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Adult Fiction
McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. Knopf, $24 (0-307-26543-9).
Adult Nonfiction
Tolan, Sandy. The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East. Bloomsbury, $24.95 (1-58234-343-8).
Youth Fiction
Anderson, M. T. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; v.1: The Pox Party. Candlewick, $17.99 (0-7636-2402-0).
Youth Nonfiction
Bausum, Ann. Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement. National Geographic, $18.95 (0-7922-4173-8).
Youth Picture Book
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Moon. Illustrated by Tracey Campbell Pearson. Farrar, $16 (0-374-35046-9).
Reference Source
The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. Ed. by Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor. Routledge, $175 (0-415-21258-8).
Video & DVD
Country Boys. PBS Video, $34.99.
Audio
Gaiman, Neil. Anansi Boys. Read by Lenny Henry. Harper, $39.95 (0-06-082384-4).