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Recommended Non-Fiction/Biography for College-bound Students

Alderman, Ellen. In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action.   342.73 ALDERMAN

Allende, Isabel. Paula.   921 ALLENDE

Ambrose, Stephen. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the West.   917.804 AMBROSE

Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Caution: some potentially disturbing situations).    921 ANGELOU               

Armstrong, Lance.  It’s Not About the Bike.   921 ARMSTRONG

Asinoff, Eliot. Eight Men Out  (baseball scandal).    364.1  ASINOFF

Beal, Merril. I Will Fight No More Forever.   970.3 BEAL

Bernstein, Carl.   All the President’s Men  (Watergate).   364.1 BERNSTEIN

Bernstein, Leonard.  The Joy of Music  (music appreciation).   780.1 BERNSTEIN

Bissinger, H.G.  Friday Night Light. (Texas HS football).   796.332 BISSINGER

Brown, Claude. Manchild in the Promised Land.   921 BROWN

Buloson, Carlos. America is in the Heart: A Personal History.   921 BULOSON

Campbell, Joseph.  The Power of Myth  (mythology and its importance). 291.1 CAMPBELL

Carson, Rachel.   Silent Spring (pesticides and the environment).  632 CARSON

Conway, Jill Kerr  The Road from Coorain.   921 CONWAY

Curie, Eve. Madam Curie: a Biography.   921 CURIE

Dahl, Roald. Going Solo.   921 DAHL

Delaney, Sara and Delaney, A. Elizabeth. Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters’ First One Hundred Years.   920 DELANEY

Dillard, Annie. An American Childhood.    921 DILLARD

Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself.   921 DOUGLASS

Edelman, Bernard. Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam.   959.704 DEAR

Fossey, Dian. Gorillas in the Mist (studies of gorilla culture/families).   599.88 FOSSEY

Frank, Anne. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.   940.53 FRANK

Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.   921 FRANKLIN

Freedman, Russell.  The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane.  629.13 FREEDMAN

Galarza, Ernesto. Barrio Boy.    921 GALARZA

Gilbreth, Frank B.  Cheaper by the Dozen (Family of 14 in the 1900s).   921 GILBRETH

Goodall, Jane In the Shadow of Man (chimpanzee behavior)   599.8 GOODALL

Goodall, Jane, Fossey, Diane, Galdikas Birute. Walking with the Great Apes.  920 MONTGOMERY

Graham, Billy. Just as I Am.  921 GRAHAM

Graham, Robin  Dove (teen sails around the world).   910 GRAHAM

Haley, Alex and X, Malcom. The Autobiography of Malcom X.   921 X

Harr, Jonathon.  A Civil Action (city water contamination).   346.7303 HARR

Harrington, Michael. Other America: Poverty in the United States.   362.5 HARRINGTON

Haslip, Le Ly.   When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (Vietnamese girl).   921 HASLIP

Hautzig, Esther. The Endless Steppe.   940.53 HAUTZIG

Hawking, Stephen.   A Brief History of Time (science and space).  523.1 HAWKING

Heat Moon, William.   Blue Highways: a Journey into America  (back roads of US).   917.3 HEAT MOON

Hillenbrand, Laura    Seabiscuit.   798.4 HILLENBRAND

Herriot, James. All Creatures Great and Small.  921 HERRIOT

Hockenberry, John. Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of  Independence.   921 HOCKENBERRY

Hurston, Zora. Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography.   921 HURSTON

Jenkins, Peter. Walk Across America  (personal experiences of the walk).  917 JENKINS

Jiang, Ji-Li. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution.   921 JIANG

Keller, Helen. The Story of My Life. 921 KELLER

Kennedy, John F. Profiles in Courage  (Eight US Congressmen).   920 KENNEDY

Kennedy, Caroline  Profiles in Courage for our Time (people who won the P.I.C. award).   920 PROFILES

Kidder, Tracy. Among Schoolchildren   (Teaching).   372.11 KIDDER

Kincaid, Jamaica. My Brother.   921 KINCAID

King, Stephen  On Writing: A memoir of a Craft.   921 KING

Kingston, Maxine Hong. Woman Warrior  (Chinese-American woman) .    921 KINGSTON

Krackour, John. Into Thin Air (Climbing Mt. Everest).   796.52 KRACKOUR

Lansing, Alfred Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (South Pole discoveries).  919.9 LANSING

Lewis, Anthony.   Gideon’s Trumpet (one man vs. the American legal system).   323.42 LEWIS

Lindbergh, Charles A. The Spirit of St. Louis.   629.13 LINDBERG

Massie, Robert. Nicholas and Alexandra.   947.08 MASSIE

Mathabane, Mark.  Kaffir Boy (growing up black in apartheid South Africa).   921 MATHABANE

McBride, James. The Color of Water: a Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother.  921 MCBRIDE-JORDAN

McCourt, Frank. Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir.  921 MCCOURT

Menchu, Rigoberto.   I, Rigoberto Menchu (South American civil rights).   921 MENCHU

Momaday, N. Scott. The Way to Rainy Mountain.   970.3 MOMADAY

Naisbitt, John.   Megatrends 2000 (predictions for America’s future).  306 NAISBITT

Neihardt, John. Black Elk Speaks.   921 BLACK

Needleman, Jacob   The American Soul.   973 NEEDLEMAN

Opdyke, Irene. In My Hands: Memoirs of a Holocaust Rescuer.   921 OPDYKE

Peck, M. Scott .  The Road Less Traveled  (psychology, religion, spiritual ).  158.1 SCOTT

Petry, Ann. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad.   921 TUBMAN

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. Cross Creek.   921 RAWLINGS

Read, Piers Paul   Alive (Andes survivors).   982 READ

Rodriguez, Luis J.  Always Running: la vida loca, gang days in L.A.. 921 RODRIQUEZ

Rodriguez, Richard. Hunger of Memory.  921 RODRIQUEZ

Roosevelt, Eleanor. This I Remember.   921 ROOSEVELT

Roszak, Theodore.   Making of a Counter Culture  (youthful dissent in the 60s).  301.04 ROSZAK

Sagan, Carl. Cosmos  (space and science).   520 SAGEN

Schlosser, Eric Fast Food Nation (history and examination of fast food industry).  394.1 SCHLOSSER

Shevchenko, Arkady. Breaking with Moscow (Russian spy who defected).  947.085 SHEVCHENKO

Siegal, Aranka. Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary.   921 SIEGAL

Specht, Robert. Tisha: Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness.  371.1 HOBBS

Steinbeck, John  Travels with Charlie (America in the 1960s).   917.3 STEINBECK

Timerman, Jacobo.   Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number.   921 TIMERMAN

Ten Boom, Corrie  The Hiding Place.   940.54 TEN BOOM

Toffler, Alvin. Future Shock (technology, problems and the future).   301.24 TOFFLER

Uchida, Yoshiko. Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family.  940.54 UCHIDA

Washington, Booker. Up from Slavery.   921 WASHINGTON

Welty, Eudora. One Writer’s Beginnings.   921 WELTY

Williams, Juan. Eyes on the Prize: American Civil Rights 1954-1965.   323.4 WILLIAMS

Wolfe, Tom. The Right Stuff  (American astronauts).   629.109 WOLFE

Wolff, Tobias. This Boy’s Life: A Memoir.   921 WOLFF

Wright, Richard. Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth.   921 WRIGHT

X, Malcolm. The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Black civil rights activist).  921 X

Yeager, Chuck. and Janos, Leo. Yeager: An Autobiography.   921 YEAGER