Nonfiction Book Club
The Nonfiction Book Club was the first to join our new selection of book clubs in early 2019 and this group reads exclusively nonfiction, but across many genres. From history and science to nature and biography, they read it all! The Nonfiction Book Club is led by Towne manager Sarah and she would love for you to stop by and join in on their discussions!
Nonfiction Book Club meets on the 4th Wednesday of the month at 7pm.
Upcoming Meetings and Selections
Wednesday, January 27 2021: Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Wednesday, February 24, 2021: Darkly by Leila Taylor
Wednesday, March 24, 2021: The Five by Hallie Rubenhold
Wednesday, April 28, 2021: The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown
Previous Selections
November 2020: The Water Will Come by Jeff Goodall
October 2020: The Last Pirate of New York by Rich Cohen
September 2020: A Bookshop in Berlin by Francoise Frankel
August 2020: Geography of Genius by Eric Weinier
July 2020: Radium Girls by Kate Moore
June 2020: The Lady From the Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara
May 2020: Bringing Down the Colonel by Patricia Miller
April 2020: Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez
February 2020: Into the Raging Sea by Rachel Slade
January 2020: Planet Funny by Ken Jennings
December 2019: The Evolution of Beauty by Richard O. Prum
November 2019: The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum
From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier
“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times Book Review
Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London—the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper
Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden, and Wales.$14.95ISBN: 9781912248544Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Repeater - November 12th, 2019Leila Taylor takes us into the dark heart of the American gothic, analysing the ways it relates to race in America in the twenty-first century.
Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards -- the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story.$16.95ISBN: 9780307279286Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Anchor - February 25th, 2020WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE
BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR - TIME MAGAZINE
A WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER$17.99ISBN: 9780316260206Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Back Bay Books - August 7th, 2018What if Atlantis wasn't a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels, and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live, from our most vibrant, historic cities to our last remaining traditional coastal villages.$18.00ISBN: 9780399589942Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Random House Trade Paperbacks - June 2nd, 2020Was he New York City’s last pirate . . . or its first gangster? This is the true story of the bloodthirsty underworld legend who conquered Manhattan, dock by dock—for fans of Gangs of New York and Boardwalk Empire.
$17.00ISBN: 9781501199851Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Atria Books - August 4th, 2020A PEOPLE BOOK OF THE WEEK
WINNER OF THE JQ–WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE
“A haunting tribute to survivors and those lost forever—and a reminder, in our own troubled era, never to forget.” —People
An “exceptional” (The Wall Street Journal) and “poignant” (The New York T$18.00ISBN: 9781451691672Availability: Not In Stock - Usually Available in 1-5 DaysPublished: Simon & Schuster - November 1st, 2016Tag along on this New York Times bestselling “witty, entertaining romp” (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Winer travels the world, from Athens to Silicon Valley—and back through history, too—to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times.
In this “intellectual odyssey, traveler’s diary, and comic no$17.99ISBN: 9781492650959Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Sourcebooks - March 6th, 2018A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts Bestseller
$16.99ISBN: 9781335010131Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Hanover Square Press - March 3rd, 20202019 SCIBA Book Award Winner for Biography
A Hugo and Locus Award Finalist
Winner of the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award
The Los Angeles Times Bestseller
$20.00ISBN: 9781250234919Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Picador - March 3rd, 2020“I’ll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his.”
$17.00ISBN: 9780812976731Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Random House Trade Paperbacks - December 18th, 2007Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills–as doctors, nurses, and therapists–seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother of two from Michigan, despaired of being of any real use.
$17.99ISBN: 9780062699879Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Ecco - May 14th, 2019A NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF JANET MASLIN’S MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE SUMMER
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE
ONE OF OUTSIDE MAGAZINE’S BEST BOOKS OF THE SUMMER
$17.00ISBN: 9781501100604Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Scribner - July 9th, 2019A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
The witty and exuberant New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings relays the history of humor in “lively, insightful, and crawling with goofy factlings,” (Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go Bernadette)—from fart jokes on clay Sumerian tablets to the latest Twitter gags and Facebook$17.00ISBN: 9780345804570Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Anchor - April 3rd, 2018NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, SMITHSONIAN, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL
A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences—what Darwin termed "the taste for the beautiful"—create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world.$18.00ISBN: 9780143111122Availability: Not In Stock - Usually Available in 1-5 DaysPublished: Penguin Books - September 24th, 2019A New York Times Notable Book
The inspiration for PBS's AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film The Poison Squad.
From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change
