Week 8: Nonfiction

Assignment 3: Nonfiction genres
1. Biography:  In our library, the biographies are found under biography, and group biographies    
     under 920.  Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff, BIO CLE
2. Science:  located in the 500's; narrative nonfiction is shelved with informational books on the same
    topics;  F 5: Devestation, survival and the most violent tornado outbreak of
    the twentieth century, by Mark Levine, 551.553 L.  This book would also be part of the
    Disaster/Survival genre, although it is located with the books on weather.
3. Food:  narrative nonfiction about food in general is located  in the 641-641.1; Animal, Vegetable,
    Miracle: a year of food life, by Barbara Kingsolver, 641.0973 K.  Books about more specific food
     topics, like In Pursuit of Garlic: an intimate look at the divinely odorous bulb, by Liz Primeau,
     641.65 P, are shelved with cookbooks on the same subject matter.
4. History: located in the 900's, American history in 973's; narrative nonfiction is located with 
    informational books on the same topic;  Hour of Peril: the Secret Plot to Murder
    Lincoln before the Civil War, by Daniel Stashower, 973.7092 S.