Results for keyword: Nonfiction
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Book note: Valley of Shadows and Dreams
Melanie Light's thoughtful essays, accompanied by the evocative black-and-white photographs of her husband, Ken Light, portray a dark and yet hauntingly beautiful California in Valley of Shadows and Dreams.
by Staff, Sep 02, 2012 -
A long, strange trip: A review of Pot Farm
In his memoir, Matthew Gavin Frank takes the reader on a hallucinatory journey through the medical marijuana industry in Mendocino County, Calif.
by Annie Dawid, Aug 19, 2012 -
We cannot drill our way out of this mess: A review of Arctic Voices
In Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point, renowned photographer Subhankar Banerjee hears from 39 writers, biologists, activists and Native Americans about the need to save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
by Michael Engelhard, Aug 05, 2012 -
The darkest element
In Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World, Tom Zoellner tells the story of the radioactive element.
by Greg Aitkenhead , Feb 02, 2009 -
Catch him if you can
In The Runner, David Samuels profiles a con man named James Hogue, who duped Princeton University with his invented Western biography.
by Lawrence Lanahan, Feb 02, 2009 -
Searching for something to search for
In Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey, William Least Heat-Moon saunters across America, looking for the strange and the true.
by Brian Kevin , Sep 15, 2008 -
Fall reading
Jodi Peterson and Kate Niles spotlight new books on Western subjects and/or by Western authors, both fiction and nonfiction.
by Jodi Peterson, Sep 15, 2008
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