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Staff Picks - Nonfiction our favorites of 2016
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Milk and honey
by Rupi Kaur
Rupi Kaur’s boldly honest and extremely personal poems in Milk and Honey lay bare the female experience, from childhood abuse and unhealthly relationships to self-empowerment and healing. -Laura T.
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Trials of the earth : the true story of a pioneer woman
by Mary Hamilton
Mary Mann Hamilton was one of the first women to homestead in the Mississippi Delta and her firsthand account of her experience is fascinating, heartbreaking, and hopeful all at once. If you like survival tales and Little House on the Prairie, this book is for you. -Caty
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The argonauts
by Maggie Nelson
Beautiful, diary-esque musings on love, parenting, feminism, and gender identity. -Marti
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In the name of Gucci : a memoir
by Patrizia Gucci
Aldo Gucci's daughter chronicles the gripping family drama--and never-before-told love story--surrounding the rise and fall of her late father, the man responsible for making the legendary fashion label the powerhouse it is today.
I like autobiographies, and this was well done. -Anonymous
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Napoleon's buttons [electronic resource] : 17 molecules that changed history
by Penny Le Couteur
The authors not only talk about how the molecules work, they also explain the impact these molecules have had on human history, economics, and geopolitics. Chemistry has never been my cup of tea, but I enjoyed this book thoroughly. The impacts of several life-saving substances like vitamin C and antibiotics are explored. -Neelima
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Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end
by Atul Gawande
Anyone with aging parents will want to read this American-born Indian doctor’s observations with what matters in the end and how you can advocate for your parent’s best story well told up to the very end. -Laveda
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