Christian Science Monitor Best Non-Fiction of 2006from the 11/28/06 edition |
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
by Peter Hessler
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The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
by Sandy Tolan
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
by Nathaniel Philbrick
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Uncommon Carriers
by John McPhee
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The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
by Sy Montgomery
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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Vintage)
by Bill Buford
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The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11
by Ron Suskind
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The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
by Rory Stewart
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The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage)
by Lawrence Wright
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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children
by Melissa Fay Greene
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Tigers in Red Weather : A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers
by Ruth Padel
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The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups
by Ron Rosenbaum
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by Thomas E. Ricks
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State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III
by Bob Woodward
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Stranger at the Gate | ||
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Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York
by Adam Gopnik
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The Architecture of Happiness
by Alain De Botton
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (P.S.)
by James L. Swanson
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Operation Yao Ming: The Chinese Sports Empire, American Big Business, and the Making of an NBA Superstar
by Brook Larmer
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Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power
by Richard Carwardine
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 (America in the King Years (Paperback))
by Taylor Branch
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Modigliani: A Life
by Jeffrey Meyers
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Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee
by Charles J. Shields
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LBJ: Architect of American Ambition
by Randall B. Woods
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The Producer: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music
by Dunstan Prial
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Let Me Finish
by Roger Angell
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My Life in France
by Julia Child
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The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
by Jonathan Franzen
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Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir
by Robert Hughes
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The Life and Times of Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
by Bill Bryson
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The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People
by Cathleen Falsani
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The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
by Karen Armstrong
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