New Non-Fiction October 2009
155.5 SAV
Saval, Malina. The
secret lives of boys : inside the raw
emotional world of male teens.
c2009. Introduction: Madolescence -- The Indie fuck --
The
mini-adult -- The optimist -- The troublemaker -- The gay,
vegan, hearing-impaired Republican -- The rich kid -- The
average American kid -- The teenage dad -- The homeschooler
-- The
sheltered one -- The future. A picture of
teenage
boys today as seen by interviews with 10 very different
young men.
303.6 MIL
Miles,
Barry, 1943-. Peace :
50 years of protest.
Examines
the origins and chronicles the
fifty-year history of the famous peace symbol, which was
first used by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) at
the 1958 Aldermaston protest march
in
305.23 ELL
Ellis,
Deborah, 1960-. Children of war : voices of Iraqi
refugees.
children
discuss how the War on Terror has affected their
lives.
305.23 MOR
Morris,
Desmond. Amazing baby
: the amazing story of the first
two years of life.
c2008. Explores the growth and
development of babies
through the first two years, with photographs and details of
each stage of development.
305.48 KIV
Kiviat, Katherine.
Women of courage : intimate stories from
Publisher, c2007.
This moving tribute profiles 40 Afghan
women who have tried to transform their lives since the fall
of the Taliban in 2001. Among those interviewed are an
Olympic athlete, a TV journalist, a fortune-teller, and an
abused wife. Whether urban or rural, the women all reveal a
determination and courage that was hidden for years under
full-length burkas and gender
repression. Each interview is
accompanied by a stunning full-page photograph that captures
the pride each individual feels in her new life.
306.36 BAL
Bales,
Kevin. Slavery today.
Globalization, governmental corruption, and the population
explosion have thrust billions of people into the pool of
potential slaves. This huge surplus of impoverished people
has pushed the human price tag to only $100, the cost of a
pair of "designer" jeans. This means that it's
worse to be a
slave today than ever before. Slavery Today traces the
"products" created by this inhuman system from the
jungle
and farm through the global markets and into our lives and
homes. It addresses the controversies over prostitution and
the buying back of slaves while presenting solutions and
ways readers can get involved in the growing global
anti-slavery movement.
306.76 ALS
Alsenas, Linas. Gay America :
struggle for equality.
Amulet Books, 2008.
Milestones of gay and lesbian life in
the United States are brought together in the first-ever
nonfiction book on the topic published specifically for
teens. Profusely illustrated with period photographs,
first-person accounts offer insight as each chapter
identifies an important era. From the Gay '20s to the Kinsey
study, from the McCarthy witch hunts to the Beat generation,
from Stonewall to disco, and from AIDS to gay marriage and
families, this overview gives a balanced look at how queer
men and women have lived, worked, played--and fought to
overcome prejudice and discrimination--for the past 125
years.
306.76 BEA
Beam, Cris. Transparent : love,
family, and living the T with
transgender teenagers.
1st Harvest ed.
2008, c2007. A
journalist chronicles her volunteer work
with four transgender high-school students in
describing the difficulties they face in reconciling their
perceptions of themselves with the way that others view
them.
321.8 LAX
Laxer, James. Democracy.
Books/House of Anansi Press
; Publishers Group West, c2009.
Democracy explains the rise of this form of government and
how women and minorities struggled for and won democratic
rights for themselves.
324.973 THO
Thomas,
Evan, 1951-. "A long time coming" : the inspiring,
combative 2008 campaign and the historic election of Barack
Obama. 1st ed.
inside stories from the 2008
providing insight into the personalities, events, and key
issues that led to the outcome, and includes an interview
with President Barack Obama.
338.2 HOU
House,
Silas, 1971-. Something's rising :
mountaintop removal.
from a diverse group of individuals from
mountaintop removal, an ecologically devastating form of
coal mining. Taken together, these voices stand as a
testament of what it means to be an Appalachian and
demonstrate the value of preserving a culture's history and
spirit through the stories of its people.
338.7 MEZ
Mezrich, Ben, 1969-.
The accidental billionaires : the founding
of Facebook, a tale of sex, money,
genius and betrayal. 1st
ed.
their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating
Facebook."
362.7 LEA
Leach, Penelope.
Child care today : getting it right for
everyone. 1st ed.
Examines various types of child care, from hiring an au pair
to daycare centers, discussing each one's influence on
children; and explores issues surrounding childcare from the
perspectives of politicians, parents, children, and
professionals.
362.73 CUL
Culberson,
Sarah. A princess found. 1st ed.
Martin's Press, 2009.
Sarah Culberson was adopted one year
after her birth by a white,
raised in the
ancestry. In 2004, Sarah hired a private investigator to
track down her biological parents. However, when she began
her search, she never imagined what she would discover: she
was related to African royalty, a ruling Mende
family in
status of a princess. What followed was an unforgettably
emotional journey of discovery of both herself and a father
she never knew. A Princess Found is an intimate revelation
of her quest across the world to learn of the chiefdom she
could one day call her own.
362.74 GWA
Gwartney, Debra.
Live through this : a mother's memoir of
runaway daughters and reclaimed love.
Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. The
author describes how she moved
across the country in an attempt to build a new life for her
four daughters, only to have her two teenage daughters run
away, her frantic struggle to find the missing girls, and
her efforts to rebuild their relationship.
362.82 HUS
Husseini, Rana. Murder in the name of honor
: the true story of
one woman's heroic fight against an unbelievable crime.
controversial examination of honor crimes. Common in many
traditional societies around the world, as well as in
migrant communities in Europe and the
'punishment'-often death or disfigurement-carried out by a
relative to restore the family's honor.
363.152 PRE
Preston,
Douglas J. The monster
of
:
Grand Central Pub., 2008. Documents the
author's
discovery that his new family home in
scene of a double murder, his relationship with the
investigative journalist co-author, and how they both became
targets of the police investigation into the murders.
364.16 BOS
Boser, Ulrich. The
largest unsolved art theft.
1st ed.
Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins, 2009.
One
museum, two thieves, and the
the story behind the lost
million and the art detective who swore to get them back.
365 GHA
Ghahramani, Zarah. My life as a traitor. 1st ed.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. A young Iranian woman
describes growing up
in a family that prized tolerance and
freedom of thought, her arrest as a student for not keeping
her head covered, the psychological and physical torture she
endured in prison, and her eventual release and escape to
388.4 SAN
Sandler, Martin W.
Secret subway : the fascinating tale of an
amazing feat of engineering.
Geographic, c2009. In
1869, Alfred Beach wanted to build
Boss
opposed. Working
under night cover, Beach and his crew
carved a three-hundred-foot tunnel beneath a department
store. Before long, the project was discovered and the
public raved about its potential. But no further tunnels
were ever built. What happened to Beach's railway, and where
is it now?.
391.6 JOH
Johnson,
Jeff. Tattoo machine :
tall tales, true stories, and my
life in ink. 1st ed.
master tattoo artist presents a tour of the tattoo industry,
shares his philosophies about treating people well and
providing a positive working environment, and describes
infamous customers and his relationships with colleagues.
576.8 HEI
Heiligman, Deborah.
Charles and Emma : the
faith. 1st ed.
Charles Darwin and his wife, Emma, were deeply in love and
very supportive of each other, but their opinions often
clashed. Emma was extremely religious, and Charles
questioned God's very existence. Provides an account of
Charles Darwin's life and evolutionary theory, examining how
his personal life affected his work and vice versa because
of his wife's strong religious beliefs.
598.9 OBR
O'Brien,
Stacey. Wesley the owl
: the remarkable love story of
an owl and his girl.
1st ed.
Chronicles the author's rescue of an abandoned barn owlet,
from her efforts to resuscitate and raise the young owl
through their nineteen years together, during which the
author made key discoveries about owl behavior.
599.75 BOU
Bourke,
Anthony. A lion called Christian. Rev. ed.
Broadway Books, c2009. Describes
the life of the lion who
gained celebrity status as a cub living in a
with his owners, was flown to
George
Adamson for life in the wild, and gained international
fame with a touching reunion caught on YouTube.
612.6 COH
Cohen, Arianne. The tall book : a
celebration of life on high.
1st
Cohen
takes us on a tour of the tall world, traveling from
endocrinologists' offices to the annual European Tall Club
Convention to unlock the mysteries at the center of talldom.
616 AUS
Austin,
Paul, 1955-. Something for the pain : one doctor's
account of life and death in the ER. 1st ed.
: W.W.
Norton & Co., c2008. An ER doctor's
memoir describes
the psychological impact of his profession, explaining how
his daily exposure to critical illness, injury, and tragedy
in the industrial setting of a modern hospital rendered him
bitter and estranged from his family.
618.4 SLO
Sloan,
Mark, M.D. Birth day :
a pediatrician explores the
science, the history, and the wonder of childbirth. 1st ed.
An engaging study of the entire childbirth
experience
draws on the latest medical advances and research into
human birth to examine all of the factors that converge
to produce a child and to trace the history of
birthing methods, neonatal care and resuscitation,
the use of painkillers, and more.
629.45 NEL
Nelson,
Craig, 1955-. Rocket men
: the triumph and tragedy of
the first Americans on the moon.
Craig
Nelson, literary agent and executive editor of several
major publishers, delivers a thrilling account of Apollo 11,
the NASA mission that placed humans on the moon for the
first time. He also details the staggering technological
achievements that made the successful mission possible.
636.97 STO
Stockton,
Shreve. The daily coyote
: a story of love, survival,
and trust in the wilds of
hardcover
ed.
Photographs and text detail the author's experiences after
making an unexpected decision to settle in a small
town, and after falling in love with a cowboy, she began
raising a ten-day-old coyote pup.
638 ILO
Ilona. A short history of the honey bee : humans, flowers, and
bees in the eternal chase for honey.
Press, 2009.
641.8 KIN
Kincaide, Lindsay.
Cake art : simplified step-by-step
instructions and illustrated techniques for the home baker
to create showstopping cakes and
cupcakes.
Lebhar-Friedman
Books, c 2008.
781.62 LAN
Lankford,
Ronald D., 1962-. Folk music
of protest.
This definitive story of American folk music focuses on how a
minority music genre suddenly became the emergent voice of a
generation at the end of the Eisenhower years. From
Trios
"Tom Dooley" in 1958 to Bob Dylans
electric performance
at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, folk influenced
American culture and eventually became absorbed into
popular music.
781.66 WOO
2009
marks the 40th anniversary of this seminal event.
Relive
the moment and get back to the garden with this
day-by-day, act-by-act account of everything that went down
on Yasgur's Farm. With interviews
and quotes from those who
were there,the musicians, the
fans, the organizers,and a
wealth of
photographs and graphic memorabilia,
the ultimate celebration of a landmark in modern cultural
history.
791.45 DAV
Davis,
Michael, 1952-. Street gang : the complete history of
Sesame Street.
the history of "
program's creation, rise in popularity, success, cast and
crew, and more.
796.35 TOR
Torre, Joe, 1940-. The Yankee years. 1st
ed.
Doubleday, c2009.
Written as a third-person narrative with
"Sports Illustrated" senior baseball writer Verducci, "The
Yankee
Years" is a thoughtful, utterly honest, and gripping
behind-the-scenes look at the Yankees' organization from the
most successful--and most respected--baseball manager of the
modern era.
796.35 WEB
Weber,
Bruce. As they see 'em : a fan's travels in the land of
umpires.
reporter describes the perspectives he gained into the game
of baseball while attending umpire training school and
umpiring games firsthand, in an insider fan's account that
also draws on the experiences of dozens of professional
umpires.
796.357 THO
Thompson,
Teri. American icon :
the fall of Roger Clemens and
the rise of steroids in
steroid use in major league baseball and its possible
causes, using the highly publicized investigation of pitcher
Roger
Clemens's alleged steroid use as a case study.
808.81 ESS
Essential pleasures : a new anthology of poems to read aloud.
1st ed.
anthology and accompanying CD that revive a great American
tradition: the joy of reciting poetry aloud.
808.81 SID
Side by side : new poems inspired by art from around the world.
children's poems from all over the world that were inspired
by works of art.
810.8 WAR
War is-- : soldiers, survivors, and storytellers talk about war.
1st ed.
collection of essays, memoirs, letters, and fiction that
present opposing viewpoints on the nature of war by such
contributors as Mark Twain, Bob Dylan, and Ernie Pyle.
818 BAR
Baraka, Imamu Amiri,
1934-. The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka reader.
2nd ed.
Distributed in the
920 PRO
Profiles in courage for our time. 1st ed.
c2002. Carl Elliott Jr. --
Charles Longstreet Weltner
--
Michael L. Synar
-- Corkin Cherubini --
Charles Price --
Nickolas C. Murnion -- John
McCain -- Russell Feingold --
Hilda
Solis -- Gerald R. Ford -- John Lewis -- Dean
Koldenhoven -- Kofi Annan.
921 BAS
Baszile, Jennifer Lynn, 1969-. The Black girl next door :
a
memoir. 1st
Touchstone hardcover ed.
Schuster, 2009. A
powerful, beautifully written memoir
about coming of age as a black girl in an exclusive white
suburb in "integrated," post-Civil Rights
California in the
1970s and 1980s.
921 BRO
Brown-Waite, Eve. First comes
love, then comes malaria : how a
Peace
Corps poster boy won my heart and a Third-World
adventure changed my life.
1st ed.
Books, c2009. Follows
the author's journey from being a
self-described
"pampered city girl" to a Peace Corps
volunteer, wife, and mother living in
921 GRE
Greenfeld, Karl Taro, 1964-. Boy alone : a
brother's memoir.
1st ed.
together the social history of autism and autism research
with the moving story of two very different boys growing up
side by side. Haunting, tragic, and unforgettable, his
compelling story gets to the heart of what it means to be a
family, a brother, and a person.
921 LEL
Leleux, Robert. The memoirs of a beautiful boy. 1st ed. New
his childhood and youth with his flamboyant mother in East
realization that he was gay--which came as a surprise to
only him--and his relationship with his beloved,
choreographer Michael Leleux.
921 LI
Li, Charles
N., 1940-. The bitter sea
: coming of age in a
before Mao. 1st ed.
author documents his childhood in post-World War II China as
the son of a wealthy government official, the crippling
dissolution of his family's wealth when the Nationalists
came to power, and his efforts to become an independent
Chinese American.
921 LIN
Denenberg, Barry. An
American hero : the true story of Charles
A.
Lindbergh.
921 MCM
McMasters, Kelly.
Welcome to Shirley : a memoir from an atomic
town. 1st ed.
discusses her idyllic childhood in
typical American working-class town, and considers how
attitudes toward the town changed when neighbors began
getting sick from waste from a nearby nuclear laboratory.
921 ROD
Roberts,
Selena. A-Rod :
the many lives of Alex Rodriguez. 1st
ed.
controversial career of the baseball star, including his
childhood in
to stardom with the Seattle Mariners, his record-breaking
contract, his marriage, his relationship with Madonna, and
the revelation he used performance-enhancing drugs.
940.53 DES
DeSaix, Deborah Durland. Hidden on the mountain :
stories of
children
sheltered from the Nazis in Le Chambon. 1st ed.
memoirs by Jewish children hidden in the Le Chambon region
of
940.53 KRA
Kramer,
Clara, 1927-. Clara's war
: one girl's story of
survival.
on the author's personal record of the months during which
she hid from Nazis in an underground bunker with seventeen
others discusses the characteristics of their unlikely
protector and the house fire that threatened everyone's
survival.
940.53 MEY
Meyerhoff, Marianne.
Four girls from
friendship that defied the Holocaust.
Wiley & Sons, c2007.
The author tells the story of her
mother, Lotte, a Jewish woman who
was able to escape
as a young bride shortly before World War II, and whose
reluctance to talk about her past was eased when her three
girlfriends, all German women, sent her a package full of
personal documents, photographs, and other keepsakes they
had risked their own safety to preserve for Lotte.
940.53 REE
Rees, Laurence, 1957-. World War II behind closed doors
:
Stalin, the Nazis and the West. 1st American ed.
:
Pantheon Books, c2008. --
Joseph
Stalin – the supreme leader of the
- was
a tyrant responsible for the death of millions.
He
also had some unlikely relationships during the Second World War
This ambitious series uses exclusive evidence gained from the
actual conversations and secret meetings Stalin conducted.
Dramatic reconstructions carefully sourced from archive
material, reveal how the great leaders decided the future
shape of the post-war world. These decisions had immediate
and often harrowing effects for those on the ground.
940.53 VAN
Van Beek, Flory A. Flory : a miraculous story of survival. 1st
ed.
occupation grew from threat to reality, the Jewish
population throughout
decisions-to flee and lose their homes or to go into hiding,
hoping against all odds to avoid the fate of being
discovered. Holocaust survivor Flory
A. Van Beek faced this
terrible choice, and in this poignant testament of hope she
takes us on her personal journey into one of history's
darkest hours.
940.54 GAR
Garland,
Joseph E. Unknown soldiers
: reliving World War II in
collective memoir of a close-knit platoon of scouts from
952 FRI
Friday,
Karl F. The first samurai
: the life and legend of the
warrior rebel, Taira Masakado.
Sons,
Inc., 2007. Examines the life of the
tenth-century
warrior
his feud with local rivals, his role in provoking provincial
warfare, the ambitions that led to his death, and the legend
surrounding
his severed head.
956.7 FAS
Fassihi, Farnaz. Waiting for an ordinary day
: the unraveling of
life in
Fassihi, a senior correspondent for "The Wall Street
Journal," describes the realities of everyday life in
as she experienced it during her tenure as head of the
newspaper's
the hopes
of the people she met while in
country will one day return to normal.
956.7 SMI
Smithson,
Ryan. Ghosts of war :
the true story of a 19-year-old
GI.
true stories about ghosts connected in some way with war,
from haunted battlefields to soldiers' premonitions of
death.
962.7 HAR
Hari, Daoud. The translator : a
tribesman's memoir of
1st ed.
recounts his efforts to educate the world about the brutal
genocide taking
place in
journalists into the heart of the country to reveal the
horror his people face on a daily basis and discussing how
he has helped survivors find food, water, and safety.
973.91 SHL
Shlaes, Amity. The
forgotten man : a new history of the Great
Depression. 1st ed.
c2007. A reinterpretation of the
Great Depression seeks to
demonstrate how the failures of
understand the prosperity of the 1920s directly contributed
to massive national burdens that marginalized everyday
citizens, in an account that shares the survival stories of
lesser-known historical figures from the period.
974.7 HUD
The
Cider Mill Press Book Publishers, 2008.