Non-Fiction Titles

Parallel Play
by Tim Page
The Pulitzer prize winning music critic has Asperger’s and he writes a vivid account of what that has meant in his life.

31 Hours
by Masha Hamilton
A mother & a girlfriend try to find the confused young man who has been converted to Islam and to a planned act of violence in New York City.

Gourmet Rhapsody
by Muriel Barbery
First novel from the author of Elegance of the Hedgehog, this is a sensuous look back at his life by a famous French food critic.

A Big Little Life : a memoir of a joyful dog
by Dean R. Koontz
Yes, it’s the horror guy, with a paean to his beloved canine Trixie

Hot for Words
by Marina Orlova
A regular on YouTube, the sexiest geek ever makes philology (love of words) fun.

Law of Nines
by Terry Goodkind
Fantasy with chilling thriller details as the hero and his other-worldly girl are targeted for violence.

War Dances
by Sherman Alexie
“Tragic comedies”- stories about human responsibilities, self preservation and the consequences of everyday choices.

Poseidon's steed : the story of seahorses, from myth to reality
by Helen Scales
Everything you always wanted to know about the delicate creatures.

A Village Life
by Louise Gluck
A rural Mediterranean village provides images for the poet’s latest impressionistic musings.

Dreaming in French
by Megan McAndrew
A child’s charmed life in France becomes a cross-cultural coming-of-age in New York in this sophisticated story.

The Red Tree
by Caitlin R. Kiernan
| Folklore, fantasy and horror in a haunting spiral as a depressed writer explores the history of her isolated house and its red tree

Bloggers on the Bus
by Eric Boehlert
Politics by blog and instant media access. A look at the 2008 race from a netroots insider.

Pink Brain, Blue Brain
by Lise Eliot
Small innate differences do not have to become gender stereotypes. Tips from a neuroscientist to diminish those differences, instead of reinforcing them.

Hound of the Baskervilles: a Sherlock Holmes graphic novel
by Arthur Conan Doyle, I.N.J.Culbard illus., Ian Edginton, adp.
The 1902 novel in a modern version that does justice to the classic thriller.