Genre search:General Nonfiction

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot
Paperback, 2011
Tags
book club pick-non fiction
Collections
gave away-read, bookclub selection, Read
Status
Available
Call number
616.02774092

The Library Book

by Susan Orlean
Paperback, 2019
Collections
ipad-ebook, Authographed copy, Read
Status
Available
Call number
027.4794

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

by Erik Larson
Paperback, 2004
Collections
bookclub selection, Read
Status
Available
Call number
364.15230977311

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

by Erik Larson
Hardcover, 2015
Collection
ARC
Status
Available
Call number
940.4

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

by Erik Larson
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
history-holocaust
Collection
ARC
Status
Available
Call number
327

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

by Barbara Ehrenreich
Paperback, 2002
Tags
memoir
Collections
bookclub selection, Read/Sold
Status
Available
Call number
305.569092

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.)

by Simon Winchester
Paperback, 2005
Tags
books about words
Status
Available
Call number
423.092

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

by David Grann
Paperback, 2010
Tags
history
Status
Available
Call number
918.11046

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer
Paperback, 1998
Tags
memoir-adventure
Status
Available
Call number
796.522092

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks

by Steven Johnson
Paperback, 2008
Tags
history-europe
Collections
ARC, gave away-read
Status
Available
Call number
941

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

by Hallie Rubenhold
Paperback, 2020
Collections
gave away-read, Read
Status
Available
Call number
362.88

Into the Wild

by Jon Krakauer
Paperback, 1997
Tags
memoir-adventure
Collections
gave away-read, Read
Status
Available
Call number
917.98045

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

by Mary Roach
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
afterlife
Status
Available
Call number
129

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

by Eric Schlosser
Paperback, 2001
Tags
memoir-food writing
Status
Available
Call number
394.10973

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity

by Katherine Boo
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
nonfiction-narrative
Collections
Early Review Book, gave away-read, Read
Status
Available
Call number
305.5

Columbine

by Dave Cullen
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
true crime
Collection
Read
Status
Available
Call number
373.7888

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

by Anthony Bourdain
Paperback, 2001
Tags
memoir-food writing
Status
Available
Call number
641.5092

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

by Bryan Stevenson
Paperback, 2015
Collections
bookclub selection, Read
Status
Available
Call number
353.4

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

by Casey Cep
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
true crime
Collection
ARC
Status
Available
Call number
364.152

The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

by Gretchen Rubin
Paperback, 2011
Tags
SELF IMPROVEMENT
Collections
gave away-read, bookclub selection, Read
Status
Available
Call number
920

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

by Deborah Blum
Paperback, 2011
Tags
true crime-historical
Status
Available
Call number
615

The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History

by John M. Barry
Hardcover, 2004
Status
Available
Call number
614.51809041

In the Heart of the Sea

by Nathaniel Philbrick
Book, 2000
Tags
history-shipwrecks
Status
Available
Call number
910.9164

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

by A. J. Jacobs
Paperback, 2008
Tags
humor
Status
Available
Call number
220

The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 2016
Tags
travel writing
Series
Bill Bryson's Complete Notes (3)
Status
Available
Call number
914.104

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

by Sheri Fink
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
history
Collections
ARC, gave away-read, Read
Status
Available
Call number
362.1109763

The seven habits of highly effective people : restoring the character ethic

by Stephen R. Covey
Paperback, 1990
Tags
business
Series
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Status
Available
Call number
158

The Glass Castle (a memoir,THE GLASS CASTLE)

by Jeannette Walls
Paperback, 2005
Tags
memoir
Status
Available
Call number
362.82092

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

by Tom Reiss
Paperback, 2013
Status
Available
Call number
944.04092

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

by Allison Hoover Bartlett
Paperback, 2010
Tags
books about books
Collection
bookclub selection
Status
Available
Call number
002.075

The 9/11 Commission report : final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States

by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States.
Paper Book, 2004
Tags
History
Collection
Read
Status
Available
Call number
973.931

On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition

by Charles Darwin
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
science
Collection
First Edition
Status
Available
Call number
576.82

Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

by Joshua Foer
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
travel writing
Collection
Read
Series
Atlas Obscura (1)
Status
Available
Call number
910.41

Isaac's Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

by Erik Larson
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
science
Status
Available
Call number
976.4139

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

by Candice Millard
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
history-us
Collections
gave away-read, bookclub selection, Read
Status
Available
Call number
918.113045

The Girls of Atomic City

by Denise Kiernan
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
history WWII
Collection
ARC
Status
Available
Call number
976.8

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

by Colin Dickey
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
ghosts/hauntings
Collection
Read
Status
Available
Call number
133.10973

The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

by Lindsey Fitzharris
Ebook, 2022
Status
Available
Call number
617.092

Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

by Daniel James Brown
Hardcover, 2021
Status
Available
Call number
940.54

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

by Lindsey Fitzharris
Paperback, 2018
Tags
non-fiction-medicine
Collections
gave away-read, bookclub selection
Status
Available
Call number
617.092

Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

by Ben Macintyre
Paperback, 2011
Tags
history-WWII
Status
Available
Call number
909

The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

by Rinker Buck
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
history-us
Collections
ARC, gave away-read
Status
Available
Call number
978

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

by Anne Fadiman
Paperback, 1998
Tags
Medicine
Collections
gave away-read, Read
Status
Available
Call number
306.461

Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

by Mitchell Zuckoff
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
memoir-historical-WWII
Collection
ARC
Status
Available
Call number
940.548

Lost in Shangri-La

by Mitchell Zuckoff
Paperback, 2012
Collection
ARC
Status
Available
Call number
940.548

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

by Simon Winchester
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
history
Collection
ARC
Status
Available
Call number
551.4613

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

by Stephen King
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
reference-writing
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

by Dee Brown
Paperback, 1972
Tags
history
Status
Available
Call number
978.00497

The Greatest Generation

by Tom Brokaw
Hardcover, 1998
Tags
history-WWII
Status
Available
Call number
940.548173

When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II

by Molly Manning
Paperback, 2015
Status
Available
Call number
028.90973
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