NEW NON-FICTION
Browsing the new non-fiction section again, I noticed quite a few titles of interest in several different areas:
The recently announced winner of the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography is de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (NEW 709.24 STE). Just the cover portrait is enought to draw the reader into choosing this detailed look at the life (and loves) of this unusual artist.
Ken Wells'Travels with Barley: A Journey Through Beer Culture in America (NEW 641.23 WEL) records the author's visits to various "beer joints" from Minnesota to Louisiana, down the Mississippi River, as well as some history and folklore about beer in America.
Car aficionados will drool over the pictures in these two books: Thunderbird 50 Years by Alan H. Tast (NEW 629.2222 TAS) and Cuba Classics: A Celebration of Vintage American Automobiles by Christopher P. Baker (NEW 629.222 BAK).
Recipe aficionados might enjoy Susan Marks' "biography", Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America's First Lady of Food (NEW 641.5973 MAR). Recipes are included.
The Weird 100: A Collection of the Strange and the Unexplained by Stephen Spignesi (NEW 031.002 SPI) will appeal to readers who long to know more about zombies, poltergeists, crop circles , Nostradamus' predictions, and much, much more.
In my March 31st post (see below), I mentioned that the Elk Grove Library did not have any of Richard Lederer's "Anguished English" books. Now we do! The Revenge of Anguished English: More Accidental Assaults upon Our Language (NEW 420.207 LED). Readers will laugh out loud at the examples from children's homework, newspapers, translations, signs, and more.
The recently announced winner of the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography is de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (NEW 709.24 STE). Just the cover portrait is enought to draw the reader into choosing this detailed look at the life (and loves) of this unusual artist.
Ken Wells'Travels with Barley: A Journey Through Beer Culture in America (NEW 641.23 WEL) records the author's visits to various "beer joints" from Minnesota to Louisiana, down the Mississippi River, as well as some history and folklore about beer in America.
Car aficionados will drool over the pictures in these two books: Thunderbird 50 Years by Alan H. Tast (NEW 629.2222 TAS) and Cuba Classics: A Celebration of Vintage American Automobiles by Christopher P. Baker (NEW 629.222 BAK).
Recipe aficionados might enjoy Susan Marks' "biography", Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America's First Lady of Food (NEW 641.5973 MAR). Recipes are included.
The Weird 100: A Collection of the Strange and the Unexplained by Stephen Spignesi (NEW 031.002 SPI) will appeal to readers who long to know more about zombies, poltergeists, crop circles , Nostradamus' predictions, and much, much more.
In my March 31st post (see below), I mentioned that the Elk Grove Library did not have any of Richard Lederer's "Anguished English" books. Now we do! The Revenge of Anguished English: More Accidental Assaults upon Our Language (NEW 420.207 LED). Readers will laugh out loud at the examples from children's homework, newspapers, translations, signs, and more.
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