Lists of Bests: NHS Media Center: Best Nonfiction Narratives http://www.listsofbests.com/list/32014 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:21:44 GMT en-us 0 50 159 50 0 Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19369 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19369"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684832674.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Katie Hafner</div> Means Of Escape: A War Correspondent's Memoir of Life and Death in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Vietnam http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1029856 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1029856"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1585747378.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Caputo</div> A FEVER IN SALEM http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2675458 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laurie Winn Carlson</div> The Search for Bridey Murphy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1709659 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Morey Bernstein</div> Murphy's Boy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/138110 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/138110"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380652277.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Torey Hayden</div> The Scalpel and the Butterfly: The Conflict between Animal Research and Animal Protection http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/186594 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/186594"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520231546.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Deborah Rudacille</div> The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/811849 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/811849"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0674005864.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464240_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian Wilmut</div> The Passover Plot: A New Interpretation of the Life and Death of Jesus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/903070 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/903070"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1852308362.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hugh J. Schonfield</div> The Wilderness Revolt: A New View of the Life and Death of Jesus Based on Ideas and Notes of the Late Bishop James A. Pike http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1319720 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Diane Kennedy Pike</div> The ladies of Seneca Falls: The birth of the women's rights movement (Studies in the life of women) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2778183 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miriam Gurko</div> Black Like Me http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664078 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664078"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451208641.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Howard Griffin</div> Rivers of Blood, Years of Darkness: The Unforgettable Classic Account of the Watts Riot, http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2778184 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert E. Conot</div> Outlaw Machine: Harley-Davidson and the Search for the American Soul http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2316032 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2316032"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0767905164.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056485826_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brock Yates</div> Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/61580 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/61580"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060952970.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sara Shandler</div> Not Without My Daughter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2496627 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2496627"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0552152161.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Betty Mahmoody</div> Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24576 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24576"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805063897.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Ehrenreich</div> With a Daughter's Eye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/206695 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/206695"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060975733.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414590_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Catherine Bateson</div> Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17017 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17017"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0609807072.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056460428_.jpg" /></a></div> The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/139767 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/139767"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195123573.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wyn Craig Wade</div> America held hostage: The secret negotiations http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2778185 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2778185"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/1159n4JLHeL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pierre Salinger</div> The Cliff Walk: A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/341454 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/341454"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316803480.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don J. Snyder</div> Fields of Toil: A Migrant Family's Journey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2778186 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2778186"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01N1PHXDN8L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isabel Valle</div> The Greatest Ever Bank Robbery - The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2706231 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mayer</div> Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929: A Wall Street Journal Book for Children http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/695033 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/695033"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0689842767.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karen Blumenthal</div> The Future of Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1143395 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1143395"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0349115796.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward O. Wilson</div> The Diversity of Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1854966 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1854966"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000GT92FE.01-A3LUXLCFJRD0BY._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43235905_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward O Wilson</div> Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3050 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3050"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140292608.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Giles Milton</div> The Great Crash 1929 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11376 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11376"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395859999.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Kenneth Galbraith</div> The Emporers of Chocolate: inside the secret world of Hershey and Mars http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2778187 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22676 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22676"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0767906993.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056485837_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jon Katz</div> Roberts Vs. Texaco:: A True Story Of Race And Corporate America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2250957 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2250957"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380796392.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bari-Ellen Roberts</div> Barbarians at the Gate http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2525904 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2525904"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099469154.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bryan Burrough</div> Miracle At Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May - September 1787 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6886 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6886"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316103985.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Catherine Drinker Bowen</div> Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1221868 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1221868"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0807104981.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dan T. Carter</div> The Case of Roe versus Wade http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2778188 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2778188"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/019VK7D742L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leonard A. Stevens</div> Gideon's Trumpet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18658 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18658"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679723129.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44915487_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Lewis</div> Sign of the Cross: The Prosecutor's True Story of a Landmark Trial Against the Klan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2778189 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2778189"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/017VXQWRCSL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John W. Phillips</div> The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/400662 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/400662"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743274024.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bob Woodward</div> Five Patients http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/149766 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/149766"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345354648.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Crichton</div> Wings of Fury: From Vietnam to the Gulf War -- The Astonishing, True Stories of America's Elite Fighter Pilots http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2557093 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2557093"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/074348617X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1069816822_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert K. Wilcox</div> Ghost Girl http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1647710 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1647710"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007218648.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Torey Hayden</div> A Nearly Normal Life: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2428463 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2428463"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316558362.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134615545_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles L. Mee</div> And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5933 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5933"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312241356.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Randy Shilts</div> Camille's Children: 31 Miracles and Counting http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1884841 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1884841"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0836221443.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Camille Geraldi</div> A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2122646 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2122646"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060914254.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lou Ann Walker</div> Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1376603 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1376603"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307345890.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Kozol</div> They Cage the Animals at Night (Signet) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88639 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88639"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451159411.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jennings Michael Burch</div> A Place for Noah http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2778190 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Josh Greenfeld</div> Amazing Grace: Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, The http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/265147 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/265147"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060976977.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Kozol</div> The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29809 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29809"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1558745157.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Pelzer</div>