Genre search:General Nonfiction

The Drunken Botanist: The plants that create the world's great drinks

by Amy Stewart
Ebook, 2013
Tags
botany, drinks, alcohol, beer, wine, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
581.632

Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific

by Christina Thompson
Paperback, 2020
Tags
history, world history, polynesia, pacific ocean, polynesian history, tpb, unread
Call number
996

An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven paradoxical tales

by Oliver Sacks
Paperback, 1995
Tags
nonfiction, neurology, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
616.8 20

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man

by Emmanuel Acho
Paperback, 2020
Tags
anti-racism, racism, sociology, unread, tpb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
305.800973

She has her mother's laugh : the powers, perversions, and potential of heredity

by Carl Zimmer
Ebook, 2018
Tags
nonfiction, biology, genetics, heredity, unread, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
576.5

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

by Dee Brown
Paperback, 1972
Tags
unread, nonfiction, history, american history, native american, native american history, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
978.00497

Thing explainer : complicated stuff in simple words

by Randall Munroe
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
xkcd, science, humor, nonfiction, hb
Call number
500

Escape from Camp 14: One man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West

by Blaine Harden
Paperback, 2013
Tags
nonfiction, north korea, memoir, tpb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
365.45092 B

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A memoir

by Bill Bryson
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
hb, nonfiction, memoir, humor
Call number
910.4092 B 22

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to Mars

by Nathalia Holt
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
history, space program, history of technology, women's history, hb, history of women in tech
Call number
629.4072

Wicked Plants: The weed that killed Lincoln's mother & other botanical atrocities

by Amy Stewart
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
nonfiction, botany, plants, hb
Series
Wicked Things (1)
Call number
581.6/5

Traffic: Why we drive the way we do (and what it says about us)

by Tom Vanderbilt
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
hb, sociology, traffic
Call number
629.28/3

Mountains Beyond Mountains

by Tracy Kidder
Paperback, 2004
Tags
biography, medicine, haiti, ftpml, tpb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
610.92

Complications: A surgeon's notes on an imperfect science

by Atul Gawande
Paperback, 2002
Tags
nonfiction, medicine, surgery, memoir, tpb
Call number
617.092B

A Black Women's History of the United States

by Daina Ramey Berry
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
history, american history, african american history, women's history, hb, unread
Call number
305.48/896073

Cod: A biography of the fish that changed the world

by Mark Kurlansky
Paperback, 1998
Tags
nonfiction, history, microhistory, fish, cod, food history, tpb, ftpml
Call number
333.95/6633

Africa is Not a Country: Notes on a bright continent

by Dipo Faloyin
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
history, world history, africa, african history, geopolitics, sociology, hb, unread
Call number
960.33

My Life in France

by Julia Child
Paperback, 2007
Tags
jane's, memoir, france, cooking, julia child, tpb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
641.5092 B 22

The Know-it-All: One man's humble quest to become the smartest person in the world

by A. J. Jacobs
Paperback, 2004
Tags
nonfiction, memoir, encyclopedia, book about books, harmless obsessions, my year of doing something weird, tpb
Call number
031

Eat the Buddha: Life and death in a Tibetan town

by Barbara Demick
Paperback, 2020
Tags
china, tibet, history, nonfiction, tpb
Call number
951/.38

Code Girls: The untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II

by Liza Mundy
Paperback, 2018
Tags
women's history, american history, wwii, cryptanalysis, tpb, history of women in tech
Call number
940.54/86730922

Bait and Switch: The (futile) pursuit of the American dream

by Barbara Ehrenreich
Paperback, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, economics, labor, unemployment, tpb
Call number
650.14

Made in America

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 1994
Tags
nonfiction, language, history, english language, tpb
Call number
420.973 20

The Perfect Storm: A true story of men against the sea

by Sebastian Junger
Paperback, 2000
Tags
nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, disasters, storms, ftppl, mmpb
Call number
974.45 20

And the Band Played On: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic

by Randy Shilts
Paperback, 1988
Tags
history, lgbtq, aids, us history, tpb, ftpml
Call number
362.1/969792/00973

Chaos: Making a new science

by James Gleick
Paperback, 1987
Tags
nonfiction, math, popular-level, fractals, chaos, tpb
Call number
003.19

Maphead: Charting the wide, weird world of geography wonks

by Ken Jennings
Paperback, 2012
Tags
nonfiction, geography, tpb
Call number
912

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...: Understanding philosophy through jokes

by Thomas Cathcart
Paperback, 2008
Tags
philosophy, humor, mmpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
102.07

Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 1998
Tags
travel, europe, humor, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Series
Bill Bryson's Travels (2)
Call number
914.04/55 20

The Deviant's War: The homosexual vs. the United States of America

by Eric Cervini
Paperback, 2020
Tags
history, american history, lgbtq, frank kameny, tpb
Call number
306.76/6092B

All the President's Men

by Carl Bernstein
Paperback, 1976
Tags
nonfiction, history, us history, politics, watergate, collaboration, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
364.1/32/0973 19

Garlic and sapphires: The secret life of a critic in disguise

by Ruth Reichl
Paperback, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, food, memoir, tpb
Call number
641.5092

Kingdom of Characters: The language revolution that made China modern

by Jing Tsu
Paperback, 2022
Tags
history, unread, china, chinese language, languages, chinese, tpb
Call number
495.11/1

Letter to a Christian Nation

by Sam Harris
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
hb, religion, christianity, nonfiction
Call number
277.3083

The Canon: A whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science

by Natalie Angier
Ebook, 2007
Tags
nonfiction, science, popular-level, history of science, ebook, coverguess mismatch
Collection
E-books
Call number
500

Seeing Further: The story of science & the Royal Society

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 2011
Tags
essays, history, history of science, royal society, tpb
Call number
506.041

The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The quest to crack an ancient code

by Margalit Fox
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
language, decipherment, linear b, hb
Call number
487.1

The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English

by Hana Videen
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
language, english language, old english, unread, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
429.81

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 1990
Tags
travel, usa, humor, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Series
Bill Bryson's Travels (1)
Call number
917.3/0492 19

Secret City: The hidden history of gay Washington

by James Kirchick
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
history, american history, lgbtq, jane's, hb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
306.76/6097530904

The Underground Girls of Kabul: In search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan

by Jenny Nordberg
Paperback, 2015
Tags
sociology, gender, afghanistan, bacha posh, cross-dressing, tpb
Call number
305.309581

The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the myth of the Scandinavian utopia

by Michael Booth
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
travel, history, scandinavia, norway, sweden, denmark, finland, iceland, hb
Call number
948.071

Genome: The autobiography of a species in 23 chapters

by Matt Ridley
Paperback, 2000
Tags
nonfiction, biology, genetics, human biology, tpb
Call number
599.93/5 21

Pale Blue Dot: A vision of the human future in space

by Carl Sagan
Hardcover, 1994
Tags
jane's, space, nonfiction, hb, unread
Collection
Jane's
Call number
919.904

Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet

by Claire L. Evans
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
history, history of technology, women's history, internet history, hb, signed copy, history of women in tch
Call number
004.092/2B

How We Got to Now: Six innovations that made the modern world

by Steven Johnson
Paperback, 2015
Tags
nonfiction, history, history of technology, tpb
Call number
338.064

The Golden Ratio: The story of phi, the world's most astonishing number

by Mario Livio
Paperback, 2003
Tags
math, popular-level, geometry, history, tpb
Call number
516.204

Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the lost city one step at a time

by Mark Adams
Paperback, 2012
Tags
nonfiction, travel, history, adventure, south america, peru, incas, machu picchu, tpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
985.37

The Children's Blizzard

by David Laskin
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
nonfiction, history, american history, weather, south dakota, nebraska, disasters, blizzards, hb
Call number
977.031

Persian Fire: The first world empire and the battle for the West

by Tom Holland
Paperback, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, history, ancient history, ancient greece, persia, tpb
Call number
935.05
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