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The Brentwood Library Reference staff recommends
the following titles for your reading enjoyment.

CALL NUMBER

TITLE

AUTHOR

910.45 CAL

Adrift: seventy-six days lost at sea

Steven Callahan

982 REA

Alive

Piers Paul Read

92 BRA

All Over But the Shoutin'

Rick Bragg

92 MCC

Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt

910.941 FLE

Barrow's Boys

Fergus Fleming

92 LAU

Blackbird: the story of a daughter lost and found

Jennifer Lauck

818.54 GET

The Cat Who Went to Paris

Peter Gethers

940.5421 AMB

Citizen Soldiers: the U.S. Army from the Normandy beaches

to the Bulge to the surrender of Germany

Stephen Ambrose

347.30638 HAR 1995

A Civil Action

Jonathan Harr

940.54 SIM

Daughter of the Air: the short soaring life of Cornelia Fort

Rob Simbeck

975.7 ROB

Denmark Vesey: the buried history of America's largest slave rebellion and the man who led it

David Robertson

910.45 ALE

Endurance: Shackleton's incredible voyage

Caroline Alexander

974.492 CLI

Expedition Whydah: the story of the world's first excavation of pirate's treasure and the man who found her

Barry Clifford

975.504 FOX

Five Sisters: the Langhorne sisters of Virginia

James Fox

910.45 SHA

Flying Cloud: the true story of America's most famous clipper ship

and the woman who guided her

David Shaw

796.332 BIS

Friday Night Lights: a town, a team and a dream

H. G. Bissinger

520.92 SOB

Galileo's Daughter: a historical memoir of science, faith, and love

Dava Sobel

797.124 LUN

Godforsaken Sea: racing the world's most dangerous waters

Derek Lundy

92 BAK

Growing Up

Russell Baker

92 BAR

The Happy Bottom Riding Club: the life and times of Pancho Barnes

Lauren Kessler

920 DEL

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' first 100 years

Sarah Delany

814.54 KIN

High Tide in Tucson: essays from now or never

Barbara Kingsolver

940.442 LIB

Horses Don't Fly

Frederick Libby

RL PRE

The Hot Zone

Richard Preston

690 KID

House

Tracy Kidder

639.2778 GRE

The Hungry Ocean: a swordboat captain's journey

Linda Greenlaw

919.804 NIV

The Ice Master: the doomed 1913 voyage of the Karlus and the miraculous rescue of ther survivors

Jennifer Niven

92 BRE

I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me

Jimmy Breslin

92 POG

In My Brother's Image: twin brothers separated by faith after the Holocaust

Eugene Pogany

92 MCC

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

92 KRA

Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Mt. Everest disaster

Jon Krakauer

92 ARM

It's Not About the Bike: my journey back to life

Lance Armstrong

915.49204 BAL

The Last River: the tragic race for Shangri-la

Todd Balf

796.522 WEA

Left for Dead: my journey home from Everest

Beck Weathers

976.8223 SPR

Legacy of Tamar: courage and faith in an African American family

Rave Springfield

92 KAR

The Liar's Club

Mary Karr

92 HAR

Longitude: The true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time

Dava Sobel

814.54 WHI

Mama Makes Up Her Mind: and other dangers of southern living

Bailey White

92 STE

A Man Called Intrepid: the secret war

William Stevenson

978 STO

Men to Match My Mountains: the opening of the far west 1840-1900

Irving Stone

975.8 BER

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt

92 DOU

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's elite serial crime unit

John Douglas

362.1969792 VER

My Own Country: a doctor's story of a town and its people in the age of AIDS

Abraham Verghese

338.17383 MIL

Nathaniel's Nutmeg

Giles Milton

92 PAY

Never Die Easy: the autobiography of Walter Payton

Walter Payton

916.724 OHA

No Mercy: a journey to the heart of the Congo

Redmond O'Hanlon

385.0973 AMB

Nothing Like It in the World:

the men who built the transcontinental railroad, 1863-69.

Stephen Ambrose

635.9 ORL

Orchid Thief

Susan Orlean

796.522 DIC

The Other Side of Everest

Matt Dickinson

910.45 JUN

The Perfect Storm

Sebastian Junger

423 WIN

The Professor and the Madman:

a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary

Simon Winchester

977 BAR

Rising Tide: the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America

John Barry

629.1092273 HIC

Rocket Boys: a memoir

Homer Hickam

910.45 KIN

Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea

Gary Kinder

305.23 KOT

There Are No Children Here : the story of two boys growing up in the other America

Alex Kotlowitz

911.632 HEM

Toughing It Out: the adventures of a polar explorer and mountaineer

David Hempleman-Adams

944.920838 MAY

Toujours Provence

Peter Mayle

92 ALB

Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch Alborn

917.8042 AMB

Undaunted Courage:

Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West

Stephen Ambrose

639.28 SUL

Whale Hunt:

two years on the Olympic Peninsula with the Makah and their canoe

Robert Sullivan

634.968 MAC 1992

Young Men and Fire

Norman Maclean

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