The 10th Annual Goodreads Choice Awards have come to a close and we are excited to announce the winners. Click on the titles below to find these items in our catalog and happy reading!
Goodreads Best Books of 2018
Tag: nonfiction
Forty Autumns: A Family’s Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall by Nina Willner
Under East Germany’s hardline Communist government, the lives of ordinary citizens were bleak. Any neighbor or coworker could be a Stasi informer, and tight family bonds were the only ones that could be trusted. In Forty Autumns, former U.S. Army intelligence Read More …
The Bridesmaid’s Daughter: From Grace Kelly’s Wedding to a Women’s Shelter–Searching for the Truth About my Mother by Nyna Giles
In the 1940s and 1950s, Nyna Giles’s mother Carolyn Scott was a sought-after Eileen Ford model with many photo spreads and magazine covers to her credit. She was also a close friend of the young Grace Kelly, and served as Read More …
Dog Heaven by Cynthia Rylant
Losing a pet is never easy and quite often a heartbreak for the entire family. A picture book that addresses that loss in a meaningful and hope-filled way is Dog Heaven, written and illustrated by Cynthia Rylant. With beautifully saturated Read More …
The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast by Michael Scott Moore
Journalist Michael Scott Moore spent almost three years as a hostage held by Somali pirates. This book is his account of the uncertain, desperate, and at times violent days spent hiding out in dilapidated houses and on board a hijacked Read More …