey Through the Country I Left Behind

Silvana Paternostro

(Dixon)F2264.2.P38 2007

Walking on Tiptoe and Other Poems

Elizabeth Barrett

(Dixon)PR6052.A717W35 2007

Spelling Love with an X: A Mother, a Son, and the Gene That Binds Them

Clare Dunsford

(Dixon)RJ506.F73D86 2007

Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age

Jeff Gomez

(Dixon)Z116.A2G66 2008

The Letters of Noel Coward

Barry Day, ed.

(Dixon)PR6005.O85Z48 2007

On the Edge: Collected Long Poems

Kenneth Koch

(Dixon)PS3521.O27O49 2007

Iconic America: A Roller-Coaster Ride Through the Eye-Popping Panorama of American Pop Culture

Tommy Hilfiger with George Lois

(Dixon)E169.12.H55 2007q

The Year of Magical Thinking: A Play

Joan Didion

(Dixon)PS3554.I33Y43 2007

The Book about Blanche and Marie

Per Olov Enquist

(Dixon)PT9876.15.N78B66 2006

Moth Catcher: An Evolutionist's Journey Through Canyon and Pass

Michael M. Collins

(Dixon)QH31.C57A3 2007

How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, From the Board to the Boardroom

Garry Kasparov

(Dixon)GV1439.K38A3 2007

I Think of You

Ahdaf Soueif

(Dixon)PR6069.O78I18 2007b

Outlaw Style: Poems

R.T. Smith

(Dixon)PS3569.M537914O87 2007

No Real Light

Joe Wenderoth

(Dixon)PS3573.E515N6 2007

Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community

Bill McKibben

(Dixon)QC981.8.G56M35 2007

Music's Mask and Measure

Jay Wright

(Dixon)PS3573.R5364M874 2007

Mere Anarchy

Woody Allen

(Dixon)PS3551.L44M47 2007

The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

Woody Allen

(Dixon)PS3551.L44A6 2007

Star Wars:Death Star

Michael Reaves and Steve Perry

(Dixon)PN1995.9.S695R43 2007

 

December

Time of Grace: Thoughts on Nature, Family, and the Politics of Crime and Punishment

Ken Lamberton

(Dixon)HV9481.T83L358 2007

 

Brass Diva: The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman

Caryl Flink

(Dixon)ML420.M495F55 2007

The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland

Barbara Sjoholm

(Dixon)DL971.L2S746 2007

Happy Tails Across New Jersey: Things to See and Do With Your Dog

Diane Goodspeed

(Dixon)SF427.4574.N5G66 2006

Flying to America: 45 More Stories

Donald Barthelme

(Dixon)PS3552.A76F59 2007

Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes and Asides from National Review

William F. Buckley Jr.

(Dixon)PN4874.B796A3 2007

Now Voyagers: The Night Sea Journey

James McCourt

(Dixon)PS3563.A266N68 2007

Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis

Ed Sikov

(Dixon)PN2287.D32S55 2007

A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life

J. Craig Venter

(Dixon)QH31.V385A3 2007

Listening to Cougar

Marc Bekoff and Cara Blessley Lowe, eds.

Foreword by Jane Goodall

(Dixon)QL737.C23L57 2007

The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever

David M. Friedman

(Dixon)R855.3.F75 2007

On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters

Matthew Desmond

(Dixon)SD421.24.D47 2007

Martha: On Trial, In Jail, and On a Comeback

Robert Slater

(Dixon)TX140.S74S77 2006

Guilty

Anna Kavan

(Dixon)PR6009.D63G844 2007

The Officer's Daughter

Zina Rohan

(Dixon)PR6068.O357O33 2007

Don't Stop Me Now

Jeremy Clarkson

(Dixon)TL146.5.C563 2007

Hotel: An American History

A.K. Sandoval-Strauss

(Dixon)TX909.S25 2007

Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency, From the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century

James Bamford

(Dixon)UB256.U6B36 2001

Children of Jihad: A Young American's Traels Among the Youth of the Middle East

Jared Cohen

(Dixon)DS49.7.C64 2007

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible

Robert J. Hutchinson

(Dixon)BS480.H88 2007

Gonzo: The Live of Hunter S. Thompson

Jann S. Wenner & Corey Seymour

(Dixon)PN4874.T444W38 2007

For Love of Politics: Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years

Sally Bedell Smith

(Dixon)E886.2.S555 2007

The Fall of the House of Bush

Craig Unger

(Dixon)E902.U53 2007

A Man's Life: Dispatches From Dangerous Places

Mark Jenkins

(Dixon)G226.J46A3 2007

The Buffalo, Ben and Me

Todd Parnell

(Dixon)CT275.P354A3 2007

The Human, The Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World

Jacques Cousteau and Susan Schiefelbein

(Dixon)GC30.C68A3 2007

Carlisle vs. Army: Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, {and the Forgotten Story of Football's Greatest Battle}

Lars Anderson

(Dixon)GV958.U33A53 2007

Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life)

Cathie Black

(Dixon)HF5381.B448 2007

Ricochet: Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist

Richard Feldman

(Dixon) HV7436.F45 2008

Heroic Conservatism: Why Republicans Need to Embrace America's Ideals (And Why They Deserve to Fail if They Don't)

Michael J. Gerson

(Dixon)JC573.2.U6G47 2007

Great Pretenders: My Strange Love Affair with '50s Pop Music

Karen Schoemer

(Dixon)ML3477.S36G74 2006

"You Can't Air That": Four Cases of Controversy and Censorship in American Television Programming

David S. Silverman

(Dixon)PN1992.3.U5S555 2007

America's Child: A Woman's Journey Through the Radical Sixties: A Memoir

Susan Sherman

(Dixon)PS3569.H434Z46 2007

Whispers in the Pines: A Naturalist in the Northeast

Joanna Burger

(Dixon)QH104.5.N58B87 2006

The Guide Signs: Book One and Book Two

Jay Wright

(Dixon)PS3573.R5364G85 2007

Who Stole The Funny?: A Novel of Hollywood

Robby Benson

(Dixon)PS3602.E6956W48 2007

October

Mind Bombs: Exploring Conventional Wisdom

Garrick Alder

(Dixon)AG243.A423 2007

Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram

Dang Thuy Tram

(Dixon)DS559.44.D36 2007

Takeover: the Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy

Charlie Savage

(Dixon)E902.S38 2007

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism

Robert P. Murphy

(Dixon)HB501.M88 2007

Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World

Bill Clinton

(Dixon)HN18.C477 2007

God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir

John Bul Dau

(Dixon)HV640.5.S9D38 2007

From Baghdad Bedlam

Maged Kadar

(Dixon)CT1919.I78K323 2007

That Mean Old Yesterday

Stacey Patton

(Dixon)HV6626.23.N43P38 200

2007

Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist

Tyler Cowen

(Dixon)HB74.P8C69 2007

In the Footsteps of George Borrow: A Journey through Spain and Portugal

Guy Arnold

(Dixon)DP43.2.A766 2007

That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity

James Dawes

(Dixon)HV6322.7.D39 2007

Ike: An American Hero

Michael Korda

(Dixon)E836.K67 2007

 

The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing

Greg Anrig

(Dixon)JC573.2.U6A57 2007

Los Republicanos: Why Hispanics and Republicans Need Each Other

Leslie Sanchez

(Dixon)JK2356.S28 2007

Oppenheimer is Watching Me

Jeff Porter

(Dixon)E169.Z8P5924 2007

Nabeel's Song: The Story of the Poet of Baghdad

Jo Tatchell (Dixon)DS79.66.Y36T38 2006b

 

The Sister Knot: Why We Fight, Why We're Jealous, and Why We'll Love Each Other No Matter What

Terri Apter

(Dixon)BF723.S43.A67 2007

 

The Bluest State: How Democrats Created the Massachusetts Blueprint for American Political Disaster

Jon Keller

(Dixon)F71.K45 2007

Defy the Stars: The Life and Tragic Death of Tom Hurndall

Jocelyn Hurndall

(Dixon)DS119.76.H848H847 2007

Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites

Mitchell L. Stevens

(Dixon)LB2351.2.S755 2007

September

Porcupine, Pacayune & Post: How Newspapers Get Their Names

James Bernhard

(Dixon)PN4888.T58B47 2007

Accidental Revolution: The Story of Grunge

Kyle Anderson

(Dixon)ML3534.A49 2007

Safe World Gone: Short Stories by Women from Wales

Patrick Duncker and Janet Thomas, eds.

(Dixon) PR1286.W6S24 2007

Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls

Danielle Wood

(Dixon)PR9619.4.W656R67 2006

Parcel: Poems

Sarah Anne Cox

(Dixon)PS3553.0943P37 2006

A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency

Glenn Greenwald

(Dixon)E903.3.G74 2007

Asboville: A Novel

Danny Rhodes

(Dixon)PR6118.H477A726 2006

The Iambics of Newfoundland: Notes from an Unknown Sphere

Robert Finch

(Dixon)F1122.F56 2007

The Shepherd Boy: A Novel

Darick Allan

(Dixon) PS3601.L414S54 2006

The Office of Desire: A Novel

Martha Moody

(Dixon)PS3563.O553O45 2007

Radio Freefall

Matthew Jarpe

(Dixon)PS3610.A75R33 2007

Bride Island: A Novel

Alexandra Enders

(Dixon) PS3605.N423B75 2007

The Gonzo Way

Anita Thompson

(Dixon) PN4874.T444T46 2007

Hurricane Moon

Alesis Glynn Latner

(Dixon)PS3612.A9H87 2007

Red Seas Under Red Skies

Scott Lynch

(Dixon)PS3612.Y5427R43 2007

Burma Boy

Biyi Bandele

(Dixon)PR9387.9.B36B86 2007

The Rash Adventurer: A Life of John Pendlebury

Imogen Grundon

(Dixon)DF212.P46G78 2007

Boundary Country

Tom Wayman

(Dixon)PR9199.3.W39B68 2007

Spaceman Blues: A Love Song

Brian Francis Slattery

(Dixon) PS3619.L375S63 2007

Red Rover

Deirdre McNamer

(Dixon)PS3563.C38838R43 2007

August 2007

Dalai Lama: Man, Monk, Mystic

Mayank Chhaya

(Dixon)BQ7935.B777C44 2007

To Follow the Water: Exploring the Ocean to Discover Climate

Dallas Murphy

(Dixon)GC190.2.M87 2007

Ending the War in Iraq

Tom Hayden

(Dixon)DS79.76.H3854 2007

The Ordinary Sublime: Poems

Patricia Waters

(Dixon)PS3623.A868O73 2006

Plain Secrets: An Outsider Among the Amish

Joe Mackall

(Dixon)BX8129.A5M33 2007

Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists

Michael Hamilton Morgan

(Dixon)DS36.85M75 2007

Nervous Systems

William Stobb

(Dixon)PS3619.T625N47 2007

Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency

Nigel Hamilton

(Dixon)E886.H365 2007

 

1001 Nights in Iraq

Shant Kenderian

(Dixon)DS318.85.K44 2007

Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond

Don Cheadle and John Prendergast

(Dixon)DT159.6.D27C44 2007

Dr. Livingston, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers & Empire

Clare Pettitt

(Dixon)DT731.L8P48 2007b

Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm

Lauren St. John

(Dixon)DT2984.S725.A3 2007

The Fire This Time

Randall Kenan

(Dixon)E185.615.K3747 2007

Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life

Beverly Lowry

(Dixon)E444.T82.L68 2007

Breaking the Fever: Poems

Mary Mackey

(Dixon)PS3563.A3165B74 2006

 

Feasting on the Spoils: The Life and Times of Randy "Duke" Cunningham, History's Most Corrupt Congressman

Seth Hettena

(Dixon)E840.8.C86H48 2007

Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years

David Talbot

(Dixon)E841.T29 2007

Interventions

Noam Chomsky

(Dixon)E902.C476 2007

What is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers

Brian Kim Stefans

(Dixon)PS3619.T44W43 2006

Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation

Eboo Patel

(Dixon)E184.M88P38 2007

July 2007

Einstein: A Biography

Jurgen Neffe, trans.by Shelley Frisch

(Dixon)QC16.E5N4413 2007

Bed: Stories

Tao Lin

(Dixon)PS3612.I517B44 2007

New Poems

Tadeusz Rozewicz, trans. by Bill Johnston

(Dixon)PG7158.R63A2 2007

The Half-Life of an American Essayist

Arthur Krystal

(Dixon)PS3611.R96H36 2007

Richard M. Nixon

Elizabeth Drew

(Dixon)E856.D74 2007

Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking Our Declaration of Independence

Alan Dershowitz

(Dixon)BR520.D47 2007

The Thorn of Lion City: A Memoir

Lucy Lum

(Dixon)CT1578.L86A3 2007

Karma Queens, Geek Gods & Innerpreneurs: Meet the 9 Consumer Types Shaping Today's Marketplace

Ron Rentel with Joe Zellnik

(Dixon)HC79.C6R45 2007

Conquering the Impossible: My 12,000-Mile Journey Around the Arctic Circle

Mike Horn

(Dixon)G850.2002.H67H67 2007

Body Surfing: A Novel

Anita Shreve

(Dixon)PS3569.H7385B63 2007

Little Black Dress

Susie Maguire, ed.

(Dixon)PR1286.W6L58 2006

This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood

Jack Valenti

(Dixon)E840.V35A3 2007

Footsteps on the Ice: The Antarctic Diaries of Stuart D. Pain, Second Byrd Expedition

M.L. Paine, edited with Introduction

(Dixon)G875.P35A3 2007

Five Skies: A Novel

Ron Carlson

(Dixon)PS3553.A733F58 2007

The Collected Stories

Leonard Michaels

(Dixon)PS3563I273A17 2007

DS (2): Dreamstories

Kamau Brathwaite

(Dixon)PR9230.9.B68D73 2007

The Uncertain Hour: A Novel

Jesse Browner

(Dixon)PS3552.R774U53 2007

The Extinction of Desire: A Tale of Enlightenment

Michael Boylan

(Dixon)PS3552.L27E96 2007

Whistling in the Dark: A Novel

Lesley Kagen

(Dixon)PS3611.A344W48 2007

The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology

Bernd Heinrich

(Dixon)QH31.H356A3 2007

June 2007

Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

(Dixon)HD6054.2.U6H49 2007

A Noble Function: How U-Haul Moved America

Luke Krueger

(Dixon)HF5488.U4K78 2007

Road From Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia

Camilo Mejia

(Dixon)DS79.76.M544 2007

Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement

Scott Ritter

(Dixon)E840.R54 2007

Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now

George McGovern and William R. Polk

(Dixon)DS79.76.M39 2006

And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since: From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress

Charles B. Rangel with Leon Wynter

(Dixon)E840.8.R36A3 2007

Thick as Theieves: A Brother, A Sistr--A True Story of Two Turbulent Lives

Steve Geng

(Dixon)CT275.G356.A3 2007

Brothers on the Bashkaus: A Siberian Paddling Adventure

Eugene Buchanan

(Dixon)DK756.2.B825 2007

Locke: A Biography

Roger Woolhouse

(Dixon)B1296.W66 2007

Edinburg Days or Doing What I Want to Do

Sam Pickering

(Dixon)DA890.E3P53 2007

Prisoner of Tehran: A Memoir

Marina Nemat

(Dixon)DS318.84.N46A3 2007

Tales From the Middle Border

Richard Quinney

(Dixon)CT275.Q554A3 2007

A Brief History of the Future: How Visionary Thinkers Changed the World and Tomorrow's Trends are "Made" and Marketed

Oona Strathern

(Dixon)CB158.S77 2007

Hunting and Gathering

Anna Gavalda, Translated from the French by Alison Anderson

(Dixon)PQ2667.A97472E5713 2007

Reading Life: Books for the Ages

Sven Birkerts

(Dixon)PN771.B48 2007

Blog!: How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business, and Culture

David Kline and Dan Burstein

(Dixon)TK5105.8884.K55 2005

Cape Wind: Money Celebrity, Class, Politics and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound

Wendy Williams & Robert Whitcomb

(Dixon)HD9502.5.W554C37 2007

The House of Clay: Poems

Peter McDonald

(Dixon)PR6063.C382H68 2007

Urban Sound Environment

Jian Kang

(Dixon)TD892.K29 2007

Distant Train

Ibrahim Abdel Megid

(Dixon)PJ7804.M323M3713 2007

La Nilsson: My Life in Opera

Birgit Nilsson

(Dixon)ML420.N697.A313 2007

How the Bicycle Shone: New & Selected Poems

Gillian Allnutt

(Dixon)PR6051.L549H69 2007

White Walls: Collected Stories

Tatyana Tolstaya

(Dixon)PG3489.O476A2 2007

American Visa: A Novel

Juan de Recacoechea, translated by Adrian Althoff

(Dixon)PQ7820.R37A7513 2007

100 Great Poems of Love & Lust

Compiled & Introduction by Dannie Abse

(Dixon)PN6110.L6)494 2006

The Fragile Edge: Diving and Othr Adventures in the South Pacific

Julia Whitty

(Dixon)QH198.F74W48 2007

The Captain's Swallow

Andrew Waterman

(Dixon)PR6073.A823C37 2007

Cold, Clear, and Deadly: Unraveling a Toxic Legacy

Melvin J. Visser

(Dixon)RA1242.C436V57 2007

An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers Politicos Polluters and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas

Diane Wilson

(Dixon)SH20.W55A3 2005

 

 

28 Stories of AIDS in Africa

Stephanie Nolen

(Dixon)RA643.86.A357N65 2007

The Musical World of Boublil and Schonberg: The Creators of Les Meserables, Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre, and The Pirate Queen

Margaret Vermette

(Dixon)ML385.V398 2006

California Transit: Stories

Diane Lefer

(Dixon)PS3562.E37385.C35 2007

Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems

Deborah Keenan

(Dixon)PS3561.E36W55 2007

Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story with 190 of Her Own Photographs

Ruth Gruber

(Dixon)TR820.5.G78 2007

My Soviet Union

Michael Dumanis

(Dixon)PS3604.U46M9 2007

The Last Enemy

Grace Brophy

(Dixon)PS3602.R6463L37 2007

The Cure

Varley O'Connor

(Dixon)PS3565.C655C683 2007

Slow Food Nation: Why Our Good Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair

Carlo Petrini

(Dixon)TX631.P47313 2007

Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA'S War on a Family Farm

Linda Faillace

(Dixon)SF375.4.V5F35 2006

A Day at the Beach

Helen Schulman

(Dixon)PS3569.C5385D39 2007

May 2007-September 2006