Awards search:Notable Books List

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression

by Studs Terkel
Paperback, 2000
Tags
great depression, us history, autobiography. oral history
Status
Available

1984 (Signet Classics)

by George Orwell
Paperback, 1961
Status
Available

Watership Down (Scribner Classics)

by Richard Adams
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
rabbits fiction
Series
Watership Down (1)
Status
Available

Possession: A Romance

by A.S. Byatt
Paperback, 1991
Tags
victorian fiction
Status
Available

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life - 1500 to the Present Edition: Reprint

by Jacques Barzun
Paperback, 2000
Tags
world history, philosophy, cultural history
Status
Available

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee
Paperback, 2002
Tags
pulitzer prize
Series
To Kill a Mockingbird (1)
Status
Available

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

by Jon Krakauer
Paperback, 1998
Tags
Mount Everest, mountain climbing
Status
Available

Cry, the Beloved Country

by Alan Paton
1948
Tags
South Africa fiction, Africa fiction
Status
Available

Cry, The Beloved Country (A Scribner Classic)

by Alan Paton
Paperback, 1987
Tags
South Africa fiction, crime fiction, forgiveness fiction
Status
Available

Rascal

by Sterling North
Paperback, date?
Tags
raccoons, autobiography, sonlight 5, Newbery honor
Status
Available
Call number
ZOOL

Rascal

by Sterling North
Hardcover, 1963
Tags
raccoons, autobiography, sonlight 5, Newbery honor
Status
Checked out

Rascal

by Sterling North
Paperback, 1991
Tags
raccoons fiction, pets fiction
Status
Available
Call number
NORTH

The Old Man and The Sea

by Ernest Hemingway
Paperback, 1995
Tags
twentieth century fiction
Status
Available

The Old Man and The Sea

by Ernest Hemingway
Paperback, 1995
Status
Available

Ordinary People

by Judith Guest
Paperback, 1980
Tags
suicide, fiction
Status
Available

The Chosen

by Chaim Potok
Hardcover, 1987
Series
The Chosen (1)
Status
Checked out

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro
Paperback, 2005
Status
Available

The Guns of August

by Barbara W. Tuchman
Hardcover, 1962
Tags
World war 1, European history, H1910-1915
Series
The Coming of the Great War (2)
Status
Available
Call number
H1910

A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts

by Robert Bolt
Paperback, 1990
Tags
Henry VIII drama, Sir Thomas More drama, plays, HF1530
Status
Available
Call number
HF1530

The Sea Around Us

by Rachel Carson
Hardcover, 1958
Tags
oceanography, marine biology, oceans
Series
Life of the Sea Trilogy (2)
Status
Available
Call number
MARI

The Battle of The Little Bighorn (Cobblestone)

by Meg Chorlian Editor
Paper Book, 1966
Tags
Battle of the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, Indians of North America, Lakota Sioux Indians, Crazy Horse, H1876
Series
Great Battles of History
Status
Available
Call number
H1876

Peter the Great: His Life and His World

by Robert K. Massie
Hardcover, 1980
Tags
Russian history, Peter the Great, kings and rulers, B1672-1725
Series
The Romanovs (1), Warrior Kings
Status
Available
Call number
B1672

Inferno (Bantam Classics)

by Dante Alighieri
Paperback, 1982
Tags
hell, Italy fiction, Divine Comedy
Series
The Divine Comedy (1)
Status
Available

Karen

by Marie Killilea
Hardcover, 1952
Tags
cerebral palsy, physically handicapped
Series
Karen Killilea (1)
Status
Available
Call number
B1940

The Echo of Greece

by Edith Hamilton
Hardcover, 1957
Tags
ancient Greece, Athens history, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Menander, Alexander the Great, Zeno, Epicetus, Marcus Aurelius — 1 more, Plutarch
Status
Available
Call number
H400BC

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Hardcover, 1978
Tags
fourteenth century, medieval history, France history, H1300's
Status
Available
Call number
H1300

The Right Stuff

by Tom Wolfe
Paperback, 2008
Tags
NASA fiction, astronauts fiction, space travel fiction, HF1960's
Status
Available
Call number
WOLFE

John Adams and the American Revolution

by Catherine Drinker Bowen
Paperback, 1970
Tags
american revolution, john adams, B1735-1846
Status
Available
Call number
B1735

Miracle At Philadelphia : The Story of the Constitutional Convention May - September 1787

by Catherine Drinker Bowen
Paperback, 1986
Tags
us constitution, us history
Status
Available

Witness (Cold War Classics)

by Whittaker Chambers
Paperback, 2014
Tags
autobiography, Communism. Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, cold war, spies, espionage, B1901-1961
Status
Available
Call number
B1901

Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students and Their High School

by Samuel G. Freedman
Hardcover, 1990
Tags
high school, teaching, education
Status
Available

Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds

by Joy Adamson
Hardcover, 1987
Tags
lions, African wildlife, Elsa
Series
Free Series (1)
Status
Available
Call number
AFR

Gift from the Sea

by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Paperback, 1991
Tags
life philosophy, inspirational
Status
Available

Profiles in Courage

by John F. Kennedy
Hardcover, 1955
Tags
us senate, us history
Status
Available

Too Late The Phalarope

by Alan Paton
Book, 1953
Tags
south africa fiction, africa fiction
Status
Available

The Proud Tower : A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914

by Barbara W. Tuchman
Paperback, 1978
Tags
world war 1, european history
Series
The Coming of the Great War (1)
Status
Available

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

by Ernest J. Gaines
Paperback, 1982
Tags
slavery, black americans, civil rights movement
Status
Available

The Memory of Old Jack

by Wendell Berry
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Kentucky fiction
Series
Port William Membership
Status
Available

The Light in the Forest

by Conrad Richter
Hardcover, 1982
Tags
Indians of North America fiction
Status
Available

Captain from Castile

by Samuel Shellabarger
Hardcover, 1945
Tags
Spain fiction
Status
Available

Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft

by Thor Heyerdahl
Paperback, 1990
Tags
Pacific Ocean, adventure, Kon-tiki
Status
Available
Call number
ASIA

Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft

by Thor Heyerdahl
Paperback, 1990
Tags
H1947, AmblesideOnline, journeys
Status
Available
Call number
H1947

The Magnificent Century

by Thomas B. Costain
1959
Tags
british history, thirteenth century
Series
The Pageant of England (2), The Plantagenets (2)
Status
Available

Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

by Nathaniel Philbrick
Paperback, 2004
Tags
United States Exploring Expedition, ethnology, Oceania, H1838-1842
Status
Available
Call number
H1838

The Life and Times of Chaucer

by John Gardner
Hardcover, 1977
Tags
Geoffrey Chaucer, B1343-1400
Status
Available
Call number
B1343

Francis Bacon: The Temper of a Man

by Catherine Drinker Bowen
Hardcover, 1963
Tags
Francis Bacon
Status
Available

The Birth of Britain (History of the English Speaking People, Volume 1)

by Winston S. (Spencer) Churchill
Hardcover, 1956
Tags
English language, British history
Series
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1)
Status
Available

Wandering Through Winter: A Naturalist's 20,000 Mile Journey Through the North American Winter

by Edwin Way Teale
Hardcover, 1965
Tags
winter, travel, nature study
Series
The American Seasons (4)
Status
Available
Call number
METE

North with the Spring: A Naturalist's Record of a 17,000 Mile Journey with the North-American Spring (The American Seasons, No. 1)

by Edwin Way Teale
Hardcover, 1951
Tags
spring, nature study, seasons, travel
Series
The American Seasons (1)
Status
Available
Call number
METE

Beowulf

by Kevin Crossley-Holland Translator
Paper Book, 1968
Tags
Norse mythology, heroes
Status
Available
Call number
HF800
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