Genre search:Nonfiction

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

by Isabel Wilkerson
Ebook, 2020
Tags
non-fiction, history, American history, anthropology, racism, compassion, economics, Germany, India, Europe, Asia — 5 more, WWII, politics, government, sociology, Kindle
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
305.5122

Poverty, by America

by Matthew Desmond
Ebook, 2023
Tags
non-fiction, economics, politics, poverty, sociology, compassion, government, Kindle
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
362.50973

How to Be an Antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi
Ebook, 2019
Tags
non-fiction, racism, sociology, Kindle, politics, government, compassion
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
305.800973

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Ebook, 2021
Tags
non-fiction, history, American history, racism, politics, fiction, poetry, Kindle, enslavement, compassion
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
973.0496

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

by Robin J. DiAngelo
Ebook, 2018
Tags
non-fiction, racism, sociology, Kindle, politics, government, compassion
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
305.8

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared Diamond
Ebook, 2017
Tags
Kindle, non-fiction, history, science, anthropology, sociology, epidemiology, biology, ecology, economics, geography — 8 more, politics, linguistics, archaeology, government, genetics, farming, agriculture, medicine
Collection
Kindle
Series
Civilizations Rise and Fall (1)
Status
Available
Call number
303.4

Baking Yesteryear: the best recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s

by B. Dylan Hollis
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
non-fiction, food, cookbook, history, food history, vintage and retro, baking
Collection
Paper Books
Status
Available
Call number
641.815

Freakonomics and Other Riddles of Modern Life

by Steven D. Levitt
Ebook, 2010
Tags
non-fiction, economics, money, business, psychology, Kindle, politics, sociology, science, statistics, mathematics — 2 more, government, decision making
Collection
Kindle
Series
Freakonomics (1)
Status
Available
Call number
330

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

by Malcolm Gladwell
Ebook, 2019
Tags
non-fiction, relationships, psychology, self-help, sociology, Kindle, friendship
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
302

How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It)

by Jessica McCabe
Ebook, 2024
Tags
non-fiction, ADHD, psychology, self-help, Kindle, science, neurodiversity, psychiatry
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
616.8589

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

by Margot Lee Shetterly
Ebook, 2016
Tags
non-fiction, biography, mathematics, racism, American history, history, Kindle, astronomy, engineering, Cold War, computers — 2 more, womens studies, compassion
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
510.92520973

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

by Margot Lee Shetterly
Ebook, 2018
Tags
Kindle, non-fiction, history, juvenile, American history, racism, mathematics, astronomy, biography, womens studies, compassion
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
510.92520973

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

by Randall Munroe
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
science, non-fiction, comedy and humor, comics, mathematics, physics, engineering, chemistry
Collection
Paper Books
Series
What if? (1)
Status
Available
Call number
500

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

by Michael Pollan
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
food, philosophy, non-fiction, agriculture, ecology, farming, sociology, history, food history, anthropology, science — 10 more, earth science, ethics, vegetables, politics, government, biology, food science, meat, compassion, vegetarian
Collection
Paper Books
Status
Available
Call number
394.12

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

by Malcolm Gladwell
Ebook, 2007
Tags
non-fiction, psychology, sociology, science, business, self-help, economics, Kindle, leadership, creativity, statistics — 3 more, mathematics, education, decision making
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
153.44

Tasting History: explore the past through 4,000 years of recipes

by Max Miller
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
non-fiction, food, cookbook, history, food history, autographed
Collection
Paper Books
Status
Available
Call number
641.509

The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe

by Matthew Gabriele
Ebook, 2021
Tags
non-fiction, history, medieval history, Kindle
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
940.1

Outliers: The Story of Success

by Malcolm Gladwell
Ebook, 2008
Tags
non-fiction, business, economics, education, leadership, psychology, science, sociology, statistics, Kindle, self-help — 1 more, decision making
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
302

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

by Malcolm Gladwell
Paperback, 2002
Tags
psychology, non-fiction, business, economics, self-help, science, sociology, leadership, statistics, mathematics, education — 2 more, anthropology, decision making
Collection
Paper Books
Status
Available
Call number
302

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

by Peter Frankopan
Ebook, 2016
Tags
non-fiction, history, China, India, medieval history, renaissance history, Kindle, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Italy — 31 more, Israel, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Portugal, Russia, Spain, England, Uzbekistan, Vikings, Africa, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Crusades, Christianity, Islam, politics, economics, Rome, WWI, WWII, ancient history, modern history, Norse, Saudi Arabia, government, spices, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Mediterranean
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
382.3095

Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

by Tom Holland
Ebook, 2019
Tags
non-fiction, history, ancient history, medieval history, renaissance history, modern history, church history, Kindle, Christianity
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
270

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

by Ibram X. Kendi
Ebook, 2016
Tags
non-fiction, American history, history, racism, Kindle, sociology, compassion
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
305.800973

Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

by J. D. Vance
Paperback, 2016
Tags
non-fiction, autobiography, biography, Kentucky, Ohio, poverty, American history, history, sociology, politics, government — 4 more, abuse, relationships, compassion, trauma
Collection
Paper Books
Status
Available
Call number
305.562089090092

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

by Erik Larson
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
history, modern history, non-fiction, shipwreck, WWI, Ireland, marine, Europe
Collection
Paper Books
Status
Available
Call number
940.4

Jesus and John Wayne : how white evangelicals corrupted a faith and fractured a nation

by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
non-fiction, Christianity, politics, American history, history, government, womens studies, compassion, masculinity
Collection
Paper Books
Status
Available
Call number
277.3083

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

by Trevor Noah
Ebook, 2016
Tags
non-fiction, biography, autobiography, abuse, domestic violence, relationships, Africa, racism, comedy and humor, South Africa, Kindle — 1 more, compassion
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
791.45028092

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

by Michael Pollan
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
food, philosophy, non-fiction, vegetables, agriculture, ecology, farming, ethics, politics, government, sociology — 4 more, biology, science, food science, vegetarian
Collection
Paper Books
Status
Available
Call number
613.2

The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Shocking Story of a Woman Who Dared to Fight Back

by Kate Moore
Ebook, 2021
Tags
non-fiction, biography, American history, history, psychology, womens studies, abuse, relationships, Kindle, Illinois, compassion
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
303.484092

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel van der Kolk MD
Ebook, 2014
Tags
non-fiction, psychology, science, medicine, Kindle, abuse, relationships, anxiety, psychiatry, biology, self-help — 4 more, compassion, domestic violence, womens studies, trauma
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
616.8521206

How to keep house while drowning : a gentle approach to cleaning and organizing

by KC Davis
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
non-fiction, cleaning, psychology, housekeeping, ADHD, self-help, neurodiversity, organization
Collection
Paper Books
Status
Available
Call number
648

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

by Layla F. Saad
Ebook, 2020
Tags
Kindle, non-fiction, sociology, racism, compassion
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
305.809

Salt, fat, acid, heat : the four elements of good cooking

by Samin Nosrat
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
non-fiction, food, cookbook, science, food science, chemistry
Collections
Paper Books, Currently reading
Status
Available
Call number
641.5

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann
Paperback, 2006
Tags
history, American history, renaissance history, non-fiction, archaeology, Native American, anthropology, Aztecs, Incas, Mayans, Columbus — 9 more, earth science, ecology, Peru, Mexico, agriculture, farming, biology, science, Latin America
Collection
Paper Books
Status
Available
Call number
970.011

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

by Erik Larson
Paperback, 2011
Tags
history, WWII, non-fiction, Germany, biography, modern history, Europe
Collection
Paper Books
Status
Available
Call number
943.155086092

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

by Isabel Wilkerson
Ebook, 2010
Tags
non-fiction, history, American history, Illinois, racism, California, New York, Kindle, compassion
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
304.808996073

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

by Sam Kean
Ebook, 2010
Tags
non-fiction, science, chemistry, history, Kindle, physics
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
546.8

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

by Bryan Stevenson
Ebook, 2014
Tags
non-fiction, American history, government, politics, racism, Kindle, history, biography, poverty, prison reform, Alabama — 3 more, abuse, relationships, compassion
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
353.48092

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

by Lynne Truss
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
writing, non-fiction, grammar, linguistics, education, language arts
Collection
Paper Books
Status
Available
Call number
428.2

Preparing for War: the extremist history of white Christian nationalism -- and what comes next

by Bradley Onishi
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
non-fiction, history, American history, Christianity, politics, government, racism, California, compassion
Collection
Paper Books
Status
Available
Call number
322.10973

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

by Matthew Desmond
Ebook, 2016
Tags
non-fiction, poverty, economics, Kindle, sociology, Wisconsin, compassion
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
339.460973

Safe and Sound: a renter-friendly guide to home repair

by Mercury Stardust
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
non-fiction, DIY, homesteading
Collection
Paper Books
Status
Available
Call number
643.7

Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand
Paperback, 2014
Tags
non-fiction, biography, WWII, history, modern history, Louis Zamperini, Christianity, sports, running, Japan, suffering — 3 more, marine, Asia, trauma
Collection
Paper Books
Status
Available
Call number
940.547252092

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

by Barbara Ehrenreich
Ebook, 2010
Tags
non-fiction, economics, politics, poverty, sociology, compassion, American history, anthropology, biography, autobiography, business — 6 more, womens studies, history, Florida, Maine, Minnesota, Kindle
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
305.569092

On the Curry Trail: Chasing the Flavor That Seduced the World

by Raghavan Iyer
Ebook, 2023
Tags
non-fiction, food, cookbook, international food, food history, history, Kindle
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
641.3384

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

by Devon Price
Ebook, 2022
Tags
non-fiction, psychology, sociology, autism, neurodiversity, Kindle, science, disability, psychiatry, compassion
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
616.85882

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander
Ebook, 2020
Tags
non-fiction, politics, racism, sociology, government, American history, Kindle, compassion
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
364.973

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World

by Tim Marshall
Ebook, 2015
Tags
non-fiction, geography, politics, modern history, Kindle, Russia, China, Africa, India, Pakistan, Japan — 29 more, Korea, Greenland, Afghanistan, Angola, Argentina, Bangladesh, Congo, Ethiopia, Germany, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Poland, Ukraine, American history, Syria, atlas, government, history, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Latin America, Mediterranean
Collection
Kindle
Series
Politics of Place (1)
Status
Available
Call number
320.12

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ebook, 2010
Tags
non-fiction, business, economics, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, money, Kindle, statistics, logic, sociology — 1 more, decision making
Collection
Kindle
Series
Incerto (2)
Status
Available
Call number
003.54

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts

by Joshua Hammer
Ebook, 2016
Tags
non-fiction, history, modern history, Africa, Mali, Kindle, Islam
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
025.8

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

by Timothy Keller
Ebook, 2008
Tags
non-fiction, apologetics, Kindle, evangelism, Christianity, Christian living, philosophy, atheism, suffering
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
239
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