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Hippo Eats Dwarf A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S. by Alex Boese (2006)
Reviewed by flemtastic on June 22, 2012 tagged coffee table book • humor • nonfiction
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty by Andrew Bolton, Sølve Sundsbø (2011)
Reviewed by dawnrutherford on February 17, 2012 tagged biography • coffee table book • nonfiction
Buried Alive The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear by Jan Bondeson (2001)
Reviewed in the form of a comic strip by guest on September 20, 2009 tagged history • nonfiction
The Pine Tar Game: The Kansas City Royals, the New York Yankees, and Baseball’s Most Absurd and Entertaining Controversy by Filip Bondy (2015)
Reviewed by emilyreads on November 27, 2015 tagged history • nonfiction
Who's on Worst? The Lousiest Players, Biggest Cheaters, Saddest Goats and Other Antiheroes in Baseball History by Filip Bondy (2013)
Reviewed by flemtastic on November 23, 2012 tagged nonfiction
Nine Years Under Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home by Sheri Booker (2013)
Reviewed by emilyreads on February 7, 2014 tagged biography • nonfiction
Everything Sheri Booker learned about life and business during nine years working at a Baltimore funeral home.
Swords by Ben Boos (2008)
Reviewed by sarahhunt on September 24, 2010 tagged coffee table book • history • nonfiction
Murder City Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields by Charles Bowden (2010)
Reviewed by flemtastic on November 18, 2011 tagged nonfiction
Superman Versus the Ku Klux Klan The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate by Rick Bowers (2012)
Reviewed by sarahhunt on January 18, 2013 tagged nonfiction • superhero
It's Complicated The Social Lives of Networked Teens by danah boyd (2015)
Reviewed by emilyreads on May 22, 2015 tagged coming of age • nonfiction
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle (2011)
Reviewed by dawnrutherford on July 29, 2016 tagged audiobook • nonfiction
How They Croaked The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg, Kevin O'Malley (2011)
Reviewed by flemtastic on March 25, 2011 tagged biography • nonfiction
Ugly Beauty Helena Rubenstein, L’Oreal and the Blemished History of Looking Good by Ruth Brandon (2011)
Reviewed by flemtastic on March 18, 2011 tagged biography • history • nonfiction
Freaks of Sideshow and Film by Mary Brett, Stevan Gould (2015)
Reviewed by flemtastic on December 11, 2015 tagged nonfiction
Black & White The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor by Larry Dane Brimner (2011)
Reviewed by sarahhunt on April 6, 2012 tagged history • nonfiction
The Elements of Typographic Style, Fourth Edition by Robert Bringhurst (2013)
Reviewed in the form of a comic strip by billba on April 11, 2014 tagged nonfiction
Best practices for making your text come alive on the page. Choosing a font is just the beginning!
Sky Sailors True Stories of the Balloon Era by David L. Bristow (2010)
Reviewed by sarahhunt on August 5, 2011 tagged history • nonfiction
The Gentle Art of Knitting 40 Projects Inspired by Everyday Beauty by Jane Brocket (2011)
Reviewed by sarahhunt on October 5, 2012 tagged nonfiction
What We Believe But Cannot Prove Today's leading thinkers on science in the age of uncertainty by John Brockman (2006)
Reviewed in the form of a comic strip by geneambaum on November 26, 2006 tagged essays • nonfiction
What to Think About Machines That Think by John Brockman, various (2015)
Reviewed by wally on August 19, 2016 tagged essays • nonfiction
The Girl Behind the Door: A Father's Quest to Understand His Daughter's Suicide by John Brooks (2016)
Reviewed by flemtastic on January 1, 2016 tagged coming of age • nonfiction
The Gifts of Imperfection Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown (2010)
Reviewed by lynn on January 9, 2015 tagged nonfiction
The Boys in the Boat Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown (2013)
Reviewed by darcy on February 14, 2014 tagged history • nonfiction
How a rowing crew of working-class boys from the University of Washington took gold in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans by Don Brown (2015)
Reviewed by sarahhunt on September 30, 2016 tagged graphic novel • nonfiction
Shake the Devil Off A True Story of the Murder That Rocked New Orleans by Ethan Brown (2009)
Reviewed by flemtastic on February 5, 2010 tagged mystery • nonfiction
The Boy in the Moon A Father’s Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son by Ian Brown (2011)
Reviewed by flemtastic on March 16, 2012 tagged biography • nonfiction
Cat Getting Out of a Bag And Other Observations by Jeffrey Brown (2007)
Reviewed in the form of a comic strip by geneambaum on October 22, 2010 tagged comic strips • humor • nonfiction
Critical Care A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between by Theresa Brown (2010)
Reviewed by silver on June 18, 2010 tagged biography • nonfiction
The Halo Encyclopedia by Tobias Buckell (2009)
Reviewed by flemtastic on June 4, 2010 tagged coffee table book • nonfiction • reference • science fiction
Syncopated An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays by Brendan Burford (2009)
Reviewed by geneambaum on January 28, 2011 tagged anthology • comic strips • essays • nonfiction
Beetle Busters: A Rogue Insect and the People Who Track It (Scientists in the Field) by Loree Griffin Burns (2014)
Reviewed by sarahhunt on August 14, 2015 tagged nonfiction
Heaven Is For Real by Todd Burpo, Lynn Vincent (2010)
Reviewed by flemtastic on October 21, 2011 tagged nonfiction • paranormal
After four-year-old Colton nearly died because of a burst appendix, he started talking about his visit to heaven.
Quiet The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (2013)
Reviewed by craigseasholes on January 24, 2014 tagged nonfiction
An exploration of the bias towards extroversion and the value of introverts.
The Lovely Horrible Stuff by Eddie Campbell (2012)
Reviewed by emilyreads on January 17, 2014 tagged biography • graphic novel • nonfiction
Eddie Campbell meditates on his personal finances and the huge stone currency once used on Yap.
The Red Market On the Trail of the World’s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers by Scott Carney (2011)
Reviewed by flemtastic on June 17, 2011 tagged nonfiction • science
Boom, Bust, Boom A Story About Copper, the Metal that Runs the World by Bill Carter (2012)
Reviewed by flemtastic on August 24, 2012 tagged nonfiction
Phone Losers of America by Brad Carter (2010)
Reviewed by billba on January 7, 2011 tagged humor • nonfiction
The Wave In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey, Kirsten Potter (2010)
Reviewed by emilyjones on April 1, 2011 tagged nonfiction • science
Underwater Dogs by Seth Casteel (2012)
Reviewed by darcy on February 1, 2013 tagged coffee table book • nonfiction
Photographs of maniacal, bug-eyed dogs diving underwater.
Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices by Lisa Charleyboy, Mary Beth Leatherdale (2014)
Reviewed by craigseasholes on February 26, 2016 tagged coffee table book • nonfiction
Can't we talk about something more PLEASANT? A Memoir by Roz Chast (2014)
Reviewed by geneambaum on December 5, 2014 tagged graphic novel • nonfiction
Cartoonist Roz Chast tries to deal with her proudly codependent parents as they age into their nineties.
CCCP Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed by Frederic Chaubin (2011)
Reviewed by robert on January 2, 2015 tagged art • coffee table book • nonfiction
A coffee table book featuring photographs of space age architecture from the last decades of the Soviet Union.
Tokyo on Foot Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods by Florent Chavouet (2011)
Reviewed by sarahhunt on November 11, 2011 tagged art • coffee table book • nonfiction
The Gun by C.J. Chivers (2010)
Reviewed by flemtastic on April 22, 2011 tagged history • literary • nonfiction
Ask Me Why I Hurt The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them by Randy Christensen (2011)
Reviewed by silver on August 5, 2011 tagged biography • nonfiction
The Shameless Liar's Guide by Duke Christoffersen (2005)
Reviewed in the form of a comic strip by billba on March 25, 2007 tagged nonfiction
The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing by Ewan Clayton (2013)
Reviewed by robert on January 1, 2016 tagged nonfiction
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
Reviewed by emilyreads on August 19, 2016 tagged nonfiction
Kill Chain Drones And The Rise Of The High-Tech Assassins by Andrew Cockburn (2015)
Reviewed by flemtastic on March 13, 2015 tagged nonfiction
The Price of Silence by William D. Cohan (2014)
Reviewed by flemtastic on March 28, 2014 tagged nonfiction
When three Duke lacrosse players were accused of raping an exotic dancer, the media jumped on the story.