Notable New Non-Fiction ( October 2012 )

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


Memoir & Biography
Does This Church Make Me Look Fat? by Rhoda Janzen
Driving the Saudis by Jayne A. Larson
Comet’s Tale by Steven Wolf
The Dog Lived (and So Will I) by Teresa J. Rhyne
All Gone: A Memoir of My Mother’s Dementia by Alex Witchel
Coal to Diamonds by Beth Ditto
Born This Way: Real Stories of Growing Up Gay by Paul Vitagliano
Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl’s Dream of Becoming a Grand Master by Tim Crothers

Science & Health
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
Hubble’s Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images by Terence Dickenson

Religion
Bad Catholic’s Catechism by John Zmirak
Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe by Michael D. Gordin
Not Quite Nirvana: A Skeptic’s Journey to Mindfulness by Rachel Neumann
When Buddhists Attack: The Curious Relationship between Zen and the Martial Arts by Jeffrey K. Mann
Islam and the Arab Awakening by Tariq Ramadan
Common Ground Between Islam and Buddhism: Spiritual and Ethical Affinities by Reza Shah Kazemi
My 52 Weeks of Worship: Lessons from a Global, Spiritual, Interfaith Journey by Ekpedeme “Pamay” M. Bassey

Business, Economics & Politics
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freelan
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges
Big Flatline: Oil and the No-Growth Economy by Jeff Rubin

Travel
Not for Tourists Guide to Brooklyn 2013
Classic Hikes of North America: 25 Breathtaking Treks in the United States and Canada by Peter Potterfield
Eat London by Peter Prescott
Fifty Places to Bike Before You Die by Chris Santella
Bike Tribes: A Field Guide to North American Cyclists by Mike Magnuson

Self-Help and Relationships
Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays by Bernadette C. Barton
Living Beautifully: With Uncertainty and Change by Pema Chodron

History
Leonardo and “The Last Supper” by Ross King
Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London by Nigel Jones
Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden by Mark Bowden
Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel that Defined the Renaissance by Jonathan Jones
The Liberator: One WWII Soldier’s 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau by Alex Kershaw
Men in Eden: William Drummond Stewart and Same-Sex Desire in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade by William Benneman