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Better than fiction: true travel tales from great fiction writers (Travel Literature)
Par Peter Matthiessen, Joyce Carol Oates, Bryce Courtenay, Frances Mayes, Kurt Andersen, Stefan Merrill Block, Don George, M. J. Hyland, Téa Obreht, Alexander McCall Smith, Lonely Planet Publications Staff, D. B. C. Pierre. 2012
Collection of thirty-two essays by authors of fiction about their travel adventures. Includes stories from Frances Mayes, author of Under…
the Tuscan Sun (DB 44847); Joyce Carol Oates, author of Carthage (DB 78237); Alexander McCall Smith, author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (DB 55503); and more. 2012SEAL Team Six: memoirs of an elite Navy seal sniper
Par Howard E Wasdin. 2012
Wasdin, a former Navy SEAL Team Six sniper, chronicles his training and war experiences, including special operations during Desert Storm.…
Details the mission that almost cost him his life--the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia, the basis for the 2001 movie Black Hawk Down. Strong language and some violence. 2011Profile of Colonel John Paul Stapp (1910-1999), a medical doctor who was best known for high-risk research on safety factors…
in acceleration and deceleration, which led to him being known at one point as "the fastest man on earth." Discusses his personal life, military career, and contributions to science. 2015Tommy: the gun that changed America
Par Karen Blumenthal. 2015
Overview of the development and history of John Taliaferro Thompson's lightweight, fast-firing weapon. The Tommy gun was designed for the…
military, but it instead became the weapon of choice for criminals, gangsters, and bootleggers. Some violence. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2015Lone survivor: the eyewitness account of Operation Redwing and the lost heroes of SEAL Team 10
Par Marcus Luttrell. 2013
U. S. Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell recounts the 2005 maneuver he led against Al Qaeda operatives along Afghanistan's border with…
Pakistan. Details the fierce mountain battle that led to the loss of Luttrell's three comrades and describes his own escape, capture, and rescue. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2007Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything across Italy, India, and Indonesia
Par Elizabeth Gilbert. 2007
A successful young author, recently divorced, seeks distraction and solace during a year of travel. She describes finding culinary pleasure…
in Italy, ascetic meditation at an ashram in India, and a love affair in Bali. 2006Professional navigator and travel company executive shares the tips and tricks he has learned over his twenty years of experience…
about orienting yourself in both urban and rural environments using nature's clues. Includes information on using your senses, identifying landmarks big and small, and ways different environments affect indicators. 2014When books went to war: the stories that helped us win World War II
Par Molly Guptill Manning. 2014
Attorney describes the Victory Book Campaign during World War II, which provided American soldiers with selected literature of note in…
the face of Nazi censorship and destruction of books. Discusses the impact the program had on the titles chosen and on the publishing industry. 2014O my America!: six women and their second acts in a new world
Par Sara Wheeler. 2013
Profiles of six women exploring life in mid-1800s America. Examines writer Fanny Trollope (1779-1863), actress Fanny Kemble (1809-1893), sociologist Harriet…
Martineau (1802-1876), homesteader Rebecca Burland (1793-1872), traveler Isabella Bird (1831-1904), and novelist Catherine Hubback (1818-1877). Discusses challenges they faced and successes they enjoyed. 2013Hell and good company: the Spanish Civil War and the world it made
Par Richard Rhodes. 2015
Presentation of the story of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of the reporters, writers, artists, doctors, and nurses…
who witnessed it. The author enters battlefields, bomb shelters, artists' studios, and war hospitals to demonstrate the ideological, aesthetic, and technological developments that emerged from this tumultuous period. 2015The secret rescue: an untold story of American nurses and medics behind Nazi lines
Par Cate Lineberry. 2013
Details the previously untold true story of twenty-six Army Air Force flight nurses and medics who crash-landed in Albania in…
November 1943. Met by battle-hardened partisans, the group wandered for months over rugged terrain and, with the help of villagers, evaded capture by the Nazis. Violence. 2013Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at war (Ancient warfare and civilization)
Par Dexter Hoyos, B. D Hoyos. 2015
A turning point in world history, the Punic Wars of 264-146 BC pitted the Romans and the Carthaginians against each…
other in a bloody and protracted conflict. Historian Hoyos recounts this century of battle while investigating resources, politics, postwar impact, and leadership roles. Some violence. 2015Joan of Arc: a history
Par Helen Castor. 2015
Historian recounts the story of the life of Joan of Arc (1412-1431). Castor begins by explaining the context of warfare…
in Joan's era, apart from her role in it. She proceeds to detail Joan's life, her military involvement, and her subsequent arrest, trial, execution, and posthumous rise to sainthood. 2015Best American travel writing: 2013 (Best American series)
Par Elizabeth Gilbert, Jason Wilson. 2013
Author of Eat, Pray, Love (DB 61789) edits nineteen previously published travel essays infused with a sense of marvel and…
wonder. In "The Way I've Come" author Judy Copeland describes backpacking along the border of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. 2013Under fire: the untold story of the attack in Benghazi
Par Fred Burton, Samuel M. Katz. 2013
Security experts reconstruct the September 11, 2012, attack by al-Qaeda-allied rebels on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which resulted…
in the deaths of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. Violence and strong language. 2013Poetry of the First World War: an anthology (Oxford World's Classics Ser.)
Par Tim Kendall. 2013
An anthology of verse dealing with the Great War, which raged across the globe from 1914 to 1918. Includes poems…
by Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Graves; by soldier-poets Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Rupert Brooke; and popular music-hall and trench songs. Violence. 2013Admiral Nimitz: the commander of the Pacific Ocean theater
Par Brayton Harris. 2012
Chronicles the life of five-star admiral Chester Nimitz (1885-1966), who took charge of America's Pacific fleet after the December 7,…
1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Traces Nimitz's Texas childhood, years at the Naval Academy, and rise through the ranks to command two million men and one thousand ships. 2011The astronaut wives club: a true story
Par Lily Koppel. 2013
Discusses the role of the military wives whose husbands were chosen for the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions during the…
late fifties through the early seventies. Focuses on Louise Shepard, Betty Grissom, and Annie Glenn. Bestseller. 2013Elsie and Mairi go to war: two extraordinary women on the Western Front
Par Diane Atkinson. 2010
Dual biography of British heroines Elsie Knocker and Mairi Gooden-Chisholm, who met in a motorcycling club in 1912. Describes their…
time tending the wounded on the front lines in Belgium as part of a World War I ambulance corps. Discusses their demobilization after being gassed and their post-war lives. 2010Over here!: New York City during World War II
Par Lorraine B Diehl. 2010
Discusses the social changes that occurred in New York City after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Covers the way the…
town became the target of German U-boats and saboteurs and the destination of servicemen on leave. Highlights the lives of ordinary New Yorkers who contributed to the war effort. 2010