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Working for a Living: People Write about Their Jobs

To Serve and Protect

363.2 CON
Blue Blood by Edward Conlon

363.2 TRU
True Blue: Police Stories by Those Who Have Lived Them

363.232 ESP
Bomb Squad: A Year inside the Nation’s Most Exclusive Police Unit by Richard Esposito

363.25 DEW
No Backup: My Life As a Female FBI Special Agent by Rosemary Dew

363.37 PAU
Fighting Fire by Caroline Paul

384.64 BUR
Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat by Caroline Burau

634.9 TAY
Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper’s Memoir of Fighting Wildfire by Murry A. Taylor

Real Life CSI

363.25 FLE
Every Contact Leaves a Trace: Crime Scene Experts Talk about Their Work from Discovery through Verdict by Connie Fletcher

363.25 REA
Aftermath, Inc.: Cleaning Up after CSI Goes Home by Gil Reavill

363.2595 YAN
Tracking Serial Killers by Diane Yancey

614.092 CAT
Coroner’s Journal: Stalking Death in Louisiana by Louis Cataldie

614.17 MAN
Forensic Detective: How I Cracked the World’s Toughest Cases by Robert W. Mann

PB NF FLE
Crime Scene: Inside the World of the Real CSIs by Connie Fletcher

Critical Condition

610.696 TRA
Patient by Patient: Lessons in Love, Loss, Hope, and Healing from a Doctor’s Practice by Emily R. Transue

610.73 HUD
Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse by Janice Hudson

610.92 JAU
Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation by Sandeep Jauhar

616.025 GRI
Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death from the ER by Pamela Grim

616.0252 VAN
Mountain Rescue Doctor: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature by Christopher Van Tilburg

617.47 COL
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years by Michael J. Collins

618.2 VIN
Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife by Peggy Vincent

976.85 JOU
Heart in the Right Place by Carolyn Jourdan

Tales Out of School

371.01 BAL
Inside Mrs. B’s Classroom: Courage, Hope, and Learning on Chicago’s South Side by Leslie Baldacci

371.1 FOO
Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America by Donna Foote

371.3 WIL
Tales from the Teachers’ Lounge: What I Learned in School the Second Time Around—One Man’s Irreverent Look at Being a Teacher by Robert Wilder

372.11 COD
Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year by Esme Raji Codell

372.97471 GOO
Ms. Moffett’s First Year: Becoming a Teacher in America by Abby Goodnough

373.11 HOF
Chasing Hellhounds: A Teacher Learns from His Students by Marvin Hoffman

Biography MCCOURT, F.
Teacher Man: A Memoir by Frank McCourt

So Many Books

020.92 BOR
Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library by Don Borchert

020.92 DOU
Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian by Scott Douglas

381.45 BUR
The King’s English: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller by Betsy Burton

381.45 BUZ
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History by Lewis Buzbee

381.45 MAR
Amazonia by James Marcus

381.45 SHE
Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore by Suzanne Strempek Shea

Talk to the Animals

363.289 ALB
The Lost Pet Chronicles: Adventures of a K-9 Cop Turned Pet Detective by Kat Albrecht

636.089 BAL
Lions & Tigers & Mares…Oh My! by Gay Louise Balliet

636.089 MAC
Fields and Pastures New: My First Year As a Country Vet by John McCormack

636.089 SHA
No Dogs in Heaven?: Scenes from the Life of a Country Veterinarian by Robert T. Sharp

636.089 TRO
Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life As an Animal Surgeon by Nick Trout

636.089 WHY
A Country Practice: Scenes from the Veterinary Life by Douglas Whynott

636.8 CAM
All My Patients Are under the Bed by Louis J. Camuti

Biography SMITH, L.
The Cat’s Meow: The Story of a Veterinary-Girl-Friday Wife, the Love-of-Her-Life D.V.M. and Others in Their Busy World by LaVerne K. Smith

Biography REICHL, R.
Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl

Uncommon Paths

331.4 SNO
Nine Lives: From Stripper to Schoolteacher: My Year-Long Odyssey in the Workplace by Lynn Snowden

332.644 LYN
Leg the Spread: A Woman’s Adventures inside the Trillion-Dollar Boys’ Club of Commodities Trading by Cari Lynn

336.24 YAN
Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man’s Tour of Duty inside the I.R.S. by Richard Yancey

363.44 ANG
Callgirl by Jeannette L. Angell

365 CON
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover

387.7 WHI
Working the Skies: The Fast-Paced, Disorienting World of the Flight Attendent by Drew Whitelegg

393 NAD
Mortician Diaries: The Dead-Honest Truth from a Life Spent with Death by June Knights Nadle

629.45 MUL
Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut by R. Mike Mullane

639.2778 GRE
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain’s Journey by Linda Greenlaw

646.7 GOD
Free Gift with Purchase: My Improbable Career in Magazines and Makeup by Jean Godfrey-June

649.092 HAN
You’ll Never Nanny in This Town Again: The True Adventures of a Hollywood Nanny by Suzanne Hansen

650.1 BAL
The Butterfly Hunter: Adventures of People Who Found Their True Calling Way Off the Beaten Path by Chris Ballard

916.883 ALL
Whatever You Do, Don’t Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison

Biography CODY, D.
Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody

Prepared by Lori Sennebogen, August 2008