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Christina Obel's favorite non-fiction reads.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond - Norton
Format: Paperback
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Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured... |
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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Sarah Louise Delany - Dell
Format: Paperback
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Warm, feisty, and intelligent, the Delany sisters speak their mind in a book that is at once a vital historical record and a moving portrait of two remarkable women who continued to love, laugh, and embrace life after over a hundred years of living side by side. Their sharp memories show... |
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As Told to Alex Haley)
Malcolm X - Ballantine Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malcolm X. His AUTOBIOGRAPHY is the result of a unique collaboration between Alex Haley and Malcolm X, whose voice and philosophy resonate from every page, just... |
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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir
Sherman Alexie - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book
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Family relationships are never simple. But Sherman Alexie's bond with his mother Lillian was more complex than most. She plunged her family into chaos with a drinking habit, but shed her addiction when it was on the brink of costing her everything. She survived a violent past, but created... |
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann - Doubleday
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage... |
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
James Renner - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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When an eleven year old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession leads James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave... |
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The Stranger in the Woods The Extraordinary Story of the North Pond Hermit
Michael Finkel
Format: Audiobook
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In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the woods. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later when he was arrested for stealing food. Living in a tent even in winter,... |
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Life Is So Good
George Dawson - Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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One man’s extraordinary journey through the twentieth century and how he learned to read at age 98 “Things will be all right. People need to hear that. Life is good, just as it is. There isn’t anything I would change about my life.”—George Dawson ... |
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
MICHELLE MCNAMARA - Harper
Format: Book
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For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area.
Three... |
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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Sebastian Junger - Twelve
Format: Book
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We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival.
Decades before the American Revolution,... |
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Poirot and Me
David Suchet - Headline
Format: Print book
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David Suchet shares his many memories of creating this iconic television series and reflects on what the detective has meant to him over the years In the summer of 2013 David Suchet filmed his final scenes as Hercule Poirot. After 24 years in the role, he played the character in every story... |
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