Tag search:nonfiction

Love, Nina: A nanny writes home

by Nina Stibbe
Ebook, 2014
Tags
nonfiction, memoir, 20th century, England, London, nannies, epistolary, funny
Collections
Read but unowned, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
649.092B

Out of My League: A rookie's survival in the bigs

by Dirk Hayhurst
Ebook, 2012
Tags
nonfiction, 21st century, America, sports, baseball, minor leagues
Collections
Read but unowned, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
796.357/092B

Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life in the minor leagues of baseball

by John Feinstein
Ebook, 2014
Tags
nonfiction, 21st century, America, sports, baseball, minor leagues
Collections
Read but unowned, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
796.357/64

America's Women

by Gail Collins
Ebook, 2009
Tags
nonfiction, history, America, women's studies, women
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
305.40973

The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America

by Timothy Egan
Ebook, 2009
Tags
nonfiction, history, 20th century, 1910s, American Pacific Northwest, Idaho, Montana, forestry, wildfires, conservation, Teddy Roosevelt
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
973.911

The Mother Tongue: English & how it got that way

by Bill Bryson
Ebook, 2015
Tags
nonfiction, history, words and language
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
420.9

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

by Erik Larson
Ebook, 2015
Tags
nonfiction, history, 20th century, 1915, World War I, war, submarines, ocean liners, Atlantic Ocean, messing about with boats
Collections
Read but unowned, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
940.4/514

The Men Who United the States: America's explorers, inventors, eccentrics, and mavericks, and the creation of one nation, indivisible

by Simon Winchester
Ebook, 2013
Tags
nonfiction, history, American history, United States, inventors, technology, exploration, engineering
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
973

Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten years in solitary with the Bard

by Laura Bates
Ebook, 2013
Tags
nonfiction, 21st century, American Midwest, Indiana, prison, literature, education, teachers, Shakespeare, pedogogy, criminal justice system
Collections
Read but unowned, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
822.3/3

No Plot? No Problem! A low-stress, high-velocity guide to writing a novel in 30 days

by Chris Baty
Paper Book, 2004
Tags
nonfiction, reference, humor, on writing, NaNoWriMo, TIOLI Jan2015
Collections
Read but unowned, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
808.3

Shot in the Heart

by Mikal Gilmore
Paper Book, 1994
Tags
nonfiction, memoir, American West, American Pacific Northwest, Utah, Oregon, Gary Gilmore, death penalty, dysfunctional families, violence, TIOLI Jan2015
Collections
Your library, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
364.1523 GIL

Rock Island: All American city

by David R. Collins
Paper Book, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, history, Illinois
Collection
Your library
Series
Images of America [Arcadia] (Illinois)
Status
Available
Call number
977.3393

James Dean: Little Boy Lost

by Joe Hyams
Paper Book, 1992
Tags
nonfiction, biography
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
791.43/028/092B

Leaving a Trace: On keeping a journal, the art of transforming a life into stories

by Alexandra Johnson
Paper Book, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, 20th century, on writing
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
808/.06692

Over Here: The First World War and American society

by David M. Kennedy
Paper Book, 2004
Tags
nonfiction, 20th century, 1910s, America, history, World War I
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
940.3/73

The Good Book: Reading the Bible with mind and heart

by Peter J. Gomes
Paper Book, 1996
Tags
nonfiction, 20th century, America, religion, Christianity
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
220.1

The Dirty Life: A memoir of farming, food, and love

by Kristin Kimball
Paper Book, 2011
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
631.584

Five Days at Memorial: Life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital

by Sheri, Fink
Paper Book, 2013
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
362.1109763/35

Trapped Under the Sea: Tne engineering marvel, five men, and a disaster ten miles into the darkness

by Neil Swidey
Paper Book, 2014
Tags
nonfiction, 20th century, American New England, Massachusetts, Boston, engineering, when things go sideways, underwater adventures, Early Reviewers
Collections
Your library, Read in 2016
Status
Available
Call number
363.11/9628390974461

American Work-Sports A history of competitions for cornhuskers, lumberjacks, firemen and others

by Frank Zarnowski
Paper Book, 2013
Tags
nonfiction, history, 19th century, America, working class, sports, Early Reviewers
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
790.1/34

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

by Dee Brown
Ebook, 2012
Tags
nonfiction, history, 19th century, American West, Native Americans
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
978/.00497

Crapalachia: A Biography of Place

by Scott McClanahan
Paperback, 2013
Tags
nonfiction, memoir
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Living Faith

by Jimmy Carter
Paper Book, 1996
Tags
nonfiction, memoir
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
248.4/861

Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II

by Mitchell Zuckoff
Ebook, 2013
Tags
nonfiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
998.2

Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?

by Jimmy Breslin
Ebook, 2003
Tags
nonfiction, sports, baseball, 20th century, 1960s, 1962, New York City, New York Mets, lovable losers
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2017
Status
Available
Call number
796.357

The Summer Game

by Roger Angell
Ebook, 1972
Tags
nonfiction, essays, 20th century, 1960s, 1970s, United States, baseball
Collections
Your library, eBooks, 5-star books, Read in 2016
Status
Available
Call number
796.357/0973

Five Seasons

by Roger Angell
Ebook, 2013
Tags
nonfiction, history, sports, baseball
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
796.357/0973

Summer of '49

by David Halberstam
Ebook, 2002
Tags
nonfiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
796.357/64/097446109044

October 1964

by David Halberstam
Ebook, 1994
Tags
nonfiction, history, 20th century, 1960s, 1964, America, New York City, St. Louis, baseball, World Series, Yankees — 2 more, Cardinals, 2018 Nonfiction Challenge: Prizewinners
Collections
Your library, eBooks, 5-star books, Read in 2018
Status
Available
Call number
796.357/646

Writing the Novel From Plot to Print

by Lawrence Block
Ebook, 1982
Tags
nonfiction, reference, 20th century, on writing
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
808/.025

The Knitter's Life List : To do, to know, to explore, to make

by Gwen Steege
Ebook, 2011
Tags
nonfiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
746.43/2

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

by Annie Dillard
Ebook, 2009
Tags
nonfiction, biography, memoir
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
508.755/9

Bruce Springsteen In Focus: 1980-2012

by Debra L. Rothenberg
Paper Book, 2013
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
782.42166092

The Children

by David Halberstam
Ebook, 2012
Tags
nonfiction, history, 1960s, American South, civil rights, social justice
Collections
Your library, eBooks, 5-star books, Read in 2017
Status
Available
Call number
323.1196073

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

by Gilbert King
Paperback, 2013
Tags
nonfiction, history, 20th century, 1950s, American South, Florida, civil rights, criminal justice system, race relations
Collections
Your library, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
305.896

Runaway Dream: Born to Run and Bruce Springsteen's American Vision

by Louis P. Masur
Paperback, 2010
Tags
nonfiction, analysis, 20th century, America, Bruce Springsteen, music, musicians, rock and roll
Collections
Your library, Read in 2016
Status
Available
Call number
782.42166092

Talk About a Dream: The essential interviews of Bruce Springsteen

by Christopher Phillips
Paperback, 2013
Tags
nonfiction, anthology, 20th century, 21st century, Bruce Springsteen, music, rock and roll
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
782.42166092

In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero

by Otto Penzler
Ebook, 2012
Tags
nonfiction, 21st century, Robert B. Parker, Spenser, essays
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
809

Washington: The indispensable man

by James Thomas Flexner
Ebook, 1974
Tags
Presidents' Challenge, nonfiction
Collection
eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
973.4/1/092B

Season Ticket

by Roger Angell
Ebook, 1988
Tags
nonfiction, anthology, 20th century, 1980s, America, baseball, TIOLI Feb2015
Collections
Your library, eBooks, 5-star books, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
796/.357/0973

Mistrial: An inside look at how the criminal justice system works and sometimes doesn't

by Mark Geragos
Paper Book, ?
Tags
nonfiction, 20th century, America, criminal justice system, polemic, Early Reviewers
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
345.73

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

by Mitchell Zuckoff
Ebook, 2012
Tags
nonfiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
940.548

Austerity Britain, 1945-51

by David Kynaston
Ebook, 2013
Tags
nonfiction, history, 20th century, 1940s, 1950s, Britain, social history, post-war society
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2018
Series
Tales of a New Jerusalem (1)
Status
Available
Call number
941.0854

Moonlight Blogger: Essays from the Subversive Copy Editor Blog

by Carol Fisher Saller
Ebook, 2011
Tags
nonfiction, essays, 21st century, copy editing, grammar
Collections
Your library, eBooks, 5-star books
Status
Available

The terrible hours : the greatest submarine rescue in history

by Peter Maas
Ebook, 2001
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
910/.916345

Clearing the Mind for Creativity

by John Kao
Ebook, 2011
Tags
nonfiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available

The Receptionist: An education at the New Yorker

by Janet Groth
Ebook, 2013
Tags
nonfiction, memoir, 20th century, 1960s, 1970s, New York City, New Yorker magazine
Collections
eBooks, Read in 2018
Status
Available
Call number
051B

Salt: A world history

by Mark Kurlansky
Ebook, 2002
Tags
nook, nonfiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
553.63209

I used to know that : stuff you forgot from school

by Caroline Taggart
Ebook, 2009
Tags
nook, nonfiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Series
Blackboard Books (General)
Status
Available
Call number
031.02

Don't know much about mythology : everything you need to know about the greatest stories in human history but never learned

by Kenneth C. Davis
Ebook, 2005
Tags
nook, nonfiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Series
Don't Know Much About
Status
Available
Call number
201/.3
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