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Award winning non-fiction titles also cover a wide variety of sub-genres that include arts and letters; history and biography; and science, philosophy and religion. These titles should lend themselves well to book and conversation clubs with English learning.
This collection contains: 191 books
Updated: April 27, 2015
Added: June 18, 2014
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A History of the Olympics (English)
An unusual release on audiobook format The 2008 Beijing Olympics take place in August. John...
American Gangster and Other Tales of New York (English)
Frank Lucas was the ruthless, glamorous king of the 1970s Harlem drug trade who notoriously used...
American Grace (English)
In a fascinating and revelatory book, Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell objectively examine...
Around the World on Two Wheels: One Woman, One Bicycle, One Unforgettable Journey (English)
Until 1894 there were no female sport stars, no product endorsement deals, and no young mothers...
Art of Nonfiction, The (English)
In this essential companion piece to The Art of Fiction, Ayn Rand takes us step by step through...
Autobiography of an Execution (English)
Near the beginning of The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow lays his cards on the table....
Barbra: The Way She Is (English)
She is a one-name legend, a global icon, the ultimate diva. Yet most of what we know about Barbra...
Barron's EZ 101 Study Keys - Biology (English)
Barron's EZ-101 Study Keys are designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in...
Blackwater (English)
Playaway Audio - A largely untold facet of the war on terror is the widespread outsourcing of...
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (English)
Playaway Audio - In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we...
Break Through (English)
Playaway Audio - Environmental insiders Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus triggered a...
Carpe Diem: Put a Little Latin in Your Life (English)
In this lighthearted guided tour of Latin, journalist and former Latin tutor Harry Mount breathes...
Charlie Wilson's War (English)
Winner of the 2004 Audie Award Charlie Wilsons War is the untold story behind the last battle of...
Cheap (English)
From the shuttered factories of the rust belt to the look-alike strip malls of the sun belt—and...
Chechen Jihad (English)
If you think the next terrorist attacks are coming from the Middle East, think again. One of the...
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (English)
John Perkins was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries around the globe to accept...
Create Your Own Economy (English)
How will we live well in a super-networked, information-soaked, yet predictably irrational world?...
Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes (English)
In Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Dostoevsky's life,...
Down and Out in Paris and London (English)
Orwell's own experiences inspire this semi-autobiographical novel about a man living in Paris in...
Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less: A Handbook for Slashing Gas Prices and Solving Our Energy Crisis (English)
America is unrivaled in our ability to solve tough problems and create bold, powerful solutions....
Earth - the Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (English)
The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book,...
Endurance (English)
In 1915, on a voyage to the South Atlantic, the Endurance was crushed in the ice, leaving its men...
Face the Fire (English)
In the conclusion to her acclaimed Three Sisters Island trilogy, #1 New York Times-bestselling...
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (English)
China has 130 million migrant workers - the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls,...
Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media (English)
Fighting for Air takes us into the world of preprogrammed radio shows and copycat news shows and...
Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality (English)
Is spiritual experience real or a delusion? Are there realities that we can experience but not...
Five Lessons I Didn't Learn from Breast Cancer (and One Big One I Did) Five Lessons I Didn't Learn from Breast Cancer (and One Big One I Did) (English)
From the pink ribbons to the chat rooms to the Web sites that sell related accessories and stuffed...
Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson (English)
On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New...
Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley (English)
While reporting just outside of Darfur, Stephan Faris discovered that climate change was at the...
Ghosts among Us (English)
Everyone loves a good ghost story. Ghosts Among Us is that and more - an incredible journey into...
God Delusion, The (English)
Playaway Audio - A preeminent scientist -- and the world's most prominent atheist -- asserts the...
God in the Foxhole: Inspiring True Stories of Miracles on the Battlefield (English)
Veteran military writer Charles Sasser presents a collection of riveting and inspiring personal...
Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite (English)
Here's some good news for everyone who's ever been bullied into believing they can't speak their...
Green Metropolis (English)
Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares—as wastelands of concrete and...
Grief Observed, A (English)
A Grief Observed is a beautiful and unflinchingly honest record of how even a stalwart believer...
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (English)
"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable...
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious (English)
A discussion of the science behind Malcolm Gladwell's Blink reveals the importance of intuition in...
Harry, a History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon (English)
During the brief span of just one decade, hundreds of millions of perfectly ordinary people made...
Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnut's War Against the GAP, and Other Adventures with the Totally Lost Tribes of America (English)
From his work as a reporter at Hustler magazine to his National Magazine Award—winning writing for...
Hope for Animals and their World (English)
At a time when animal species are becoming extinct on every continent and we are confronted with...
How Doctors Think (English)
On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds....
How Fiction Works (English)
In the tradition of E.M. Forster's 'Aspects of the Novel' and Milan Kundera's 'The Art of the...
How I Helped O. J. Get Away With Murder (English)
You don't know the full truth about O. J. Simpson and the murders that gripped a nation. But Mike...
How to Be Alone: Essays (English)
Passionate, strong-minded nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of The...
I Don't Believe in Atheists (English)
There are two radical and dangerous sides to the debate on faith and religion in America:...
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (English)
This is the startling portrait of an Oz-like place where a vital aspect of our government's folly...
Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up (English)
Are there any logical reasons to believe in God? Mathematician and bestselling author John Allen...
Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind (English)
How the accidents of evolution created our quirky, imperfect minds—and what we can do about it.
Life After Death (English)
Playaway Audio - D'Souza's book makes no appeal to religious faith, divine revelation, or sacred...
Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (English)
Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail, humor, and pithy Bohemian proverbs the place he calls...
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (English)
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the...
Madness Under the Royal Palms (English)
In March 1999, a Palm Beach matron and her socially ambitious husband invited the elite of the...
Managing for the Future (English)
The name Drucker is synonymous with management. His many works stand as classics in management...
Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy (English)
This is the chilling yet inspirational story of Viktor Frankl's struggle to hold on to hope during...
Mob - Stories of Death and Betrayal from Organized Crime: Peter Maas, Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley, Pino Arlacchi, Fredric Dannen, Joey Fisher, David Fisher, William Kennedy, Bruce Mccall (English)
The Mafia. La Cosa Nostra. The underground, and often not-so-underground, organization and...
Mosaic (English)
This remarkable true story begins in the Polish city of Krakow in 1890 and spans one hundred years...
Most They Ever Had, The (English)
These real-life stories brilliantly evoke the hardscrabble lives of those who lived and died by an...
No Excuse Leadership: Lessons from the U. S. Army's Elite Rangers (English)
...Brace Barber captures the commitment required for this hard and painful challenge of becoming a...
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (English)
Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a...
Notorious C. O. P.: The Inside Story of the Tupac, Biggie, and Jam Master Jay Investigations from NYPD's First Hip-Hop Cop (English)
The stories are as infamous as the artists who tell them. With their boasts of drugs, extortion...
Now or Never (English)
In Now or Never, internationally acclaimed author Tim Flannery has written a book that is at once...
NurtureShock: New Thinking about Children (English)
n a world of modern, involved, caring parents, why are so many kids aggressive and cruel? Where is...
Occult America (English)
Occult expert Mitch Horowitz presents a meticulously researched, compulsively readable history...
On Wings of Eagles (English)
A painstakingly accurate account of modern heroes and international adventure, this is also a...
Overcoming Dyslexia (English)
This text draws on recent scientific breakthroughs to explain the mechanisms underlying dyslexia,...
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (English)
Through a year of on-foot explorations through her own landscape, Annie Dillard shares her keen...
Planning Your Unique Wedding Freeway Guide (English)
Are you or someone you know getting married? Well then do yourselves a favor and grab this...
Postcards from Heaven: Messages of Love from the Other Side (English)
Uplifting, funny, and profoundly moving, this is the story of four generations of a remarkable...
Psychic Children: Revealing the Intuitive Gifts and Hidden Abilities of Boys and Girls (English)
Playaway is the simplest way to listen to audio on the go. Each Playaway comes with the digital...
Roberts Ridge (English)
In this gripping account based on stunning eyewitness testimony and painstaking research,...
Romantic Manifesto, The (English)
In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned collection of essays, Ayn Rand eloquently...
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education (English)
In his articles and in bestselling books such as The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan has...
Secret History of the War on Cancer, The (English)
The so-called war on cancer is run by the leaders of industries that make cancer-causing products...
See You on the Radio (English)
At least twelve million people listen to Charles Osgood every day on CBS radio, and millions more...
Shattered Air (English)
On the evening of July 27, 1985, five hikers made a fateful choice to climb Yosemite's fabled Half...
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong (English)
Eliminate the impossible, Sherlock Holmes said, and whatever is left must be the solution. But, as...
Simpsons, The (English)
The Simpsons is one of the most successful shows to ever run on television. From its first moment...
Snark (English)
What is snark? You recognize it when you see it - a tone of teasing, snide, undermining abuse,...
Summer World (English)
As the snow melts and the spring approaches, the animal kingdom awakens. In Summer World, Bernd...
Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making (English)
Today's superclass—the minority that runs governments, corporations, international finance, and...
Sureshot Golf: A 30-Day Mind Training Program (English)
The SureShot Golf Mind Training Program is a 3 Session, 30-Day program that guides you into being...
SureShot Tennis: A 30-Day Mind Training Program (English)
The SureShot Tennis Mind Training Program is a 3 session, 30-day program that guides you into...
Ten-Cent Plague (English)
Before the age of television or even rock and roll, American popular culture as we know it first...
The 9/11 Commission Report (English)
Over the course of 20 months, the bipartisan 9/11 Commission, five Democrats and five Republicans...
The Age of American Unreason (English)
Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American...
The Architecture of Happiness (English)
This dazzling journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture explores the indelible...
The Art of Raising a Puppy (English)
The Monks of New Skete offer clear, sympathetic, and intelligent guidelines for anyone genuinely...
The Big Thirst: A Tour of the Bitter Fights, Breathtaking Beauty, Relentless Innovation, and Big Business Driving the New Era of High-Stakes Water (English)
The water coming out of your tap is four billion years old and might have been slurped by a...
The Biology of Belief (English)
The next great advance in biology will change more than science textbooks - it will revolutionize...
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (English)
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee...
The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took over the World (English)
In The Candy Machine Tom Feiling travels the trade routes from Colombia via Miami, Kingston and...
The Daily Coyote: A Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming (English)
The Daily Coyote was inspired by Stockton's blog of the same name. Wildly popular and praised by...
The Digital Divide (English)
Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the...
The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism (English)
In a tour de force of science and logic, the bestselling author of Darwins Black Box combines...
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (English)
Written by cancer physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer Siddhartha Mukherjee,...
The Fire Next Time (English)
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the...
The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America under Attack On 9/11 (English)
As senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission, John Farmer led the team charged with reconstructing the...
The Hidden Messages in Water (English)
The Hidden Messages in Water is an eye-opening theory showing how water is deeply connected to...
The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill (English)
Based on a wealth of groundbreaking research, a leading psychologist's fascinating investigation...
The NUM3RATI (English)
Every day, we produce loads of data about ourselves simply by living in the modern world: We click...
The Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 The Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 (English)
In Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku-the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the...
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (English)
Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the...
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam: (and the Crusades) (English)
You think you know about Islam. But did you know that: Islam teaches that Muslims must wage war...
The Road to Wigan Pier (English)
In the 1930s, Orwell went to learn firsthand how industrial workers lived. In his searing yet...
The Rules of Victory: How to Transform Chaos and Conflict-Strategies from the Art of War (English)
Playaway is the simplest way to listen to audio on the go. Each Playaway comes with the digital...
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (English)
Weaving insights from philosophy, neuroscience, and history into a rich narrative, explains how...
The Souls of Black Folk (English)
W. E. B. Du Bois was the foremost black intellectual of his time. The Souls of Black Folk, his...
The Tree Where Man Was Born (English)
In this classic volume, Peter Matthiessen combines nature and travel writing to skillfully and...
The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life in Medicine (English)
Long-time physician Sherwin B. Nuland presents a provocative and stimulating collection of stories...
The Vatican's Exorcists: Driving Out the Devil in the 21st Century (English)
It is one of the most ancient, arcane, and to some, embarrassing rites of the Roman Catholic...
The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought (English)
Written in the last decades of Rand's life, these pieces reflect a life lived on principle, a...
The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter (English)
Eating is about more than satisfying our hunger. It's also about the environment, social justice,...
The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals (English)
For two months, journalist Heller was aboard the pirate ship the Farley Mowat, whose mission was...
The Wolf in the Parlor: The Eternal Connection Between Humans and Dogs (English)
Of all the things hidden in plain sight, dogs are one of the most enigmatic. They are everywhere,...
The World Is Flat 3. 0: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (English)
When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the...
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook Dating and Sex (English)
Dont get caught with your pants down Experts provide step-by-step instructions on what you need to...
They Saw it Happen (English)
Here are more than 60 eyewitness accounts from history. Many are notable events: the Battle of...
Trapped!: The Story of Floyd Collins (English)
The attempt to rescue Floyd Collins from a Kentucky cave in 1925 generated America's first media...
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us (English)
Seth Godin argues that now, for the first time, everyone has an opportunity to start a movement,...
Unhooked (English)
An eye-opening examination of the hookup culture, seen through the personal experiences of...
Virginia Woolf in 90 Minutes (English)
Though prone to periods of mental breakdown, Virginia Woolf portrayed an exceptionally lucid...
Voices of Black America: Historical Recordings of Poetry, Humour and Drama (English)
Playaway is the simplest way to listen to audio on the go. Each Playaway comes with the digital...
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (English)
London in the middle of the 1800s was a subject endlessly sketched by artists, studied by social...
What Would MacGyver Do?: True Stories of Improvised Genius in Everyday Life (English)
You're driving on a deserted road when your car dies. Your cell phone isn't getting service. All...
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire---Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do (English)
A lively and provocative look at how evolution shapes our behavior and our lives. Contrary to...
WICKED BUGS (English)
In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world,...
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities (English)
Beware! The sordid lives of plants behaving badly. A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening...
Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival (English)
The animal kingdom relies on staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their...
You Are Here: Exposing the Vital Link Between What We Do and What That Does to Our Planet (English)
In this groundbreaking book, the New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Green Book Thomas M....
