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000 Generalities
- 028.28 BOO Book that Changed My Life, The by Roxanne J. Coady and Joy Johannesson
- 028.55 GOL Deconstructing Penguins by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone
- 070.5 MAR [JUV] Golden Legacy by Leonard S. Marcus
- 070.92 GRA [BIO] Personal History by Katharine Graham
100 Philosophy and Psychology
- 102 CAT Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
- 152.4 GOL Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
- 158.1 PAU [BIO] Last Lecture, The by Randy Pausch
- 170.4 LIN [BIO] Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- 185 BAR Aristotle by Jonathon Barnes
200 Religion
- 230 LEW Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
- 232 TAL [BIO] Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmage
- 232.9 DIC Life of Our Lord, The by Charles Dickens
- 289.3 BOW The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith by Matthew Bowman
- 289.3 BUS [BIO] Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman
- 289.3 BUS Mormonism: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Bushman
- 289.322 HOL Christ and the New Covenant by Jeffrey R. Holland
- 289.33 KIM [BIO] Spencer W. Kimball by Edward L. and Andrew Kimball
- 289.3320924 ARR [BIO] Brigham Young: American Moses by Leonard Arrington
- 292 DAU [JUV] D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths by Edgar D’Aulaire and Ingri D’Aulaire
- 297 ALI [JUV] [BIO] Growing Up Muslim by Sambul Ali-Karamali
300 Social Science
- 301.44 REE Round About a Pound a Week by Maude Pember Reeves
- 305.42 WOL Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A by Mary Wollstonecraft
- 306.85 MEN Material World by Peter Menzel
- 306.8743 CHU [BIO] Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
- 324.623 COL [BIO] [JUV] Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship that Changed the World by Penny Colman
- 328.73092 OBA The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (abridged)
- 331.85 ADD [BIO] Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams
- 332.6 STA Millionaire Next Door, The (abridged audiobook) by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
- 332.722 REE Mortgage Confidential by David Reed
- 332.722 REE Mortgages 101 by David Reed
- 333.338 GLI 100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask by Ilyce Glink
- 341.5 WAR An Edge in the Kitchen by Chad Ward
- 342.73 MON The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution by Linda Monk
- 362.82 WAL [BIO] Glass Castle, The by Jeannette Walls reread
- 362.8292 KRI Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
- 363.8 RUS Hunger: An Unnatural History by Sharman Apt Russell
- 370.1523 The Art of Changing the Brain by James Zull
- 370.157 KEP [BIO] Seeing Past Z by Beth Kephart
- 371.042 BAU The Well-Trained Mind: The Guide to Classical Education at Home by Susan Wise Bauer
- 371.042 LEV A Charlotte Mason Education: A Home Schooling How-To Manual by Catherine Levinson
- 371.33 KES Free Resources for Elementary Teachers by Colleen Kessler
- 371.822 MOR [BIO] Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
- 371.95 WES Homeschooling Gifted and Advanced Learners by Cindy West
- 372.4 MCG Growing a Reader from Birthby Diane McGuinness
- 372.45 DOL The ABCs of Literacy by Cynthia Dollins
- 372.623 ALL Your Child’s Writing Life by Pam Allyn
- 372.623 JAC No More “I’m Done!” by Jennifer Jacobson
- 398.20899915 PAR Wise Women of the Dreamtime: Aboriginal Tales of Ancestral Power by K. Langloh Parker edited by Johanna Lambert
400 Language
- 420.9 LER Inventing English by Seth Lerer
- 423 WIN Professor and the Madman, The by Simon Winchester
- 428 EID Uncovering the Logic of English by Denise Eide
- 424.8 FLO Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dogs by Kitty Burns Florey
- 468 LOM Play and Learn Spanish by Ana Lomba
500 Natural Sciences and Math
- 507.8 VEG The Kitchen as a Laboratory: Reflections on the Science of Food and Cooking edited by Cesar Vega
- 509 CRE Great Equations, The by Robert P. Crease
- 523.4 SOB Planets, The by Dava Sobel
- 530.92 [BIO] Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Fenyman by Robert Fenyman
- 530.92 ISA [BIO] Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
- 576.5 WAT DNA by James Watson
- 576.82 DAR [BIO][JUV] Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
600 Technology
- 611 BAI The X in Sex by David Bainbridge
- 611.0071 ROA Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
- 613.0424 ANG Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier
- 616 GAW Better by Atul Gawande
- 616.856 BIR [BIO] Season to Taste by Molly Birnbaum
- 617 GAW Complications by Atun Gawande
- 618.2 VIN [BIO] Baby Catcher by Peggy Vincent
- 618.32 WER From Conception to Birth: A Life Unfolds by Alexander Tsiaras
- 618.4 SLO Birth Day by Mark Sloan
- 641.3 MEN What the World Eats by Peter Menzel
- 641.3 WIL Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson
- 641.5 CHI Julia’s Kitchen Wisdom by Julia Child
- 641.5 FRA [BIO] Too Many Cooks by Emily Franklin
- 641.5 RUH [BIO] Making of a Chef, The by Michael Ruhlman
- 641.5 RUH Elements of Cooking, The by Michael Ruhlman
- 641.5 WAT Art of Simple Food, The by Alice Waters
- 641.5 WIZ [BIO] A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg
- 641.5092 CHI [BIO] My Life in France by Julia Child
- 641.5123 KAT [JUV] Pretend Soup by Mollie Katzen and Ann Henderson
- 643.12 Home Buying for Dummies by Eric Tyson and Ray Brown
- 648.5 CIL Sink Reflections by Marla Cilley
- 648.8 CUL The Clutterter Cure by Judi Culbertson
- 649.1 BER Awakening Children’s Minds by Laura Berk reread
- 649.1 KOH Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
700 The Arts
- 700.1 LEH Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonas Lehrer
- 700.8996 HIL [YA] Harlem STOMP! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance by Laban Carrick Hill
- 700.8996 WOR [JUV] The Harlem Renaissance: An Explosion of African-American culture by Richard Worth
- 720.8 HAM Nineteenth-Century Mormon Architecture and City Planning by Mark Hamilton
- 720.9773 CON Chicago School of Architecture, The by Carl W. Condit
- 720.977311 LOW Lost Chicago by David Lowe
- 741.5 MCC Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
- 741.5971 DEL Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy DeLisle
- 741.6 GAR Just My Type by Simon Garfield
- 741.64 EVA Show and Tell: Exploring the Fine Art of Children’s Book Illustration by Dilys Evans
- 741.64 SHO Show Me A Story: Why Picture Books Matter by Leonard S. Marcus
- 741.642 MAR [JUV] A Caldecott Celebration: Six Artists and Their Paths to the Caldecott Medal by Leonard Marcus
- 743 SHE [JUV] Pooh Sketchbook, The drawings by Ernest H. Shepard for the Pooh stories
- 745.5 SOU The Creative Family by Amanda Blake Soule
- 771 ANG Fundamentals of Photography by Tom Ang
- 771 BUS Masterclass in Photography by Michael and Julien Busselle
- 779 MOM Moments: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs by Hal Buell
- 781.11 SAC Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
- 782.421582 LUL [JUV] Lullabies: An Illustrated Songbook by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 796.48 BOB [JUV] A Passion for Victory by Benson Bobrick
800 Literature and Rhetoric
- 808.02 PRO Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
- 808.1 HIR How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry by Edward Hirsch
- 808.1 NOR Norton Introduction to Poetry
- 809 FOS How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
- 809.89282 LER Children’s Literature by Seth Lerer
- 809.89282 TAT Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood by Maria Tatar
- 810.82 HEM [BIO] A Moveable Feastby Ernest Hemingway
- 810.9 HAR Harlem Renaissance, The edited by Harold Bloom
- 811.54 KOC Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? by Kenneth Koch
- 813 KIN [BIO] On Writing by Stephen King
- 813 PHI Why Read Moby Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick
- 818 LEN [BIO] A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle
- 818.09 THO [BIO] Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- 818.54 HAN [BIO] 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
- 818.54 HAN [BIO] Duchess of Bloomsbury, The by Helene Hanff
- 820.9 BAT English Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Bate
- 821.4 FOR [BIO] John Milton: A Biography by Neil Forsyth
- 821.4 LEW A Preface to Paradise Lost by C.S. Lewis
- 821.7 WIL My Business Is To Create: Blake’s Infinite Writing by Eric G. Wilson
- 822.33 BRY [BIO] Shakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson
- 822.33 GRE [BIO] Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt
- 822.33 NIC [BIO] Shakespeare and his Contemporaries by Charles Nicholl
- 822.33 RAS The Shakespeare Thefts by Eric Rasmussen
- 823 SMI [BIO] Charles Dickens: A Life by Jane Smiley
- 823 WAR [BIO] [JUV] Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London by Andrea Warren
- 823.03 MAI The Victorian Art of Fiction: Nineteenth-Century Essays on the Novel, edited by Rohan Maitzen (selections read)
- 823.7 REE [BIO] [JUV] Jane Austen: A Life Revealed by Catherine Reef
- 823.7 SHI [BIO] Jane Austen: A Life by Carol Shields
- 828 MIL [JUV] Pooh Bedside Reader, The by A.R. Melrose
- 828.507 SWI A Modest Proposal by Jonathon Swift
- 895.6 SEI [BIO] The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon, translated by Ivan Morris
900 Geography and History
- 909 BOR The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin
- 909.0976 ANS Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary
- 909.829 HUN The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
- 917.8042 AMB Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
- 921 BHU [BIO] Daughter of Destiny by Benazir Bhutto
- 921 CLA [BIO] Secret Life of Wilkie Collins, The by William Clarke
- 921 KIS [BIO] Kissinger by Walter Isaacson
- 921 LIN [BIO] [JUV] Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
- 921 PET [BIO] King of Inventors, The by Catherine Peters
- 928.2 HUG [BIO] London Childhood in the 1870s, A by M.V. Hughes
- 928.4 STE [BIO] Flaubert and Madame Bovary by Francis Steegmuller
- 929.4 CIA [BIO] Nom de Plume: A Secret History of Pseudonyms by Carmela Ciararu
- 940.5318 SPI [BIO] Complete Maus, The: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman
- 940.5318 WIE [BIO] Night by Eli Wiesel
- 941.084 CHU Speeches of Winston Churchill (Never Give In!)
- 942 CHU History of the English-Speaking People by Winston Churchill, abridged by Henry Steele Commager
- 942.081 GIL [BIO] We Two: Victoria and Albert by Gillian Gill
- 942.108 PIC Victorian London: The Life of a City, 1840-1870 by Liza Picard
- 944.026 GOL The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc by Nancy Goldstone
- 955.05 SAT [BIO] Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
- 955.05 SAT [BIO] Persepolis:The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
- 956.94 SAC [BIO] Palestine by Joe Sacco
- 956.9442 GAL Jerusalem: The Eternal City by David Galbraith, D. Kelly Ogden, and Andrew Skinner
- 960.32 MER Fate of Africa, The by Martin Meredith
- 968.97 KAM [BIO] The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
- 970.1 PER North American Indians (VSI) by Theda Perue
- 970.011 MAN 1491 by Charles C. Mann
- 973 THE Death by Petticoat: American History Myths Debunked by Mary Theobald
- 973.009 RHA White House Kids by Joe Rhatigan
- 973.099 KRU [BIO] Lives of the Presidents: Fame, Shame, and What the Neighbors Thought by Kathleen Krull and Kathryn Hewitt
- 973.22 PHI Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
- 973.3 ROB [BIO] Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
- 973.7092 WHE [BIO] Abraham Lincoln: A Man of Faith and Courage by Joe Wheeler
- 973.8092 DOU [BIO] Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
- 973.924 BER [BIO] All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
- 973.929 MYE [BIO] Why Women Should Rule the World by Dee Dee Myers
- 975.542 WAL Written in Bone by Sally M. Walker
- 976.45 HAL [BIO] Same Kind of Different at Me by Ron Hall
- 977.311 MCN Chicago: Then and Now by Elizabeth McNulty
- 998.9 WAL [JUV] Frozen Secrets: Antarctica Revealed by Sally Walker
updated 31 October 2012