America in the Downieville Library: Continued

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.