Abraham Lincoln: the war years by Carl Sandburg
Act one: an autobiography by Moss Hart
Alive: the story of the Andes survivors by Piers Paul Read
All the President’s men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
Anne Frank: the diary of a young girl by Anne Frank
Anne Frank remembered: the story of the woman who helped to hide the
Frank family by Miep Gies
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Beautiful boy: a father’s journey through his son’s addiction by David
Sheff
Bite of the mango by Mariatu Kamara
Bitterly divided: the South’s inner Civil War by David Williams
Black boy: a record of childhood and youth by Richard Wright
Black dance in America: a history through its people by James Haskins
Black music in America: a history through its people by James Haskins
Bloods: an oral history of the Vietnam War by Wallace Terry
Body project: an intimate history of American girls by Joan Jacobs
Blumberg
Botany of desire: a plant’s-eye view of the world by Michael Pollan
Born standing up: a comic’s life by Steve Martin
Botany of desire: a plant’s-eye view of the world by Michael Pollan
Boy who harnessed the wind: creating currents of electricity and hope by
William Kamkwamba
Brief history of time: from the big bang to black holes by Stephen
Hawking
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee: an Indian history of the American West
by Dee Brown
Chinese Cinderella: the true story of an unwanted daughter by Adeline
Mah
Clarence Darrow for the defense by Irving stone
Colleges that change lives: 40 schools that will change the way you think
about colleges by Loren Pope
Common sense by Thomas Paine
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Damned lies and statistics: untangling numbers from the media,
politicians, and activists by Joel Best
Day one: before Hiroshima and after by Peter Wyden
Days of grace: a memoir by Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad
Dear America: letters home from Vietnam, Bernard Edelman, editor
Death be not proud: a memoir by John Gunther
Death of a salesman by Arthur Miller
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Devil’s highway: a true story by Luis Alberto Urrea
Devil’s teeth: a true story of obsession and survival among America’s
great white sharks by Susan Casey
Divine comedy by Dante Alighieri
Eagle blue: a team, a tribe, and a high school basketball season in Arctic
Alaska by Michael D’Orso
Eight men out: the Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof
Elements of library research: what every student needs to know by Mary
George
Eric by Doris Lund
Everything we had: an oral history of the Vietnam War by thirty-three
American soldiers who fought it, Al Santoli, editor
Eyes on the prize: America’s civil rights years 1954-1965 by Juan
Williams
Favorite folktales from around the world, Jane Yolen, editor
Fermat’s enigma: the epic quest to solve the world’s greatest
mathematical problem by Simon Singh
First freedom: the tumultuous history of free speech in America by Nat
Hentoff
First they killed my father: a daughter of Cambodia remembers by Loung
Ung
From clueless to class act: manners for the modern man by Jodi Smith
From clueless to class act: manners for the modern woman by Jodi Smith
Girls like us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon---and the journey of
a generation by Sheila Weller
Glass castle: a memoir by Jeannette Walls
Going over to your place: poems for each other, selected by Paul B.
Janeczko
Good war: an oral history of World War Two by Studs Terkel
Gorillas in the mist by Dian Fossey
Greasy rider: two dudes, one fry-oil-powered car, and a cross-country
search for a greener future by Greg Melville
Green book: the everyday guide to saving the planet one simple step at a
time by Elizabeth Rogers
Growing up by Russell Baker
Having our say: the Delany sisters’ first one hundred years by Sara and
Elizabeth Delany
Here I stand: a life of Martin Luther by Roland H. Bainton
Hiroshima by John Hersey
History of art by H.W. Janson and Anthony F. Janson
Hitler, a study in tyranny by Alan Louis Bullock
Hungry planet: what the world eats by Peter Menzel
I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou
In search of excellence: lessons from America’s best run companies by
Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman
In search of meaning: living religions of the world by Carl Voss
In search of Schrodinger’s cat: quantum physics and reality by John Gribbon
In these girls, hope is a muscle by Madeleine Blais
Into thin air: a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster by John
Krakauer
Joy of music by Leonard Bernstein
Kaffir boy: the true story of a black youth’s coming of age in Apartheid
South Africa by Mark Mathabane
Lakota woman by Mary Brave Bird (Crow Dog) and Richard Erdoes
Land of our own: an oral autobiography by Golda Meir
Let me play: the story of Title IX, the law that changed the future of
girls in America by Karen Blumenthal
Let the trumpet sound: the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Stephen B.
Oates
Long day’s journey into night by Eugene O’Neill
Long walk to freedom: runaway slave narratives
Long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier by Ishmael Beah
Longitude: the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest
scientific problem of his time by Dava Sobel
Lucky by Alice Sebold
Maggie’s American dream: the life and times of a black family by James P.
Comer
Magical life of Long Tack Sam by Anne Marie Fleming
Making movies work: thinking like a filmmaker by Jon Boorstin
Malcolm X: a life of reinvention by Manning Marable
Master of deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the age of lies by
Marc Aronson
Maus: a survivor’s tale by Art Spiegelman
Maus II, a survivor’s tale: here my troubles began by Art Spiegelman
Middle of everywhere: helping refugees enter the American community by
Mary Bray Pipher
Mosque by David Macaulay
My start-up life: what a (very) young CEO learned on his journey through
Silicon Valley by Ben Casnocha
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave by
Frederick Douglass
Napoleon by David Chandler
Never to forget: the Jews of the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
Night by Elie Weisel
Out law: what LGBT youth should know about their legal rights by Lisa
Keen
Out of orbit: the true story of how three astronauts found themselves
hundreds of miles above the earth with no way home by Chris Jones
Paula by Isabel Allende
Photographer’s handbook by John Hedgecoe
Portrait of myself by Margaret Bourke-White
Power of myth by Joseph Campbell
Power of photographs: how photography changed our lives by Vicki
Goldberg
Profiles in courage by John F. Kennedy
Race beat: the press, the civil rights struggle, and the awakening of a
nation by Gene Roberts
Race to save the Lord God Bird by Phillip Hoose
Radioactive boy scout: the frightening true story of a whiz kid and his
homemade nuclear reactor by Ken Silverstein
Rape of Nanking: the forgotten holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
Red scarf girl: a memoir of the cultural revolution by Ji-li Jiang
Rescue: the story of how gentiles saved the Jews in the Holocaust by
Milton Meltzer
Reviving Ophelia: saving the selves of adolescent girls by Mary Pipher
Right stuff by Tom Wolfe
Roots by Alex Haley
Roosevelt family of Sagamore Hill by Hermann Hagedorn
Scottsboro Boys in Their Own Words: Selected Letters, 1931-1950
Search for King Arthur by David Day
Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man by Bill Russell and Taylor
Branch
Seven storey mountain by Thomas Merton
Silent spring by Rachel Carson
Small victories: the real world of a teacher, her students, and their high
school by Samuel G. Freedman
Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers by Mary Roach
Sonnets: songs and poems of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
Super crunchers: why thinking-by-numbers is the new way to be smart by
Ian Ayres
Taste of sweet: our complicated love affair with our favorite treats by
Joanne Chen
Terror in the name of God: why religious militants kill by Jessica Stern
There are no children here: the story of two boys growing up in the other
America by Alex Kotlowitz
This life by Sidney Poitier
Tipping point: how little things can make a big difference by Malcolm
Gladwell
Tisha: the story of a young teacher in the Alaska wilderness by Anne
Pardy
Tribe apart: a journey into the heart of American adolescence by Patricia
Hersch
Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, a young man and life’s greatest lesson
by Mitch Albom
Tweak: growing up on methamphetamines by Nic Sheff
Unbroken: a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
Undaunted courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the
opening of the American west by Stephen E. Ambrose
Up from slavery: an autobiography by Booker T. Washington
Voice that challenged a nation: Marian Anderson and the struggle for
equal rights by Russell Freedman
Voices of AIDS: twelve unforgettable people talk about how AIDS has
changed their lives by Michael Thomas Ford
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Warriors don’t cry by Melba Beals
Way we work: getting to know the amazing human body by David Macaulay
Weather makers: how man is changing the climate and what it means for
life on earth by Tim Flannery
What color is your parachute? : a practical manual for job-hunters and
career-changers by Richard Nelson Bolles
What to listen for in music by Aaron Copland
Wheelchair warrior: gangs, disability, and basketball by Melvin Juette
Who the hell is Pansy O’Hara? : the fascinating stories behind 50 of the
world’s best-loved books by Jenny Bond
Woman in the mists: the story of Dian Fossey and the mountain gorillas of
Africa by Farley Mowat
Woman warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts by Maxine Hong
Kingston
Worst hard time: the untold story of those who survived the Great
American Dust Bowl
Yankee from Olympus: Justice Holmes and his family by Catherine
Drinker Bowen
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