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By Peter L. Storck. 2004
Archaeologist's autobiographical account of fieldwork in Ontario that revealed early human settlements near the Great Lakes. Senior curator of the…
Royal Ontario Museum discusses his thirty-year career, including his study of stone-knapping techniques and painstaking work uncovering and correlating artifacts, and describes the challenges Paleo-Indians faced 11,500 years ago. 2004By Sean Payton, Ellis Henican. 2010
Football coach Sean Payton explains the reasons his team, the New Orleans Saints, were able to win the 2009 Super…
Bowl championship--only four years after Hurricane Katrina devastated their city. Discusses rehabilitated quarterback Drew Brees and other players, beating the odds, and inspiring the fans. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2010By Thomas C. Foster, Thomas Foster. 2003
English professor uses an informal approach to help readers spot multiple layers of meaning in literary works. Discusses themes, motifs,…
literary models, and narrative devices and illustrates all with examples from many genres. Bestseller. 2003By Stephen Mihm, Nouriel Roubini. 2010
By Robert McCrum. 2010
Author of the 1986 bestseller The Story of English (DB 25965) traces the evolution of Anglo-American English from its ancient…
origins on an isolated and oft-invaded archipelago to its current worldwide dominance. Examines its influence on international politics, rhetoric, business, sports, and telecommunications. 2010By Cheryl Bardoe. 2010
Discusses what scientists have learned from the 2007 discovery in Siberia of a frozen baby woolly mammoth given the name…
Lyuba. Explains how research on fossil tusks, teeth, and droppings reveals differences between mammoths, mastodons, and modern elephants. For grades 4-7. 2010By Sebastian Junger. 2010
Author of The Perfect Storm (DB 44751) recalls the time he spent embedded with U.S. Army combat infantry in the…
Korengal Valley of eastern Afghanistan between 2007-2008. Describes his experiences amid firefights, ambushes, bombs, and death. Basis for 2010 documentary Restrepo. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2010By Bill Madden. 2010
Biography of New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner (1930-2010). Chronicles Steinbrenner's early life and career as a shipping magnate, his…
purchase of the Yankees in 1973, his legal troubles, his controversial hiring and firing of multiple managers, and the team's ups and downs. Strong language. Bestseller. 2010By Jonathan Alter. 2010
Journalist chronicles President Barack Obama's first year in the Oval Office. Recounts the president's challenges and triumphs, from the economic…
crisis and surging rates of joblessness to his push for major health care reform over objections from his own staff. Bestseller. 2010By David Platt. 2010
David Platt--pastor of the Church at Brook Hills, a Birmingham, Alabama, megachurch--uses scripture to illustrate the differences between the gospels…
of Jesus and what Platt calls the American dream of materialism. Urges living one year in radical obedience to Christ and suggests five steps to do it. Bestseller. 2010By Sam Kashner, Nancy Schoenberger. 2010
Uses Richard Burton's love letters and interviews with Elizabeth Taylor to construct dual biographies of the Welsh Shakespearian actor and…
the Hollywood star. Traces their volatile relationship from the 1962 movie set of Cleopatra, where they began an adulterous affair, through their two marriages and divorces. Strong language. Bestseller. 2010By Kitty Kelley. 2010
Unauthorized biography of talk-show host, actress, and entrepreneur Oprah Winfrey examines discrepancies between Winfrey's public accounts of her upbringing and…
those revealed by sometimes-critical relatives and friends. Based on hundreds of interviews, Kelley covers Winfrey's bathroom humor, career, on-air flubs, paternity, relationships, wealth, and fame. Bestseller. 2010War memoirs of a marine who enlisted in January 1942 shortly after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Leckie describes basic training…
in South Carolina and the fierce island battles his platoon engaged in. Subject of the HBO miniseries The Pacific. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 1957By Nathaniel Philbrick. 2010
Author of Mayflower (DB 62504) investigates the 1876 battle between Lieutenant Colonel George Custer's U.S. Army troops and Sitting Bull's…
Sioux/Cheyenne alliance. Chronicles the discovery of gold on native lands that exacerbated the clash of cultures, the backgrounds of both leaders, and the aftermath of the slaughter. Violence. Bestseller. 2010British author of Agent Zigzag (DB/RC 65231) researches the exploits of intelligence officers Ewen Montagu, Charles Cholmondeley, and Ian Fleming,…
who planted phony European invasion plans on a corpse to fool the Nazis during World War II. Bestseller. 2010By James C. Dobson, James C Dobson. 2010
The author of Bringing Up Boys (DB/RC 55094) offers advice on raising daughters using the foundation of biblical principles. Discusses…
the roles of fathers and mothers, issues that arise in puberty and adolescence, the influence of bullies and friends, and ways to navigate what he calls "cultural minefields." Bestseller. 2010By Newt Gingrich. 2010
Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives decries President Obama's policy of government takeovers and resultant rising debt. Posits…
that the government is ignoring national security threats and creating a bureaucratically controlled America. Offers his plan to replace the administration's programs. Bestseller. 2010By Rhoda Janzen. 2009
Poet and professor describes one week during which her bipolar husband of fifteen years left her--for a man--and she was…
badly injured in a car accident. Having recovered with her Mennonite family, she good-humoredly discusses their culture and her experience. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2009By Nicole Laporte, Nicole LaPorte. 2010
Former Variety film reporter covers the 1994 founding of the independent multimedia entertainment studio DreamWorks by director Steven Spielberg, billionaire…
music mogul David Geffen, and former Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg. Examines the men's motives, operating styles, and creative differences, and discusses the company's financial difficulties and eventual failure. Bestseller. 2010By Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson. 2010
The founders of the software company called 37signals offer unconventional advice on running a business, such as learning from success,…
not worrying about plans, test-driving potential employees, and going home at 5 p.m. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2010