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Simply Held: Nonfiction Picks

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Nonfiction Picks

Four nonfiction picks are available for you to choose from: biographies, cookbooks, social justice, and true crime. Our nonfiction picks are chosen quarterly and are available in regular print only. If you would like to update your selections or are a new patron who wants to receive picks from any of those four categories, sign up for Simply Held through our website!

Below you will find information provided by the publishers and authors on the titles we have selected for October 2024 from the following categories: biography, cookbook, social justice, and true crime.

These titles are only available in regular print.

Biography

January 2025 Pick

From the Reservation to Washington: the rise of Charles Curtis by Debra Goodrich

Cookbook

January 2025 Pick

Italian American Forever: classic recipes for everything you want to eat by Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Social Justice

January 2025 Pick

Year of the tiger: an activist's life by Alice Wong

True Crime

January 2025 Pick

This house of grief: the story of a murder trial by Helen Garner