New Nonfiction in our Recreation Collection

Looking for something to read, but fiction isn’t your thing? We just added a bunch of fascinating new nonfiction books to our Recreation Collection on topics that range from cadaver dogs to the Lance Armstrong doping scandal to Downton Abbey – and everything in between:

What the Dog Knows: The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs by Cat Warren. Call Number: REC WAR

Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever by Reed Albergotti and Vanessa O’Connell. Call Number: REC ALB

The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight by Winston Groom. Call Number: REC GRO

Behind the Scenes at Downton Abbey by Emma Rowley and Gareth Neame. Call Number: REC ROW

David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell. Call Number: REC GLA

One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson. Call Number: REC BRY

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink. Call Number: REC FIN

New Memoirs in our Recreation Collection

If you find reading about other people’s lives inspiring, have we got some books for you. We just added four new memoirs to our Recreation Collection, each with a captivating story to tell. Need more convincing? Two of these books were recently featured on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Check them out:

Driven: From Homeless to Hero, My Journeys On and Off Lambeau Field by Donald Driver. Call Number: REC DRI

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, with Christina Lamb. Call Number: REC YOU
(Watch Malala’s interview with Jon Stewart)

My Story by Elizabeth Smart, with Chris Stewart. Call Number: REC SMA

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida, Translated by K.A. Yoshida and David Mitchell. Call Number: REC HIG
(Watch translator David Mitchell’s interview with Jon Stewart)

New Sci-Fi & Fantasy Lit in our Recreation Collection

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Need a study break? Can’t get enough of The Walking Dead? Want to escape into a fantastical world of witches and/or Shakespearean Star Wars characters? The library’s Recreation Collection has something new for you:

The Walking Dead, Books 1-3 (each compiling 12 issues of the comic series), by Robert Kirkman. Call Number: REC KIR

Witches of East End; Winds of Salem: A Witches of East End Novel (The Beauchamp Family #1 and #3), by Melissa de la Cruz. Call Number: REC DEL

Cover of Witches of East End

William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope, by Ian Doescher, inspired by the work of George Lucas and William Shakespeare. Call Number: REC DOE

Insurgent (Divergent #2), by Veronica Roth. Call Number: REC ROT

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New Nonfiction in our Recreation Collection