New Non-Fiction: Tuesday, March 12

If you frequently read fiction books, you might want to consider a nonfiction text for a change of pace. The library is constantly receiving new nonfiction and biography books, including the items below. Why not stop by and check out a book, CD, movie, or other material that you find interesting. We will continue to offer “Grab and Go” services for those who prefer to place their books on hold online and then pick them up in the cabinet inside the library.

Here are a few of the new nonfiction books that have arrived at the library recently. We invite you to check them out!

The Holy Grail of Investing: The World’s Greatest Investors Reveal Their Ultimate Strategies for Financial Freedom

Robbins takes you on a journey to interview a dozen of the world’s most successful investors in private equity, private credit, private real estate, and venture capital. They share their favorite strategies and insights in this practical guidebook. Robbins teams up with renowned private equity investor Christopher Zook, founder of CAZ Investments, to sit down with more than a dozen of the world’s greatest alternative investment managers, collectively managing over half a trillion dollars on behalf of investors. 

Estate Planning Basics: What You Need to Know About Wills, Trusts and Avoiding Probate

This book provides concise, straightforward, and easy to read information about the major components of estate planning – without going into endless detail about arcane options that apply only to the wealthy. Topics include: Wills—Why you need one, how to make one, and when having just a will is enough; Living Trusts—When they’re useful, how they work, and whether you need a lawyer to make one; Young Beneficiaries—How to protect gifts you leave to young people to young people, by naming a responsible adult to manage the property until they come of age.

What the Bears Know: How I Found Truth and Magic in America’s Most Misunderstood Creatures

In this wonderous and eye-opening exploration, Steve Searles, the reknown and respected “Bear Whisperer” of Mammoth Lakes, takes the reader on a journey into the lives of these remarkable creatures and the world we share. In the late 1990s, the town of Mammoth Lakes, California hired Steve Searles as a hunter to cull half its troublesome bear population. But the bears soon won him over, and Searles realised there had to be a better way. He soon developed non-lethal tactics to control their behaviour and overpopulation that heralded a landmark moment in the care and handling of the American black bear.