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Audacious Adventures
Aronson, Marc. Sir Walter
Ralegh & the Quest for
Blumberg, Rhoda. Shipwrecked!
The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy. (92 Nakahama)
Cox, Clinton. Houdini: Master
of Illusion. (92 Houdini)
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)
Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air.
(915.496 Kra)
Lawlor, Laurie. Magnificent
Voyage: An American Adventurer on Captain James Cook's Final Expedition.
Otfinoski, Steven. Marco Polo:
To
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)
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.
Dismaying Disasters
Bernstein, Richard. Out of the
Blue: The Story of
Calabro, Marian. The Perilous
Journey of the Donner Party. (978.02
Fink, Mitchell. Never Forget:
An Oral History of
Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin
Air : A Personal Account of the
Lalley, Patrick. 9.11.01 :
Terrorists Attack the
Lavender, David Sievert. Snowbound:
The Tragic Story of the Donner Party. (978.02 Law)
Murphy, Jim. The Great Fire.
(977.311
Murphy, Jim. Blizzard: The
Storm That Changed
A Nation Challenged : A Visual
History of 9/11 and Its Aftermath. (973.931
Nat)
Read, Piers Paul. Alive: The
Story of the
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.
Stories of the Sea
Dugard, Martin. Knockdown: The
Harrowing True Account of a Yacht Race Turned Deadly.
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.)
Philbrick, Nathaniel. The
Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship
Don’t 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)
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)
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.
Brooks, Polly Schoyer. Queen
Eleanor: Independent Spirit of the Medieval World.
Cameron, Sara. Out of War: True
Stories from the Front Lines of the Children's Movement for Peace in
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)
Kuklin, Susan. Trial: The
Inside Story. (345.0254 Kuk)
Lanier, Shannon.
Lawlor, Laurie. Helen Keller:
Rebellious Spirit.
Marrin, Albert. Terror of the
McManus, James. Positively
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 Zamp)
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
Partridge,
Partridge,
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)
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.
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
Meltzer, Milton. Walt Whitman:
A Biography.
Technology, Invention,
Science, Math, & Medicine
Al-Khalili, Jim. Black Holes,
Wormholes & Time Machines.
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 Politician 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
Fleischman, John. Phineas Gage:
A Gruesome But True Story About Brain Science.
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)
Hegedus, Alannah. Bleeps and
Blips to Rocket Ships: Great Inventions in Communications.
Ichord, Loretta. Toothworms
& Spider Juice: An Illustrated History of Dentistry. (617.6)
Katz. Jon. Geeks: How Two Lost
Boys Rode the Internet Out of
Kent, Deborah. Snake Pits,
Talking Cures, & Magic Bullets: A History of Mental Illness. (616.89
Ken)
Kessner, Thomas.
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)
Snedden, Robert. Yuck! A Big
Book of Little Horrors. (576 Sne)
Thimmesh, Catherine. Girls
Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious 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)
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,
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
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
Hidden History
Allen, Stewart Lee. The Devil's
Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee.
Aron, Paul. Unsolved Mysteries
of American History.
Bolles, Edmund Blair. The Ice
Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age.
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
Colman, Penny. Girls: A History
of Growing Up Female in
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
Deem, James. Bodies from the
Bog. (569.9
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
Koenig, Gloria. Iconic
Lord, Rosemary.
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 Latin Identity in
Myers, Walter Dean. At Her
Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian
Nelson, Peter. Left for Dead: A
Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis. (940.545 Nel)
Paterniti, Michael. Driving Mr.
Albert : A Trip Across
Phoenix, Charles.
Rensin, David. The Mailroom:
Roderick, Kevin. The
Ruddick, James. Death at the
Priory: Sex, Love, and Murder in Victorian
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)
Wallace, David Rains. The
Bonehunter's Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed & the Greatest Scientific Feud of
the Gilded Age.
Whitman, Sylvia. What's
Cooking: The History of American Food. (394.1 Whi)
Wilcox,
Winchester, Simon. The
Professor and the Madman : A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the
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
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)
Not Just For Sports Fans
Fair Play: The Ethics of Sport by Robert
L. Simon
Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths
and Paradoxes of Sport by D.
Patriotic Games: Sporting
Traditions in the American Imagination, 1876-1926 (Sports and History) by
Steven W. Pope
Built to
Win: The Female Athlete As Cultural Icon by Leslie
Heywood,
The Faith
of 50 Million: Baseball, Religion, and American Culture by
Christopher Hodge Evans (Editor)
Seabiscuit:
An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand (798.4 Hil)
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
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.
Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams by Darcy Frey
The Hoop
Dreams: True Story of Hardship and Triumph by Ben
Joravsky (796.323 Jor)
Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor
on the Little Big Horn by Larry Colton (796.323
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 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
Positively
From Booklist: “McManus went to
Into the
Wild by Jon Krakauer
"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."--
"Compelling
and tragic...Hard to put down." --
"Engrossing...with
a telling eye for detail, Krakauer has captured the sad saga of a stubborn,
idealistic young man."--
True
Believers: The Tragic Inner Life of Sports Fans by Joe
Queenan
Baseball as
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 ‘
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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,
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)