Audacious
Adventures, Dismaying Disasters, Stories of the Sea
Audacious
Adventures
Aronson, Marc. Sir Walter Ralegh & the
Quest for El Dorado. (92 Raleigh)
Blumberg, Rhoda. Shipwrecked! The True Adventures
of a Japanese Boy. (92 Nakahama)
In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible
shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island,
fourteen-year-old Manjiro learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first
Japanese person to set foot in the United States.
Cox, Clinton. Houdini: Master of Illusion.
(92 Houdini)
Gonzales, Laurence. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies,
and Why. (613.69 Gon)
Holland, Barbara. They Went Whistling: Women
Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways & Renegades. (920 Hol)
Johnson, Rebecca L. Ernest Shackleton: Gripped by the
Antartic. (92 Shackleton)
Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody. Ice Story: Shackleton's Lost
Expedition. (910.453 Kim)
Krakauer, Jon. Into the Wild. (910.4
Kra)
From
Publishers Weekly:
“After
graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete
Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000
savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, where he went to live in
the wilderness. Four months later, he turned up dead. His diary, letters and two
notes found at a remote campsite tell of his desperate effort to survive,
apparently stranded by an injury and slowly starving. They also reflect the
posturing of a confused young man, raised in affluent Annandale, VA, who
self-consciously adopted a Tolstoyan renunciation of wealth and return to
nature. Krakauer, a contributing editor to Outside and Men's Journal, retraces
McCandless's ill-fated antagonism toward his father, Walt, an eminent aerospace
engineer. Krakauer also draws parallels to his own reckless youthful exploit in
1977 when he climbed Devils Thumb, a mountain on the Alaska-British Columbia
border, partly as a symbolic act of rebellion against his autocratic father. In
a moving narrative, Krakauer probes the mystery of McCandless's death, which he
attributes to logistical blunders and to accidental poisoning from eating toxic
seed pods.”
"Terrifying...Eloquent...A heart-rending drama
of human yearning."--New York Times
"A narrative of arresting force. Anyone who ever
fancied wandering off to face nature on its own harsh terms should give a look.
It's gripping stuff."--Washington Post
"Compelling and tragic...Hard to put down."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Engrossing...with a telling eye for detail,
Krakauer has captured the sad saga of a stubborn, idealistic young man."--Los
Angeles Times Book Review
Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air.
(915.496 Kra)
From
Amazon.com: "Into
Thin Air is a riveting first-hand account of a catastrophic expedition up
Mount Everest. In March 1996, Outside magazine sent veteran journalist and
seasoned climber Jon Krakauer on an expedition led by celebrated Everest guide
Rob Hall. Despite the expertise of Hall and the other leaders, by the end of
summit day eight people were dead. Krakauer's book is at once the story of the
ill-fated adventure and an analysis of the factors leading up to its tragic end.
Written within months of the events it chronicles, Into Thin Air clearly evokes
the majestic Everest landscape. As the journey up the mountain progresses,
Krakauer puts it in context by recalling the triumphs and perils of other
Everest trips throughout history. The author's own anguish over what happened on
the mountain is palpable as he leads readers to ponder timeless questions."
Lawlor, Laurie. Magnificant Voyage: An
American Adventurer on Captain James Cook's Final Expedition.
Otfinoski, Steven. Marco Polo: To China and
Back.
Owen, David. Hidden Secrets: A Complete
HIstory of Espionage and the Technology Used.
Pfetzer, Mark and Jack Galvin. Within Reach:
My Everest Story. (796.522 Pfe)
A teenager climbs Mount Everest.
Savage, Candace. Cowgirls. (978 Sav)
Schmidt, Tomas and Jeremy. The Saga of Lewis
& Clark.
Schwager, Tina. Gutsy Girls: Young Women Who
Dare. (920 Sch)
Wilkins,
Charles. The
Circus at the Edge of the Earth: Travels with the Great Wallenda Circus.
Hilarious, moving, and shocking.
Dismaying Disasters
Bernstein, Richard. Out of the Blue: The Story
of September 11, 2001, from Jihad to Ground Zero. (973.931 Ber)
Calabro, Marian. The Perilous Journey of the
Donner Party. (978.02 Cal)
Fink, Mitchell. Never Forget: An Oral History
of September 11, 2001. (973.931 Fin)
Lalley, Patrick. 9.11.01 : Terrorists Attack
the U.S. (973.931 Lal)
Lavender, David Sievert. Snowbound: The Tragic
Story of the Donner Party. (978.02 Law)
Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air : A Personal
Account of the Mount Everest Disaster. (915.496
Kra)
Murphy, Jim. The Great Fire. (977.311 Mur)
Have you sang this song at camp? "Old Mrs. O'Leary's
left the lantern in the shed. The cow kicked it over, and this is what he said,
'It's going to be a hot time in the old town tonight.' Fire, fire, fire!"
The folksong remembers the great Chicago fire of 1871, one of the most colossal
disasters in American history. Overnight, the flourishing city was transformed
in to a smoldering wasteland.
Murphy, Jim. Blizzard: The Storm That
Changed America. (551.555 Mur)
A Nation Challenged : A Visual History of 9/11
and Its Aftermath. (973.931 Nat)
Read, Piers Paul.
Alive: The Story
of the Andes Survivors. (982.6 Rea)
An airplane crash followed by a fight for survival including
cannibalism.
September 11: An Oral History. (973.931
Sep)
Thomas, Annie, ed. With Their Eyes: September
11th: The View From A High School at Ground Zero.
Students from New York's Stuyvesant High School walk you
through their experience on September 11, 2001.
Stories of the Sea
Dugard, Martin.
Knockdown: The
Harrowing True Account of a Yacht Race Turned Deadly.
During an open ocean yacht race, a freak Australian storm slams
the participants. Although 57 people are rescued, six die and 24
boats are abandoned.
Armstrong, Jennifer. Shipwreck at the
Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the
Endurance. (910.45 Am)
Johnson, Rebecca L. Ernest Shackleton: Gripped
by the Antarctic.
Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody. Ice Story:
Shackleton's Lost Expedition. (910.453 Kim)
Junger, Sebastian. The Perfect Storm: A True
Story of Men Against the Sea. (910.45 Jun)
Martin, Jesse. Lionheart: A Journey of the
Human Spirit. (92 Martin, J.)
Jesse sailed around the world solo and unassisted. In a
34-foot yacht named Lionheart, the 17-year-old Australian used no fossil fuels,
received no supplies or visitors, and never stepped off the boat for the entire
10-month trip.
Philbrick, Nathaniel. The
Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex. (910.453
Phi)
And Let's Not Forget the
Titanic!
Ballard, Robert D. The
Discovery of the Titanic. (910.453 Bal)
Ballard, Robert D. Exploring
the Titanic. (910.453 Bal)
Brewster, Hugh. 888 1/2
Amazing Answers to Your Questions About the Titanic.
Davie, Michael. Titanic: The
Death & Life of a Legend. (910.453 Dav)
Hill, Christine. Robert Ballard: Oceanographer
Who Discovered the Titanic.
Lord, Walter. A Night to
Remember. (910.453 Lor)
Lord, Walter. The Night Lives
On. (910.453 Lor)
Marschall, Ken. Titantic: An
Illustrated History. (910.453 Mar)
Sloan, Frank. Titanic.
(910.453 Slo)
Stewart, David. You Wouldn't
Want to Sail on the Titanic! (910.453 Ste)
Landau, Elaine. Heroine of the
Titanic: The Real Unsinkable Molly Brown. (92 Brown, M)
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Heroes & Villains
Adler, David. B. Franklin, Printer.
Barthelme, Frederick and Steven. Double Down:
Reflections on Gambling & Loss. (362.25 Bar)
Bridges, Ruby. Through My Eyes.
Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a
six-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960.
Brooks, Polly Schoyer. Queen Eleanor:
Independent Spirit of the Medieval World.
A biography of the twelfth-century queen, first of France,
then of England, who was the very lively wife of Henry II and mother of several
notable sons, including Richard the Lionhearted.
Cameron, Sara. Out of War: True Stories from
the Front Lines of the Children's Movement for Peace in Colombia.
Crowe, Chris. Getting Away with Murder: The
True Story of the Emmett Till Case. (364.1523 Cro)
Denenberg, Barry. All Shook Up: The Life and Death of
Elvis Presley. (92 Presley)
Fradin, Dennis Brindell. Bound for the North
Star: True STories of Fugitive Slaves. (973.0496 Fra)
Fradin, Dennis Brindell and Judith Bloom Fradin. Ida
B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.
Fradin, Dennis Brindell. My Family Shall Be
Free: The Life of Peter Still. (92 Stil)
Giblin, James Cross. The Life and Death of
Adolf Hitler.
Krakauer, Jon. Under the Banner of Heaven: A
Story of Violent Faith.
(289.3 Kra)
Krakauer continues to explore extremes, fanaticism, and lives
conducted at the outer limits (In his previous books, Into Thin Air and Into
the Wild, he explored mountain climbing and the lure of the wilderness.)
This time, a brutal, religiously inspired murder provides the key for a
multilayered narrative of messianic delusion, savage violence, and unyielding
faith while raising provocative questions about the nature of religious belief
and religious fanaticism.
Kuklin, Susan. Trial: The Inside Story.
(345.0254 Kuk)
Lanier, Shannon. Jefferson's Children: The
Story of One American Family. (92 Jeff)
The controversy over the relationship
between Thomas Jefferson and his African American slave Sally Hemings has raged
for generations. Shannon Lanier, a 20-year-old descendant of Jefferson and
Hemings, was inspired to delve deeper into the debate with the discovery of DNA
evidence of a link between Jefferson and Hemings. The result is a fascinating
look at race relations, history-- both oral and written-- and family ties.
Lawlor, Laurie. Helen Keller: Rebellious
Spirit.
Marrin, Albert. Terror of the Spanish Main:
Sir Henry Morgan and His Buccaneers.
McManus, James. Positively Fifth Street: Murderers,
Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker.
(363.42 McM)
Meltzer, Milton. Piracy & Plunder: A
Murderous Business. (910.453 Mel)
Meltzer, Milton. Witches & Witch-Hunts: A
History of Persecution. (133.43 Mel)
Meltzer, Milton. Tom Paine: Voice of
Revolution.
Mezrich, Ben. Bringing Down The House: The Inside Story
of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions. (364.172)
Nuland, Sherwin B. Leonardo da Vinci. (92 Leonardo
da Vinci)
Owen, David. Hidden Secrets: A Complete History of
Espionage and the Technology Used to Support It. (327.12 Owe)
Remini, Robert V. Joseph Smith. (92 Smith J.)
Rogasky, Barbara. Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the
Holocaust. (940.5318 Rog)
Thomas, Jane Resh. Behind the Mask: The Life
of Queen Elizabeth I.
Warren, Andrea. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the
Nazi Death Camps.
Zamperini, Louis. Devil at My Heels. (92
Zamperini)
Campbell Hall parent David
Rensin cowrote this exciting autobiography of a World War II hero's epic saga of
torment, survival and forgiveness. Zamperini was a juvenile delinquent, a
world-class NCAA miler, a 1936 Olympian and a World War II bombardier who
survived a plane crash, 47 days drifting at sea and more than two years of
torture and humiliation as a Japanese prisoner of war. Yet his longest, hardest
battle occurred upon his return home.
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Pure Genius
Denenberg, Barry. All Shook Up: The Life
and Death of Elvis Presley.
Freedman, Russell. Martha Graham: A Dancer's
Life.
McKissack, Patricia C. and Frederick L. Young,
Black, and Determined: The Life of Lorraine Hansberry.
Partridge, Elizabeth. Restless Spirit: The
Life and Work of Dorothea Lange.
Partridge, Elizabeth. This Land Was Made for
You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie.
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Misc. Autobiography & Biography
Albom, Mitch. Tuesdays with Morrie. (158.2
Alb)
Frey, James. A Million Little Pieces. (92 Frey)
Hornbacher, Marya. Wasted: A Memoir of
Anorexia and Bulimia. (616.8526 Hor)
Jiang, Ji-li. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of
the Cultural Revolution. (951.056 Jia)
Krull, Kathleen. Lives of
Extraordinary Women: Rulers, Rebels (and What the Neighbors Thought). (92 Krul)
Mah, Adeline Yen. Chinese Cinderella: The True
Story of an Unwanted Daughter. (92 Mah)
Nelson, Marilyn. Carver: A Life in Poems.
Summers, Marc. Everything in Its Place: My Trials and
Triumphs with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. (616.8522 Sum)
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Writers
Crutcher, Chris. King of the Mild
Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography. (92 Crutcher)
Dahl, Roald. Boy: Tales of Childhood.
Going Solo. (92 Dahl)
Fleischman, Sid. The Abracadabra Kid: A
Writer's Life. (92 Fleischman)
Gantos, Jack. Hole in My Life. (92 Gantos)
Murphy, Jim. Pick and Shovel Poet: The
Journeys of Pascal D'Angelo.
Myers, Walter Dean. Bad Boy: A Memoir.
(92 Myers)
Paulsen, Gary. Caught by the
Sea: My Life on Boats.
Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books.
How Angel Peterson Got His Name.
Spinelli, Jerry. Knots in My Yo-Yo Strings:
The Autobiography of a Kid. (92 Spinelli)
Stine, R.L. It Came From Ohio! My Life as a Writer.
(92 Stine)
Meltzer, Milton. Walt Whitman: A Biography. (92
Whitman)
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Technology, Invention, Science & Medicine
Al-Khalili, Jim.
Black Holes,
Wormholes & Time Machines.
Do you know what might happen if you fell into a black hole? Do
our past, present and future all coexist "out there"? Conversational
in tone, even light-hearted at times, and written for the non-expert,
this is a good introduction to physics.
Best, Joel. Damned Lies & Statistics:
Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists. (303.3 Bes)
Bolles, Edmund Blair. The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a
Professor, and a Plitician Discovered the Ice Age. (551.792 Bol)
Borden, Louise. Sea Clocks: The Story of Longitude.
Devlin, Keith. The Millennium Problems: The
Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time. (510 Dev)
Dash, Joan. The Longitude Prize. (92 Harrison)
Fleischman, John. Phineas Gage: A Gruesome But
True Story About Brain Science.
Your personality might change, too, if you had a three-foot
iron spear, seven inches in diameter, shot through your head (and lived to tell
about it!).
Freedman, Russell. The Wright Brothers: How
They Invented the Airplane.
Haduch, Bill. Food Rules! The Stuff You Munch, Its
Crunch, Its Punch, and Why You Sometimes Lose Your Lunch. (613.2 Had)
Hegedus, Alannah. Bleeps and Blips to Rocket
Ships: Great Inventions in Communications.
Hill, Christine. Robert Ballard: Oceanographer
Who Discovered the Titanic.
Ichord, Loretta. Toothworms & Spider
Juice: An Illustrated History of Dentistry. (617.6 Ich)
Katz. Jon. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the
Internet Out of Idaho. (338.7 Kat)
Kent, Deborah. Snake Pits, Talking Cures,
& Magic Bullets: A History of Mental Illness. (616.89 Ken)
Kessner, Thomas. Capital City.
If you have even the slightest interest in how Wall Street
got to be Wall Street, this is the book for you. A history of New York's rise to
economic supremacy in the late 19th century, it's a "cracking good
story" about figures great and greedy, handled as evenhandedly "as any
account mainly about money can be." (Michael M. Thomas in The Washington
Post)
King, Roger. Jacques Cousteau and the Undersea
World.
Lasky, Kathryn. The Man Who Made Time Travel.
Livio, Mario. The Golden Ratio: The Story of
Phi: The World's Most Astonishing Number. (516.2 Liv)
Marrin, Albert. Dr. Jenner and the Speckled
Monster: The Search for the Smallpox Vaccine. (614.521
Mar)
McLafferty, Carla Killough. The Head Bone's
Connected to the Neck Bone: The Weird, Wacky and Wonderful X-Ray. (616.0757
McC)
Myers, David G. Intuition: Its Powers and Perils.
(153.44 Mye)
Plait, Philip. Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions
and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax".
(520.2 Pla)
Rubin, Susan Goldman. Toilets, Toasters
& Telephones: The How & Why of Everyday Objects.
Sheldrake, Rupert. The Sense of Being Stared
At and Other Aspects of the Extended Mind. (133.8 She)
Singh, Simon. The Code Book: How to Make It,
Break It, Hack It, Crack It. (652.8 Sin)
Cryptography: the encoding and decoding of private
information.
Snedden, Robert. Yuck! A Big Book of Little
Horrors. (576 Sne)
Thimmesh, Catherine. Girls Think of
Everything: Stories of Ingeniouis Inventions by Women. (609.2
Thi)
Tomb, Howard. MicroAliens: Dazzling Journeys with an
Electron Microscope. (578 Tom)
Wanjek, Christopher. Bad Medicine :
Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin C.
(610.2 Wan)
Wulffson, Don L. The Kid Who
Invented the Trampoline: More Suprising Stories About Inventions. (609
Wul)
Wulffson, Don L. Toys! Amazing Stories Behind
Some Great Inventions. (688.72 Wul)
Describes the creation of a variety of toys and games, from
seesaws to Silly Putty and toy soldiers to Trivial Pursuit.
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Ethics,
Ideas, & Issues
Armstrong, Karen. Buddha. (92 Buddha)
Freedman, Russell. Confucius: The Golden Rule.
Irwin, William. The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'Oh!
of Homer. (100 Sim)
Magida, Arthur J. How to Be a Perfect
Stranger: A Guide to Etiquette in Other People's Religious Ceremonies.
(291.38 How)
Nestle, Marion. Food Politics: How the Food Industry
Influences Nutrition and Health. (363.8 Nes)
Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark
Side of the All-American Meal. (394.1 Sch)
Schulz, William F. In Our Own Best Interest: How
Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All. (323 Sch)
Steinberg, Jacques. The Gatekeepers: Inside the
Admissions Process of a Premier College. (P 378.16 Ste)
Stiekel, Bettina (ed). The Nobel Book of Answers.
(031.02 Nob)
The Seven Deadly Sins (178)
Pride by Dyson
Envy by Epstein
Anger by Thurman
Sloth by Wasserstein
Greed by Tickle
Gluttony by Prose
Lust by Blackburn
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Hidden
History
Allen, Stewart Lee. The
Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee.
Aron, Paul.
Unsolved
Mysteries of American History.
Blanton, DeAnne. They
Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War. (973.7 Bla)
Bolles, Edmund Blair.
The Ice Finders:
How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice
Age.
Adventure story combines with the excitement of scientific
investigation and discovery, driving passions, and private
obsessions.
Chamberlain, Andrew T. Earthly Remains: The
History and Science of Preserved Human Bodies. (393.3 Cha)
Colman, Penny. Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A
HIstory of Burial. (393.1 Col)
Colman, Penny. Girls: A History of Growing Up Female in
America. (305.23 Col)
Colman, Penny. Toilets, Bathtubs, Sinks, and
Sewers: A History of the Bathroom.
Dash, Mike. Tulipomania: The Story of the
World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused.
Dawes, Amy. Sunset Boulevard: Cruising the
Heart of Los Angeles. (979.494 Daw)
Deem, James. Bodies from the Bog. (569.9
Dee)
Giblin, James Cross. When Plague Strikes: The Black
Death, Smallpox, AIDS. (614.49 Gib)
Haber, Barbara. From Hardtack To Home Fries:
An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals. (394.1 Hab)
Hoose, Phillip. We Were There, Too! Young
People in U.S. History.
Koenig, Gloria. Iconic L.A.: Stories of LA's Most
Memorable Buildings. (720.9794 Koe)
Lord, Rosemary. Los Angeles: Then and Now. (979.494
Lor)
McPhee, Jenny. Girls: Ordinary Girls and Their
Extraordinary Pursuits. (305.23 Mcp)
Menzel, Peter and Faith D'Alusio. Man Eating
Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects. (641.3 Men)
Morales, Ed. Living in Spanglish: The Search for Lation
Identity in America. (305.868 Mor)
Myers, Walter Dean. At Her Majesty's Request:
An African Princess in Victorian England. (92 Bonetta)
Nelson, Peter. Left for Dead: A Young Man's
Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis. (940.545 Nel)
From Amazon.com: "It's
an unlikely beginning to what became a momentous, history-changing history fair
project. Eleven-year-old Hunter Scott was watching Jaws one day when he
first heard about the World War II sinking of the USS Indianapolis. Intrigued,
he investigated further, and discovered a shocking, heartbreaking story behind
what should have been a tale of heroism and patriotism. Torpedoed by a Japanese
submarine, the Indianapolis went down in minutes, taking more than 800 sailors
with it. Several hundred survived, but only after spending days in the open sea
with sharks diminishing their numbers hourly. This is only the beginning of the
tragedy, however. In an effort to make an example of the ship's captain, and in
order to deflect blame from itself, the U.S. Navy unfairly court-martialed the
captain, painfully changing the lives of all the men involved. Basing much of
his text on young Hunter Scott's research, author Pete Nelson does a fine job of
presenting this story through the eyes of many of the survivors. Old and new
photos allow readers to know many of the men of the ship, and personal accounts
reveal the horrors of those days in the ocean--and later in the courtroom. A
bittersweet ending will leave the reader pensive and deeply moved."
Paterniti, Michael. Driving Mr. Albert : A
Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain.
Phoenix, Charles. Southern California in the
'50s. (979.49 Pho)
Rensin, David. The Mailroom: Hollywood History
From the Bottom Up. (791.4309 Ren)
Written by a Campbell Hall
parent. Barry Diller, David Geffen, and more than 100 other Hollywood
impresarios and talent agents recount the humiliations they endured in getting
their start in show business by working their way up from the mailrooms of the
William Morris Agency and its competitors. Variety called the book
"a juicy oral history."
Rocco, Fiammetta. The Miraculous Fever-Tree:
Malaria and the Quest for a Cure That Changed the World. (616.9362 Roc)
Roderick, Kevin. The San Fernando Valley:
America's Suburb. (979.493 Rod)
Ruddick, James. Death at the Priory: Sex,
Love, and Murder in Victorian England.
Schenone, Laura. A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A
History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances.
Solheim, James. It's Disgusting and We Ate It! True
Food Facts From Around the World and Throughout History. 641.3 Sol
Sloan, Christopher. Bury the Dead: Tombs,
Corpses, Mummies, Skeletons and Rituals. (393.1 Slo)
Walker, Paul Robert. The Feud That Sparked the
Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World. (709.45
Wal)
Wallace, David
Rains. The
Bonehunter's Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed & the Greatest Scientific
Feud of the Gilded Age.
Envy, paranoia, ambition, and bile clash
with science.
Whitman, Sylvia. What's Cooking: The History of
American Food. (394.1 Whi)
Wilcox, Charlotte. Bob
Mummies: Preserved in Peat.
Winchester, Simon. The Professor
and the Madman
: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Amazing
Animals
Capuzzo, Mike. Close to Shore: A True
Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence. (597.31 Cap)
Green, Alan. Animal Underworld: Inside
America's Black Market for Rare and Exotic Species. (333.954 Gre)
Herriot, James.
All Things Bright and Beautiful.
All Things Wise and Wonderful.
All Creatures Great and Small.
The Lord God Made Them All.
James Herriot's Dog Stories.
Irwin, Steve. The Crocodile Hunter: The
Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve & Terri Irwin. (92 Irwin)
Montgomery, Sy. The Man-Eating Tigers of
Sundarbans. (599.744 Mon)
Psihoyos, Louid. hunting Dinosaurs. (569
Psi)
Sheldrake, Rupert.
Dogs that Know
When Their Owners Are Coming Home & Other Unexplained Powers of Animals.
(133.8 She)
Tulin, Melissa.
Aardvarks to Zebras: A Menagerie of Facts, Fiction, and Fantasy About
the Wonderful World of Animals. (591 Tul)
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Not Just
For Sports Fans
Fair Play: The Ethics of Sport by Robert
L. Simon
From Amazon.com:
“Fair
Play provides a comprehensive, clear, and philosophically sophisticated
treatment of a broad variety of ethical issues in sport. Unlike available
anthologies, its account of controversies in sports is unified by a particular
ethical framework of competition conceived of as mutual quest for excellence.
The issues covered are presented in a balanced manner and range from abstract
questions concerning the nature of sport to applied issues such as the ethics of
performance-enhancing drugs, the commercialization of sport, and gender
equity.”
Fair and Foul: Beyond the
Myths and Paradoxes of Sport by D. Stanley Eitzen
From
Amazon.com: “Americans
have long cherished sport for its display of superb skills, heroic efforts,
selfless teamwork, uncanny strategies, exuberance, spontaneity, and loyalty.
This book moves beyond the myths and media hype to take a closer look at
America's love of sport and how it so often comes in conflict with our most
basic values. With reverence yet a sharp eye for the the influence of big
business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, and media
grandstanding, Eitzen portrays famous and lesser known events from
professional and college sports, including well known coaches and players, to
give us a deeper understanding of what sports means to us and how it affects
our everyday world.”
Patriotic Games: Sporting Traditions in the
American Imagination, 1876-1926 (Sports and History) by Steven W.
Pope
“In Patriotic Games, historian Stephen Pope explores the ways sport was transformed from a
mere amusement into a metaphor for American life. Between the 1890s and the
1920s, sport became the most pervasive popular cultural activity in American
society. During these years, basketball was invented, football became a mass
spectator event, and baseball soared to its status as the "national
pasttime." Pope demonstrates how America's sporting tradition emerged from
a society fractured along class, race, ethnic, and gender lines.
Institutionalized sport became a trans-class mechanism for packaging power and
society in preferred ways--it popularized an interlocking set of cultural ideas
about America's quest for national greatness.
Nowhere was this more evident than in the intimate connection established
between sport and national holiday celebrations. As Pope reveals, Thanksgiving
sports influenced the holiday's evolution from a religious occasion to a secular
one. On the Fourth of July, sporting events infused patriotic rituals with
sentiments that emphasized class conciliation and ethnic assimilation. In a time
of social tensions, economic downturns, and unprecendented immigration, the
rituals and enthusiasms of sport, Pope argues, became a central component in the
shaping of America's national identity.”
Built to Win: The Female Athlete As Cultural Icon
by
Leslie Heywood, Shari L. Dworkin
From Amazon.com:
“The sculpted
speed of Marion Jones. The grit and agility of Mia Hamm. The slam-dunk style of
Lisa Leslie. The skill and finesse of these sports figures are widely admired,
no longer causing the puzzlement and discomfort directed toward earlier
generations of athletic women. Built to Win explores this relatively recent
phenomenon-the confident, empowered female athletes found everywhere in American
popular culture. Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin examine the role of
female athletes through interviews with elementary- and high school-age girls
and boys; careful readings of ad campaigns by Nike, Reebok, and others;
discussions of movies like Fight Club and Girlfight; and explorations of their
own sports experiences. They ask: what, if any, dissonance is there between
popular images and the actual experiences of these athletes? Do these images
really "redefine femininity" and contribute to a greater inclusion of
all women in sport? Are sexualized images of these women damaging their quest to
be taken seriously? Do they inspire young boys to respect and admire female
athletes, and will this ultimately make a difference in the ways gender and
power are constructed and perceived? Proposing
a paradigm shift from second- to third-wave feminism, Heywood and Dworkin argue
that, in the years since the passage of Title IX, gender stereotypes have been
destabilized in profound ways, and they assert that female athletes and their
imagery are doing important cultural work to that end. Important, refreshing,
and engrossing, Built to Win examines sport in all its complexity."
The Faith of 50 Million: Baseball, Religion, and American Culture
by
Christopher Hodge Evans (Editor), William R. Herzog (Editor), Stanley Hauerwas
From
Library Journal: “The
religion scholars in this intriguing collection view baseball as a civil
religion that can tell us much about American character and attitudes. Although
more of us probably watch the Superbowl than any baseball event, baseball, with
its historic claims and ties, is still regarded by many as the national pastime.
Evans and Herzog, both professors at the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity
School in Rochester, NY, present ten essays on a wide range of topics, from the
racial integration of the sport to the role of women and baseball. The authors,
including Stanley Hauerwas (theological ethics, Duke Univ. Divinity Sch.),
Christopher H. Evans (church history, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity Sch.),
and Tracy J. Trothen (ethics and pastoral theology, Univ. of Winnipeg), are
especially adept at examining how baseball has always been susceptible to
gambling and corruption. Although written from a Protestant religious
background, this unusual anthology will appeal to readers of various faiths and
is best suited for libraries with comprehensive religion or sports holdings.”
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
by Laura
Hillenbrand
(798.4 Hil)
From School Library Journal: "Adult/High School-This well-written and
compelling book celebrates the life of a racehorse that just happened to be a
descendant of Man O' War. It is a story of a huge talent that almost went
unrecognized until the right people came along. According to descriptions,
Seabiscuit was a runt, with stubby legs, an odd walk, and a lazy nature.
However, he became so popular that he drew more news coverage than President
Roosevelt, Hitler, or Mussolini. The atmosphere surrounding his historic match
with War Admiral was so intense that FDR kept advisors waiting as he listened
with the rest of the country to hear the outcome. Hillenbrand also tells the
stories of owner Charles Howard, trainer Tom Smith, and jockey Red Pollard and
the part each man played in the recognition and development of a racing legend.
But the book is much more. Seabiscuit is a story of the times and it is a story
of the hard and dangerous life of a jockey. Even readers with no interest in the
sport will be hooked with the opening sentence of the book's preface.
Hillenbrand does a wonderful job in bringing an unlikely winner to life.”
Double Down : Reflections on Gambling and Loss by Frederick
Barthelme and Steven Barthelme (362.25 Bar)
From
Library Journal: “At first,
this dark memoir seems like a simple confessional about how two fiftyish
writer-academics lost a quarter-million-dollar inheritance in the late-night
world of Mississippi riverboat casinos. (In 1997, the brothers were charged with
cheating a Mississippi casino and still await trial.) As book-smart gamblers,
the Barthelmes indulge in overtipping and betting ludicrous amounts; they are
smarter-than-thou, which is their downfall. Perhaps some readers will see the
deaths of the Barthelmes' parents as sufficient cause for their fall from grace;
faced with real pain, the brothers prove inept at problem solving. But the
gambling, compulsiveness, and midlife boredom predate their parents' deaths; and
the gambling snowballed because of their new-found money, which the brothers
burn out of resentment of their Napoleonic father. Beautifully evoking the
gamblers' addiction, their mesmerizing account is best read as a novel Camus
might have imagined, with the writer/protagonists as their own lost characters.
A work of high art; enthusiastically recommended.”
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT
Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich
(364.172)
From
Publishers Weekly: “'Shy,
geeky, amiable’ MIT grad Kevin Lewis, was, Mezrich learns at a party, living a
double life winning huge sums of cash in Las Vegas casinos. In 1993 when Lewis
was 20 years old and feeling aimless, he was invited to join the MIT Blackjack
Team, organized by a former math instructor, who said, ‘Blackjack is
beatable.’ Expanding on the "hi-lo" card-counting techniques
popularized by Edward Thorp in his 1962 book, Beat the Dealer, the MIT
group's more advanced team strategies were legal, yet frowned upon by casinos.
Backed by anonymous investors, team members checked into Vegas hotels under
assumed names and, pretending not to know each other, communicated in the
casinos with gestures and card-count code words. Taking advantage of the
statistical nature of blackjack, the team raked in millions before casinos
caught on and pursued them.”
Friday Night
Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
by H. G. Bissinger
Note: Named by Sports Illustrated
as the number one football book of all time.
From
Amazon.com:
“Secular
religions are fascinating in the devotion and zealousness they breed, and in
Texas, high school football has
its own rabid hold over the faithful. H.G. Bissinger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist, enters into the spirit of one of its most fervent shrines: Odessa, a
city in decline in the desert of West Texas, where the Permian High School
Panthers have managed to compile the winningest record in state annals. Indeed,
as this breathtaking examination of the town, the team, its coaches, and its
young players chronicles, the team, for better and for worse, is the
town; the communal health and self-image of the latter is directly linked to the
on-field success of the former. The 1988 season, the one Friday Night Lights
recounts, was not one of the Panthers' best. The game's effect on the
community--and the players--was explosive. Written with great style and passion,
Friday Night Lights offers an American snapshot in deep focus; the
picture is not always pretty, but the image is hard to forget.”
Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams
by Darcy Frey
From
Library Journal: “For many
adolescents on Coney Island, basketball is their only escape from the urban hell
of poverty, crime, and drugs. Last Shot chronicles a group of teenagers
playing for one of the best teams in New York, the Abraham Lincoln Secondary
School Railsplitters. These young males continually cope with circumstances
beyond their control in a society that has failed miserably to provide a safe
environment and, more importantly, a good education. The author, who won a
National Magazine Award for the story upon which this account is based, also
explains how those living in high-risk areas suffered the most when the National
Collegiate Athletic Association raised the standards of acceptable SAT scores
for athletes. The young men whose stories Frey so poignantly captures exist in a
world of ‘mean streets and basketball dreams.’ Recommended.”
The Hoop Dreams: True Story of Hardship and Triumph by Ben
Joravsky (796.323
Jor)
From
Amazon.com: “For nearly
five years Arthur Agee's and William Gates' remarkable lives were chronicled by
a team of filmmakers. Roughly 250 hours of film were devoted to their journeys
from the playgrounds to high school competition to college recruitment and --
whittled down to three hours -- it became the award-winning film Hoop Dreams. Now journalist Ben Joravsky vividly brings to light all the richness and
subtlety of their stories, and the impact their aspirations had on themselves,
their families and their relationships. It is an intimate look, complete with an
up-to-date epilogue on the latest developments in their lives.”
From
Publishers Weekly: “A
heart-wrenching and uplifting story of survival.”
Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on
the Little Big Horn by
Larry Colton (796.323
Col)
From
Publishers Weekly: “Colton
arrived in Crow, Mont., ready to write a book about a season of boy's high
school basketball in the Crow Indian community. But when he saw graceful Sharon
Laforge shooting hoops, he was drawn to her athleticism and fascinated by the
dichotomy between her on-court focus and her off-court distractedness. To get
closer to Laforge, Colton tracks her senior year on the Lady Bulldogs, from the
first practice through tournament play. He rides the team bus, assists at
practice, wins a spot as an "honorary seventeen-year-old girl," and is
eventually adopted into the tribe by Laforge's family. In Laforge, Colton finds
a young woman in distress; as she attempts to fulfill her own and her family's
hopes, she struggles with the uglier legacies of her community: alcoholism,
domestic abuse, abandonment, shortsighted tribal politics, fierce racism and
misogyny. In search of a happy ending, Colton follows as Laforge sticks it out
with her abusive boyfriend, raises two boys and struggles toward her high school
and college degrees. To his credit, Colton effectively employs his position as
an outsider to explore the group's culture, and his long-term perspective allows
him to convey the drive Laforge needs to survive. However, by centering his
focus on one person, he misses opportunities to reflect on larger questions. (In
particular, he seems unaware of Ian Frazier's writing about Sharon Big Crow, a
basketball star and hopeful who juggled similar pressures on a Lakota
reservation in South Dakota.) Nonetheless, Colton's love of basketball and
caring insights deliver a sad but ultimately hopeful sort of Hoop Dreams,
complete with the struggle for maturity, a community's collective dream and the
athletic grace that can momentarily hold the world at bay.”
Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession
in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players by Stefan
Fatsis
From Publishers Weekly:
“It takes a
special kind of person to be able to rattle off all the words that start with
the letter q but don't require a u or to immediately recognize that the same
letters used for the word "troutmania" can also spell
"maturation" and "natatorium." These talented individuals
are the subject of Fatsis's tell-all on the professional Scrabble realm's inner
sanctum. The Wall Street Journal sports reporter (and author of Wild and
Outside) began simply as a curious journalist but was soon obsessed, befriending
dozens of experts in his passage from "living room player" to the
continent's 180th (or so) best player. The book entertainingly and admiringly
portrays the irreverent crowd that lives, eats and breathes Scrabble,
interspersing mini-profiles with updates on Fatsis's progress and historical
facts about the game. Among the cast of characters familiar with words like
"eloiners" and "loxodrome" are "G.I." Joel
Sherman, who directs the Manhattan Scrabble Club despite his dental problems,
asthma attacks and lactose intolerance; Matt Graham, a stand-up comedian who let
Scrabble fill the void when he got fired from his gig at Saturday Night Live;
and Steve Williams, a Harvard grad with psychiatric problems, also the winner of
the 1977 New York City championship. Fatsis gives an in-depth Scrabble history,
too from portraying Alfred Butts, the game's meticulous Depression-era inventor,
to explaining how Hasbro manages to sell over one million sets a year with
minimal advertising. Journalistic, expressive prose helps transform this
potentially dry account of some word-obsessed oddballs into a funny, albeit
vertical, glimpse at one of America's quirkiest special-interest groups.”
Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and
Binion's World Series of Poker by
James McManus
From Booklist:
“McManus
went to Las Vegas in May 2000 on assignment for Harper's to cover the
World Series of Poker, which has grown into a hugely popular, heavily publicized
$23 million event. He was to throw in coverage of the trial of Sandy Murphy, an
ex-stripper, and her boyfriend, Rick Tabish, accused of murdering Ted Binion,
the tournament's host, well known for his voracious addictions to sex, violence,
gambling, and drugs. To satisfy his own gambling urge, McManus enters the poker
competition and spends 10 days immersed in the culture of Vegas and gambling,
rendering a fast-paced, riveting account of his progress through the tournament.
At one point, after losing $10,000, he parallels his own irrational, impatient
behavior with that of defendants Murphy and Tabish. McManus also offers a
play-by-play account of his long-shot action, with sidelines on the pros and
cons of computerized poker, reviews of classic gambling texts, and virtually
anything else that crosses his mind. Most fascinating is his portrait of the
customs and sensibilities of the eclectic homo pokereins across every
race and nationality, male and female (including a very aggressive barefoot and
pregnant professional poker player). A delicious inside look.”
Into the Wild by Jon
Krakauer
From Publishers Weekly:
“After
graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete
Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000
savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, where he went to live in
the wilderness. Four months later, he turned up dead. His diary, letters and two
notes found at a remote campsite tell of his desperate effort to survive,
apparently stranded by an injury and slowly starving. They also reflect the
posturing of a confused young man, raised in affluent Annandale, VA, who
self-consciously adopted a Tolstoyan renunciation of wealth and return to
nature. Krakauer, a contributing editor to Outside and Men's Journal, retraces
McCandless's ill-fated antagonism toward his father, Walt, an eminent aerospace
engineer. Krakauer also draws parallels to his own reckless youthful exploit in
1977 when he climbed Devils Thumb, a mountain on the Alaska-British Columbia
border, partly as a symbolic act of rebellion against his autocratic father. In
a moving narrative, Krakauer probes the mystery of McCandless's death, which he
attributes to logistical blunders and to accidental poisoning from eating toxic
seed pods.”
"Terrifying...Eloquent...A heart-rending drama
of human yearning."--New York Times
"A narrative of arresting force. Anyone who ever
fancied wandering off to face nature on its own harsh terms should give a look.
It's gripping stuff."--Washington Post
"Compelling and tragic...Hard to put down."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Engrossing...with a telling eye for detail,
Krakauer has captured the sad saga of a stubborn, idealistic young man."--Los
Angeles Times Book Review
True Believers: The Tragic Inner Life of Sports Fans
by Joe Queenan
From
Publishers Weekly: “Queenan's
latest should be required reading not just for the folks of the sardonic
subtitle but also for their wives, girlfriends and sports-phobic pals. The
humorist spotlights something that's as peculiar as it is pedestrian: the schlub
who roots for sorry teams. Why do some of us back losers, Queenan (Balsamic
Dreams) asks, and why defend this foolishness so passionately? The recovering
Philadelphia fan (of all the city's teams) would know. He groups admirers into
categories-"Fans Who Love Too Much," "Fans Who Misbehave,"
etc.-and grounds his quips in droll situations such as his visit to a therapist
who has the nerve to say the fate of the rain forest is graver than the fate of
the 76ers. Queenan doesn't limit his premise to one club or sport, either; he
covers everything from the Boston Red Sox to the "cataleptic" Wizards
in Washington. Everywhere, stubborn followers like him hope for a turnaround in
the standings. His enthusiasts remember times, usually before they were born,
when "we" pulled out some miracle win. Queenan tallies the time he has
spent watching sports and figures those years were not truly wasted: "It is
my belief," he says, "that without sports, the average man would have
no emotional life whatsoever." In this hilarious and strangely erudite
book, Queenan doesn't overwrite his subject-for a diehard fan knows what to do
when the buzzer sounds: go home.”
Baseball as America: Seeing Ourselves Through Our National Game
by
National Geographic Society
From
Publishers Weekly:
“Packed with
over 200 photographs, this companion to the upcoming national tour of pieces
from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum celebrates the sport from its
mythical 19th-century beginnings to the 2001 retirement of modern icons Tony
Gwynn and Cal Ripken. Familiar images abound (Ty Cobb's slide into third base,
children playing sandlot ball, etc.), but the central focus is on artifacts:
uniforms, scorecards and boxes of Wheaties, the bats used in record-breaking
home runs and the handwritten manuscript of "Take Me Out to the Ball
Game." FDR's letter urging the resumption of games after Pearl Harbor and a
baseball found in the World Trade Center debris poignantly underscore America's
consistent salute to and dependence upon its national pastime. But while
functioning much like a museum, itself, the volume is more than simply an
exhibition catalogue. Essays and stories some newly written for this collection
feature dozens of writers, players and personalities from Walt Whitman to Dave
Barry, Jackie Robinson to Paul Simon, and examine the game's cultural and
historical significance. Readers won't find here an in-depth exploration as in
Geoffrey Ward/ Ken Burns's Baseball: An Illustrated History, but the range of
topics is exhaustive. The less glamorous aspects of baseball's history such as
segregation and the cancellation of the 1994 World Series are given equal
playing time alongside the worship of diamond deities and the celebration of the
game's historical moments. This entertaining presentation, divided into
groupings on baseball as ritual, freedom, opportunity and innovation, is a must
for anyone who proudly echoes Tom Brokaw's sentiment as he writes “remember the final two words in our national anthem: `play ball!'
".
Sports: The All-American Addiction. by
John R. Gerdy (796.0973 Ger)
From the cover flap: “…a radical critique of the impact of sports on
American life. Arguing that our society’s huge investment in organized sports is
unjustified, he refutes ardent boosters who say that sports embody the ‘American
Way’ and develop winners by teaching sportsmanship, teamwork,, and discipline.
In fact, Gerdy charges that modern sports undermine traditional American values
essential the well-being of the nation and its people. Like a drug, this
obsession allows Americans to escape problems and ignore issues."
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Sports
Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time
The Sweet Science
by A.J. Liebling (boxing)
The Boys of Summer
by Roger Kahn (baseball)
Ball Four by Jim
Bouton (baseball)
Friday Night Lights
by H.G. Bissinger (high school football)
You Know Me Al
by Ring Lardner (baseball; fiction)
A Season on the
Brink by John Feinstein (Indiana's Bob Knight & the Hoosiers)
Semi-Tough by
Dan Jenkins (football)
Paper Lion by
George Plimpton (football)
The Game by Ken
Dryden (hockey)
Fever Pitch by
Nick Hornby (soccer)
A River Runs Through
It by Norman MacLean (fly-fishing; fiction)
Seabiscuit by
Laura Hillenbrand (horse racing)
Loose Balls by
Terry Pluto (basketball)
Bang the Drum Slowly
by Mark Harris (baseball; fiction)
Heaven is a
Playground by Rick Telander (basketball)
Levels of the Game
by John McPhee (golf)
The Breaks of the
Game by David Halberstam (basketball)
The Summer Game
by Roger Angell (baseball)
The Long Season
by Jim Brosnan (baseball)
Instant Replay
by Jerry Kramer and Dick Schaap (football)
Everybody's All
American by Frank Deford (football)
Fat City by
Leonard Gardner (boxing; fiction)
The City Game by
Pete Axthelm (basketball)
The Natural by
Bernard Malamud (baseball; fiction)
North Dallas Forty
by Peter Gent (football)
When Pride Still
Mattered by David Maraniss (football; Vince Lombardi)
Babe: The Legend
Comes to Life by Robert Creamer (baseball; Babe Ruth)
The Golf Omnibus
by P.G. Wodehouse (golf; fiction)
About Three Bricks
Shy of a Load by Roy Blount, Jr. (football)
A Fan's Notes by
Frederick Exley (football; fiction)
Joe DiMaggio: The
Hero's Life by Richard Ben Cramer
The Game They Played
by Stanley Cohen (college basketball)
Veeck as in Wreck
by Bill Beeck and Ed Linn (baseball)
Ben Hogan's Five
Lessons by Ben Hogan and Herbert Warren Wind (golf)
The Worst Journey in
the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (polor exploration)
Beyond a Boundry
by C.L.R. James (cricket)
A False Spring
by Pat Jordan (baseball)
Life on the Run by
Bill Bradley (basketball)
The Red Smith Reader
by Red Smith
An Outside Chance:
Essays on Sports by Thomas McGuane
The Unforgettable
Season by Gordon H. Fleming (baseball)
The Celebrant by
Eric Rolfe Greenberg (baseball; fiction)
Big Red Meadow
Stable by William Nack (horse racing)
The Bill James
Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill James (baseball)
End Zone by Don
Delillo (college football; fiction)
Foul! The Connie
Hawkins Story by David Wolf (basketball)
Shoeless Joe by
W.P. Kinsella (baseball; fiction)
Into Thin Air by
Jon Krakauer (mountaineering)
Eight Men Out by
Eliot Asinof (baseball)
Baseball's Great
Experiment by Jules Tygiel (baseball)
Laughing in the
Hills by Bill Barich (horse racing)
Dollar Sign on the
Muscle by Kevin Kerrane (baseball)
The Bronx Zoo by
Sparky Lyle and Peter Golenbock (baseball)
The Professional
by W.C. Heinz (boxing; fiction)
The Basebal
Encyclopedia by MacMillan (publisher)
A Savage Business
by Richard Hoffer (heavyweight boxing)
The Glory of Their
Times by Lawrence Ritter (baseball)
The Complete
Armchair Book of Baseball by John Thorn (baseball)
Among the Thugs
by Bill Buford (soccer)
Lords of the Realm
by John Helyar (baseball)
The Universal
BAseball Association, Inc. by Robert Coover (baseball; fiction)
Days of Grace by
Arthur Ashe with Arnold Rampersad (tennis)
Out of Their League
by Dave Meggysey (football)
Golf Dreams:
Writings on Golf by John Updike (golf; fiction)
In These Girls, Hope
is a Muscle by Madleine Blais (high school basketball)
They Call Me Coach
by John Wooden with Jack Tobin (basketball)
Cosell by Howard
Cosell
Down the Fairway
by Bobby Jones and O.B. Keeler (golf)
Big Game, Small
World by Alexander Wolff (basketball)
The Last Shot by
Darcy Frey (basketball)
Arnold: The
Education of a Bodybuilder by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Douglas Kent Hall.
Out of the Bunker
and Into the Trees by Rex Lardner (golf)
The Fight by
Norman Mailer (boxing)
Only the Ball Was
White by Robert Peterson (baseball)
Harvey Penick's
Little Red Book by Harvey Penick with Bud Sharke (golf)
Whatever Happened to
Gorgeous George? by Joe Jares (pro wrestling)
Annapurna by
Maurice Herzog (mountaineering)
The Great American
Novel by Philip Roth (baseball; fiction)
Soccer in Sun and
Shadow by Eduardo Galeno (soccer)
The Story of
American Golf by Herbert Warren Wind (golf)
Inside Edge by
Christine Brennan (figure skating)
Farewell to Sport
by Paul Gallico
Muhammad Ali: His
Life and Times by Thomas Hauser (boxing)
Can't Anybody Here
Play This Game? by Jimmy Breslin (baseball)
The Complete Book of
Running by James Fixx (running)
The Science of
Hitting by Ted Williams and John Undrwood (baseball)
Only a Game by
Robert Daley (football; fiction)
The Joy of Sports
by Michael Novak
The Lords of the
Rings by VVV SImson and Andrew Jennings (Olympics)
Road Swing by
Steve Rushin
Golf in the Kingdom
by Michael Murphy (golf)
Game Misconduct
by Russ Conway (hockey)
No Cheering in the
Press Box by Jerome Holtzman (sportsrwiters)
Beer and Circus
by Murray Sperber (college sports)
The Harder They Fall
by Budd Schulberg (boxing; fiction)
The Tumult and the
Shouting by Granland Rice
SportsWorld by
Robert Lipstye
The Bingo Long
Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings by Willaim Brashler (baseball)
The Miracle of
Castel di Sango by Joe McGinniss (soccer)
Little Girls in
Pretty Boxes by Joan Ryan (gymnastics and figure skating)
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Amazing Art
Aronson, Marc. Art
Attack: A Short Cultural History of the Avant-Garde. (709.04 Aro)
Bang, Molly. Picture
This: How Pictures Work. (741.642 Ban)
Clements, Jonathan.
The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917. (791.433
Cle)
Ehrlich, Gretel.
John Muir: Nature's Visionary. (92 Muir)
Hart, Christopher.
Manga Mania: How to Draw Japanese Comics. (741.5952 Har)
Partridge, Elizabeth.
Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange. (779 Lan)
Pastoureau, Michel. Blue: The
History of a Color. (701.85 Pas)
Rubin, Susan Goldman. There
Goes the Neighborhood: Ten Buildings People Love to Hate. (720 Rub)``
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