| Month | Author | Title | Cover/Link | Copyright | My Rating: 4 Stars Max |
| Greg Mortenson | Stones into Schools: Promoting peace with books, not bombs in Afghanistan and Pakistan |
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2009 | ||
| Feb 2010 | Kathy Magliago | Healing Hearts: a memoir of a female heart surgeon |
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2010 | ** |
| Feb 2010 | Tabor, James M |
Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disaster |
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2008 | **** |
| Feb 2010 | Belinda Blanchard | A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean (Anguilla) |
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2001 | *** |
| Feb 2010 | Andrew Young |
The Politician: An insiders account of John Edwards's pursuit of the presidency and the scandal that brought him down |
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2010 | **** |
| Jan 2010 | J.R. Moehringer |
The Tender Bar: A Memoir |
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2006 | * |
| Jan 2010 | Kodas, Michael |
High Crimes:
The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed |
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© 2008 | *** |
| Jan 2010 | Andre Agassi |
Open: An Autobiography |
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2009 | **** |
| Jan 2010 | Kathryn Casey |
A Descent Into Hell: The True Story of an Altar Boy, a Cheerleader, and a Twisted Texas Murder |
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2008 | *** |
| Jan 2010 | Carol Pogash | Seduced by Madness |
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2007 | *** |
| Jan 2010 | Nando Parrado |
Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home |
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2006 | ** |
| Dec 2009 | Edward M. Kennedy | True Compass: A Memoir |
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2009 | |
| Dec 2009 | Heil, Nick |
Dark Summit:
The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season |
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© 2008 | *** |
| Dec 2009 | Janna Cawrse Esarey | The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, and a Woman's Search for the Meaning of Wife |
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2009 | *** |
| Nov 2009 | Jon Krakauer |
Into Thin Air (second reading; 1st read in '99) |
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2006 | **** |
| Nov 2009 | Ed Viesturs with David Roberts | K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain |
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2009 | *** |
| Nov 2009 | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves |
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2009 | *** |
| Sep 2009 | Philip Short | Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare |
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2005 | ** |
| Sep 2009 | Andrew X. Pham | Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam |
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1999 | *** |
| Sep 2009 | Chanrithy Him | When Broken Glass Floats |
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2001 | **** |
| August 2009 | David Wessel |
In FED We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic |
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2009 | *** |
| August 2009 | Gillian Tett |
Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe |
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2009 | ** |
| July 2009 | Patrick Robinson and
Lawrence G. McDonald |
A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers |
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2009 | *** |
| July 2009 | Joshua Lyon |
Pill Head: The Secret Life of a Painkiller Addict |
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2009 | ** |
| July 2009 | Abby Salinger |
Island in a Storm: A Rising Sea, a Vanishing Coast, and a Nineteenth-Century Disaster that Warns of a Warmer World |
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2009 | ** |
| Jul 2009 | Dunn, Robert |
The
Shameless Diary of an Explorer:
A Story of Failure on Mt. McKinley |
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© 2001 | ** |
| June 2009 | Carolyn Jessop & Laura Palmer | Escape |
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2007 | *** |
| June 2009 | Jamison, Kay Redfield |
An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness |
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1997 | *** |
| June 2009 | Gargan, Edward A. |
The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong |
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2002 | **** |
| Jun 2009 | Grann, David |
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon |
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© 2009 | ** |
| June 2009 | Terri Cheney | Manic: a memoir |
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2009 | *** |
| May 2009 | Walls, Elissa |
Stolen Innocence:
My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs |
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2008 | *** |
| May 2009 | Burrough, Bryan |
Barbarians at the Gate:
The fall of RJR Nabisco |
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2003 | *** |
| May 2009 | Sacks, Oliver | Oaxaca Journal |
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© 2005 (2002) | ** |
| May 2009 | Salak, Kira |
Four Corners:
A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea |
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© 2001 (2004) | **** |
| May 2009 | Eichenwald, Kurt |
Conspiracy of Fools: A true story of the rise and fall of Enron |
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2003 | **** |
| Apr 2009 | Mortenson, Greg |
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time |
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2006 | *** |
| Apr 2009 | Nickerson, Sheila |
Disappearance: A Map:
A Meditation on Death and Loss in the High Latitudes
|
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© 1997 | ** |
| Apr 2009 | Auletta, Ken |
World War 3.0: Microsoft, the US Government, and the Battle for the New Economy |
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2001 | *** |
| Apr 2009 | Cohen, William D. |
House of Cards: A tale of hubris and wretched excess on Wall Street |
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2009 | **** |
| Apr 2009 | Gilman, Susan Jane | Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven |
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2009 | *** |
| Mar 2009 | McGoogan, Ken |
Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot |
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© 2001 | *** |
| Mar 2009 | Venkatesh, Sudhir | Gang Leader for a Day |
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2008 | *** |
| Mar 2009 | Albanov, Valerian | In the Land of White Death |
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© 2000 | *** |
| Feb 2009 | Larson, Eric | Thunderstruck |
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2006 | *** |
| Feb 2009 | Blehm, Eric |
The Last Season: Randy Morgenson was legendary for finding people in the High Sierra...then came the day he went missing himself |
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© 2007 | **** |
| Feb 2009 | Flannery, Tim |
The Eternal Frontier An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples |
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© 2006 | ** |
| Jan 2009 | Meloy, Ellen |
Eating Stone Imagination and the Loss of the Wild |
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© 2006 | ** |
| Dec 2008 | Lehr, Dick Zuckoff, Mitchell |
Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders |
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2003 | *** |
| Nov 2008 | Scholz, Christopher |
Fieldwork: A Geologist's Memoir of the Kalahari |
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© 1998 | * |
| Nov 2008 | Stephanopoulos, George | All Too Human: A Political Education |
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2008 | **** |
| Sep 2008 | Zeppa, Jamie |
Beyond The Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan |
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© 1999 | **** |
| Aug 2008 | Gough, Laurie |
Kiss the Sunset Pig: A Canadian's American Road Trip (with Exotic Detours) |
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© 2006 | *** |
| Jul 2008 | Davis, Wade |
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest |
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1996 | (( |
| Jun 2008 | Stewart, Rory | The Places In Between |
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2006 | **** |
