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May 17, 2008

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    If you had ordered on a regular basis signed books from us since 1979, you would now have a library containing books signed by any number of the authors whose names appear below.

    Such a library would include some of the most entertaining, interesting, and important books by American writers over the past twenty years — a library worth considerably more than what you would have paid for it, a library to last generations.

     Square Books offers by subscription signed first editions. Provide us your name, mailing address, and preferred method of billing, and we will send to you one book per month, approximately. There is no additional charge for the
signing — all books are billed at list price, plus postage.

     We extend the privilege of two refusals per year, (just mail the book back within 30 days), and around the first of each year we’ll send you a bonus book if you’ve been with us for six months. You will also receive, if you do not already, our bimonthly newsletter, Dear Reader.

     If you'd like to join or you have any questions about the Signed Firsts Club, call 1-800-648-4001 or email Lyn Roberts at: signedfirsts@squarebooks.com.

    Thank you for your interest and support.

    Sincerely,

    Richard Howorth

Past Signed First Selections

— Author’s first book

— National bestseller

— PEN/Faulkner Award winner

— National Book Award winner

— Pulitzer Prize winner

— Booksense 76 finalist (formerly Abby Award)

2007 Selections Prime Green — Robert Stone Returning to Earth — Jim Harrison Finn — Jon Clinch Friends of Meager Fortune — David Richards Coal Black Horse — Robert Olmstead The Unknown Terrorist — Richard Flanagan Ministry of Special Cases — Nathan Englander Landsman — Peter Charles Melman	2006 Selections The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster — Kaye Gibbons The Brief History of the Dead — Kevin Brockmeier The People's Act of Love — James Meek Eat Pray Love — Elizabeth Gilbert The Lightning Keeper — Starling Lawrence The World Made Straight — Ron Rash The Amalgamation Polka — Stephen Wright A Death in Belmont — Sebastian Junger Salvation Blues — Rodney Jones Smonk — Tom Franklin Coronado — Dennis Lehane Winter's Bone — Daniel Woodrell All Aunt Hagar's Children — Edward P. Jones St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves — Karen Russell Thirteen Moons — Charles Frazier The Lay of the Land — Richard Ford Thanksgiving Night — Richard Bausch On Agate Hill — Lee Smith	2005 Selections The Celestial Jukebox — Cynthia Shearer Baker Towers — Jennifer Haigh Johnny Too Bad — John Dufresne Life Studies — Susan Vreeland Metropolis — Elizabeth Gaffney Drama City — George Pelecanos Gods in Alabama — Joshilyn Jackson The Diezmo — Rick Bass History of Love — Nicole Krauss Glad News of the Natural World — T. R. Pearson Canaan's Tongue — John Wray In the Shadows of the Sun — Alexander Parsons An Atomic Romance — Bobbie Ann Mason Widow of the South — Robert Hicks If You Want Me to Stay — Michael Parker King of Kings County — Whitney Terrell Out of Season — Robert Bausch The Tender Bar — J. R. Moehringer Whale Season — N. M. Kelby
2004 Selections I Sailed With Magellan — Stuart Dybek Prisoners of War — Yarbrough Divining Women — Kaye Gibbons Truth & Beauty — Ann Patchett True North — Jim Harrison You Remind Me of Me—Dan Chaon Port Mungo — Patrick McGrath Eventide — Kent Haruf Little Scarlet — Walter Mosley Waiting for Teddy Williams — Howard Frank Mosher Jonathan Strange & Mister Norrell — Susanna Clarke About Grace — Anthony Doerr Men and Cartoons — Jonathan Lethem The Divine Husband — Francisco Goldman The Green Age of Asher Witherow — M. Allen Cunningham An Unfinished Life — Mark Spragg (Bonus Selection)	2003 Selections Nine Horses — Billy Collins The Hit — Jere Hoar Bay of Souls — Robert Stone The Master Butchers Singing Club — Louise Erdrich Hell at the Breach — Tom Franklin Willem's Field — Melinda Haynes The Clearing — Tim Gautreaux The Rabbit Factory — Larry Brown Orchard by Larry Watson The Known World — Edward P. Jones (National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist) Dead I Well May Be — Adrian McKinty American Woman — Susan Choi (Pulitzer Prize finalist) The Stories of Richard Bausch	2002 Selections It Wasn't All Dancing — Mary Ward Brown Deep in the Shade of Paradise — John Dufresne Polar — T.R. Pearson A Multitude of Sin — Richard Ford Gould's Book of Fish — Richard Flanagan Hollow Ground — Stephen Marion Dirt Music — Tim Winton (Booker finalist) The Last American Man — Elizabeth Gilbert (Natl Book Award finalist) Life of Pi — Yann Martel (Booker Prize winner) Lost Nation — Jeffrey Lent The Heaven of Mercury — Brad Watson (Natl Book Award finalist) The Hermit's Story — Rick Bass Swan — Frances Mayes The Crimson Petal and the White — Michel Faber The Last Girls — Lee Smith I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down — William Gay The Little Friend — Donna Tartt My Losing Season — Pat Conroy Off to the Side — Jim Harrison (bonus)
2001 Selections Provinces of Night — William Gay Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men — Padgett Powell Rides of the Midway — Lee Durkee Perfect Recall — Ann Beattie Gob's Grief — Chris Adrian Bonesetter's Daughter — Amy Tan Visible Spirits — Steve Yarbrough Gabriel's Story — David Anthony Durham Bel Canto — Ann Patchett Death of a River Guide — Richard Flanagan Yonder Stands Your Orphan — Barry Hannah Among the Missing — Dan Chaon Ava's Man — Rick Bragg Creatures of Habit — Jill McCorkle Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail — Bobby Ann Mason Peace Like a River — Leif Enger Why Did I Ever? — Mary Robison Miracle Life of Edgar Mint — Brady Udall (Bonus Selection)	2000 Selections The Summer After June — Ashley Warlick Fay — Larry Brown Boy With Loaded Gun — Lewis Nordan Dear Will — Karl Ackerman The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living — Martin Clark Pastoralia — George Saunders MotherKind — Jayne Anne Phillips The Sound of One Hand Clapping — Richard Flanagan So Far Back — Pam Durban The Beast God Forgot to Invent — Jim Harrison What Are You Like? — Anne Enright Martha Peake — Patrick McGrath The Diagnosis — Alan Lightman (Bonus Selection)	1999 Selections The Law of Similars — Chris Bohjalian Heavy Water and Other Stories — Martin Amis A Prayer for the Dying — Stewart O’Nan Lamb in Love — Carrie Brown Clear Springs: A Memoir — Bobbie Ann Mason Elegy for the Southern Drawl — Rodney Jones Poachers — Tom Franklin Mother of Pearl — Melinda Haynes Oxygen Man — Steve Yarbrough Welding With Children — Tim Gautreaux The Long Home — William Gay Plainsong — Kent Haruf ’Tis — Frank McCourt (Bonus Selection)
1998 Selections Truman Capote — George Plimpton Jack Maggs — Peter Carey The Deep Green Sea — Robert Olen Butler Damascus Gate — Robert Stone Be Sweet — Roy Blount, Jr. Where the Sea Used to Be — Rick Bass Tomato Red — Daniel Woodrell Plain and Normal — James Wilcox Where Angels Rest — Donald Harington Truth: Four Stories I Am Finally Old Enough to Tell — Ellen Douglas The Road Home — Jim Harrison Tomcat in Love — Tim O’Brien Evening — Susan Minot (Bonus Selection)	1997 Selections Love Warps the Mind a Little — John Dufresne Asylum — Patrick McGrath The Right Man for the Job — Mike Magnuson In the Country of Country — Nicholas Dawidoff The Sharp Teeth of Love — Doris Betts Cold Mountain — Charles Frazier Women with Men — Richard Ford News of the Spirit — Lee Smith Pretending the Bed is a Raft — Nanci Kincaid The Magician’s Assistant — Ann Patchett Bob the Gambler — Frederick Barthelme All Over but the Shoutin’ — Rick Bragg On the Occassion of My Last Afternoon — Kaye Gibbons Midnight Magic — Bobbie Ann Mason (Bonus Selection)	1996 Selections Sweet Mystery — Judith Patterson The Wonder Book of the Air — Cynthia Shearer CivilWarLand in Bad Decline — George Saunders Atticus — Ron Hansen Edisto Revisited — Padgett Powell Last Days of the Dog-Men — Brad Watson Playing the Bones — Louise Redd Father and Son — Larry Brown High Lonesome — Barry Hannah Carolina Moon — Jill McCorkle Ten Indians — Madison Smartt Bell Lighning Song — Lewis Nordan (Bonus Selection)
1995 Selections Cured by Fire — Tim McLaurin Private Altars — Katherine Mosby The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith — Peter Carey The Age of Consent — Geoffrey Wolff Notes From the Shore — Jennifer Ackerman Saving Grace — Lee Smith Independence Day — Richard Ford Burning Angel — James Lee Burke Sights Unseen — Kaye Gibbons The Mulching of America — Harry Crews The Hundred Secret Senses — Amy Tan The Sharpshooter Blues — Lewis Nordan The Patron Saint of Unmarried Women — Karl Ackerman (Bonus Selection)	1994 Selections On Fire — Larry Brown Platte River — Rick Bass End of Vandalism — Tom Drury Julip — Jim Harrison The Chamber — John Grisham Shot in the Heart — Mikal Gilmore Dixie City Jam — James Lee Burke Grass Dancer — Susan Power Taft — Ann Patchett Shelter — Jayne Anne Phillips In the Lake of the Woods — Tim O’Brien Museum of Happiness — Jesse Lee Kercheval (Bonus Selection)	1993 Selections Bats Out of Hell — Barry Hannah The Client — John Grisham Charms for the Easy Life — Kaye Gibbons In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead — James Lee Burke A Suitable Boy — Vikram Seth Come to Me — Amy Bloom Body and Soul — Frank Conroy Wolf Whistle — Lewis Nordan To the White Sea — James Dickey Mustang Sally — Edward Allen (Bonus Selection)
1992 Selections The Wrecking Yard — Pinkney Benedict The Lost Father — Mona Simpson Outerbridge Reach — Robert Stone Net of Jewels — Ellen Gilchrist Patron Saint of Liars — Ann Patchett The Secret History — Donna Tartt After All, It’s Only a Game — Willie Morris Folly — Susan Minot The Tale of the Body Thief — Anne Rice Violence — Richard Bausch (Bonus Selection)