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Biography
Just browse through the biography section to see what we have if you’re looking for a book about a person but aren’t really looking for anyone in particular. If you’re looking for a specific person, this section is arranged alphabetically by the subject’s last name (for example, the call number for a book about Justin Timberlake is B TIM). These are just a few biographies that you might find interesting:
Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth (920 GIB)
William & Katherine: Their Story (920 MOR)
Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope
(B ANA—infected with HIV/AIDS at birth)
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (B BEA)
Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High (B BEA)
Usain Bolt: Being the World’s Fastest Man
(B BOL)
Iron Heart: The True Story of How I Came Back from the Dead (B BOY—severe injuries from a car accident)
The Year We Disappeared (B BUS--what happens to a family when the father is shot before testifying in an upcoming trial)
Charles & Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith
(B DAR)
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (B DUM)
Heart of the Storm: My Adventures as a Helicopter Rescue Pilot and Commander (B FLE)
Healed by Horses (B FLE—recovery from severe burns)
Marley & Me: Life & Love with the World’s Worst Dog
(B GRO)
Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board (B HAM—shark attack)
Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse (B HUD)
Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different (B JOB)
Clara’s War: One Girl’s Story of Survival (B KRA—Holocaust)
My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban (B LAT)
Sam: The Boy Behind the Mask (B LIG—born with a rare disfiguring growth on his face and neck)
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter (B MAH)
Of Beetles & Angels: A Boy’s Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard
(B MAW)
No Excuses: The True Story of a Congenital Amputee Who Became a Champion in Wrestling . . . (B MAY)
Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer (B MAY)
The Game of My Life: A True Story of Challenge, Triumph, and Growing Up Autistic (B MCE)
Dear Marcus: A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me (B MCG)
Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him (B MON)
Coming Clean (B MIL—how hoarding affects a family)
Discovering Wes Moore (Reading Program)
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer (B OPD)
Between a Rock and a Hard Place (B RAL—rock-climber Ralston was trapped by an 800-lb. boulder)
Three Little Words (B RHO—life in foster care)
Eleven Seconds (B ROY—paralyzed 11 seconds into his first college hockey game)
Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood (B TRA—memoir of a teen with OCD)
Grief Girl (B VIN—only 14 when both parents died in a car accident)
Life without Limits (B VUJ—the story of a young man born without arms or legs)
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (B YOU)

Dewey Decimal Areas That You Might Want to Check (including selected specific titles that might be of interest but might be missed when browsing)
000s—Computer Science//Information//General Works
001.9—Controversial Knowledge (Bermuda Triangle, UFOs, Loch Ness Monster, etc.)
The Fog: A Never Before Published Theory of the Bermuda Triangle Phenomenon (001.94 MAC)
Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine (006.3 BAK—an interesting look at artificial intelligence)
100s—Philosophy//Parapsychology and Occultism//Psychology
133.1—Ghosts
133.4—Witchcraft
133.8—ESP/Psychics
Lily Dale: The Town That Talks to the Dead (133.9 WIG)
200s—Religion
Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back (213.7 BUR)
Rachel’s Tears: The Spiritual Journey of Columbine Martyr Rachel Scott
(248.83 SCO)
300s—Social Sciences
355-359—Military
362s—Social Problems (suicide, drug abuse, alcoholism, etc.)
364s—Crime
Dear Bully: 70 Authors Tell Their Stories
Beyond Human: Living with Cyborgs and Robots
The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir
(302.3 DEA)
(303.48 REN)
(Reading Program)
Hidden Secrets: The Complete History of Espionage and the Technology That Used to
Support It (327.12 OWE)
Free the Children: A Young Man Fights Against Child Labor and Proves that Children Can Change the
World (331.3 KIE)
Kids on Strike (331.892 BAR—the role children played in early American labor strikes)
The International Book of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time (332 HAR)
100 Heartbeats: The Race to Save the Earth’s Most Endangered Species (333.95 COR)
Trial: The Inside Story (345.73 KUK)
Return with Honor (355.4 OGR—story of an American pilot who was shot down over Bosnia)
Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228 (Legacy)
The Warrior’s Heart
(359.9 GRE—story of a former Navy SEAL)
Regine’s Book: A Teen Girl’s Last Words
(362.19 STO—a teen living with (and ultimately dying of)
leukemia)
Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
(362.76 GRE)
Hidden Evidence: Forty True Crimes and How Forensic Science Helped Solve Them (363.25 OWE)
So Others May Live: Coast Guard’s Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death
(363.28 LAG)
Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious
Nazi (364.15 BAS)
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire (372.9773 COW—story of a fire that killed 95 people in a
Chicago elementary school)
Columbine (373.788 CUL)
500s—Natural Sciences and Mathematics
590s—Animals
Death from the Skies!: The Science Behind the End of the World
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming (523.49 BRO)
Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches (551.3 FRE)
(520 PLA)

The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One
(551.46 EAR)
The Forgotten Storm: The Great Tri-State Tornado of 1925 (551.55 AKI)
Storm Kings: The Untold History of America’s First Tornado Chasers (551.55 SAN)
Super Species: The Creatures That Will Dominate the Planet (578.6 HAM)
The Smartest Animals on the Planet: Extraordinary Tales of the Natural World’s Cleverest
Creatures (591.5 BOY)
Human Wildlife: The Life That Lives on Us (591.7 BUC)
Odyssey of KP2: An Orphan Seal, a Marine Biologist, and the Fight to Save a Species (599.79 WIL)
600s—Technology
616s—Diseases
636s—Pets (horses, dogs, cats, etc)
The Healing Power of Pets (615.8 BEC)
Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self-Experimenters in Science and Medicine (616 DEN)
Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech’s Brave New Beasts
(616.02 ANT)
Mountain Rescue Doctor: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature (616.02 VAN)
The Autistic Brain (616.85 GRA—by Temple Grandin, a well-known scientist who has autism)
Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope (617.4 TAB—only one survivor— but which girl really survived?)
Bomb: The Race to Build—and—Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon (Reading Program)
Electric Dreams: One Unlikely Team of Kids and the Race to Build the Car of the Future (629.22 KET)
The Hazards of Space Travel: A Tourist’s Guide
(629.4 COM)
The Rescue of Belle and Sundance: One Town’s Incredible Race to Save Two Abandoned
Horses (636.1 STU)
A Big Little Life
700s—The Arts
(636.7 KOO—a best-selling author writes about the dog that changed his life)
Mornings with Barney: The True Story of an Extraordinary Beagle (636.7 WOL)
780s—Music
791s—Movies and Television
796-799—Sports
796.323—Basketball
796.332—Football
796.357—Baseball
We’ve Got Spirit: The Life and Times of America’s Greatest Cheerleading Team
(791.6 MCE)
The Perfection Point: Sport Science Predicts the Fastest Man, the Highest Jump, and the Limits of
Athletic Performance (796.01 BRE)
Shooting Stars (796.323 JAM—LeBron James)
Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas
Football (796.332 DEN)
Where Dreams Die Hard: A Small American Town and Its Six-Man Football Team (796.332 STO)
One Great Game: Two Teams, Two Dreams in the First Ever National Championship High School
Football Game (796.332 WAL)
The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever (Legacy)
One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season (796.357 BAL)
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (796.52 KRA)
Seabiscuit: An American Legend (796.4 HIL)
900s—History and Geography
932—Ancient Egypt
937—Ancient Rome
940.1—Middle Ages

940.3-940.4—World War I
940.53-940.54—World War II
941-968—Country Histories (Great Britain, Germany, Russia, etc.)
973-979—History of the United States
973.3—Revolutionary War
973.7—Civil War
973.9s—History from 1900 to the Present
Almost Too Late: The True Story of a Father and His Three Children Shipwrecked Off the Coast of
Wintry Alaska (910 WOR)
Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex (910.9164 PHI)
The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
(919.9 ALE)
The Other Victims: First-Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis (940.53 FRI)
Flags of Our Fathers (940.54 BRA)
Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Crew (940.54 KER)
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (Reading Program)
Left for Dead: A Young Man’s Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis (940.54 NEL)
From Baghdad, with Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava (956.704 KOP)
The Long Road Home (956.704 RAD—war in Iraq)
Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI (956.7044 SMI)
In the Company of Heroes (967.7305 DUR)
Bound for the North Star: True Stories of Fugitive Slaves (973.7 FRA)
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer
(973.7 SWA)
Let’s Roll (973.931 BEA—September 11)
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (973.931 DWY)
Firehouse (973.931 HAL—September 11)
Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath (974.4 ESP)
Among the Heroes (974.8 LON—September 11)
Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
(976.4 LAR)
A Weekend in September (976.4 WEE—hurricane in Galveston in 1900)
Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster (977.3 TIN—mining disaster in Illinois)
The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party (978 CAL)
Disaster by the Bay: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 (979.4 JEF)