Awesome Non-Fiction Reads from 2013

Last week we shared the top 10 fiction books checked out from the library in 2013. Well, we have also taken the data from last year and compiled a list of the top 10 non-fiction books checked out from Linebaugh Library in 2013. Perhaps one of these reads will offer you the financial solution, perfect diet, or history fix you've been searching for!

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Top 10 Non-fiction Reads

Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot by Bill O'Reilly
More than a million readers have thrilled to Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, the page-turning work of nonfiction about the shocking assassination that changed the course of American history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy—and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife by Eben Alexander
Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress.Then, Dr. Alexander's own brain was attacked by a rare illness. The part of the brain                                 that controls thought and emotion - and in essence makes us human - shut                                         down completely. For seven days he lay in a coma. Then, as his doctors                                               considered stopping treatment, Alexander's eyes popped open. He had come                                   back.

The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness by Dave Ramsey
The success stories speak for themselves in this book from money maestro Dave Ramsey. Instead of promising the normal dose of quick fixes, Ramsey offers a bold, no-nonsense approach to money matters, providing not only the how-to but also a grounded and uplifting hope for getting out of debt and achieving total financial health.


Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we owe many of the great contributions to society--from van                                     Gogh’s sunflowers to the invention of the personal computer.

Wheat Belly Cookbook: 150 Recipes to Help You Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health by William Davis
This cookbook companion to the New York Times bestseller Wheat Belly serves up 150 great tasting wheat-free recipes to help readers lose weight and beat disease.Wheat Belly shook the foundations of the diet world when author and renowned cardiologist William Davis revealed that an epidemic of adverse health effects—ranging from minor rashes and high                                        blood sugar to the buildup of stubborn belly fat (so-called "wheat bellies")—                                      could be banished forever with one simple step: Saying goodbye to wheat. 

Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly
The anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history—how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the bloody saga of America's Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of increasingly harrowing battles. President Abraham Lincoln's generous terms for Robert E. Lee's surrender are devised to fulfill Lincoln's                                      dream of healing a divided nation, with the former Confederates allowed to                                       reintegrate into American society. But one man and his band of murderous                                      accomplices, perhaps reaching into the highest ranks of the U.S. government,                                  are not appeased.

Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person                                      again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you? Mitch Albom had that                                          second chance.

The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation, America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America. This generation was united not only by a common purpose, but also by common values--duty, honor, economy, courage, service, love of family and country, and, above all,                                 responsibility for oneself. In this book, you will meet people whose everyday                                   lives reveal how a generation persevered through war, and were trained by it,                                   and then went on to create interesting and useful lives and the America we                                         have today. 

Shred: The Revolutionary Diet by Ian Smith
Dr. Ian K. Smith's Shred is the answer to every dieter's biggest dilemmas: how to lose that last twenty pounds? How to push through that frustrating plateau? What to do when nothing else is working? Here, Smith has created a weight loss program that uses all he knows about strategic dieting in one plan--like putting all the best players on the field at once to create a can't lose combination.

The Paleo Slow Cooker: Healthy, Gluten-Free Meals the Easy Way by Arsy Vartanian
The Paleo diet has been the latest health movement, taking the low carb diet a step further by eliminating grains and legumes and eating only lean, grass-fed meat. This is a popular trend much like the low carb diet. It is combined with the great bookselling topic of slow cooking. While the cavemen didn’t have slow cookers, they certainly used slow cooking techniques over fires                                          which make the meals in this book one step closer to the origins and theory                                      behind the diet. The delicious dishes are as homey as they are healthy—and                                      ready when you are.

~All synopses taken from goodreads.com