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Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman
152.4 GOL

Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget
Marianne J. Legato
155.33 LEG

The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way 
Wayne W. Dyer
158.1 DYE

The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
Karen Armstrong
200.9 ARM

A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life: Welcoming the Soul and Weaving Community in a Wounded World
Parker J. Palmer
248.4 PAL

Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
Rachel Simmons
302.54 SIM

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
303.4 DIA

Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
Dan Kindlon, Michael Thompson
305.23 KIN

Enrique's Journey
Sonia Nazario
305.2308968 NAZ

A Field Guide to Boys and Girls: Differences, Similarities-- Cutting Edge Information Every Parent Needs to Know
Susan Gilbert
305.231 GIL

A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance
Jane Juska
305.26092 JUS

The Color of Our Future
Farai Chideya
305.8 CHI

American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business, and the End of White America
Leon E. Wynter
305.8 WYN

Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
Jimmy Carter
306 CAR

Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, and a Journey to the End of the Earth
Daniel Glick
306.8742 GLI

What's the Matter with Kansas? : How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
Thomas Frank
320.52 FRA

Being Martha: the Inside Story of Martha Stewart and Her Amazing Life
Lloyd Allen
338.76164 ALL

Candyfreak: a Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
Steve Almond
338.7664 ALM

The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Douglas Brinkley
363.34922 BRI

When Corruption Was King: How I Helped the Mob Rule Chicago, Then Brought the Outfit down
Robert Cooley
364.106 COO

Scream at the Sky: Five Texas Murders and One Man's Crusade for Justice
Carlton Stowers
364.1523 STO

Over the Edge: the True Story of Four American Climbers' Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia
Greg Child
364.154 CHI

The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
Miles Harvey
364.162 HAR

Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA
Tim Junkin
364.66092 JUN

Death and Justice: An Exposé of Oklahoma's Death Row Machine
Mark Fuhrman
364.6609766 FUH

Can We Talk About Race? : And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation
Beverly Daniel Tatum
378.1012 TAT

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan
394.12 POL

Coal: A Human History
Barbara Freese
553.24 FRE

When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time 
Michael J. Benton
576.84 BEN

The Blue Planet: A Natural History of the Oceans
Andrew Byatt
577.7 BYA

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World
Michael Pollan
581 POL

Creatures of the Deep: In Search of the Sea's "Monsters" and the World They Live In
Erich Hoyt
591 HOY

Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears
Nick Jans
599.784 JAN

An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
Diane Ackerman
612.82 ACK

The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
John M. Barry
614.518 BAR

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Oliver Sacks
616.8 SAC

Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
Mike Dash
635.93432 DAS

Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon
Nick Trout
636.089092 TRO

The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
Sy Montgomery
636.40887 MON

The Gift of Jazzy
Cindy Adams
636.7 ADA 

The Language of Baklava
Diana Abu-Jaber
641.5956 ABU

The Daring Book for Girls
Andrea J. Buchanan
646.7008352 BUC

You'll Never Nanny in This Town Again:  The True Adventures of a Hollywood Nanny
Suzanne Hansen
649.092 HAN

Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping
Paco Underhill 
658.834 UND

Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, the Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954
Hilary Spurling  759.4 SPU

True Believers: The Tragic Inner Life of Sports Fans
Joe Queenan
796 QUE

When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
Yogi Berra
796.357092 BER

Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, and How Baseball Got Big
Jose Canseco
796.357092 CAN

Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top
Seth Mnookin
796.35764 MNO

Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters
Joan Ryan
796.4408352 RYA 

Cruciverbalism: A Crossword Fanatic's Guide to Life in the Grid
Stanley Newman
799.732 NEW

Brother, I'm Dying
Edwidge Danticat
813.54 DAN

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Anne Lamott
813.54 LAM

Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World
Sarah Vowell
814.54 VOW

I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
Sloane Crosley
814.6 CRO

Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank: And Other Words of Delicate Southern Wisdom
Celia Rivenbark
814.6 RIV

 

The Florist's Daughter
Patricia Hampl 
818.54 HAM

Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Brönte  
Maureen B. Adams
820.99287 ADA

I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers
Roger Rapoport & Marguerita Castanera, eds
910.4 I

Long Way Down: An Epic Journey by Motorcycle from Scotland to South Africa
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
910.41 MCG

Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration
Fergus Fleming
910.9 FLE

Wrong About Japan: A Father's Journey with His Son
Peter Carey
915.2 CAR

Lost in my own backyard: A Walk in Yellowstone National Park
Tim Cahill
917.8752 CAH

Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
Dorothea Lange
940.53089956 LAN

The Last Ridge: The Epic Story of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division and the Assault on Hitler's Europe
McKay Jenkins
940.54215 JEN

In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
Doug Stanton
940.545 STA

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Iris Chang
951.042 CHA

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

Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones
Greg Campbell
966.404 CAM

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann
970.011 MAN

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin
973.7092 GOO

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

An American Childhood
Annie Dillard
B DILLARD

A Girl Named Zippy: Growing up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
Haven Kimmel 
B KIMMEL

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Nancy Milford
B MILLAY

Tender at the Bone: Growing up at the Table
Ruth Reichl
B REICHL

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