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Nonfiction, May 2009
- Algeo, Matthew
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From Missouri to New York and back again, this work chronicles the amazing road trip of a former president and his wife and their amusing, failed attempts to keep a low profile.
- Barreca, Gina
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In this collection of hilarious essays that mull everything from the horror of chin hairs to why the "glass ceiling" is better described as a thick layer of men, Barreca tells women to stop believing the lies and conquer the world.
- Beha, Christopher
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Beha turns to the literary classics for answers after undergoing a series of personal and family crises. His chronicle is a powerful testament to what great books can teach about how to live life.
- Buhs, Joshua Blu
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Writing with a scientist’s skepticism but an enthusiast’s deep engagement, Buhs invests the story of Bigfoot with the detail and power of a novel, offering the definitive take on this elusive beast.
- Branch, Taylor
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For seven years, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian heard the confidences of a sitting President — and finally gets to share them.
- Buckley, Christopher
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Humorist Christopher Buckley's moving, tragicomic account of the year in which both of his parents (William F. Buckley and Patricia Taylor Buckley) died, making him an orphan at age 55.
- Caswell, Kurt
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Winner of the 2008 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, Caswell's narrative chronicles his travels in the rugged mountain forests of Japan's Shiretoko National Park, on a vision quest in Death Valley and to the sacred waters of the Ganges River.
- Cole, Matthew
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Journalist Matthew Cole's gripping account of the CIA's extraordinary rendition — and subsequent torture — of an Islamic cleric from the streets of Milan.
- Connor, Myles
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From New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to Boston's Museum of Fine Art, no museum had been off-limits to legendary art thief Connor. The Art of the Heist tells the story of a roller-coaster ride of a life, by a man who had been drawn to misadventure at every turn.
- Davidson, James
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With a lively voice, a bawdy sense of humor and a gift for narrative, Davidson brings to life the men of Greece and conducts a nuanced investigation of their relationships — both romantic and platonic — in the gymnasiums, on the battlefield and at symposiums.
- Donaldson, Ross
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As a medical student studying the intersection of global health and communicable disease, Donaldson ventured into the dangerous area of Sierra Leone. Soon, he finds himself not only fighting for others' health, but his own as well.
- Goldsworthy, Adrian
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By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in western Europe and much of northern Africa. Applying the scholarship, perspective and narrative skill that defined his monumental Caesar, Goldworthy explores how Rome fell.
- Hemley, Robin
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Hemley reencounters kindergarten, revisits his childhood home and finally attends the prom — bringing readers the thrill of recapturing a misspent youth and discovering what's most important: simple pleasures, second chances and the forgotten joys of recess.
- Kot, Greg
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A national radio host and critically acclaimed music journalist shows how the Internet revolutionized the music industry — and turned big record labels on their ear.
- Murnighan, Jack
- Obmascik, Mark
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The author of the bestseller The Big Year embarks on an outrageous midlife mountain climbing adventure, in this work that shows how one man exceeds the physical achievements of his youth and discovers that age — like summit height — is just a number.
- Perry, Michael
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In over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens and baby due any minute, the author of Truck: A Love Story gives readers a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country.
- Reichl, Ruth
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On what would have been Miriam’s one hundredth birthday, Reichl opens up her mother’s diaries for the first time and encounters a whole new woman. In this intimate study, Reichl comes to understand the lessons of rebellion, independence and self-acceptance that her mother — though unable to guide herself — succeeded in teaching her daughter.
- Rose, Daniel Asa
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A wild-and-crazy memoir, Larry's Kidney chronicles the author's trip to Beijing to help his black-sheep cousin receive an illegal kidney transplant, collect a mail-order bride and restore East-West relations while they're at it.
- Senna, Danzy
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Senna's parents — a white woman with a blue-blood Bostonian lineage and a black man raised by a struggling single mother — seemed poised to defy history with their marriage in 1968. Here, she explores their wildly divergent backgrounds and the forces that led to their heartrending divorce.
- VanLiere, Donna
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From the New York Times bestselling author of the Christmas Hope series comes an inspirational memoir about coming face to face with your deepest heartbreak only to discover your deepest joys.
- Waterfield, Robin
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A revisionist account of one of the most famous trials in Western civilization, Why Socrates Died is a work whose insights translate clearly from ancient Athens to modern America.
