Nonfiction

Here, Kitty, Kitty

June 1, 2016 | SuzyQ

True stories about cats.

Dewey : the small-town library cat who touched the world by Vicki Myron
Dewey's nine lives : the legacy of the small-town library cat who inspired millions by Vicki Myron

Musical Lives

June 1, 2016 | SuzyQ

Read one of these autobiographies by some of your favorite musicians.

Unfaithful music & disappearing ink by Elvis Costello
It's a long story : my life by Willie Nelson

Creative Minds

June 1, 2016 | SuzyQ

Writers, musicians, artists, actors, designers, scientists ..... Read about thee creative people from past and present.

The age of genius : the seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind by A. C Grayling
Your song changed my life : from Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, thirty-five beloved artists on their journey and the music that inspired it by Bob Boilen

Basketball Roundup

June 1, 2016 | obrienbc
Boys among men : how the prep-to-pro generation redefined the NBA and sparked a basketball revolution by Jonathan P. D. Abrams
The legends club : Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and the story of an epic college basketball rivalry by John Feinstein
Chasing Perfection : A Behind-the-scenes Look at the High-stakes Game of Creating an Nba Champion by Andy Glockner

New Books on the History Shelf

May 25, 2016 | SuzyQ
The Romanovs : 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
The fires of spring : a post-Arab Spring journey through the turbulent new Middle East by Shelly Culbertson

A narrative of the author Shelly Culbertson's journey through six countries of the Middle East, describing countries, historical perspective, and interviews with revolution and government figures. With honesty, empathy, and expert historical accuracy, Culbertson strives to answer the questions "what led to the Arab Spring," "what is it like there now," and "what trends after the Arab Spring are shaping the future of the Middle East?

Beer money : a memoir of privilege and loss by Frances Stroh

New Books on the History Shelf

May 6, 2016 | SuzyQ
"Most blessed of the patriarchs" : Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination by Annette Gordon-Reed
Full moon over Noah's ark : an odyssey to Mount Ararat and beyond by Rick Antonson

 Mount Ararat is the most fabled mountain in the world. For millennia this massif in eastern Turkey has been rumored as the resting place of Noah's Ark following the Great Flood. But it also plays a significant role in the longstanding conflict between Turkey and Armenia. Author Rick Antonson joined a five-member expedition to the mountain's nearly 17,000-foot summit, trekking alongside a contingent of Armenians, for whom Mount Ararat is the stolen symbol of their country.

Detroit resurrected : to bankruptcy and back by Nathan Bomey

Nonfiction Book Group June 2016

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The Wright brothers by David G McCullough
Also available in: e-book | audiobook | large print

On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot. David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the profoundly American story of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Far more than a couple of unschooled Dayton bicycle mechanics who happened to hit on success, they were men of courage, determination and ceaseless curiosity.

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New Books on the History Shelf

April 21, 2016 | SuzyQ
Anonymous soldiers : the struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 by Bruce Hoffman
Dreams of a great small nation : the mutinous army that threatened a revolution, destroyed an empire, founded a republic, and remade the map of Europe by Kevin J McNamara
Empire of things : how we became a world of consumers, from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first by Frank Trentmann

New Books on the Biography Shelf

April 19, 2016 | SuzyQ
The grand tour : the life and music of George Jones by Richard Kienzle
The first Nazi : Erich Ludendorff, the man who made Hitler possible by Will Brownell
Back from the dead by Bill Walton

2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners

April 19, 2016 | daviscrl

This year marks the 100th awarding of the Pulitzer Prizes. The 2016 winners include:

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Winner of the Fiction Category, this is a gripping spy novel, a moving story of love and friendship, and a layered portrayal of a young man drawn into extreme politics,The Sympathizer examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.

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