Thursday, April 26, 2012

Notable New Non-Fiction ( May 2012 )

The Orangeburg Library now has the following new books. Please click on one of the titles to reserve.

Memoir/Biography
Life, Love, and Elephants by Daphne Jenkins Sheldrick
Blue Cascade: A Memoir of Life After War by Mike Scotti
Red Circle: My Life in the Navy SEAL Sniper Corp by Brandon Webb
Voluntourist: A Six Country Tale of Love, Loss, Fatherhood, Fate, and Singing Bon Jovi in Bethlehem by Ken Budd
Paris, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down by Rosecrans Baldwin
To the Last Breath: A Memoir of Going to Extremes by Francis Slakey
On the Run in Siberia by Rane Willerslev

Social Science
Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf
Service: A Navy SEAL at War by Marcus Luttrell
Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality and What We Can Do About It by Timothy Noah

Science
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain by Barbara Arrowsmith Young
Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale by Tom Wilber

Religion
Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Book by Matti Friedman

Business
High-Tech, High-Touch Customer Service by Micah Solomon

Psychology
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow
The Other Side of Normal by Jordan W. Smoller
Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame by Christopher Boehm


Parenting
Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity by Joel Stein
Father’s Day: A Journey Into the Heart and Mind of My Extraordinary Son by Buzz Bissinger
Transitions of the Heart edited by Rachel Pepper


History
On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War by Bernard Wasserstein

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