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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 Ga 799.232 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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