Brookline's bookshelf: read

America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

by Jon Stewart

Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

by Barbara Ehrenreich

Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

by Donald L. Miller

Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

by Joyce Meyer

The IRA: A History

by Tim Pat Coogan

Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques

by Stephen King

The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities

by Mike Tidwell

Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America

by Cynthia Carr

The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words from around the World

by Adam Jacot de Boinod

Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science

by Amir D. Aczel

Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality

by Ronald L. Mallett

AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War

by Tom McNichol

In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic

by Valerian Albanov

Descartes's Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe

by Amir D. Aczel

The Working Poor: Invisible in America

by David K. Shipler

The Betterphoto Guide to Digital Photography

by Jim Miotke

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

by Simon Winchester

Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place

by Robert Michael Pyle

Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald

by Michael Schumacher

Walking to Vermont: From Times Square into the Green Mountains -- a Homeward Adventure

by Christopher S. Wren

Decorating with Architectural Details

by Philip Schmidt

First Steps in Cake Decorating: Over 100 Step-by-Step Cake Decorating Techniques and Recipes

by Janice Murfitt

The Victorian Dollhouse Book

by Nick Forder

Life on Earth

by David Attenborough

Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners

by Suzanne Ashworth

Why Some Like It Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity

by Gary Paul Nabhan

Simple Italian Sandwiches: Recipes from America's Favorite Panini Bar

by Jennifer Denton

Edible Wild Mushrooms of North America: A Field-To-Kitchen Guide

by David W. Fischer

The War the Women Lived: Female Voices from the Confederate South

by Walter Sullivan

A Hunt for Justice: The True Story of a Woman Undercover Wildlife Agent

by Lucinda Delaney Schroeder

Libraries in the Ancient World

by Lionel Casson

Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine: The Pioneers Who Risked Their Lives to Bring Medicine into the Modern Age

by Julie M. Fenster

Pirates: Terror on the High Seas from the Caribbean to the South China Sea

by David Cordingly

Finding Your Perfect Work

by Paul Edwards

Thumbs, Toes, and Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human

by Chip Walter

On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker

by A'Lelia Perry Bundles

Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers

by James F. Simon

The Physics of Superheroes

by James Kakalios

Warmly Inscribed: The New England Forger and Other Book Tales

by Lawrence Goldstone

Why Pandas Do Handstands: And Other Curious Truths about Animals

by Augustus Brown

KnitLit (too): Stories from Sheep to Shawl . . . and More Writing About Knitting

by Molly Wolf

Fresh Start: Great Low-Fat Recipes, Day-by-Day Menus--The Savvy Way to Cook, Eat, and Live

by Julee Rosso

Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft

by Simon Houpt

When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse

by Ben Yagoda

Diary of a Tuscan Chef

by Cesare Casella

Speaking with Strangers

by Mary Cantwell

Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds

by Christopher Cokinos

Love Stories of World War II

by Larry King

Life in the English Country Cottage

by Adrian Tinniswood

Painting Watercolor Portraits

by Al Stine