"The secret lives of dogs" and" The tipping point" sorry I don't have the authors

Artic Homestead -- Norma Cobb
Shopping for Porcupine -- Seth Kantner
Final Frontiersman - James Campbell
The Lost Girls -- Jennifer Baggett
States of Confusion -- Paul Jury
A Walk Across America -- Peter Jenkins

I do two things -- sew and read. If you run out of book ideas, let me know. Also, do you know about www.goodreads.com ? If you go on there and rate books you have read, it will give you suggesstions for more like them. It's a pretty good site for ideas.

Older titles:
any Carl Sandberg about Lincoln/Civil War
Dee Brown: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Meshack Browning: Forty-four Years in the Life of a Hunter
Chronicles of Border Warfare sorry, don't remember the author, it is accounts of the first 'western' frontier. (Despite the title it is NOT about finishing quilts.)
Plato: The Republic
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
Capote: In Cold Blood
Herriot: All Creatures Great and Small

Any of Paul Theroux travel books. Love that guy, am reading The Happy Isles Of Oceania now. Most libraries carry at least some of his books as he has written tons. He also writes fiction, so check the nonfiction section for his travel adventures.

Cicero, the life & times of Rome's greatest politician by Anthony Everitt
Hittlerland: American Eyewitnesses To The Nazi Rise To Power by Andrew Negorski
Twenty Chickens For A Saddle by Robyn Scott
Affirmation Action Around The World by Thomas Sowell
Winston Churchill: An Intimate Portrait by Violet Bonham Carter
Lady Almina and The Real Downton Abbey, the lost legacy of Highclere Castle by The Countess of Carnarvon
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard

My fav true story is Giant George!
check out his web site
http://giantgeorge.com/
Gale

Thanks just finished the Shopping for Porcupine & have started Peter jenkins book on Alaska now as our library didn't have the one on Amercia.