Wheaton Public Library: Grow with Us!
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
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
Not only does the Parks and Recreation and Saturday Night Live alum Amy Poehler read her enormously entertaining memoir – Yes Please – she is also joined by cameo appearances from her parents, Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, Michael Schur, Patrick Read more
Anne Frank’s timeless The Diary of a Young Girl, has become a world classic since it was discovered and subsequently published in the Dutch language in 1947. Since then, it has been translated into numerous languages and been adapted into Read more
The Poison Squad tells the story of Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, head chemist of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for 30 years beginning in the late 1880s, who was instrumental in the passing of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Read more
In Eric Larson’s latest book, The Splendid and the Vile, we join Winston Churchill on the day he is sworn in as Prime Minister of England, momentous as it is the same day that Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. We Read more
If you love to read memoirs, you will love Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. Gottlieb does a wonderful job with making the topic of therapy fun, engaging, human and relatable. Who, at one time, does not wonder what goes Read more
We actually read the Ralph Moody series as a family. We got into the rhythm of reading at night after supper, so that it became a part of our lives. There are a total of eight fabulous books and each Read more
A heartbreaking yet triumphant story. Educated is a beautifully written memoir about Westover’s pursuit of knowledge and struggle to find her place in the world. Personally, the story felt like a reflection of my own upbringing under the communist system Read more