Nonfiction chat with Tina - May 2021 - Norwalk Public Library
←
→
Page content transcription
If your browser does not render page correctly, please read the page content below
Nonfiction chat
with
Tina
Our next meeting is June 23, 3 pm May 2021
“I have probably been writing about me
longer than I want to admit”
Ashley Ford interview
“Ashley Ford is a writer for the ages,
and Somebody’s Daughter will be a book of
the year.” From Ashley Ford’s
TimeOut interview
Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed grandma
mom
daddy
Ashley
Publication date June 2021
Somebody’s daughter is available in print and through Libby Some of Ashley’s writing
Zaza, 22 Jacky, 29
Nicole, 22
Gwen Strauss
“This is a work of nonfiction written with the
narrative freedom and use of figurative
language that we expect from fiction”
Wall Street Journal review
The Nine is available in print
Publication date May 2021
Gwen Strauss’ blog
Hotel Lutetia, Paris, 1945 Smithsonian Magazine, April 2019
“Plunder” has many moods and registers. It
acquires moral gravity. It pays tender and
respectful attention to forgotten lives. It is
also alert to melancholic forms of comedy.”
”Traveling on a private road, closer to the
ground, and at a slower pace, his walk turns
up details that are fresh, unexpected and
significant. His perceptions are sharp. We
partake of his curiosity.”
New York Times review
Publication date March 2021
Plunder is available in print
“Alathea is so old-fashioned, and so
authentically old-style Catholic, that she
makes Brideshead Revisited seem
progressivist”
The Times Literary Supplement review
“Original lockdown diaries… perfect antidote
to our own hard times”
Evening Standard review
Publication date May 2021
Windsor Diaries is available in print and through Libby
Nowhere Girl in her own words
“The Glass Castle
meets
Catch Me If You Can”
Publication date June 2021
Nowhere Girl is available in print and
through Libby
1867
The Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
Dec 30, 1867
1897
Elizabeth Packard Obituary
San Francisco Chronicle
July 27, 1897
Reserve your copy
Publication date June 2021
The Woman They Could Not Silence is available in print and
through Libby Watch a book preview
Margalit Fox brings her “nose for interesting facts, the
ability to construct a taut narrative arc, and a
Dickens-level gift for concisely conveying personality” to
this tale of psychological strategy that is rife with
cunning, danger, and moments of high farce that rival
anything in Catch-22
Publication date June 2021
The Confidence Men is available in print and through Libby Register for a book launch event
(NOT NPL event)
From the author of All That
Remains, a tour through the
human skeleton and the secrets
our bones reveal.
Publication date June 2021
Publication date 2019
All That Remains is available through hoopla“Doom” is often insightful, productively
provocative and downright brilliant. But it’s
also a book very taken with its own polymathic
virtuosity. That makes it an exemplary artifact
of the culture in which it was written — very
smart, but not quite as smart as it thinks it is.
New York Times review
Doom is available in print Publication date May 2021In turns steely eyed, sympathetic, infuriated,
comical, and always precise, Wright is a
formidable guide, slicing through the dense
fog of misinformation to give us a 360-degree
portrait of the catastrophe we thought we
knew.
…real but limited consolation
Reserve your copy
Publication date June 2021
Plague Year is available in printUnreliable medical diagnoses
“The book is a satisfying journey through a
big but not, the authors suggest, unsolvable Forensic science
problem, with plenty of fascinating case
studies along the way.” Criminal justice
London Evening Standard review
Insurance pricing
“Good Moods Often Lead to Bad Decisions”
Performance ratings
Daniel Kahneman
Hiring decisions
College admissions
Publication date May 2021
Call the library to reserve your copyYou can also read
