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Grown-up Nonfiction

Who needs novels when the truth itself can be so remarkable? Here are some of our favorite nonfiction books for grown-ups!

Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel (Hardcover)

By Jeannette Walls
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9781416586289
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Scribner, 10/2009
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Joanne's favorite nonfiction...Walls's "The Glass Castle" was nothing short of spectacular ("Entertainment Weekly"). Now Walls presents this magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hardworking, and spectacularly compelling grandmother.
Annotation: Walls's "The Glass Castle" was nothing short of spectacular ("Entertainment Weekly"). Now Walls presents this magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hardworking, and spectacularly compelling grandmother.
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Paperback)

By Erik Larson
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780375725609
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Vintage, 2/2004
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Beth's favorite nonfiction...The story of two men's obsessions with the Chicago World's Fair, one its architect, the other a murderer. "The Devil in the White City" draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)

By John Berendt
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780679751526
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Vintage, 6/1999
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Beth's (other) favorite nonfiction...The enormously engaging account of life and death in secluded and hauntingly beautiful Savannah, Georgia, continues to take America by storm. "Mr. Berendt's writing is elegant and wickedly funny, and his eye for telling details is superb."--"

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