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"What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative." - Tracy Kidder.

Nonfiction encompasses a wealth of reading possibilities - history, essays, memoirs, scientific research, travel guides, cookbooks - essentially everything that is based on fact, real events and real people. Recent nonfiction titles for the Kindle that you might have missed:

Walking Israel: A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation, by Martin Fletcher. Thomas Dunne Books, 2010. Print Length: 320 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars. Kindle edition $12.99 (Hardcover: $17.15). Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"With its dense history of endless conflict and biblical events, Israel's coastline is by far the most interesting hundred miles in the world. As longtime chief of NBC’s Tel Aviv news bureau, Martin Fletcher is in a unique position to interpret Israel, and he brings it off in a spectacular and novel manner. Last year he strolled along the entire coast, from Lebanon to Gaza, observing facets of the country that are ignored in news reports, yet tell a different and truer story. Walking Israel is packed with hilarious moments, historical insights, emotional, true-life tales, and, above all, great storytelling." - Amazon.

No Ordinary Joes: The Extraordinary True Story of Four Submariners in War and Love and Life, by Larry Colton. Crown, 2010. Price Length: 384 p. Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $14.30 (Hardcover: $17.16). Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"On April 23, 1943, the seventy-man crew of the USS Grenadier scrambled to save their submarine - and themselves - after a Japanese aerial torpedo sent it crashing to the ocean floor. Miraculously, the men were able to bring the sub back to the surface, only to be captured by the Japanese. No Ordinary Joes tells the harrowing story of four of the Grenadier’s crew: Bob Palmer of Medford, Oregon; Chuck Vervalin of Dundee, New York; Tim McCoy of Dallas, Texas; and Gordy Cox of Yakima, Washington. All were enlistees from families that struggled through the Great Depression. The lure of service and duty to country were not their primary motivations - they were more compelled by the promise of a job that provided 'three hots and a cot' and a steady paycheck. On the day they were captured, all four were still teenagers..." - from the hardcover edition.

The Last Speakers: The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered Languages, by K. David Harrison. National Geographic, 2010. Print Length: Amazon customer rating: Kindle edition $14.85 (Hardcover: $17.82). Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"“This wonderful book is really three wonderful books wrapped into one: a world travelogue of languages; a moving personal account of the last speakers of vanishing languages; and a revelation of the knowledge tied to each language. Perhaps you’re among the many people who think, ‘Wouldn’t we better off with just a few major languages? Let those thousands of little local languages disappear.’ After reading this book you’ll know why all those little local languages do matter, and what can be done to save them.” - Jared Diamond, Professor of Geography at UCLA and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies and Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.

The Everything Guide to Online Genealogy: A Complete Resource for Using the Web to Trace Your Family History, by Kimberly Powell. Adams Media, 2010. Print Length: 304 p. Amazon customer rating: Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"With millions of records now available online, those interested in their family history have a wealth of information, and misinformation, at their fingertips. In this book, author Kimberly Powell, the About.com Guide to Genealogy, helps both novice and experienced genealogists sort it all out. She shows you where to search and which key-words you'll need to create an accurate family tree from start to finish. With this book, you will learn how to create an online search strategy, use search engines and Soundex to find kin, reach out to others with peer-to-peer record swapping, discover useful records from around the world, and more. Packed with tips on free databases, search sites, and downloadable government records, you will have all you need to use the Web to dig out your family's true tale!" - Amazon.

At Home: A Short History of Private Life, by Bill Bryson. Doubleday, 2010. Print Length: 512 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything) takes readers on a tour of his house, a rural English parsonage, and finds it crammed with 10,000 years of fascinating historical bric-a-brac. Each room becomes a starting point for a free-ranging discussion of rarely noticed but foundational aspects of social life. A visit to the kitchen prompts disquisitions on food adulteration and gluttony; a peek into the bedroom reveals nutty sex nostrums and the horrors of premodern surgery; in the study we find rats and locusts; a stop in the scullery illuminates the put-upon lives of servants. Bryson follows his inquisitiveness wherever it goes, from Darwinian evolution to the invention of the lawnmower, while savoring eccentric characters and untoward events.. In demonstrating how everything we take for granted, from comfortable furniture to smoke-free air, went from unimaginable luxury to humdrum routine, Bryson shows us how odd and improbable our own lives really are." - Publishers Weekly.

The English is Coming!, by Leslie Dunton-Downer. Touchstone, 2010. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (3 reviews). Kindle edition $10.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"English has fast become the number one language for everything from business and science, diplomacy and education, entertainment and environmentalism to socializing and beyond - virtually any human activity unfolding on a global scale. Worldwide, nonnative speakers of English now outnumber natives three to one; and in China alone, more people use English than in the United States - a remarkable feat for a language that got its start as a mongrel tongue on an island fifteen hundred years ago. Through the fascinating stories of thirty English words used and understood in nearly all corners of the globe, The English Is Coming! takes readers on an eye-opening journey across culture and commerce, war and peace, and time and space. These mini-histories shed new light on everyday words: the strange turns of fate by which their meanings evolved and their new roles as the building blocks of the first language ever to forge a global community. Exploring such familiar terms as shampoo (from a Hindi word for scalp and body hygiene long practiced in India); robot (coined by Czech painter Josef Capek for his brother Karel’s 1921 play about man-made creatures); credit (rooted in a prehistoric phrase of sacred significance: 'to put heart into'); and dozens of others..." - Amazon.

River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, by Peter Hessler. Harper Collins, 2010. Print Length: 432 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (189 reviews). Kindle edition $10.99 (Hardcover: $19.83). Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"In 1996, 26-year-old Peter Hessler arrived in Fuling, a town on China's Yangtze River, to begin a two-year Peace Corps stint as a teacher at the local college. Along with fellow teacher Adam Meier, the two are the first foreigners to be in this part of the Sichuan province for 50 years. Expecting a calm couple of years, Hessler at first does not realize the social, cultural, and personal implications of being thrust into a such radically different society. In River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, Hessler tells of his experience with the citizens of Fuling, the political and historical climate, and the feel of the city itself...Hessler's writing is lovely. His observations are evocative, insightful, and often poignant - and just as often, funny. It's a pleasure to read of his (mis)adventures... --Dana Van Nest for Amazon.

How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, by Sarah Bakewell. Other Press, 2010. Print Length: 400 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (8 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"In a wide-ranging intellectual career, Michel de Montaigne found no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well. By casting her biography of the writer as 20 chapters, each focused on a different answer to the question How to live? Bakewell limns Montaigne’s ceaseless pursuit of this most elusive knowledge. Embedded in the 20 life-knowledge responses, readers will find essential facts - when and where Montaigne was born, how and whom he married, how he became mayor of Bordeaux, how he managed a public life in a time of lethal religious and political passions. But Bakewell keeps the focus on the inner evolution of the acute mind informing Montaigne’s charmingly digressive and tolerantly skeptical essays... Because Montaigne’s capacious mirror still captivates many, this insightful life study will win high praise from both scholars and general readers. - Bryce Christensen for Booklist.
The Complete Essays of Montaigne are available from the Amazon Kindle Bookstore in a variety of editions.