Book Review: The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book’s Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey, Margaret Leslie Davis Nonfiction: The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book’s Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey, Margaret Leslie Davis On October 14, 1950, an ordinary wooden box arrives at the southern California home of Estelle Doheny. Inside the box, wrapped almost carelessly by […]
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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: Dreyer’s English, Benjamin Dreyer
Book Review: Dreyer’s English, Benjamin Dreyer Nonfiction: Dreyer’s English, Benjamin Dreyer This is a delightful, funny, and soon-to-become indispensable guide to writing in American English. Benjamin Dreyer has been a copy editor for Random House for more than 20 years. He has worked with numerous authors during that time, authors who appreciate both his attention […]
The Evolution of Everything, Matt Ridley
Book Review: The Evolution of Everything, Matt Ridley Nonfiction: The Evolution of Everything, Matt Ridley When Matt Ridley titled his book The Evolution of Everything, he really wasn’t kidding. From the scientific to the social to the technological, Ridley examines how things develop from the bottom up rather than the top down. His arguments are […]
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine; Emily Bernard
Book Review: Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine, Emily Bernard Nonfiction: Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine, Emily Bernard Black Is the Body is an extraordinary book. It is a collection of first-person essays by Emily Bernard, essays that […]
Book Review: Landmarks, Robert MacFarlane
Book Review: Landmarks, Robert MacFarlane Nonfiction: Landmarks, Robert MacFarlane I have read books that deeply affected me, books that I believe changed the way I saw the world, that gave me insight into myself or society, that taught me new words and concepts and facts. Landmarks by Robert MacFarlane did all of that for […]
Book Review: The Library Book, Susan Orlean
Book Review: The Library Book, Susan Orlean Nonfiction: The Library Book, Susan Orlean I read The Library Book without knowing a lot about it. For instance, I had no idea that author Susan Orlean was such a wonderful observer of humanity. She describes a patron in “one of the carrels in history, a man in […]
Book Review: Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird, Katie Fallon
Book Review: Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird, Katie Fallon Nonfiction Natural Sciences: Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird, Katie Fallon “A turkey vulture is a perfect creature.” The opening line of the main text captures the entire premise of the book. The subtitle to Vulture is a bit misleading: […]
Book Review: The Point of Poetry, Joe Nutt
Book Review: How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler, Ryan North
Book Review: How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler, Ryan North Nonfiction: How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler, Ryan North According to the foreword of this book, Ryan North did not write it. He found it, encased in preCambrian rock. He merely transcribed it. […]
Book Review: Heart Berries, Terese Marie Mailhot
Book Review: Heart Berries, Terese Marie Mailhot Memoir: Heart Berries, Terese Marie Mailhot Terese Marie Mailhot is many things. A writer. A member of a First Nation who grew up on a reservation. A survivor of sexual abuse. A single parent. A foster child. Someone who has lived with mental illness, including hospitalization, pharmacological treatments, and therapy. […]