Olin C. Bailey Library

Browsing Books List

Below is a list, arragned by author's last name, of our Browsing Books.  These books can be found on the second floor of the library in shelves encirculing the rotunda and are also arranged by author's last name.

Spoken here : travels among threatened languages / Mark Abley.

Nasser : the last Arab / Said K. Aburish.

The five people you meet in heaven / Mitch Albom.

Making the white man's Indian : native Americans and Hollywood movies / Angela Aleiss.

Feminism and motherhood in Western Europe 1890-1970 : the maternal dilemma / Ann Taylor Allen.

The business of genocide : the SS, slave labor, and the concentration camps / Michael Thad Allen.

The burning of Rachael Hayes / Doug Allyn.

American movie critics : an anthology from the silents until now / edited by Phillip Lopate.

The pursuit of fairness : a history of affirmative action / Terry H. Anderson.

Amazing peace : a Christmas poem / Maya Angelou.

The spiral staircase : my climb out of darkness / Karen Armstrong.

Galileo's finger : the ten great ideas of science / Peter Atkins.

Woman in the mirror / Richard Avedon ; essay by Anne Hollander ; designed by Mary Shanahan.

The Camel Club / David Baldacci.

Hour game : a novel / David Baldacci.

Battaglia, storia di Waterloo. English.

The battle : a new history of Waterloo / Alessandro Barbero ; translated by John Cullen.

Hard truth / Nevada Barr.

The great influenza : the epic story of the deadliest plague in history / John M. Barry.

Logic made easy : how to know when language deceives you / Deborah J. Bennett.

We are all welcome here : a novel / Elizabeth Berg.

The year of pleasures : a novel / Elizabeth Berg.

In defense of globalization / Jagdish Bhagwati.

Black : a celebration of a culture / [compiled by] Deborah Willis ; [publisher, Sean Moore ; creative director, Karen Prince].

Liberating Paris / Linda Bloodworth-Thomason.

Spin sisters : how the women of the media sell unhappiness-- and liberalism-- to the women of America / Myrna Blyth.

Electric universe : the shocking true story of electricity / David Bodanis.

Oh joy! oh rapture! : the enduring phenomenon of Gilbert and Sullivan / Ian Bradley.

America in the King years / Taylor Branch.

The American / Andrew Britton.

Looking back to see : a country music memoir / Maxine Brown.

Perdita : the literary, theatrical, scandalous life of Mary Robinson / Paula Byrne.

Inside : a public and private life / Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

The cheating culture : why more Americans are doing wrong to get ahead / David Callahan.

The most American thing in America : circuit Chautauqua as performance / Charlotte M. Canning.

The murder artist : a novel / John Case.

Memoires de l'imperatrice Catherine II. English. The memoirs of Catherine the Great / a new translation by Mark Cruse and Hilde Hoogenboom.

A history of Christianity / by Owen Chadwick.

The death of feminism : what's next in the struggle for women's freedom / Phyllis Chesler.

Weird English / Evelyn Nien-Ming Chien.

The hard way : a Jack Reacher novel / Lee Child.

No place like home / Mary Higgins Clark.

Two little girls in blue / Mary Higgins Clark.

Promise me / Harlan Coben.

The Columbia companion to American history on film: how the movies have portrayed the American past / edited by Peter C. Rollins.

Leave no child behind : preparing today's youth for tomorrow's world / James P. Comer ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates.

At risk / Patricia Cornwell.

Predator / Patricia Cornwell.

Trace / Patricia Cornwell.

The Confederate battle flag : America's most embattled emblem / John M. Coski.

Chariot : from chariot to tank, the astounding rise and fall of the world's first war machine / Arthur Cotterell.

Civilta della conversazione. English.

The age of conversation / by Benedetta Craveri ; translated by Teresa Waugh.

The lost world : a novel / by Michael Crichton.

State of fear : a novel / Michael Crichton.

The hidden power of social networks : understanding how work really gets done in organizations / Rob Cross, Andrew Parker.

1945 : the war that never ended / Gregor Dallas.

The conjurer's bird : a novel / Martin Davies.

Weary feet, rested souls : a guided history of the Civil Rights Movement / Townsend Davis.

Irresistible empire : America's advance through twentieth-century Europe / Victoria de Grazia.

The cold moon : a Lincoln Rhyme novel / Jeffery Deaver.

The twelfth card : a Lincoln Rhyme novel / Jeffery Deaver.

Night fall : a novel / Nelson DeMille.

The jury master / Robert Dugoni.

Comte de Monte-Cristo. English. The Count of Monte Cristo / Alexandre Dumas ; with an introduction and notes by Luc Sante.

Front page : covers of the twentieth century / texts, Stephanie Duperray and Raphaele Vidaling ; with the collaboration of Cecile Amara, Agnieszka Ples, and Alain-Xavier Wurst.

Why the electoral college is bad for America / George C. Edwards, III ; foreword by Neal R. Peirce.

The eighties : America in the age of Reagan / John Ehrman.

Imperial reckoning : the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya / Caroline Elkins.

The wild girl : the notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932 : a novel / by Jim Fergus.

The sage of Sugar Hill : George S. Schuyler and the Harlem Renaissance / Jeffrey B. Ferguson.

Son of the rough South : an uncivil memoir / Karl Fleming.

Married to the mouse : Walt Disney World and Orlando / Richard E. Foglesong.

Confronting the war machine : draft resistance during the Vietnam War / Michael S. Foley.

The Afghan / Frederick Forsyth.

The raw deal : how myths and misinformation about deficits, inflation, and wealth impoverish America / Ellen Frank.

What's the matter with Kansas? : how conservatives won the heart of America / Thomas Frank.

The corrections / Jonathan Franzen.

Once upon a time in Italy : the westerns of Sergio Leone / by Christopher Frayling.

Robert K. Greenleaf : a life of servant leadership / Don M. Frick.

Honest to Jesus : Jesus for a new millennium / Robert W. Funk.

A public betrayed : an inside look at Japanese media atrocities and their warnings to the West / Adam Gamble and Takesato Watanabe.

Cien anos de soledad. English. One hundred years of solitude / Gabriel Garcia Marquez ; translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa.

Witchfinders : a seventeenth-century English tragedy / Malcolm Gaskill.

A place of hiding / Elizabeth George.

With no one as witness / Elizabeth George.

The Mephisto Club : a novel / Tess Gerritsen.

Thinking how to live / Allan Gibbard.

The life all around me by Ellen Foster / Kaye Gibbons.

Wallofsilence : the untold story of the medical mistakes that kill and injure millions of Americans / Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh.

Before the parade passes by : Gower Champion and the glorious American musical / John Anthony Gilvey.

Blink : the power of thinking without thinking / Malcolm Gladwell.

Kingdom coming : the rise of Christian nationalism / Michelle Goldberg.

Grand Old Party : a history of the Republicans / Lewis L. Gould.

Death by a thousand cuts : the fight over taxing inherited wealth / Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro.

Command of office : how war, secrecy, and deception transformed the presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush / Stephen Graubard.

Does God belong in public schools? / Kent Greenawalt.

Will in the world : how Shakespeare became Shakespeare / Stephen Greenblatt.

Got the look / James Grippando.

The broker / John Grisham.

The king of torts / John Grisham.

The last juror / John Grisham.

The pelican brief / John Grisham.

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time / Mark Haddon.

Gentlemen and players : a novel / Joanne Harris.

The cinema of George Lucas / written by Marcus Hearn ; foreword by Ron Howard.

The Hite report on the family : growing up under patriarchy / Shere Hite.

Prior bad acts / Tami Hoag.

Hollywood's West : the American frontier in film, television, and history / edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor.

Mrs. Astor's New York : money and social power in a Gilded Age / Eric Homberger.

The kite runner / Khaled Hosseini.

Behind deep blue : building the computer that defeated the world chess champion / Feng-Hsiung Hsu.

Just for fun : the story of AAU women's basketball / Robert W. Ikard.

Blood memory / Greg Iles.

Turning angel / Greg Iles.

Dream catchers : how mainstream America discovered native spirituality / Philip Jenkins.

The century / Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster ; photographs edited by Katherine Bourbeau.

The known world / Edward P. Jones.

Men of tomorrow : geeks, gangsters, and the birth of the comic book / Gerard Jones.

Jane Addams : a writer's life / Katherine Joslin.

Karin Davie / foreword by Louis Grachos.

The presidency of James Earl Carter, Jr. / Burton I. Kaufman and Scott Kaufman.

Edith Thomas : a passion for resistance / Dorothy Kaufmann.

Straight into darkness / Faye Kellerman.

When Baghdad ruled the Muslim world : the rise and fall of Islam's greatest dynasty / Hugh Kennedy.

Windblown world : the journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954 / edited and with an introduction by Douglas Brinkley.

The last templar / Raymond Khoury.

The mermaid chair / Sue Monk Kidd.

The harlot by the side of the road : forbidden tales of the Bible / Jonathan Kirsch.

Shotgun Alley / Andrew Klavan.

Odd Thomas / Dean Koontz.

The historian : a novel / Elizabeth Kostova.

Carnegie / Peter Krass.

Miracles of the spirit : folk, art, and stories from Wisconsin / Don Krug and Ann Parker.

Menschen in Auschwitz. English. People in Auschwitz / Hermann Langbein ; translated by Harry Zohn ; foreword by Henry Friedlander.

The lightning keeper : a novel / Starling Lawrence.

Thoi xa vang. English. A time far past / Le Luu ; translated from the Vietnamese by Ngo Vinh Hai ... [et al.].

Giraffe / J.M. Ledgard.

Blood evidence : how DNA is revolutionizing the way we solve crimes / Henry C. Lee, Frank Tirnady.

Aliens in the backyard : plant and animal imports into America / John Leland.

Harmful to minors : the perils of protecting children from sex / Judith Levine ; foreword by Joycelyn M. Elders.

Why they don't hate us : lifting the veil on the axis of evil / Mark LeVine.

Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything / Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.

Giudea e Palestina. English. The archaeology of Ancient Judea and Palestine / Ariel Lewin ; photographs, Dinu, Sandu, and Radu Mendrea.

Oak : the frame of civilization / William Bryant Logan.

On our own : unmarried motherhood in America / Melissa Ludtke.

End of the line : the rise and coming fall of the global corporation / Barry C. Lynn.

The (mis)behavior of markets : a fractal view of risk, ruin, and reward / Benoit B. Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson.

1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus / Charles C. Mann.

Matisse, his art and his textiles : the fabric of dreams.

Cheese : a connoisseur's guide to the world's best / Max McCalman & David Gibbons.

The woman who wouldn't talk / Susan McDougal with Pat Harris ; introduction by Helen Thomas.

Self matters : creating your life from the inside out / Phillip C. McGraw.

Sunshine / Robin McKinley.

The smartest guys in the room : the amazing rise and scandalous fall of Enron / Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind.

Buster Keaton : tempest in a flat hat / Edward McPherson.

Wondergenes : genetic enhancement and the future of society / Maxwell J. Mehlman.

The book of fate / Brad Meltzer.

The zero game / Brad Meltzer.

Feniks. English. Dead before dying : a novel / Deon Meyer ; translated by Madeleine van Biljon.

Struggle for a better South : the Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964- 1969 / Gregg L. Michel.

Freaks, geeks, and cool kids : American teenagers, schools, and the culture of consumption / Murray Milner, Jr.

Huck's raft : a history of American childhood / Steven Mintz.

The long arc of justice : lesbian and gay marriage, equality, and rights / Richard D. Mohr.

The Venice Adriana / Ethan Mordden.

The faith : a history of Christianity / Brian Moynahan.

Selling sickness : how the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies are turning us all into patients / Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels.

Stone songs on the Trail of Tears : the journey of an installation / by Pat Musick with Jerry Carr and Bill Woodiel.

Why some like it hot : food, genes, and cultural diversity / Gary Paul Nabhan.

Camera works : photography and the twentieth-century word / Michael North.

The last of her kind / Sigrid Nunez.

Augustine : a new biography / James J. O'Donnell.

Black power : radical politics and African American identity / Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar.

Strange histories : the trial of the pig, the walking dead, and other matters of fact from the medieval and Renaissance worlds / Darren Oldridge.

In the house of the hangman : the agonies of German defeat, 1943-1949 / Jeffrey K. Olick.

In the blink of an eye / Andrew Parker.

The fallen : a novel / T. Jefferson Parker.

Passages to freedom : the Underground Railroad in history and memory / edited by David W. Blight.

4th of July : a novel / by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.

The 5th horseman : a novel / by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.

The big bad wolf : a novel / by James Patterson.

London bridges : a novel / by James Patterson.

Mary, Mary : a novel / by James Patterson.

Suzanne's diary for Nicholas : a novel / James Patterson.

Restless giant : the United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore / James T. Patterson.

Rita Dove's cosmopolitanism / Malin Pereira.

Five days in Philadelphia / Charles Peters.

The fearless man : a novel of Vietnam / Donald Pfarrer.

Mayflower : a story of courage, community, and war / Nathaniel Philbrick.

Politics and religion in the White South / edited by Glenn Feldman.

Chinese lessons : five classmates and the story of the new China / John Pomfret.

Mark Twain : a life / Ron Powers.

The art of Discworld / Terry Pratchett ; illustrated by Paul Kidby.

The confession of Dorothy Danner : telling a life / Richard A. Pride.

Primate psychology / edited by Dario Maestripieri.

Cross bones / Kathy Reichs.

Reinventing the melting pot : the new immigrants and what it means to be American / edited by Tamar Jacoby.

The case for gay rights : from Bowers to Lawrence and beyond / David A.J. Richards.

Operation Hollywood : how the Pentagon shapes and censors the movies / David L. Robb.

Suspect / Michael Robotham.

Turnaround : crisis, leadership, and the Olympic Games / Mitt Romney with Timothy Robinson.

Reading with Oprah : the book club that changed America / by Kathleen Rooney.

The plot against America / Philip Roth.

Hating America : a history / Barry Rubin, Judith Colp Rubin.

The human image in postmodern America / Joseph F. Rychlak.

Betye Saar : extending the frozen moment / essays by James Christen Steward ... [et al.].

Harry Callahan : the photographer at work / Britt Salvesen ; foreward by John Szarkowski with a contribution by Amy Rule.

Broken prey / John Sandford.

Dead watch / John Sandford.

Hidden prey / John Sandford.

Naked prey / John Sandford.

Saving our children from the First Amendment / Kevin W. Saunders.

Restless souls : the making of American spirituality / Leigh E. Schmidt.

The Mongol reply / Benjamin M. Schutz.

Beyond the front lines : how the news media cover a world shaped by war / by Philip Seib.

Beyond the closet : the transformation of gay and lesbian life / Steven Seidman.

The thirteenth tale : a novel / Diane Setterfield.

Live from New York : an uncensored history of Saturday night live / Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller.

Wild animus / Rich Shapero.

No direction home : the life and music of Bob Dylan / Robert Shelton.

The genome war : how Craig Venter tried to capture the code of life and save the world / James Shreeve.

The ruins : a novel / Scott Smith.

Sweet Savannah / by Thelma Wagg Smothers.

Red sky at morning : America and the crisis of the global environment / James Gustave Speth.

Sea turtles : a complete guide to their biology, behavior, and conservation / James R. Spotila.

Auschwitz. English. Auschwitz : a history / Sybille Steinbacher ; translated by Shaun Whiteside.

Flood summer : a novel / Trenton Lee Stewart.

Daisy Bates : civil rights crusader from Arkansas / Grif Stockley.

Cane River / Lalita Tademy.

With intent to destroy : reflecting on genocide / Colin Tatz.

Malcolm X : inventing radical judgment / Robert E. Terrill.

The University of Arkansas Razorback Band : a history, 1874-2004 / by T.T. Tyler Thompson.

Andre Malraux. English. Malraux : a life / Olivier Todd ; translated by Joseph West.

Morning in America : how Ronald Reagan invented the 1980s / Gil Troy.

Bombay time / Thrity Umrigar.

Unembedded : four independent photojournalists on the war in Iraq / Ghaith Abdul -Ahad ... [et al.] ; foreword by Philip Jones Griffiths ; introduction by Phillip Robertson.

El agave tequilero. English. Tequila : a natural and cultural history / Ana Guadalupe Valenzuela-Zapata and Gary Paul Nabhan.

Soldiers once and still : Ernest Hemingway, James Salter & Tim O'Brien / Alex Vernon.

The mechanism of catastrophe : the Turkish pogrom of September 6-7, 1955, and the destruction of the Greek community of Istanbul / Speros Vryonis.

The color purple / Alice Walker.

The comics before 1945 / Brian Walker.

Buffalo Bill's America : William Cody and the Wild West Show / Louis S. Warren.

Hattie McDaniel : Black ambition, White Hollywood / Jill Watts.

Negro president : Jefferson and the slave power / Garry Wills.

Maisie Dobbs : a novel / Jacqueline Winspear.

Party of the people : a history of the Democrats / Jules Witcover.

Unveiling : a novel / Suzanne M. Wolfe.

The teapot book / Steve Woodhead.

The pathological protein : mad cow, chronic wasting, and other deadly prion diseases / Philip Yam.

 

Last Modified on 11/14/2006