Some Additions to the Non-Fiction Prose Shelves

Tulipomania:  The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused by Mike Dash

Truman by David McCullough

The Black Swan:  The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Sea Shells by Paul Valery (translated by Ralph Manheim)

Hiroshige:  Prints and Drawings edited by Matthi Forrer

Going Home:  Essays by Tim Lilburn

The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, 2 volumes

The Geography of the Imagination:  Forty Essays by Guy Davenport

Poetic Closure:  A Study of How Poems End by Barbara Herrnstein Smith

Shades of Glory:  The Negro Leagues and The Story of African-American Baseball by Lawrence D. Hogan

The Gashouse Gang:  How Dizzy Dean, Leo Durocher, Branch Rickey, Pepper Martin, and their Colorful, Come-from-Behind Ball Club Won the World Series -- and America's Heart -- During the Great Depression by John Heidenry

Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture by Lisa Robertson

Perfect Vegetables by the Editors ofCook's Illustrated Magazine

Tagine:  Spicy Stews from Morocco by Ghillie Basan

Cultural Amnesia:  Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James