Beyond Bestsellers - Nonfiction

Beyond Bestsellers - Nonfiction

April - June 2014 Issue

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Auster, Paul.  Report from the Interior. 

Bailey, Blake.  The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait. 
Bailey, Catherine.  The Secret Rooms: A True Story of a Haunted Castle, a Plotting Duchess, and a Family Secret. 
Bradlee, Ben Jr.  The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams. 
Bradley, Elizabeth H.  The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less. 
Bryson, Bill.  One Summer: America, 1927. 
Burleigh, Michael.  Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945-1965. 

Cassel, Matthew.  Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution: Voices from Tunis to Damascus. 
Cheevers, Jack.  Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo. 
Clayton, Ewan.  The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing. 
Clear, Todd R.  The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America. 
Cockburn, Alexander.  A Colossal Wreck: A Road Trip Through Political Scandal, Corruption, and American Culture. 

Daly, Michael.  Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked Tailed Elephant, P.T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison. 
Davis, David Brion.  The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation. 
de Queiroz, Alan.  The Monkey’s Voyage: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life. 
Dow, David R.  Things I’ve Learned From Dying: A Book About Life. 
Drury, Bob.  the Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend. 

Edmonds, David.  Would You Kill the Fat Man? The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us About Right and Wrong. 
Emmerson, Charles.  1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War. 

Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe.  Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States. 

Goldstone, Lawrence.  Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies. 
Gollner, Adam Leith. The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief and Magic behind Living Forever. 
Goodyear, Dana.  Anything that Moves: Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture.
Greenspan, Alan.  The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting. 
Gross, Michael.  House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West and the New Global Super Elite. 

Harris, Mark.  Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War. 
Hayasaki, Erika. The Death Class: A True Story About Life. 
Henry, David.  Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World that Made Him. 
Holborn, Mark.  The Great War: A Photographic Narrative.   
Holloway, Jonathan Scott.  Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940. 

Illies, Florian.  1913: The Year Before the Storm. 

Jacobsen, Annie.  Operation Paperclip: the Secret intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America. 
Janovitz, Bill.  Rocks Off: 50 Tracks That Tell the Story of the Rolling Stones.
Jones, Jacqueline.  A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial era to Obama’s America. 

Kimmel, Michael.  Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era. 
Kirn, Walter.  Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade. 
Kolbert, Elizabeth.  The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. 
Kot, Greg.  I’ll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the March up Freedom’s Highway. 

Laing, Olivia.  The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking. 
Lamb-Shapiro, Jessica.  Promise Land: My Journey Through America’s Self-Help Culture. 
Landau, David.  Arik: The Life of Ariel Sharon. 
Lesser, Wendy.  Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books. 
Lethbridge, Lucy.  Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain From the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times. 
Lipman, Joanne.  Strings Attached: One Tough Teacher and the Gift of Great Expectations. 

Mackrell, Judith.  Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation. 
McKibben, Bill.  Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist. 
McMahon, Darrin M.  Divine Fury: A History of Genius. 
Majd, Hooman.  The Ministry of Guidance Invites You To Not Stay: An American Family in Iran. 
Mead, Rebecca.  My Life in Middlemarch. 
Monroy, Liza.  The Marriage Act: The Risk I Took to Keep My Best Friend in America, and What It Taught Us About Love. 
Montgomery, Charles.  Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design. 

Ouellette, Jennifer.  Me, Myself, and Why: Searching for the Science of Self. 

Patchett, Ann.  This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. 
Peraino, Kevin.  Lincoln in the World: The Making of a Statesman and the Dawn of American Power. 
Priestland, David.  Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A History of the World in Three Castes. 

Robb, Graham.  The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts.   
Russell, Anthony.  Outrageous Fortune: Growing Up at Leeds Castle. 
Rybczynski, Witold.  How Architecture Works: A Humanist Toolkit. 

Sacco, Joe.  The Great War: July 1, 1916. The First Day of the Battle of the Somme: An Illustrated Panorama. 
Shavit, Ari.  My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel. 
Shere, Jeremy.  Renewable: The World-Changing Power of Alternative Energy. 
Sherman, Gabriel.  The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News - and Divided a Country. 
Shorto, Russell.  Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City. 
Shteyngart, Gary.  Little Failure: A Memoir. 
Solomon, Deborah.  American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell. 
Sounes, Howard.  27: A History of the 27 Club Through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse. 
Swaab, D.F.  We Are Our Brains: A Neurobiography of the Brain, from the Womb to Alzheimer’s. 
Swidey, Neil.  Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles into the Darkness. 
Swift, Will.  Pat and Dick: The Nixons, an Intimate Portrait of a Marriage. 

Tegmark, Max.  Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality. 
Thomson, David.  Moments that Made the Movies. 
Tinniswood, Adrian.  The Rainborowes: One Family’s Quest to Build a New England. 

Weir, Alison.  Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World. 
Wilson, Edward O.  A Window on Eternity: Gorongosa and Biodiversity. 
Wilson, Victoria.  A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True, 1907-1940.