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Nonfiction Previews: August 2012, Pt. 1: The Rise of Rome and a Julia Child...
Brick, Michael. Saving the School: The True Story of a Principal, a Teacher, a Coach, a Bunch of Kids, and a Year in the Crosshairs of Education Reform. Penguin Pr: Penguin Group (USA). Aug. 2012....
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Nonfiction Previews, Jan. 2013, Pt. 4: Tracy Kidder, Michelle Rhee, Ali...
Beller, Rachel. Rachel Beller’s Eat To Lose, Eat To Win: Skinny Done Right‚ Shop To Drop Pounds with the Nutritionist Who Gets It. Morrow. Jan. 2013. 256p. ISBN 9780062231819. $24.99; eISBN...
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Nonfiction Previews, Feb. 2013, Pt. 4: Animals, Food, and the Arts
Arnot, Bob. The Aztec Diet. Morrow. Feb. 2013. 304p. ISBN 9780062124050. $25.99. HEALTH/DIET What has eight times the omega-3s of salmon, six times more calcium than milk, three times more iron than...
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Nonfiction Previews, Jul. 2013, Pt. 1: Klosterman, Kurlansky, and...
Biskind, Peter, ed. My Lunches with Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles. Metropolitan: Holt. Jul. 2013. 240p. ISBN 9780805097252. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780805097269. CD: Macmillan...
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“Rain Is the Ink of the Northwest”: Writers Talk about Place and Fiction at...
Friday’s ERT/Booklist Author Forum, moderated by Booklist editor Brad Hooper, brought together a diverse group of novelists to talk about the state of the novel and the role place plays in fiction....
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Nonfiction, Nov. 2013, Pt. 3: A Dozen Arts Titles, from Mozart to Norman...
Berger, Glen. The Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History. S. & S. Nov. 2013. NAp. ISBN 9781451684568. $25; ebk. ISBN 9781451684582. MUSICALS...
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Getting Educated with Jason Boog, John Casey, William Deresiewicz, & More |...
Boog, Jason & Betsy Bird. Born Reading: Bringing Up Bookworms in a Digital Age—From Picture Books to eBooks and Everything in Between. Touchstone. Aug. 2014. 288p. ISBN 9781476749792. pap. $15.99....
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Mary Karr, Ursula K. Le Guin, Joyce Carol Oates | Barbara’s Nonfiction Picks,...
Karr, Mary. The Art of Memoir. Harper. Sept. 2015. 272p. ISBN 9780062223067. $24.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062223081. WRITING Karr is a Pushcart Prize–winning poet and essayist, but she’s perhaps best known...
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Learning the Craft | Collection Development: The Business of Writing
Books on the business of writing appeal to those wanting to pen a novel, screenplay, memoir, or other form of literature. The following titles support writers of fiction and nonfiction and include...
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Paris to Palestine to America | Nonfiction Previews, Jul. 2017, Pt. 4
Begley, Adam. The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera. Tim Duggan: Hogarth. Jul. 2017. 256p. ISBN 9781101902608. $30; ebk. ISBN 9781101902615. HISTORY Former books editor of the New York Observer,...
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Mendelsohn’s Odyssey, Ward/Burns on Vietnam, & More | Barbara’s Nonfiction...
Blum, Ben. Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime. Doubleday. Sept. 2017. 432p. ISBN 9780385538435. $28.95; ebk. ISBN 9780385538442. CD/downloadable: Random Audio. MEMOIR...
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Ann Hood’s Morningstar: Growing Up with Books | LibraryReads Author Spotlight
Photo ©Catherine Sebastian Following The Book That Matters Most, fiction about a reading group whose members each present the book that most shaped or sustained their lives, Ann Hood’s Morningstar:...
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