Tag search:nonfiction

Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule

by Michel Gobat
Paperback, 2005
Tags
history, Latin America, Nicaragua, 20th century, nonfiction
Collection
5-star books
Series
American Encounters/Global Interactions (2005)
Status
Available
Call number
327.7285073

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

Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse

by Mary Oliver
Paperback, 1998
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
821.009

The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

by Kao Kalia Yang
Paperback, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, memoir
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
959.7043092

Special Edition Using FileMaker 9

by Jesse Feiler
Paperback, 2007
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Your library
Series
Special Edition Using...
Status
Available
Call number
005.75

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

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

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

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

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

by Alexandra Fuller
Paperback, 2003
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Your library
Series
Alexandra Fuller Memoirs (1)
Status
Available
Call number
968.9104092

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

A Poetry Handbook

by Mary Oliver
Paperback, 1994
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
808.1

Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery

by Paul Collins
Paperback, 2014
Tags
nonfiction, 18th century, United States, New York City, Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, murder
Collections
Your library, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
364.152309747109033

Living Faith

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

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

by Bill Bryson
Ebook, 2015
Tags
21st century, nonfiction, travel, humor, Britain, grumpy old men
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2016
Series
Bill Bryson's Complete Notes (3)
Status
Available
Call number
914.104/8612

Dead Mountain: The untold true story of the Dyatlov Pass incident

by Donnie Eichar
Ebook, 2013
Tags
nonfiction, history
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
914.743

On the Rez

by Ian Frazier
Ebook, 2000
Tags
nonfiction, memoir
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
978.3/66

The Discarded Image: An introduction to Medieval and Renaissance literature

by C. S. Lewis
Ebook, 2013
Tags
nonfiction, religion
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
809.02

The Norman Conquest

by Marc Morris
Ebook, 2013
Tags
nonfiction, history
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
942.02

Afterthoughts

by Lawrence Block
Ebook, 2011
Tags
nonfiction, books about books
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

HBR's 10 must reads on managing people

by Harvard Business Review Editor
Ebook, 2011
Tags
nonfiction, business
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Series
HBR's 10 Must Reads
Status
Available
Call number
658.3

Ratification: The people debate the Constitution, 1787-1788

by Pauline Maier
Ebook, 2010
Tags
nonfiction, history
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
342.7302/9

The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's coal miners and their battle for freedom

by James R. Green
Ebook, 2015
Tags
nonfiction, history, 20th century, West Virginia, labor relations, coal miners, capitalist bastards
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2016
Status
Available
Call number
622/.3340973

The seven daughters of Eve

by Bryan Sykes
Paper Book, 2001
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
599.93/5

Stonehenge

by Bernard Cornwell
Ebook, 2000
Tags
nonfiction, prehistory, 2000 B.C., England, Reading Through Time January-March 2016: Prehistory
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2016
Status
Available
Call number
823/.914

Galileo's Daughter: A historical memoir of science, faith, and love

by Dava Sobel
Ebook, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, history, 16th century, Italy, Florence, scientific theory, physics, biography, astronomy, 2016 Nonfiction Challenge: Religion/Spirituality
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2016
Status
Available
Call number
520/.92B

The Areas of My Expertise: An almanac of complete world knowledge compiled with instructive annotation and arranged in useful order

by John Hodgman
Digital audiobook, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, humor
Collections
Your library, Audiobooks
Series
Compendium of Complete World Knowledge (abridged)
Status
Available
Call number
818.607

Missoula: Rape and the justice system in a college town

by Jon Krakauer
Ebook, 2015
Tags
nonfiction, 21st century, American West, Montana, Missoula, social justice, criminal justice system, sexual assault, college football, books that make you want to slap somebody
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2016
Status
Available
Call number
362.88309786/85

A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus revolutionized the cosmos

by Dava Sobel
Ebook, 2011
Tags
nonfiction, history, 16th century, Poland, Copernicus, astronomy, scientific theory, discoveries, Reading Through Time March 2016: Discoveries and Innovations
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2016
Status
Available
Call number
520.9/2

Feeding a Yen: Savoring local specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco

by Calvin Trillin
Ebook, 2003
Tags
nonfiction, travel, 20th century, 21st century, worldwide, food, 2016 Nonfiction Challenge: Travel
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2016
Series
Tummy Trilogy (Continuation 4)
Status
Available
Call number
641.5973

Stuff : compulsive hoarding and the meaning of things

by Randy O. Frost
Ebook, 2010
Tags
nonfiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
616.85/227

The Thousand-Year Flood : The Ohio-Mississippi disaster of 1937

by David Welky
Ebook, 2011
Tags
nonfiction, history, 20th century, 1930, 1937, American Midwest, American South, Ohio River Valley, Mississippi River Valley, floods, natural disaster — 4 more, government, FDR, New Deal, 2016 Nonfiction Challenge: History
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2016
Status
Available
Call number
363.34/93097709043

Just Mercy: A story of justice and redemption

by Bryan Stevenson
Ebook, 2014
Tags
nonfiction, 20th century, 21st century, American South, Alabama, criminal justice system, wrongful conviction, human rights, legal eagles
Collections
Your library, eBooks, 5-star books, Read in 2016
Status
Available
Call number
353.4/8092

Queen Isabella: Treachery, adultery, and murder in medieval England

by Alison Weir
Ebook, 2005
Tags
nonfiction, history, biography, 14th century, England, she-wolves, treason, royals, infidelity, wives who misbehave, Reading Through Time January 2016: Women in Command — 1 more, 2016 Nonfiction Challenge: Biography
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2016
Status
Available
Call number
942.03/6/092B

Crapalachia: A Biography of Place

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

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

The Dreyfus Affair: The scandal that tore France in two

by Piers Paul Read
Ebook, 2012
Tags
nonfiction, history, 20th century, France, espionage
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
944.081

Life

by Keith Richards
Ebook, 2010
Tags
nonfiction, biography, memoir
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
782.42166092

Maphead : charting the wide, weird world of geography wonks

by Ken Jennings
Paper Book, 2011
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
912

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

by Jane Jacobs
Ebook, 2016
Tags
nonfiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
307.76/0973

Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine

by George Dohrmann
Paper Book, 2010
Tags
nonfiction, sports, 20th century, 21st century, American West, California, youth basketball, high school basketball, "amateur" athletics, exploitation
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
796.3230973
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