BLHS Staff Non-Fiction Selections

Ms. Teppo Cosmos by Carl Sagan

Ms. Teppo The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan

Ms. Teppo & Mrs. French Thinking In Pictures by Temple Grandin

Ms. Teppo Hole In My Life by Jack Gantos

Ms. Teppo Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer

Ms. Teppo Spook by Mary Roach

Ms. Teppo The Lizard King by Bryan Christy

Last Night’s Fun: In and Out of Time with Irish Music by Ciaran Carson

Mrs. Fernandez Uncomfortable Neighbors: Cultural Collisions between

Mexicans and Americans By James V. Tiffany

Mrs. Ross The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seirstad

Mrs. Ross Confessions of a Mullah Warrior by Masood Farivar

The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley

Mrs. Deckman Animals Make Us Human By Temple Grandin & Catherine Johnson

Mrs. DeckmanNickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America By Barbara Ehrenreich

Mrs. Deckman The Last American Man By Elizabeth Gilbert

Mrs. Deckman The Omnivore’s Dilemma By Michael Pollan

Mr. Birklid

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

• by Sean Covey

Mr. Johnson 596 Switch By Ryan Leaf

Mrs. Jones Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

Mrs. Berwick & Mrs. Hertlein Tuesdays With Morrie: an old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson

by Mitch Albom

Ms. Hertlein Tuesday’s With Morrie by Mitch Albom

Mrs. Apple Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose

Mrs. Tuttle Touching the Voidby Joe Simpson

Mr. Barrett & Mr. Ostrander Leading with the Heart by Mike Krzyewski

Winning the NFL Way: Leadership Lessons from Football’s Top Head Coaches

by Bob LaMonte with Robert L. Shook

Mr. Barrett & Mr. Olson Sacred Hoops by Phil Jackson

Mr. Barrett Education of a Coachby Bill Belichick with David Halbertstam

Mr. Ostrander Wooden: On Leadershipby John Wodden and Steve Jamison

Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court by John Wooden with Steve Jamison

Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life by Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker

Mr. Hofstrand• Genghis: Birth of an Empire • by Conn Iggulden The story of the greatest

Warrior-Leader to ever live. Genghis Khan conquered twice the area of Alexander the Great, uniting a nation of small tribes into the greatest army the world has ever seen.

This is the most inspiring story of loyalty, teamwork, heart, and the warrior-ethos I've ever read!

Mr. Hofstrand Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

Mrs. Ireland(Lakeridge Middle School Staff)In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American

Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson

Mrs. Ireland (Lakeridge Middle School Staff)The Devil’s Teeth by Suzan Casey

Mrs. Wright Naked by David Sedaris

Mrs. Wright Dress Your Family in Corduroy by David Sedaris

Mrs. Wright If I Die in Combat Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O"Brien

Mrs. Wright The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to his White Mother by James McBride

Ms. York A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Mr. Sulham Art of War by Sun Tzu

Mrs. Fuller Outliers by Malcom Gladwell

Mr. Ireland Hero of the Underground by Jason Peter with Tony O’Neil

Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead by Phil Lesh

Mr. Ireland Where Men Win Gloryby Jon Krakauer

Mr. Ireland and Mr. Emmons Friday Night Lightsby H.G. Bissinger

Mr. Howard In the Heart of the Seaby Nathaniel Philbrick

Mrs. LittlefieldLucky Man: a memoir by Micheal J. Fox

Boots on the Ground by Dusk: The Life and Death of Pat Tillman by Mary Tillman and Narda Zacchino

Ms. Wolford Three Lives for Mississippi by William Bradford Huie

Mrs. Black Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

Ms. Mouring In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Its not about the coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks by Howard Behar, Janet

Goldstein and Howard Schultz

Mrs. Mickelson A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Mrs. Sturtz A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Mr. Stokke When The Game Stands Tall

by Neil Hayes

Mr. Ahina The Wave by Susan Casey

Mrs. Baker I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

Mrs. Fruehauf The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksby Rebecca Skloot

Mrs. Huntington The Story of Elsa the Lioness: Born Free by Joy Adamson

Mr. Vanderhoek Longitude. The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of

His Time by Dava Sobel

Mrs. Sage (North Tapps Middle School staff)The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big

Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

Mrs. Sage (North Tapps Middle School staff)Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Mrs. Sage (North Tapps Middle School staff)Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking

by Malcolm Gladwell

Mrs. Sage (North Tapps Middle School staff)Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to

Punctuation by Lynne Truss

Mr. Clarke With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E. B. Sledge

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Mr. Emmons The Last Lectureby Randy Pausch

Mrs. Carr-Cohen The Long Snapperby Jeffrey Marx

Mr. Cohen (Mountain View staff)

• How Lucky You Can Be: The Story of Coach Don Meyer

• by: Buster Olney

The Lyncher in Me: A Search for Redemption in the Face of History by Warren Read

Mr. Ireland Into the Wildby Jon Krakauer

Mr. Ireland King of the Mild Frontier by Chris Crutcher

It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Lifeby Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins

Mr. IrelandThe Other Side of the Riverby Alex Kotlowitz

Mr. Ireland Into Thin Airby Jon Krakauer

Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation by John Carlin

Mr. Ireland Big Russ and Me: Father and Sons Lessons of Life by Tim Russert

Mr. Ireland The Blind Sideby Michael Lewis

Mr. Gardner The Death of Common Sense by Philip K. Howard

Mrs. French Heaven is for RealBy Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent

Mrs. Hammad They Wrote on Clay by Edward Chiera

Mrs. Nichols

• Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

• By Erik Larson

Ms. Kellogg

• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

• By Oliver Sacks

Mrs. Sage (North Tapps Middle School staff)Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

Mrs. Nichols

• The Perfect Storm• By Sebastian Junger

Mr. OlsonWin ForeverBy Pete Carroll with Yogi Roth

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Byran Mealer

Mrs. Littlefield Extraordinary Parentsby Lynn Fielding

Mrs. Conrad Investment Bikerby Jim Rogers

Mrs. Nichols

• Nanda Devi: The Tragic Expedition

• By John Roskelly

Mr. Gardner When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss

Mr. Smith (Boys B-ball coach)

• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

• By Edmond Norris

Mrs. Littlefield Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher, Ph.D.

Mr. Sulhum 1776 by David McCullough

Mr. Sulham Full Duty by Howard Coffin

Mrs. Hammad: Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

Mr. Fredrick Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario

Mrs. Stevens Reading Lolite in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Mr. Gaydos Last Night's Fun by Ciaran Carson

Mrs. Robinson The Big Burn by Timothy Egan

Mr. Wood A Sand County Almanacby Aldo Leopold