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Breaking Trail
Arlene Blum

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1979

Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
Ben Mezrich

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2002

Bronx Primitive
Kate Simon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1961

Brothers and Keepers
John Edgar Wideman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1984

Brother to a Dragonfly
Will D. Campbell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

Building a Bridge to the 18th Century
Neil Postman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Burn the Place: A Memoir
Iliana Regan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Bury the Chains
Adam Hochschild

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Calypso
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2018

Candyfreak
Steve Almond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Carry on Warrior
Glennon Doyle (Melton)

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Chained in Silence
Talitha L. Leflouria

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Charles Dickens: A Life
Claire Tomalin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

Charlie Wilson's War
George Crile

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World
Donald R. Howard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1987

Cheaper By The Dozen
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Frank B. Gilbreth Jr

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1948

Cheating Death
Owen Davies, Marvin J Cetron

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Chekhov
Henri Troyat

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1973

Children of Dust
Ali Eteraz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Children Of The Dust
Jerry Stanley

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1995

China's Second Continent
Howard W. French

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Chopin's Funeral
Benita Eisler

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

Chord
Rick Barot

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Christ Stopped At Eboli
Carlo Levi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1945

Chronicles of the Crusades
Jean de Joinville

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1309

Cider with Rosie
Laurie Lee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1959

Citizen Jane
Christopher Andersen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

City of Thorns
Ben Rawlence

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Class Matters
The New York Times

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Climate Change
A. Barrie Pittock

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Close To Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
Michael Capuzzo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1916

Close to the Knives
David Wojnarowicz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.
Viv Albertine

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Cockroaches
Scholastique Mukasonga

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Code Girls
Liza Mundy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Coleridge: Early Visions
Richard Holmes

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1989

Collision Low Crossers
Nicholas Dawidoff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Colors of the Mountain
Da Chen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Come Back to Afghanistan
Susan Burton, Said Hyder Akbar

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Coming Apart
Roger Rosenblatt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Coming of Age in the Milky Way
Timothy Ferris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Concussion
Jeanne Marie Laskas

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Confessions Of An English Opium Eater
Thomas De Quincey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1821

Console Wars
Blake J. Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Conspiracy of Fools
Kurt Eichenwald

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Constantine's Sword
James Carroll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Conundrum
Jan Morris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

Cooper Union Address
Abraham Lincoln

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1860

Country Driving
Peter Hessler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Cowboy Stuntman
Dean Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Coyote America
Dan Flores

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
Kenneth T. Jackson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Crazy for the Storm
Norman Ollestad

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Creating Black Americans
Nell Irvin Painter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Creativity, Inc.
Amy Wallace, Edwin Catmull

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Crimes Against Nature
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Cripple Creek Days
Mabel Barbee Lee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1958

Crisis in the Red Zone
Richard Preston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Crooked River
Shelley Pearsall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Cross Creek
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1942

Cry of the Kalahari
Mark Owens, Delia Owens

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1984

Custer's Trials
T. J. Stiles

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Cycle of Hope
Tricia Downing

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Dancing In The Glory Of Monsters
Jason Stearns

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Dancing with Cuba
Alma Guillermoprieto

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Dancing Wu Li Masters
Gary Zukav

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

Daring to Drive
Manal Al-Sharif

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Dark Money
Jane Mayer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Darkness in El Dorado
Patrick Tierney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Darwin on Man
Howard E. Gruber, Paul H. Barrett

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1974

Daughter of Persia
Sattareh Farmanfarmaian

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

Deadly Feasts
Richard Rhodes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Deadly Intentions
William Randolph Stevens

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Deadly Spin
Wendell Potter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Deaf Republic
Ilya Kaminsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Dear Marcus
Jerry McGill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Death at an Early Age
Jonathan Kozol

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1967

Death Be Not Proud
John Gunther

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1949

Death of a Naturalist
Seamus Heaney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1966

Deep Down Dark
Héctor Tobar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Deep Economy
Bill McKibben

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Defying Hitler
Sebastian Haffner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1939

Delight in Disorder: Selected Poems
Robert Herrick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Delivering Happiness
Tony Hsieh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Dereliction of Duty
H.R. McMaster

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1997

Descartes
Stephen Gaukroger

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1995

Designing Your Life
Dave Evans, Bill Burnett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Deuteronomy
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | BCE

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
David Hume

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1779

Dickens
Peter Ackroyd

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1990

Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Steve Coll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Dirty Little Secrets
Kerry Cohen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

DisneyWar
James B. Stewart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Dispatches from Pluto
Richard Grant

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Disunity in Christ
Christena Cleveland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Door to Door
Edward Humes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Dorothy Day
Kate Hennessy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time
Joseph Frank

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1976

Double Cross
Ben Macintyre

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012