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Vick Mickunas names his favorite Book Nook
interviews from the year 2003

1. Chris Hedges	War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
2. Nuala O'Faolain	Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman
3. Luisa Lang Owen	Casualty of War: A Childhood Remembered
4. Ted Rall	Gas War: The Truth Behind the American Occupation of Afghanistan
5. José Ramos Horta	[Foreign Minister of East Timor]
6. Charmaine Craig	The Good Men: A Novel of Heresy
7. Greg Palast	The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
8. Gene Logsdon	The Pond Lovers
9. Coleman Barks	Rumi: The Book of Love Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
10. Noah Adams	The Flyers
11. Billy Collins	Nine Horses
12. Jennifer Michael Hecht	Doubt: A History
13. Rupert Sheldrake	The Sense of Being Stared At and Other Aspects of the Extended Mind
14. Judy Blunt	Breaking Clean
15. Tess Uriza Holthe	When the Elephants Dance

Vick Mickunas names his favorite books featured in
the Book Nook during the year 2003

book	author	publisher
1. Doubt: A History	Jennifer Michael Hecht	Harper San Francisco
2. Blue Latitudes	Tony Horwitz	Picador
3. Salt: A History	Mark Kurlansky	Penguin
4. War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning	Chris Hedges	Anchor
5. The Good Men: A Novel of Heresy	Charmaine Craig	Riverhead
6. Casualty of War: A Childhood Remembered	Luisa Lang Owen	Texas A&M
7. The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves	Curtis White	Harper San Francisco
8. The Russian Debutante	Gary Shteyngart	Riverhead
9. The Company: A Novel of the CIA	Robert Littell	Overlook
10. I Was Howard Hughes	Steven Carter	Bloomsbury
11. Breaking Clean	Judy Blunt	Vintage
12. Prague	Arthur Phillips	Random House
13. Signal and Noise	John Griesemer	Picador
14. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar	Robert Alexander	Viking
15. Persuader	Lee Child	Delacorte