Awards search:Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books

From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

by Jacques Barzun
Paperback, 2001
Tags
History, Western Civilization
Collection
Gifts

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann
Paperback, 2006
Tags
Mexico and Central America, Indigenous Peoples, South America, North America, North American Natives, South American Natives, Indigenous, Pre-Columbian
Collection
Gifts

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann
Paperback, 2006
Tags
North America, Indigenous Peoples, North American Natives, South America, South American Natives, Indigenous, Pre-Columbian
Collection
Don

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

by Dava Sobel
Paperback, 2000
Tags
Fiction, Historical Fiction, Galileo

London: The Biography

by Peter Ackroyd
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
Occult London, British Occult Sites, England, Great Britain, British Isles, London, Cultural History
Collection
Anna

London: The Biography

by Peter Ackroyd
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
Occult London, British Occult Sites, England, Great Britain, British Isles, London, Cultural History
Collections
Gifts, In Storage

The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America

by Erik Larson
Paper Book, 2003
Tags
Occult Crime, Parliament of the World's Religions, Serial Murder
Collection
Don

Kepler's witch: an astronomer's discovery of cosmic order amid religious war, political intrigue, and the heresy trial of his mother

by James A. Connor
Paper Book, 2004
Tags
Witch-hunting, Gothic Witchcraft, Witchcraft, European Witch Hunts, Kepler
Collection
Don

Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother

by James A. Connor
Paperback, 2005
Tags
Witch-hunting, Gothic Witchcraft, Witchcraft, European Witch Persecutions, Johannes Kepler
Collections
Gifts, In Storage

The battle for God

by Karen Armstrong
Paper Book, 2001
Tags
Studies of Religion, Comparative Religion, Fundamentalism, Abrahamic Religions
Collections
Gifts, In Storage

The Battle for God

by Karen Armstrong
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
Studies of Religion, Comparative Religion, Fundamentalism, Abrahamic Religions
Collection
Gifts

Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man

by Susan Faludi
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
Men's Studies, Gender Studies, Politics, Post WWII
Collection
Gus

The Quest For Paradise: Visions of Heaven and Eternity in the World's Myths and Religions

by John Ashton
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
Oversize, Mythology, Art, Paradise, Heaven, Hell, Religion
Collection
Don

The rock: a tale of seventh-century Jerusalem

by Kanan Makiya
Paper Book, 2001
Tags
Dome of the Rock, Islam, Architecture, Sacred Geometry, Fiction
Collection
Don

The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth

by Edward O. Wilson
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
Environmentalism, Ecophilosophy, Christianity, Religion, Science
Collection
Don

Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming

by Paul Hawken
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
Environmentalism, Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples, Globalization, Diversity, Environmental Policies, Agriculture, Sustainability, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War

by Graham Robb
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
History, France
Collection
Gifts

A universal history of the destruction of books : from ancient Sumer to modern Iraq

by Fernando Báez
Paper Book, 2008
Tags
Libraries, Destruction of Libraries, Book-burning, Cultural Destruction, Destruction of Books, History of Libraries, Censorship, Ancient World, Modern World
Collection
Don

Storms of my grandchildren : the truth about the coming climate catastrophe and our last chance to save humanity

by James C. Hansen
Paper Book, 2009
Tags
Green Politics, Climate Change, Bibliography, Activism, Environmental Crisis
Collection
Gifts

Becoming animal : an earthly cosmology

by David Abram
Paper Book, 2010
Tags
Ecology and Natural History, Environmentalism, Ecophilosophy, Biology, Philosophy, Anthropology, Cosmology, Shape-Shifting
Collection
Gus

Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

by David Abram
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Ecology and Natural History, Environmentalism, Ecophilosophy, Biology, Philosophy, Anthropology, Cosmology, Shape-Shifting
Collections
Gifts, In Storage

Jerusalem: The Biography

by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
Jerusalem and the Temple, Jerusalem, Crusades, Knights Templar
Collection
Don

Going clear : Scientology, Hollywood, and the prison of belief

by Lawrence Wright
Paper Book, 2013
Tags
New Religious Movements, Scientology
Collection
Gifts

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

by Reza Aslan
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
Christianity, Historical Jesus, Bibliography, Zealots
Collection
Gifts

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari
Paperback, 2018
Tags
History, Agricultural Revolution, Scientific Revolution, Economics, Industrial Revolution, Religion
Collection
Gifts

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

by Edward E Baptist
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
History, Slavery, Western Hemisphere Slavery, US History, US Slavery, Expansion of Slavery, Cotton, Tobacco, Industrial Revolution, Slave Narratives, American Capitalism — 2 more, 1619, US Civil War
Collection
Gifts

The witches : Salem, 1692

by Stacy Schiff
Paper Book, 2015
Tags
Salem Witch Trials, Witchcraft, Salem Witches, Salem Village
Collection
Anna

Atlas obscura: an explorer's guide to the world's hidden wonders

by Joshua Foer
Paper Book, 2016
Tags
Fortean Travel Guides, Atlas, General Occult, Hauntings, Monsters, UFOs, Witchcraft, Fairies, Illustrated, ZZZ
Collection
Don

The Overstory

by Richard Powers
Paper Book, 2019
Tags
Fiction, Ecophilosophy, Trees, Deep Ecology
Collection
Gifts

Papyrus: the invention of books in the ancient world

by Irene Vallejo Moreu
Paper Book, 2022
Tags
Libraries, Papyrus, Writing, Egypt, Greece, Rome
Collection
Don
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