LET’S ROLL
• Lisa Beamer shares
memories of her life
with husband Todd, and
discusses how her
husband's courageous
actions on United Flight
93 on September 11,
2001, forever changed
her life, and the lives of
all Americans.
LIFE IN A MEDIEVAL ABBEY
• In this book, discover
what kind of people
lived in abbeys, their
daily routine, their great
achievements, and why
they finally
disappeared.
LINCOLN’S LITTLE GIRL
• This is a
biography of
Grace Bedell,
who as a young
girl wrote to
Abraham Lincoln
suggesting he
grow whiskers.
MARINE
• Tom Clancy takes
you on a fascinating
detained tour of the
United States Marine
Corps -- the training,
the technology, and
the people.
MURDER OF TUTANKHAMEN
• Egyptologist Bob Brier
uses modern forensic
techniques and ancient
documents to reveal
the crime, identify the
killer of Tutankhamen,
and bring the
tumultuous world of
ancient Egypt and its
young pharoah alive.
MY DEAR MOLLIE
• A collection of late
nineteenth-century
letters by a Texas sheep
rancher to his
sweetheart in which he
reveals the painful
loneliness of life on the
plains.
MY DOG SKIP
• This book tells the
story of a dog and
his closest
companion, the
author, during their
growing years in a
small town in 1940s
Mississippi
MY FORBIDDEN FACE
• Latifa, who was sixteen
when the Taliban came to
power, tells about her
family's experiences
under the regime,
focusing on the lives of
women who were
abruptly denied the
freedom to work, go to
school, or even leave
their home without an
escort.
NO EASY ANSWERS
• Brooks Brown, a 1999
graduate of Columbine
High School, describes
his longtime friendship
with Dylan Klebold, his
difficulties with Eric
Harris before the
shootings, and his
experiences in the
aftermath.
THE NOTORIOUS BENEDICT ARNOLD
• This introduction to the
life of Benedict Arnold
highlights not only the
traitorous actions that
made him legendary,
but also his heroic
involvement in the
American Revolution.
STEPHEN KING ON WRITING
• King's advice is grounded
in his vivid memories
from childhood through
his emergence as a writer,
from his struggling early
career to his near-fatal
accident in 1999 -- and
how the inextricable link
between writing and
living spurred his
recovery.
ONCE THERE WAS A WAR
• This book contains
the humane and
hard-hitting
dispatches that John
Steinbeck filed for
the "New York
Herald Tribune" at
the height of World
War II.
ONE CHILD
• Sensing something
valuable beneath
the rage of a 6year-old in her
class, a
compassionate
teacher works to
reclaim a lost
child.
PERILOUS JOURNEY OF DONNER
PARTY
• This book uses
materials from letters
and diaries written by
survivors of the Donner
Party to relate the
experiences of that illfated group as they
endured horrific
circumstances on their
way to California in
1846-47.
RAISING THE HUNLEY
• This book details the
final hours and rescue
of the Confederate
submarine the "H.L.
Hunley," which
disappeared off the
coast of South Carolina
on February 17, 1864
after an encounter with
a Union battleship
THE REAL BENEDICT ARNOLD
• This biography portrays
Benedict Arnold as a
brilliant man,
consistently
undervalued by his
peers, who made a
choice that continues to
reverberate through
American history.
RETURN WITH HONOR
• An American
fighter pilot's
heroic tale of
survival behind
enemy lines in
Bosnia.
SACRED HOOPS
• An inside
look at the
higher
wisdom of
teamwork.
THE SEA HUNTERS
• True accounts
of twelve
remarkable
underwater
discoveries of
tragic
shipwrecks.
SEABISCUIT
• This book describes
how three men
worked together to
turn a rough-hewn,
undersized horse
into one of the
fastest horses in
racing history.
SOUL SURFER
• Bethany Hamilton, a 14year-old aspiring
professional surfer from
Hawaii, lost her arm in a
shark attack. With writer
Sheryl Berk and Rick
Bundschuh, a pastor
whom the teen calls her
spiritual advisor, she
offers an upbeat chronicle
of her life.
STEPPING UP
• This book chronicles the
life of baseball player Curt
Flood, focusing on his
lawsuit against Major
League Baseball after he
was traded to
Philadelphia and
discussing how his actions
impacted the history of
baseball and the rights of
baseball players.
STIFF
• This book
explores how
human cadavers
have been used
throughout
history
TO BE A SLAVE
• This book is a
compilation, selected
from various sources and
arranged chronologically,
of the reminiscences of
slaves and ex-slaves
about their experiences
from the leaving of Africa
through the Civil War and
into the early twentieth
century.
FIGHTER WING
• Tom Clancy explores the
U.S. Air Force's elite,
the Fighter Wing, with
an insider's look at the
planes, the technology,
and the people.
TWELVE MIGHTY ORPHANS
• This book presents the
true story of coach
Rusty Russell and how
he molded a group of
orphans from the
Masonic Home in Fort
Worth, Texas, into one
of the toughest highschool football teams in
the state.
VOICES FROM VIETNAM
• Stories about what
it was like to be in
Vietnam, told by
the American men
and women who
served there.
A WALK IN THE WOODS
• After twenty years in
Britain, Bill Bryson
decided to
reacquaint himself
with his native
country by walking
the 2,100 mile
Appalachian Trail.
WINTERDANCE
• This book is an
unforgettable account
of the author Gary
Paulsen's most
ambitious quest -- to
know a world beyond
his knowing, to train for
and run the Iditarod.
WOMEN OF THE CIVIL WAR
• This book explores
the impact of the
Civil War on
women's lives, as
well as the many
roles played by
women on and off
the battlefields
ABAGAIL ADAMS
•a life of
letters,
loyalties,
and love.
ADRIFT
• The saga of Steven
Callahan's seventy
six days of terror
and determination
as he floated in a
tiny craft waiting
to be rescued.
ALASKA’S HEROES
• This is a collection
of true stories
about men and
women who have
put their own lives
on the line to save
others.
ALICIA-MY STORY
• This is the true
story of a young girl
whose ingenuity
and courage saved
many Jewish
people after her
entire family was
killed by the Nazis
AMAZING GRACIE-A DOG’S TALE
• This book is the
heartwarming true
story of the love for a
very special Great Dane
who inspired the
recipes that grew into
the nationwide chain of
pet food bakeries, Three
Dog Bakery
WORKING FIRE-MAKING OF A
FIREMAN
• This book is a
remarkable memoir, by
turns funny and deeply
moving, of Zac Unger's
coming into his calling
and his transformation
from an ambivalent Ivy
League graduate to a
skilled and dedicated
firefighter
YEAR WE DISAPPEARED
• Cylin and John Busby
share the challenges
they faced after their
family was forced into
hiding to protect
themselves from a killer
who had already shot
John, a police officer,
and was determined to
finish the job. The
coauthor is John Busby.
YOU CAN’T READ THIS
• This book explores
the development
of alphabets, the
decoding of
ancient languages,
and censorship in
Ancient Rome and
modern America