Author: MO, ELIZABETH

Smile for the Camera
by Kelle James (746.9 JAM)
The author relates her experiences after she left an abusive home at 16 and traveled to New York City to pursue a career as a model.
Stones Into Schools
by Greg Mortenson (371.823 MOR)
Greg Mortenson describes his efforts to promote peace throughout the world, and details how he was able to establish over 130 schools--mostly for girls--in remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan with the backing of the Central Asia Institute--a nonprofit organization.
Unbroken: a WWII Story
by Laura Hillenbrand (B ZAM)
A biography of Olympic runner and World War II bombardier, Louis Zamperini, who had been rambunctious in childhood before succeeding in track and eventually serving in the military, which led to a trial in which he was forced to find a way to survive in the open ocean after being shot down.
An Unspeakable Crime
by Elaine Marie Alphin (364.152 ALP)
Describes the life and fate of Leo Frank, a Jewish American factory worker who was convicted of murdering thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan and later kidnapped from the prison and hung by a mob.
The Geography of Bliss
by Eric Weiner (910.4 WEI)
National Public Radio correspondent Eric Weiner, a "self-described mope," recounts his travels to ten countries, including India, Bhutan, and Iceland, in search of happiness, describing what he actually found there.
The Burn Journals
by Brent Runyon (362.28 RUN)
Presents the true story of Brent Runyon, who at fourteen set himself on fire and sustained burns over eighty percent of his body and describes the months of physical and mental rehabilitation that followed as he attempted to pull his life together.

Ghosts of War: the True Story of a 19-year old GI
by Ryan Smithson (956.704 SMI)
Ryan Smithson recounts the experiences he had serving his first tour of duty as an Army engineer in Iraq when he was only nineteen.
The Glass Castle
by Jeanette Walls (B WAL)
The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the resources and will to leave home.
Have a Little Faith:
by Mitch Albom (296.7 ALB)
When an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy, Albom goes back to his nonfiction roots and becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. A timely, moving, and inspiring look at faith: not just who believes, but why.
Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope
by J. Bush (362.196 BUS)
Jenna Bush presents a nonfiction account of Ana, a young Latin American mother, who shared with Bush the loss of her parents to AIDS, abuse from her grandmother and aunt, and of her own battle with AIDS.
We Beat the Streets
by Sharon Draper (610.92 DRA)
Shares anecdotes from the childhoods, teen years, and young adult lives of three men from Newark, New Jersey, who made a pledge to each other in high school to stay safe from drugs, gangs, and crime, and work to become doctors--a goal they have successfully achieved.

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Great Nonfiction

Use the Dewey Decimal System to help you find books that meet your interest. Also, check out our catalog kiosk and use search terms that meet your interest.

000-Computer Science, Info and
General Works
100– Philosophy and Psychology
200– Religion
300– Social Sciences
400– Languages
500– Science (including Math)
600– Technology and Science
700– Arts and Recreation
800– Literature
900– History and Geography
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B– Biography
920– Collective Biography

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A Stolen Life
by Jaycee Dugard (B DUG)
Biography is located by Non–Fiction
Jaycee Dugard chronicles the eighteen years she spent in captivity, describing what happened after she was kidnapped at age eleven in 1991, the abuse she endured, the birth of her two daughters, the events leading up to her release, and her struggle to adjust to life once she was reunited with her family.
Start Something That Matters
by Mycoskie (658.4 MYC)
Known as the founder of TOMS Shoes and as a contestant on The Amazing Race, Mycoskie uses his experience with TOMS, as well as interviews with leaders of non-profits and corporations, to convey valuable lessons about entrepreneurship, transparency of leadership, and living by one's values.
We All Fall Down: Living With Addiction
by Nic Sheff (362.29 SHE)
Sheff writes candidly about stints at in-patient rehab facilities, devastating relapses, and hard-won realizations about what it means to be a young person living with addiction.
Ghost Hunters
by William Lace (133.1 LAC)
Documents the history of ghost hunting, looks at the equipment and techniques used by modern-day ghost hunters, and includes details of some of the cases they have investigated.
Good Behavior
by Nathan Henry (B HEN)
Biography is located by Non–Fiction
Nathan Henry, serving time for an armed robbery he committed when he was sixteen, reflects on the crimes, drugs, sex, and violence in his past, while beginning to understand he can turn his life around.
Heaven is For Real
by Todd Burpo (133.901 BUR)
Todd Burpo shares his son Colton's experiences having visions of heaven after a near-fatal illness, describing what Colton saw in heaven and the lessons he has learned about faith and love after listening to Colton's stories of his time with Jesus.

Brave Girl Eating: a Family’s Struggle With Anorexia
by Harriet Brown (616.85 BRO)
Harriet Brown chronicles her family's unconventional methods of helping her fourteen-year-old daughter, Kitty, recover from anorexia and discusses the emotional challenges they faced as they tried to save Kitty's life.
You Are Not So Smart: why you have too many friends on Facebook, why your memory is mostly fiction, and 46 other ways you're deluding yourself
By David McRaney (153.4 MCR)
McRaney reveals that every decision we make, every thought we contemplate, and every emotion we feel comes with a story we tell ourselves to explain them. But sometimes those stories aren't true. Killing Lincoln
by Bill O’Reilly (973.7 ORE)
Provides an account of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, discussing how actor John Wilkes Booth and his fellow Confederate sympathizers hatched their plot, and following the ensuing manhunt, trials, and executions of the conspiracy.
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
by Wes Moore (B MOO)
Biography is located by Non–Fiction
The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes the various sociocultural factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.
Med Head
by Patterson (616.8 PAT)
Tells the true story of Cory Friedman and his thirteen-year battle with Tourette syndrome, numerous medications and treatments, and his family's determination to find help for their son.
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nahisi (305.8 NAH)
Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings--moments when he discovered some new truth about our long, tangled history of race, whether through his myth-busting professors at Howard University, a trip to a Civil War battlefield with a rogue historian, a journey to Chicago's South Side to visit aging survivors of 20th century America's 'long war on black people,' or a visit with the mother of a beloved friend who was shot down by the police.

Same Kind of Different As Me
by Ron Hall (B HAL)
Hollywood art dealer Ron Hall and former Louisiana indentured servant Denver Moore reflect on their lives and the friendship that was established between them thanks to Ron's late wife Deborah's volunteer work at Union Gospel Mission in Fort Worth, Texas.
Geeks: how two lost boys rode the Internet out of Idaho
by Jon Katz (338.7 KAT)
Tells the true story of Jesse and Eric, nineteen-year-old roommates in the small town of Caldwell, Idaho who changed their lives and built a new future for themselves with the power of the Internet.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot (616 SKL)
Henrietta Lacks was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. Lacks cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.
Jay’s Journal
by Anonymous (616.86 JAY)
Presents the diary left behind by sixteen-year-old Jay after he committed suicide, revealing his involvement with drugs and witchcraft.
The Year We Disappeared: a father-daughter memoir by John and Cylin Busby (363.2 BUS)
Father and daughter, Cylin and John Busby, share their memories of the challenges they faced after their family was forced to go into hiding in order to protect themselves from a killer who had already shot John, a police officer, once and was determined to finish the job.