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.
April 2025 Pick
Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leapng, Road-racing life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood's First Stuntwoman by Mallory O'Meara
April 2025 Pick
Pretty Delicious: Simply, Modern Mediterranean, served with style by Alia and Radwa Elkaffas
April 2025 Pick
Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition by Silky Shah
April 2025 Pick
Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Darn of World War II by Abbott Kahler