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025.82 H342     Harvey, Miles.     Island of lost maps.

031 D419     D'Epiro, Peter.     What are the seven wonders of the world.

155.91 Ad23     Edut, Phira.     Adios, Barbie.

230.03 N856     Norris, Kathleen.     Amazing grace: a vocabulary of faith.

232.1 L566     L'Engle, Madeleine.     Bright evening star: the mystery of Incarnation.

232.91 D687     D'Onofro, Beverly.     Looking for Mary, or the blessed mother and me.

255 N856     Norris, Kathleen.     Cloister walk.

289.332 K89     Krakauer, Jon.     Under the banner of heaven: a story of violent faith.     

294.34 T539     Thurman, Robert.     Inner revolution: life, liberty, and the pursuit of real happiness.

294.5 M215ek     Bhagavad gita.

305.23 K87     Kotlowitz, Alex.     There are no children here.

305.23 K88 Kozol, Jonathan. Ordinary resurrections: children in the years of hope

305.4 M576     Mervin, Sabrina.     Women: around the world and through the ages.

305.40944 OL49     Ollivier, Debra.     Entre nous: a woman's guide to finding her inner French girl.

305.42 W913.2     Woolf, Virginia.     Room of one's own.

306.81 B271     Barreca, Regina.     Perfect husbands (& other fairy tales.)

324.973 W426     Weisberger, Bernard.     America afire: Jefferson, Adams and the revolutionary election of 1800.

362.29 Sh53     Shavelson, Lonny.     Hooked: five addicts challenge our misguided drug rehab system.

362.734 T893     Tucker, Neely.     Love in the driest season: a family memoir.

364.1523 L334     Larson, Eric.     Devil in the white city: murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America. 

372.11 C669     Codell, Esme.     Educating Esme: diary of a teacher's first year.

395 M133     Cullough, Donald.     Say please, say thank you.

481.1 H922     Humez, Alexander.     Alpha to omega.

508.8 D228     Darwon, Charles.     Voyage of the Beagle.

598.32 M443     Matthiessen, Peter.     Birds of heaven: travels with cranes.

609.22 V292     Vare, Ethlie Ann.     Mothers of invention.

635 H648     Hill, Susan.     Through the garden gate.

635 K51    Kincaid, Jamaica. My garden (book).

636.089 H568.2     Herriot, James.     All creatures great and small.

646.77 H411     Hax, Carolyn.     Tell me about it: lying, sulking, and getting fat and 57 other things not to do while looking for love.

738 G555     Gleason, Janet.     The Arcanum.

[GRAPHIC NOVEL] 741.5 C648     Clowes, Daniel.     David Boring.

[GRAPHIC NOVEL] 741.5 Sa25     Satrapi, Marjane.     Persepolis.

[GRAPHIC NOVEL] 741.5973 K18     Auster, Paul     City of glass.     

741.5 M127u     Mkeywordoud, Scott.   Understanding Comics: the invisible art.

791.43 G549     Glatzer, Robert.     Beyond popcorn : a critic's guide to looking at films.

791.43 Se47     Sennett, Ted.     Laughing in the dark: movie comedy from Groucho to Woody.

791.43092 On58     100 greatest stars of all time.

791.43617 G985     Guttmacher, Peter.     Legendary comedies.

792.7028 Si58     Silverman, Stephen.     Funny ladies: the women who make us laugh.

796.522 K89     Krakauer, Jon.     Into thin air: a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster.

808.02 L235     Lamott, Anne.     Bird by bird: some instructions on writing and life.

808.1 F686     Moyers, Bill.     Fooling with words.

808.31 En58     English country house murders.

808.81 C646     Clotheslines: a collection of poetry and art.

810.8 R287t     Reading rooms: America's foremost writers celebrate our public libraries...

810.9 Se49     Setterberg, Fred.      Roads taken.

811 H87c     Hughes, Langston.     Collected poems of Langston Hughes.     

813 W856     Wolff, Tobias.     This boy's life: a memoir.

813 W859 Za     Wolff, Geoffrey.     Duke of deception: memories of my father.    

814 B283     Barth, John.     Friday book.

814 D241     Daum, Meghan.     My misspent youth.

814 Ep64n     Epstein, Joseph.     Narcissus leaves the pool: familiar essays.

814 L987     Lynch, Thomas.     Undertaking.

814 Sa21     Sanders, Scott R.     Staying put: making a home in a restless world.

814 Se44m     Sedaris, David.     Me talk pretty one day.

814 T412     Theroux, Alexander.     Primary colors.

817.09 F699     Ford, Corey.     Time of laughter.

817.5 G6633     Gordon, Karen.     Paris out of hand.

817.5 P243     Parker, Tom.     Rules of thumb.

818 B365     Beach, Sylvia.     Shakespeare and company.

818 H48m     Hemingway, Ernest.     Moveable feast.

818 L74     Lindbergh, Anne Morrow.     Gift from the sea.

818 St3a     Stein, Gertrude.     Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

818 T969L.2     Twain, Mark.     Life on the Mississippi.

821 W89s     Wordsworth, William.     Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth.

822.33 Ep64     Epstein, Norrie.     Friendly Shakespeare: a thoroughly painless guide to the best of the bard.

823 C55 Za     Christie, Agatha.     Autobiography.

823 C55 Zh     Hart, Anne.     Life and times of Miss Jane Marple.

823 F793d     Fox, Mem.     Dear Mem Fox...

823.09 C295     Carpenter, Humphrey.     Inklings.

824 W88     Woolf, Virginia.     Room of one's own.

828 D412     Dennys, Joyce.     Henrietta's war.

828 H986f     Huxley, Elspeth.     Flame trees of Thika.

828 J69 Zbo     Boswell, James.     Life of Johnson.

888 H43     Herodotus.     History.

814 D241     Daum, Meghan.    

910.92 M189b     Bergreen, Laurence.     Over the edge of the world: Magellan's terrifying circumnavigation of the globe.

914.042 D659     Dolan, Brian.     Ladies of the grand tour: British women in pursuit of enlightenment and adventure in eighteenth century Europe.

914.61 H676  Hitt, Jack    Off the road: a modern day walk down the pilgrim's route into Spain.

915.0442 T412     Theroux, Paul.     Great railway bazaar.

917.3 B916     Bryson, Bill.     Lost continent: travels in small-town America.

917.98 B786     Bowermaster, Jon.     Birthplace of the winds: adventuring in Alaska's islands of fire and ice.

917.3 St395     Steinbeck, John.     Travels with Charley.

917.4 B916     Bryson, Bill.     Walk in the woods: rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail.

919.5 T412     Theroux, Paul.     Happy isles of Oceania: paddling the Pacific.

920 M133     Cullough, David.     Brave companions.

920.72 T172     Tapert, Annette.     Power of style: women who defined the art of living well.

831 R57Le     Rilke, Rainer Maria.     Letters to a young poet.

940.5318 B337     Bau, Joseph.     Dear God, have you ever gone hungry?: memoirs.

940.5425 Oe28     Oe, Kenzaburo.     Hiroshima notes.

940.5246 B811f     Bradley, James.     Flyboys: a true story of courage

944.081 W814     Wiser, William.     Crazy years:Paris in the Twenties.

944.36 G659     Gopnick, Adam.     Paris to the moon.

944.361 W814     Wiser, William.     Twilight years: Paris in the 1930's.

970.3 P977fe     Fein, Judith.     Indian time.

973.21 F83aL     Franklin, Benjamin.     Autobiography.

973.44 M133     McCullough, David.     John Adams.

973.9 J79     Jonas, Susan.     Going, going, gone.

973.913 AL42     Allen, Frederick Lewis.     Only Yesterday.

973.918 M133     McCullough, David.     Truman.

973.92 H734     Holland, Barbara.     Wasn't the grass greener? : a curmudgeon's fond memories.

975.8724  B488    Berendt, John    Midnight in the garden of good and evil: a savannah story

977.31 An54     Anderson, Jon.     City watch: discovering the uncommon Chicago.

B B3365     Shipman, Pat.     To the heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the exploration of Central Africa.

B B3365     Bauby, Jean-Dominique.     Diving bell and the butterfly.

B B751.2     Brent, Stuart.     Seven stairs.

B B885     Broyard, Anatole.     Kafka was the rage.

B C767.2     Conway, Jill Ker.     Road from Coorain.

B C771ho     Horwitz, Tony.   Blue latitudes: boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before

B C9675     Cully, Travis.     Immortal class: bike messengers and the cult of human power.

B D965     Durrell, Gerald.     My family and other animals.

B F145     Fadiman, Anne.     Ex libris: confessions of a common reader.     

B F435su Feynman, Richard.     Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman.

B G129y     Young, Carrie.     Nothing to do but stay: my pioneer mother.

B G585w     Whitaker, Robert.     Mapmaker's wife: a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon.

B G666     Gorey, Edward.     Ascending peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey: interviews

B G786     Grealy, Lucy.     Autobiography of a face.

B M122k     Krakauer, Jon.     Into the wild.

B M119     McBride, James.     Color of water: a black man's tribute to his white mother.

B M498     Mehta, Ved.     Up at Oxford.

B M 875c     Crawford, Alan.     Unwise passions: a true story of a remarkable woman- and the first great scandal of eighteenth America.

B R988     Ryan, Terry.     Prize winner of Defiance Ohio: how my mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less.

B Si614z     Zehme, Bill.     Way you wear your hat.

B St81     Steinbach, Alice.     Without reservations: the travels of an independent woman.

B T225o     Taulbert, Clifton.     Once upon a time when we were colored.

B W855     Wolff, Tobias.     In Pharaoh's army: memories of the lost war.

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