Director's musings
Titles in the Director's Musings Collection shelved in the Nine Muses Café in the Central Library.
Airball: My Life in Briefs by L.D. Harkrader
All Aunt Hagar's Children: HawkenStories by Edward P. Jones
The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States by H. L. Mencken
America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley by Philip Furia and Michael Lasser
Bleeding Kansas by Sara Paretsky
Churchill: A Life by Martin Gilbert
Drought by Debra Di Blasi
Elvis is Titanic: Classroom Tales from the Other Iraq by Ian Klaus
The Essence of Liberty: Free Black Women during the Slave Era by Wilma King
Far from Any Coast by C.W. Guswelle
The Feast: Prose Poem Sequences by Walter Bargen
First World War by Martin Gilbert
Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library by Don Borchert
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
The Generation of 1914 by Robert Wohl
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, bibliomanes, and the eternal passion for books by Nicholas Basbanes
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Good-bye to the Mermaids: A Childhood Lost in Hitler's Berlin by Karin Finell
Gossamer by Lois Lowry
The Historian as Detective: Essays on Evidence edited by Robin Winks
Holy Smoke by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I Was Right on Time: My journey from the Negro Leagues to the Majors by Buck O'Neil
Infante's Inferno by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Into the Labyrinth by Roderick Townley
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician by Christoph Wolff
Kansas City Jazz: From ragtime to bebop—a history by Chuck Haddix
The Last Cattle Drive by Robert Day
Libraries in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson
The Life of Johnson by James Boswell
A Mencken Chrestomathy by H. L. Mencken
Messenger by Lois Lowry
Montage of a Dream: Art & Life of Langston Hughes by John Edgar Tidwell and Cheryl R. Raga
Myths of the Greeks and Romans
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins
New England White by Stephen L. Carter
On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, writing, playing, believing, lecturing, philosophizing, singing, dancing by James Schall
On the Wealth of Nations: Books that Changed the World by P.J. O’Rourke
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by Maria Rosa Menocal
Other People’s Dirt: A Housecleaner’s Curious Adventures by Louise Rafkin
Outside Language: Essays by Robert Stewart
The Practical Cogitator: Or, The Thinker’s Anthology by Charles P. Curtis
Promesas: Geography of the Impossible by Gloria Vando
The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army that Won the Revolution by John Buchanan
Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways by Valerie Hemingway
Selections from the Tatler and Spectator edited by Angus Ross
Smonk by Tom Franklin
Stomping the Blues by Albert Murray
Sundancers and River Demons: Essays on Landscape and Ritual by Conger Beasley, Jr.
The Touched Life: Poems Selected and New by David Ray
The Trojan War: A New History by Barry Strauss
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
Working with Truman: A Personal Memoir of the White House Years by Ken Hechler
