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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 |
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| Environment |
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| 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 |
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| Fairytales & Myths |
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| 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 |
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| Fashion |
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| 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 |
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| Food, Cooking & Home |
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| 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 |
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| Gardening |
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| 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 |
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| Health & Medicine |
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| 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 |
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| History: United States (also see "World War II) |
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| 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 |
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