Book Genre: Nonfiction

The author recounts her middle and high school years in this graphic format memoir that revolves around friendship, self-discovery, and dental work. What made Raina's middle school years even more trying than usual was the fact that she fell and lost her 2 front teeth when she was in 6th grade....

Maggie Gee grew up watching the planes take off at Oakland airport, dreaming of taking to the air herself. In 1941, she got her chance to join the WASP, the Women Airforce Service Pilots, one of only 2 Chinese American women accepted into the rigorous program. Maggie's true story of wanting to...

This huge anthology can be read from beginning to end, but it is just as satisfying to pick and choose a poem, essay or speech as you wish or just flip through the sections of photographs. It includes pieces about individual encounters with the wild to political calls-to-arms to elegies for...

In 1984 Peter Feldstein photographed the residents of Oxford, Iowa. 20 years later he did it again. It's amazing to see how the people from this small town have changed (and how they haven't) and hear the stories of where they've been and where they're headed. A fascinating project.

Niagara Falls lives in the American imagination as both a natural wonder and a national symbol. But what is its real value? The spiritually ennobling view of its torrential emerald waters? Its ongoing role as a hydropower colossus? Its kitsch cache as a tourist and honeymooner destination? In...

Once an ambitious business owner, Lee Stringer's first tryst with a crack pipe threw him down the rabbit hole and out to society's fringe. Summering under the stars in Central Park and seeking shelter from winter's cold under Grand Central Station, Stringer spent many years as a homeless slave...

A must read for all foodies and anyone concerned about his or her health and the increasingly sick world around us. Pollan writes so well - it's a compelling followup to The Omnivore's Dilemma.

While not nearly as entertaining as The Know-It-All, Jacobs' account of living all the Bible's principles is still quite enjoyable, for the sheer pleasure of discovering biblical absurdities if...

Ever wonder why grocery store fruit is mealy? Why does that tomato have no flavor? What should you do with your veggies when you get them home? Parsons answers these questions and more in this educational and entertaining book about our nation's produce -- where it comes from, how to pick and...

This huge, beautiful book is the 21st century version of the Whole Earth Catalog chock full of simple and complex inspirational solutions to today's environmental crisis.

The author, a comedy writer for Letterman among other things, retires to Florida at age 25 for six months, to try it out. Sometimes amusing, sometimes sad, it may make you want to keep working for a few more years.

Scheer, a hard-hitting journalist for the Los Angeles Times and other rags, reviews interviews with and columns about Nixon, Carter (the one about his lustful heart), Reagan, Bush I (the one in which he said there could be a nuclear war winner), and Clinton. He's never met Bush II but that's the...