Nonfiction News The Ridgefield Library’s Nonfiction Newsletter June 2021

Unforgettable Journeys: Slow Down and See Travel the World by DK Eyewitness Explore 200 inspirational journeys across the Armchair Explorer: Discover the Best Music, globe with this stunning visual guide. Film and Literature from Around the World by Lonely Planet Explore music, films and books from 120 countries without leaving your armchair. Ultimate Travel List: The 500 Best Places on Perfect preparation for travelers or simply a the Planet...Ranked by Lonely Planet satisfying journey into the unknown for culture Packed with insightful commentary, lovers. Lists the five most interesting books awe-inspiring photos, and an all-new and movies from each country and its top ten ranking of the greatest places to visit on tunes. Forthcoming July 2021. Earth, this is a must for explorers and armchair travelers.

Hidden Travel: The Secret to Extraordinary Trips by Stephen W. Brock How Iceland Changed the World: The Big Have you ever had a magic moment on a trip that History of a Small Island by Egill Bjarnason so moved you, you knew you'd remember it Bjarnason takes readers on a tour of history, forever? Hidden Travel shows you how to showing them how Iceland played a pivotal role experience more such moments anywhere, even in events as diverse as the French Revolution, the Moon Landing, and the foundation of Israel. at home. A lively history of a popular travel destination.

Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, by Connor Knighton People, and Stories by Rick Steves From the Emmy-winning CBS Sunday Morning With a new introduction from Rick reflecting on correspondent, an entertaining chronicle of his his decades of travel, For the Love of year spent traveling to every one of our National Europe features 100 of the best stories published Parks, including his experiences with some of throughout his career and are filled with Rick's the most beautiful places, and most interesting unforgettable experiences, favorite destinations, people, that America has to offer. and highlights from the road.

USA National Parks: Lands of Wonder Always Italy by Frances Mayes by DK Eyewitness This lush guide, featuring glorious photographs A celebration of the beauty, history, and from National Geographic, showcases the best culture of America's National Parks packed Italy has to offer from the perspective of two with beautiful photography and inspiring women who have spent their lives reveling in ideas for your next adventure. its unique joys. From the author of Under the Tuscan Sun and See You in the Piazza.

The Best American Travel Writing 2020 Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the by Jason Wilson World’s Hidden Wonders, 2nd edition These stories provide not just remarkable by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras, and Ella Morton entertainment, but also, as guest editor Robert Includes 120 new entries that offer readers even MacFarlane says, a deep comfort, “carrying more of the most unusual, curious, bizarre, and hope, creating connections, transporting readers mysterious places on earth. Equal parts wonder an to other-worlds…” The journeys showcased are wanderlust. as spiritual as they are physical.

Where to Go When: Unforgettable Trips for

Every Month by DK Travel The Open Road: 50 Best Road Trips in the USA Perhaps you're looking for a place to have a by Jessica Dunham June honeymoon, a September wedding Choose from the best coastal drives, cross- anniversary getaway or a March birthday country journeys, trips for kids, awe-inspiring adventure. Here are over 100 destinations views, and more. Get inspired and get ready to listed to spark your vacation dreams and guide hit the road. you on the best possible time of year to go. 472 Main St., Ridgefield, CT 06877—203/438-2282—www.ridgefieldlibrary.org The Ridgefield Library’s NONFICTION Newsletter – Page 2

Kennedy’s Avenger: Assissination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby NEW NONFICTION by Dan Abrams and David Fisher No crime in history had more eyewitnesses. On SAMPLER November 24, 1963, two days after the killing of President Kennedy, a troubled nightclub owner Best Seat in the House: 18 Golden Lessons named Jack Ruby quietly slipped into the Dallas from a Father to His Son police station and assassinated the assassin, Lee by Jack Nicklaus II and Don Yaeger Harvey Oswald. Abrams and Fisher bring this

Jack Nicklaus II shares stories, insights, and incredible story to life. lessons he’s learned from his father, the “Golden Bear,” that will delight golf fans The Woman They Could Not Silence: One of all ages, encourage fathers, and Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and inspire readers to focus on what’s most the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear important in life: family. by Kate Moore In 1860, Elizabeth Packard’s husband feels threatened by her intellect, independence, and Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can unwillingness to stifle her own thoughts, and so Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their he has her committed to an insane asylum. Power, and Thrive From the author of Radium Girls. by Kristin Neff, Ph.D. Neff expands our notion of self-kindness and In the Heights: Finding Home its capacity to transform our lives, showing by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegria women how to balance tender Hudes, and Jeremy McCarter self-acceptance with fierce action to claim Untold stories, perceptive essays, and the lyrics their power and change the world. to Miranda’s songs, complete with his funny, heartfelt annotations, gives readers an intimate The Blue Wonder: Why the Sea Glows, Fish look inside the Broadway smash which is now Sing, and Other Astonishing Insights from the a newly released musical drama film.

Ocean by Frauke Bagusche

With the heart of a poet and the mind of a CenterStage: My Most Fascinating Interviews scientist, Bagusche reawakens our love for the from A-Rod to Jay-Z by Michael Kay sea and ignites a desire to protect this vital Includes Lorne Michaels, Paul Simon, habitat. A fascinating and beautiful deep-sea John McEnroe, Rob Reiner, Seth Meyers, Serena dive into the ocean. Williams, Alan Alda, David Halberstam, Larry David, Lindsey Vonn, and more. From the veteran

House of Sticks: A Memoir Yankees broadcaster and Emmy Award-winning by Ly Tran host of CenterStage.

An intimate, beautifully written coming-of-

age memoir by 25 year old Ly Tran recounting her journey from war-torn Vietnam We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto to Ridgewood, Queens, Brooklyn and by Alice Waters ultimately to the Ivy League, and her struggle From chef and food activist Alice Waters, an amid clashing cultural expectations. impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the way each and every one of us cooks and eats.

The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a

Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America License to Parent: How My Career as a Spy by Elizabeth Letts Helped Me Raise Resourceful, Self-Sufficient The triumphant story of a woman who rode Kids by Christina Hillsberg and Ryan Hillsberg her horse across America in the 1950s, The Hillsberg’s are married former CIA spies fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific raising five children together. Through honest and Ocean. relatable parenting anecdotes, Christina shares their distinctive approach to raising confident,

security-conscious, resilient children, giving practical takeaways rooted in CIA tradecraft. American Portrait: The Story of Us, Told by Us by PBS

An intimate look at the heart and soul of our Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret country and what it means to be an Service by Carol Leonnig American today. Told by people of all ages, The first definitive account of the rise and fall of orientations, and walks of life, this book the Secret Service, from the Kennedy reminds us that what we share is much assassination to the ongoing scandals under greater and more enduring than what Obama and Trump. divides us.