By: Alice Sebold
"You save yourself or you remain unsaved." With these words, Sebold recounts the brutal rape that she was "lucky" to survive. Tragedy and hope combine as she makes her way through a survivor's maze of emotions.
By: Craig Thompson
A young man questions his faith and experiences bittersweet first love in this autobiographical and groundbreaking graphic novel.
The Book Thief
By: Marcus Zusak

Living in Nazi Germany, young Liesel and her foster family choose to lie and steal to protect a Jewish refugee hiding in their basement. Narrated by Death, this is not your typical World War II story.

By: Joel Best
Confused by all the contradicting statistical data being bantered around by advertisers and the media? Best explains how these statistics are created and their social implications, which will help you distinguish truth from hype.
By: Bill Bryson
A renowned travel writer brings complex scientific concepts to life by describing how the universe and life as we know it came to be.
By: Katrina Firlik
Firlik brings honest appraisal of her work with less heroism and more day-to-day problem solving as she moves from intern to doctor.
By: Chris Jones
The mission seemed jinxed from the start and nothing could have prepared the team for the challenge of being stranded in earth's orbit after the destruction of the shuttle Columbia and its crew.
By: Aldo Leopold
This classic of environmental and nature writing, arranged by season, provides a poetic view through the window of the Leopold family farm in the Wisconsin meadows.
By: David Macaulay
Enter a community Mosque of the sixteenth century, and discover the techniques used to raise towering minarets and a beautiful prayer hall dome.

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