- Anderson, Jon Lee
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The Fall of Baghdad (October 2004)
956.70443 A5476f 2004
In channeling a tragedy of epic dimensions through the stories of real people caught up in the whirlwind of history, Anderson has written a book of timeless significance.
- Ault, James M.
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Spirit and Flesh: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church (September 2004)
306.6 A924s 2004
In an attempt to understand the growing influence of the Christian Right, sociologist and documentary filmmaker James Ault spent three years inside the world of a Massachusetts fundamentalist church.
- Bartlett, Donald L.
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Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business — and Bad Medicine (October 2004)
362.10973 B257c 2004
Investigative journalists Barlett and Steele examine health care in America, profiling patients and doctors trapped by the system and offering personal stories that illuminate what's gone wrong.
- Borovitz, Mark
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The Holy Thief: A Con Man's Journey from Darkness to Light (September 2004)
B-Bo645h 2004
Unabashedly honest yet never maudlin, this is the inspirational story of a convicted criminal turned rabbi.
- Brooks, Robin (Robin Jeremy)
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The Portland Vase: The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Mysterious Roman Treasure (August 2004)
748.8 B873p 2004
Created for an emperor, exhumed from a burial ground, coveted, traded, smashed, restored and stuffed full of incident and intrigue, the Portland Vase has captivated everyone who has come into contact with it.
- Collins, Amy Fine
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The God of Driving: How I Overcame Fear and Put Myself in the Driver's Seat (With the Help of a Good and Mysterious Man) (September 2004)
629.283 C712g 2004
This is the true story of what happens when a Park Avenue society diva decides to confront her lifelong fear of driving and meets a man who is, for her, the god of driving.
- Craig, Emily A.
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Teasing Secrets From the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes (September 2004)
363.256 C886t 2004
A forensic anthropologist recounts her unlikely career, which has ranged from murder victims discovered in the backwoods of Appalachia to some of the highest-profile cases of our time.
- Glick, Lyz
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Your Father's Voice: Letters for Emmy about Life with Jeremy — And Without Him After 9/11 (August 2004)
973.931 G559y 2004
This stirring but unsentimental work is a portrait of one of the heroes on Flight 93 by his widow, in the form of a letter to their baby daughter.
- Gross, Terry
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All I Did Was Ask: Conversations With Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists (September 2004)
791.4472 F885g 2004
For this collection, Gross has selected more than three dozen of her best interviews for NPR's "Fresh Air" — interviews of lasting relevance that are as lively on the page as they were on the air.
- Hilldorfer, Joseph
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The Cyanide Canary (September 2004)
364.142 H649c 2004
In this true story of a horrific environmental crime, written by an EPA Special Agent, a brave young man suffers severe brain damage after being sent into a poison-saturated 25,000-gallon storage tank.
- Hunter, Seb
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Hell Bent for Leather: Confessions of a Heavy Metal Addict (August 2004)
782.42166 H947h 2004
Seb Hunter's memoir of heavy metal mania is a story of adolescence, of playing air guitar, of living with parental disapproval and of struggling for acceptance among friends while carrying a secret obsession.
- Irwin, Robert
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The Alhambra (September 2004)
725.17 I72a 2004
The Alhambra has long been a byword for exotic and melancholy beauty. In his new book, Robert Irwin, Arabist and novelist, examines its history and allure.
- Itzkoff, Dave
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Lads: A Memoir of Manhood (September 2004)
B-It9L 2004
This raw comic confession explores one young man's efforts to live up to society's standards of masculinity, set against his years working as an editor in the world of young men's magazines.
- Junkin, Tim
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Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA (September 2004)
364.66 J95b 2004
Junkin, Bloodsworth's lawyer, writes about his struggle for survival, both in prison and in the courts.
- Loya, Joe
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The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell: Confessions of a Bank Robber (September 2004)
B-Lo957m 2004
Loya tells a searing story about his painful climb from a life of crime to one filled with honor.
- Mallet, Gina
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Last Chance to Eat: Finding Taste in an Era of Fast Food (August 2004)
641.013 M253L 2004
Drawing on enough culinary experiences to fill several lifetimes, Mallet's irreverent memoir combines recollections of meals and their milieus with recipes and tasting tips.
- Manguel, Alberto
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A Reading Diary (October 2004)
818.5 M277r 2004
While traveling, Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading seemed to reflect the social chaos of the world he was living in. He decided to keep a diary of these moments, reading a book a month and recording his observations, which provides an enthralling adventure in literature and life.
- Palmer, Parker J.
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A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life: Welcoming the Soul and Weaving Community in a Wounded World (September 2004)
248.4 P175h 2004
Palmer brings his compassionate intelligence to an exploration of what it means to live an undivided life, one where inner truth can find expression and value in the outer world, despite the pressures.
- Paul, Annie Murphy
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Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves (September 2004)
155.28 P324c 2004
This fascinating, disturbing look at the history and effects of personality tests examines their use and misuse.
- Pellegrino, Charles R.
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Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections (August 2004)
937.7 P386g 2004
From Pellegrino comes an archaeologist's look at Pompeii and its remarkably well-preserved suburb, Herculaneum, as well as an examination of the Vesuvius eruption in comparison with the World Trade Center disaster.
- Petroski, Henry
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Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering (September 2004)
620 P497p 2004
Petroski turns his observant eye from small everyday objects to large feats of engineering.
- Quindlen, Anna
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Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City (September 2004)
820.9 Q7i 2004
Quindlen takes readers on a delightful tour of the English capital, comparing the London of fact with the London of fiction.
- Randal, Jonathan C.
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Osama: The Making of a Terrorist (August 2004)
B-Bi511r 2004
How is it possible for one middle-aged Saudi millionaire to threaten the world's only superpower? This is the question at the center of Jonathan Randal's account of Osama bin Laden's role in the rise of terrorism in the Middle East.
- Rosenberg, Howard
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Not So Prime Time: Chasing the Trivial on American Television (September 2004)
791.450973 R813n 2004
Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Rosenberg traces a disturbing pattern on American television, a relentless pursuit of the mundane in its seeming quest to "dumb down" America.
- Tripp, David
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Illegal Tender: Gold, Greed, and the Mystery of the Lost 1933 Double Eagle (September 2004)
737.4973 T836i 2004
Written by a leading authority on coins, this history of the lost Double Eagle re-creates the life of the Holy Grail of American objects.
- Webber, Thomas L.
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Flying Over 96th Street: Memoir of an East Harlem White Boy (September 2004)
B-We388f 2004
Webber's lyrical memoir of growing up white in East Harlem's public housing projects in the late 1950s and 1960s explores racial identity and community at the height of the civil rights movement.
