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The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
I wanted to read The Psychopath Test: a Journey Through the Madness Industry for quite some time, not because I was interested in psychopaths, but because I am a huge fan of Jon Ronson. Jon Ronson is a...
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The Woman Who Can’t Forget by Jill Price
What if you could save each day of your life as a .pdf or .mp3 file? Later, when you needed to remember or just reminisce, you could open the file and relive any given day as if it were yesterday,...
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The Battle for North Carolina’s Coast by Stanley Riggs
Sign up now for an talk with author with Stanley Riggs at North Regional Library tomorrow, Wednesday, January 18th at 7:00 p.m. Every January, the news media immediately refocus our attention from the...
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The Rising Sea by Orrin Pilkey
Following up on yesterday’s review of The Battle for North Carolina’s Coast by Stanley Riggs, try this related title! Pilkey, described as colorful and outspoken, provides a brief balanced overview of...
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NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
So, you had your 2.2 kids and read all the right books, listened to all the right experts, and now you’re an expert too, right? Think again. After raising four children (only one left to put through...
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Micro by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston
Best-selling author Michael Crichton passed away a few years ago, although his newest novel was released at the end of 2011. It was finished posthumously by Richard Preston, best known for his...
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Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat—and...
This book is amazing – startling, terrifying, and yet, reassuring. A unique combination to be sure, but those are the phrases that come to mind when I think back about this book. One of the authors,...
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How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, M.D.
Dr. Groopman is the chair of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. The idea for this book came to him when he realized...
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The Idea Factory by John Gertner
In John Gertner’s wonderful The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, he mentions a comment made by Bill Baker: “…all of human experience can be expressed in binary digital...
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and...
Over the last year or so I have been somewhat intrigued and also baffled by the Steampunk phenomenon. Even though I have read the Wikipedia page and summaries from other sources, I still don’t get it....
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Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
Erik Larson’s Thunderstruck is about events that mainly took place during the late Victorian era and during the reign of Edward VII. It was a time of great progress, great superstition, and great...
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Best New Books in 2013: Travis H’s Picks
I’m the manager of the Zebulon Community Library and have a long tenure with the library system. I majored in English and have had my fill of “good books.” Since then, I have read mostly nonfiction,...
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Best New Books of 2013: Melissa O’s Picks
Here it is! My favorite blog post of the year. It is difficult to narrow down my favorite books of the year to only five, but here is a sample from all over the library. As you can see, I have wide...
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Radiation: What It Is, What You Need to Know By Robert Peter Gale and Eric Lax
I have friend who is died of cancer. He was 46 years old, married and the father of a teenage boy. A few years ago he was getting violently ill. His doctors told him the cancer had spread throughout...
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, by Mary Roach
Ever wondered what it would be like to live in outer space? Or on another planet? With boundless curiosity and a sense of humor, Mary Roach takes us into the esoteric world of scientists who ponder...
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Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen
For anyone who is a history buff, this is one of the best books telling the story of the closing days of WWII. Annie Jacobsen’s research is phenomenal. Her book tells the story of the end of the war…....
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Intuition by Allegra Goodman
I picked this novel up because I’d heard that it offered a realistic portrayal of scientific research. So often in popular entertainment we’re given an exaggerated vision of how science is actually...
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The Secret Life of Sleep by Kat Duff
Ever have a difficult time falling asleep? Wake up in the night and fret over hours of lost rest? Millions and millions of Americans struggle with sleep issues every night, adding one of the most basic...
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War of the Whales by Joshua Horwitz
“What if the catalyst or the key to understanding creation lay somewhere in the immense mind of the whale? Suppose if God came back from wherever it is he’s been and asked us smilingly if we’d figured...
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Best New Books of 2014: Emil S’s Picks
When a book calls my name, I will not turn it down. Somehow, the books know how to find me. No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald “Cincinnatus” was the alias Edward Snowden used when he contacted Glenn...
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