LibGuides: Non-Fiction Multimedia: Popular Documentaries + Audiobooks: Winter 2019

Top 10 Most Popular

Becoming
by Michelle Obama In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history.
Call Number:
CD B Obama
ISBN: 9780525633679
Publication Date: 2018
Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover A searing, unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, raised by Mormon survivalists in the mountains of Idaho and forbidden to go to school, defies her family and earns a PhD from Cambridge University.
Call Number:
CD B Westover
ISBN: 9780525528074
Publication Date: 2018
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
by Malcolm Gladwell A challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. Gladwell revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland.
Call Number:
CD 302 Gla
ISBN: 9781549150333
Publication Date: 2019
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
by David G. McCullough David McCullough rediscovers the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define the country.
Call Number:
CD 977 McC
ISBN: 9781508279082
Publication Date: 2019
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah One of the comedy world's fastest-rising stars tells his wild coming of age story during the twilight of Apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.
Call Number:
CD B Noah
ISBN: 9781531865030
Publication Date: 2016
The Library Book
by Susan Orlean Susan Orlean re-opens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to the beloved institution of libraries.
Call Number:
CD 027.4794 Orl
ISBN: 9781508266471
Publication Date: 2018
Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow Traces the life of Alexander Hamilton, an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who rose to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.
Call Number:
CD B Hamilton
ISBN: 9781524708658
Publication Date: 2016
Blowout
by Rachel Maddow Rachel Maddow offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil and gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe, from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea, exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas.
Call Number:
CD 338.2 Mad
ISBN: 9781984846723
Publication Date: 2019
Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies about Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be
by Rachel Hollis Each chapter begins with a specific lie Hollis once believed that left her feeling overwhelmed, unworthy, or ready to give up.
Call Number:
CD 248.843 Hol
ISBN: 9781543676839
Publication Date: 2018
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
by Pete Buttigieg First elected in 2011, Buttigieg left a successful business career to move back to his hometown, previously tagged by Newsweek as a 'dying city,' because the industrial Midwest beckoned as a challenge to the McKinsey-trained Harvard graduate.
Call Number:
CD B Buttigieg
ISBN: 9781684419319
Publication Date: 2019

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Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
by James Clear James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system.
Call Number:
CD 155.24 Cle
ISBN: 9780593207093
Publication Date: 2019
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
by Mark Manson A much needed moment of real talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, this is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.
Call Number:
CD 158.1 Man
ISBN: 9780062667304
Publication Date: 2016
Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals
by Rachel Hollis Rachel Hollis has seen it too often: women being afraid of their own goals. They're afraid of embarrassment, of falling short of perfection, of not being enough. But the biggest fear of all is of being judged for having ambition at all.
Call Number:
CD 158.1082 Hol
ISBN: 9781721348107
Publication Date: 2019
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
by Jordan B. Peterson Psychologist Jordan B. Peterson brings his uncompromising voice to readers wanting to lead a deeper and more profoundly meaningful life.
Call Number:
CD 170.44 Pet
ISBN: 9781984833976
Publication Date: 2018
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
by David Brooks Most people, over the course of life, will make four big commitments: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Personal fulfillment depends on how well the commitments are chosen and executed.
Call Number:
CD 302 Bro
ISBN: 9781984840769
Publication Date: 2019
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
by Bill Bryson Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body--how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately) the ways it can fail.
Call Number:
CD 612 Bry
ISBN: 9780147526915
Publication Date: 2019
Hamilton: The Revolution
by Lin-Manuel Miranda From Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda comes a backstage pass to his groundbreaking hit musical.
Call Number:
CD 792.642 Mir
ISBN: 9781478913641
Publication Date: 2016
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
by Daniel James Brown This is the remarkable story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936.
Call Number:
CD 797.123 Bro
ISBN: 9781611761696
Publication Date: 2013
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval N. Harari Integrates history and science to challenge everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our heritage...and our future.
Call Number:
CD 909 Har
ISBN: 9781494506902
Publication Date: 2015
The Wright Brothers
by David G. McCullough On December 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright's Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard. The Age of Flight had begun. How did they do it? And why?
Call Number:
CD 920 McC
ISBN: 9781442376083
Publication Date: 2015

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Unbroken: A World War II Airman's Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand In 1943, while World War II raged on in the Pacific Theater, Lieutenant Louis Zamperini was the only survivor of a deadly plane crash in the middle of the ocean.
Call Number:
CD 940.54 Hil
ISBN: 9781101912621
Publication Date: 2010
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
by Jim N. Mattis The account of Jim Mattis's storied career, from wide-ranging leadership roles in three wars to ultimately commanding a quarter of a million troops across the Middle East. Along the way, Mattis recounts his foundational experiences as a leader, extracting the lessons he has learned about the nature of warfighting and peacemaking, the importance of allies, and the strategic dilemmas, and short-sighted thinking, now facing our nation.
Call Number:
CD 956.704 Mat
ISBN: 9780735288485
Publication Date: 2019
The American Spirit
by David McCullough At a time of self-reflection in America following a bitter election campaign that has left the country divided, these speeches by David McCullough remind listeners who they are as a people and what they stand for, to help them find their way forward.
Call Number:
CD 973 McC
ISBN: 9781508238706
Publication Date: 2017
Leadership
by Doris Kearns Goodwin Goodwin draws upon four of the presidents she has studied most closely, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights), to show how they first recognized leadership qualities within themselves, and were recognized by others as leaders.
Call Number:
CD 973.099 Goo
ISBN: 9781508232957
Publication Date: 2018
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
Call Number:
CD 976.6004 Gra
ISBN: 9780307747440
Publication Date: 2017
The Oregon Trail: An American Journey
by Rinker Buck This is the true story of Rinker Buck and his brother Nick traveling the Oregon Trail in 2011, the first men in 102 years to accomplish the journey.
Call Number:
CD 978 Buc
ISBN: 9781442395503
Publication Date: 2015
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
by Stephanie Land An economic-hardship journalist describes the years she worked in low-paying domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them.
Call Number:
CD B Land
ISBN: 9781549173950
Publication Date: 2019
Leonardo da Vinci
by Walter Isaacson Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history...but in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry.
Call Number:
CD B Leonardo
ISBN: 9781508241980
Publication Date: 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by J. D. Vance From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class.
Call Number:
CD B Vance
ISBN: 9780062570109
Publication Date: 2016
Robin
by Dave Itzkoff Drawing on more than a hundred original interviews with family, friends, and colleagues, as well as extensive archival research, this biography offers a fresh and original look at the life and career of Robin Williams.
Call Number:
CD B Williams
ISBN: 9781427296979
Publication Date: 2018

Non-Fiction Multimedia: Popular Documentaries + Audiobooks: Winter 2019

WINTER 2019

Top 10 Most Popular

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