Good Reads - Nonfiction

Quick Reads

028.8 BOO
The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them - 2006, 197p.

170.44 GOT
Letters to Sam: A Grandfather's Lessons on Love, Loss, and the Gifts of Life by Daniel Gottlieb - 2006, 175p.

170.44 MID
Values from the Front Porch: Remembering the Wisdom of Our Grandmothers by Jane Middelton-Moz - 2006, 220p.

248.2 HAL
Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall - 2006, 237p.

282.092 ILI
Left to Tell: Discovering God amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza - 2006, 215p.

362.196 SHR
Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven by Susan Richards Shreve - 2007, 215p.

362.196 TAM
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant: A Memoir by Daniel Tammet - 2007, 226p.

384.64 BUR
Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat by Caroline Burau - 2006, 206p.

395.22 SCH
A More Perfect Union: How I Survived the Happiest Day of My Life by Hana Schank - 2006, 211p.

509 ROB
The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, the Anonymous Genius Who Proved Newton Wrong, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, among Other Surprising Feats by Andrew Robinson - 2007, 288p.

523.7 CLA
The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began by Stuart Clark - 2007, 211p.

630.1 PER
Best Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer by Noel Perrin - 2006, 175p.

636.1 RIC
Chosen by a Horse: A Memoir by Susan Richards - 2006, 248p.

636.7 DOT
Dog Years: A Memoir by Mark Doty - 2007, 215p.

636.7 KOP
From Baghdad, with Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava by Jay Kopelman - 2006, 196p.

636.7 OHU
It's Okay to Miss the Bed on the First Jump: And Other Life Lessons I Learned from Dogs by John O'Hurley - 2006, 160p.

781.64 SHE
Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield - 2007, 224p.

791.45 JEN
Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs by Ken Jennings - 2006, 269p.

796.357 HOO
Perfect, Once Removed: When Baseball Was All the World to Me by Phillip M. Hoose - 2006, 163p.

797.2 BUS
Nine Ways to Cross a River: Midstream Reflections on Swimming and Getting There from Here by Akiko Busch - 2007, 208p.

798.4 EIS
The Great Match Race: When North Met South in America's First Sports Spectacle by John Eisenberg - 2006, 258p.

917.3 GEI
Way Off the Road: Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small-Town America by Bill Geist - 2007, 240p.

945.651 TUC
Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy by Michael Tucker - 2007, 255p.

966.4 BEA
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solider by Ishmael Beah - 2007, 229p.

973 GIL
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America by Steven M. Gillon - 2007, 262p.

973.7 CRA
Stealing Lincoln's Body by Thomas J. Craughwell - 2007, 250p.

973.74 BON
The Soldier's Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War by Robert E. Bonner - 2006, 248p.

975.59 WAR
See You in a Hundred Years: Four Seasons in Forgotten America by Logan Ward - 2007, 245p.

977.7 KAL
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm during the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish - 2007, 292p.

Biography LAMOTT, A.
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott - 2007, 253p.

Biography MORRIS, M.
The River Queen: A Memoir by Mary Morris - 2007, 270p.

Biography NGUYEN, B.M.
Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir by Bich Minh Nguyen - 2007, 256p.

Biography WOODRUFF, B.
In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing by Lee Woodruff - 2007, 288p.

Prepared by Lori Sennebogen, September 2007