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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 FREEDMANGalarza, 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 MONTGOMERYGraham, 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 HOCKENBERRYHurston, 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 UCHIDAWashington, 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