- Ackroyd, Peter
-
Chaucer (January 2005)
B-C496a 2005
In his lively style, Peter Ackroyd brings us an eye-opening portrait, rich in drama and colorful historical detail, of a prolific, multifaceted genius.
- Anderson, Fred
-
The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500–2000 (January 2005)
355.00973 A546d 2005
Anderson and Clayton propose a new perspective on American history that demonstrates how republic and empire have coexisted throughout history as two faces of the same coin.
- Bailey, John
-
The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of the Slave Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans (January 2005)
305.896 B154L 2005
In New Orleans, 1843, in the Spanish Quarter, Madame Carl recognized the face of a German girl who disappeared 25 years earlier. But the olive-skinned woman was a slave, with no memory of a "white" past. So began one of the most sensational trials of 19th-century America. Bailey follows the case all the way to the Supreme Court in this investigative history that reads like a suspense novel.
- Brown, James
-
I Feel Good: A Memoir of a Life of Soul (January 2005)
782.421644 B878i 2005
From his humble Georgia roots to his chart-topping soul and R&B, here's an intimate look back at the life, triumphs and tribulations of James Brown.
- Burrell, Brian
-
Postcards From the Brain Museum: The Improbable Search for Meaning in the Matter of Famous Minds (January 2005)
153 B969p 2004
What makes one man a genius and another a criminal? Is there a physical explanation for these differences? Burrell relates the story of the first scientific attempts to locate the sources of both genius and depravity in the physical anatomy of the human brain.
- Cathcart, Brian
-
The Fly in the Cathedral (January 2005)
539.762 C362f 2005
Re-creating the frustrations, excitements and obsessions of 1932, the "miracle year" of British physics, Cathcart reveals in rich detail the astonishing story behind the splitting of the atom.
- Childs, Craig Leland
-
The Way Out: A True Story of Ruin and Survival (January 2005)
917.9 C537w 2004
Capturing the spirit of the American West, the author presents a chronicle of adventure that explores the boundary between wilderness adventure and madness.
- Conner, Judy
-
Southern Fried Divorce (January 2005)
306.89 C752s 2005
Set against the colorful backdrop of New Orleans, this is the hilarious account of one woman's marriage and divorce — Big Easy style.
- De Bellaigue, Christopher
-
In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran (January 2005)
955.054 D286i 2005
Christopher de Bellaigue probes the human wreckage of the world's last great revolution. Mullahs and academics, artists, traders and mystics: the author knows them as an insider — a journalist who speaks fluent Persian and is married to an Iranian — and also as an outsider — a Westerner isolated in one of the world's most enigmatic and impenetrable societies. The result is a revelation of the hearts and minds of the Iranian people, and what it is like to live among them.
- DeLeo, Peter
-
Survive!: My Fight for Life in the High Sierras (January 2005)
B-De377s 2005
After his single-engine plane crashed and with 16 broken bones, no emergency supplies, water or food, DeLeo weathered the subfreezing conditions of the Sierras on his death-defying quest to bring help to his injured friends. In this tale of survival he tells his story in gripping detail.
- Diamond, Jared M.
-
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (January 2005)
304.28 D537c 2005
Diamond seeks to understand the fates of past societies that collapsed for ecological reasons, combining the most important policy debate of our generation with the romance and mystery of lost worlds.
- Dwyer, Jim
-
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (January 2005)
974.71044 D993o 2005
Of the millions of words written about September 11, 2001, most were told from the outside looking in. New York Times reporters Dwyer and Kevin Flynn have taken the opposite and far more revealing approach, capturing the little-known stories of the nearly 12,000 ordinary people who took extraordinary steps to save themselves and others.
- Falk, John
-
Hello to All That: A Memoir of War, Zoloft, and Peace (January 2005)
B-Fa186h 2005
An off-the-wall, heartbreaking and often hilarious memoir of a correspondent reporting from the front lines in Bosnia while also battling his lifelong nemesis — chronic depression.
- Gilman, Susan Jane
-
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless (January 2005)
B-Gi423h 2005
From the author of Kiss My Tiara comes a funny and poignant collection of true stories about women coming of age.
- Gladwell, Malcolm
-
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (January 2005)
153.44 G543b 2005
Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology, the author shows how the difference between good decision-making and bad has nothing to do with how much information can be processed quickly, but on the few particular details on which people focus.
- Grandin, Temple
-
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (January 2005)
591.5 G753a 2005
One of the world's most celebrated animal scientists merges a lifetime of study with her perceptions as an autistic person in a groundbreaking book that revolutionizes the understanding of how animals think and feel.
- Guiliano, Mireille
-
French Women Don't Get Fat (January 2005)
613.25 G956f 2005
French women don't get fat, but they do eat bread and pastry, drink wine, and regularly enjoy three-course meals. Guiliano unlocks the simple secrets of this "French paradox" — how to enjoy food and stay slim and healthy. Hers is a charming, sensible and life-affirming view of health and eating for our times.
- Hitchcock, Susan Tyler
-
Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London (January 2005)
B-La167H 2005
After killing her own mother with a knife, Mary Lamb spent the rest of her life in and out of madhouses, yet the crime and its aftermath opened up a life that no woman of her time could have expected. Free to read extensively, Lamb discovered her talent for writing and embarked on a literary collaboration with her brother, the essayist Charles Lamb, that resulted in the famous Tales From Shakespeare. This narrative of a nearly forgotten woman is a tapestry of insights into creativity and madness, the changing lives of women, and the redemptive power of the written word.
- Kaku, Michio
-
Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (December 2004)
523.1 K13p 2005
The author describes the advances that have transformed cosmology and remade our understanding of the universe. Leading physicists now envision our universe as one of countless "bubble universes" only millimeters away from each other.
- Konik, Michael
-
Ella in Europe: An American Dog's International Adventures (January 2005)
636.7 K82e 2005
Part travelogue, part valentine to a beloved pet, Konik chronicles his magical six-week journey through Europe with his dog, Ella.
- Levine, Suzanne
-
Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood (January 2005)
305.2442 L666i 2005
From work to love, self-discovery to civic duty, health to economics, Levine examines every aspect of the lives of women over 50 and shares stories — scary, powerful, challenging and joyful — of women who have found insights and solutions that work for them.
- Mishra, Pankaj
-
An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World (December 2004)
294.3 M678e 2004
This provocative book about the Buddha's life and his influence follows the author's own search to understand the Buddha's relevance to a world where class oppression and religious violence are rife.
- Petro, Joseph
-
Standing Next to History: An Agent's Life Inside the Secret Service (January 2005)
363.283 P497s 2005
Petro, one of the Secret Service's top agents, offers an account of the Secret Service, the inner workings of the White House and a little seen view of world leaders, from Rockefeller to Reagan to the Pope.
- Powers, William
-
Blue Clay People: Seasons on Africa's Fragile Edge (January 2005)
916.662 P888b 2005
Powers went to Liberia as an aid worker in 1999 and was given the mandate to "fight poverty and save the rainforest." He soon discovered that Liberia was poor, environmentally looted, scarred by violence and barely governed. His book is a blend of humor, compassion and moral questioning that will convince readers why the fate of endangered places such as Liberia must matter to all of us.
- Reynolds, David S.
-
Walt Whitman (December 2004)
B-W615r 2005
Examining the life and work of Walt Whitman, Reynolds shows how Whitman responded to contemporary theater, music, painting, photography, science, religion and the political events of his lifetime.
- Riggs, David
-
The World of Christopher Marlowe (January 2005)
B-M349ri 2005
In this biography of Marlowe and his times, the author presents Marlowe as the English language's first poetic dramatist whose desires proved his undoing. Exhaustive research digs deeply into the mystery of how and why Marlowe was killed.
- Roese, Neal J.
-
If Only: How to Turn Regret Into Opportunity (January 2005)
152.44 R718i 2005
For anyone who's played the "what if" game comes a timely and welcome counterargument to the self-help industry's mantra to banish negative thoughts. Regret is good, and psychology professor Roese shows us how living with regrets helps us to make better decisions and find happiness.
- Saleem, Hiner
-
My Father's Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan (January 2005)
956.704 S163m 2005
This beautiful, spare narrative tells of the life of a boy named Azad — in fact the author, a Kurdish filmmaker — as he grows to manhood in Iraq during the 1960s and 1970s, resulting in a moving portrait of a boy who embraces the land and culture he loves, even as he leaves them.
- Singh, Simon
-
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (January 2005)
523.18 S617b 2004
This brief history of the beginning of the universe comes from the bestselling author of Fermat's Enigma.
- Yafa, Stephen H.
-
Big Cotton: How a Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map (January 2005)
338.47677 Y12b 2005
From its infancy in Peru and Pakistan 6,000 years ago to the fields of the antebellum South to its current association with big name clothiers, Yafa tells the epic story of cotton.
