Books to Find the Motivation to Explore
Pick up one of these non-fiction books this summer to find the motivation to make your own real-life adventures in the world around you.
Get outside and explore!
The magic and wonder of summer has arrived! Check a few new books to get you started exploring the natural world!
These Chess Pieces are not Playing Games
Ever since their discovery almost 200 years ago, the ‘Lewis Chessmen’ have produced more questions than answers.
Teen Summer Reading 2017
We’re going to read 180,000 books together this summer! Check out the list the Library has created just for teens.
Nothing New Under the Sun
Autobiographical account from 1821 of an opium user’s hallucinations and wanderings and the resulting paranoia that led him to abandon the experiment.
For All of Our Non-Traditional Dads
Just in time for Father’s Day, here are 5 books to help us appreciate all the father figures in our lives.
The Pinkney Dynasty
What each Pinkney family member has in common is producing stellar children’s books for their readers to enjoy.
Storm of Steel (In Stahlgewittern)
“Storm of Steel” is the result of the perfect storm of courage under fire and pure luck. The first hand account it offers of WWI combat as well as the life and attitudes of the soldiers who fought is an essential work for history buffs and action junkies alike. Its often poetic prose shows us equally the horrors and the grim beauty of war on a massive scale.
Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
Riveting, disturbing and well-researched; this book illuminates the complicated forces that have converged to create the opiate epidemic.
Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
Could there be a mathematical equation for permanent happiness? Mo Gawdat believes he has found the perfect algorithm and he wants to share it with the world.