Wheaton Public Library: Grow with Us!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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