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Nancy Pearl's Nonfiction Recommendations
A subject index to Seattle librarian Nancy Pearl's recommended nonfiction from the pages of her two books, Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason, (Sasquatch Books, 2003) and More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason (Sasquatch Books, 2005). Created with permission from the author.
BL: Book Lust MBL: More Book Lust
Title |
Author |
Source |
| Animals & Insects |
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| Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time |
Weiner, Jonathan |
BL 40 |
| Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession |
Obmascik, Mark |
MBL 233 |
| Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays |
Savage, Candace |
MBL 175 |
| Birders: Tales of a Tribe |
Cocker, Mark |
MBL 175 |
| Birds of Heaven: Travel with Cranes |
Matthiessen, Peter |
BL 39 |
| Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape |
de Waal, Frances |
BL 180 |
| Brushed by Feathers: a Year of Birdwatching in the West |
Wood, Frances L. |
BL 40 |
| Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage |
Pyle, Michael |
MBL 70 |
| Double Helix |
Watson, James |
BL 96 |
| Especially Dogs… Especially at Stillmeadow |
Taber, Gladys |
MBL 57 |
| Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters |
Ridley, Matt |
BL 97 |
| Going Wild: Adventures with Birds in the Suburban Wilderness |
Winkler, Robert |
MBL 116 |
| Gorillas in the Mist |
Fossey, Diane |
BL 180 |
| Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds |
Cokinos, Christopher |
MBL 175 |
| Lily Pond: Four Years with a Family of Beavers |
Ryden, Hope |
BL 245 |
| Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us |
Morton, Alexandra |
MBL 150 |
| Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes |
Olson, Steve |
BL 97 |
| Monster of God: The Man Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind |
Quammen, David |
MBL 70 |
| Most Dangerous Journey: the Life of an African Elephant |
Caras, Roger A. |
BL 245 |
| Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect |
Russell, Sharman |
MBL 69 |
| On the Wing:To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon |
Tennant, Alan |
BL 40 |
| Parts Unknown: A Naturalist's Journey in Search of Birds and Wild Places |
Gallagher, Tim |
MBL 175 |
| Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons |
Sapolsky, Robert |
BL 87 |
| Providence of a Sparrow: Lessons from a Life Gone to the Birds |
Chester, Chris |
BL 39 |
| Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds: Notes from a Northwest Year |
Haupt, Lyanda Lynn |
BL 40 |
| Red-tails in Love: a Wildlife Drama in Central Park |
Winn, Marie |
BL 39 |
| Reflections of Eden |
Galdikas, Birute |
BL 180 |
| Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior |
Sibley, David Allen |
BL 39 |
| Tall Blondes: A Book About Giraffes |
Sherr, Lynn |
BL 245 |
| Tigers in the Snow |
Matthiessen, Peter |
BL 245 |
| Totem Salmon: Life Lessons from Another Species |
House, Freeman |
BL 40 |
| Whale Hunt |
Sullivan, Robert |
MBL 151 |
| Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris |
Allin, Michael |
BL 245 |
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| Art, Theatre, Film & Music |
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| About Looking |
Berger, John |
BL 25 |
| An American Collection: Works from the Amon Carter Museum |
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MBL 74 |
| Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Invented Architecture |
King, Ross |
MBL 48 |
| City in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center |
Glanz, James |
MBL 37 |
| Color: A Natural History of the Palette |
Finlay, Victoria |
MBL 116 |
| Culture of Complaint |
Hughes, Robert |
BL 26 |
| Diaries of Kenneth Tynan |
Tynan, Kenneth |
MBL 131 |
| Feud That Sparked the Renaissance |
Walker, Robert Paul |
MBL 116 |
| Front Cover: Great Book Jacket and Cover Design |
Powers, Alan |
MBL 238 |
| In Another Part of the Wood: A Self Portrait |
Clark, Kenneth |
MBL 63 |
| Inside Out: Memoir of the Blacklist |
Bernstein, Walter |
MBL 76 |
| Just Looking: Essays on Art |
Updike, John |
BL 26 |
| Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired |
Prose, Francine |
BL 184 |
| Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling |
King, Ross |
MBL 48 |
| On Not Being Able to Paint |
Milner, Marion |
MBL 33 |
| Party, After You Left |
Chast, Roz |
MBL 114 |
| Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farin |
Hajdu, David |
MBL 179 |
| Seeing Through Clothes |
Hollander, Anne |
BL 75 |
| Sense of Sight |
Berger, John |
BL 25 |
| Shock of the New |
Hughes, Robert |
BL 26 |
| Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American |
Pierson, John |
MBL 116 |
| Stones of Florence |
McCarthy, Mary |
MBL 48 |
| Vermeer in Bosnia: Cultural Comedies and Political Tragedies |
Weschler, Lawrence |
MBL 74 |
| Ways of Seeing |
Berger, Jon |
BL 25 |
| Woman Warrior |
Kingston, Maxine Hong |
BL 26 |
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| Biography & Memoir |
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| Age of Napoleon |
Horne, Alistair |
MBL 54 |
| Alexander Hamilton |
Chernow, Ron |
MBL 92 |
| Almost a Woman |
Santiago, Esmeralda |
BL 62 |
| American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood |
Arana, Marie |
MBL 164 |
| American Childhood |
Dillard, Annie |
MBL 164 |
| American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles |
Keneally, Thomas |
BL 58 |
| Americanization of Benjamin Franklin |
Wood, Gordon |
MBL 91 |
| Another Life: A Memoir of Other People |
Korda, Michael |
BL 152 |
| As I Live and Breathe: Notes of a Patient Doctor |
Weisman, Jamie |
BL 185 |
| Autobiography of a Face |
Grealy, Lucy |
MBL 182 |
| Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
Franklin, Benjamin |
MBL 91 |
| Before Night Falls |
Arenas, Reinaldo |
BL 68 |
| Before the Knife: Memories of an African Childhood |
Slaughter, Carolyn |
BL 76 |
| Benjamin Franklin |
Morgan, Edmund S. |
BL 184 |
| Benjamin Franklin: An American Life |
Isaacson, Walter |
MBL 91 |
| Black Dog of Fate |
Balakian, Peter |
BL 98 |
| Blood of the Liberals |
Packer, George |
MBL 147 |
| Breaking Clean |
Blunt, Judy |
BL 242 |
| Breathing for a Living |
Rothenberg, Laura |
MBL 182 |
| Bring Me a Unicorn |
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow |
MBL 131 |
| Brontes |
Barker, Juliet |
MBL 146 |
| Bruce Chatwin |
Shakespeare, Nicholas |
BL 183 |
| Burning the Days: Recollection |
Salter, James |
BL 90 |
| Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame |
Eisler, Benita |
MBL 146 |
| Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley |
Guralnick, Peter |
BL 78 |
| Cat Who Came for Christmas |
Amory, Cleveland |
BL 52 |
| Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary |
Murray, Elisabeth |
BL 249, MBL 68 |
| Children |
Halberstam, David |
MBL 112 |
| China to Me |
Hahn, Emily |
BL 143 MBL 154 |
| Churchill: A Biography |
Jenkins, Roy |
MBL 45 |
| Churchill: A Life |
Gilbert, Martin |
MBL 45 |
| Cider with Rosie |
Lee, Laurie |
MBL 165 |
| Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 |
Holmes, Richard |
MBL 146 |
| Coleridge: The Early Visions, 1772-1804 |
Holmes, Richard |
MBL 146 |
| Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science |
Gawande, Atul |
BL 185 |
| Cooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Careme |
Kelly, Ian |
MBL 115 |
| Diaries of Dawn Powell |
Powell, Dawn |
MBL 131 |
| Diary of Opal Whiteley |
Whiteley, Opal |
MBL 149 |
| Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death |
Bauby, Jean-Dominique |
MBL 181 |
| Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic |
Fussell, Paul |
MBL 165 |
| Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight |
Fuller, Alexandra |
BL 76 |
| Drinking Life: A Memoir |
Hamill, Pete |
BL 147 |
| Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father |
Wolff, Geoffrey |
MBL 5 |
| Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford |
Stafford, Kim |
MBL 162 |
| Edith Wharton: A Biography |
Lewis, R.W.B. |
MBL 144 |
| Egg and I |
MacDonald, Betty |
MBL 217 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt |
Cook, Blance Wiesen |
BL 184 |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Forster, Margaret |
MBL 146 |
| Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, a Lost Generation Love Story |
Vaill, Amanda |
BL 64 |
| Far Side of Paradise: A Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Mizener, Arthur |
MBL 145 |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream |
Thompson, Hunter |
MBL 141 |
| Fifth Chinese Daughter |
Wong, Jade Snow |
BL 26 |
| First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin |
Brands, H.W. |
MBL 91 |
| Flame Trees of Thika |
Huxley, Elspeth |
BL 76 |
| Flower and the Nettle |
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow |
MBL 131 |
| Freya Stark Story (includes Traveller's Prelude, Beyond Euphrates, Coast of Incense) |
Stark, Freya |
BL 143 |
| Gastronomical Me |
Fisher, M.F.K. |
BL 91 |
| Gentleman Spy: the Life of Allen Dulles |
Grose, Peter |
BL 224 |
| Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana |
Kimmel, Haven |
BL 101 |
| Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures |
Bradlee, Ben |
MBL 93 |
| Hawthorne: A Life |
Wineapple, Brenda |
MBL 144 |
| Heart Earth: A Memoir |
Doig, Ivan |
BL 241 |
| Heart of a Soldier: a Story of Love, Heroism, and September 11 |
Stewart, James B. |
BL 171 |
| Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Based on a True Story |
Eggers, Dave |
BL 152 |
| Henry James: A Life |
Edel, Leon |
MBL 144 |
| Henry James: The Conquest of London |
Edel, Leon |
MBL 144 |
| Henry James: The Treacherous Years |
Edel, Leon |
MBL 144 |
| Heretic's Heart: A Journey Through Spirit and Revolution |
Adler, Margot |
MBL 165 |
| His Excellency: George Washington |
Elllis, Joseph |
MBL 91 |
| Hole in the World: An American Boyhood |
Rhodes, Richard |
MBL 116 |
| Home Before Dark |
Cheever, Susan |
MBL 5 |
| Hostage to Fortune |
Gann, Ernest |
BL 90 |
| Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead |
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow |
MBL 131 |
| How I Became Hettie Jones |
Jones, Hettie |
MBL 18 |
| I Dreamed of Africa |
Gallmann, Kuki |
BL 76 |
| I Leap over the Wall: A Return to the World After 28 Years in a Convent |
Baldwin, Monica |
MBL 86 |
| If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home |
O'Brien, Tim |
BL 239 |
| Ike the Soldier: As They Knew Him |
Miller, Merle |
BL 155 |
| In My Father's Footsteps |
Matthews, Sebastian |
MBL 163 |
| Jackie Robinson: A Biography |
Rampersad, Arnold |
MBL 74 |
| Jameses: A Family Narrative |
Lewis, R.W.B. |
MBL 144 |
| Jews Without Money |
Gold, Michael |
BL 133 |
| John Adams |
McCullough, David |
BL 193 |
| John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs |
London, Jack |
BL 147 |
| Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran |
Hakkakiyan, Ruya |
MBL 165 |
| Kerouac: A Biography |
Charters, Ann |
MBL 17 |
| King of the World: Muhammad Ali |
Remnick, David |
MBL 74 |
| Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 |
Manchester, William |
MBL 45 |
| Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley |
Guralnick, Peter |
BL 78 |
| Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest |
Weathers, Beck |
BL 8 |
| Liars' Club |
Karr, Mary |
BL 151 |
| Light on the Island:Tales of a Lighthouse Keeper's Family in the San Juan Islands |
Glidden, Helene |
MBL 149 |
| Lindbergh |
Berg, A. Scott |
BL 90 |
| Living High: An Unconventional Autobiography |
Burn, June |
MBL 149 |
| Lost in Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia |
Salzman, Mark |
MBL 195 |
| Lyndon: An Oral Biography |
Miller, Merle |
BL 155 |
| Mary Chestnut's Civil War |
Chestnut, Mary |
BL 58 |
| Mary Shelley |
Seymour, Miranda |
MBL 147 |
| Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life |
Todd, Janet |
MBL 147 |
| Me, Me, Me, Me, Me: Not a Novel |
Kerr, M. E. |
MBL 164 |
| Memory Babe |
Nicosia, Gerald |
MBL 17 |
| Mountains Beyond Mountains |
Kidder, Tracy |
MBL 111 |
| Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence |
Hockenberry, John |
MBL 182 |
| Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa |
Godwin, Peter |
MBL 164 |
| My Life As An Explorer |
Hedin, Sven |
BL 111 |
| Napoleon |
Markham, Felix |
MBL 54 |
| Napoleon |
Johnson, Paul |
MBL 54 |
| Napoleon |
Ludwig, Emil |
MBL 54 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte |
Schom, Alan |
MBL 54 |
| Napoleon: A Biography |
Mc Lynn, Frank |
MBL 54 |
| Napoleon: A Political Life |
Englund, Steven |
MBL 54 |
| North Star Over My Shoulder |
Buck, Robert N. |
BL 90 |
| On the Wing: A Young American Abroad |
Sayre, Nora |
BL 152 |
| Orchid Thief |
Orlean, Susan |
BL 184 |
| Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark |
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher |
BL 143 |
| Patrimony: A True Story |
Roth, Philip |
MBL 163 |
| Perfect Stranger |
Kavanagh, P. J. |
MBL 163 |
| Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood |
Raverat, Gwen |
MBL 190 |
| Personal History |
Graham, Katharine |
MBL 93 |
| Personal Memoirs: Ulysses S. Grant |
Grant, Ulysses |
BL 58 |
| Plague and I |
MacDonald, Betty |
MBL 217 |
| Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman |
Miller, Merle |
BL 155 |
| Playing For Keeps: Michael Jordan |
Halberstam, David |
MBL 113 |
| Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers |
Lederer, Katy |
MBL 165 |
| Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York |
Caro, Robert A. |
MBL 38 |
| Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio |
Ryan, Terry |
BL 152 |
| Queen Victoria |
Strachey, Lytton |
MBL 191 |
| Queen Victoria |
Longford, Elizabeth |
MBL 191 |
| Queen Victoria: A Personal History |
Hibbert, Christopher |
MBL 191 |
| Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains |
Calof, Rachel |
MBL 124 |
| Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books |
Nafisi, Azar |
MBL 165 |
| Red Azalea |
Min, Anchee |
BL 55 |
| Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place |
Williams, Terry Tempest |
BL 97 |
| Revere Beach Boulevard |
Merullo, Roland |
BL 130 |
| Revere Beach Elegy: A Memoir of Home and Beyond |
Merullo, Roland |
BL 130 |
| Road from Coorain |
Conway, Jill Ker |
BL 102 |
| Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA |
Maddox, Brenda |
BL 97 |
| Rose of Martinique: A Life of Napoleon's Josephine |
Stuart, Andrea |
MBL 55 |
| Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books |
Schwartz, Lynne S. |
BL 44 |
| Running in the Family |
Ondaatje, Michael |
MBL 213 |
| Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers |
Feinstein, John |
BL 225 |
| She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders |
Boylan, Jennifer |
MBL 98 |
| Singular Mark Twain |
Kaplan, Fred |
MBL 145 |
| Stillmeadow Road |
Taber, Gladys |
MBL 57 |
| Storyteller's Daughter |
Shah, Saira |
MBL 40 |
| Stuttering: A Life Bound Up in Words |
Jezer, Marty |
MBL 181 |
| Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long Distance Swimmer |
Cox, Lynne |
MBL 158 |
| Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table |
Reichl, Ruth |
BL 92 |
| Testament of Youth |
Brittain, Vera |
BL 252, MBL 154 |
| This Boy's Life |
Wolff, Tobias |
MBL 5 |
| This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind |
Doig, Ivan |
BL 241 |
| Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure |
de Blasi, Marlene |
MBL 47 |
| Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance |
de Blasi, Marlene |
MBL 47 |
| Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography |
James, P.D. |
BL 152 |
| Times of My Life and My Life with the Times |
Frankel, Max |
MBL 93 |
| Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. |
Chernow, Ron |
MBL 92 |
| To Hell in a Handbasket |
Smith, H. Allen |
MBL 219 |
| Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates |
Bailey, Blake |
MBL 145 |
| Treetops: A Family Memoir |
Cheever, Susan |
MBL 5 |
| The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times |
Tifft, Susan |
MBL 93 |
| Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return to His Jewish Family |
Dubner, Stephen |
MBL 165 |
| Two Under the Indian Sun |
Godden, Jon |
MBL 128 |
| Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 |
Lessing, Doris |
BL 76 |
| Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) |
Schiff, Stacy |
BL 184 |
| Voyager Out: the Life of Mary Kingsley |
Frank, Katherine |
BL 65 |
| Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled |
Mairs, Nancy |
MBL 182 |
| War Within and Without |
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow |
MBL 131 |
| The Warburgs: The Twentieth Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family |
Chernow, Ron |
MBL 92 |
| Warriors Don't Cry |
Beals, Melba |
MBL 49 |
| Washington: The Indispensable Man |
Flexner, James |
MBL 91 |
| West with the Night |
Markham, Beryl |
BL 76 |
| Wheels Within Wheels |
Murphy, Dervla |
BL 35 |
| When I was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School |
Kashner, Sam |
MBL 18 |
| When I was Puerto Rican |
Santiago, Esmeralda |
BL 62 |
| Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare |
Greenblatt, Stephen |
MBL 75 |
| With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Oates, Stephen B. |
BL 58 |
| You Make Me Feel Like an Unnatural Woman: Diary of a New (Older Mother) |
Newman, Judith |
MBL 173 |
| Zelda: A Biography |
Milford, Nancy |
BL 183 |
| Where the Rivers Change Direction |
Spragg, Mark |
BL 241 |
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| Books & Reading |
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| Feeling for Books: Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire |
Radway, Janice |
MBL 63 |
| Book on the Bookshelf |
Petroski, Henry |
BL 232 |
| Chaos: Making a New Science |
Gleick, James |
BL 212 |
| The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading |
Spufford, Francis |
BL 43,MBL ix |
| For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most |
Schwartz, Ronald B. |
BL 44 |
| Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books |
Basbanes, Nicholas |
BL 43 |
| History of Reading |
Manguel, Alberto |
MBL 34 |
| How Reading Changed My Life |
Quindlen, Anna |
BL 44 |
| Lifetime Reading Plan |
Fadiman, Clifton |
BL 44 |
| Lost Classics |
Ondaatje, Michael (ed) |
MBL 33 |
| Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading |
Dorris, Michael (ed) |
BL 44 |
| Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder |
Weschler, Lawrence |
BL 183 |
| Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering |
Lesser, Wendy |
BL 43 |
| Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore… |
Rabinowitz, Harold (ed) |
BL 43 |
| Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places and Book Culture |
Basbanes, Nicholas |
BL 43 |
| Reader's Delight |
Perrin, Noel |
MBL 34 |
| Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books |
Collins, Paul |
MBL 57 |
| So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading |
Nelson, Sara |
MBL 62 |
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| Business & Finance |
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| Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water |
Reisner, Marc |
BL 20 |
| Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World |
Kurlansky, Mark |
BL 141 |
| Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood |
Linn, Susan |
MBL 111 |
| House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynast |
Chernow, Ron |
MBL 92 |
| Lexus and the Olive Tree |
Friedman, Thomas |
BL 154 |
| Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street |
Lewis, Michael |
BL 34 |
| My Story As Told by Water |
Duncan, David James |
MBL 175 |
| Predator's Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders |
Bruck, Connie |
BL 34 |
| Reckoning |
Halberstam, David |
MBL 113 |
| Salt: A World History |
Kurlansky, Mark |
BL 141 |
| Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy |
Greider, William |
MBL 111 |
| Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood |
Linn, Susan |
MBL 111 |
| Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping |
Underhill, Paco |
BL 34 |
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| Crime & Terrorism |
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| 6 Nightmares: Real Threats in a Dangerous World and How America Can Meet Them |
Lake, Anthony |
BL 172 |
| Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars |
Gorney, Cynthia |
MBL 204 |
| Den of Thieves |
Stewart, James |
BL 34 |
| Down by the River:Drugs, Money, Murder and Family |
Bowden, Charles |
MBL 204 |
| Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire |
Maclean, John |
BL 242 |
| Fire on the Rim: a Firefighter's Season at the Grand Canyon |
Pyne, Stephen J. |
BL 242 |
| Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett |
Gonnerman, Jennifer |
MBL 111 |
| Price of Terror |
Gerson, Allan |
BL 171 |
| Shot in the Heart |
Gilmore, Mikal |
MBL 67 |
| We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families |
Gourevitch, Philip |
BL 9 |
| White Mischief: The Murder of Lord Erroll |
Fox, James |
BL 77 |
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| Education |
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| 36 Children |
Kohl, Herbert |
BL 231 |
| Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy |
Lemann, Nicholas |
BL 31 |
| Death at an Early Age |
Kozol, Jonathan |
Bl 231 |
| Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year |
Codell, Esme Raji |
BL 231 |
| Summerhill |
Neill, A.S. |
BL 31 |
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| Engineering, Design & Mechanics |
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| Castle |
Macaulay, David |
MBL 38 |
| Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon |
Paul, Jim |
MBL 157 |
| Code Book |
Singh, Simon |
MBL 51 |
| Cryptanalysis |
Gaines, Helen Fouche |
MBL 51 |
| Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb |
Rhodes, Richard |
BL 42 |
| Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life |
Wood, Gaby |
BL 150 |
| Evolution of Useful Things |
Petroski, Henry |
BL 232 |
| Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us |
Brooks, Rodney A. |
BL 150 |
| House |
Kidder, Tracy |
MBL 38 |
| Making of the Atomic Bomb |
Rhodes, Richard |
BL 42 |
| Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project |
Groves, Leslie |
BL 42 |
| One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw |
Rybczynski, Witold |
Bl 232 |
| Pencil: A History of Design and Circumference |
Petroski, Henry |
BL 232 |
| Pyramid |
Macauley, David |
MBL 38 |
| Quirky Qwerty: A Biography of the Typewriter and Its Many Characters |
Lundmark, Torbjorn |
MBL 11 |
| To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design |
Petroski, Henry |
BL 232 |
| Tools of the Trade: The Art and Craft of Carpentry |
Taylor, Jeff |
MBL 71 |
| Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty |
Friedel, Robert |
BL 232 |
| |
| Environment |
|
|
| Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire |
Maclean, John |
BL 242 |
| Fire on the Rim: A Firefighter's Season at the Grand Canyon |
Pyne, Stephen J. |
BL 242 |
| Young Men and Fire |
Maclean, Norman |
BL 242 |
| |
| Fairytales & Myths |
|
|
| Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales |
Bettelheim, Bruno |
MBL 67 |
| Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide |
Pyle, Robert Michael |
BL 63 |
| |
| Fashion |
|
|
| Fashionable Mind: Reflections on Fashion, 1970-1981 |
Fraser, Kennedy |
BL 75 |
| Love, Loss, and What I Wore |
Beckerman, Ilene |
BL 75 |
| Scenes from the Fashionable World |
Fraser, Kennedy |
BL 75 |
| Sex and Suits |
Hollander, Anne |
BL 75 |
| |
| Food, Cooking & Home |
|
|
| Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World |
Osborne, Lawrence |
MBL 115 |
| Africa News Cookbook |
Hultman, Tami |
MBL 4 |
| African Cookbook |
Sandler, Bea |
MBL 4 |
| Book of Mediterranean Food |
David, Elizabeth |
BL 91 |
| Book Lover's Cookbook |
Wenger, Shaunda |
MBL 72 |
| Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History |
Kurlansky, Mark (ed) |
BL 142 |
| Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America |
Spurlock, Morgan |
MBL 111 |
| English Bread and Yeast Cookery |
David, Elizabeth |
BL 91 |
| Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking |
Hazan, Marcella |
MBL 49 |
| Experts' Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do |
Ettus, Samantha |
MBL 117 |
| Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal |
Schlosser, Eric |
MBL 111 |
| French Provincial Cooking |
David, Elizabeth |
BL 91 |
| Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House |
Mendelson, Cheryl |
MBL 16 |
| Home Cooking |
Colwin, Laurie |
BL 92 |
| How to Cook a Wolf |
Fisher, M.F.K. |
BL 91 |
| Invitation to Indian Cooking |
Jaffrey, Madhur |
MBL 125 |
| Is There A Nutmeg in the House? |
David, Elizabeth |
BL 91 |
| Italian Food |
David, Elizabeth |
BL 91 |
| Joy of Cooking |
Rombauer, Irma |
MBL 72 |
| Man Who Ate Everything: And Other Gastronomic Feats, Disputes, and Pleasurable Pursuits |
Steingarten, Jeffrey |
BL 92 |
| More Home Cooking |
Colwin, Laurie |
BL 92 |
| New Complete Book of Bread |
Clayton, Bernard |
MBL 72 |
| An Omelette and a Glass of Wine |
David, Elizabeth |
BL 91 |
| Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century |
Shapiro, Laura |
MBL 73 |
| Philosopher's Kitchen |
Segan, Francine |
MBL 11 |
| Something From the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America |
Shapiro, Laura |
MBL 73 |
| South Wind Through the Kitchen: The Best of Elizabeth David |
David, Elizabeth |
BL 91 |
| Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family |
Volk, Patricia |
BL 92 |
| Thousand Ways to Please a Husband With Bettina's Best Recipes |
Weaver, Louise |
MBL 73 |
| Tummy Trilogy |
Trillin, Calvin |
BL 91 |
| With Bold Knife and Fork |
Fisher, M.F.K. |
BL 91 |
| |
| Gardening |
|
|
| Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden |
Perenyi, Eleanor |
BL 96 |
| Meetings with Remarkable Trees |
Pakenham, Thomas |
MBL 70 |
| Onward and Upward in the Garden |
White, Katharine S. |
BL 96 |
| Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy |
Hansen, Eric |
MBL 67 |
| Remarkable Trees of the World |
Pakenham, Thomas |
MBL 70 |
| Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White and Elizabeth Lawrence--A Friendship in Letters |
White, Katharine |
BL 96 |
| Why We Garden: Cultivating a Sense of Place |
Nollman, Jim |
MBL 151 |
| |
| Health & Medicine |
|
|
| Baby Doctor |
Klass, Perri |
BL 186 |
| Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss |
Barthelme, Frederick |
MBL 6 |
| Even in Summer the Ice Doesn't Melt |
Reynolds, David |
BL 110 |
| Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy |
Burns, David |
MBL 64 |
| His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine |
Weiner, Jonathan |
MBL 233 |
| Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival: A Memoir |
Neugeboren, Jay |
MBL 165 |
| Is There No Place on Earth for Me? |
Sheehan, Susan |
MBL 111 |
| Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales |
Sacks, Oliver |
MBL 182 |
| Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes |
Olson, Steve |
BL 97 |
| One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient |
Biro, David |
BL 186 |
| Playing Ball on Running Water |
Reynolds, David |
BL 110 |
| Raising Lazarus |
Pensack, Robert |
BL 186 |
| Secret Family: Twenty four Hours Inside the Mysterious World of Our Minds |
Bodanis, David |
MBL 72 |
| Secrets, Lies, Betrayals: The Body/Mind Connection |
Scarf, Maggie |
MBL 117 |
| Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism |
Prince-Hughes, Dawn |
MBL 181 |
| Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers |
Roach, Mary |
MBL 141 |
| Taste of My Own Medicine |
Rosenbaum, Edward |
BL 186 |
| |
| History: United States (also see "World War II) |
|
|
| 13 Days to Glory: the Siege of the Alamo |
Tinkle, Lon |
BL 233 |
| All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes |
Rhodes, Elisha |
BL 58 |
| American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center |
Langewiesche, William |
BL 171 |
| Among the Heroes |
Longman, Jere |
BL 171 |
| April 1865: The Month that Saved America |
Winik, Jay |
BL 58 |
| Atlas of the Civil War |
McPherson, James M. |
BL 58 |
| Bad Land: An American Romance |
Raban, Jonathan |
BL 157 |
| Battle at Bull Run: A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War |
Davis, William C. |
BL 58 |
| Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era |
McPherson, James M. |
BL 58 |
| Best and the Brightest |
Halberstam, David |
BL 238, MLB 112 |
| Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward |
Metzker, Isaac |
BL 133 |
| Carry Me Home |
McWhorter, Diane |
MBL 49 |
| Children's Blizzard |
Laskin, David |
MBL x |
| Civil War: A Narrative (vol. 1-3) |
Foote, Shelby |
BL 58 |
| Counsel to the President |
Clifford, Clark |
MBL 167 |
| Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland |
DeFede, Jim |
MBL 78 |
| Diary from Dixie |
Chestnut, Mary |
BL 58 |
| Disappearance: a Map |
Nickerson, Sheila |
BL 17 |
| Duel of Eagles: the Mexican and U.S. Fight for the Alamo |
Long, Jeff |
BL 233 |
| Fatal Shore |
Hughes, Robert |
BL 26 |
| Fifties |
Halberstam, David |
MBL 112 |
| Firehouse |
Halberstam, David |
BL 171, MLB 112 |
| First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power |
Zimmermann, Warren |
MBL 109 |
| Going Back to Bisbee |
Shelton, Richard |
BL 98 |
| The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest |
Egan, Timothy |
MBL 152 |
| Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center |
Okrent, Daniel |
MBL 38 |
| Hole in the Sky: A Memoir |
Kittredge, William |
BL 242 |
| Homestead |
Smith, Annick |
BL 156 |
| In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas |
McMurtry, Larry |
BL 233 |
| Inside Passage: Living with Killer Whales, Bald Eagles, and Kwakiutl Indians |
Modzelewski, Michael |
MBL 150 |
| Isaac's Storm |
Larson, Erik |
BL 242 |
| Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan |
Shorto, Russell |
MBL 115 |
| Johnstown Flood |
McCullough, David |
BL 242 |
| Landscape Turned Red |
Sears, Stephen W. |
BL 58 |
| Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West |
Egan, Timothy |
BL 64 |
| Lee |
Freeman, Douglas S. |
BL 58 |
| Lee's Lieutenants (vol. 1-3) |
Freeman, Douglas S. |
BL 58 |
| Lone Star: A History of Texas and Texans |
Fehrenbach, T.R. |
BL 233 |
| Measuring America |
Linklater, Andro |
BL 232 |
| Mountain City |
Martin, Gregory |
BL 98 |
| Mud and Guts: A Look at the Common Soldier |
Mauldin, Bill |
MBL 239 |
| Out of the Blue: The Story of September 11, 2001, from Jihad to Ground Zero |
Bernstein, Richard |
BL 171 |
| Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal |
McCullough, David |
BL 192 |
| People's History of the United States |
Zinn, Howard |
BL 20 |
| Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea |
Junger, Sebastian |
BL 243 |
| Portraits 9/11/01: The Collected "Portraits of Grief" from the New York Times |
|
BL 171 |
| Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx |
LeBlanc, Adrian |
MBL 204 |
| Report from Ground Zero: The Story of the Rescue Efforts at the World Trade Center |
Smith, Dennis |
BL 171 |
| Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village |
Wetzsteon, Ross |
MBL 115 |
| Road Song |
Kusz, Natalie |
BL 18 |
| Selkirk's Island |
Souhami, Diana |
BL 128 |
| Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage |
Gitlin, Todd |
MBL 179 |
| Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863 |
Foote, Shelby |
BL 58 |
| Strong of Heart: Life and Death in the Fire Department of New York |
Von Essen, Thomas |
BL 171 |
| Three Roads to the Alamo |
Davis, William C. |
BL 233 |
| Two in the Far North |
Murie, Margaret |
BL 17 |
| Undaunted Courage |
Ambrose, Stephen |
MBL 137 |
| Venona: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939-1957 |
Benson, Robert ed |
MBL 239 |
| Were You Always an Italian? Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America |
Laurino, Maria |
BL 130 |
| West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story |
Ansary, Mir Tamim |
BL 127 |
| Year in Paradise |
Schmoe, Floyd |
MBL 149 |
| |
| History: World (also see "World War II") |
|
|
| 1968: The Year That Rocked the World |
Kurlansky, Mark |
MBL 76 |
| A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa |
French, Howard W. |
MBL 4 |
| All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror |
Kinzer, Stephen |
MBL 77 |
| An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude |
Vanderhoof, Ann |
MBL 157 |
| Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land |
Shipler, David |
BL 154 |
| Arts of Diplomacy: Lewis & Clark's Inidan Collection |
McLaughlin, Castle |
MBL 137 |
| Basque History of the World |
Kurlansky, Mark |
BL 141 |
| Battle of Salamis |
Strauss, Barry |
MBL 10 |
| Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in Haiti |
Gold, Herbert |
MBL 55 |
| Beyond the Khyber Pass |
Waller, John |
MBL 38 |
| Bookseller of Kabul |
Seierstad, Asne |
MBL 40 |
| Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam |
Sheehan, Neil |
BL 238 |
| Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee |
Brown, Dee |
BL 21 |
| Chasing the Sea |
Bissell, Tom |
MBL 41 |
| Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry |
Morgan, Ted |
MBL 45 |
| City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi |
Dalrymple, William |
MBL 126 |
| City of Florence: Historical Vistas and Personal Sightings |
Lewis, R.W.B. |
MBL 48 |
| Cuba Diaries: An American Housewife in Havana |
Tattlin, Isadora |
BL 69 |
| Dark Heart of Italy |
Jones, Tobias |
MBL 45 |
| Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century |
Tuchman, Barbara |
MBL 225 |
| Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland |
Meyer, Karl E. |
MBL 41 |
| Emperor's Last Island: A Journey to St. Helena |
Blackburn, Julia |
MBL 54 |
| Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica… |
Rohde, David |
BL 31 |
| Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek |
Cunliffe, Barry |
BL 111 |
| Fall of Baghdad |
Anderson, Jon Lee |
MBL 77 |
| Farwell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat |
Morris, James |
MBL 125 |
| First World War |
Keegan, John |
BL 251 |
| Freedom at Midnight: The Epic Drama of India's Struggle for Freedom |
Collins, Larry |
MBL 125 |
| From Beirut to Jerusalem |
Friedman, Thomas |
BL 154 |
| From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life |
Barzun, Jacques |
MBL 78 |
| Ghost Wars |
Coll, Steve |
MBL 40 |
| Great War and Modern Memory |
Fussell, Paul |
BL 251 |
| Guns of August |
Tuchman, Barbara |
MBL 225 |
| Harmless People |
Thomas, Elizabeth M. |
MBL 4 |
| Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress |
Morris, Jan |
MBL 125 |
| Historical Maps of the Napoleonic Wars |
Forty, Simon |
MBL 54 |
| The Histories |
Herodotus |
MBL 9 |
| History of Venice |
Norwich, John Julius |
MBL 47 |
| Holy War Inc: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden |
Bergen, Peter |
BL 171 |
| Hong Kong |
Morris, Jan |
MBL 118 |
| How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry |
Hirsch, Edward |
MBL 112 |
| In Siberia |
Thubron, Colin |
BL 24 |
| In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz |
Wrong, Michela |
BL 10 |
| Inventing the Victorians |
Sweet, Matthew |
MBL 190 |
| Iron and Silk |
Salzman, Mark |
MBL 195 |
| Italians |
Barzini, Luigi |
MBL 47 |
| King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terrorism and Heroism in Colonial Africa |
Hochschild, Adam |
BL 10, 63 |
| Klee Wyck |
Carr, Emily |
MBL 150 |
| Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran |
Wright, Robin B. |
BL 63 |
| Lion's Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan |
Anderson, Jon Lee |
MBL 40 |
| Long Death: The Last Days of the Plains Indian |
Andrist, Ralph |
BL 21 |
| Lost and Found: The 9,000 Treasures of Troy |
Moorehead, Caroline |
MBL 78 |
| Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War |
Maass, Peter |
BL 31 |
| Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy |
Preston, Diana |
MBL 76 |
| Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era |
Halberstam, David |
BL 238, MLB 112 |
| March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam |
Tuchman, Barbara |
MBL 225 |
| Memoirs of an Infantry Officer |
Sassoon, Siegfried |
MBL 154 |
| Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years |
Lewis, Bernard |
BL 154 |
| The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace |
Ross, Dennis |
MBL 205 |
| My War Gone By, I Miss It |
Loyd, Anthony |
BL 31 |
| Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village |
Erdman, Sarah |
MBL 164 |
| One Hundred Days: Napoleon's Road to Waterloo |
Schom, Alan |
MBL 54 |
| Out of Africa |
Dinesen, Isak |
BL 76 |
| Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire |
Morris, Jan |
MBL 125 |
| Peloponnesian War |
Kagan, Donald |
MBL 10 |
| Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran |
Sciolino, Elaine |
BL 63 |
| Pity of War |
Ferguson, Niall |
BL 251 |
| Practicing History: Selected Essays |
Tuchman, Barbara |
MBL 225 |
| Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War |
Tuchman, Barbara |
MBL 225 |
| Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier |
Wilentz, Amy |
MBL 55 |
| Scramble for Africa |
Pakenham, Thomas |
BL 9 |
| Seduced by the Beauty of the World: Travels in India |
Bloch, Don |
MBL 126 |
| Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan |
Lamb, Christina |
MBL 40 |
| Shadow of the Sun |
Kapuscinski, Ryszard |
BL 10 |
| Shooting the Boh: A Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo |
Johnston, Tracy |
MBL 223 |
| Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of the Polish Jews |
Hoffman, Eva |
MBL 116 |
| Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East |
Oren, Michael B. |
BL 154 |
| Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan |
Kaplan, Robert D. |
BL 127 |
| Stilwell and the American Experience in China |
Tuchman, Barbara |
MBL 225 |
| Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918 |
Groom, Winston |
BL 252 |
| That Fine Italian Hand |
Hofmann, Paul |
MBL 47 |
| Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts: Journeys in Kurdistan |
Bird, Christiane |
MBL 77 |
| Thy Hand, Great Anarch! |
Chaudhuri, Nirad |
MBL 127 |
| To What End: Report from Vietnam |
Just, Ward |
BL 135 |
| Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia |
Meyer, Karl E. |
MBL 41 |
| Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet |
Hopkirk, Peter |
BL 111 |
| Up the Country |
Eden, Emily |
MBL 127 |
| Victorians |
Wilson, A.N. |
MBL 190 |
| Vietnam |
Burrows, Larry |
BL 239 |
| War Without End: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Struggle for a Promised Land |
La Guardia, Anton |
BL 154 |
| Zimmermann Telegram |
Tuchman, Barbara |
MBL 225 |
| |
| Language & Grammar |
|
|
| Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words |
Bryson, Bill |
BL 249 |
| Decipherment of Linear B |
Chadwick, John |
MBL 69 |
| Deluxe Transitive Vampire |
Gordon, Karen |
MBL 36 |
| Descriptionary: A Thematic Dictionary |
McCutcheon, Marc |
BL 249 |
| Eats, Shoots & Leaves: A Zero Tolerance Guide to Punctuation |
Truss, Lynne |
MBL 68 |
| In Other Words: A Language Lover's Guide to the Most Intriguing Words |
Moore, Christopher |
MBL 11 |
| Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z |
Sacks, David |
MBL 51 |
| Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States |
Bryson, Bill |
MBL 69 |
| Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary |
Winchester, Simon |
MBL 36 |
| Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way |
Bryson, Bill |
MBL 36 |
| New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed |
Gordon, Karen |
BL 250 |
| Professor and the Madman |
Winchester, Simon |
MBL 68 |
| Samuel Johnson's Dictionary:Selections From the 1755 Work That Defined the English |
Johnson, Samuel |
BL 249 |
| Superior Person's Book of Words |
Bowler, Peter |
BL 249 |
| Word Court |
Wallraff, Barbara |
MBL 69 |
| Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten |
Kacirk, Jeffrey |
MBL 69 |
| |
| Law |
|
|
| All Deliberate Speed |
Ogletree, Charles |
MBL 50 |
| Brethren |
Woodward, Bob |
MBL 135 |
| Civil Action |
Harr, Jonathan |
MBL 135 |
| Gideon's Trumpet |
Lewis, Anthony |
MBL 135 |
| Jim Crow's Children: the Broken Promise of the Brown Decision |
Irons, Peter |
MBL 50 |
| People's History of the Supreme Court |
Irons, Peter |
MBL 135 |
| Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby |
Carter, Stephen |
BL 11 |
| Simple Justice |
Kluger, Richard |
MBL 135 |
| |
| Media |
|
|
| Kingdom and the Power |
Talese, Gay |
MBL 93 |
| Powers That Be |
Halberstam, David |
MBL 92, 113 |
| Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir |
McFadden, Cyra |
MBL 162 |
| |
| Military & War |
|
|
| Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan and… |
Waugh, John C. |
BL 58 |
| Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb |
Powers, Thomas |
BL 42 |
| Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations |
Walzer, Michael |
MBL 68 |
| |
| Philosophy & Religion |
|
|
| Apology |
Plato |
BL 243 |
| Battle for God |
Armstrong, Karen |
MBL 66 |
| Beyond the Blue Horizon: Myths and Legends of the Sun, Moon, Stars and Planets |
Krupp, E.C. |
BL 27 |
| Culture of Disbelief |
Carter, Stephen |
BL 11 |
| Everyday Zen: Love and Work |
Beck, Charlotte Joko |
BL 255 |
| God: A Biography |
Miles, Jack |
MBL 65 |
| Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions |
Smith, Huston |
MBL 65 |
| Islam: A Short History |
Armstrong, Karen |
BL 126 |
| Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth Century Philosophy |
McGinn, Colin |
MBL 64 |
| Mary: A Flesh and Blood Biography of the Virgin Mother |
Hazleton, Lesley |
MBL 65 |
| Mindfulness in Plain English |
Gunaratana, Henepola |
BL 255 |
| New Physics and Cosmology: Dialogues with the Dalai Lama |
Zajonc, Arthur |
MBL 115 |
| Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction |
Craig, Edward |
MBL 64 |
| Portrait of Egypt: A Journey Through the World of Militant Islam |
Weaver, Mary Anne |
BL 127 |
| Problems of Philosophy |
Russell, Bertrand |
MBL 64 |
| Religions of Man |
Smith, Huston |
MBL 65 |
| Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia |
Covington, Dennis |
MBL 132 |
| Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation |
Goldstein, Joseph |
BL 255 |
| Serpent and the Rainbow |
Davis, Wade |
MBL 55 |
| Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World |
Abram, David |
MBL 65 |
| Story of Philosophy |
Durant, Will |
MBL 64 |
| What the Buddha Taught |
Rahula, Walpola |
BL 255 |
| World Religions |
Bowker, John |
MBL 65 |
| Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind |
Suzuki, Shunryu |
BL 255 |
| |
| Politics & International Relations |
|
|
| America and Russia in a Changing World: A Half Century of Personal Observation |
Harriman, Averell |
MBL 167 |
| Body of Secrets |
Bamford, James |
BL 224 |
| Democracy Is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago |
Miller, James |
MBL 179 |
| Endless Enemies: the Making of an Unfriendly World |
Kwitny, Jonathan |
MBL 116 |
| Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and Americans in Vietnam |
FitzGerald, Frances |
BL 238 |
| For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush |
Andrew, Christopher |
BL 224 |
| God Has Ninety-Nine Names: Reporting from a Militant Middle East |
Miller, Judith |
BL 171 |
| Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment |
Kabaservice, Geoffrey |
MBL 147 |
| Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America--the Stalin Era |
Weinstein, A./ Vassiliev |
BL 224 |
| Her Majesty's Secret Service: the Making of the British Intelligence Community |
Andrew, Christopher |
BL 224 |
| Honorable Treachery |
O'Toole, G.J.A. |
BL 224 |
| In the Shadow of Memory |
Skloot, Floyd |
MBL 182 |
| In the Time of the Americans: FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur |
Fromkin, David |
MBL 168 |
| My Silent War |
Philby, Kim |
BL 223 |
| Peace to End All Peacae: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the |
Fromkin, David |
MBL 66 |
| Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department |
Acheson, Dean |
MBL 167 |
| Puzzle Palace |
Bamford, James |
BL 224 |
| SDS: Ten Years Toward a Revolution |
Sale, Kirkpatrick |
MBL 179 |
| Sketches from a Life |
Kennan, George |
MBL 167 |
| Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America |
Wise, David |
BL 223 |
| There is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America |
Harding, Vincent |
BL 20 |
| Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy |
Halberstam, David |
MBL 113 |
| War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals |
Halberstam, David |
MBL 113 |
| Wedge: The Secret War Between the FBI and the CIA |
Riebling, Mark |
BL 223 |
| Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made |
Isaacson, Walter |
MBL 167 |
| Witness to History |
Bohlen, Charles |
MBL 167 |
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| Psychology & Self-Help |
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| 9 Highland Road: Sane Living for the Mentally Ill |
Winerip, Michael |
BL 147 |
| Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections of a Primatologist |
de Waal, Frances |
BL 180 |
| Art of Dying: How to Leave This World with Dignity and Grace |
Weenolsen, Patricia |
MBL 64 |
| Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children |
Paul, Annie Murphy |
MBL 64 |
| Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships |
Lerner, Harriet |
BL 109 |
| Dance of Deception |
Lerner, Harriet |
BL 109 |
| Drinking: A Love Story |
Knapp, Caroline |
MBL 173 |
| Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic |
Beck, Martha |
MBL 164 |
| Freedom in Meditation |
Carrington, Patricia |
BL 255 |
| Full Catastrophe Living |
Kabat-Zinn, Jon |
BL 110 |
| Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir |
Tucker, Neely |
BL 183 |
| Man Who Tried to Save the World |
Anderson, Scott |
BL 186 |
| Mind's Sky: Human Intelligence |
Ferris, Timothy |
BL 27 |
| My Own Country |
Verghese, Abraham |
BL 186 |
| On Death and Dying |
Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth |
MBL 64 |
| Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish |
Bender, Sue |
MBL 115 |
| Truth & Beauty |
Patchett, Ann |
MBL 182 |
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| Race, Gender, Class & Society |
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| Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls |
Brumberg, Joan |
MBL 228 |
| Dialectic of Sex |
Firestone, Shulamith |
MBL 121 |
| Down These Mean Streets |
Thomas, Piri |
BL 62 |
| Female Eunuch |
Greer, Germaine |
MBL 121 |
| Fire Next Time |
Baldwin, James |
BL 10 |
| Leaving Birmingham: Notes of a Native Son |
Hemphill, Paul |
MBL 49 |
| May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons |
Bumiller, Elisabeth |
MBL 227 |
| Mother Knot |
Lazarre, Jane |
MBL 121 |
| Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America |
Ehrenreich, Barbara |
MBL 110 |
| Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women |
Brooks, Geraldine |
MBL 66 |
| Nobody Knows My Name |
Baldwin, James |
BL 10 |
| Notes of a Native Son |
Baldwin, James |
BL 81 |
| Of Woman Born |
Rich, Adrienne |
MBL 121 |
| Old Friends |
Kidder, Tracy |
MBL 67 |
| Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls |
Pipher, Mary |
MBL 228 |
| Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap |
Orenstein, Peggy |
MBL 228 |
| Sexual Politics |
Millett, Kate |
MBL 121 |
| Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down |
Fadiman, Anne |
MBL 205 |
| There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America |
Kotlowitz, Alex |
MBL 111 |
| Working Poor: Invisible in America |
Shipler, David |
MBL 111 |
| True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall |
Salzman, Mark |
MBL 195 |
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| Relationships, Family & Marriage |
|
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| Callie's Tally: An Accounting of Baby's First Year (Or What My Daughter Owes Me!) |
Howie, Betsy |
|
| Between Parent and Child |
Ginott, Haim |
BL 31 |
| Conundrum |
Morris, Jan |
MBL 98 |
| Domestic Affairs: Enduring the Pleasures of Motherhood and Family Life |
Maynard, Joyce |
MBL 172 |
| Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation |
Judson, Olivia |
MBL 196 |
| Every Child's Birthright: In Defense of Mothering |
Fraiberg, Selma |
BL 30 |
| Good Enough Parent |
Bettelheim, Bruno |
BL 30 |
| Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904 to 1911 |
Woolf, Leonard |
MBL 213 |
| I Was a Better Mother Before I Had Kids |
Borgman, Lori |
MBL 173 |
| Intimate Partners: Patterns in Love and Marriage |
Scarf, Maggie |
BL 109 |
| Life Preservers: Staying Afloat in Love and Life |
Lerner, Harriet |
BL 109 |
| Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother |
Cusk, Rachel |
MBL 174 |
| Mother Dance: How Children Change Your Life |
Lerner, Harriet |
BL 109 |
| Mother of the Bride |
Beckerman, Ilene |
BL 75 |
| Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year |
Lamott, Anne |
MBL 174 |
| Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages |
Rose, Phyllis |
BL 184 |
| Queen Bees & Wannabes:Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques |
Wiseman, Rosalind |
MBL 228 |
| Woman: An Intimate Geography |
Angier, Natalie |
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| Science & Math |
|
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| Almost Everyone's Guide to Science |
Gribbin, John |
BL 212 |
| Annals of the Former World |
McPhee, John |
MBL 19 |
| Assembling California |
McPhee, John |
MBL 19 |
| Autumn Across America |
Teale, Edwin |
MBL 175 |
| Basin and Range |
McPhee, John |
MBL 19 |
| Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design |
Dawkins, Richard |
BL 211 |
| Coal: A Human History |
Freese, Barbara |
MBL 195 |
| Coming of Age in the Milky Way |
Ferris, Timothy |
BL 27 |
| Common to This Country: Botanical Discoveries of Lewis and Clark |
Munger, Susan |
MBL 137 |
| Crossing Paths: Uncommon Encounters with Animals in the Wild |
Childs, Craig |
BL 244 |
| Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins |
Kerley, Barbara |
BL 74 |
| Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River |
Zwinger, Ann |
MBL 174 |
| Dragon Seekers |
McGowan, Christopher |
BL 74 |
| Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything |
Gleick, James |
BL 212 |
| Gilded Dinosaur |
Jaffe, Mark |
BL 73 |
| Green Treasury: A Journey through the World's Great Nature Writing |
Teale, Edwin |
MBL 175 |
| Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World |
Moore, Kathleen Dean |
MBL 175 |
| In Suspect Terrain |
McPhee, John |
MBL 19 |
| Journey into Summer |
Teale, Edwin |
MBL 175 |
| Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883 |
Winchester, Simon |
MBL 133 |
| Longitude |
Sobel, Dava |
BL 231, MLB 70 |
| Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science: From the Babylonians to the Maya |
Teresi, Dick |
BL 211 |
| Measure of All Things |
Alder, Ken |
BL 232 |
| Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History |
LeCouteur, Penny |
MBL 195 |
| National Geographic Dinosaurs |
Barrett, Paul M. |
BL 74 |
| North with the Spring |
Teale, Edwin |
MBL 175 |
| Periodic Kingdom: A Journey into the Land of the Chemical Elements |
Atkins, Peter |
MBL 71 |
| Rising from the Plains |
McPhee, John |
MBL 19 |
| Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water |
Moore, Kathleen Dean |
MBL 175 |
| Sahara: a Natural History |
de Villiers, Marq |
BL 9 |
| Sand County Almanac |
Leopold, Aldo |
MBL 70 |
| Science of Everyday Life |
Ingram, Jay |
MBL 196 |
| Sea Around Us |
Carson, Rachel |
MBL 71 |
| Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter |
Holmes, Hannah |
MBL 195 |
| Selfish Gene |
Dawkins, Richard |
BL 97 |
| Singing to the Sound: Visions of Nature, Animals and Spirit |
Peterson, Brenda |
MBL 151 |
| Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction |
Quammen, David |
MBL 70 |
| Terrible Lizard: The First Dinosaur Hungers and the Birth of a New Science |
Cadbury, Deborah |
BL 74 |
| Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Ancient Mammals from Montana to Mongolia |
Novacek, Michael |
BL 73 |
| Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior |
Weiner, Jonathan |
MBL 233 |
| Wandering Through Winter |
Teale, Edwin |
MBL 175 |
| Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History |
Gould, Stephen |
MBL 71 |
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| Space & Flight |
|
|
| Apollo: An Eyewitness Account |
Bean, Alan |
BL 158 |
| Apollo: The Epic Journey to the Moon |
Reynolds, David West |
BL 157 |
| Full Moon |
Light, Michael |
BL 28 |
| Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight |
Langewiesche, William |
BL 90 |
| Journey Beyond Selene: Remarkable Expeditions Past Our Moon and to the Ends of the Solar System |
Kluger, Jeffrey |
BL 158 |
| Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 |
Kluger, Jeffrey |
BL 158 |
| Man on the Moon: Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts |
Chaikin, Andrew |
BL 158 |
| Managing Martians |
Shirley, Donna |
|
| Space Shuttle: The First Twenty Years--The Astronauts Experiences in Their Own Words |
Reichhardt, Tony |
BL 157 |
| Spirit of St. Louis |
Lindbergh, Charles |
BL 90 |
| Stick and Rudder |
Langewiesche, Wolfgang |
BL 90 |
| Right Stuff |
Wolfe, Tom |
BL 157 |
| We Seven |
Carpenter, M.Scott (ed) |
BL 158 |
| |
| Society & Technology |
|
|
| Age of Sacred Terror |
Benjamin, Daniel |
BL 172 |
| Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer That Defeated the World Chess Champion |
Hsu, Feng-Hsiung |
BL 150 |
| Better Off: Pulling the Switch on Technology |
Brende, Eric |
MBL 114 |
| Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and the CIA Failed to Stop It |
Miller, John |
BL 172 |
| End of Nature |
McKibben, Bill |
MBL 111 |
| Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age |
McKibben, Bill |
MBL 111 |
| Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us |
Brooks, Rodney A. |
BL 150 |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies |
Diamond, Jared M. |
BL 212 |
| Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make Believe Violence |
Jones, Gerard |
MBL 67 |
| The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine |
Standage, Tom |
BL 150 |
| Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference |
Gladwell, Malcolm |
BL 33 |
| What Just Happened: a Chronicle from the Information Frontier |
Gleick, James |
BL 212 |
| Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences |
Tenner, Edward |
MBL 66 |
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| Sports |
|
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| Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream |
Brands, H.W. |
BL 20 |
| Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Mean and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold |
Halberstam, David |
MBL 112 |
| Another Lousy Day in Paradise |
Gierach, John |
MBL 101 |
| At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman |
Gierach, John |
MBL 101 |
| Bogey Man |
Plimpton, George |
MBL 117 |
| Boys of Summer |
Kahn, Roger |
BL 226 |
| Breaks of the Game |
Halberstam, David |
BL 225, MBL 112 |
| Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest |
Boukreev, Anatoli |
BL 8 |
| Cork Boat |
Pollack, John |
MBL 157 |
| Death, Taxes and Leaky Waders: a John Gierach Fly Fishing Treasury |
Gierach, John |
MBL 101 |
| Diamond Classics: Essays on 100 of the Best Baseball Books Ever Published |
Shannon, Mike |
BL 230 |
| French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France |
Moore, Tim |
BL 35 |
| Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, a Dream |
Bissinger, H.G. |
BL 225 |
| Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters |
Lundy, Derek |
BL 9 |
| Greatest Game Ever Played |
Frost, Mark |
MBL 117 |
| How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle |
Willard, Frances |
BL 35 |
| I Don't Know Why I Swallowed the Fly: My Fly Fishing Rookie Season |
Maxwell, Jessica |
MBL 101 |
| Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster |
Krakauer, Jon |
BL 8 |
| Jerk on One End: Reflections of a Mediocre Fisherman |
Hughes, Robert |
MBL 101 |
| Last Amateurs: Playing for Glory and Honor in Division I College Basketball |
Feinstein, John |
BL 225 |
| Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing |
McGuane, Thomas |
MBL 101 |
| Match: Althea Gibson & Angela Buxton: How Two Outsiders |
Schoenfeld, Bruce |
MBL 116 |
| Miles from Nowhere: A Round-the-World Bicycle Adventure |
Savage, Barbara |
BL 35 |
| Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game |
Lewis, Michael |
MBL 74 |
| Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Ancient Games |
Perrottet, Tony |
MBL 10 |
| No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World's Most Dangerous Sport |
Ramo, Joshua |
MBL 157 |
| October 1964 |
Halberstam, David |
MBL 112 |
| Off Balance: The Real World of Ballet |
Gordon, Suzanne |
MBL 74 |
| Other Side of Everest: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm |
Dickinson, Matt |
BL 8 |
| Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever |
Feinstein, John |
BL 225 |
| Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge |
Fredston, Jill |
BL 25 |
| Seabiscuit |
Hillenbrand, Laura |
BL 225 |
| Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of William Warren Bradley |
McPhee, John |
BL 225 |
| Sex, Death, and Fly Fishing |
Gierach, John |
MBL 101 |
| Summer of '49 |
Halberstam, David |
MBL 113 |
| The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship |
Halberstam, David |
MBL 113 |
| Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest |
Norgay, Jamling |
MBL 223 |
| Trout Flies: The Tier's Reference |
Hughes, Dave |
MBL 101 |
| Ultimate High: My Everest Odyssey |
Kropp, Goran |
BL 36 |
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| Travel |
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| Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters |
Dalrymple, William |
MBL 126 |
| American Road |
Davies, Pete |
MBL 20 |
| An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan |
Elliot, Jason |
BL 127 |
| Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit |
Meloy, Ellen |
BL 97 |
| Arabian Sands |
Thesiger, Wilfred |
BL 24 |
| Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909 |
Berton, Pierre |
BL 111 |
| Autobiography of an Unknown Indian |
Chaudhuri, Nirad |
MBL 127 |
| Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History |
Kaplan, Robert |
BL 31 |
| Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy |
Fleming, Fergus |
BL 8 |
| Bill Bryson's African Diary |
Bryson, Bill |
MBL 36 |
| Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: Close Encounters with Strangers |
Hansen, Eric |
MBL 20 |
| Black Lamb and Gray Falcon: a Journey Through Yugoslavia |
West, Rebecca |
BL 143 |
| Blue Highways: A Journey Into America |
Heat-Moon, William |
MBL 20 |
| Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before |
Horwitz, Tony |
BL 112 |
| Catfish and Mandela: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam |
Pham, Andrew X. |
BL 36 |
| Curve of Time |
Blanchet, M. Wylie |
MBL 150 |
| Domestic Manners of the Americans |
Trollope, Fanny |
MBL 226 |
| Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition |
Alexander, Caroline |
BL 112 |
| Facing the Congo: A Modern Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness |
Tayler, Jeffrey |
MBL 224 |
| Forbidden Journey: from Peking to Kashmir |
Maillart, Ella |
BL 143 |
| Full Tilt: Ireland to India With a Bicycle |
Murphy, Dervla |
BL 35 |
| Great Railway Bazaar |
Theroux, Paul |
BL 24 |
| Hawaiian Archipelago |
Bird, Isabella |
BL 143 |
| In a Sunburned Country |
Bryson, Bill |
MBL 36 |
| In Patagonia |
Chatwin, Bruce |
MBL 224 |
| In Search of King Solomon's Mines |
Shah, Tahir |
MBL 224 |
| In Search of Robinson Crusoe |
Severin, Tim |
BL 128 |
| Into the Heart of Borneo |
O'Hanlon, Redmond |
MBL 223 |
| Italian Days |
Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti |
MBL 46 |
| Journals of Lewis and Clark |
Lewis, Meriwether |
MBL 137 |
| Journey without Maps |
Greene, Graham |
MBL 34 |
| Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains |
Bird, Isabella |
BL 143 |
| Last Cheater's Waltz |
Meloy, Ellen |
BL 98 |
| Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-La |
Balf, Todd |
BL 8 |
| Last Wild Edge: One Woman's Journey from the Arctic Circle to the Olympic Rain |
Zwinger, Susan |
MBL 174 |
| Lewis and Clark Among the Indians |
Ronda, James P. |
MBL 137 |
| Life on the Mississippi |
Twain, Mark |
BL 63 |
| Looking for Lovedu: A Woman's Journey Across Africa |
Jones, Ann |
BL 24 |
| Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America |
Bryson, Bill |
MBL 36 |
| Lost World of the Kalahari |
van der Post, Laurens |
MBL 4 |
| Love of Some Islands |
Schmoe, Floyd |
MBL 150 |
| Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea |
Hansen, Eric |
MBL 20 |
| My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere |
Orlean, Susan |
MBL 78 |
| National Geographic Expeditions Atlas |
Natl' Geographic |
BL 8 |
| Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe |
Bryson, Bill |
MBL 36 |
| News From Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir |
Fleming, Peter |
BL 24 |
| Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures along China's Ancient Silk Road |
Stevens, Stuart |
MBL 77 |
| Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole |
Fleming, Fergus |
BL 9 |
| Notes from a Small Island: An Affectionate Portrait of Britian |
Bryson, Bill |
MBL 36 |
| Old Glory, an American Voyage |
Raban, Jonathan |
BL 63 |
| One Dry Season: In the Footsteps of Mary Kingsley |
Alexander, Caroline |
BL 65 |
| Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod |
Beston, Henry |
BL 244 |
| Pagan Holiday: On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists |
Perrottet, Tony |
MBL 76 |
| Palace Under the Alps |
Bryson, Bill |
MBL 37 |
| Passage to Juneau |
Raban, Jonathan |
BL 25 |
| Points Unknown: A Century of Great Exploration |
Roberts, David |
BL 8 |
| Raven's Exile |
Meloy, Ellen |
BL 98 |
| Red Dust: A Path Through China |
Jian, Ma |
BL 25 |
| San Juan Islands Journal |
Ridley, Jo Ann |
MBL 151 |
| Short Walk in the Hindu Kush |
Newby, Eric |
BL 24 |
| Snow Leopard |
Matthiessen, Peter |
BL 245 |
| Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves: An American Naturalist in Italy |
Nabhan, Gary Paul |
MBL 47 |
| Songlines |
Chatwin, Bruce |
MBL 224 |
| Stolen Figs and Other Adventures in Calabria |
Rotella, Mark |
MBL 47 |
| Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo |
Hansen, Eric |
MBL 20 |
| Those Tremendous Mountains: The Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition |
Hawke, David Freeman |
MBL 137 |
| Tigers, Durbars and Kings: Fanny Eden's Indian Journals |
Eden, Frances |
MBL 127 |
| Travelers' Tales Guides: Hong Kong |
O'Reilly, James |
MBL 118 |
| Travels in West Africa |
Kingsley, Mary |
BL 65 |
| Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah |
Mackintosh-Smith, Tim |
BL 112 |
| Travels with Charley: In Search of America |
Steinbeck, John |
MBL 20 |
| Travels with Myself and Another |
Gellhorn, Martha |
BL 143 |
| Two Wheels in the Dust: From Kathmandu to Kandy |
Mustoe, Anne |
BL 36 |
| Two Wheels North: Bicycling the West Coast in 1909 |
Gibb, Evelyn M. |
BL 36 |
| Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe |
Murphy, Dervla |
BL 35 |
| Unbeaten Tracks in Japan |
Bird, Isabella |
BL 143 |
| Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women's Travellers |
Robinson, Jane |
BL 142 |
| Victorian Lady Travelers |
Middleton, Dorothy |
BL 142 |
| Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail |
Bryson, Bill |
MBL 37 |
| Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continent |
Lavender, David |
MBL 137 |
| Where the Pavement Ends: One Woman's Bicycle Trip Through Mongolia, China and Vietnam |
Warmbrunn, Erika |
BL 35 |
| You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of Imagination |
Harmon, Katherine |
MBL 114 |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values |
Pirsig, Robert |
MBL 19 |
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| World War II |
|
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| Band of Brothers |
Ambrose, Stephen |
BL 253 |
| Citizen Soldiers |
Ambrose, Stephen |
BL 253 |
| D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II |
Ambrose, Stephen |
BL 253 |
| Flags of Our Fathers |
Bradley, James |
BL 254 |
| Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission |
Sides, Hampton |
BL 254 |
| Good War: An Oral History of World War II |
Terkel, Studs |
BL 254 |
| I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years |
Klemperer, Victor |
MBL 131 |
| Last 100 Days |
Toland, John |
BL 254 |
| Long Walk |
Rawicz, Slavomir |
BL 25 |
| Longest Day: June 6, 1944 |
Ryan, Cornelius |
BL 254 |
| Love and War in the Apennines |
Newby, Eric |
MBL 47 |
| Naples '44 |
Lewis, Norman |
MBL 47 |
| Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma |
Fraser, George |
MBL 154 |
| Second World War |
Keegan, John |
BL 253 |
| Second World War: A Complete History |
Gilbert, Martin |
BL 253 |
| Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything |
Kurson, Robert |
MBL 223 |
| Three Came Home |
Keith, Agnes |
MBL 156 |
| War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary |
Origo, Iris |
MBL 154 |
| We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance |
Howarth, David |
MBL 156 |
| Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany |
Ambrose, Stephen |
Bl 254 |
| WRA: A Story of Human Conservation |
United States Gov. |
MBL 240 |
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| Writing & Literature |
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| 84, Charing Cross Road |
Hanff, Helene |
MBL 131 |
| Aeneid |
Virgil |
BL 186 |
| Antigone |
Sophocles |
MBL 11 |
| Anti-Woo, the First Lifemanship Guide: the Lifeman's Improved Primer |
Potter, Stephen |
MBL 219 |
| The Apple That Astonished Paris |
Collins, Billy |
BL 139 |
| Art and Ardor |
Ozick, Cynthia |
BL 81 |
| Art of Drowning |
Collins, Billy |
BL 139 |
| Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers |
Gardner, John |
MBL 236 |
| Aspects of the Novel |
Forster, E.M. |
MBL 51, 236 |
| Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963 |
Miles, Barry |
MBL 18 |
| Beowulf |
Heaney, Seamus (trans) |
BL 186 |
| Best American Essays |
|
BL 80 |
| Best American Essays of the Century |
|
BL 80 |
| Birth of the Beat Generation |
Watson, Steven |
MBL 18 |
| Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties |
Meade, Marion |
MBL 109 |
| The Bronte Myth |
Miller, Lucasta |
MBL 146 |
| Brontes: a Life in Letters |
Barker, Juliet |
MBL 146 |
| Cats in the Belfry |
Tovey, Doreen |
BL 52 |
| Certain World: A Commonplace Book |
Auden, W.H. |
MBL 53 |
| Child's Delight |
Perrin, Noel |
MBL 63 |
| Collected Poems |
Justice, Donald |
MBL ix |
| Commonplace Book |
Forster, E.M. |
MBL 52 |
| Community of Writers: Paul Engle and the Iowa Writers' Workshop |
Dana, Robert (ed) |
BL 108 |
| Confessions |
Augustine of Hippo |
BL 151 |
| Dog Who Wouldn't Be |
Mowat, Farley |
BL 116 |
| Don't Tell Mama: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing |
Barreca, Regina (ed) |
BL 130 |
| Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim |
Sedaris, David |
MBL 116 |
| Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain |
Paterniti, Michael |
MBL 20 |
| Education of Hyman Kaplan |
Rosten, Leo |
BL 116 |
| Eleventh Draft: Craft and the Writing Life from the Writers' Workshop |
Conroy, Frank (ed) |
BL 108 |
| Eugene Onegin |
Pushkin, Aleksandr |
BL 186 |
| Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader |
Fadiman, Anne |
BL 44 |
| Fame and Folly |
Ozick, Cynthia |
BL 81 |
| Family: The Ties That Bind - and Gag! |
Bombeck, Erma |
MBL 172 |
| Gift from the Sea |
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow |
MBL 130 |
| Growing Up Asian American |
Hong, Maria (Ed) |
BL 26 |
| Henry James: The Master |
Edel, Leon |
MBL 144 |
| Henry James: The Middle Years |
Edel, Leon |
MBL 144 |
| Henry James: The Untried Years |
Edel, Leon |
MBL 144 |
| Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers |
Krupat, Arnold (ed) |
BL 23 |
| History of the Peloponnesian War |
Thucydides |
MBL 10 |
| House of Blue Light |
Kirby, David |
BL 138 |
| How Proust Can Change Your Life |
de Botton, Alain |
MBL 132 |
| How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry |
Hirsch, Edward |
MBL 75 |
| Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism |
Updike, John |
BL 81 |
| I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory |
Hampl, Patricia |
MBL 75 |
| Iliad |
Homer |
BL 186 |
| I'm a Stranger Here Myself |
Bryson, Bill |
MBL 36 |
| Indian Creek Chronicles |
Fromm, Pete |
MBL 121 |
| Instead of a Letter |
Athill, Diana |
MBL 34, 163 |
| Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own! |
Bombeck, Erma |
MBL 172 |
| Language of the Land: The Library of Congress Book of Literary Maps |
Hopkins, Martha |
MBL 239 |
| Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology |
Kittredge, William (ed) |
BL 156 |
| Letters to a Fiction Writer |
Busch, Frederick |
BL 49 |
| Life You Save May Be Your Own |
Elie, Paul |
MBL 109 |
| Lifemanship |
Potter, Stephen |
MBL 219 |
| Living by Water |
Peterson, Brenda |
MBL 151 |
| Lysistrata |
Aristophanes |
MBL 11 |
| Medea |
Euripides |
MBL 11 |
| Metaphor and Memory |
Ozick, Cynthia |
BL 81 |
| Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture |
DeSalvo, Louise |
BL 130 |
| Minor Characters: A Young Woman's Coming of Age in the Beat Orbit of Jack Kerouac |
Johnson, Joyce |
MBL 18 |
| More Matter: Essays and Criticism |
Updike, John |
BL 81 |
| Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession |
Bombeck, Erma |
MBL 172 |
| New and Collected Poems |
Milosz, Czeslaw |
BL 187 |
| New and Collected Poems: 1957-1997 |
Szymborska, Wislawa |
BL 187 |
| No Other Book: Selected Essay |
Jarrell, Randall |
MBL 75 |
| Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism |
Updike, John |
BL 81 |
| Odyssey |
Homer |
BL 186 |
| Oedipus Rex |
Sophocles |
MBL 11 |
| Oh How Can I Keep on Singing? Voices of Pioneer Women |
Harris, Jana |
BL 186 |
| On Grief and Reason |
Brodsky, Joseph |
BL 81 |
| On Moral Fiction |
Gardner, John |
MBL 236 |
| One-Upmanship: Being Some Account of the Activities and Teachings |
Potter, Stephen |
MBL 219 |
| Openhearted Audience: Ten Authors Talk about Writing for Children |
Haviland, Virginia (ed) |
MBL 239 |
| Oresteia |
Aeschylus |
MBL 11 |
| Plausible Prejudices: Essays on American Writing |
Epstein, Joseph |
BL 81 |
| Please Don't Eat the Daisies |
Kerr, Jean |
MBL 172 |
| Poetry Handbook |
Oliver, Mary |
MBL 115 |
| Poets in Their Youth |
Simpson, Eileen |
BL 184 |
| Pooh Perplex |
Crews, Frederick |
MBL 132 |
| Postmodern Pooh |
Crews, Frederick |
MBL 132 |
| Reading Diary: A Passionate Reflection on a Year of Books |
Manguel, Alberto |
MBL 34 |
| Reflections on Exile and Other Essays |
Said, Edward W. |
BL 81 |
| Reinventing the Enemy's Language |
Harjo, Joy (ed) |
BL 23 |
| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations |
Platt, Suzy (ed) |
MBL 239 |
| Room of One's Own |
Woolf, Virginia |
MBL 67 |
| Search Party: Collected Poems |
Matthews, William |
MBL 163 |
| Shakespeare Well-Versed |
Muirden, James |
MBL ix |
| Shelley: The Pursuit |
Holmes, Richard |
MBL 146 |
| Shroud of the Gnome |
Tate, James |
BL 138 |
| Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer |
Holmes, Richard |
MBL 164 |
| Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry |
Perrine, Laurence |
MBL 187 |
| Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing |
Yagoda, Ben |
MBL 237 |
| Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship |
Potter, Stephen |
MBL 219 |
| Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog!) |
Jerome, Jerome |
MBL 218 |
| To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays |
Milosz, Czeslaw |
BL 187 |
| Way It Is: New and Selected Poems |
Stafford, Willliam |
MBL 163 |
| When Found Make a Verse of |
Bevington, Helen |
MBL 52 |
| When People Publish |
Busch, Frederick |
BL 49 |
| Why Read? |
Edmundson, Mark |
MBL 76 |
| The Word's Gotten Out |
Espy, Willard |
MBL 53 |
| Writer's Journal: 40 Contemporary Writers and Their Journals |
Bender, Sheila |
MBL 131 |
| Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World |
Brightman, Carol |
MBL 145 |
| Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft |
Burroway, Janet |
MBL 237 |
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