A sampling of recent books in our collection:
| 220.5 | Nicolson, Adam | God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible, 2003 |
| 289.33 | Krakauer, Jon | Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (2003) |
| 305.31 | Vincent, Norah | Self-Made Man (2006) |
| 306.38 | Blechman, Andrew | Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias (2008) |
| 306.7083 | Feig, Paul | Superstud: Or How I Became a 24-Year-Old Virgin (2005) |
| 306.8 | Savage, Dan | The Commitment (2005) |
| 330 | Levitt, Steven D | Freakomonics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (2005) |
| 338.175 | Stewart, Amy | Flower Confidential (2006) |
| 345.766 | Grisham, John | Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (2006) |
| 345.773 | Davis, Kevin | Defending the Damned (2007) |
| 355.0071 | Lipsky, David | Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point (2003) |
| 362.29 | Sheff, David | Beautiful Boy (2008) |
| 364.106 | Venkatesh, Sudhir | Gang Leader for a Day (2008) |
| 364.152 | Larson, Eric | Thunderstruck! (2006) |
| 364.1523 | Schiller, Lawrence | Cape May Court House (2002) |
| 364.1524 | Swanson James | Manhunt: the Twelve Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (2006) |
| 364.162 | Boser, Ulrich | The Gardner Heist (2009) |
| 364.162 | Dolnik, Edward | The Rescue Artist (2005) |
| 371.822 | Mortensen, Greg | Three Cups of Tea (2007) |
| 394.152 | Schlosser, Eric | Fast Food Nation (2001) |
| 423 | Winchester, Simon | Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (1998) |
| 423.09 | Winchester, Simon | Meaning of Everything (2003) |
| 560.178 | Mithen, Steven | After the Ice (2006) |
| 585.509 | Preston, Richard | The Wild Trees (2007) |
| 611 | Roach, Mary | Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers (2003) |
| 636.088 | Tarte, Bob | Fowl Weather (2007) |
| 636.408 | Montgomery, Sy | The Good, Good Pig (2006) |
| 636.809 | Myron, Vicki | Dewey: the Small-town Library Cat who Touched the World (2008) |
| 640 | Levine, Judith | Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping (2006) |
| 641.097 | Kingsolver, Barbara | Animal Vegetable Miracle: a Year of Food Life (2007) |
| 641.5 | Powell, Julie | Julie & Julia: 365 days, 524 recipes (2005) |
| 641.5956 | Abu-Jaber, Diana | The Language of Baklava (2005) |
| 759.25 | Harr, Jonathan | The Lost Painting (2005) |
| 796.332 | Bissinger, H.G. | Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team and A Dream (2000) |
| 796.4 | Hillenbrand, Laura | Seabiscuit: an American legend (2003) |
| 796.522 | Krakauer, Jon | Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt Everest Disaster (1997) |
| 813.6 | Lancaster, Jen | Bitter is the New Black (2006) |
| 814.6 | Rivenbark, Celia | Belle weather (2008) |
| 818.54 | Browne, Jill Conner | American Thighs (2009) |
| 818.54 | Rudner, Rita | I Still Have It, I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It (2008) |
| 910 | Horwitz, Tony | Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (2002) |
| 910.4 | Weiner, Eric | The Geography of Bliss (2008) |
| 910.973 | Philbrick, Nathaniel | Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery (2003) |
| 915.104 | Van Troost, J. Maartin | Lost on Planet China (2008) |
| 918.11 | Grann, David | Lost City of Z: a Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (2008) |
| 929.2 | McCourt, Frank | Angela’s Ashes (1996) |
| 940.53 | Beschloss, Michael | Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1945-1945 (2002) |
| 940.531 | Ackerman, Diane | The Zookeeper's Wife; a War Story (2007) |
| 940.5421 | Hastings, Max | Armageddon: the Battle for Germany, 1944-45 (2004) |
| 940.5451 | Kurson, Robert | The Shadow Divers (2004) |
| 940.5459 | Stanton, Doug | In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis (2001) |
| 940.5472 | Gause, Damon | War Journal of Major Damon (Rocky) Gause (1999) |
| 940.5472 | Sides, Hampton | Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of WWII’s Most Dramatic Mission (2001) |
| 956.704 | Kopelman, Jay | From Baghdad With Love (2006) |
| 958.1 | Crile, George | Charlie Wilson’s War (2003) |
| 973.2 | Philbrick, Nathaniel | Mayflower (2006) |
| 973.332 | Fischer, David Hackett | Washington's Crossing (2004) |
| 973.931 | Beamer, Lisa | Let’s Roll! (2002) |
| 973.931 | Dwyer, Jim | 102 Minutes: the Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (2005) |
| 974.088 | Vowell, Sarah | The Wordy Shipmates (2008) |
| 974.45 | Junger, Sebastian | Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (1997) |
| 974.71 | VonDrehe, Dave | Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (2003) |
| 978 | Egan, Timothy | The Worst Hard Time (2006) |
| 978.2 | Greene, Bob | Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen (2002) |
| 996.18 | Alexander, Caroline | Bounty: the True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (2003) |
| Biography | Adams | John Adams (author David McCullough) (2001) |
| Biography | Austin, Paul | Something for the Pain (2008) |
| Biography | Connor, Myles | The Art of the Heist (2009) |
| Biography | Conroy, Pat | My Losing Season (2002) |
| Biography | Finnamore, Suzanne | Split: a memoir of Divorce (2008) |
| Biography | Fox, Michael J. | Lucky Man (2002) |
| Biography | Franklin | Benjamin Franklin (author Walter Isaacson) (2003) |
| Biography | Greenberg, Michael | Hurry Down Sunshine (2008) |
| Biography | Greenlaw, Linda | Lobster Chronicles (2002) |
| Biography | Holman | A Sense of the World (2006) |
| Biography | King, Stephen | On Writing (2000) |
| Biography | Koufax | Sandy Koufax (author Jane Leavy) (2002) |
| Biography | Martin, Steve | Born Standing Up: a Comic's Life (2007) |
| Biography | Norton, Meredith | Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer can be Really Distracting (2007) |
| Biography | Nuland, Sherwin | Lost in America (2003) |
| Biography | Parrado Nando | Miracle in the Andes (2006) |
| Biography | Ralston, Aaron | Between a Rock and a Hard Place (2004) |
| Biography | Roosevelt | River of Doubt (2005) |
| Biography | Walls, Jeanette | Glass Castle: a memoir (2005) |
| Biography | Washington | An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves and the Creation of America (2003) |
| Biography | Whicher | The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher (2008) |
| Biography | White, Robb | How to Build a Tin Canoe: Confessions of an Old Salt (2003) |