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211 books on this shelf
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
Kathryn Edin and H. Luke Shaefer · 2015
A Drinking Life
Pete Hamill · 1994
A Morbid Taste for Bones
Ellis Peters · 1977
A Morbid Taste for Bones
Edith Pargeter · 1977
A Time to Kill
John Grisham · 1989
America on Trial
Alan M. Dershowitz · 2004
American Tabloid
James Ellroy · 1995
An unfinished life
Robert Dallek · 2003
And all the saints
Walsh, Michael · 2003
Andy Kaufman revealed!
Bob Zmuda · 1998
At the Plate With ... Ichiro
Glenn Stout · 2003
At the plate with-- Mark McGwire
Matt Christopher · 1999
At the Plate With...Sammy Sosa (Matt Christopher Sports Biographies)
Matt Christopher · 1999
Athenais
Lisa Hilton · 2002
Balancing act
Martin Gottfried · 1998
Bartlett's book of anecdotes
Clifton Fadiman · 2000
Beat to Quarters
C. S. Forester · 1937
Behind the Bamboo Curtain
Bernard E. Trainor · 2009
Betrayal
The Investigative Staff of the Boston Globe · 2003
Blessed Unrest
Paul Hawken · 2007
Bokhandleren i Kabul
Åsne Seierstad · 2002
Brother Cadfael's penance
Edith Pargeter · 1994
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Margaret Mayo · 1999
Brûlée vive
Souad · 2003
Bystander
Colin Westerbeck · 1994
Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
Jennifer Worth · 2002
Calypso
David Sedaris · 2018
Careless Love
Peter Guralnick · 1998
Chain of Command
Seymour Hersh · 2004
Cobra II
Bernard E. Trainor · 2006
Come as You Are
Michael Azerrad · 1993
Complications
Atul Gawande · 2002
Cowboy wisdom
Terry Hall · 1995
David and Goliath
Malcolm Gladwell · 2013
Dead Man's Ransom
Edith Pargeter · 1984
Deadline poet, or, My life as a doggerelist
Calvin Trillin · 1994
Death at an Early Age
Jonathan Kozol · 1967
Devil at His Elbow
Valerie Bauerlein · 2024
Dream Boogie
Peter Guralnick · 2005
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
David Sedaris · 2004
Dude, where's my country?
Michael Moore · 2003
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Karen Hao · 2025
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond · 2016
Feel Like Going Home
Peter Guralnick · 1971
Flesh & Blood
Pete Hamill · 1977
Flyboys
James Bradley · 2003
Flying Colours
C. S. Forester · 1938
Forever
Pete Hamill · 2002
Foundation
Isaac Asimov · 1951
Good to Great
Jim Collins · 2001
Great Moments in Football History
Matt Christopher · 1997
Helter Skelter
Vincent Bugliosi · 1974
History Decoded
Brad Meltzer · 2013
Holidays on Ice
David Sedaris · 1997
Hornblower And The Atropos
C. S. Forester · 1920
I Am Amelia Earhart
Brad Meltzer · 2014
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
Michelle McNamara · 2018
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote · 1965
In the land of giants
Tyrone Bogues · 1994
In the Plex
Steven Levy · 2011
In the Royal Manner
Paul Burrell · 1999
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Andrea Elliott · 2021
Inviting Disaster
James R. Chiles · 2001
Joystick Nation
J. C. Herz · 1997
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler · 1979
King Suckerman
George Pelecanos · 1997
Krueger's Men
Lawrence Malkin · 2006
Landmark Cases in Forensic Psychiatry
Elizabeth Ford, Merrill Rotter · 2014
Last Train to Memphis
Peter Guralnick · 1994
Lion's blood
Steven Barnes · 2002
Little Scarlet
Walter Mosley · 2004
Live from New York
Tom Shales · 2002
Lord Hornblower
C. S. Forester · 1946
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White · 1998
Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1
Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck · 1961
Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris · 2000
Medical Coding: What It Is and How It Works
Patricia Aalseth · 2008
Midlife Irish
Frank Gannon · 2003
Military Perspectives on Humanitarian Intervention and Military-Media Relations
Bernard E. Trainor · 1995
Monk's Hood
Ellis Peters · 1980
Monk's Hood
Edith Pargeter · 1980
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
C. S. Forester · 1950
My Lai 4
Seymour Hersh · 1970
My land and my people
His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the XIV Dalai Lama · 1962
Naked
David Sedaris · 1997
Native Dancer: The Grey Ghost
John Eisenberg · 2003
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell · 1949
Normal Accidents
Charles Perrow · 1984
On the Field With... Derek Jeter (Matt Christopher Sports Biographies)
Glenn Stout · 2000
On time
Carlene E. Stephens · 2002
One Corpse Too Many
Ellis Peters · 1979
Only the Paranoid Survive
Andrew S. Grove · 1996
Our Band Could Be Your Life
Michael Azerrad · 2001
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler · 1993
Planet Google
Randall E. Stross · 2008
Pride of October
Bill Madden · 2003
Purple Hearts - Battle Scars
Bernard E. Trainor · 2008
Queen Mary 2
John Maxtone-Graham · 2004
Red Mafiya
Robert I. Friedman · 2000
Remembering Denny
Calvin Trillin · 1993
Remembering Jack
Jacques Lowe · 2003
Reporter
Seymour Hersh · 2018
Revenge of the Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell · 2024
Robot
Rodney Allen Brooks · 2002
Saint Peter's Fair
Ellis Peters · 1981
Saint Peter's Fair
Edith Pargeter · 1981
Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe · 2018
Scotty
John F. Stacks · 2002
Searching for Robert Johnson
Peter Guralnick · 1989
See a Little Light
Michael Azerrad · 2011
Shame the Devil
George Pelecanos · 2000
Sister Genevieve
Rae, John · 2003
Skeletons on the Zahara
Dean King · 2004
Snow in August
Pete Hamill · 1997
Strategy Is Destiny: How Strategy-Making Shapes a Company's Future
Andrew S. Grove · 2002
Surfing on the Internet
J. C. Herz · 1995
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
James Patterson · 2001
Sweet Soul Music
Peter Guralnick · 1986
Swimming Across: A Memoir
Andrew S. Grove · 2001
Tabloid City
Pete Hamill · 2011
Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell · 2019
The African Queen
C. S. Forester · 1935
The Americans
Robert Frank · 1959
The Amplified Come as You Are
Michael Azerrad · 2023
The Attention Merchants
Tim Wu · 2016
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
Carolyn Chute · 1986
The Big Blowdown
George Pelecanos · 1996
The Big Switch
Nicholas Carr · 2008
The Bomber Mafia
Malcolm Gladwell · 2021
The Book of Fate
Brad Meltzer · 2006
The Bottoms
Joe R. Lansdale · 2000
The Caine mutiny
Herman Wouk · 1951
The Celestine Prophecy
James Redfield · 1993
The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande · 2010
The Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook
Alice Waters · 1982
The Cold Six Thousand
James Ellroy · 2001
The Course of Honor
Lindsey Davis · 1998
The crisis
David Harris · 2004
The Dark Side of Camelot
Seymour Hersh · 1997
The Devil and Sonny Liston
Nick Tosches · 2000
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson · 2003
The Devil's Highway
Luis Alberto Urrea · 2004
The Ecology of Commerce
Paul Hawken · 1993
The Endgame
Bernard E. Trainor · 2012
The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
Marcella Hazan · 1992
The Evolution of Useful Things
Henry Petroski · 1992
The Generals' War
Bernard E. Trainor · 1995
The Glory
Herman Wouk · 1994
The Good Shepherd
C. S. Forester · 1955
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood · 1985
The hermit of Eyton Forest
Edith Pargeter · 1987
The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova · 2005
The Holy Thief
Edith Pargeter · 1992
The Hope
Herman Wouk · 1993
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot · 2009
The Inner Circle
Brad Meltzer · 2011
The Iron Heel
Jack London · 1907
The Last Fine Time
Verlyn Klinkenborg · 1991
The Machine That Changed the World
James P. Womack · 1990
The Man No One Believed
Joshua Sharpe · 2025
The Master Switch
Tim Wu · 2010
The Mercy Room
Gilles Rozier · 2005
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander · 2010
The ornament of the world
Maria Rosa Menocal · 2002
The outsider
Penelope Williamson · 1996
The passions of Emma
Penelope Williamson · 1998
The Perfect Store
Adam Cohen · 2002
The potter's field
Edith Pargeter · 1989
The Price of Power
Seymour Hersh · 1983
The Punch
John Feinstein · 2002
The raven in the foregate
Edith Pargeter · 1986
The Redhunter
William F. Buckley · 1999
The River
Edward Hooper · 1999
The Rural Life
Verlyn Klinkenborg · 2003
The Salt Roads
Nalo Hopkinson · 2003
The Samson Option
Seymour Hersh · 1991
The Sanctuary Sparrow
Ellis Peters · 1983
The Sanctuary Sparrow
Edith Pargeter · 1983
The Search
John Battelle · 2005
The Secret of Shambhala
James Redfield · 1999
The Stars Are Fire
Anita Shreve · 2017
The Stranger Beside Me
Ann Rule · 1980
The UFO Enigma
Peter A. Sturrock · 1999
The virgin in the ice
Edith Pargeter · 1982
The Weight of Water
Anita Shreve · 1997
The Winds of War
Herman Wouk · 1971
The World on Sunday
Nicholson Baker · 2005
They Made America: Two Centuries of Innovators from the Steam Engine to the Internet Revolution
Harold Evans · 2004
Three hands in the fountain
Lindsey Davis · 2000
Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile
Verlyn Klinkenborg · 2006
To Engineer Is Human
Henry Petroski · 1982
To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System
Institute of Medicine · 2000
To Forgive Design
Henry Petroski · 2012
Tom Paine
Keane, John · 1995
TrumpNation
Timothy L. O'Brien · 2001
Two for the lions
Lindsey Davis · 1999
Un Reino Lejano / Inside The Kingdom
Carmen Bin Ladin · 2004
Walkin' the dog
Walter Mosley · 1999
War and remembrance
Herman Wouk · 1978
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin · 1924
Weaving the Web
Tim Berners-Lee · 1999
What Engineers Know and How They Know It
Walter G. Vincenti · 1990
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
David Sedaris · 2008
Where Dead Voices Gather
Nick Tosches · 2001
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg · 2016
Why Buildings Fall Down
Matthys Levy and Mario George Salvadori · 1992
Why Sinatra Matters
Pete Hamill · 1998
Wolf in the Shadows
Marcia Muller · 1993
Wondrous strange
Delaware Art Museum · 1998
Worse than Watergate
John W. Dean · 2004
Wrongful Convictions and Forensic Science Errors: Case Studies and Root Causes
John Morgan · 2023