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Life, Animated

Ron Suskind

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

A Short Guide to Writing About Art

Sylvan Barnet

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Albion's Seed

David Hackett Fischer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Abundance

Peter H. Diamandis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Daughter of Persia

Sattareh Farmanfarmaian

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

Door to Door

Edward Humes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Ethnic Groups in Conflict

Donald Horowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Going Clear

Lawrence Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Mindwise

Nicholas Epley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

On Trails

Robert Moor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Principia Mathematica

Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1910

Principles of Corporate Finance

Richard Brealey

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1978

Sacred Ground

Eboo Patel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Boy on the Beach

Tima Kurdi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

The Dukan Diet

Pierre Dukan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Queen of Katwe

Tim Crothers

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

The Technological Society

Jacques Ellul

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1954

Trace

Lauret Savoy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Great War and Modern Memory

Paul Fussell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World

Eric Metaxas

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Kobe Bryant

Jeff Savage

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

The Yankee Years

Joe Torre

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

United

Cory Booker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Wall and Piece

Banksy

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

We Gon' Be Alright

Jeff Chang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

What Is Populism?

Jan-Werner Müller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

What to Listen for in Music

Aaron Copland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1939

Writing to Save a Life

John Edgar Wideman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Geography of Genius

Eric Weiner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Water Will Come

Jeff Goodell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

What Stands in a Storm

Kim Cross

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Yes Please

Amy Poehler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

A Fighting Chance

Elizabeth Warren

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Zealot

Reza Aslan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

How to Be a Woman

Caitlin Moran

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

Leonard Shlain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Black Hand

Stephan Talty

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

White Mughals

William Dalrymple

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Deep Down Dark

Héctor Tobar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Everyday Ambassador

Kate Otto

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Walk in Their Shoes

Jim Ziolkowski

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Midnight in Broad Daylight

Pamela Rotner Sakamoto

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2016

The New Kids

Brooke Hauser

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

This I Believe II

Jay Allison, ed., Dan Gediman, ed.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Kabul Beauty School

Deborah Rodriguez, Kristin Ohlson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

The Measure of a Man

Sidney Poitier

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1967

The Republic of Imagination

Azar Nafisi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Omoo

Herman Melville

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1847

From Bauhaus to Our House

Tom Wolfe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Ishi in Two Worlds

Theodora Kroeber

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1961

Ghost Wars

Steve Coll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Coyote America

Dan Flores

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Oath

Jeffrey Toobin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

James Agee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1941

Our Savage Neighbors

Peter Silver

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

A Question of Freedom

R. Dwayne Betts

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Freedom Summer

Bruce Watson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Samurai Rising

Pamela S. Turner

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2016

Cycle of Hope

Tricia Downing

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

The Seat of the Soul

Gary Zukav

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The Path

Michael Puett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Anne Frank Remembered

Miep Gies

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

Grit to Great

Linda Kaplan Thaler, Robin Koval

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

How to Be Black

Baratunde Thurston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

My Life on the Road

Gloria Steinem

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Naked Ape

Desmond Morris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

Playing for Keeps

David Halberstam

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

The Jordan Rules

Sam Smith

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

The Geography of Thought

Richard E. Nisbett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Imperial Life in the Emerald City

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Paula

Isabel Allende

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Lost in the Cosmos

Walker Percy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Todd Gilbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Small Is Beautiful

Ernst F. Schumacher

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1973

Moonwalking with Einstein

Joshua Foer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent A Year Trying To Sing In The Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, And Generally Have More Fun

Gretchen Rubin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Dispatches from Pluto

Richard Grant

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

When Women Were Birds

Terry Tempest Williams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

The Impossible Will Take a Little While

Paul Loeb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Book of Revelation

John the Apostle

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 90

The Elements of Journalism

Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

When Work Disappears

William Julius Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Pour Your Heart Into It

Howard Schultz

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1997

Thank You For Being Late

Thomas L. Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Ambivalent Conquests

Inga Clendinnen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

The People's Platform

Astra Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Everybody Lies

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Working with Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Banker to the Poor

Muhammad Yunus

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

The Race Beat

Gene Roberts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

A Short History of the United States

Edward Channing

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1908

Abigail Adams

Woody Holton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

You Are Not So Smart

David Mcraney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Radical Candor

Kim Scott

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Poor Economics

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Organic Machine

Richard White

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy

Mihir S. Sharma

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Strangers Drowning

Larissa Macfarquhar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015