Part memoir, part meditation, The Cloister Walk is the movingly written and thought-provoking record of a married, Protestant woman's time spent in a community of men in a traditional Benedictine monastery in Minnesota.  This 1996 memoir is written by an award-winning poet.

James McBride grew up one of twelve siblings in the all-black housing projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn, the son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white. In her son's remarkable 1996 memoir, she tells in her own words the story of her past.

Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict.

Crashing Through: a true story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see by Robert Kurson and Mike May

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Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and...

The 15-year-old autistic narrator uses his superbly logical and literal mind to investigate the murder of his neighbor's dog, using the skills he learned from his favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, in this funny and poignant novel that won the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year award.