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|  | Whiteout by Ted Conover
Irreverent, poignant, and revealing, this meditation on the sweet temptation of wealth and the vainglorious quest for paradise as they exist in Aspen, Colorado, features a cast of characters (that) includes such barn-size satirical targets as exclusive health clubs, over-the-hill drug dealers and movie stars and rock stars of wattages bright and dim (The New Republic). AUTHOR: Ted Conover
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | My Dog
Description not available.Explains how to care for a dog, discussing such topics as how to choose a breed, how to choose pet foods and toys, how to train a dog, and when to visit the veterinarian.
PUBLISHER: Creative Publishing International, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Pets & Animals
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 | The Vampire of Tradition by Alan Dundes
A study of the vampire problem exclusive of literary and other representations. The editor, an anthropologist, presents papers going back as far as the late 18th century, from ethnography and other fields, some which are classic. AUTHOR: Alan Dundes
PUBLISHER: University of Wisconsin Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Love in a Dark Time by Colm Toibin
This study of literature and artwork by gay and lesbian artists including Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Bishop, Mark Doty, and Pedro Almodovar, illuminates how their homosexuality informed their work. AUTHOR: Colm Toibin
PUBLISHER: Scribner
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Black Indians by William Katz
The role of black Indians, largely omitted from or distorted in conventional history books, is traced by Katz with careful and committed research. . . . he integrates their general history with brief individual biographies, including leaders, army scouts and soldiers, frontiersmen and explorers, (and) dangerous outlaws .--Booklist. AUTHOR: William Katz
PUBLISHER: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Anything Considered by David Case, Peter Mayle
Bennett, an English expatriate, lives in France but can't afford the lifestyle he desires. He places an ad in the International Herald Tribune volunteering his services--any services. A man named Julian Poe, who has the inside scoop on truffle production, hires him, and Bennett finds himself in Monaco living the life of his dreams. However, he is soon pursued by the Mafia, joined by a beautiful woman named Anna, and surrounded by monks dedicated to Bacchus. AUTHOR: David Case, Peter Mayle
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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