Reading Non-Fiction

Category: Non-Fiction

  • Smarter Every Year: 366 Random Facts by Elsmere Gracey

    Smarter Every Year: 366 Random Facts by Elsmere Gracey

    Smarter Every Year: 366 Random Facts by Elsmere Gracey

    The fifth book in the ‘Smarty Pants Series’, ‘Smarter Every Year–366 Random Facts’ contains a fact for every day of the year – even if it is a leap year!

    Each day is a gift and an opportunity to learn something new. This book offers the reader snippets of information as we travel together to the moon and back. We will also examine unusual items left at airports, have a quick glance at the dark side of life, discover what a forensic entomologist does at a crime scene, and take a ride on the world’s fastest roller coaster.

    •What germs are lurking at the gym?
    •Does the future king really take a leather toilet seat with him on his travels?
    •What are the effects men experience when they suffer from Couvade syndrome?
    •What are Jelly Babies telling us?
    •Are there really poisonous plants growing in our gardens?
    •What is the embalming process?
    •What is Chessboxing?
    •Why did Mickey Mouse attempt suicide?
    •Why does toast smell so good?

    ‘Smarter Every Year–366 Random Facts’ is informative, educational, and sometimes thought-provoking – every day has a lesson for those that are passionately curious!

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  • Mayhem 337: Memoir of a Combat Advisor in Afghanistan by Chad Rickard

    Mayhem 337: Memoir of a Combat Advisor in Afghanistan by Chad Rickard

    Mayhem 337: Memoir of a Combat Advisor in Afghanistan by Chad Rickard

    In 2008, senior US Army infantry sergeant Chad Rickard deployed to Afghanistan as an embedded combat advisor to the Afghan Army. Follow in his footsteps as Chad takes you on a wild ride through Eastern Afghanistan. From hostage situations on the streets of Khost City, to battling numerically superior Taliban forces in the mountains at Spera Outpost, his memoir leaves nothing to the imagination. “Skillfully written,” “Blood pumping cinematic narration.” Highly recommended for it’s stellar, authentic writing style and gritty, graphic realism! A Reader’s Favorite 5-Star award winner.

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  • Decoding Dylan by Jim Curtis

    Decoding Dylan by Jim Curtis

    Decoding Dylan by Jim Curtis

    In Decoding Dylan, Jim Curtis takes readers behind Dylan‘s image as the quintessential rebel of the 1960s to reveal a new Dylan—Dylan the careful craftsman, a student of the art of songwriting. Curtis is the first Dylan scholar to draw on the revelations in his memoir Chronicles as well as a variety of sources about New York culture in the 1960s. He uses this material to arrive at a radically new interpretation of Dylan’s amazing songs, which revolutionized American music and which won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Curtis shows that these songs are actually collages in which he ingeniously combined themes and images from American popular culture with themes and images from European high culture.
    Readers of Decoding Dylan will come away with a new understanding, not just of Dylan, but also of his place in the history of American popular culture as a whole. .

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