This week Alice and Kim browse the library and find some surprising nonfiction reads.

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Nonfiction in the News

Blood, labs and fraud: Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes is about to go on trial [Washington Post]

New Nonfiction 

Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir by Kat Chow

Doctoring the Black Death: Medieval Europe’s Medical Response to Plague by John Aberth 

 Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Lizzie Johnson

The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai 

Weekly Theme: Library Treasure Hunt

Futureface: A Family Mystery, An Epic Quest, and the Secret of Belonging by Alex Wagner

Chanel’s Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944 by Anne De Courcy

Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder by Reshma Saujani

Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo

Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs by Keena Roberts

The Ways of My Grandmothers by Beverly Hungry Wolf (1998)

Reading Now

KIM: The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson

ALICE: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobez du Mez

CONCLUSION

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