America in the Downieville Library: Continued

September 20, 2024

Wow! Who knew we had so many books in the library with “America” in the title. The list continues here: (all are non-fiction, unless otherwise noted):

American Childhoods, by David Willis McCullough

Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Americans, by Nicholas E. Meyer

The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects & Spiders, by Lorus & Margery Milne

The European Discovery of America, by Samuel Eliot Morison

America’s Seashore Wonderlands, by National Geographic Society

Life in Rural America, by National Geographic Society

The World of the American Indian, by National Geographic Society

I’m Third: An American Boy of Depression Years, by Robert A. Nordyde (biography)

Keeping Watch: A History of American Time, by Michael O’Malley

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, by Joyce Carol Oates

The New Oxford American Dictionary, by Oxford University Press

Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America, by Gregory Pardlo

A History of Latin America, by George Pendle

South to America, by Imani Perry

XIT: The American Cowboy, by Caleb Pirtle

The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology, by Paul Radin

America’s Fascinating Indian Heritage, by Reader’s Digest

American Folklore and Legend, by Reader’s Digest

Discovering America’s Past, by Reader’s Digest

Treasury of American Humor, by Reader’s Digest

United States of Americana, by Kurt B. Reighley

The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth (fiction)

Bedside Book of Bad Girls: Outlaw Women of the American West, by Michael Rutter

30/30: Thirty American Stories from the Last Thirty Years, by Porter Shreve (fiction)

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith

Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation, by Richard Norton Smith (biography)

Images of America, by Smithsonian Books

Images of America: Auburn, by Arthur Sommers

The Pocket Book of Verse: Great English and American Poems, by M.E. Speare

The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers, by Richard Spellenberg

Fusang: The Chinese Who Build America, by Stan Steiner

America’s Most Scenic Drives on the Nation’s Highways and Byways, by Robert Sullivan

Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II, by Ronald Takaki

The Native Americans: An Illustrated History, by David Hurst Thomas

Democracy in America, by Alex de Tocqueville

American Eve, by Paula Uruburu

The American Agent, by Jacqueline Winspear (fiction)

Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI’s Robert Hanssen Betrayed America, by David Wise

Black Boy (American Hunger) // The Outsider, by Richard Wright

Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America, by Christopher Wylie

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2017, by Charles Yu (fiction)

And, there you have it folks. A total of 113 books with “America”, in some form, in their titles — gracing the shelves of the Downieville Library. And, the good news is that all of them (if I’m not mistaken) are available to be checked out by the lucky library patron who has a library card. That could be you! Is it?

So, now that you know where to do your research on “America”, I’ll be providing, in next week’s column, the answers to the “America” quiz that I posed for you a couple of weeks ago.

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