The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

By David Brooks
" 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."  (Publisher)  Check Our Catalog

How We Age: A Doctor's Journey Into the Heart of Growing Old

By Marc Agronin
" A young doctor's reflections on his experiences as a nursing-home psychiatrist--with remarkable stories of vitality and growth that transformed his view of aging.."   (Publisher)  Check Our Catalog

The City Game: From the Garden to the Playgrounds

By Pete Axthelm
"Pete Axthelm follows the 1969-70 season of the New York Knicks and provides a parallel focus on basketball as it was then played in the black neighborhoods of New York City. Throughout, he writes clearly, intelligently, and passionately about the game, bringing alive the players' efforts, accomplishments, and failures. "  (Publisher)  Check Our Catalog

The Memory Chalet

By Tony Judt
"One of our leading historians, Judt has written extensively about the 20th century. Now he delivers a memoir like no other--each essay charts some experience or remembrance of the past through the sieve of Judt's prodigious mind."  (Publisher)  Check Our Catalog

The Confessions Of Saint Augustine

Translated By Garry Wills
" For the first time, Wills's translation of the entire "Confessions" work by Saint Augustine has been compiled into one edition. Removed by time and place but not spiritual relevance, this text continues to influence contemporary religion, language and thought."  (Publisher)  Check Our Catalog

The Hustle: One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White

By Doug Merlino
"An instant classic of narrative nonfiction, "The Hustle" paints the lives of teammates from a basketball team created in 1986 against a background of sweeping social and economic change, capturing the ways race, money, and opportunity shape our lives."  (Publisher)  Check Our Catalog

1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die, Updated Ed

By Patricia Schultz
"The 1,000 Places to See books are pleasurable, inspiring, wondrous, a best-selling phenomenon and, yes, practical: Announcing the updated edition of "1,000 Places to See in the USA & Canada Before You Die," "The New York Times" No. 1 bestseller. Because USA & Canada is not only a wish book but also a guide, this information, including phone numbers, Web addresses, and more, is now completely revised and updated.
Just in time for travel season, for long summer weekends, for whenever the mood strikes to pack up the car and set out to discover a new piece of America (and Canada!), "1,000 Places to See in the USA & Canada" is a map to all the unique and wonderful places just around the corner: Sail the Maine Windjammers out of Camden. Explore the gold-mining trails in Alaska 's Denali wilderness. Collect exotic shells on the beaches of Captiva. Play tennis the way it was meant to be on grass at the lavish Victorian Newport Casino. Take a barbecue tour of Kansas City Arthur Bryant 's to Gates to Snead s. There 's the ice hotel in Quebec, the stalacpipe organ in Virginia, out-of-the-way Civil War battlefields, dude ranches and cowboy poetry readings, and what to do in Louisville after the Derby 's over.
More than 150 places are highlighted as family-friendly, and indices in the back organize the book by subject wilderness, dining, beaches, world-class museums, sports, festivals, and more."  (Publisher Description)  Check Our Catalog