A Walk In the Woods : Rediscovering America On the Appalachian Trail
In a Sunburned Country
The Kingdom of Shivas Irons
Thanksgiving 101 : Celebrate America's Favorite Holiday With America's Thanksgiving Expert
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Conspiracy of Fools: a True Story
Smart Women Finish Rich:7 Steps to Achieving Financial Security and Funding Your Dreams
Saving Graces : Finding Solace and Strength From Friends and Strangers
"She charmed America with her smart, likable, down-to-earth personality as she campaigned for her husband, then vice presidential candidate John Edwards. Elizabeth Edwards shares her experiences in Saving Graces, a memoir of Edwards's trials, tragedies, and triumphs, and of how various communities celebrated her joys and lent her stready strength and quiet hope in darker […]
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid : a Memoir
Library Journal Review: I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s, writes Bryson (A Walk in the Woods), and his wryly amusing stories of his childhood in Des Moines almost convince the reader this is true. Bryson recounts the world of his […]
Our Fathers' War : Growing Up in the Shadow of the Greatest Generation
Donated to the library by Frederic Winslow in memory of Albert Copp. Publisher Weekly Review: After more than 30 years at Newsweek, where he served as New York bureau chief among other roles, Mathews (Hazardous Duty) turned to writing books, often centering his fiction and nonfiction around the military. His latest project finds him, at […]