June 5, 2008...4:38 pm

June 2008 New Non-Fiction Books

  • Adventures of Johnny Bunko: the last career guide you’ll ever need / Daniel H. Pink, 650.14 PIN
  • Age of Reagan: America from Watergate to the War on Terror / Sean Wilentz, 973.927 WIL
  • Ahmadinejad: the secret history of Iran’s radical leader / Kasra Naji, B AHMADINEJAD
  • American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the birth of the  It  girl, and the crime of the century / Paula Uruburu, 974.7104 URU
  • American nerd: the story of my people / Benjamin Nugent, 305.9 NUG
  • American resting place / Marilyn Yalom, 929.5 YAL
  • American-made: the enduring legacy of the WPA  / Nick Taylor, 331.1377 TAY
  • America’s hidden history: untold tales of the first pilgrims, fighting women, and forgotten founders who shaped a nation / Kenneth C. Davis, 973 DAV
  • Ancient Greece: an explorer’s guide /  Robert Emmet Meagher, 938 MEA
  • Answer: grow any business, achieve financial freedom, and live an extraordinary life / John Assaraf and Murray Smith, 658.409 ASS
  • Armageddon in retrospect, and other new and unpublished writings on war and peace / Kurt Vonnegut  , 818.54 VON
  • Arnie & Jack: Palmer, Nicklaus, and golf’s greatest rivalry / Ian O’Connor, 796.352 O’CO
  • Audition: a memoir / by Barbara Walters, B WALTERS
  • Bad money: reckless finance, failed politics, and the global crisis of American capitalism / Kevin Phillips, 330.973 PHI
  • Big payoff: 8 steps couples can take to make the most of their money and live richly ever after / Sharon Epperson, 332.024 EPP
  • Big sort: why the clustering of like-minded America is tearing us apart / Bill Bishop, 305.8 BIS
  • Blue death: disease, disaster and the water we drink / Robert Morris, 614.43 MOR
  • Boots on the ground by dusk: my tribute to Pat Tillman / Mary Tillman and Narda Zacchino, B TILLMAN
  • Brett Favre: the tribute / Sports Illustrated, 796.332 BRE
  • Busy family’s guide to money / by Sandra Block, Kathy Chu, & John Waggoner, 332.024 BLO
  • Candy bombers: the untold story of the Berlin Airlift and America’s finest hour / Andrei Cherny, 943.155 CHE
  • Chalked up: inside elite gymnastics’ merciless coaching, overzealous parents, eating disorders, and elusive Olympic dreams / Jennifer Sey, 796.44 SEY
  • Chris Farley show : a biography in three acts / Tom Farley, Jr. & Tanner Colby., B FARLEY
  • Civilization of love: what every Catholic can do to transform the world / Carl Anderson, 261 AND
  • Comfort table / by Katie Lee Joel, 641.5636 JOE
  • Comfort: a journey through grief / Ann Hood, 155.937 HOO
  • Concrete dragon: China’s urban revolution and what it means for the world / Thomas J. Campanella, 307.7609 CAM
  • Counselor: a life at the edge of history / Ted Sorensen, B SORENSEN
  • Crowd sounds happy: a story of love, madness, and baseball / Nicholas Dawidoff, 070.4497 DAW
  • Dancing with life: Buddist insights for finding meaning and joy in the face of suffering / Phillip Moffitt, 294.34 MOF
  • Dancing with Rose: finding life in the land of Alzheimer’s / Lauren Kessler, 362.1968 KES
  • Debunking 9/11 debunking: an answer to Popular mechanics and other defenders of the official conspiracy theory / David Ray Griffin, 973.931 GRI
  • Descartes’ loneliness / Allen Grossman, 811.54 GRO
  • Designated daughter: the bonus years with mom / D.G. Fulford, 306.8743 FUL
  • Don’t fill up on the antipasto: Tony Danza’s father-son cookbook, with memories of an Italian-American family and 50 of their best recipes / Tony Danza and Marc Danza, 641.5945 DAN
  • Downhill lie: a hacker’s return to a ruinous sport / Carl Hiaasen, 796.352 HIA
  • Dr. Gundry’s diet evolution: turn off the genes that are killing you-and your waistline-and drop the weight for good / Steven R. Gundry, 613.25 GUN
  • Earth architecture: from ancient to modern / William N. Morgan, 721.0449 MOR
  • Everything guide to pregnancy over 35: from conquering your fears to assessing health risks–all you need to have a happy, healthy nine months / Brette Sember, 618.2008 SEM
  • Execution of Willie Francis: race, murder, and the search for justice in the American South / Gilbert King, 364.6609 KIN
  • Executor’s handbook: a step-by-step guide to settling an estate for executors, administrators, and beneficiaries / Theodore E. Hughes and David Klein, 346.7305 HUG
  • Family Bible / Melissa J. Delbridge, 976.184 DEL
  • Film club / David Gilmour, 920 GIL
  • Final journeys: a practical guide for bringing care and comfort at the end of life / Maggie Callanan, 616.029 CAL
  • Fit and sexy for life: the hormone-free plan for staying slim, strong, and fabulous in your forties, fifties, and beyond / Kathy Kaehler , 613.71 KAE
  • Franklin and Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the other remarkable women in his life / Joseph E. Persico, B ROOSEVELT
  • Freewheelin’ time: a memoir of Greenwich Village in the sixties / by Suze Rotolo, 782.4216 ROT
  • Fueling our future: an introduction to sustainable energy / Robert L. Evans, 333.79 EVA
  • Gandhi : the man, his people, and the empire / Rajmohan Gandhi, B GANDHI 
  • Genotype diet: change your genetic destiny to live the longest, fullest, and healthiest life possible / Peter J. D’Adamo with Catherine Whitney., 612.3 D’AD
  • Georgia cooking in an Oklahoma kitchen: recipes from my family to yours / Trisha Yearwood, 641.5975 YEA
  • Go green, live rich: 50 simple ways to save the earth and get rich trying / David Bach, 333.72 BAC
  • Good fight: hard lessons from Searchlight to Washington / Senator Harry Reid, B REID
  • Havanas in Camelot: personal essays / William Styron, 813.54 STY
  • Have you found her: a memoir / Janice Erlbaum, 362.74 ERL
  • Hershberg diet: discover how the 4th macro can help you shed pounds and beat the metabolic syndrome / Melissa Hershberg, 613.25 HER
  • History of modern Israel / Colin Shindler, 956.9405 SHI
  • House always wins: America’s most trusted home columnist’s guide to creating your (almost) perfect dream house / Marni Jameson, 747 JAM
  • How to sleep alone in a king-size bed: a memoir / Theo Pauline Nestor, 306.893  NES
  • Hungry Girl: recipes and survival strategies for guilt-free eating in the real world / Lisa Lillien, 641.5635 LIL
  • I don’t believe in atheists / Chris Hedges, 211 HED
  • Importance of music to girls / Lavinia Greenlaw, 780.92 GRE
  • In Europe: travels through the twentieth century / Geert Mak , 940.5 MAK
  • In Nixon’s web: a year in the crosshairs of Watergate / L. Patrick Gray III , 353.5092 GRA
  • Insomniac / Gayle Greene, 616.8498 GRE
  • Intern: a doctor’s initiation / Sandeep Jauhar, 610.92 JUA
  • Into the devil’s den: how an FBI agent got inside the Aryan Nations and a special agent got him out alive / Dave Hall and Tym Burkey, 320.56 HAL
  • Jingle jangle : the perfect crime turned inside out / Jim Rix., 365.973 RIX
  • Joy of pregnancy: the complete, candid, and reassuring companion for parents-to-be / Tori Kropp, 618.2 KRO
  • Julius Caesar / Philip Freeman, B CAESAR
  • Keep it real: everything you need to know about researching and writing creative nonfiction / edited by Lee Gutkind and Hattie Fletcher, 808.02 KEE
  • Lake compounce / Lynda J. Russell, 974.63 RUS
  • Last lecture / by Randy Pausch, 004.092 PAU
  • Learning ActionScript 3.0: a beginner’s guide / Rich Shupe, 006.786 SHU
  • Learning from the heart: lessons on living, loving, and listening / Daniel Gottlieb, 170.44 GOT
  • Lost in Katrina / Mikel Schaefer , 976.336 SCH
  • Magical chorus: a history of Russian culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn / Solomon Volkov, 891.7093 VOL
  • Make any divorce better!: specific steps to make things smoother, faster, less painful and save you a lot of money / Ed Sherman, 306.89 SHE
  • Man who pushed America to war: the extraordinary life, adventures, and obsessions of Ahmed Chalabi / Aram Roston, 956.7044 ROS
  • Maps and legends: reading and writing along the borderlands / Michael Chabon, 814.54 CHA
  • Maya Angelou: a glorious celebration / Marcia Ann Gillespie, Rosa Johnson Butler and Richard A. Long , B ANGELOU
  • Medical myths that can kill you: and the 101 truths that will save, extend, and improve your life / Nancy L. Snyderman, 610 SNY
  • Microcosm: E. coli and the new science of life / Carl Zimmer, 579.342 ZIM
  • Millennial makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the future of American politics / Morley Winograd, 320.973 WIN
  • Mirror of the Arab world: Lebanon in conflict / Sandra Mackey, 956.9204 MAC
  • My guy Barbaro: a jockey’s journey through love, triumph, and heartbreak with America’s favorite horse / Edgar Prado, 798.4009 PRA
  • Myth of Alzheimer’s: what you aren’t being told about today’s most dreaded diagnosis / Peter J. Whitehouse, 616.831 WHI
  • Never will we forget: oral histories of World War II / Marilyn Mayer Culpepper, 940.5373 CUL
  • New collected poems / Eavan Boland, 821.914 BOL
  • New concepts in paper quilling: techniques for cards & gifts / Marie Browning, 745.54 BRO
  • No-man’s lands: one man’s odyssey through The Odyssey / Scott Huler, 883.01 HUL
  • Notes on a life / Eleanor Coppola, 791.4302 COP
  • One drop: my father’s hidden life–a story of race and family secrets / Bliss Broyard, B BROYARD
  • One minute entrepreneur: the secret to creating and sustaining a successful business / Ken Blanchard, 658.11 BLA
  • One month to live: thirty days to a no-regrets life / Kerry and Chris Shook, 248.4 SHO
  • Only 127 things you need: a guide to life’s essentials / Donna Wilkinson, 646.7 WIL
  • Open road: the global journey of the fourteenth Dalai Lama / Pico Iyer, 294.3923 IYE
  • Opting in: having a child without losing yourself / by Amy Richards, 306.8743 RIC
  • Our bodies, ourselves: pregnancy and childbirth / the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, 618.2 OUR
  • Our daily meds: how the pharmaceutical companies transformed themselves into slick marketing machines / Melody Petersen, 338.4761 PET
  • Our story begins: new and selected stories / Tobias Wolff, 813.54 WOL
  • Parent’s guide to speech and language problems / Debbie Feit, 618.9285 FEI
  • Perfect hostage: a life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s prisoner of conscience / Justin Wintle, 959.105 WIN
  • Place called Canterbury: tales of the new old age in America / Dudley Clendinen, 305.2609 CLE
  • Please stop laughing at us: one survivor’s extraordinary quest to prevent school bullying / Jodee Blanco, 371.782 BLA
  • Post-American world / Fareed Zakaria, 303.49 ZAK
  • Prince of Frogtown / Rick Bragg, B BRAGG
  • Quiet, please: dispatches from a public librarian / by Scott Douglas, 020.92 DOU
  • Reappraisals: reflections on the forgotten twentieth century / Tony Judt, 909.82 JUD
  • Red leather diary: reclaiming a life through the pages of a lost journal / Lily Koppel, 974.7104 KOP
  • Rediscovering Jacob Riis: exposure journalism and photography in turn-of-the-century New York / Bonnie Yochelson & Daniel Czitrom, 770.9747 YOC
  • Retire-and start your own business: five steps to success / Dennis J. Sargent and Martha S. Sargent, 658.11 SAR
  • Retribution: the battle for Japan, 1944-45 / Max Hastings, 940.5425 HAS
  • Revolution: a manifesto / Ron Paul, 973.931 PAU
  • Road map to Holland: how I found my way through my son’s first two years with Down syndrome / Jennifer Graf Groneberg, 618.9285 GRO
  • Screen doors and sweet tea: recipes and tales from a Southern cook / Martha Hall Foose, 641.5975 FOO
  • Second plane: September 11 terror and boredom / Martin Amis, 974.879 AMI
  • Seeker’s guide: making your life a spiritual adventure / Elizabeth Lesser, 291.4 LES
  • Sell your home in any market: 50 surprisingly simple strategies for getting top dollar fast / Jim Remley, 643.12 REM
  • Several lives of Joseph Conrad / John Stape, B CONRAD
  • Shakespeare’s wife / Germaine Greer, B SHAKESPEARE
  • Snoop: what your stuff says about you / Sam Gosling, 155.91 GOS
  • Sodalicious cookbook / editor Sue Mann, 641.62 SOD
  • Soloist: a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music / Steve Lopez, 787.2092 LOP
  • Superclass: the global power elite and the world they are making / David Rothkopf, 305.5209 ROT
  • Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective / Kate Summerscale, 364.1523 SUM
  • Swish: my quest to become the gayest person ever / by Joel Derfner, 306.7662 DER
  • Switching to the Mac: the missing manual / David Pogue, 005.446 POG
  • Temples on the other side: how knowing about them can truly help you in your life / Sylvia Browne, 133.9013 BRO
  • Ten-cent plague: the great comic-book scare and how it changed America / David Hajdu, 302.232 HAJ
  • That summer in Sicily: a love story / Marlena de Blasi, 914.5804 DE B
  • The bishop’s daughter: a memoir / Honor Moore, B MOORE
  • Throes of democracy: the American Civil War era, 1829-1877 / Walter A. McDougall, 973.7 MCD
  • Time bandit: two brothers, the Bering Sea, and one of the world’s deadliest jobs / Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand, 639.5709 HIL
  • Tower stories: an oral history of 9/11 / [edited] by Damon DiMarco, 974.7104 TOW
  • Translator: a tribesman’s memoir of Darfur / Daoud Hari , 962.404 HAR
  • Trespass: living at the edge of the promised land / Amy Irvine, 979.259 IRV
  • Trillion dollar meltdown: easy money, high rollers, and the great credit crash / Charles R. Morris, 332.0415 MOR
  • Twisted triangle: a famous crime writer, a lesbian love affair, and the FBI husband’s violent revenge / Caitlin Rother, 364.1523 ROT
  • Up till now : the autobiography / William Shatner   with David Fisher., B SHATNER
  • USA / Gwendolyn Wright, 720.973 WRI
  • Value of money: uncover the hidden wisdom of money / Susan McCarthy, 332.024 MCC
  • Voyage long and strange: rediscovering the new world / Tony Horwitz, 970.01 HOR
  • We plan, God laughs: 10 steps to finding your divine path when life is not turning out like you wanted / Sherre Hirsch, 296.7 HIR
  • Welcome to your brain: why you lose your car keys but never forget how to drive and other puzzles of everyday life / Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang, 612.82 AAM
  • When the husband is the suspect / F. Lee Bailey with Jean Rabe., 345.7302 BAI
  • Where did I leave my glasses?: the what, when, and why of normal memory loss / Martha Weinman Lear, 155.6713 LEA
  • While America aged: how pension debts ruined General Motors, stopped the NYC subways, bankrupted San Diego, and loom as the next financial crisis / Roger Lowenstein, 331.2524 LOW
  • Who on earth was Jesus?: the modern quest for the Jesus of history / David Boulton, 232.901 BOU
  • Wolf at the table: a memoir / Augusten Burroughs, B BURROUGHS
  • Woman who can’t forget: the extraordinary story of living with the most remarkable memory known to science: a memoir / by Jill Price , 153.1209 PRI
  • Yoga for arthritis: the complete guide / Loren M. Fishman, 616.722 FIS
  • You won’t believe it’s vegan!: 200 recipes for simple and delicious animal-free cuisine / Lacey Sher and Gail Doherty, 641.5636 SHE
  • You: the owner’s manual: an insider’s guide to the body that will make you healthier and younger / Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz, 613.2 ROI
  • Your pregnancy week by week / Glade B. Curtis, Judith Schuler, 618.2 CUR