Category Notable Nonfiction

A New New Thing Michael Lewis  Business In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world’s most important technology entrepreneur. He found this in Jim Clark, a…

In Cold Blood Truman Capote True Crime On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There…

House of Gucci Sara Gay Forden True Crime On the morning of March 27, 1995, four quick shots cracked through Milan’s elegant streets. Maurizio Gucci, heir to the fabulous fashion dynasty, had been ambushed, slain on the steps to his…

Hidden Girl Shyima Hall Memoir When Shyima Hall was eight years old, her impoverished parents sold her to pay a debt. Two years later, the wealthy family she was sold to moved to Orange County, California, and smuggled her with…

Gypsy Songman Jerry Jeff Walker Memoir The country music superstar shares the story of his life, career, and lyrics, including his collaboration with Jimmy Buffet and Willie Nelson, his early days in New Orleans, and the legendary Mr. Bojangles.

The Measure of a Man Sidney Poitier Memoir Here is Poitier’s own introspective look at what has informed his performances and his life. Poitier explores the nature of sacrifice and commitment, price and humility, rage and forgiveness, and paying the…

The Cost of Courage Charles Kaiser World War II  This heroic true story of the three youngest children of a bourgeois Catholic family who worked together in the French Resistance is told by an American writer who has known and…

Texas Trivia Ernie & Jill Couch Filled with interesting questions and little-known facts about the Longhorn State, the book will provide hours of entertainment and education about the history, culture, people and places of Texas.

Stay True Hua Hsu Memoir In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has…

Seriously…I’m Kidding Ellen Degeneres Memoir “I’ve experienced a whole lot the last few years and I have a lot to share. So I hope that you’ll take a moment to sit back, relax and enjoy the words I’ve put together…