Wheaton Public Library: Grow with Us!
Michael Lewis’ classic sports book holds up almost twenty years later. Scott Brick does a fantastic job narrating Moneyball (2003), keeping the pace moving and the subject engaging. Baseball statistics doesn’t sound like the most interesting of topics and yet, Read more
An immigrant memoir that will pull at your heart strings, House of Sticks is an eye-opening tale of suffering and survival. Author Ly Tran and her family flee from the aftereffects of the Vietnam war and relocate to New York in the early 90s. Struggling with poverty, racism, health issues, cultural differences and Read more
The stories shared by comedian Amber Ruffin and her sister Lacey Lamar are hilarious and heartbreaking, unbelievable and yet unsurprising. Their personal and professional experiences and those of their parents demonstrate systemic racism experienced from Omaha to Chicago and New Read more
In My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies (2017), New York Times best-selling author and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem explores, according to the publisher, “the damage caused by racism in America from the Read more
Mo Rocca expands on his podcast of the same name in this engaging and wryly humorous collection of biographies. In Mobituaries (2019), Rocca writes obituaries for those who were not appropriately celebrated upon their death—or whose actions have been forgotten Read more
The Address Book explores the fascinating and little-known history of street addresses. It covers a wide range of locations and time periods, ranging from ancient Rome, 19th-century London, and Gilded Age Manhattan to modern-day Florida, Japan, South Africa, and India. Read more
Action Park is a memoir written by Andy Mulvihill, whose father, Gene, founded the titular amusement park in 1978. Located in New Jersey, Action Park was known for its innovative rides with lax safety standards, and was popularly known by Read more
Lucy Knisley takes us on a tour of her life through her interactions with food. The influences food has had on her life as she grew up. From her mom’s home cooking, to fancy restaurants, hidden bakeries in European cities, Read more
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
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