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JUST FOR FUN: Nonfiction November
A New Event Series for Adults
Not your mother’s book club–but honestly, she’ll want to come, too. Join us monthly to eat, drink, and meet other readers who like what you like.
This month’s theme is Nonfiction, so search out a new biography, essay collection, or unusual history of something cool and dig in! Sign up for our email list at http://eepurl.com/z21VH or ask at the desk for more details; reading recommendations from our librarians are listed below. Valid ID required, please.
Memoir
The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father by Kao Kalia Yang
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker
Science
The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
Songbird Journeys by Miyoko Chu
General Topics
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Won’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
The Book of Joy by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Abrams
West With the Night by Beryl Markham
Short or Unusual Forms
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Essays of E.B. White by E.B. W hite (or any of his essays; many available on Hoopla or online)
Visualizing the Beatles by John Pring and Rob Thomas