Meagan’s booktalk at both BooksTalk groups in November 2019 featured a wide variety of recent non-fiction titles, for both adults and youth.
American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
by Nate Blakeslee [599.773 Bla]
Fresh Off the Boat: Six Words Stories of Immigration, Identity, and Coming to America
edited by Larry Smith [920.02 Fre]
COOK90: The 30-Day Plan for Faster, Healthier, Happier Meals
by David Tamarkin [641.5 Tam]
Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War
by Marwan Hisham [Biography Hisham]
Indoor Edible Garden
by Zia Allaway [645.048 All]
Southern Lady Code: Essays
by Helen Ellis [817 Ell]
Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
by Penelope Bagieu [YA PB (Graphic Novel) Bagieu]
Disaster Strikes: The Most Dangerous Space Missions of All Time
by Jeffrey Kluger [j629.45 Klu]
Food Atlas: Discover All the Delicious Foods of the World
by Giulia Malerba and Febe Sillani [j641.3 Mal]
How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
by Sy Montgomery [590 Mon]
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
by Kirk Wallace Johnson (364.16 Joh)
What a Wonderful Word
by Nicola Edwards and Luisa Uribe (j413.21 Edw)
Everything is Normal: The Life and Times of a Soviet Kid
by Sergey Grechishkin (Biography Grecgishkin)
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
by Thor Hanson (595.79 Han)
How Not to Kill Your Houseplant: Survival Tips for the Horticulturally Challenged
by Veronica Peerless (635.965 Pee)
Sustainable Home: Practical Projects, Tips and Advice for Maintaining a More Eco-Friendly Household
by Christine Liu (640 Liu)
Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders
by Christopher Goffard (365.15 Gof)
Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (In That Order)
by Bridget Quinn (709.22 Qui)
Now or Never: 54th Massachusetts infantry’s War to End Slavery
by Ray Anthony Shepard (j973.44 She)
A Little Book of Sloth
by Lucy Cooke (j599.313 Coo)