Archive for Nonfiction


New Releases

August 4, 2010 posted by Jaclyn Abergas
Tagged as: Choosing Books, Fiction, New Releases, Nonfiction, Reading
Here is a line-up of the newest releases. Entertainment Sliding Into Home (Kendra Wilkinson) We all know Kendra Wilkinson as one of Hugh Hefner's three girlfriends and one of the stars of The Girls Next Door. In Sliding Into Home, Kendra talks about growing up without a father, messing up and how she recovered to  graduate from high school. She also talks about life with her husband, NFL star Hank Baskett and their newborn son, and their secret relationship while she was still living in the Playboy Mansion.Learn more about Kendra in this riveting and entertaining biography. Mystery Star Island (Carl Hiaasen) In Star Island,...

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“LARRY’S KIDNEY: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China With my Black-Sheep Cousin and his Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant … and Save His Life”

July 21, 2010 posted by Jane Wangersky
Tagged as: Nonfiction
What's left to say when the subtitle is the plot? Well, maybe something in the way of explanation. Author Daniel Asa Rose gets a call from his cousin Larry for the first time in years. Larry's on the waiting list for a kidney transplant, but it could take ten years. So he's decided to try to get one in China, where it can be much quicker. Of course, the transplant there will also be illegal, but that doesn't bother Larry. He wants his cousin there because he's an "old China hand", though Dan's last visit was 25 years ago and...

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The Truth About Hillary

July 14, 2010 posted by Ronald A. Rowe
Tagged as: Authors, Nonfiction
The full title of the book is The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President. As cumbersome and ungainly as that title is, it accurately conveys both the content and the style of the book. Maybe it was the Clinton fatigue, but I had no interest in reading this book when it first came out in 2005.  Nor did I want to read or hear any more dirt about any of the candidates during the last election cycle.  So only last month did I finally pick up a...

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Warrior Girls

July 12, 2010 posted by Bea
Tagged as: Nonfiction, Young Adults
Warrior Girls—sounds pretty intense huh? Well, don’t judge a book by its title; this book is not about girls who are literally warriors or fighters. However, they do fight their own type of battles. Warrior Girls is a book about protecting girls against the injury epidemic in sports. Written by Michael Sokolove, Warrior Girls addresses a story that every girl who is involved in sports and their parents should be told. In this book Sokolove addresses the injury epidemic that has managed to skyrocket over the past years. The numbers have been drastically increasing since the 1970s when Title 9...

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Coming Soon: Upcoming Book Releases

July 5, 2010 posted by Jaclyn Abergas
Tagged as: Fiction, New Releases, Nonfiction
Travel Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places (Bill Streever) Bill Streevers is not one to shy away from any challenge and adventure. He ventures out in a year-long adventure to the world’s coldest places - all 40-below cold. In July, he’s dressing down to take a dip in a 35-degree Arctic swimming hole. In September, he’s using his tools to dig the planet’s ancient ice ages. And in October, he’s exploring the hibernation habits of different animals, including humans, wood frogs and bears. He will visit where no other normally visits and he will take the challenge no one...

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