Tag: Non-fiction
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The Atlas of Art Crime
“On New Year’s Day in 1984, three men dressed in overalls hung a ‘Work in Progress’ sign at the front of St. John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta to prevent anyone from entering the church. Inside the cathedral is a breathtaking array of ornate decorative elements: intricate carvings, stunning paintings, and a whole lot of bling. Two…
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Tough as a Mother: Women in Sports, Working Moms, and the Shared Traits that Empower Us All
This is the book we needed when our kids were little, and we were first encountering all of the obstacles that working moms face in their lives,” says Jenn Hildreth, who, with Aimee Leone, wrote Tough as a Mother: Women in Sports, Working Moms, and the Shared Traits that Empower Us All (Triumph Books 2025).…
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College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight
14 years ago, Lauren Spierer, an over-served 20 year-old student at Indiana University who had been indulging in recreational drugs, walked out of her friend’s apartment building at 4 in the morning and disappeared, never to be seen again. She was barefoot, having left her shoes and cell phone at a bar. Her purse and…
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Becoming Caitlin Clarke
“There is no Caitlin Clark without Iowa,” writes Howard Megdal in his recently released biography “Becoming Caitlin Clarke: The Unknown Origin Story of a Modern Basketball Superstar” (Triumph Books 2025). And while that may be somewhat puzzling, it isn’t when Megdal explains the history of the sport. The game of basketball was invented in 1891…
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NPR: 17 new books our critics can’t wait to read this summer
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/21/nx-s1-5356141/best-new-books-summer-reading
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Kalamazoo County Characters by Dianna Higgs Stampfler
This fascinating book, featuring profiles of 50 notable figures in the Kalamazoo area history, will be released by The History Press in January 2025. Since its founding in the early 1800s, Kalamazoo has welcomed a variety of notable individuals who have shaped the community’s legacy in their own special way. From founding fathers to early…
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Author Erik Larson offers compelling acount of the start of the Civil War
Only a master storyteller like Erik Larson could turn the five tumultuous months leading up to the Civil War into “The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroes at the Dawn of the Civil War” (Crown), a compelling, page-turning read, chock full of anecdotes, psychological profiles and obscure but compelling tidbits of…
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Article: The Most Borrowed Books in New York City Libraries in 2024
The Most Borrowed Books in New York City Libraries in 2024 https://flip.it/M0gnHE
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In My Time of Dying: An Evening with Sebastian Junger
The Book Stall (811 Elm Street in Winnetka) is thrilled to host New York Times bestselling author Sebastian Junger at the store on Wednesday, June 19 at 6:30 pm for a discussion featuring his new book, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife. Part medical drama, part searing autobiography, and part rational inquiry into the ultimate…
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