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The Driftless Book Review Catalog


Biography

Over the Edge of the World -- Laurence Bergreen

Endgame -- Frank Brady

Shakespeare: The World as Stage -- Bill Bryson

Off the Deep End -- Hodding Carter

The Mysterious Private Thompson -- Laura Leedy Gansler

The Girl in the Song -- Heatley and Hopkinson

The Lost Cyclist -- David Herlihy

Unbroken – Laura Hillenbrand

Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power -- Ross King

The Dragon Seekers -- Christopher McGowan

Ruined by Reading -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz

The Last Greatest Magician in the World -- Jim Steinmeyer

The Assassination of Hole in the Day – Anton Treuer

The Professor and the Madman -- Simon Winchester

Dreaming of Baghdad -- Haifa Zangana


Cycling

The Spring Classics -- Phillipe Bouvet et al.

We Might as Well Win -- Johan Bruyneel

Bicycle Diaries -- David Byrne

The Lost Cyclist -- David Herlihy

A Dog in a Hat -- Joe Parkin

Bobke II -- Bob Roll


Fiction

Now and Forever – Ray Bradbury

God is Dead – Ron Currie, Jr.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

The Pleasure of My Company – Steve Martin

Concord, Virginia – Peter Neofotis

Burr: A Novel – Gore Vidal

Lincoln: A Novel – Gore Vidal

Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut


Food

The China Study – T. Colin Campbell

Farm City – Novella Carpenter

Vegetable Heaven – Molly Katzen

Southern Cakes – Nancie McDermott

The Everything Healthy Slow Cooker Cookbook – Rachel Rappaport

Crust & Crumb – Peter Reinhart

The New American Cheese – Laura Werlin


Geology/Paleontology

Earth: An Intimate History – Richard Fortney

The Hobbit Trap – Maciej Henneberg

The Dragon Seekers – Christopher McGowan

Your Inner Fish – Neil Shubin

Hawai’i: Land of Volcanoes – Jan Tenbruggencate

Sand – Michael Welland


History

Over the Edge of the World -- Laurence Bergreen

The Poisoner's Handbook -- Deborah Blum

American Insurgents, American Patriots -- T.H. Breen

The American West -- Dee Brown

Empire of the Summer Moon -- S. C. Gwynne

In the Garden of Beasts -- Erik Larson

ROME 1960 -- David Maraniss

The History of White People -- Nell Irvin Painter

Earthrise -- Robert Poole

Meeting Mr. Lincoln -- Victoria Radford

Wicked River -- Lee Sandlin

Atlantic -- Simon Winchester

A People's History of Sports in the US -- Dave Zirin


Humor

Free-Range Chickens -- Simon Rich

Kids

The Stupids Step Out – Harry Allard

To Be a Princess – Hugh Brewster and Laurie Coulter

The Goats -- Brock Cole

Insect – Laurence Mound

Aldo Leopold's Shack -- Nancy Nye Hunt


Maps & Travel

2010 Rand-McNally Road Atlas

2008 Paris – Rick Steeves

Streetwise Paris Pocket Map


Nature

Beekeeping for Dummies -- Howland Blackiston

Plan Bee -- Susan Brackney

Icebound Summer-- Sally Carrighar

The Wave -- Susan Casey

The Species Seekers -- Richard Conniff

The Secret Life of Lobsters -- Trevor Corson

The Ancestor’s Tale -- Richard Dawkins

It’s Raining Frogs and Fishes -- Jerry Dennis

Mark Twain’s Book of Animals -- Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Bees, Wasps and Ants -- Eric Grissell

Pavlov’s Dogs and Schrödingers’ Cat -- Rom Harré

Summer World -- Bernd Heinrich

The Nesting Season -- Bernd Heinrich

The Leafcutter Ants --Holldobler and Wilson

Aldo Leopold's Shack -- Nancy Nye Hunt

The Darwin Archipelago -- Steve Jones

The Queen Must Die -- William Longgood

Insect -- Laurence Mound

The Beekeeper's Lament -- Hannah Nordhaus

The Death & Life of Monterey Bay – Palumbi & Sotka

Natural Acts -- David Quammen

The View from Lazy Point – Carl Safina

The Last Tortoise -- Craig B. Stanford

Tree: A Life Story -- Suzuki and Grady

Three Among the Wolves -- Helen Thayer

The Golden Spruce -- John Vaillant

The Tiger -- John Vaillant

The Illustrated World Encyclopedia of Insects -- Martin Walters

Kingdom of Ants – Wilson & Durán


Photography

Chased by the Light – Jim Brandenberg

Above Paris – Jean-Louis Cohen

Driftless: Photographs from Iowa – Danny Wilcox Frazier

Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs

Hawai’i: Land of Volcanoes – Jan Tenbruggencate

First Steps: Conserving our Environment – Joe Zammit-Lucia


Physical Sciences

The Nuclear Gamble – John D’Agata

The 13th Element – John Emsley

Zero Decibels – George Foy

Gold Medal Physics – John Eric Goff

The Grand Design – Hawking & Mlodinow

The Disappearing Spoon – Sam Kean

The 4% Universe – Richard Panek

Kivalina: A Climate Change Story -- Christine Shearer