https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf7cF5wmYV0 The newest episode of Nonfiction Book Report is available on the Library’s YouTube Channel. For March, Michelle and I talk about two Newish Noteworthy Nonfiction memoirs. NBR: March Memoirs I shared Eddie Ndopu's Sipping Dom Perignon through a straw: reimagining success as a disabled achiever. In his memoir, penned with his one good finger, Ndopu writes about being profoundly disabled and…
The newest episode of Nonfiction Book Report is available on the Library’s YouTube Channel. In honor of Black History Month, Michelle and I talk about two Newish Noteworthy Nonfiction books that highlight the Beauty of Blackness. https://youtu.be/4BuDYKtkDdM Michelle shared BLK ART : the audacious legacy of black artists and models in western art by Zaria Ware. This…
The newest episode of Nonfiction Book Report is available on the Library’s YouTube Channel. This month Michelle and I talk about two Newish Noteworthy Nonfiction books to inspire your New Years' Resolutions. https://youtu.be/bRbLH4cMrFE Michelle shared A pity party is still a party : a feel-good guide to feeling bad by Chelsea Harvey Garner. Shunning the standard, "look…
I don't know about you, but for my family and me, it's been yet another whirlwind of a year. As 2023 sings its swan song, we find ourselves reflecting on moments that brought us joy and fulfillment, challenges and lessons learned, and setting goals and intentions for the year to come. With the dawn of…
The newest episode of Nonfiction Book Report is available on the Library’s YouTube Channel. This month Michelle (@mdoshi23) and I talk about two Newish Noteworthy Nonfiction books highlighting Indigenous stories. https://youtu.be/o59uMR7vU5g?si=-Ix0oFdGNagOXNd5 Michelle highlighted We are the middle of forever : Indigenous voices from Turtle Island on the changing Earth, edited by Dahr Jamail and Stan Rushworth. This…
Autumn is here which means it’s time for pumpkin spice lattes, cozy socks by a fire, and scary stories. There’s something about the combination of cooling weather, ever shortening days, and the pretty autumn foliage that adds a certain ‘je ne sais quoi’ to the ambiance of a scary story. Scary stories, the literary version…
Renowned legal scholar Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in a series of harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960 in By hands now known : Jim Crow's legal executioners…
“Let me just exist with you, happier than ever.” For much of his life, Canadian actor Elliot Page experienced gender dysphoria that made him extremely uncomfortable in his own body. The intense pressure Page felt to dress and act in a certain way almost drove him to quit show business during the aftermath of his…
New York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during WWII—at the cost of losing her family and being sent to a concentration camp, only to survive, forgive her captors, and…
It can be argued that rugged individualism and American are synonymous. You can't have the American dream without the idea that if you work hard and rely on your own resources, you will ultimately succeed. Instead, as income inequality rises around us, we are left with shame and self-blame for our condition. Why is there so much poverty adjacent…
