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LIBRARIANS' LISTS: FICTION | NONFICTION | AUDIO | TEENS

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2008
Locate the books listed below in our catalog by following the call number link.

American Nerd
Benjamin Nugent. 305.9089097 Nu

The Bin Ladens: an Arabic Family in the American Century
Steve Coll. 938.8052 Co

Bonk: the Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Mary Roach. 612.6 Ro

Can't Remember What I Forgot
Sue Halpern. 616.83

A Deeper Blue: the Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt
Robert Earl Hardy. 782.421642 V2856H

Eat Me: the Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin
Kenny Shopsin. 647.95068 Sh

Falcon Fever: Falconry in the Twenty-first Century
Tim Gallagher. 799.232 Ga799.232 Ga

The Forever War
Dexter Filkins. 956.70443 Fi

The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obesession
Adam Gollner. 641.34 Go

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Place in the World
Eric Weiner. 910.4 We

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revoultion
Tom Friedman. 363.70525 FR

In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and Near Triumph of American Eugenics
Victoria Nourse. 344.73048 No

The Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson
Michael Cleverly. 070.92 T472C

Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America
Allen Guelzo. 973.68 Gu

Monster of Florence
Douglas Preston. 364.1523 Pr

More Information Than You Require
John Hodgman. 818.5402 Ho

Nixonland: the Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Rick Perlstein. 973.924 N654P

Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape
Raja Shehadeh. 956.953 Sh

The Physics of NASCAR: How to Make Steel + Gas + Rubber = Speed
Diandra Leslie-Pelecky. 796.720153 Le

Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
Mark Harris. 791.430973 Ha

Predictably Irrational: the Hidden Forces that Shape our Decisions
Dan Ariely. 330 Ar

The Prince of Frogtown
Rick Bragg. 976.1063092 B8153B

The Soloist: A Lost Dream, and Unlikeiy Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
Steve Lopez. 787.2092 A977L

Superclass: the Global Power Elite and the World They are Making
David J. Rothkopf. 305.5209045 Ro

The Ten-Cent Plague: the Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America
David Hajden. 302.232 Ha

The Thing about Life is that One Day You Will Be Dead
David Shields. 813.54 S5552S

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Drew Faust. 973.71 Fa

Titanic's Last Secrets
Bradford Matsen. 910.91634 Ma

Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do
Tom Vanderbilt. 629.283 Va

Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
Tony Horowitz. 970.01 Ho

The Way of the World: a Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
Ron Suskind. 973.931 Su

While They Slept: An Inquiry Into a Murder of a Family
Kathryn Harrison. 364.1523097 Ha


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