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AFRICAN AMERICAN NONFICTION

Boyd, Valerie
Wrapped In Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston (2003)
800.92 Hur

Kennedy, Randall
Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption (2003)
346.016 Ke

Brown, Elaine
The Condemnation of Little B (2002)
364.1523 Br

Gordon, Robert
Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters (2002)
780.92 Mud

Harari, Oren
The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell (2002)
658.4092 Ha

Hurston, Zora Neale
Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters (2002)
800.92 Hu

Kahn, Ashley
A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album (2002)
785.34165 As

Nelson, Paul D.
Frederick L. McGhee: A Life on the Color Line, 1861 - 1912 (2002)
921 Mac

White, Shane
Stories of Freedom in Black New York (2002)

Wynter, Leon
American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business, and the End Of White America (2002)
305.8 Wy

Walker, Rebecca
Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self (2001)
921 Wal

Dickerson, Debra J.
An American Story (2000)
070.92 Dic

Gilbert, Charlene, and Quinn Eli
Homecoming: The Story of African-American Farmers (2000)
305.896 Gi

Lewis, David Levering
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century (2000)
921 Dub

Margolick, David
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and an Early Call for Civil Rights (2000)
782.421592 Ma

Poitier, Sidney
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (2000)
791.4392 Po

Slave Narratives (2000)
305.567 Sl

Robinson, Randall
The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks (2000)
305.8 Ro

Dyson, Michael Eric
I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. (2000)
921 Kin

Evanzz, Karl
The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad (1999)
921 Muh

Melnick, Jeffrey
A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song (1999)
781.64089 Me

Robertson, David
Denmark Vesey: The Buried History of America's Largest Slave Rebellion (1999)
975.7915 Ro

Wiencek, Henry
The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White (1999)
921 Hai

Wilson, Jackie Napolean
Hidden Witness: African-American Images from the Dawn of Photography to the Civil War (1999)
779.99 Wi

Lydon, Michael
Ray Charles: Man and Music (1999)
780.92 Cha

Wilson, William Julius
The Bridge over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics (1999)
305.8 Wi

Brooks, Lonnie, et al
Blues for Dummies (1998)
781.643 Br

Davis, Ossie, and Ruby Dee
With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together (1998)
791.4392 Dav

George, Nelson
Hip Hop America (1998)
781.469 Ge

Curtis, Susan
The First Black Actors on the Great White Way (1998)
792.028 Cu

Davis, Angela Y.
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (1998)
782.421643 Da

White, Shane, and Graham White
Stylin': African American Expressive Culture from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit (1998)
305.896 Wh

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ARTS AND LITERATURE

King, Ross
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (2000)
726.6 Ki

Ross, Harold
Letters from the Editor: The New Yorker's Harold Ross (2000)
070.92 Ros

Silverman, Debora
Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art (2000)
759.13 Si

Zagajewski, Adam
Another Beauty (2000)
800.92 Zag

Severin, Tim
In Search of Moby Dick: The Quest for the White Whale (1999)
919 Se

Crowe, Cameron
Conversations with Wilder (1999)
791.4392 Wi

Drury, John
Painting the Word: Christian Pictures and Their Meanings (1999)
246 Dr

Gass, William H.
Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation (1999)
813.912 Ga

Hirsch, Edward
How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (1999)
808.1 Hi

Melnick, Jeffrey
A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song (1999)
781.64089 Me

Rybczynski, Witold
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century (1999)
921 Olm

Elkins, James
What Painting Is: How to Think about Oil Painting, Using the Language of Alchemy (1999)
750.18 El

Allende, Isabel
Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses (1998)
863 Al

Bloom, Harold
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998)
822.33 Bl

Lopez, Barry
About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory (1998)
800.92 Lop

Tsujimoto, Karen, and Jacquelyn Bass
The Art of Joan Brown (1998)
759.13 Bro

Christopher, Nicholas
Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City (1997)
791.436 Ch

Powell, Richard J.
Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century (1997)
704.0396 Po

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BIOGRAPHY

Boyd, Valerie
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston (2003)
800.92 Hur

Cline,Sally
Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise (2003)
800.92 Fit

Diamant, Kathi
Kafka's Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant (2003)
921 Dia

Marsden, George M.
Jonathan Edwards (2003)

Taubman, William
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (2003)
921 Khr

Vincent, Glyn
The Unknown Night: The Genius and Madness of R.A. Blakelock, an American Painter (2003)
759.13 Bla

Weir, Alison
Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley (2003)
941.105 We

Murray, Nicholas
Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual (2002)
800.92 Hux

Soares,Andre
Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro (2002)

Zimmermann, Warren
First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power (2002)
973.911 Zi

Bordewich, Fergus
My Mother's Ghost (2001)
800.92 Bor

Atlas, James
Bellow (2000)
800.92 Bel

Belford, Barbara
Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius (2000)
800.92 Wil

Bix, Herbert
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (2000)
921 Hir

Carter, William C.
Marcel Proust (2000)
800.92 Pro

Duiker, William J.
Ho Chi Minh (2000)
921 Ho

Kershaw, Ian
Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis (2000)
921 Hit

Kessler, Lauren
The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes (2000)
921 Bar

Lever, Evelyne
Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France (2000)
921 Mar

Lewis, David Levering
W.E.B. DuBois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-63 (2000)
921 Dub

Morris, Jan
Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest (2000)
921 Lin

Olsen, Jack
The Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt (2000)
921 Pra

Paolicelli, Paul
Dances with Luigi: A Grandson's Determined Quest to Comprehend Italy and the Italians (2000)
945 Pa

Robb, Graham
Rimbaud (2000)
800.92 Rim

Schlesinger, Arthur M.
A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 (2000)
921 Sch

Shakespeare, Nicholas
Bruce Chatwin (2000)
800.92 Cha

Smith, Donald B.
Chief Buffalo Bill Long Lance: The Glorious Impostor (1999)
921 Buf

Foreman, Amanda
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (1999)
921 Dev

Bandele, Asha
The Prisoner's Wife (1999)
800.92 Ban

Black, Stephen A.
Eugene O'Neill: Beyond Mourning and Tragedy (1999)
800.92 One

Baecque, Antoine de, and Serge Toubiana
Truffaut (1999)
791.4392 Tru

Dearborn, Mary V.
Mailer (1999)
800.92 Mai

Echols, Alice
Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin (1999)
780.92 Jop

Fussell, Betty
My Kitchen Wars (1999)
800.92 Fus

Hinojosa, Maria
Raising Raul: Adventures Raising Myself and My Son (1999)
306.8743 Hi

Kaplan, Fred
Gore Vidal (1999)
800.92 Vid

Marlowe, Ann
How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z (1999)
362.293 Ma

Robertson, David
Denmark Vesey: The Buried History of America's Largest Slave Rebellion (1999)
975.7915 Ro

Spender, Matthew
From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky (1999)
759.13 Gor

Thurman, Judith
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (1999)
800.92 Col

Ackroyd, Peter
The Life of Thomas More (1998)
921 Mor

Davis, Linda H.
Badge of Courage: The Life of Stephen Crane (1998)
800.92 Cra

Debre, Patrice
Louis Pasteur (1998)
921 Pas

Dyer, Geoff
Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence (1998)
823.912 Dy

Gibson, Ian
The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali (1998)
759.13 Dal

Goldsmith, Barbara
Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull (1998)
921 Woo

Johnson, Greg
Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates (1998)
800.92 Oat

Lewis, John, and Michael D'Orso
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (1998)
921 Low

Motion, Andrew
Keats (1998)
800.92 Kea

Rayfield, Donald
Anton Chekhov (1998)
800.92 Che

Remnick, David
King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero (1998)
796.83 Re

Spurling, Hilary
The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse (1998)
759.13 Mat

Theroux, Paul
Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship across Five Continents (1998)
800.92 The

Williams, Juan
Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary (1998)
921 Mar

Wilson, Charis, and Wendy Madar
Through Another Lens: My Years with Edward Weston (1998)
770.92 Wes

Anderson, Jon Lee
Che Guevera: A Revolutionary Life (1997)
921 Gue

Bergreen, Laurence
Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life (1997)
780.92 Arm

Buck, Rinker
Flight of Passage (1997)
629.1309 Bu

Clapp, Susannah
With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer (1997)
800.92 Cha

Coetzee, J.M.
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life (1997)
800.92 Coe

Ellis, Joseph
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (1997)
921 Jef

Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Wait till Next Year: Recollections of a '50s Girlhood (1997)
796.357 Go

Graham, Katharine
Personal History (1997)
921 Gra

Holland, Endesha Ida Mae
From the Mississippi Delta (1997)
921 Hol

Kincaid, Jamaica
My Brother (1997)
800.92 Kin

Klein, Michael
Track Conditions (1997)
800.92 Kle

Jones, James H.
Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life (1997)
921 Kin

Kwitny, Jonathan
Man of the Century: The Life and Times of Pope John Paul II (1997)
921 Joh

Lear, Linda
Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature (1997)
800.92 Car

Leider, Emily Wortis
Becoming Mae West (1997)
791.4392 Wes

Nagel, Paul
John Quincy Adams: A Public Life (1997)
921 Ada

Parks, Gordon
Half Past Autumn (1997)
770.924 Par

Perret, Geoffrey
Ulysses S. Grant (1997)
921 Gra

Rampersad, Arnold
Jackie Robinson (1997)
796.35792 Rob

Tanenhaus, Sam
Whittaker Chambers (1997)
921 Cha

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BUSINESS

Bing, Stanley
Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up (2002)
650.13 Bi

Camp, Jim
Start with No: The Negotiating Tools That the Pros Don't Want You to Know (2002)
658.4052 Ca

Cruver, Brian
Anatomy of Greed: The Unshredded Truth from an Enron Insider (2002)
338.7613 Cr

Goleman, Daniel and others
Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence (2002)
658.4092 Go

Haral, Owen
The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell (2002)

Soros, George
George Soros on Globalization (2002)
337 So

Stern, Ken
To Hell and Back: How I Survived Wall Street's Roller Coaster...and How You Can, Too! (2002)

Studwell, Joe
The China Dream: The Quest for the Last Great Untapped Market on Earth (2002)
330.951 St

Weisman, Steven R.
The Great Tax Wars: Lincoln to Wilson -- the Fierce Battles over Money and Power That Transformed the Nation (2002)

Godin, Seth
The Big Red Fez: How To Make Any Website Better (2001)
005.75 Go

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HISTORY

Anderson, Fred
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Faith of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 (2000)
973.26 An

Armstrong, Karen
The Battle for God (2000)
200.9 Ar

Barzun, Jacques
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present (2000)
940.2 Ba

Bryson, Bill
In a Sunburned Country (2000)
919.4 Br

Keay, John
The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named (2000)
526.1 Ke

Nasdijj
The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams (2000)
921 Nas

Philbrick, Nathaniel
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (2000)
910.9164 Ph

Ung, Loung
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (2000)
959.604 Un

Williams, Terry Tempest
Leap (2000)
289.3 Wi

Conrad, Peter
Modern Times, Modern Places: How Life and Art Were Transformed in a Century of Revolution, Innovation, and Radical Change (1999)
909.82 Co

Ellegard, Alvar
Jesus - One Hundred Years before Christ: A Study in Creative Mythology (1999)
270.1 El

Keegan, John
The First World War (1999)
940.3 Ke

Kidder, Tracy
Hometown (1999)
974.423 Ki

Kissinger, Henry
Years of Renewal (1999)
973.924 Ki

Kurlansky, Mark
The Basque History of the World (1999)
946.6 Ku

MacDonald, Michael
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (1999)
921 Mac

Thomson, David
In Nevada: The Land, the People, God, and Chance (1999)
979.3 Th

Wills, Garry
A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of the Government (1999)
973 Wi

Anthony, Carl Sferrazza
Florence Harding: The First Lady, the Jazz Age, and the Death of America's Most Scandalous President (1998)
921 Har

Astor, Gerald
The Right to Fight: A History of African Americans in the Military (1998)
355.008 As

Ball, Edward
Slaves in the Family (1998)
975.7915 Ba

Burrows, Edwin G., and Mike Wallace
Gotham: A History of New York to 1898 (1998)
974.71 Bu

Ellis, Richard
Imagining Atlantis (1998)
001.94 El

Halberstam, David
The Children (1998)
323.119 Ha

Hochschild, Adam
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998)
967.51 Ho

Reader, John
Africa: A Biography of the Continent (1998)
960 Re

Traxel, David
Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce (1998)
973.89 Tr

Wilson, Douglas L.
Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln (1998)
921 Lin

Johnson, Paul
A History of the American People (1997)
973 Jo

Gould, Stephen Jay
Questioning the Millenium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown (1997)
901 Go

Klein, Maury
Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War (1997)
973.13 Kl

Kurlansky, Mark
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (1997)
597.633 Ku

Lukas, J. Anthony
Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America (1997)
979.6 Lu

Plaster, John L.
SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam (1997)
959.7043 Pl

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LITERARY TRAVEL BOOKS

Bawlf, Samuel
The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake 1577-1580 (2003)
910.92 Ba

Dead Reckoning: Great Adventure Writing from the Golden Age of Exploration, 1800-1900. Ed by Helen Whybrow (2003)
910.4 De

The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery. Ed. by Gary E. Moulton (2003)

Mikkelsen, Ejnar
Two Against the Ice: A Classic Arctic Survival Story and a Remarkable Account of Companionship in the Face of Adversity (2003)
919.82 Mi

O'Donnell, Edward T.
Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum (2003)
910.9163 Od

Prose, Francine
Sicilian Odyssey (2003)
914.58 Pr

Rotella, Mark
Stolen Figs and Other Adventures in Calabria (2003)
914.578 Ro

A House Somewhere: Tales of Life Abroad. Ed. by Don George and Anthony Sattin (2002)
909.829 Ho

Barnes, Julian
Something to Declare: Essays on France (2002)
824.914 Ba

Williams, Glyn
Voyages of Delusion: The Northwest Passage in the Age of Reason (2002)
910.9163 Wi

Ashcraft, Tami Oldham and McGearhart, Susea
Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss and Survival (2002)

Gargan, Edward A.
The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong (2002)
915.9 Ga

Horwitz, Tony
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (2002)

Jensen, Carsten
I Have Seen The World Begin: Travels Through China, Cambodia, and Vietnam (2002)
915 Je

Severin, Tim
In Search of Robinson Crusoe (2002)
996.18 Se

Stone, Nathaniel
On the Water: Discovering America in a Rowboat (2002)
917.3 St

Dolan, Brian
Ladies of the Grand Tour: British Women in Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in Eighteenth-Century Europe (2001)
910.9 Do

Jenkins, Peter
Looking for Alaska (2001)
979.8 Je

Jian, Ma
Red Dust: A Path Through China (2001)
915.1 Ma

Milton, Giles
The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveler (2001)
915.042 Mi

Brookes, Tim
"A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow": An American Hitchhiking Odyssey (2000)
917.3 Br

Carter, W. Hodding
A Viking Voyage: In Which an Unlikely Crew of Adventurers Attempts an Epic Journey to the New World (2000)
910.9163 Ca

Iyer, Pico
The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (2000)
910.4 Iy

Philbrick, Nathaniel
The Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (2000)
910.9164 Ph

Seal, Jeremy
The Snakebite Survivors' Club: Travels among Serpents (2000)
597.96 Se

Symmes, Patrick
Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend (2000)
918 Sy

Theroux, Paul
Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings, 1985-2000 (2000)
910.4 Th

Wheeler, Tony, et al
Lonely Planet Unpacked: Travel Disaster Stories (2000)
910.4 Lo

Alexander, Caroline
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (1998)
919.89 Al

Flannery, Tim
Throwim Way Leg: An Adventure (1998)
995 Fl

Hazleton, Lesley
Driving to Detroit: An Automotive Odyssey (1998)
917.3 Ha

Knudsen, Mark A., and Shawn Plank
Old Man River and Me: One Man's Journey down the Mighty Mississippi (1998)
917.714 Kn

Preston, Diana
A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole (1998)
919.89 Pr

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POETRY

Carson, Anne
Men in the Off Hours (2000)
811.54 Ca

Clifton, Lucille
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000 (2000)
811.54 Cl

Flynn, Nick
Some Ether (2000)
811.6 Fl

Forbes, Peter, ed.
Scanning the Century: The Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Poetry (2000)
808.81 Sc

Gunn, Thom
Boss Cupid (2000)
821.914 Gu

Jordan, Judy
Carolina Ghost Woods (2000)
811.54 Jo

Jozsef, Attila
The Iron-Blue Vault: Selected Poems (2000)
894.511

Kirby, David
The House of the Blue Light (2000)
811.54 Ki

Kizer, Carolyn
Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems, 1960-2000 (2000)
811. 54 Ki

Komunyakaa, Yusef
Talking Dirty to the Gods (2000)
811.54 Ku

Kunitz, Stanley
The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz (2000)
811.52 Ku

Louis, Adrian C.
Ancient Acid Flashes Back (2000)
811.54 Lo

Conn, Stewart
Stolen Light: Selected Poems (2000)
821.914 Co

Goedicke, Patricia
As Earth Begins to End (2000)
811.54 Go

Graham, Jorie
Swarm (2000)
811.54 Gr

Prufer, Kevin, ed.
The New Young American Poets (2000)
811.008 Ne

Schnackenberg, Gjertrud
Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-1992 (2000)
811.54 Sc

Bennett, Bruce
Navigating the Distance: Poems New and Selected (1999)
811.54 Be

Bolton, Joe
The Last Nostalgia: Poems, 1982-1990 (1999)
811.54 Bo

Budbill, David
Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse (1999)
811.54 Bu

Howard, Richard
Trappings (1999)
811.54 Ho

Olds, Sharon
Blood, Tin, Straw (1999)
811.54 Ol

Osherow, Jacqueline
Dead Men's Praise (1999)
811.54 Os

Mahony, Phillip, ed.
From Both Sides Now: The Poetry of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath (1998)
811.54 Fr

Merwin, M.S.
The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative (1998)
811.54 Me

Bidart, Frank
Desire (1997)
811.54 Bi

Clampitt, Amy
The Collected Poems (1997)
811.54 Cl

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RELIGION

Barr, Stephen M.
Modern Physics and Ancient Faith (2003)
291.175 Ba

Harline, Craig
Miracles of the Jesus Oak: Journeys in the Otherworld of Reformation Europe (2003)
231.73 Ha

Harmer, Tom
What I've Always Known: Living in Full Awareness of the Earth (2003)
299.789 Ha

Her Voice, Her Faith: Women Speak on World Religions. Ed. by Arvind Sharma and Katherine K. young (2003)
200.82 He

Moynahan, Brian
God's Bestseller: William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the Writings of the English Bible - a Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal (2003)
921 Tyn

Nicolson, Adam
God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible (2003)
220.52 Ni

Pagels, Elaine
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomaas (2003)
229.8 Pa

Stark, Rodney
For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery (2003)
291.14 St

Tomkins, Stephen
John Wesley (2003)
287.092 To

Deloria, Vine
Evolution, Creationism and Other Modern Myths: A Critical Inquiry (2002)
291.175 De

Brown, Ruth Murray
For a "Christian America": A History of the Religious Right (2002)
320.52 Br

Downing, David C.
The Most Reluctant Convert: C.S. Lewis's Journey to Faith (2002)
800.92 Lew

Feiler, Bruce
Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths (2002)
222.11 Fe

Jenkins, Philip
The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (2002)
270.83 Je

Pinchbeck, Daniel
Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism (2002)
301 Pi

Polkinghorne, John
The God of Hope and the End of the World (2002)
236 Po

Simmons, Philip
Learning to Fall: The Blessings of an Imperfect Life (2002)
362.19683 Si

Ashton, John and Whyte, Tom
The Quest for Paradise: Visions of Heaven and Eternity in the World's Myths and Religions (2001)
291.23 As

Downing, Michael
Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center (2001)
294.3927 Do

Jesus Through Jewish Eyes: Rabbis and Scholars Engage an Ancient Brother in a New Conversation (2001)
232.906 Je

Carroll, James
Constantine's Sword (2001)
261.26 Ca

diZerega, Gus
Pagans & Christians: The Personal Spiritual Experience (2001)
299 Di

Nelson-Pallmeyer, Jack
Jesus Against Christianity: Reclaiming the Missing Jesus (2001)
232 Ne

Schroeder, Gerald L.
The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth (2001)
215 Sc

Weis, Rene
The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars (2001)
944.024 We

Yancey, Philip
Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church (2001)
270.092 Ya

Carter, Stephen L.
God's Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics (2000)
322.1 Ca

York, Sarah
Remembering Well: Rituals for Celebrating Life and Mourning Death (2000)
291.38 Yo

Akenson, Donald Harman
Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus (2000)
232.9 Ak

Armstrong, Karen
The Battle for God (2000)
200.9 Ar

Armstrong, Karen
Islam: A Short History (2000)
297.09 Ar

Drury, John
Painting the Word: Christian Pictures and Their Meanings (1999)
246 Dr

Ellegard, Alvar
Jesus - One Hundred Years Before Christ: A Study in Creative Mythology (1999)
270.1 El

Evanzz, Karl
The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad (1999)
921 Muh

Kreeft, Peter
A Refutation of Moral Relativism: Interviews with an Absolutist (1999)
171.7 Kr

Sider, Ronald J.
Just Generosity: A New Vision for Overcoming Poverty in America (1999)
362.58 Si

Briggs, John, and David F. Peat
Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Timeless Wisdom from the Science of Change (1999)
158.1 Br

Budziszewski, J.
The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man (1999)
172 Bu

Thomas, Cal, and Ed Dobson
Blinded by Might: Can the Religious Right Save America? (1999)
320.55 Th

Fox, Matthew
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Lessons for Transforming Evil in Soul and Society (1999)
233 Fo

Kavanaugh, Patrick
The Music of Angels: A Listener's Guide to Sacred Music from Chant to Christian Rock (1999)
781.71 Ka

Ackroyd, Peter
The Life of Thomas More (1998)
921 Mor

Mackenzie, Vicki
Cave in the Snow (1998)
921 Ten

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Chown, Marcus
The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (2002)
523.1 Ch

Kimbrell, Andrew (Ed.)
Fatal Harvest: The Trajedy of Industrial Agriculture (2002)
630.277 Fa

Fukuyama, Francis
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution (2002)
303.4 Fu

Herken, Gregg
Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller (2002)
920 He

Kurlansky, Mark
Salt: A World History (2002)
333.856 Ku

Maddox, Brenda
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA (2002)
921 Fra

Marks, Jonathan
What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their Genes (2002)
599.935 Ma

Montgomery, Sy
Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure in Pursuit of a New Species (2002)
599.78 Mo

Safina, Carl
Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival (2002)
598.42 Sa

Stoll, Steven
Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America (2002)
631.45 St

Barash, David P.
The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (2001)
306.736 Ba

Chatters, James C.
Ancient Encounters: Kenniwick Man and the First Americans (2001)
979.7 Ch

Gott, J. Richard
Time Travel in Einstein's Universe: The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time (2001)
530.11 Go

Harold, Franklin M.
The Way of the Cell: Molecules, Organisms and the Order of Life (2001)
571.6 Ha

Jago, Lucy
The Northern Lights (2001)
921 Bir

Krauss, Lawrence M.
Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond (2001)
523.1 Kr

Matthiessen, Peter
The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes (2001)
598.32 Ma

Rees, Martin
Our Cosmic Habitat (2001)
523.1 Re

Sacks, Oliver
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (2001)
921 Sac

Todd, Kim
Tinkering with Eden: A Natural History of Exotics in America (2001)
591.6 To

Berger, Lee
In the Footsteps of Eve: The Mystery of Human Origins (2000)
599.938 Be

Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca
Genes, Peoples, Languages (2000)
599.938 Ca

Jolly, Alison
Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution (2000)
599.938 Jo

Jordan, Paul
Neanderthal: Neanderthal Man and the Story of Human Origins (2000)
569.9 Jo

Lewin, Roger, et al
Java Man: How Two Geologists Changed the History of Evolution (2000)
599.938 Sw

Morell, Virginia
Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings (2000)
921 Lea

Berlinski, David
The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea That Rules the World (2000)
511.83 Be

Montgomery, Sy
Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest (2000)
599.538 Mo

Nuland, Sherwin B.
The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myths (2000)
610 Nu

Tudge, Colin
The Variety of Life: The Meaning of Biodiversity (2000)
578.012 Tu

Tattersall, Ian, and Jeffrey H. Schwartz
Extinct Humans (2000)
599.938 Ta

Ridley, Matt
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (1999)
599.935 Ri

Kunzig, Robert
The Restless Sea: Exploring the World beneath the Waves (1999)
551.46 Ku

Angier, Natalie
Woman: An Intimate Geography (1999)
612.62 An

Bolles, Edmund Blair
The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age (1999)
551.31 Bo

Johnson, Kurt, and Steve Coates
Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius (1999)
595.78 Jo

Sobel, Dava
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love (1999)
921 Gal

Courtillot, Vincent
Evolutionary Catastrophes: The Science of Mass Extinction (1999)
576.84 Co

Frankel, Charles
The End of the Dinosaurs: Chicxulub Crater and Mass Extinctions (1999)
551.397 Fr

Weidensaul, Scott
Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds (1999)
598.1568 We

Poag, C. Wylie
Chesapeake Invader: Discovering America's Giant Meteorite Crater (1999)
551.397 Po

Raeburn, Paul
Uncovering the Secrets of the Red Planet: Mars (1998)
523.43 Ra

Raymo, Chet
Skeptics and True Believers: The Exhilirating Connection between Science and Religion (1998)
215 Ra

Wilson, Edward O.
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998)
121 Wi

Tattersall, Ian
Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness (1998)
599.938 Ta

Wills, Christopher
Children of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace of Human Evolution (1998)
599.938 Wi

Fradkin, Philip L.
Magnitude 8: Earthquakes and Life along the San Andreas Fault (1998)
551.22 Fr

Lamb, Simon, and David Singleton
Earth Story: The Shaping of Our World (1998)
551.7 La

McPhee, John
Annals of the Former World (1998)
557.3 Ma

Greeley, Ronald, and Raymond Batson
The NASA Atlas of the Solar System (1997)
523.2 Gr

Grinspoon, David H.
Venus Revealed: A New Look below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Twin Planet (1997)
523.42 Gr

Alvarez, Walter
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom (1997)
576.84 Al

Alvarez, Walter
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom (1997)
576.84 Al

Goldsmith, Donald
The Hunt for Life on Mars (1997)
576.839 Go

McNutt, John, and Lesley P. Boggs
Running Wild: Dispelling the Myths of the African Wild Dog (1997)
599.77 Ma

Rhodes, Richard
Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague (1997)
616.8 Rh

Waal, Frans de, and Frans Lanting
Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape (1997)
599.885 Wa

Stringer, Christopher, and Robin McKie
African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Man (1997)
576.8 St

Spudis, Paul D.
The Once and Future Moon (1996)
523.3 Sp

Johanson, Donald
From Lucy to Language (1996)
576.8 Jo

Osborne, Roger, and Donald Tarling, eds.
The Historical Atlas of the Earth: A Visual Exploration of the Earth's Physical Past (1996)
551.7 Hi

Stanley, Steve
Children of the Ice Age: How a Global Catastrophe Allowed Humans to Evolve (1996)
573.2 St

Walker, Alan, and Pat Shipman
The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins (1996)
573.3 Wa

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SOCIAL SCIENCES

Carter, Stephen L.
God's Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics (2000)
322.1 Ca

Dyson, Michael Eric
I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. (2000)
921 Kin

Garrett, Laurie
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (2000)
362.1 Ga

Gilbert, Charlene, and Eli Quinn
Homecoming: The Story of African American Farmers (2000)
305.896 Gi

Kozol, Jonathan
Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope (2000)
305.23 Ko

Robinson, Randall
The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks (2000)
305.8 Ro

Lewis, Michael
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story (2000)
338.47 Le

Milton, Giles
Nathaniel's Nutmeg; or, The True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History (1999)
338.17 Mi

Damasio, Antonio R.
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (1999)
153 Da

Faludi, Susan
Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man (1999)
305.31 Fa

Friedman, Thomas L.
The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (1999)
337 Fr

Gordon, Linda
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (1999)
305.8 Go

Sen, Amartya
Development as Freedom: Human Capability and Global Need (1999)
330 Se

Welsome, Eileen
The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War (1999)
616.9897 We

Eisenberg, Evan
The Ecology of Eden (1998)
304.2 Ei

Naipaul, V.S.
Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples (1998)
297.09 Na

Berlin, Ira, Marc Favreau and Steven F. Miller, eds.
Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom (1998)
306.362 Re

Bawer, Bruce
Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity (1997)
277.3 Ba

Davis, Shelley
Unbridled Power (1997)
352.44 Da

Drumm, Russell
In the Slick of the Cricket (1997)
799.16 Dr

Everdell, William R.
The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought (1997)
190.9 Ev

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
News of a Kidnapping (1997)
364.154 Ga

O'Hanlon, Redmond
No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo (1997)
916.724 Oh

Shipler, David
A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America (1997)
305.8 Sh

Simon, David, and Edward Burns
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (1997)
364.177 Si

Wei, Ching-sheng
The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings (1997)
951.05 We

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SPORTS

Angell, Roger
Game Time: A Baseball Companion (2003)
796.357 An

Dierker, Larry
This Ain't Brain Surgery: How to Win the Pennant Without Losing Your Mind (2003)

Gould, Stephen Jay
Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball (2003)
796.357 Go

Halberstam, David
The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship (2003)
796.3579 Ha

Lewis, Michael
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2003)
796.357 Le

McDermott, Mickey and Eisenberg, Howard
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cooperstown (2003)

McManus, James
Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker (2003)
795.412 Ma

Queenan, Joe
True Believers: The Tragic Inner Lifeof Sports Fans (2003)
796 Qu

Feinstein, John
Open: Inside the Ropes at Bethpage Black (2002)
796.352 Fe

Frost, Mark
The Greatest Game Ever Played: Harry Vardon, Francis Quimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf (2002)
796.352 Fr

Leavy, Jane
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy (2002)
796.3579 Kou

Theodore, John
Baseball's Natural: The Story of Eddie Waitkus (2002)

Berkow, Ira
The Minority Quarterback and Other Lives in Sports (2002)

Dawidoff, Nicholas
Baseball: A Literary Anthology (2002)
810.80355 Ba

Frazier, Ian
The Fish's Eye: Essays About Angling and the Outdoors (2002)

Jones, Chris
Falling Hard: A Rookie's Year in Boxing (2002)
796.83 Jo

Wolff, Alexander
Big Game, Small World (2002)
796.323 Wo

Araton, Harvey
Alive and Kicking: When Soccer Moms Take the Field and Change their Lives Forever (2001)
796.334 Ar

Kelly, Jerry
Bushville (2001)
796.357 Ke

Mullen, P.H.
Gold in the Water: The True Story of Ordinary Men and Their Extrordinary Dream of Olympic Glory (2001)
797.21922 Mu

Rubenstein, Lorne
A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands (2001)

Wideman, John Edgar
Hoop Roots (2001)
800.92 Wid

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WOMEN'S HISTORY

O'Connor, Sandra Day
The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice (2003)

Armour-Hileman, Victoria
Singing to the Dead: A Missioner's Life among Refugees from Burma (2002)
261.8328 Ar

Benard, Cheryl
Veiled Courage: Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance (2002)
958.104 Be

Deak, JoAnn and Barker, Teresa
Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters (2002)
649.133 De

Katharine Graham's Washington, Ed. by Katharine Graham (2002)
975.3 Ka

Lee, Helie
In the Absence of Sun: A Korean-American Woman's Promise to Reunite Three Lost Generations of Her Family (2002)

Prose, Francine
The Lives of The Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired (2002)
700.92 Pr

Shawcross, William
Queen and Country: The Fifty-Year Reign of Elizabeth II (2002)
921 Eli

Simon, Joan
Ann Hamilton (2002)

Fuller, Alexandra
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight (2001)
921 Ful

Goodall, Jane
Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters, the Later Years (2001)
921 Goo

Haddock, Doris and Burke, Dennis
Granny D: Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year (2001)
917.3 Ha

Lovell, Mary S.
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family (2001)
921 Mit

Moorehead, Caroline
Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val d'Orcia (2000)
800.92 Ori

Oufkir, Malika and Fitoussi, Michele
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (1999)
921 Ouf

Showalter, Elaine
Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage (2001)
305.4209 Sh

Simeti, Mary Taylor
Travels with a Medieval Queen (2001)
945.8 Si

Steingraber, Sandra
Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood (2001)
618.24 St

Taylor, Kendall
Sometimes Madness Is Wisdom: Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, a Marriage (2001)
800.92 Fit

Travers, Susan and Holden, Wendy
Tomorrow to Be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion (2001)
921 Tra

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