Genre search:Nonfiction

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Henrietta Lacks, HeLa cells, cancer research, human experimentation, medical ethics
Status
Available

How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

by Thomas C. Foster
Paperback, 2003
Status
Available

1776

by David McCullough
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
American revolution, George Washington, U.S. History
Status
Available

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
U.S. civil war, Abraham Lincoln, cabinet, U.S. history
Status
Available

A Brief History of Time : From the Big Bang to Black Holes

by Stephen W. Hawking
Hardcover, 1988
Tags
creation, philosophy, physics
Status
Available

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

by Lynne Truss
Hardcover, 2004
Status
Available

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
world war 2, Pacific Ocean, japan biography, prison camp
Status
Available

Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive

by Philipp Dettmer
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
immune system, immunology
Status
Available
Call number
HuAn

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

by Timothy Keller
Paperback, 2009
Tags
christian apologetics, faith, skepticism
Status
Available

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

by Dava Sobel
Paperback, 1996
Tags
navigation, longitude, John Harrison, time measurement, B1693-1776
Status
Available
Call number
B1693

Mere Christianity

by C. S. Lewis
Paperback, 2001
Tags
apologetics, Christianity, AmblesideOnline
Status
Available

Mere Christianity

by C. S. Lewis
Paperback, 2015
Tags
doctrinal theology, christian apologetics, Christian ethics
Status
Available

One Summer: America, 1927

by Bill Bryson
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
H1927, U.S. History, U.S. popular culture, Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh
Status
Available
Call number
HIST/BRYSON

The Wright Brothers

by David McCullough
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, airplanes, inventors and inventions
Series
Great Achievements in American History
Status
Available

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

by Joseph J. Ellis
Paperback, 2002
Tags
american revolution, biography, us history
Status
Available

Salt: A World History

by Mark Kurlansky
Paperback, 2003
Tags
salt, minerals, world history
Status
Available

Confessions of St. Augustine

by Saint Augustine
Paperback, 1977
Tags
Saint Augustine, Christian conversion, B354-430
Status
Available
Call number
B354

Confessions of Saint Augustine

by St. Augustine
Paperback, 1960
Tags
augustine, theology
Status
Available

On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

by Karen Swallow Prior
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
Great Gatsby, Tom Jones, Tale of Two Cities, Huckleberry Finn, Silence, The Road, Death of Ivan Ilych, Ethan Frome, Pilgrim's Progress, Persuasion, Jane Austen — 2 more, George Saunders, Flannery O'Conner
Status
Available

How the Irish Saved Civilization (Hinges of History)

by Thomas Cahill
Paperback, 1996
Tags
ireland, medieval history, celtic christianity
Series
Hinges of History (1)
Status
Available
Call number
H405

The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Paperback, 2019
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

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West

by Stephen Ambrose
Paperback, 1997
Tags
ALA Notable book, Lewis and Clark, Thomas Jefferson, US exploration, US history, H1803
Status
Available

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (No Series)

by S. C. Gwynne
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Indians of North America, Comanche Indians, Texas history, Quanah Parker, Cynthia Ann Parker, frontier and pioneer life, Ranald Slidell Mackenzie
Status
Available
Call number
H1871

Washington: A Life

by Ron Chernow
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
George Washington, U.S. presidents, B1732-1799
Status
Available
Call number
B1732

Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition

by Margot Lee Shetterly
Paperback, 2016
Tags
space exploration, NASA, mathematicians, people of color, H1943
Status
Available
Call number
H1943

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

by Nicholas Carr
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
neuropsychology, internet, brains
Status
Available

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

by Anne Fadiman
Hardcover, 1998
Tags
books and reading, essays, libraries
Status
Available

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Movie Tie-In)

by Nathaniel Philbrick
Paperback, 2015
Tags
Essex whaleship, shipwrecks
Status
Available

Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt

by Kate Messner
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
gardening fiction
Series
Over and Under
Status
Available
Call number
BIOL

Decision Points

by George W. Bush
Paperback, 2011
Status
Checked out

The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

by Rod Dreher
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
Saint Benedict, Christianity and culture, monasticism, community
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

Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity

by Nabeel Qureshi
Paperback, 2014
Status
Available

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

by Erik Larson
Paperback, 2000
Tags
H1900, Galveston hurricane, Isaac Cline
Status
Available
Call number
H1900

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

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

by Ralph Leighton
Paperback, 1986
Tags
richard feynman, physics, biography
Series
Feynman Memoirs
Status
Available

Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

by Steve Sheinkin
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
atomic bomb, H1938-1952, Secret Service, Operation Freshman, world war 2, commando operations
Status
Available
Call number
H1938

Story of the World, Volume 1: Ancient Times Audiobook CD: From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor, Revised Edition (7 CDs) (v. 1)

by Susan Wise Bauer
CD audiobook, 2006
Tags
ancient history
Series
Story of the World (1)
Status
Checked out

The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child; Volume 1: Ancient Times

by Susan Wise Bauer
Paperback, 2002
Tags
world history, ancient history, egypt, mesopotamia, greece, rome
Series
Story of the World (1)
Status
Available

The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: Volume 1: Ancient Times: From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor, Revised Edition

by Susan Wise Bauer
Paperback, 2006
Series
Story of the World (1)
Status
Available

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

by Richard Louv
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
nature study, play
Status
Available

Case for Faith, The

by Lee Strobel
Paperback, 2000
Tags
apologetics
Series
The Case for ... (2)
Status
Available

Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

by Tish Harrison Warren
Paperback, 2016
Status
Available

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

by Margot Lee Shetterly
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Christine Darden, mathematicians, space program, NASA, H1943-1969
Status
Available
Call number
H1943

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)

by Malala Yousafzai
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
women's education, Pakistan history, Malala Yousafzai
Status
Available
Call number
ASIA

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

by Stephen E. Ambrose
Paperback, 2001
Status
Missing

Nothing Like It In the World : The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

by Stephen E. Ambrose
Paperback, 2001
Tags
transcontinental railroad, trains, us history, H1863-1869
Status
Available
Call number
H1863

Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind

by Alan Jacobs
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
literature and society, anxiety, presentism, philosophy
Status
Available

Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

by Russ Ramsey
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
Rembrandt van RIjn, Johannes Vermer, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Jean Frederic Bazille, Vincent van Gogh, Henry Tanner, Edward Hopper, Lilias Trotter, art and artists, art museum
Status
Checked out
Call number
ART
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