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Summer 2018 Non-Fiction Releases Sugar Grove Public Library Adult Non-Fiction

Meghan Ghostbuster's Daughter by Andrew Morton by Violet Ramis Stiel When Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were Most of us know as the filmmaker set up by a mutual friend on a blind date in July and actor who brought warmth and humor to the 2016, little did they know that the resulting big screen in classics like Caddyshack, , whirlwind romance would lead to their National Lampoon's Vacation, Groundhog Day, and engagement in November 2017 and marriage in National Lampoon's Animal House. To Violet Ramis, May 2018. he was best known as an amazing father, confidant, and friend.

Differently Wired Rome: A History in Seven Sackings by Deborah Reber by Matthew Kneale Today millions of kids are stuck in a world that No city on earth has preserved its past as has Rome. doesn't respect, support, or embrace who they Visitors stand on bridges that were crossed by Julius really are—these are what Deborah Reber is Caesar and Cicero, walk around temples visited by calling the “differently wired” kids, the one in five Roman emperors, and step into churches that have children with ADHD, dyslexia, Asperger’s, hardly changed since popes celebrated mass in them giftedness, anxiety, sensory processing disorder, sixteen centuries ago. and other neurodifferences.

The Feather Thief Calypso by Kirk Wallace Johnson by David Sedaris One June evening in 2009, after performing a David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal concert at the Royal Academy of Music, flautist and darkly hilarious book. If you've ever laughed Edwin Rist boarded a train for the British Museum your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully of Natural History. The museum was full of rare misanthropic stories, you might think you know bird specimens whose feathers were worth what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. staggering amounts of money. Once inside, Edwin grabbed hundreds of bird skins–some collected 150 years earlier and escaped into the darkness.

The Recovering Believe Me by Leslie Jamison by John Fea With its deeply personal and seamless blend of “Believe me” may be the most commonly used memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and phrase in Donald Trump’s lexicon. And to the journalistic reportage, The Recovering turns our surprise of many, about 80% percent of white understanding of the traditional addiction evangelicals have believed Trump-at least enough to narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story help propel him into the White House. Historian of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the John Fea is not surprised-and in Believe Me he train wreck itself. explains how we have arrived at this unprecedented moment in American politics.

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