Non-Fiction Book Review Index

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[VJ]     Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science     by   Colin Beavan    

[HK]     The Healing Power of Pets     by   Dr. Marty Becker    [2002]

[HK]     The Poisoner : A Story of Family Secrets     by   Gail Bell        [2003]

[HK]     Unsolved UFO Mysteries     by   William J. Birnes , Harold Burt    

[HK]     Death Sentence     by   Jerry Bledsoe

[HK]     The Burning of Bridget Cleary     by   Angela Bourke    

[HK]     The Story of Light     by   Ben Bova    

[HK]     Portraits of Guilt     by   Jeanne Boylan    

[W]     The Great Deluge : Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast     by   Douglas Brinkley        [2006]

[HK]     The Complete Christie: An Agatha Christie Encyclopedia     by   Matthew Bunson    

[HK]     Strip City     by   Lily Burana    

[JJ]     If Chins Could Kill     by   Bruce Campbell

[HK]     The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception     by   Emmanuel Carrere    

[HK]     Anthony Blunt: His Lives     by   Miranda Carter        [2002]

[CP]     Coroner's Journal: Forensics and the Art of Stalking Death     by   Louis Cataldie        [2007]

[AR]     Coroner's Journal: Forensics and the Art of Stalking Death     by   Louis Cataldie        [2007]

[HK]     Heroes and Villains     by   The History Channel    

[W]     My Life in France     by   Julia Child , Alex Prud'Homme        [2006]

[HK]     Kitchen Privileges     by   Mary Higgins Clark        [2002]

[PB]     Missing Pieces     by   Sherry Cochran    

[J4]     Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed     by   Patricia Cornwell        [2002]

[HK]     Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed     by   Patricia Cornwell        [2002]

[W]     Winging It: A Beginner's Guide To Birds Of The Southwest     by   Catherine Ann Coulter        [2004]

[JT]     A Rip in Heaven     by   Jeanine Cummins        [2004]

[W]     A Rip in Heaven     by   Jeanine Cummins        [2004]

[HK]     The Sea Hunters II     by   Clive Cussler , Craig Dirgo        [2002]

[KN]     The Beader's Guide to Color     by   Margie Deeb        [2004]

[KN]     The Little Coin Purse     by   Carol Devlin    [2003]

[LC]     The Olive Farm     by   Carol Drinkwater    

[W]     Waiting for Snow in Havana : Confessions of a Cuban Boy     by   Carlos Eire        [2003]

[JJ]     A Dab of Dickens & A Touch of Twain     by   Elliot Engel    [2002]

[HK]     The Cat Who . . . Companion     by   Sharon A. Feaster

[SN]     Nice Girls Don't Get Rich : 75 Avoidable Mistakes Women Make with Money     by   Lois P. Frankel        [2005]

[W]     Death and Justice : An Expose of Oklahoma's Death Row Machine     by   Mark Fuhrman        [2003]

[HK]     Speaking of Murder, Volume II     by   Ed Gorman , Martin H. Greenberg

[HK]     A Cold Case     by   Philip Gourevitch

[VJ]     The Blue Day Book : A Lesson in Cheering Yourself Up     by   Bradley Trevor Greive    

[AR]     The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town     by   John Grisham    [2006]

[HK]     A Taste of Murder: Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers     by   Jo Grossman , Robert Weibezahl    

[HK]     A Second Helping of Murder : More Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers     by   Jo Grossman , Robert Weibezahl        [2003]

[HK]     Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief     by   Lee Gruenfeld        [2004]

[W]     The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece     by   Jonathan Harr        [2005]

[KN]     The Art of Beadwork: Historic Inspiration, Contemporary Design     by   Valerie Hector    [2004]

[W]     Talking Mysteries     by   Tony Hillerman    

[W]     Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir     by   Tony Hillerman    

[J4]     The Trial of Henry Kissinger     by   Christopher Hitchens    

[HK]     Kicking the Sacred Cow     by   James P. Hogan        [2004]

[HK]     Matrix Warrior : Being the One     by   Jake Horsley    [2003]

[HK]     To The Edge     by   Kirk Johnson    

[CP]     House of Lies : How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time     by   Martin Kihn        [2005]

[KN]     My Beaded Garden     by   Varvara Konstantinov    [2003]

[J4]     The Devil in the White City     by   Erik Larson        [2003]

[W]     Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm     by   Jeanne Marie Laskas    

[W]     The Exact Same Moon: Fifty Acres and a Family     by   Jeanne Marie Laskas        [2003]

[W]     Judgment Ridge : The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders     by   Dick Lehr , Mitchell Zuckoff        [2003]

[HK]     The Forest For the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers     by   Betsy Lerner

[J4]     Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong     by   James W. Loewen    

[GM]     True Vampires : Blood-Sucking Killers Past and Present     by   Sondra London        [2003]

[J4]     The Undertaking     by   Thomas Lynch    

[HK]     100 One Night Reads     by   David C. Major , John S. Major    

[ME]     In His Own Words     by   Nelson Mandela , Bill Clinton    [2003]

[HK]     Atomic Renaissance: Women Mystery Writers of the 1940s and 1950s     by   Jeffrey Marks        [2003]

[HK]     One Man's Leg     by   Paul Martin        [2002]

[HK]     Wild Nights     by   Anne McLean Matthews    

[HK]     The Secret Plot to Save the Czar: The Truth Behind the Romanov Mystery     by   Shay McNeal        [2002]

[W]     The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million     by   Daniel Mendelsohn        [2006]

[J4]     Frost on My Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer     by   Tim Moore    

[VJ]     High School Hazing: When Rites Become Wongs     by   Hank Nuwer    

[HK]     Point Last Seen : A Woman Tracker's Story     by   Hannah Nyala    

[HK]     Are You There Alone? : The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates     by   Suzanne O'Malley        [2004]

[HK]     The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie     by   Charles Osborne    

[CP]     The Complete Guide to Writing Fantasy     by   Darin Park , Tom Dullemond        [2002]

[KN]     Beading With Right Angle Weave     by   Christine Prussing

[CT]     Rebus's Scotland     by   Ian Rankin        [2005]

[LC]     The Bodyguard's Story     by   Trevor Rees-Jones , Moira Johnston    

[J4]     Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers     by   Mary Roach        [2003]

[KN]     Beaded Jewelry With Found Objects: Incorporate Anything from Buttons to Shells     by   Carole Rodgers    [2004]

[DD]     Don't Murder Your Mystery     by   Chris Roerden        [2005]

[HK]     Unleashed : Of Poltergeists and Murder: The Curious Story of Tina Resch     by   William Roll , Valerie Storey        [2004]

[KN]     Beginner's Guide to Beadwork     by   Madelien Rollason    [2004]

[HK]     Every Breath You Take     by   Ann Rule    

[HK]     And Never Let Her Go     by   Ann Rule    

[SN]     Life, Death, and Bialys     by   Dylan Schaffer        [2006]

[W]     Life, Death, and Bialys     by   Dylan Schaffer        [2006]

[PR]     Life, Death, and Bialys     by   Dylan Schaffer        [2006]

[J4]     Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal     by   Eric Schlosser    

[VJ]     The Older The Fiddle, The Better The Tune     by   Willard Scott        [2003]

[W]     The Bookseller of Kabul     by   Asne Seierstad        [2003]

[W]     The Radioactive Boy Scout : The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor     by   Ken Silverstein        [2004]

[W]     Friday The Arapaho Boy: A True Story from History     by   Marc Simmons        [2004]

[CP]     Kit Carson & His Three Wives     by   Marc Simmons        [2003]

[W]     Kit Carson & His Three Wives     by   Marc Simmons        [2003]

[VJ]     A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe: Mosquito     by   Andrew Spielman, Sc.D. , Michael D'Antonio    

[HK]     Success @ Life: A Zentrepreneur's Guide     by   Ron Rubin Stuart , Avery Gold    

[HK]     The Dick Francis Companion     by   Jean Swanson , Dean James        [2003]

[HK]     Great Lives: Job : A Man of Heroic Endurance     by   Charles R. Swindoll        [2004]

[HK]     Desertion in the Time of Viet Nam     by   Jack Todd    

[W]     Ultimate Punishment : A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty     by   Scott Turow        [2003]

[HK]     Ultimate Punishment : A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty     by   Scott Turow        [2003]

[KN]     500 Beaded Objects: New Dimensions in Contemporary Beadwork     by   Various Beading Authors    [2004]