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Sep 18

Swan: Poems and prose poems by Mary Oliver

Veronica NLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Nonfiction, What We're Readingpoems, poetry

Award-winning American poet Mary Oliver was once the best-selling poet in the United States (that title now belongs to Rumi). Swan: Poems and prose poems was published in 2010, making it one of her more recent works. I don’t just Read more

Sep 18

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the world to find the good death by Caitlin Doughty

Veronica NLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Nonfiction

Mortician Caitlin Doughty does it again with her second book, this time not about cremation, but still about death, don’t worry! In From Here to Eternity, she reviews her experiences in countries around the world, teaching us what she learned Read more

Jun 10

The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World’s Favorite Board Game by Mary Pilon

Gretchen MLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Nonfiction

The Monopolists explores the fascinating and little-known origins of the board game Monopoly. Though long marketed as the brainchild of an unemployed father during the Great Depression, Monopoly was in fact lifted almost entirely from a game that was invented Read more

May 29

What It’s Like To Be a Bird: From Flying To Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why by David Allen Sibley

Donna F1 CommentAdult Services Department, Science

During the sheltering-in-place period of late, I’ve had more time to notice birds and like the book title, I have wondered what birds are doing and why. With simple and cleanly rendered paintings, sketches and diagrams (all by the author), Read more

May 27

Audiobook – In Pieces written and read by Sally Field

Jeanne WLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Audiobooks, Biography, Nonfiction

Looking back on her life on and off the screen, Sally Field brings a mature, sensitive, and poignant reading to her intimate, hauntingly honest, as well as authentic and fresh memoir, In Pieces. She takes us through her personal life Read more

May 18

Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won by Tobias J. Moskowitz and L. Jon Wertheim

Gretchen MLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Nonfiction, Sports

Co-written by a sportswriter and an economist, Scorecasting uses statistics to examine and debunk popularly held ideas about sports. Focusing primarily on baseball, basketball, and football, it explores such topics as home-field advantage, referee bias, hot streaks, and why certain Read more

May 15

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

Donna FLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Medicine and Health

In this unimaginable real-life account of a Colorado family, six of Don and Mimi Galvin’s twelve children were diagnosed with schizophrenia, starting with their eldest son who was diagnosed in his late teens in the mid-1960s. Extensive interviews with family Read more

May 12

Audiobook – Still Foolin’ ‘Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys written and read by Billy Crystal

Jeanne WLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Audiobooks, Biography, Nonfiction

Billy Crystal has just turned 65 as he reflects on his personal and professional life while providing his observations on aging in his memoir, Still Foolin’ ‘Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys. Read more

May 12

18 Tiny Deaths: the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics by Bruce Goldfarb

Linda NLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Biography

The reason I picked up 18 Tiny Deaths was for the dioramas depicted on the cover. Frances Lee had made 18 little scenes in perfect detail of a variety of deaths. These were called Nutshell Studies and used to train Read more

May 11

The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire by Kyle Harper

Library StaffLeave a commentHistory, Nonfiction, Tech Center Department

George Santayana an influential 20th century writer once wrote, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it”.  Kyle Harper in The Fate of Rome, the riveting story of the decline and fall of Rome reveals a Read more

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