Nonfiction: Books to Grow & Learn
In this category, Books for Growing & Learning, you will find nonfiction and resources in topics such as cooking and crafts as well as science and current events. This section is for readers to feed both the mind and body with ideas and activities for thoughtful contemplation or personal development.
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Book Review: Mobituaries, Mo Rocca and Jonathan Greenberg Nonfiction: Mobituaries, Mo Rocca and Jonathan Greenberg Did you know that Thomas Paine, famed author of the Revolutionary War era pamphlet Common Sense, writer of the sentence “These are the times that try men’s souls,” the single best selling American author in history (by percentage […]
Book Review: Fathoms, Rebecca Giggs Nonfiction: Fathoms, Rebecca Giggs Fathoms is a difficult book to read for many reasons. All of those reasons also make it a book that you should read. The book begins and ends with beached whales. Author Rebecca Giggs visits the sites of both beachings in Australia, her […]
Book Review: In Black and White, Alexandra Wilson NonFiction: In Black and White, Alexandra Wilson Blog Tour: October 2, 2020 I often reflect upon my good fortune despite, which is true despite various challenges I may face. I grew up in a stable home with parents who loved me. We were comfortably middle-class and […]
Book Review: Inside Out: Poems on Writing and Reading Poems, Marjorie Maddox Poetry/Nonfiction: Inside Out: Poems on Writing and Reading Poems, Marjorie Maddox Inside Out is absolutely delightful. I truly wish that someone had written this book 40 years ago when I was in junior high school. Of course, Marjorie Maddox was not […]
Book Review: Starchild, Michaela Foster Marsh Memoir: Starchild, Michaela Foster Marsh Michaela Foster Marsh has known her share of both love and loss. She grew up in a loving family in Glasgow, Scotland. Her father was a minister in the Church of Scotland. Her mother was devoted to her children. And Michaela was […]
Book Review: Because Internet, Gretchen McCulloch Nonfiction: Because Internet, Gretchen McCulloch Because Internet is subtitled Understanding the New Rules of Language. It is one linguist’s efforts to study and learn the effects of the Internet on the use of English, particularly in Canada (the author’s home), US, Britain, and Australia. This is a […]
Book Review: Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, Elizabeth Rush Nonfiction: Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, Elizabeth Rush One reviewer calls Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore “the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing” (Chicago Tribune). I cannot think of a more apt description. This book […]
Book Review: Beneath the Tamarind Tree, Isha Sesay Nonfiction: Beneath the Tamarind Tree, Isha Sesay Former CNN journalist Isha Sesay covered the story of the kidnapped girls from Chibok, Nigeria from the beginning. In April, 2014, gunmen from Boko Haram attacked the small town of Chibok. One of their targets was the school. Boko Haram, […]
Book Review: The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells NonFiction: The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells If a non-fiction book can be a horror story, David Wallace-Wells has written one with The Uninhabitable Earth. Filled with chapters titled “Heat Death,” “Hunger,” “Drowning,” etc., the book looks in depth at the various calamities our world faces as […]
