BLHS Staff Non-Fiction Selections
Ms. Teppo
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Ms. Teppo
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
Ms. Teppo & Mrs. French
Thinking In Pictures by Temple Grandin
Ms. Teppo
Hole In My Life by Jack Gantos
Ms. Teppo
Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer
Ms. Teppo
Spook by Mary Roach
Ms. Teppo
The Lizard King by Bryan Christy
Last Night’s Fun: In and Out of Time with Irish
Music by Ciaran Carson
Mrs. Fernandez
Uncomfortable Neighbors: Cultural Collisions between
Mexicans and Americans By James V. Tiffany
Mrs. Ross The Bookseller of Kabul
by Asne Seirstad
Mrs. Ross Confessions of a Mullah Warrior
by Masood Farivar
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of
America's Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley
Mrs. Deckman Animals Make Us Human By
Temple Grandin & Catherine Johnson
Mrs. DeckmanNickel and Dimed: On (Not)
Getting by in America By Barbara Ehrenreich
Mrs. Deckman The Last American Man
By Elizabeth Gilbert
Mrs. Deckman The Omnivore’s Dilemma
By Michael Pollan
Mr. Birklid
• The 7 Habits of Highly
Effective Teens
• by Sean Covey
Mr. Johnson
596 Switch By Ryan Leaf
Mrs. Jones
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Mrs. Berwick & Mrs. Hertlein Tuesdays With Morrie: an
old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson
by Mitch Albom
Ms. Hertlein Tuesday’s With Morrie by
Mitch Albom
Mrs. Apple Undaunted Courage
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Mrs. Tuttle Touching the Void
by Joe Simpson
Mr. Barrett & Mr. Ostrander
Leading with the Heart by Mike Krzyewski
Winning the NFL Way: Leadership Lessons from
Football’s Top Head Coaches
by Bob LaMonte with Robert L. Shook
Mr. Barrett & Mr. Olson
Sacred Hoops by Phil Jackson
Mr. Barrett Education of a Coach
by Bill Belichick with David Halbertstam
Mr. Ostrander Wooden: On Leadership
by John Wodden and Steve Jamison
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on
and Off the Court by John Wooden with Steve Jamison
Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities
of a Winning Life by Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker
Mr. Hofstrand
• Genghis: Birth of an Empire
• by Conn Iggulden
The story of the greatest
Warrior-Leader to ever live.
Genghis Khan conquered
twice the area of Alexander
the Great, uniting a nation
of small tribes into the
greatest army the world has
ever seen.
This is the most inspiring story
of loyalty, teamwork, heart,
and the warrior-ethos I've
ever read!
Mr. Hofstrand
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
Mrs. Ireland(Lakeridge Middle School Staff)
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American
Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson
Mrs. Ireland (Lakeridge Middle School Staff)
The Devil’s Teeth by Suzan Casey
Mrs. Wright
Naked by David Sedaris
Mrs. Wright Dress Your Family in
Corduroy by David Sedaris
Mrs. Wright If I Die in Combat Box Me Up
and Ship Me Home by Tim O"Brien
Mrs. Wright The Color of Water: A Black Man's
Tribute to his White Mother by James McBride
Ms. York A Walk in the Woods
by Bill Bryson
Mr. Sulham
Art of War by Sun Tzu
Mrs. Fuller Outliers by Malcom Gladwell
Mr. Ireland Hero of the Underground by
Jason Peter with Tony O’Neil
Searching for the Sound: My Life with
the Grateful Dead by Phil Lesh
Mr. Ireland Where Men Win Glory
by Jon Krakauer
Mr. Ireland and Mr. Emmons Friday Night Lights
by H.G. Bissinger
Mr. Howard In the Heart of the Sea
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Mrs. LittlefieldLucky Man: a memoir
by Micheal J. Fox
Boots on the Ground by Dusk: The Life and Death of
Pat Tillman by Mary Tillman and Narda Zacchino
Ms. Wolford Three Lives for Mississippi
by William Bradford Huie
Mrs. Black Fast Food Nation
by Eric Schlosser
Ms. Mouring In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
Its not about the coffee: Lessons on Putting People First
from a Life at Starbucks by Howard Behar, Janet
Goldstein and Howard Schultz
Mrs. Mickelson A Long Way Gone,
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Mrs. Sturtz A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of
a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Mr. Stokke When The Game Stands Tall
by Neil Hayes
Mr. Ahina
The Wave by Susan Casey
Mrs. Baker I Know This Much Is True
by Wally Lamb
Mrs. Fruehauf The Immortal Life of
Henrietta Lacksby Rebecca Skloot
Mrs. Huntington The Story of Elsa the
Lioness: Born Free by Joy Adamson
Mr. Vanderhoek Longitude. The True Story of a Lone
Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of
His Time by Dava Sobel
Mrs. Sage (North Tapps Middle School staff)
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big
Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Mrs. Sage (North Tapps Middle School staff)
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Mrs. Sage (North Tapps Middle School staff)
Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
Mrs. Sage (North Tapps Middle School staff)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to
Punctuation by Lynne Truss
Mr. Clarke With the Old Breed: At Peleliu
and Okinawa by E. B. Sledge
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an
American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Mr. Emmons The Last Lecture
by Randy Pausch
Mrs. Carr-Cohen The Long Snapper
by Jeffrey Marx
Mr. Cohen (Mountain View staff)
• How Lucky You Can Be:
The Story of Coach Don
Meyer
• by: Buster Olney
The Lyncher in Me: A Search for Redemption in
the Face of History by Warren Read
Mr. Ireland Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
Mr. Ireland King of the Mild Frontier
by Chris Crutcher
It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
by Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins
Mr. IrelandThe Other Side of the River
by Alex Kotlowitz
Mr. Ireland Into Thin Air
by Jon Krakauer
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the
Game that Made a Nation by John Carlin
Mr. Ireland Big Russ and Me: Father and
Sons Lessons of Life by Tim Russert
Mr. Ireland The Blind Side
by Michael Lewis
Mr. Gardner The Death of Common Sense
by Philip K. Howard
Mrs. French Heaven is for Real
By Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent
Mrs. Hammad They Wrote on Clay
by Edward Chiera
Mrs. Nichols
• Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a
Time, and the Deadliest
Hurricane in History
• By Erik Larson
Ms. Kellogg
• Musicophilia: Tales of
Music and the Brain
• By Oliver Sacks
Mrs. Sage (North Tapps Middle School staff)
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
Mrs. Nichols
• The Perfect Storm
• By Sebastian Junger
Mr. OlsonWin Forever
By Pete Carroll with Yogi Roth
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of
Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Byran Mealer
Mrs. Littlefield Extraordinary Parents
by Lynn Fielding
Mrs. Conrad Investment Biker
by Jim Rogers
Mrs. Nichols
• Nanda Devi: The Tragic
Expedition
• By John Roskelly
Mr. Gardner When Pride Still Mattered: A
Life of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss
Mr. Smith (Boys B-ball coach)
• The Rise of Theodore
Roosevelt
• By Edmond Norris
Mrs. Littlefield Reviving Ophelia: Saving the
Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher, Ph.D.
Mr. Sulhum
1776 by David McCullough
Mr. Sulham Full Duty by Howard Coffin
Mrs. Hammad: Three Cups of Tea
by Greg Mortenson
Mr. Fredrick Enrique’s Journey by
Sonia Nazario
Mrs. Stevens
Reading Lolite in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Mr. Gaydos Last Night's Fun
by Ciaran Carson
Mrs. Robinson The Big Burn by
Timothy Egan
Mr. Wood A Sand County Almanac
by Aldo Leopold