Adult Non-Fiction



Healy, Anastasia Mills

Title by this Author:

Secret Connecticut: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure (Reedy Press, 2021)


Gagliardi, Ron

Title by this Author:

Images of America: Cheshire

Naugatuck Revisited


Hawk, James W.

Title by this Author:
  • James W. Hawk – Windows on the Universe: A life unscripted, a film yet to be produced – an autobiography (2021)
  • Jenny – She was trying to ease her father’s grief by doing things for him that would give him pleasant memories of his deceased wife. (2021)
  • CONFLUENCE – When her realities coalesce, they transcend the boundaries of reason! (2020)
  • Failure – Future generations would remember me as the father of civilization. (2017)
  • Willard’s Fundamental Force – “…if you want to be in the company of Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, and Einstein.” (2017)
  • To beta-Vanverden and Back – They undertook a momentous intergalactic mission to try to restore the former glory of their civilization. (2016)

Claps, Robert

Title by this Author:

Casting, (2021, Antrim House Books)


Caplan, Sheri J.

Title by this Author:

Old Enough: How 18-Year-Olds Won the Vote & Why it Matters (Heath Hen, 2020), ISBN: 978-1735493008

Petticoats and Pinstripes: Portraits of Women in Wall Street’s History (Praeger, 2013), ISBN: 978-1440802652

 


Chapman, Sherry

Title by this Author:

How Much Big Is the Sky: A Memoir of a Mother’s Love and Unfathomable Loss


Pirrotta, Paul

Title by this Author:

Hartford Mayor Ann Uccello: A Connecticut Trailblazer

Courage and Sacrifice: The Italian Immigrants of Hartford 1860-1960

The Exceptional Miss Uccello: the Legacy of Hartford’s First Female Mayor


Lion, Peter

Title by this Author:

“MERG” The true story of one WWII soldier’s selfless act of valor that one town that never forgot.

AMERICAN ST. NICK” The true story of how a handful of American soldiers brought Christmas back to a small war-torn town during the darkest days of WWII


Zimmer, Marc

Title by this Author:
  • “The State of Science: What the Future Holds and the Scientists Making It Happen.” Prometheus Books, 2020 (ISBN 978-1633886391).
  • “Solutions for a Cleaner, Greener Planet: Environmental Chemistry.” Twenty First Century Books, Minneapolis, 2019 (ISBN 978-1541519794).
  • “発光する生物の謎 (生命ふしぎ図鑑).” Nishimura Shoten, Matsusaka, 2017 (ISBN 978-4890137725).
  • “Lighting Up the Brain: The Science of Optogenetics.” Twenty First Century Books, Minneapolis, 2018 (ISBN 978-1512427523).
  • “Bioluminescence Nature and Science at Work.” Twenty First Century Books, Minneapolis, 2016 (ISBN 978-1467757843).
  • “Illuminating Disease.” Oxford University Press, New York, 2015. (ISBN 978-0199362813)
  • “Glowing Genes: A Revolution in Biotechnology.” Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, 2005. (ISBN 1-59102-253-3).
  • “光る遺伝子 オワンクラゲと緑色蛍光タンパク質GFP (単行本).” Maruzen Publishers, Tokyo, 2009. (ISBN 978-4621080948).

Spignesi, Stephen

Title by this Author:
• Mayberry, My Hometown
• The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia
• The Stephen King Quiz Book, Vols 1 & 2
• The Woody Allen Companion
• The Official “Gone With the Wind” Companion
• The V. C. Andrews Trivia and Quiz Book
• What’s Your “Mad About You” IQ?
• The Gore Galore Video Quiz Book
• What’s Your “Friends” IQ?
• The Celebrity Baby Name Book
• The “ER” Companion
• J.F.K. Jr.
• The Robin Williams Scrapbook
• The Italian 100
• The Beatles Book of Lists
• Young Kennedys: The New Generation
• The Lost Work of Stephen King
• The Complete Titanic
• How To Be An Instant Expert
• She Came In Through the Kitchen Window
• The USA Book of Lists
• The UFO Book of Lists
• The Essential Stephen King
• The Cat Book of Lists
• The Hollywood Book of Lists
• Gems, Jewels, & Treasures
• Catastrophe!
• In the Crosshairs
• Crop Circles: Signs of Contact (with Colin Andrews)
• The 100 Best Beatles Songs
• The Weird 100
• American Firsts
• What’s Your Red, White & Blue IQ?
• Dialogues: A Novel of Suspense
• George Washington’s Leadership Lessons
• Second Homes for Dummies (with Bridget McRae)
• From Michelangelo to Mozzarella: The Italian IQ Test
• Native American History for Dummies
• Lost Books of the Bible for Dummies
• The Third Act of Life (with Jerome Ellison)
• The Titanic for Dummies
• Grover Cleveland’s Rubber Jaw
• 635 Things I Learned from The Sopranos
• 499 Facts About Hamilton and the Founding Fathers
Dr. Bizarro’s Eclectic Collection of Strange & Unusual Facts
• The Big Book of UFO Facts, Figures & Truth
• Stephen King: American Master
• Elton John: Fifty Years On



Ramirez, Ainissa

Title by this Author:

Newton’s Football
Save Our Science


Farber, Sharon

Title by this Author:

Choosing to be a Medium: Experience & Share the Healing Wonder of Spirit Communication

Choosing to be a Medium Companion Journal


Anderson, Virginia DeJohn

Title by this Author:

New England’s Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century

Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America, American Journey: A History of the United States

The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale and Moses Dunbar


Dickinson, Duo

Title by this Author:

A Home Called New England: A Celebration of Hearth and History


Hays, David

Title by this Author:

Setting the Stage: What We Do, How We Do It, and Why
Today I Am Boy


Collins, Mary

Title by this Author:

At the Broken Places: A Mother and Trans Son Pick Up the Pieces, Beacon Press, 2017

American Idle: A Journey Through Our Sedentary Culture(Capital Books, 2013)

Airborne: A Photobiography of Wilbur and Orville Wright, National Geographic Books, 2003



Huguenin, Jade C.

Title by this Author:

Postcard History: Mystic


Thorson, Robert M.

Title by this Author:

The Guide to Walden Pond: An Exploration of the History, Nature, Landscape, and Literature of one of America’s Most Iconic Places (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)

The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau’s River Years (Harvard University Press, 2017)

Walden’s Shore: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth Century Science (Harvard University Press, 2014)

Beyond Walden: The Hidden History of America’s Kettle Lakes and Ponds (Bloomsbury, 2009)

Exploring Stone Walls: A Field Guide to New England’s Stone Walls (Walker/Bloomsbury, 2005)

Stone by Stone: The Magnificent History in New England’s Stone Walls (Walker/Bloomsbury, 2003).

Stone Wall Secrets (Tilbury House, 1998)


Jennifer Payne

Payne, Jennifer

Title by this Author:

Sleeping with Ghosts: Poems & Musings
Water Under the Bridge: A Sort-of Love Story
Waiting Out the Storm
Evidence of Flossing: What We Leave Behind
LOOK UP! Musings on the Nature of Mindfulness

 


Lynch, Patrick J.

Title by this Author:

A Field Guide to Long Island Sound
Web Style Guide, 4th ed.
A Field Guide to the Southeast Coast & Gulf of Mexico
A Field Guide to North Atlantic Wildlife, Manual of Ornithology


Srinivasan, Dr. Amrutur (Sheenu)

Title by this Author:

Puranas: A Magnifying Glass for Vedic Wisdom
The Bhagavad Gita: A Thread through the Eighteen Gems – A Re-reading
A Hindu Primer: Yaksha Prashna

HINDU WEDDING: The Guide ISBN 978-1-935052-38-8 paperback

CHANTINGS FOR A HINDU WEDDING CEREMONY [CD]
Managing Your Hindu Wedding in North America:The Day Before and THE Day!
A Guide to Couples, their Families and Priest; available in print (Ingram), ebook (Amazon) and audiobook (CDBaby) editions.
Hinduism for Dummies
Your hands-on guide to one of the world’s major religions
A series of nine individual booklets on HOW TO CONDUCT PUJA
to the following gods and goddesses:
Soorya, Shiva, SriRamachandra, SriKrishna, MahaaGanapati, Durgadevi, Saraswati, Mahalakshmi and The Navagrahas (1999 – 2016)
HOW TO CONDUCT SEEMANTAM
Hindu Rites for the Health of the Mother-to-be


Weber, Katharine

Title by this Author:

Still Life With Monkey, Paul Dry Books, 2018
The Memory of All That, Crown, 2011/Broadway 2012
True Confections, Shaye Arehart Books, 2010, Broadway 2011
Triangle, FSG 2006, Picador 2007
The Little Women, FSG 2003, Picador 2004
The Music Lesson, Crown 1999, Picador 2000
Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, Crown 1995/Picador 1996
[all available as e books]


Beeching, Barbara

Title by this Author:

Hopes and Expectations: origins of the black middle class in Hartford


Eastman, Cindy

Title by this Author:

Flip-Flops After 50: And Other Thoughts On Aging I Remembered To Write Down

Caregiver Confidential (to be published Fall 2024)

Fast Fallen Women – contributor (to be published Fall 2023)

Art in the Time of Unbearable Crisis – contributor

Fast Fierce Women – contributor

Laugh Out Loud: 40 Women Humorists Celebrate Then and Now…Before We Forget – contributor


Mangan, Gregg

Title by this Author:

On This Day in Connecticut History


Monagan, Charles

Title by this Author:

Carrie Welton
Connecticut Icons
The Neurotic’s Handbook


Fitzpatrick, David

Title by this Author:

Sharp: My Story of Madness, Cutting, and How I Reclaimed My Life


Crandall, Melissa

Title by this Author:

Tricks and Treats: A Collection of Spooky Stories by Connecticut Authors
Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Power of Forgiveness
Quantum Leap: Search and Rescue


Nawrocki, Amy

Title by this Author:

Reconnaissance
Four Blue Eggs
A History of Connecticut Food


Lehman, Eric

Title by this Author:

Insiders Guide to Connecticut
Homegrown Terror: Benedict Arnold and the Burning of New London
Shadows of Paris



Kayne, Sheryl

Title by this Author:

Immersion Travel USA
Volunteer Vacations Across America
Queen of the Kisses


Howard, Nora

Title by this Author:

Catch’d on Fire
Avon


Staubach, Suzanne

Title by this Author:

Clay: The History and Evolution of Humankind’s Relationship with Earth’s Most Primal Element
Guy Wolff: Master Potter in the Garden


Huber, Sonya

Title by this Author:

Opa Nobody (2008)
Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir (2010)
The Evolution of Hillary Ridham Clinton (2016)


Hilts, Elizabeth

Title by this Author:

Getting in Touch with Your Inner Bitch (2004)
The Bitch in the Bedroom (2006)
Every Freaking! Day with Rachell Ray: An Unauthorized Parody (2008)


Wortman, Marc

Title by this Author:

The Millionaire’s Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power

The Bonfire: The Seige and burning of Atlanta

1941: fighting the Shadow War: A Divided America in a World at War


Nolan, Patrick

Title by this Author:

CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys: How and Why US Agens Conspired to Assassinate JFK and RFK


Horning, Sandra

Title by this Author:

The Giant Hug
Chicks!
The Biggest Pumpkin


Samberg, Joel

Title by this Author:

Some Kind of Lonely Clown: The Music, Memory, and Melancholy Lives of Karen Carpenter

Grandpa Had a Long One: Personal Notes on the Life, Career and legacy of Benny Bell

Reel Jewish: A Century of Jewish Movies

Blowin’ in the Wind

Remember Me to Herald Square

Smack in the Middle: My Turbulent Time Treating Heroin Addicts at Odyssey House

Carpenters: An Illustrated Discography


Speart, Jessica

Title by this Author:

Winged Obsession
Unsafe Harbor
Blue Twilight


Leff, David K.

Title by this Author:

Deep Travel
Hidden in Plain Sight
The Last Undiscovered Place


Mattison, Alice

Title by this Author:

When We Argued All Night
The Book Borrower


Vermilyea, Peter

Title by this Author:

Hidden History of Litchfield County
Wicked Litchfield County




von Gootkin, Adam

Title by this Author:

Living Proof


Stelzer, Alice Plouchard

Title by this Author:

Female Adventurers: The Women Who Helped Colonize Massachusetts and Connecticut


Dicks, Matthew

Title by this Author:

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

Something Missing

Unexpectedly, Milo

The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs


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