LibGuides: Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction: 2010s

2012

The Longlist will not include the Winner and Finalists. Titles in blue denote those available through Unger Memorial Library.

Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie

Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman by Robert K. Massie
Call Number: 947 C363m (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780679456728
Publication Date: 2011-11-08
The extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination. For thirty-four years, the government, foreign policy, cultural development, and welfare of the Russian people were in her hands. She dealt with domestic rebellion, foreign wars, and the tidal wave of political change and violence churned up by the French Revolution. Catherine’s family, friends, ministers, generals, lovers, and enemies—all are here, vividly brought to life. History offers few stories richer than that of Catherine the Great. In this book, an eternally fascinating woman is returned to life.
Catherine the Great [E-Book] : portrait of a woman by Robert K. Massie
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9781588360441
Publication Date: 2011

The Information by James Gleick
Malcolm X by Manning Marable

The Information

The Information : a history, a theory, a flood by James Gleick
Call Number: 020.9 G556i (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780375423727
Publication Date: 2011-03-01
Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa’s talking drums to the invention of written alphabets; from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Along the way, Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our understanding of information is transforming not only how we look at the world, but how we live.
The Information [E-Book] : a history, a theory, a flood by James Gleick
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780307379573
Publication Date: 2011-03-01

Malcolm X

Malcolm X [E-Book] : a life of reinvention by Marable Manning
Call Number: BIO X MAL M Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9781101445273
Publication Date: 2011
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, the definitive biography of Malcolm X. Hailed as "a masterpiece" (San Francisco Chronicle), the late Manning Marable's acclaimed biography of Malcolm X finally does justice to one of the most influential and controversial figures of twentieth-century American history. Filled with startling new information and shocking revelations, Malcolm X unfolds a sweeping story of race and class in America. Reaching into Malcolm's troubled youth, it traces a path from his parents' activism as followers of Marcus Garvey through his own work with the Nation of Islam and rise in the world of black nationalism, and culminates in the never-before-told true story of his assassination. Malcolm X is a stunning achievement, the definitive work on one of our greatest advocates for social change.

This Longlist does not contain the eventual winner and finalists.

Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams	Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
The Memory Palace by Mira Bartók	Elizabeth and Hazel by David Margolick
Class Warfare by Steven Brill	The Greater Journey by David McCullough
The Social Animal by David Brooks	The Destiny of the Republic by Candice MIlard
The Big Thirst by Charles Fishman	The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt	Rin Tin Tin by Susan Orlean
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand	The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock
Arguably by Christopher Hitchens	Inside Scientology by Janet Reitman
Apollo's Angels by Jennifer Homans

Turn Right at Machu Picchu

Turn Right at Machu Picchu : rediscovering the lost city one step at a time by Mark Adams
Call Number: 985.37 A215t (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780525952244
Publication Date: 2011-06-30
Traces the author's recreation of Hiram Bingham III's discovery of the ancient citadel, Machu Picchu, in the Andes Mountains of Peru, describing his struggles with rudimentary survival tools and his experiences at the sides of local guides.

The Memory Palace

The Memory Palace by Mira Bartók
Call Number: BIO HERR NOR B (Adult biography)
ISBN: 9781439183311
Publication Date: 2011-01-11
Before she was struck with schizophrenia at the age of nineteen, beautiful pianist Norma Herr had been the most vibrant personality in the room. She loved her daughters and did her best to raise them well, but as her mental state deteriorated, Norma spoke less about Chopin and more about Nazis and her fear that her daughters would be kidnapped, murdered, or raped. When the girls left for college, the harassment escalated- Norma called them obsessively, appeared at their apartments or jobs, threatened to kill herself if they did not return home. After a traumatic encounter, Mira and her sister were left with no choice but to change their names and sever all contact with Norma in order to stay safe. Then one day, Mira's life changed forever after a debilitating car accident. As she struggled to recover from a traumatic brain injury, Mira reached out to the homeless shelter where she believed her mother was living and discovered that Norma was dying. At the hospital, Mira discovered a set of keys that opened a storage unit Norma had been keeping for seventeen years. Filled with family photos, childhood toys, and ephemera from Norma's life, the storage unit brought back a flood of previous memories that Mira had thought were lost to her forever.

The Social Animal

The Social Animal : the hidden sources of love, character, and achievement by David Brooks
Call Number: 305.5 B873s (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781400067602
Publication Date: 2011-03-08
From the influential and hugely popular "New York Times" columnist and bestselling author of "Bobos in Paradise" comes a landmark exploration of how human beings and communities succeed.
The Social Animal [E-Book] : the hidden sources of love, character, and achievement by David Brooks
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780679603931
Publication Date: 2011

The Swerve

The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
Call Number: 940.2 G798s
ISBN: 9780393064476
Publication Date: 2011-09-26
CONTENTS: The book hunter -- The moment of discovery -- In search of Lucretius -- The teeth of time -- Birth and rebirth -- In the lie factory -- A pit to catch foxes -- The way things are -- The return -- Swerves -- Afterlives.

Unbroken

Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
Call Number: 940.54 Z26h (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781400064168
Publication Date: 2010-11-16
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
Unbroken [E-Book] : a World War II story of survival, resilienc, and redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780679603757
Publication Date: 2010

Arguably

Arguably by Christopher Hitchens
Call Number: 814.54 H675a (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781455502776
Publication Date: 2011-09-01
Arguably offers an indispensable key to understanding the passionate and skeptical spirit of one of our most dazzling writers, widely admired for the clarity of his style, a result of his disciplined and candid thinking. Topics range from ruminations on why Charles Dickens was among the best of writers and the worst of men to the haunting science fiction of J.G. Ballard; from the enduring legacies of Thomas Jefferson and George Orwell to the persistent agonies of anti-Semitism and jihad.

Apollo's Angels

Apollo's Angels : a history of ballet by Jennifer Homans
Call Number: 792.8 H763a (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781400060603
Publication Date: 2010-11-02
Unique among the arts, ballet has no written texts or standardized notation. It is a storytelling art passed on from teacher to student. A ballerina dancing today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps are also marked by the dramatic changes in dance and culture that followed. From ballet's origins in the Renaissance and the codification of its basic steps and positions under France's Louis XIV (himself an avid dancer), the art form wound its way through the courts of Europe, from Paris and Milan to Vienna and St. Petersburg. Jennifer Homans, a historian and critic who was also a professional dancer, traces the evolution of technique, choreography, and performance in clear prose, drawing readers into the intricacies of the art with vivid descriptions of dances and the artists who made them.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Call Number: 153.4 K12t (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780374275631
Publication Date: 2011-10-25
Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first book for the general public. It is a lucid and enlightening summary of his life's work. It will change the way you think about thinking.
Thinking, Fast and Slow [E-Book] by Daniel Kahneman
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780307989710
Publication Date: 2011

The Greater Journey

The Greater Journey by David McCullough
Call Number: 920 M471g (Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781416571766
Publication Date: 2011-05-24
Story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work.

After risking the hazardous journey across the Atlantic, these Americans embarked on a greater journey in the City of Light. Most had never left home, never experienced a different culture. None had any guarantee of success. That they achieved so much for themselves and their country profoundly altered American history. As David McCullough writes, "Not all pioneers went west." Nearly all of the Americans profiled here - including Elizabeth Blackwell, James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Harriet Beecher Stowe - whatever their troubles learning French, their spells of homesickness, and their suffering in the raw cold winters by the Seine, spent many of the happiest days and nights of their lives in Paris.

The Destiny of the Republic

Destiny of the Republic : a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president by Candice Millard
Call Number: 973.8 M645d (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780385526265
Publication Date: 2011-09-20
James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political establishment. But four months after his inauguration, a deranged office seeker tracked Garfield down and shot him in the back. But the shot didn’t kill Garfield. The drama of what happened subsequently is a powerful story of a nation in turmoil. The unhinged assassin’s half-delivered strike shattered the fragile national mood of a country so recently fractured by civil war, and left the wounded president as the object of a bitter behind-the-scenes struggle for power—over his administration, over the nation’s future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care.
Destiny of the Republic [E-Book] : a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president by Candice Millard
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780385535007
Publication Date: 2011

The Emperor of All Maladies

The Emperor of All Maladies : a biography of cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Call Number: 616.99 M953e (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781439107959
Publication Date: 2010-11-16
Scientist and physician Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies, calls his book a biography of cancer rather than simply a history. The author explores a wide range of research work, historical accounts, and personal stories in this intensive look at the backstory of cancer. This includes the evolution of cancer's nature, treatment, and the scientific and medical communities' understanding of the disease as well as the support of the public and politicians in the crucial fight to find a cure. The author examines historical accounts of cancer, focusing mostly on events dating from the 1940s to present time. Along the way he discusses how cancer research evolved and how perceptions of the disease and its impact on the world changed with each account. Over time, proposed causes for cancer ran the gamut, some of which are proven to be true to this day, while others remain confined to the history books....

Rin Tin TIn

Rin Tin Tin : the life and the legend by Susan Orlean
Call Number: 636.737 O71r (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781439190135
Publication Date: 2011-09-27
"He believed the dog was immortal." So begins Susan Orlean's sweeping, powerfully moving story of Rin Tin Tin's journey from orphaned puppy to movie star and international icon. From the moment in 1918 when Corporal Lee Duncan discovers Rin Tin Tin on a World War I battlefield, he recognizes something in the pup that he needs to share with the world. Rin Tin Tin's improbable introduction to Hollywood leads to the dog's first blockbuster film and, over time, the many radio programs, movies, and television shows that follow. The canine hero's legacy is cemented by Duncan and a small group of others who devote their lives to keeping him and his descendants alive. At its heart, Rin Tin Tin is a poignant exploration of the enduring bond between humans and animals. But it is also a richly textured history of 20th-century entertainment and entrepreneurship and the changing role of dogs in the American family and society.

Inside Scientology

Inside Scientology by Janet Reitman
Call Number: 299.936 R379i (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780618883028
Publication Date: 2011-07-05
Scientology is known for its celebrity believers and its team of “volunteer ministers” at disaster sites such as the World Trade Center; its notably aggressive response to criticism or its attacks on psychiatry; its requirement that believers pay as much as hundreds of thousands of dollars to reach the highest levels of salvation. But for all its notoriety, Scientology has remained America’s least understood new religion, even as it has been one of its most successful. Now Janet Reitman tells its riveting full story in the first objective modern history of Scientology, at last revealing the astonishing truth about life within the controversial religion for its members and ex-members. Based on five years of research, confidential documents, and extensive interviews with current and former Scientologists, this is an utterly compelling work of nonfiction and the defining work on an elusive faith.

2013

The Longlist will not include the Winner and Finalists. Titles in blue denote those available through Unger Memorial Library.

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher : the epic life and immortal photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan
Call Number: 770 C978e (Adult Nonficton)
ISBN: 9780618969029
Publication Date: 2012-10-09
Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer--the Annie Liebowitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Curtis's iconic photographs, following him throughout Indian country from desert to rainforest as he struggled to document the stories and rituals of more than eighty tribes. Even with the backing of Theodore Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan, it took tremendous perseverance--six years alone to convince the Hopi to allow him into their Snake Dance ceremony. The undertaking changed him profoundly, from detached observer to outraged advocate. He would die penniless and unknown in Hollywood just a few years after publishing the last of his twenty volumes. But the charming rogue with the grade-school education had fulfilled his promise--his great adventure succeeded in creating one of America's most stunning cultural achievements.

The Mansion of Happiness by Jill Lepore
Spillover by David Quammen

This Longlist does not contain the eventual winner and finalists.

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Book	Fire in the Ashes by Jonathan Kozol
James Joyce by Gordon Bowker	Barack Obama by David Maraniss
Quiet by Susan Cain	Thomas Jefferson by Jon Meacham
The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro	Shooting Victoria by Paul Thomas Murphy
Some of My Best Friends Are Black by Tanner Colby	The Patriarch by David Nasaw
Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson	Ocean of Life by Callum Roberts
Why Does the World Exist? by Jim Holt	Joseph Anton by Salman Rushei
Engines of Change by Paul Ingrassia	The Oath by Jeffrey Toobin
Full Body Burden by Kristen Iversen	The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson
Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King	Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Behind the Beautiful Forevers : life, death and hope in a Mumbai undercity by Katherine Boo
Call Number: 305.5 B724b (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781400067558
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
The dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities
Behind the Beautiful Forevers [CD] : life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity by Katherine Boo; Sunil Malhotra (Read by)
Call Number: CD Nonfiction BO (Adult Audiobook CD)
ISBN: 9780307934055
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Behind the Beautiful Forevers [E-Book] : life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity by Katherine Boo
Call Number: 305.5 B724b Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780679643951
Publication Date: 2012-02-07

Quiet

Quiet : the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain
Call Number: 155.2 C135a (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780307352149
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who invent and create but prefer not to pitch their own ideas; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts we owe many of the great contributions to society--from Van Gogh's sunflowers to the invention of the personal computer. Passionately argued, impressively researched, and filled with the indelible stories of real people, Quiet shows how dramatically we undervalue introverts, and how much we lose in doing so. Susan Cain charts the rise of "the extrovert ideal" over the twentieth century and explores its far-reaching effects--how it helps to determine everything from how parishioners worship to who excels at Harvard Business School. And she draws on cutting-edge research on the biology and psychology of temperament to reveal how introverts can modulate their personalities according to circumstance, how to empower an introverted child, and how companies can harness the natural talents of introverts.
Quiet [E-Book] : the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780307452207
Publication Date: 2012

Why Does the World Exist?

Why Does the World Exist? : an existential detective story by Jim Holt
Call Number: 113 H758w (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780871404091
Publication Date: 2012-07-16
Tackling the "darkest question in all of philosophy" with "raffish erudition" , author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This runaway best seller, which has captured the imagination of critics and the public alike, traces our latest efforts to grasp the origins of the universe. Holt adopts the role of cosmological detective, traveling the globe to interview a host of celebrated scientists, philosophers, and writers, "testing the contentions of one against the theories of the other" (Jeremy Bernstein, Wall Street Journal). As he interrogates his list of ontological culprits, the brilliant yet slyly humorous Holt contends that we might have been too narrow in limiting our suspects to God versus the Big Bang..

Full Body Burden

Full Body Burden [E-Book] : growing up in the nuclear shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780307955647
Publication Date: 2012-06-05
Both a memoir and a brilliant work of investigative journalism, Full Body Burden is a detailed, shocking account of the government's sustained attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic and radioactive waste released by Rocky Flats, and of local residents' vain search for justice. Kristen Iversen grew up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." Full Body Burden is the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and; unknown to those who lived there; tainted with invisible yet deadly particles of plutonium. It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets; both family and government.

Leonardo and the Last Supper

Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King
Call Number: 759.5 K54L (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780802717054
Publication Date: 2012-10-30
Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history's most influential and beloved works of art - The Last Supper. After a dozen years at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point personally and professionally: at 43, in an era when he had almost reached the average life expectancy, he had failed, despite a number of prestigious commissions, to complete anything that truly fulfilled his astonishing promise. His latest failure was a giant bronze horse to honor Sforza's father: His 75 tons of bronze had been expropriated to be turned into cannons to help repel a French invasion of Italy. The commission to paint The Last Supper in the refectory of a Dominican convent was a small compensation, and his odds of completing it were not promising: Not only had he never worked on a painting of such a large size - 15' high x 30' wide - but he had no experience in the extremely difficult medium of fresco. In his compelling new book, Ross King explores how - amid war and the political and religious turmoil around him, and beset by his own insecurities and frustrations - Leonardo created the masterpiece that would forever define him. King unveils dozens of stories that are embedded in the painting. Examining who served as the models for the Apostles, he makes a unique claim: that Leonardo modeled two of them on himself. Reviewing Leonardo's religious beliefs, King paints a much more complex picture than the received wisdom that he was a heretic. The food that Leonardo, a famous vegetarian, placed on the table reveals as much as do the numerous hand gestures of those at Christ's banquet. As King explains, many of the myths that have grown up around The Last Supper are wrong, but its true story is ever more interesting. Bringing to life a fascinating period in European history, Ross King presents an original portrait of one of the world's greatest geniuses through the lens of his most famous work.

Fire in the Ashes

Fire in the Ashes : twenty-five years among the poorest children in America by Jonathan Kozol
Call Number: 362.77 K88f (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781400052462
Publication Date: 2012-08-28
For nearly 50 years Jonathan has pricked the conscience of his readers by laying bare the savage inequalities inflicted upon children for no reason but the accident of being born to poverty within a wealthy nation. A winner of the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and countless other honors, he has persistently crossed the lines of class and race, first as a teacher, then as the author of tender and heart-breaking books about the children he has called "the outcasts of our nation's ingenuity." But Jonathan is not a distant and detached reporter. His own life has been radically transformed by the children who have trusted and befriended him.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama : the story by David Maraniss
Call Number: 973.932 O12L (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781439160404
Publication Date: 2012-06-19
This book begins in Kansas and Kenya, decades before Obama was born, and ends as he prepares for a political life. The listener gains a deeper insight into the first black president of the United States, revealing as never before the arc of his history, character, contradictions, and ambition.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson : the art of power by Jon Meacham
Call Number: 973.46 J45m (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781400067664
Publication Date: 2012-11-13
Thomas Jefferson hated confrontation, and yet his understanding of power and of human nature enabled him to move men and to marshal ideas, to learn from his mistakes, and to prevail. Passionate about many things - women, his family, books, science, architecture, gardens, friends, Monticello, and Paris - Jefferson loved America most, and he strove over and over again, despite fierce opposition, to realize his vision: the creation, survival, and success of popular government in America. Jon Meacham lets us see Jefferson's world as Jefferson himself saw it, and to appreciate how Jefferson found the means to endure and win in the face of rife partisan division, economic uncertainty, and external threat. Drawing on archives in the United States, England, and France, as well as unpublished Jefferson presidential papers, Meacham presents Jefferson as the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all of American history.
Thomas Jefferson [E-Book] : the art of power by Jon Meacham
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780679645368
Publication Date: 2012

The Patriarch

The Patriarch : the remarkable life and turbulent times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw
Call Number: 973.9 K35n (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781594203763
Publication Date: 2012-11-13
In this pioneering biography, Nasaw draws on never-before-published materials from archives on three continents and interviews with Kennedy family members and friends to tell the life story of a man who participated in the major events of his times: the booms and busts, the Depression and the New Deal, two world wars and a cold war, and the birth of the New Frontier. In studying Kennedy's life, we relive with him the history of the American Century.

Ocean of Life

The Ocean of Life : the fate of man and the sea by Callum Roberts
Call Number: 551.46 R643o (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780670023547
Publication Date: 2012-05-24
The sea feeds and sustains us, but everywhere we look marine life is under threat, from Caribbean reefs to arctic fisheries to the deepest regions of the sea. In this passionate paean to the sea and its creatures one of the world’s foremost marine conservation biologists tells the story of man and the sea, from the earliest traces of life on earth to the oceans as we know them today. He considers the impact of fishing and ocean acidification, rising tides and warming seas, plastics and shifting currents, and reveals what we must do now to preserve our precious oceans. The struggles of Turtles, Dolphins, Whales and Tuna are relatively well known, but few people appreciate just how much our seas have changed in the last fifty years and how many species are now under acute stress

Joseph Anton

Joseph Anton : a memoir by Salman Rushdie
Call Number: 823.914 R953j (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780812992786
Publication Date: 2012-09-18
The extraordinary story of how writer Salman Rushdie was forced underground for more than nine years, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team due to the fatwah issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini. Asked to choose an alias that the police could use, he thought of combinations of the names of writers he loved : Conrad and Chekhov : Joseph Anton.
Joseph Anton [E-Book] : a memoir by Salman Rushdie
Call Number: 823.914 R953j OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780679643883
Publication Date: 2012

The Oath

The Oath by Jeffrey Toobin
Call Number: 347.73 T668o (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780385527200
Publication Date: 2012-09-18
From the moment Chief Justice Roberts botched Barack Obama's oath of office, the relationship between the Court and the White House has been a fraught one. Grappling with issues as diverse as campaign finance, abortion, and the right to bear arms, the Roberts court has put itself squarely at the center of American political life. Jeffrey Toobin brilliantly portrays key personalities and cases and shows how the President was fatally slow to realize the importance of the judicial branch to his agenda. Combining incisive legal analysis with riveting insider details, The Oath is an essential guide to understanding the Supreme Court of our interesting times.

The Social Conquest of Earth

The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson
Call Number: 599.93 W747s (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780871404138
Publication Date: 2012-04-09
Refashioning the story of human evolution, Wilson draws on his remarkable knowledge of biology and social behavior to demonstrate that group selection, not kin selection, is the premier driving force of human evolution. In a work that James D. Watson calls “a monumental exploration of the biological origins of the human condition,” Wilson explains how our innate drive to belong to a group is both a “great blessing and a terrible curse” (Smithsonian). Demonstrating that the sources of morality, religion, and the creative arts are fundamentally biological in nature, the renowned Harvard University biologist presents us with the clearest explanation ever produced as to the origin of the human condition and why it resulted in our domination of the Earth’s biosphere.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
Call Number: 823.914 W788w (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780802120106
Publication Date: 2012-03-06
This memoir is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, an identity, a home, and a mother by the author of "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"--winner of the Whitbread First Novel award and the inspiration behind the award-winning BBC television adaptation "Oranges.".

2014

The Longlist will not include the Winner and Finalists. Titles in blue denote those available through Unger Memorial Library.

The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Bully Pulpit : Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the golden age of journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Call Number: 973.911 R781f (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781416547860
Publication Date: 2013-11-05
With the help of the "muckraking" press - including legendary journalists Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, William Allen White, and editor Sam McClure - Roosevelt had wielded the Bully Pulpit to challenge and triumph over abusive monopolies, political bosses, and corrupting money brokers. Roosevelt led a revolution that he bequeathed to Taft only to see it compromised as Taft surrendered to money men and big business. The rupture between the two led Roosevelt to run against Taft for president, an ultimately futile race that resulted in the election of Democrat Woodrow Wilson and the diminishment of Theodore Roosevelt's progressive wing of the Republican Party.

On Paper by Nicholas A. Basbanes
Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink

Five Days at Memorial

Five Days at Memorial : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital by Sheri Fink
Call Number: 362.11 F499f (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780307718969
Publication Date: 2013-09-10
After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several of those caregivers faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients with drugs to hasten their deaths. Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting, unspools the mystery of what happened in those days, bringing the reader into a hospital fighting for its life and into a conversation about the most terrifying form of health care rationing.
Five Days at Memorial [E-Book] : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital by Sheri Fink
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780307718983
Publication Date: 2013

This Longlist does not contain the eventual winner and finalists.

Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson	The Skies Belong to Us by Brendan I Koerner
American Liberator by Marie Arana	Jack London by Earle Labor
Zealot by Reza Aslan	Book of Ages by Jill Lepore
To the End of June by Cris Beam	Animal Wise by Virginia Morell
Wilson by A. Scott Berg	The Unwinding by Gerge Packer
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown	Gulp by Mary Roach
A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma	Darling by Richard Rodriguez
The Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit Fox	Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
On the Map by Simon Garfield	The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
Johnny Cash by Robert Hilburn	Going Clear by Lawrence Wright

Lawrence in Arabia

Lawrence in Arabia : war, deceit, imperial folly and the making of the modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
Call Number: BIO LAWRE TE A (Adult biography)
ISBN: 9780385532921
Publication Date: 2013-08-06
The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War I was, in the words of T. E. Lawrence, “a sideshow of a sideshow.” As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by a small handful of adventurers and low-level officers far removed from the corridors of power. At the center of it all was Lawrence himself. In early 1914 he was an archaeologist excavating ruins in Syria; by 1917 he was riding into legend at the head of an Arab army as he fought a rearguard action against his own government and its imperial ambitions. Based on four years of intensive primary document research, Lawrence in Arabia definitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed.
Lawrence in Arabia [E-Book] : war, deceit, imperial folly and the making of the modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
Call Number: 940.4 L423a OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780385532938
Publication Date: 2013

Zealot

Zealot by Reza Aslan
Call Number: 232.9 J58a (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781400069224
Publication Date: 2013-07-16
From the internationally best-selling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth
Zealot : the life and time sof Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
Call Number: 232.9 J58a OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780679603535
Publication Date: 2013

Wilson

Wilson by A. Scott Berg
Call Number: 973.913 W754b (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780399159213
Publication Date: 2013-09-10
From the scholar-President who ushered the country through its first great world war to the man of intense passion and turbulence, from the idealist determined to make the world "safe for democracy" to the stroke-crippled leader whose incapacity and the subterfuges around it were among the century's greatest secrets, the result is an intimate portrait written with a particularly contemporary point of view - a book at once magisterial and deeply emotional about the whole of Wilson's life, accomplishments, and failings.

The Boys in the Boat

The Boys in the Boat : nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Olympics by Daniel James Brown
Call Number: 797.12 B877b (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780670025817
Publication Date: 2013-06-04
Daniel James Brown's robust book tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936.

The Skies Belong to Us

The Skies Belong to Us : love and terror in the golden age of hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780307886125
Publication Date: 2013
The true stroy of the longest-distance hijacking in American history.In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of '60s idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to foreign lands; others aimed to swap hostages for sacks of cash. Their criminal exploits mesmerized the country, never more so than when shattered Army veteran Roger Holder and mischievous party girl Cathy Kerkow managred to comandeer Western Airlines Flight 701 and flee across an ocean with a half-million dollars in ransom; a heist that remains the longest-distance hijacking in American history.

Book of Ages

Book of Ages : the life and opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore
Call Number: 973.3 F832L (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780307958341
Publication Date: 2013-10-01
Mecom, Jane, 1712-1794.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Boston (Mass.) -- Biography.
Book of Ages [OverDrive E-Book] : the life and opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780307958358
Publication Date: 2013

The Unwinding

The Unwinding : an inner history of the new America by George Packer
Call Number: 973.92 P119u (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780374102418
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
The Unwinding journeys through the lives of several Americans, including Dean Price, the son of tobacco farmers, who becomes an evangelist for a new economy in the rural South; Tammy Thomas, a factory worker in the Rust Belt trying to survive the collapse of her city; Jeff Connaughton, a Washington insider oscillating between political idealism and the lure of organized money; and Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire who questions the Internet’s significance and arrives at a radical vision of the future. Packer interweaves these intimate stories with biographical sketches of the era’s leading public figures, from Newt Gingrich to Jay-Z, and collages made from newspaper headlines, advertising slogans, and song lyrics that capture the flow of events and their undercurrents. The Unwinding portrays a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer elite, its institutions no longer working, its ordinary people left to improvise their own schemes for success and salvation.

Gulp

Gulp : adventures on the alimentary canal by Mary Roach
Call Number: 612.3 R628g (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780393081572
Publication Date: 2013-04-01
This book is an exploration of human digestion. Few of us realize what strange wet miracles of science operate inside us after every meal. In her trademark style, the author investigates the beginning, and end, of our food, addressing such questions as: why crunchy food is so appealing, why it is hard to find words for flavors and smells, why the stomach doesn't digest itself, how much we can eat before our stomachs burst, and whether constipation killed Elvis. Here we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks of, or has the courage to ask. We go on location to a pet-food taste-test lab, a fecal transplant, and into a live stomach to observe the fate of a meal.

Command and Control

Command and Control : nuclear weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the illusion of safety by Eric Schlosser
Call Number: 363.17 S345c (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781594202278
Publication Date: 2013-09-17
United States. Air Force. Strategic Air Command. Strategic Missile Wing, 308th.
Nuclear weapons -- Accidents -- United States -- History.
Nuclear weapons -- Accidents -- Arkansas -- History.
Titan (Missile) -- History.
Nuclear weapons -- United States -- Safety measures.
Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- United States.

Going Clear

Going Clear : Scientology, Hollywood, and the prison of belief by Lawrence Wright
Call Number: 299.936 W951g (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780307700667
Publication Date: 2013-01-17
Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with both current and former Scientologists--both famous and less well known--and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his extraordinary investigative skills to uncover for us the inner workings of the Church of Scientology: its origins in the imagination of science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard; its struggles to find acceptance as a legitimate (and legally acknowledged) religion; its vast, secret campaign to infiltrate the U.S. government; its vindictive treatment of critics; its phenomenal wealth; and its dramatic efforts to grow and prevail after the death of Hubbard.

2015

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Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Just Mercy : a story of justice and redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Call Number: 353.4 S847s (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780812994520
Publication Date: 2014-10-21
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship—and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.v
Just Mercy [E-Book] : a story of justice and redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780812994537
Publication Date: 2014-10-21

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
Thirteen Days in September by Lawrence Wright

The Sixth Extinction

The Sixth Extinction : an unnatural history by Elizabeth Kolbert
Call Number: 576.8 K81s (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780805092998
Publication Date: 2014-02-11
A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In The Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.

Thirteen Days in September

Thirteen Days in September by Lawrence Wright
Call Number: 956.04 W951t (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780385352031
Publication Date: 2014-09-16
With his hallmark insight into the forces at play in the Middle East and his acclaimed journalistic skill, Lawrence Wright takes us through each of the thirteen days of the Camp David conference, delving deeply into the issues and enmities between the two nations, explaining the relevant background to the conflict and to all the major participants at the conference, from the three heads of state to their mostly well-known seconds working furiously behind the scenes.
Thirteen Dasy in September [E-Book] : the dramatic story of the struggle for peace by Lawrence Wright
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780385352048
Publication Date: 2014

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The Human Age by Diane Ackerman	The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
The Most Dangerous Book by Kevin Birmingham	Blood Royal by Eric Jager
Dark Invasion by Howard Blum	John Quincy Adams by Fred Kaplan
Jerry Lee Lewis by Rick Bragg	The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
Spare Parts by Joshua Davis	Factory Man by Beth Macy
The Birth of the Pill by Jonathan Eig	The Story of the Jews by Simon Schama
No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald	In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs	Pandora's DNA by Lizzie Stark

The Human Age

The Human Age : the world shaped by us by Diane Ackerman
Call Number: 304.2 A182h (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780393240740
Publication Date: 2014-09-10
Diane Ackerman explores our human capacity both for destruction and for invention as we shape the future of the planet Earth. Ackerman takes us to the mind-expanding frontiers of science, exploring the fact that the "natural" and the "human" now inescapably depend on one another, drawing from "fields as diverse as evolutionary robotics…nanotechnology, 3-D printing and biomimicry" (New York Times Book Review), with probing intelligence, a clear eye, and an ever-hopeful heart.

Dark Invasion

Dark Invasion : the secret war against the Kaiser's spies by Howard Blum
Call Number: 940.4 B658d (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780062307552
Publication Date: 2014-02-11
When a "neutral" United States becomes a trading partner for the Allies early in World War I, the Germans implement a secret plan to strike back. A team of saboteurs--including an expert on germ warfare, a Harvard professor, and a brilliant, debonair spymaster--devise a series of "mysterious accidents" using explosives and biological weapons, to bring down vital targets such as ships, factories, livestock, and even captains of industry like J.P. Morgan. New York Police Inspector Tom Tunney, head of the department's Bomb Squad, is assigned the difficult mission of stopping them.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis : his own story by Rick Bragg; Jerry Lee Lewis
Call Number: 782.421 L674b (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780062078223
Publication Date: 2014-10-28
Jerry Lee Lewis spent his childhood raising hell in Ferriday, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi; galvanized the world with hit records like "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Great Balls of Fire," that gave rock and roll its devil's edge; caused riots and boycotts with his incendiary performances; nearly scuttled his career by marrying his thirteen-year-old second cousin--his third wife of seven; ran a decades-long marathon of drugs, drinking, and women; nearly met his maker, twice; suffered the deaths of two sons and two wives, and the indignity of an IRS raid that left him with nothing but the broken-down piano he started with; performed with everyone from Elvis Presley to Keith Richards to Bruce Springsteen to Kid Rock--and survived it all to be hailed as "one of the most creative and important figures in American popular culture and a paradigm of the Southern experience".

Spare Parts

Spare Parts : four undocumented teenagers, one ugly robot, and the battle for the American dream by Joshua Davis
Call Number: 629.8 D262s (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780374183370
Publication Date: 2014-12-02
In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where they attended an underfunded public high school. No one had ever suggested to Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they might amount to much―but two inspiring science teachers had convinced these impoverished, undocumented kids from the desert who had never even seen the ocean that they should try to build an underwater robot.

The Birth of the Pill

The Birth of the Pill : how four cruasers reinvented sex and launched a revolution by Jonathan Eig
Call Number: 618.1 E34b (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780393073720
Publication Date: 2014-10-13
We know it simply as "the pill," yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a champion of birth control in her campaign for the rights of women but neglected her own children in pursuit of free love; the beautiful Katharine McCormick, who owed her fortune to her wealthy husband, the son of the founder of International Harvester and a schizophrenic; the visionary scientist Gregory Pincus, who was dismissed by Harvard in the 1930s as a result of his experimentation with in vitro fertilization but who, after he was approached by Sanger and McCormick, grew obsessed with the idea of inventing a drug that could stop ovulation; and the telegenic John Rock, a Catholic doctor from Boston who battled his own church to become an enormously effective advocate in the effort to win public approval for the drug that would be marketed by Searle as Enovid.

No Place to Hide

No Place to Hide : Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. surveillance state by Glenn Greenwald
Call Number: 342 G816n (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781627790734
Publication Date: 2014-05-13
Investigative reporter for The Guardian and bestselling author Glenn Greenwald, provides an in-depth look into the NSA scandal that has triggered a national debate over national security and information privacy. With further revelations from documents entrusted to Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden himself, this book explores the extraordinary cooperation between private industry and the NSA, and the far-reaching consequences of the government's surveillance program, both domestically and abroad.

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace : a brillian young man who left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs
Call Number: 974.9 P355h (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781476731902
Publication Date: 2014-09-23
When author Jeff Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with the man who would be his college roommate for four years, Robert Peace. Robert’s life was rough from the beginning in the crime-ridden streets of Newark in the 1980s, with his father in jail and his mother earning less than $15,000 a year. But Robert was a brilliant student, and it was supposed to get easier when he was accepted to Yale, where he studied molecular biochemistry and biophysics. But it didn’t get easier. Robert carried with him the difficult dual nature of his existence, trying to fit in at Yale, and at home on breaks.

The Innovators

The Innovators : how a group of inventors, hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution by Walter Isaacson
Call Number: 004 I73i (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781476708690
Publication Date: 2014-10-07
Revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail?

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams : American visionary by Fred Kaplan
Call Number: 973.55 A214k (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780061915413
Publication Date: 2014-05-06
A brilliant combination of literary analysis and historical detail, this masterfully written biography of the much misunderstood sixth president of the United States reveals the many sides of this forward-thinking man whose progressive vision helped shape the course of America.

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
Call Number: 741.5 L598s (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780385354042
Publication Date: 2014-10-28
A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of Wonder Woman, one of the world’s most iconic superheroes, hides within it a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of twentieth-century feminism
The Secret History of Wonder Woman [E-Book] by Jill Lepore
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780385354059
Publication Date: 2014

Factory Man

Factory Man : how one furniture maker battled offshoring, stayed local -- and helped save an American town by Beth Macy
Call Number: 338.7 M177f (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780316231435
Publication Date: 2014-07-15
Describes how the chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture fought for his more than seven hundred employees in a small Virginia town using legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and his wits and determination in the wake of sales losses to cheap Asian furniture imports.

The Story of the Jews

The Story of the Jews. Volumes 1 & 2 by Simon Schama
Call Number: 909.94924 S299s (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780060539184
Publication Date: 2014-03-18
Details the story of the Jewish experience, tracing it across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the New World in 1492 to the modern day.

In the Kingdom of Ice

In the Kingdom of Ice : the grand and terrible polar voyage of the U.S.S. Jeannette by Hampton Sides
Call Number: 910.4 S568i (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780385535373
Publication Date: 2014-08-05
James Gordon Bennett, the eccentric and stupendously wealthy owner of The New York Herald, had recently captured the world's attention by dispatching Stanley to Africa to find Dr. Livingstone. Now he was keen to re-create that sensation on an even more epic scale. So he funded an official U.S. naval expedition to reach the Pole, choosing as its captain a young officer named George Washington De Long, who had gained fame for a rescue operation off the coast of Greenland. De Long led a team of 32 men deep into uncharted Arctic waters, carrying the aspirations of a young country burning to become a world power. On July 8, 1879, the USS Jeannette set sail from San Francisco to cheering crowds in the grip of "Arctic Fever.".
In the Kingdom of Ice [E-Book] : the grand and terrible polar voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780385535380
Publication Date: 2014

2016

The Longlist will not include the Winner and Finalists. Titles in blue denote those available through Unger Memorial Library.

Hold Still by Sally Mann

Hold Still : a memoir with photographs by Sally Mann
Call Number: 770 M282m (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780316247764
Publication Date: 2015-05-12
Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: "deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land . . . racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder."

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf

H is for Hawk

H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Call Number: BIO MDONA HEL H (Adult biography)
ISBN: 9780802123411
Publication Date: 2015-03-03
An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery.
H Is for Hawk [E-Book] by Helen Macdonald
Call Number: BIO MDONA HEL H Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780802191670
Publication Date: 2015-03-03

The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf

The Invention of Nature [E-Book] : Alexander von Humboldt's new world by Andrea Wulf
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780385350679
Publication Date: 2015-09-15
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world & and in the process created modern environmentalism

This Longlist does not contain the eventual winner and finalists.

American Reckoning by Christian G. Appy	How the World Moves by Peter Nabokov
Give Us the Ballot by Ari Berman	Empire of Self by Jay Parini
Thieves of State Sarah Chayes	On the Move by Oliver Sacks
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates	Beyond Words by Carl Safina
The Age of Acquiescence by Steve Fraser	The Witches by Stacy Schiff
Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County by Kristen Green	M Train by Patti Smith
Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America by Wil Haygood	To Explain the World by Steven Weinberg
Listening to Stone by Hayden Herrera	*Pacific* by Simon WInchester
Do No Harm by Henry Marsh

Between the World and Me

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: 305.8 C652b (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780812993547
Publication Date: 2015-07-14
For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of?
Between the World and Me [Kindle] by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: 305.8 C652b Kindle (Request at Circulation Desk)
ISBN: 9780679645986
Publication Date: 2015
Between the World and Me [E-Book] by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: 305.8 C652b Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780679645986
Publication Date: 2015

Do No Harm

Do No Harm : stories of life, death, and brain surgery by Henry Marsh
Call Number: 617.4 M365m (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781250065810
Publication Date: 2015-05-26
British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh takes us through the triumphs and failures of brain surgery, one story and philosophical digression at a time.

On the Move

On the Move : a life by Oliver Sacks
Call Number: 616.8 S121s (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780385352543
Publication Date: 2015-04-28
CONTENTS: On the move -- Leaving the nest -- San Francisco -- Muscle beach -- Out of reach -- Awakenings -- The bull on the mountain -- A matter of identity -- City island -- Voyages -- A new vision of the mind -- Home.

The Witches

The Witches : Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff
Call Number: 345.7445 S333w (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780316200608
Publication Date: 2015-10-27
CONTENTS: The diseases of astonishment -- That old deluder -- The working of wonders -- One of you is a devil -- The wizard -- A suburb of hell -- Now they say there is above seven hundred in all -- In these hellish meetings -- Our case is extraordinary -- Published to prevent false reports -- That dark and mysterious season -- A long train of miserable consequences.
The Witches [CD] : Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff; Eliza Foss (Read by)
Call Number: CD Nonfiction SC (Adult CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9781478913214
Publication Date: 2016-09-20

M Train

M Train [E-Book] by Patti Smith
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9781101875117
Publication Date: 2015
From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as “a roadmap to my life.”

To Explain the World

To Explain the World : the discovery of modern science by Steven Weinberg
Call Number: 509 W423t (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780062346650
Publication Date: 2015-02-17
CONTENTS: Part I: Greek physics. Matter and poetry ; Music and mathematics ; Motion and philosophy ; Hellenistic physics and technology ; Ancient science and religion -- Part II: Greek astronomy. The uses of astronomy ; Measuring the sun, moon, and earth ; The problem of the planets -- Part III: The Middle Ages. The Arabs ; Medieval Europe -- Part IV: The scientific revolution. The solar system solved ; Experiments begun ; Method reconsidered ; The Newtonian synthesis ; Epilogue: the grand reduction.

Pacific

Pacific : silicon chips and surfboards, coral reefs and atom boms, brutal dictators, fading empires, and the coming collision of the world's superpowers by Simon Winchester
Call Number: 909 W759p (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780062315410
Publication Date: 2015-10-27
CONTENTS: The great thermonuclear sea -- Mr. Ibuka's radio revolution -- The ecstasies of wave-riding -- A dire and dangerous irritation -- Farewell, all my friends and foes -- Echoes of distant thunder -- How goes the lucky country? -- The fires in the deep -- A fragile and uncertain sea -- Of masters and commanders -- Epilogue: the call of the running tide.

2017

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Evicted by Matthew Desmond

Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city by Matthew Desmond
Call Number: 339.4 D464e (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780553447439
Publication Date: 2016-03-01
In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.

The Firebrand and the First Lady by Patricia Bell-Scott
Blood at the Root by Patrick Phillips

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Exiled in America by Christopher P. Dum	City of Thorns by Ben Rawlence
How to Survive a Plague by David France	Grunt by Mary Roach
White Trash by Nancy Isenberg	The Revenge of Analog by David Sax
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren	Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Eyes on the Street by Robert Kanigel	The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel
Mad Enchantment by Ross King	Of Arms and Artists by Paul Staiti
Paper by Mark Kulansky	Writing to Save a Life by John Edgar Wideman
Truevine by Beth Macy	The Hour of Land by Terry Tempest WIlliams
Kill 'Em and Leave James McBride	The Dragon Behind the Glass by Emily Voight
Cast Away by Charlotte McDonald-Gibson	Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Young

How to Survive a Plague

How to Survive a Plague : the inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS by David France
Call Number: 362.19 F815h (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780307700636
Publication Date: 2016-11-29
CONTENTS : When it rains, it pours. Independence Day ; Early thinking ; Compromised ; Doubt all things ; A man reaps what he sows -- Incurable romantics. Life, apparently ; Paranoid fantasies ; Testing limits ; Warfare -- An ounce of prevention. The barricades, 1987 ; Things fall apart ; Terminal velocity ; Against nature ; Denial Madness -- Revolt of the guinea pigs. New beginnings ; Days of desperation ; Life ; The old days -- Epilogue: For dear life.

White Trash

White Trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America by Nancy Isenberg
Call Number: 305.5 I78w (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780670785971
Publication Date: 2016-06-21
CONTENTS : Introduction: Fables we forget by -- Part I: To begin the world anew. Taking out the trash : waste people in the New World ; John Locke's Lubberland : the settlements of Carolina and Georgia ; Benjamin Franklin's American breed : the demographics of mediocrity ; Thomas Jefferson's rubbish : a curious topography of class ; Andrew Jackson's cracker country : the squatter as common man -- Part II: Degeneration of the American breed. Pedigree and poor white trash : bad blood, half-breeds and clay-eaters ; Cowards, poltroons, and mudsills : Civil war as class warfare ; Thoroughbreds and scalawags : bloodlines and bastard stock in the age of eugenics ; Forgotten men and poor folk : downward mobility and the Great Depression ; The cult of the country boy : Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, and LBJ's Great Society -- Part III: The white trash makeover. Redneck roots : Deliverance, Billy Beer, and Tammy Faye ; Outing rednecks : slumming, Slick Willie, and Sarah Palin ; America's strange breed : the long legacy of white trash.
White Trash [E-Book] : the 400-7ear untold history of class in America by Nancy Isenberg
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9781101608487
Publication Date: 2016

Paper

Paper : paging through history by Mark Kurlansky
Call Number: 676 K96p (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780393239614
Publication Date: 2016-05-10
Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce, and art; it has formed the foundation of civilizations, promoting revolutions and restoring stability. By tracing paper’s evolution from antiquity to the present, with an emphasis on the contributions made in Asia and the Middle East, Mark Kurlansky challenges common assumptions about technology’s influence, affirming that paper is here to stay. Paper will be the commodity history that guides us forward in the twenty-first century and illuminates our times.

Truevine

Truevine [E-Book] : two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest : a true story of the Jim Crow south by Beth Macy
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780316337533
Publication Date: 2016
The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back.
Truevine [Streaming Audio] : two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest : a true story of the Jim Crow south by Beth Macy
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobook
ISBN: 9781478942504
Publication Date: 2016

Kill 'Em and Leave

Kill 'Em and Leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul by James McBride
Call Number: 782.421 M469k (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780812993509
Publication Date: 2016-04-05
Brown embodied the contradictions of American life: He was an unsettling symbol of the tensions between North and South, black and white, rich and poor. After receiving a tip that promises to uncover the man behind the myth, James McBride goes in search of the “real” James Brown. McBride’s travels take him to forgotten corners of Brown’s never-before-revealed history, illuminating not only our understanding of the immensely troubled, misunderstood, and complicated Godfather of Soul, but the ways in which our cultural heritage has been shaped by Brown’s enduring legacy.
Kill 'Em and Leave [E-Book] : searching for James Brown and the American soul by James McBride
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780679645627
Publication Date: 2016

Grunt

Grunt : the curious science of humans at war by Mary Roach
Call Number: 355.07 R628g (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780393245448
Publication Date: 2016-06-07
CONTENTS : Second skin: what to wear to war -- Boom box: automotive safety for people who drive on bomb -- Fighting by ear: the conundrum of military noise -- Below the belt: the cruelest shot of all -- It might get weird: a salute to genital transplants -- Carnage under fire: how do combat medics cope? -- Sweating bullets: the war on heat -- Leaky SEALs: diarrhea as a threat to national security -- The maggot paradox: flies on the battlefield, for better and worse -- What doesn't kill you will make you reek: a brief history of stink bombs -- Old chum: how to make and test shark repellent -- That sinking feeling: when things go wrong under the sea -- Up and under: a submarine tries to sleep -- Feedback from the fallen: how the dead help the living stay that way.

Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Call Number: 510.92 L481h (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780062363596
Publication Date: 2016-09-06
Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets and astronauts into space. Among these problem solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South's segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America's aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly these overlooked math whizzes had shots at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam's call, moving to Hampton, Virginia, and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.
Hidden Figures [CD] : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race by Margot Lee Shetterly; Robin Miles (Read by)
Call Number: CD Nonfiction LE (Adult CD Audiobook)
ISBN: 9781441709585
Publication Date: 2016-09-06
Hidden Figures [Streaming Audio] : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race by Margot Lee Shetterly; TBD (Read by); Robin Miles (Read by)
Call Number: 510.92 L481h Audiobk (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780062472076
Publication Date: 2016-09-06

2018

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No medal was awarded in 2018

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie
The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie
Call Number: 818.54 A384y (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780316270755
Publication Date: 2017-06-13
Presents a literary memoir of poems, essays, and intimate family photos that reflect on the author's complicated relationship with his mother and his disadvantaged childhood on a Native American reservation.
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me [E-Book] by Sherman Alexie
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780316395649
Publication Date: 2017

Killers of the Flower Moon

Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI by David Grann
Call Number: 976.6 G748k (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780385534246
Publication Date: 2017-04-18
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more members of the tribe began to die under mysterious circumstances.
Killers of the Flower Moon [Streaming audiobook] : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI by David Grann
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobook
ISBN: 9780307747471
Publication Date: 2017

This Longlist does not contain the eventual winner and finalists.

Hué 1968 by Mark Bowden	Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
Grant by Ron Chernow	Black Edge by Sheelah Kolhatkar
We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Henisi Coates	We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled by Wendy Pearlman
The Gulf by Jack E. Davis	Theft by Finding by David Sedaris
True South by Jon Else	Where the Past Begins by Amy Tan
Richard Nixon by John A. Farrell	Gorbachev by William Taubman
Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr.	The Vaccine Race by Meredith Wadman
Hunger by Roxane Gay	The Best Land Under Heaven by Michael Wallis
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt	Bunk by Kevin Young

Hué 1968

Hue 1968 : a turning point of the American war in Vietnam by Mark Bowden
Call Number: 959.7043 B784h (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780802127006
Publication Date: 2017-06-06
CONTENTS: : The infiltration -- The fall of HueÌ‚Ì -- Futility and denial -- Counterattack in the Triangle and disaster at La Chu -- Sweeping the Triangle -- Taking back the Citadel.
Hue 1968 [E-Book] : a turning point of the American war in Vietnam by Mark Bowden
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780802189240
Publication Date: 2017-06-01

Grant

Grant by Ron Chernow
Call Number: 973.8 G763c (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781594204876
Publication Date: 2017-10-10
Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come close to capturing him, as Ron Chernow shows in his masterful biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency
Grant [E-Book] by Ron Chernow
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780525521952
Publication Date: 2017

We Were Eight Years in Power

We Were Eight Years in Power : an American tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: 305.896 C652w (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780399590566
Publication Date: 2017-10-03
A portrait of the historic Barack Obama era features essays originally published in "The Atlantic," including "Fear of a Black President" and "The Case for Reparations," as well as new essays revisiting each year of the Obama administration.
We Were Eight Years in Power [E-Book] : an American tragedy by Ta-Henisi Coates
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780399590580
Publication Date: 2017

Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon : the life by John A. Farrell
Call Number: 973.924 N7373f (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780385537353
Publication Date: 2017-03-28
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government.
Richard Nixon [E-Book] : the life by John A. Farrell
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780385537360
Publication Date: 2017

Hunger

Hunger : a memoir of (my) body by Roxane Gay
Call Number: BIO GAY ROX H (Adult biography)
ISBN: 9780062362599
Publication Date: 2017-06-13
The popular Tumblr blogger and best-selling author of Bad Feminist explores the devastating act of violence that triggered her personal challenges with food and body image, sharing advice for caring for oneself and eating in healthful and satisfying ways.

The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve

The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt
Call Number: 233.1 G798r (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780393240801
Publication Date: 2017-09-12
Stephen Greenblatt explores the enduring story of humanity's first parents. Tracking the tale into the deep past, Greenblatt uncovers the tremendous theological, artistic, and cultural investment over centuries that made these fictional figures so profoundly resonant in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim worlds and, finally, so very 'real' to millions of people even in the present.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci by Diane Stanley
Call Number: J-709.2 LEO (Juvenile Non-Fiction)
ISBN: 9780688104375
Publication Date: 1996
A biography of the Italian Renaissance artist and inventor who, at about age thirty, began writing his famous notebooks, which contain the outpourings of his amazing mind.

Black Edge

Black Edge : inside informatoin, dirty money, and the quest to bring down the most wanted man on Wall Street by Sheelah Kolhatkar
Call Number: 364.168 K81b (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780812995800
Publication Date: 2017-02-07
The story of billionaire trader Steven Cohen, the rise and fall of his hedge fund SAC Capital, and the largest insider trading investigation in history--for readers of The Big Short, Den of Thieves, and Dark Money Steven A. Cohen changed Wall Street.

Theft by Finding

Theft by Finding : diaries (1977-2016) by David Sedaris
Call Number: 818.54 S447t (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780316154727
Publication Date: 2017-05-30
David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and through them he has honed his cunning, surprising sentences.Now, Sedaris shares his private writings with the world.
Theft by Finding [E-Book] : diaries (1977-2002) by David Sedaris
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780316501293
Publication Date: 2017

The Best Land Under Heaven

The Best Land under Heaven : the Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny by Michael Wallis
Call Number: 978.02 W214b (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780871407696
Publication Date: 2017-06-06
In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped would be the most rewarding journey of a lifetime. But in eagerly pursuing what would a century later become known as the "American dream," this optimistic-yet-motley crew of emigrants was met with a chilling nightmare; in the following months, their jingoistic excitement would be replaced by desperate cries for help that would fall silent in the deadly snow-covered mountains of the Sierra Nevada.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U..S.)
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- History -- 19th century.

2019

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Heavy by Kiese Laymon

The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú
Dopesick by Beth Macy

The Line Becomes a River

The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú
Call Number: BIO CANTU FRA LA (Adult biography)
ISBN: 9780735217713
Publication Date: 2018-02-06
A former Border Patrol agent's haunting experience of an unnatural divide and the lives caught on either side, struggling to cross or to defend it.
The Line Becomes a River [E-Book] by Francisco Cantú; Francisco Cantú
Call Number: BIO CANTU FRA L Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780735217720
Publication Date: 2018-02-06

Dopesick

Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America by Beth Macy
Call Number: 362.29 M177d (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780316551243
Publication Date: 2018-08-07
In this extraordinary work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of a national drama that has unfolded over two decades. From the labs and marketing departments of big pharma to local doctor's offices; wealthy suburbs to distressed small communities in Central Appalachia; from distant cities to once-idyllic farm towns; the spread of opioid addiction follows a tortuous trajectory that illustrates how this crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched.
Dopesick [E-Book] dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America by Beth Macy
Call Number: 362.29 M177d Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9781549145650
Publication Date: 2018

This Longlist does not contain the eventual winner and finalists

Fascism by Madeleine Albright	The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Boom Town by Sam Anderson	The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy
High-Risers by Ben Austen	Palaces for the People by Eric Klinenberg
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee	I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
The Poisoned City by Anna Clark	Burning Down the Haus by Tim Mohr
Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Jane Sherron De Hart	The Library Book by Susan Orlean
There Will Be No Miracles Here by Casey Gerald	Looking for Lorraine by Imani Perry
Tigerland, 1968-1969 by Wil Haygood	The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya & Elizabeth Weill
In Extremis by Lindsey Hilsum	Educated by Tara Westover
The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton & Lara Love Hardin

Fascism

Fascism : a warning by Madeleine Albright
Call Number: 320.53 A342f (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780062802187
Publication Date: 2018-04-10
CONTENTS : A doctrine of anger and fear -- The greatest show on earth -- "We want to be barbarians" -- "Close your hearts to pity" -- Victory of the Caesars -- The fall -- Dictatorship of democracy -- "There are a lot of bodies up there" -- A difficult art -- President for life -- Erdoægan the magnificent -- Man from the KGB -- "We are who we were" -- "The leader will always be with us" -- President of the United States -- Bad dreams -- The right questions.

Boom Town

Boom Town : the fantastical saga of Oklahoma City, its chaotic founding, its apocalyptic weather, its purloined basketball team, and the dream of becoming a world-class metropolis by Sam Anderson
Call Number: 976.638 A549b (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780804137317
Publication Date: 2018-08-21
A lively and introspective look into Oklahoma City, where colorful city officials business leaders, artists, and sports fans have turned an unassuming Southwestern city into a thriving metropolis with a dazzling basketball team.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg : a life by Jane Sherron de Hart
Call Number: 347.73 G493d (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781400040483
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
An examination of the private, public, legal, and philosophical life of one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time.

There Will Be No Miracles Here

There Will Be No Miracles Here by Casey Gerald
Call Number: 973.0496 G354t (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780735214200
Publication Date: 2018-10-02
Casey Gerald comes to our fractured times as a uniquely visionary witness whose life has spanned seemingly unbridgeable divides.

In Extremis

In Extremis : the life and death of the war correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum
Call Number: 070.4333 C727h (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780374175597
Publication Date: 2018-11-06
A biography of the war correspondent Marie Colvin.

The Sun Does Shine

The Sun Does Shine : how I found life and freedom on death row by Anthony Ray Hinton; Bryan Stevenson (Introduction by); Lara Love Hardin
Call Number: 364.66 H666s (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781250124722
Publication Date: 2018-03-27
A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.
The Sun Does Shine [Streaming Audio] : how I found life and freedom on death rown by Anthony Ray Hinton
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobooks
ISBN: 9781427293060
Publication Date: 2018

Palaces for the People

Palaces for the People : how social infrastructure can help fight inequality, polarization, and the decline of civic life by Eric Klinenberg
Call Number: 307.76 K65p (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781524761165
Publication Date: 2018-09-11
"An eminent sociologist--and coauthor, with Aziz Ansari, of the #1 New York Times bestseller Modern Romance--makes the provocative case that the future of democratic societies rests not only on shared values but also on shared "social infrastructure": the libraries, childcare centers, bookstores, coffee shops, pools, and parks that promote crucial, sometimes life-saving connections between people who might otherwise fail to find common cause.

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara; Gillian Flynn (Introduction by); Patton Oswalt (Afterword by)
Call Number: 364.15 M481i (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780062319784
Publication Date: 2018-02-27
For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three decades later, true crime journalist Michelle McNamara was determined to find the violent psychopath she called "the Golden State Killer." Michelle pored over police reports, interviewed victims, and embedded herself in the online communities that were as obsessed with the case as she was. At the time of the crimes, the Golden State Killer was between the ages of eighteen and thirty, Caucasian, and athletic, capable of vaulting tall fences. He always wore a mask. After choosing a victim -- he favored suburban couples -- he often entered their home when no one was there, studying family pictures, mastering the layout. He attacked while they slept, using a flashlight to awaken and blind them. Though they could not recognize him, his victims recalled his voice: a guttural whisper through clenched teeth, abrupt and threatening.
I'll Be Gone in the Dark [Streaming Audio] by Michelle McNamara; Gabra Zackman (Read by)
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobook
ISBN: 9780062798695
Publication Date: 2018-02-27

The Library Book

The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Call Number: 027.4794 O71L (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781476740188
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
Susan Orlean reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution--our libraries.

Looking for Lorraine

Looking for Lorraine : the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry
Call Number: 812.54 H249p (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780807064498
Publication Date: 2018-09-18
A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century.
Looking for Lorraine [E-Book] : the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780807064504
Publication Date: 2018
Looking for Lorraine [Streaming audio] : the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobook
ISBN: 9780807094945
Publication Date: 2018

The Girl Who Smiled Beads

The Girl Who Smiled Beads : a story of war and what comes after by Clemantine Wamariya; Elizabeth Weil
Call Number: 967.571 W243g (Adult Non-Fiction)
ISBN: 9780451495341
Publication Date: 2018-04-24
Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994, she and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years migrating through seven African countries, searching for safety—perpetually hungry, imprisoned and abused, enduring and escaping refugee camps, finding unexpected kindness, witnessing inhuman cruelty. They did not know whether their parents were dead or alive. When Clemantine was twelve, she and her sister were granted refugee status in the United States; there, in Chicago, their lives diverged. Though their bond remained unbreakable, Claire, who had for so long protected and provided for Clemantine, was a single mother struggling to make ends meet, while Clemantine was taken in by a family who raised her as their own. She seemed to live the American dream: attending private school, taking up cheerleading, and, ultimately, graduating from Yale. Yet the years of being treated as less than human, of going hungry and seeing death, could not be erased. She felt at the same time six years old and one hundred years old.

Educated

Educated : a memoir by Tara Westover
Call Number: BIO WESTO TAR E (Adult biography)
ISBN: 9780399590511
Publication Date: 2018-02-20
Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction

2012

The Longlist will not include the Winner and Finalists. Titles in blue denote those available through Unger Memorial Library.

Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie

The Information by James Gleick

Malcolm X by Manning Marable

The Information

Malcolm X

Turn Right at Machu Picchu

The Memory Palace

The Social Animal

The Swerve

Unbroken

Arguably

Apollo's Angels

Thinking, Fast and Slow

The Greater Journey

The Destiny of the Republic

The Emperor of All Maladies

Rin Tin TIn

Inside Scientology

2013

The Longlist will not include the Winner and Finalists. Titles in blue denote those available through Unger Memorial Library.

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan

The Mansion of Happiness by Jill Lepore

Spillover by David Quammen

Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Quiet

Why Does the World Exist?

Full Body Burden

Leonardo and the Last Supper

Fire in the Ashes

Barack Obama

Thomas Jefferson

The Patriarch

Ocean of Life

Joseph Anton

The Oath

The Social Conquest of Earth

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

2014

The Longlist will not include the Winner and Finalists. Titles in blue denote those available through Unger Memorial Library.

The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin

On Paper by Nicholas A. Basbanes

Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink

Five Days at Memorial

Lawrence in Arabia

Zealot

Wilson

The Boys in the Boat

The Skies Belong to Us

Book of Ages

The Unwinding

Gulp

Command and Control

Going Clear

2015

The Longlist will not include the Winner and Finalists. Titles in blue denote those available through Unger Memorial Library.

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

Thirteen Days in September by Lawrence Wright

The Sixth Extinction

Thirteen Days in September

The Human Age

Dark Invasion

Jerry Lee Lewis

Spare Parts

The Birth of the Pill

No Place to Hide

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

The Innovators

John Quincy Adams

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

Factory Man

The Story of the Jews

In the Kingdom of Ice

2016

The Longlist will not include the Winner and Finalists. Titles in blue denote those available through Unger Memorial Library.

Hold Still by Sally Mann

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald