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July 2007
Compiled byVirginia Singletary, of the Stella Hill Memorial Library, Alto, TX, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

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Allen, Merritt Parmalee   Mudhen series; Johnny Reb series

Altsheler, Joseph   Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women

Angell, Jeannette   Callgirl

Balfour, Sandy   Nursing America: One Year Behind the Nursing Stations of an Inner-City Hospital

Bourdain, Anthony   Kitchen Confidential; The Nasty Bits

Bowe, John et al. (editors)   Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs

Brenner, Leslie   Fourth Star: Dispatches from Inside Daniel Boulud's Celebrated New York Restaurant

Bronson, Po   What Should I Do With My Life: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question

Bryan, Mike   Baseball Lives: Men and Women of the Game Talk About Their Jobs, Their Lives, and the National Pastime

Buford, Bill   Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-quoting Butcher in Tuscany

Burana, Lily   Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America

Burau, Caroline   Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat

Burton, Betsy   King's English: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller

Cecchini, Toby   Cosmopolitan: A Bartender's Life

Chen, Pauline   Final Exam

Codell, Esme Raji   Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year

Cody, Diablo   Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper

Conlon, Edward   Blue Blood

Conover, Ted   Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

Daria, Irene   Lutece: A Day in the Life of America's Greatest Restaurant

Durrell, Gerald   How to Shoot an Amateur Naturalist; Menagerie Manor; The Ark's Anniversay; The Aye-Aye and I; other titles

Dusenberry, Phil   Then We Set His Hair on Fire

Edwards-Jones, Imogen (and Anonymous)   Hotel Babylon; Fashion Babylon; Air Babylon

Ehrenreich, Barbara   Bait and Switch; Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

Febbroriello, Courtney   Wife of the Chef

Feynmann, Richard P.   Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynmann

Foss, Rene   Around the World in a Bad Mood!: Confessions of a Flight Attendant

Gass, Thomas Edward   Nobody's Home: Candid Reflections of a Nursing Home Aide

Gawande, Atul   Complications

Ginsberg, Debra   Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress

Grosz, Terry   Wildlife Wars: The Life and Times of a Fish and Game Warden

Herriot, James   All Creatures Great and Small; All Things Bright and Beautiful; All Things Wise and Wonderful; The Lord God Made Them All

Hester, Elliott   Plane Insanity: A Flight Attendant's Tales of Sex, Rage, and Queasiness at 30,000 Feet

Huyler, Frank   The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine

Johnson, Jennifer   Getting By On the Minimum: The Lives of Working-Class Women

Jordan, Pete   Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes

Kaplan, James   Airport: Terminal Nights and Runway Days at John F. Kennedy

Karesh, William B.   Appointment at the Ends of the World: Memoirs of a Wildlife Veterinarian

Kidder, Tracy   House; Among Schoolchildren

Kleinfield, Sonny   The Hotel: A Week in the Life of the Plaza

Kollman, Dana   Never Suck a Dead Man's Hand: Curious Adventures of a CSI

Laurance, William   Stinging Trees and Wait-a-Whiles: Confessions of a Rainforest Biologist

Lehman, Elton   Housecalls and Hitching Posts: Stories from Dr. Elton Lehman's Career Among the Amish

Leon, Vicki   Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World

Levison, Iain   A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir

Lynch, Thomas   The Undertaking

Marcus, James   Amazonia

McCarthy, Bill and Mike Mallowe   Vice Cop: My Twenty-Year Battle with New York's Dark Side

McCarthy, Claire   Learning How the Heart Beats: The Making of a Pediatrician

McCourt, Frank   Teacher Man

McPhee, John   Giving Good Weight; Heirs of General Practice; Irons in the Fire; Looking for a Ship; The Headmaster; Uncommon Carriers

Neimann, Linda G.   Boomer: Railroad Memoirs

Orr, John W.   Set Up Running: The Life of a Pennsylvania Railroad Engineman, 1904--1949

Owings, Alison   Hey Waitress: The USA From the Other Side of the Tray

Paul, Caroline   Fighting Fire

Petroski, Henry   The Paperboy

Psaltis, Doug   The Seasoning of a Chef: My Journey from Diner to Ducasse and Beyond

Rafkin, Louise   Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures

Reavill, Gil   Aftermath, Inc.: Cleaning Up after CSI Goes Home

Reichl, Ruth   Garlic and Sapphires

Robinson, Jeffrey   Hotel: Backstairs at the World's Most Exclusive Hotel

Rodriguez, Deborah   Kabul Beauty School

Ruhlman, Michael   Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America; Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection

 
 
      
   
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