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What NF book would you like to read with the group in 2Q22?
Note - Unless there's a clear winner by 03/10, we'll do a run-off poll of the top vote recipients at that point to decide on a book. Or who knows? Maybe we'll end up with two!
Note - Unless there's a clear winner by 03/10, we'll do a run-off poll of the top vote recipients at that point to decide on a book. Or who knows? Maybe we'll end up with two!
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
Elizabeth is not the only sane woman confined to the institution. There are many rational women on her ward who tell the same story: they've been committed not because they need medical treatment, but to keep them in line - conveniently labeled "crazy" so their voices are ignored.
The Library Book
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours.
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won’t get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
For two thousand years, cadavers � some willingly, some unwittingly � have been involved in science’s boldest strides and weirdest undertakings.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers.
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
The harrowing true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry--with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter.
Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors
Subpar Parks features both the greatest hits and brand-new content, all celebrating the incredible beauty and variety of America's national parks juxtaposed with the clueless and hilarious one-star reviews posted by visitors.
The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
The story of the fascinating and fateful “daughter diplomacy� of Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, three glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World War II.
Murder at Teal's Pond: Hazel Drew and the Mystery That Inspired Twin Peaks
A brilliantly researched reinvestigation into the nearly forgotten century-old murder that inspired one of the most seductive mysteries in the history of television and film.
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens who Made England
The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem.
Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men–era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted up.
Wildflower
Wildflower is a portrait of Drew Barrymore's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences of her earlier years.
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?
The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix
James Watson and Francis Crick’s 1953 discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how did Watson and Crick do it—and why were they the ones who succeeded?
Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks
Christie archivist and expert John Curran leads the reader through the six decades of Agatha's writing career, unearthing some remarkable clues to her success and a number of never-before-published excerpts and stories from her archives.
Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain
Though not as tall as Everest, the "Savage Mountain" is far more dangerous. Located on the border of China and Pakistan, K2 has some of the harshest climbing conditions in the world. Ninety women have scaled Everest but of the six women who reached the summit of K2, three lost their lives on the way back down the mountain and two have since died on other climbs.
One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal
Must children born with socially challenging anatomies have their bodies changed because others cannot be expected to change their minds?
Stealing Home: Los Angeles, The Dodgers and the Lives Caught in Between
A story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big league city.
The Education of an Idealist
Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, widely known as a relentless advocate for promoting human rights, has been heralded by President Barack Obama as one of America's "foremost thinkers on foreign policy."
American OZ: An Astonishing Year Inside Traveling Carnivals at State Fairs & Festivals: Hitchhiking California to New York, Alaska to Mexico
American Oz is a rollicking, gritty, adventurous story of life in the secretive subculture of traveling carnivals.
Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation.
Bundini: Don't Believe the Hype
Fifty years after he coined the iconic phrase Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, Drew “Bundini� Brown remains one of boxing’s most mysterious and misunderstood figures.
Intention
The book attempts to show in detail that the natural and widely accepted picture of what we mean by an intention gives rise to insoluble problems and must be abandoned.
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
A zesty memoir of the Helene Hanff's travels to England where she meets the cherished friends from 84, Charing Cross Road.
War's Unwomanly Face
More than 200 women speak in it, describing how young girls,who dreamed of becoming brides became soldiers in 1941.
The Doctor Will See You Now: The highs and lows of my life as an NHS GP
Charting his 15 years working as a GP, from rookie to becoming a partner in one of the UK’s busiest surgeries, Dr Amir Khan’s stories are as much about community and care as they are about blood tests and bodily fluids.
Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels
A history and celebration of women's cycling--beginning with its origins as a political statement, beloved pastime, and early feminist act--that shares the stories of notable cyclists and groups around the world.
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