Marian's Favorite Non-Fiction
Biography
James Herriot: The Life of a Country Vet by Graham Lord
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke
Non-Fiction
You Can't Read This: Forbidden Books, Lost Writing, Mistranslations & Codes by Val Ross
Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm by Jeanne Marie Laskas.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Hinds' Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard
Tramp for the Lord by Corrie Ten Boom
Firehouse by David Halberstam
Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism by Kate Winslet
Allergy-Free Gardening by Thomas Leo Ogren
The Life and Love of Cats by Lewis Blackwell
The Cats Pajamas by Rachael McKenna
Tea Party by Tracy Stern
Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly by Phyllis Pellman Good
Homegrown in the Ozarks: Mountain Meals and Memories by Rolland Love
Small Batch Baking by Debby Maugans Nakos
Pavement Chalk Artist: The Three-Dimensional Drawings of Julian Beever
The Art of the Missouri Capitol: History in Canvas, Bronze, and Stone by Bob Priddy
Of Muppets & Men: The Making of the Muppet Show by Christopher Finch
The Glass Menagerie by Tenneesee Williams
Crucible by Arthur Miller
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
The Invisible Wall: A Love Story that Broke Barriers by Harry Bernstein
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer's Night Dream by William Shakespeare
Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
Silver like Dust: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment by Kimi Cunningham Grant
I Will Plant you a Lilac Tree by Laura Hillman
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
940.5472 HIL Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand.
941.96 KAN On an Irish Island by Robert Kanigel
962.4043 DEN They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky by Alephonsion Deng
GN 973.7 ZIM The Hammer and the Anvil: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the End of Slavery in America by Dwight Jon Zimmerman
GN 973.931 TOR American Widow by Alissa Torres
977.1 RYA The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How my Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less by Terry Ryan
978.2 GRE Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen by Bob Greene