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January Birthdays

Happy birthday to all the great authors born in January.

Title	Author	Cover
Gil's All Fright Diner	A Lee Martinez
Galaxy blues	Allen M Steele
Out of my mind	Andrew A Rooney
Agnes Grey ; The tenant of Wildfell Hall	Anne Brontë
Peachtree Road : a novel	Anne Rivers Siddons
Not your usual founding father : selected readings from Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin Franklin
Abraham Lincoln : the prairie years and the war years	Carl Sandburg
Worlds of wonder : how to write science fiction & fantasy	David Gerrold
The Scottish prisoner : a novel	Diana Gabaldon
No ordinary time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II	Doris Kearns Goodwin
Ragtime	E L Doctorow
Poetry and tales	Edgar Allan Poe
The house of mirth	Edith Wharton
One life at a time, please	Edward Abbey
The post-American world	Fareed Zakaria
Time and tide : a walk through Nantucket	Frank Conroy
Daredevil : the man without fear	Frank Miller
Justice League. Volume 3, Throne of Atlantis	Geoff Johns
The women of Brewster Place	Gloria Naylor
COSM	Gregory Benford
Promise me	Harlan Coben
Sacred evil	Heather Graham
Ragged Dick ; and, Struggling upward	Horatio Alger
Asimov on astronomy.	Isaac Asimov
Nine stories	J D Salinger
Need you now : a novel	James Grippando
Wolverine vs. the X-Men	Jason Aaron
Brightness falls	Jay McInerney
Superman, Batman : vengeance	Jeph Loeb
A certain justice : a novel	John T Lescroart
Fire lover : a true story	Joseph Wambaugh
Scruples two	Judith Krantz
Feiffer, the collected works.	Jules Feiffer
The prophet	Kahlil Gibran
Beyond reach : a novel	Karin Slaughter
Hardly knew her : stories	Laura Lippman
Picture this : [the near-sighted monkey book]	Lynda Barry
Bushworld : enter at your own risk	Maureen Dowd
You'll get through this : hope and help for your turbulent times	Max Lucado
Steal across the sky	Nancy Kress
Book lust to go : recommended reading for travelers, vagabonds, and dreamers	Nancy Pearl
The signal and the noise : why most predictions fail-- but some don't	Nate Silver
Away off shore : Nantucket Island and its people, 1602-1890	Nathaniel Philbrick
Pieces and pontifications	Norman Mailer
Fashionably late : a novel	Olivia Goldsmith
Small g : a summer idyll	Patricia Highsmith
The magic labyrinth	Philip José Farmer
The two swords / R.A. Salvatore.	R A Salvatore
The collected stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume four, Trips, 1972-73	Robert Silverberg
The Maxx	Sam Kieth
Late eclipses : an October Daye novel	Seanan McGuire
War	Sebastian Junger
Abraham Lincoln : vampire hunter	Seth Grahame-Smith
Nothing like it in the world : the men who built the transcontinental railroad, 1863-1869	Stephen E Ambrose
Santa Fe rules	Stuart Woods
On photography	Susan Sontag
Blood colony	Tananarive Due
The elves of Cintra	Terry Brooks
Little Scarlet	Walter Mosley
Legion : a novel	William Peter Blatty
Mules and men	Zora Neale Hurston

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