Re: [LM_NET] Target: excellent non-fiction for adults

[Donna Steel Cook <donnasteelcook@YAHOO.COM>]

Ann-Marie, I've copied the blub from the www.ala.org site about their Notable 
Books.  This sounds like the list you're looking for.  Go to www.ala.org.  Choose 
Awards and Scholarships at the top, and then choose Books and Media Awards in the 
left frame, and then scroll down to 
   
  Notable Books for Adults
Since 1944, the goal of the Notable Books Council, of the CODES Section the 
Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has been to make available to the 
nation’s readers a list of approximately 25 very good, very readable, and at times 
very important fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books for the adult reader.
  

Ann Marie Gordon <agordon@LIVONIACSD.ORG> wrote:
  Hi, folks.

I'm looking for adult non-fiction in two specific areas, but I'd also
like to build a list of particularly good adult non-fiction of the last
ten years. 

My two specific areas:
I need a biography of Gandhi. There are about a million hits on
Amazon--can anyone recommend a particularly good one?
I also need books on the history of food & drink--any culture, anywhere.
I already have "A History of the World in Six Glasses" and "Much
Depends on Dinner" on the list. Any ideas? 

Any other marvelous non-fiction you can recommend in any subject area?

Thanks so much!





Anne-Marie Gordon
Library Media Specialist
Livonia Primary School
Livonia, NY
http://www.livoniacsd.org/class_webs/agordon
http://squareone.pbwiki.com

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
--Groucho Marx

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