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Brown Bag Book Discussion - December 2003- Non-Fiction Reads |
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| She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders Jennifer Finney Boylan [Adult Non-Fiction 921 Boylan] James Boylan lived his life as best he could, traveling, becoming a respected teacher and writer, marrying and having two children. But by his mid-thirties he could no longer live with his great secret. Boylan takes heart wrenching yet funny look at his life as it becomes her life as James becomes Jennifer. |
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Vanished Kingdoms: A Woman Explorer in Tibet, China and Mongolia 1921-1925 Janet Wulsin [Adult Non-Fiction] Wulson’s travelogue takes her reader’s through Asia in the early 1920's with beautiful photos and fascinating accounts of her journeys. |
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| On Gold Mountain Lisa See [Adult Non-Fiction ] See chronicles the history of her Chinese immigrant ancestors as they work the railroad and struggle with tradition vs. Americanization. |
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| Driftwood Valley Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher [Adult Non-Fiction] In this true life adventure a naturalist husband and wife move to the wilds of Canada a live among nature and the local native Canadian Indians. |
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| Bielski Brothers Peter Duffy [Adult Non-Fiction] Like Otto Schindler these three brothers saved a great number of Jews during the Holocaust. Forming a hidden village in the forest of Belarus, the Bielski’s took in thousands of Jewish refugees but retaliated violently to those who betrayed them. |
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