2015 Inventory of Library by Categories Penny Kittle The World: Asia, India, Africa, The Middle East, South America & The Caribbean, Europe, Canada Asia & India Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo Life of Pi by Yann Martel Boxers & Saints by Geneluen Yang American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Jakarta Missing by Jane Kurtz The Buddah in the Attic by Julie Otsuka First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung A Step From Heaven by Anna Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick Q & A by Vikas Swarup Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick A Moment Comes by Jennifer Bradbury Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Africa What is the What by Dave Eggers They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky by Deng, Deng & Ajak Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad by Waris Dirie The Milk of Birds by Sylvia Whitman The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World by Jay Bahadur The Translator by Daoud Hari God Grew Tired of Us by John Bul Dau Born to Run by Christopher McDougall We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Phihlip Gourevitch Whatever You Do, Don’t Run by Peter Allison Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Facing the Lion by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Now is the Time for Running by Michael Williams The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe The Middle East I Am Nujuood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali Sold by Patricia McCormick Burned Alive: A Survivor of an “Honor Killing” Speaks Out by Souad Shooting Kabul by N.H. Senzai I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi Things I’ve Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini The Attack by yasmina Khadra Outcasts United by Warren St. John The Alchemist by Paul Coelho In the Land of Invisible Women by Qanta A. Ahmed The Red Tent by Anita Diamant Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples Beneath My Mother’s Feet by Amjed Qamar Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad The Secret Sky by Atia Abawi The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid Skunk Girl by Sheba Karim War Child by Emmanuel Jal Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson If You Could be Mine by Sara Farizan In My Father’s Country by Saima Wahab South America & The Caribbean Trash by Andy Mulligan The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago Learning to Die in Miami by Carlos Eire Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez In Darkness by Nick Lane No Safety in Numbers by Dayna Lorentz The Jumping Tree by Rene Saldana, Jr. Canada Fifth Business by Robertson Davies Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese The Space Between by Don Aker Delusion Road by Don Aker The First Stone by Don Aker The Fifth Rule by Don Aker Of Things Not Seen by Don Aker Running on Empty by Don Aker Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Fifth Business by Robertso Davies Looks Like Daylight by Deborah Ellis Ru by Kim Thuy Europe Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt ‘Tis by Frank McCourt Zlata’s Diary by Zlata Filipovitic Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay The Places In Between by Rory Stewart The Shipping News by Annie Proulx Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier Emily’s Ghost by Denise Giardina Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan The Paris Wife by Paula McClain Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel U.S. Memoir/Biography: Musicians, Athletes, Leaders/Presidents, Prisoners, Comedians, Other Life Stories Comedians Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling Yes Please by Amy Poehler There’s Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say by Paula Poundstone Toast by Nigel Slater So, Anyway by John Cleese Bossypants by Tina Fey Baking Bad: Criminally Delicious Recipes by Walter Wheat Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris Thank You Notes by Jimmy Fallon Musicians Just Kids by Patti Smith The Music Lesson by Victor Wooten Jay Z Decoded by Jay Z Chronicles Volume One by Bob Dylan The Man Called Cash by Steve Turner Can’t Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America by Jonathan Gould Rihanna Rebel Flower by Chloe Govan Who I Am by Pete Townshend Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes Beyond the Dance by Chan Hon Goh Guitar Zero by Gary Marcus Nothing to Lose: The Making of KISS 1972-1975 by Ken Sharp The Beatles: A Hard Day’s Write by Steve Turner Jimi Hendrix: A Brother’s Story by Leon Hendrix Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon & the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller Athletes Moneyball by Michael Lewis Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger Grantland: collected short sports stories by Grantland staff It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong Eleven Seconds by Travis Roy Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer The Boys of Winter by Wayne Coffey Open by Andre Agassi Just One More Shot by Jim Keifer Those Guys Have All the Fun: ESPN Yzerman by Douglas Hunter The Life of Reilly by Rick Reilly Praying for Gil Hodges by Thomas Oliphant 50/50 by Dean Karnazes Playing with Fire by Theo Fleury Live Albom by Mitch Albom Unstoppable by Tim Green Last Shot by John Feinstein To the Edge and Back by Chris Klug Foul Trouble by John Feinstein Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton Once a Runner by John L. Parker, Jr. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami Muckers by Sandra Neil Wallace Paper Tiger: An Obsessed Golfer’s Quest to Play with the Pros by Tom Coyne A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour by John Feinstein Football: Great Writing About the National Sport by John Schulian Leaders/Presidents Jack Kennedy by Chris Matthews Obama’s Wars by Bob Woodward Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward Killing Kennedy by Bill O’Reilly The Kennedy Detail by Gerald Blaine State of Denial by Bob Woodward Prisoners Hole in my Life by Jack Gantos A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Bacca Rat Bastards by John “Red” Shea True Notebooks: A Writer’s Year at Juvenile Hall by Mark Salzman Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America by Nathan McCall Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh Couldn’t Keep It To Myself by Wally Lamb A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Hall by Edward Humes Life in Prison by Stanley “Tookie” Williams Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat Life Stories A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard City Year’s Founding Stories by Michael Brown, CEO & Co-Founder of City Year The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by We Moore Townie by Andre Dubus III And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students by Miles Corwin The Burn Journals by Brent Runyan South of Heaven by Thomas French Blasphemy by Sherman Alexie Crazy for the Storm: a Memoir of Survival by Norman Ollestad True Spirit: The True Story of a 16-Year-Old Australian Who Sailed Solo, Nonstop, and Unassisted Around the World by Jessica Watson Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson King of the Mild Frontier by Chris Crutcher An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff & Alex Tresniowski A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage by Marly Youmans Wild by Cheryl Strayed I Thought My Father Was God edited by Paul Auster The Foremost Good Fortune by Susan Conley Old School by Tobias Wolff To Selena, with Love by Chris Perez Leaving Home edited by Hazel Rochman & Darlene Z. McCampbell A Glass of Water by Jimmy Santiago Baca Here if You Need Me by Kate Braestrup The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom All Souls by Michael Patrick MacDonald Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs Breaking Night by Liz Murray A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller Making Mavericks by Frosty Hesson The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath NYC by Jennifer Toth Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent by Anthony Rapp Born to Rise by Deborah Kenny Balsamic Dreams by Joe Queenan Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls On the Fringe by Donald R.