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Being Heumann
Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and what Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Kathryn Schulz
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Aron Ralston
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004
Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
Tom Felton
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022
Bhagavad Gita
Swami Prabhavananda, Transl. Christopher Isherwood
Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1972
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019
Bible: New Testament: English Standard Version
Anonymous
Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1611
Bible: Old Testament: English Standard Version
Anonymous
Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1611
Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
Aminatou Sow, Ann Friedman
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Elizabeth Gilbert
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015
Biographia Literaria
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1817
Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Anne Lamott
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
Susan Cain
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022
Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir
Peter Balakian
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Patricia Hill Collins
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
Mahzarin Banaji, Anthony Greenwald
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Patrick Phillips
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016
Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
Timothy B. Tyson
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
Winston Churchill
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1941
Blue Highways: A Journey into America
William Least Heat-Moon
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
Judith Butler
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1993
Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America
John Charles Chasteen
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Christopher McDougall
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
Katherine Eban
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019
Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When to Say No To Take Control of Your Life
Henry Cloud, John Townsend
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Robert D. Putnam
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000
Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity
Peggy Orenstein
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
John Medina
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008
Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
Brené Brown
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
Liz Murray
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
Kathleen Belew
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
Arthur C. Brooks
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jim Collins
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1970
Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
Rigoberto González
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
Marc Reisner
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Silvia Federici
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004
Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work
David Isay, Maya Millett
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2016
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
Jim Mattis, Bing West
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
David Goggins
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Joseph Alois Schumpeter
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1942
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
Timothy Mitchell
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
Frank Abagnale, Stan Redding
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1980
Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
Andrew X. Pham
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
William Cronon
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
Johann Hari
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015
Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want To Know About Fast Food
Charles Wilson, Eric Schlosser
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006
Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition
Álvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1542
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Mike Davis
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
Stephanie Land
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023