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2006
Locate the books listed below in our catalog by following the call number link.

About Alice
Calvin Trillin. 814.54 Tr

American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsetps of Tocqueville
Bernard Levy. 917.304931 Le

Betrayed: the Assassination of Digna Ochoa
Linda Diebel. 323.092 O164D

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
Michael Lewis. 796.3320371L

The Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
Hampton Sides. 978.02 Si

Clemente: the Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
David Maraniss. 796.357092 C6264M

Cobra II: the Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
Michael Gordon. 956.70443 Go

Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
David Foster Wallace. 814.54 Wa

A Death in Belmont
Sebastian Junger. 364.1523097 Ju

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Thomas E. Ricks. 956.70443 Ri

Freaks of the Storm
Randall Cerveny. 551.6 Ce

The Great Deluge:Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Douglas Brinkley. 976.335064 Br

The Great Transformation: the Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
Karen Armstrong. 200.901 Ar

The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit and Desire
Tom Zoellmer. 553.82 Zo

Looming Tower: Al-Queda and the Road to 9-11
Lawrence Wright. 973.931 Wr

Losing It All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape
Bill Belleville. 307.1412 Be

Manhunt: the 12 Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
James Swanson. 364.1524097 Sw

Mayflower: a Story of Courage, Community and War
Nathaniel Philbrick. 973.22 Ph

The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs
Madeleine Albright. 261.87 Al

Miracle in the Andes: 72 days in the Mountain and My Long Trek Back Home
Nando Parrada. 982.6 P259P

Omnivore's Dilemna: a Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollen. 394.12 Po

Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos
Seth LLoyd. 530.12 Ll

Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution
Simm Schama. 326.0973 Sc

Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again
Nora Vincent. 305.31092 N822V

This Thing Called Grief: New Understandings of Loss
Thomas Ellis. 155.937 El

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations—One School at a Time
Greg Mortenson. 371.8220954 Mo

War of the World:Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
Niall Ferguson. 303.66 Fe

Worst Hard Time: the Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Timothy Egan. 978.032 Eg


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