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If you need inspiration

Posted by Jane J on Nov 21, 2023
A review of NPR's Books We Love by

If you're a bookie like me then this is the best time of the year. No, not because of the turkey and Black Friday sales (though those are a bonus), but because now is when NPR posts their Books We Love list and oh how happy it makes me to browse through all those possibles. Think of it as a cross between the library's Best Sellers and Too Good to Miss collections. There is something for everyone and every one of the titles is worth a look.

PW's Best Nonfiction Books of 2023

Posted by Kathy K on Oct 27, 2023

The lists for the best books of the year have started. Publishers Weekly's 2023 list contain a wide variety of books to choose from. Below are the nonfiction ones. There is a little bit of everything--histories, biographies, books about crime, sports, literature, science. There are a number of them that are on my to- read list. Are there any that you would add?

Let the festivities begin

Posted by Jane J on Oct 11, 2023

The Wisconsin Book Festival is the state’s premier literary event and it's starting soon. The festival will feature representative voices from our communities and spark conversations from a wide range of perspectives. At the Fall Celebration, you'll learn about the effect anxiety is having on our society, discuss gender identity, and explore issues facing the public school system.

Here's just a sampling of some of the great events that are planned.

Making the leap

Posted by on Oct 5, 2023
Clarissa
Ward

I’m a person who likes to read books that reflect what’s happening in my own life at the time. For example, having just changed careers and started a new job here at the library, I became interested in other people’s experiences with big changes in their lives. Perhaps this inclination was what drew me to pick up Clarissa Ward’s On All Fronts, which follows Ward when, immediately following the events of 9/11, she decides to make the leap into a new career as a war reporter.

Beyond Bestsellers - Nonfiction, Fall 2023

Great recent titles you may have missed, selected by our librarians.

October - December 2023 Issue

       

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Ahmed, Azam.  Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance.  
Andrews, Lena S.  Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II.  Ebook

Brown, Jericho, editor.  How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill.  

Campoverdi, Alejandra.  First Gen: A Memoir.  
Carlisle, Clare.  The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life. 
Carrière, Alice.  Everything/Nothing/Someone: A Memoir.  Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Chang, Leah L.  Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power.  
Coulter, Kristi.  Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career.  

Dickie, Gloria.  Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future.

Edin, Kathryn J.; Shaefer, H. Luke; Nelson, Timothy J.  The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America. 
Eilenberger, Wolfram.  The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times.  

Field, Andy.  Encounterism: The Neglected Joys of Being in Person.  
Flam, Laura and Liebowitz, Emily Sieu.  But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the '60s Girl Groups.  
Flannery, Kate.  Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles.  Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Francis, Gavin.  Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence.  
Franklin-Wallis, Oliver.  Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future.  
Freedman, Samuel G.  Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights.  
Funder, Anna.  Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life.  

Glatt, John.  Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders. 
Goldfarb, Ben.  Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet.
Goodyear, C.W.  President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier.  
Goyal, Nikhil.  Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty. 
Grush, Loren.  The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts. 
Gupta, Prachi.  They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies that Raised Us.  Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Gurba, Myriam.  Creep: Accusations and Confessions.  

Hamilton, Lisa M.  The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival.  
Hardin, Lara Love.  The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing.  Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Hartigan, Patti.  August Wilson: A Life. 
Huang, Yunte.  Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History.

Jones, Robert P.  The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: And the Path to a Shared American Future.  
Julavits, Heidi.  Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years.  

Kissinger, Meg.  While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence.  Ebook, downloadable audiobook 

Leland, Andrew.  The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight.  
Lepore, Jill.  The Deadline: Essays.  
Lipsky, David.  The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial.  Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Love, Bettina L.  Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal.  

Maclear, Kyo.  Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets.  
Mann, William J.  Bogie & Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair.  
McAdam, Jennifer.  Devil’s Coin: My Battle to Take Down the Notorious Onecoin Cryptoqueen.  
McCrae, Shane.  Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping.  Ebook, downloadable audiobook
McKenzie, Ben and Silverman, Jacob.  Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud.  Ebook, downloadable audiobook  
McPhee, John.  Tabula Rasa. Volume 1.
McPhee, Martha.  Omega Farm: A Memoir.  
McWhirter, Cameron.  American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15.  
Meals, Roy A.  Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement.
Meckler, Laura.  Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity.
Meltzer, Marisa.  Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier.  
Mikanowski, Jacob.  Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land.  
Miles, Tiya.  Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation.  
Monosson, Emily.  Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic. 
Moss, Stephen.  Ten Birds That Changed the World.  

Nancherla, Aparna.  Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome.  
Ndopu, Eddie.  Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever.  
Nguyen, Bich Minh.  Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir.  Ebook

Posnanski, Joe.  Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments.  Ebook, downloadable audiobook

Ramsey, Donovan X.  When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era.  Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Reeves, Roger.  Dark Days: Fugitive Essays.  
Rush, Elizabeth.  The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth.  

Schama, Simon.  Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations.  
Shane, Scott.  Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland.  
Shange, Ntozake.  Sing a Black Girl's Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange. 
Shields, Aomawa.  Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe. 
Shih, David.  Chinese Prodigal: A Memoir in Eight Arguments.  
Simmons, Ruth J.  Up Home: One Girl's Journey. 
Smilios, Maria.  The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis.  
Spillar, Katherine.  50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution.  
Stark, Peter.  Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation. 
Stowe, Hannah.  Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea.  

Thom, Kai Cheng.  Falling Back in Love With Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls.  Downloadable audiobook
Thomas, R. Eric.  Congratulations, the Best is Over!: Essays.  Ebook, downloadable audiobook

Walker, Tamara J.  Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad.  
Winder, Elizabeth.  Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones. 
Winn, Raynor.  Landlines: The Remarkable Story of a Thousand-Mile Journey Across Britain.  

Yeebo, Yepoka.  Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World.  

Zambreno, Kate.  The Light Room.  

Spare

Cover of Spare
Prince Harry,
Duke of Sussex
2023

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling--and how their lives would play out from that point on. 

For Harry, this is that story at last.

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