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2009
Locate the books listed below in our catalog by following the call number link.

The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook - A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal
Ben Mezrich. 302.30285 Me

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Richard Holmes. 509.4109033 Ho

Alex and Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process
Irene Pepperberg. 636.6865 Pe

America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story
Bruce Feiler. 973 Fe

Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Lincoln, Darwin, and Modern Life
Adam Gopnik. 973.7092 Go

Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism
Michael Burleigh. 303.62509 Bu

The Book of Dead Philosophers
Simon Critchley. 190 Cr

Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater
Frank Bruni. 362.1968526 Br

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Christopher McDougall. 796.4209721 Ma

Busted: Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown
Edmund Andrews. 332.720973 An

Causing a Scene: Extraordinary Pranks in Ordinary Places with Improv Everywhere
Charlie Todd. 818.602 To

Cheever: A Life
Blake Bailey. 813.52 C5155B

Columbine
David Cullen. 373.7888 Cu

Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker
James McManus. 795.412 Ma

Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind
Daniel Tammet. 612.823 Ta

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten City
Greg Candin. 307.7680981 Gr

Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisted
Molly Haskell. 791.4372 Ha

The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008
Thomas E. Ricks. 956.704434 Ri

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It
Ken Auletta. 338.761025 Au

The Good Soldiers
David Finkel. 956.7044342 Fi

A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
Molly Wizenberg. 641.5092 W835W

Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
Doug Stanton. 958.1047 St

How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower
Adrian Goldsworthy. 937.09 Go

How We Decide
Jonah Lehrer. 158.83 La

Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father's Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater
Matthew Amster-Burton. 618.92 Am

Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
Helen Rappaport. 947.0830922 Ra

Lords of Finance: The Bankers who Broke the World
Liaquat Ahamed. 332.10922 Ah

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann. 918.11046 Gr

Myth of a Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
Justin Fox. 332.6401 Fo

Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans
Dan Baum. 976.335064 Ba

Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Martha a. Sandweiss. 305.896073 Sa

Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
Winifred Gallagher. 153.733 Ga

Reata: Legendary Texas Cuisine
Michael Micallef. 641.59764 Mi

Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music
Greg Kot. 780.28546 Ko

Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force: The NYPD
Christopher Dickey. 363.32516 Di

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
Matthew B. Crawford. 331 Cr

Snake Head: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
Patrick Keefe. 364.1370973 Ke

Strangest Man:The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
Graham Farmelo. 9780465018277">530.092 D597F

Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgetting
Tracy Kidder. 305.8967572 Ki

Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine: An Autobiography
Huston Smith. 200.92 S6498S

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis--and Themselves
Andrew Sorkin. 330.9730931 So

When You Lie about Your Age, the Terrorists Win: Reflections on Looking in the Mirror
Carol Leifer. 792.7028092 L527L

Zeitoun
Dave Eggers. 976.335064 Z48E


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