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Monday, September 17, 2018

You CAN Handle the Truth: September Nonfiction Book Picks

Posted by the Information Services Department (Gwen B., Lisa E., Joyce D., & Emily W.)

Here's the latest list of our new nonfiction book picks! Listed below, along with their Dewey Decimal classification, are our top picks of the nonfiction books that looked most interesting, ultra-informative, or just plain fun. You can request them now by clicking on the titles and placing a hold.





155.7 MIL The Human Instinct by Kenneth R. Miller
A radical, optimistic exploration of how humans evolved to develop reason, consciousness, and free will.




 




 

234.23 CAR Faith: A Journey for All by Jimmy Carter
In this powerful reflection, President Jimmy Carter contemplates how faith has sustained him in happiness and disappointment. He considers how we may find it in our own lives.


 




261.5 REI 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You by Tony Reinke

Within a few years of its unveiling, the smartphone had become part of us, fully integrated into the daily patterns of our lives. Never offline, always within reach, we now wield in our hands a magic wand of technological power we have only begun to grasp. But it raises new enigmas, too. Never more connected, we seem to be growing more distant. Never more efficient, we have never been more distracted.


 

 282.092 KAI Inside the Jesuits: How Pope Francis is Changing the Church and the World by Robert Kaiser
Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope, has captured our attention by stepping away from the papal throne, unafraid to give impromptu interviews, decentralize church governance, or explore new horizons for the greater good of the people of God. His actions and words suggest that he is here not to dominate but to serve, less inclined to preach than to listen, and to bring us back to Jesus "that we may have life and have it more abundantly." Award-winning journalist Robert Blair Kaiser argues that the pope's Jesuit DNA is central to understanding how Pope Francis is shaping the church and the world.







305.88097 HIL We Have Overcome by Jason Hill
A black immigrant’s eloquent appreciation of the American Dream, and why his adopted nation remains the most noble experiment in enabling the pursuit of happiness.





 



 306.20943 JAR Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century by Konrad Jarausch
The gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition--but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilitation  




 


 


379.263 DEV A Girl Stands at the Door by Rachel Devlin
A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial education




 


 
 
637.109 KUR Milk! A 10,000 Year Food Fracas by Mark Kurlansky
Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy--with recipes throughout. 





 



781.640973 MCW Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Muisc in the Civil War by Christian McWhirter
Music was everywhere during the Civil War. Tunes could be heard ringing out from parlor pianos, thundering at political rallies, and setting the rhythms of military and domestic life. With literacy still limited, music was an important vehicle for communicating ideas about the war, and it had a lasting impact in the decades that followed.





 


 
782.421660922 PRI Visualizing the Beatles by John Pring
Filled with stunning full-color infographics, a unique, album-by-album visual history of the evolution of the Beatles that examines how their style, their sound, their instruments, their songs, their tours, and the world they inhabited transformed over the course of a decade.






 


 
 791.4372 GRA Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film by Don Graham
A larger-than-life narrative of the making of the classic film, marking the rise of America as a superpower, the ascent of Hollywood celebrity, and the flowering of Texas culture as mythology.





 




929.20973 ROW Jell-O Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom
A memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its façade - told by the inheritor of their stories.





 

 

940.53 DRO The Stone Crusher by Jeremy Dronfield 
In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was arrested by the Nazis. Along with his sixteen-year-old son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany, where a new concentration camp was being built. It was the beginning of a six-year odyssey almost without parallel. They helped build Buchenwald, young Fritz learning construction skills which would help preserve him from extermination in the coming years. But it was his bond with his father that would ultimately keep them both alive. 

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