Books by Bill Bryson

1. •  Non-Fict 643.1 B         At home : a short history of private life
   

2. •  Non-Fict 967 B            Bill Bryson's African diary
   

3. •  Non-Fict 973.92 Bry    I'm a stranger here myself : notes on returning to America after twenty years away  
   

4. •  Non-Fict 917.3 B         Lost Continent
   

5. •  Biography BRY           The life and times of the Thunderbolt Kid : A Memoir
   

6. •  Non-Fict 420 B            Made in America
   

7. •  Non-Fict 420.9 B         The mother tongue
   

8. •  Non-Fict 910 Bry         Notes from a Big Country
   

9. •  Non-Fict 914.2 B         Notes from a Small Island
   

10. •  Non-Fict 500 B            A short history of nearly everything
    

11. •  Non-Fict 974 B            A walk in the woods : rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
    

Mexican Memoirs and Biographies, March 16, 2012

1. •The Assassination of Trotsky - Nicholas Mosley
   

2. •B. Traven, the Life Behind the Legends - Karl S, Guthke
   

3. •Mexican Enough - Stephanie Elizondo Griest
   

4. •Carlos Fuentes, This I Believe - Carlos Fuentes
   

5. •Between Two Fires - Laura Esquivel
   

6. •The New World of Martín Cortés - Anna Lanyon
   

7. •A Mexican Ulysses - José Vasconcelos
   

8. •Sor Juana - Octavio Paz
   

9. •Cortés - Richard Lee Marks
   

10. •Life and Times of Pancho Villa - Friedrich Katz
    

11. •Morelos of Mexico - Wilbert H. Timmons
    

12. •Frida Kahlo - Malka Drucker
    

13. •Frida - Hayden Herrera
    

14. •Diary of Frida Kahlo, An Initmare Self-portrait
    

15. •Latin American Heroes - Jerome R. Adams
    

16. •Eight Bright Candles - Doris E. Perlin
    

17. •Redeemers, Ideas and Power in Latin America - Enrique Krauze
    

18. •Mexican Political Biographies,1884 to 1934 - Roderic A.Camp
    

Here Be Dragons! - December 16, 2011

1. •  Dragonsong, All the Wyrs of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
   

2. •  Dragon Heart by Upton Sinclair
   

3. •  Dragon by Clive Cussler
   

4. •  Dragon Can't Dance by Earl Lovelace
   

5. •  Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan
   

6. •  Dragon and the Unicorn by A.A. Attanasio
   

7. •  Dragon Tears by Dean Koontz
   

8. •  Dragons of Archenfeld by Edward Marston
   

9. •  Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
   

10. •  Eye of the Dragon by Stephen King
    

11. •  Eragon by Christopher Paolini
    

China - November 18, 2011

Fiction

Buck, Pearl S. 

East and West

Pavilion of Women

Lee, Gus

China Boy

Maughn, Somerset

Painted Veil

Mones, Nicole

The Last Chinese Chef

A Cup of Light

Lost in Translation

Pizzey, Erin

The Snow Leopard of Shanghai

See, Lisa

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Shanghai Girls

Tan, Amy

Saving Fish from Drowning

The Hundred Secret Senses

Biography

Spurling, Hilary

Pearl Buck in China

Chang, Jung

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Non-Fiction

299C Streep, Peg, Sargent, Claudia Karabaic

Confucius : The Wisdom (Spiritual Classics)

299M Merton, Thomas

Way of Chuang Tzu

910.9M Menzies, Gavin

1421 : The Year China Discovered America

951H Hessler, Peter

Oracle Bones : A Journey Through Time in China

951M Meyer, Michael J

The Last Days of Old Beijing : Life in the Backstreets of a Changing City

951P Pruitt, Ida

Old Madam Yin : A Memoir of Peking Life

951T Theroux, Paul

Riding the Iron Rooster : By Train Through China

Plays - October 21, 2011

We didn't pìck any specific plays.There is a selection of plays on the New Book shelf, or please feel free to browse the Drama section and choose whatever you like.

Really Good Science Writing - September 23, 2011

1.   Rarest of the Rare - Diane Ackerman
   

2.   A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
   

3.   The Age of Wonder - Richard Holmes
   

4.   The Body Has a Mind of It's Own - Sandra & Matthew Blakeslee
   

5.   Cotton - Stephen Yafa
   

6.   Salt - Mark Kurlansky
   

7.   Coming of Age in the Milky Way - Timothy Ferris
   

8.   Uncle Tungsten - Oliver Sacks
   

9.   Fermat's Enigma - Simon Singh
   

10.   The Book Nobody Read - Owen Gingerich
    

11.   Longitude - Dava Sobel
    

12.   A Perfect Red - A G Greenfield
    

13.   Tuxedo Park - Jennet Conant
    

14.   Color - Virginia Findlay
    

15.   Pandora's Breeches - Patricia Fara
    

16.   Just Six Numbers - Martin Rees