New Non-Fiction: Thursday, May 15

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!

Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life

Drawing from her twenty years of teaching experience and her bestselling Substack newsletter, For Dear Life, Maggie Smith breaks down creativity into ten essential elements: attention, wonder, vision, play, surprise, vulnerability, restlessness, tenacity, connection, and hope. Each element is explored through short, inspiring, and craft-focused essays, followed by generative writing prompts. Dear Writer provides tools that artists of all experience levels can apply to their own creative practices and carry with them into all genres and all areas of life.

iPhone for Seniors

iPhone for Seniors will help you to quickly feel confident using your iPhone. It covers all models of iPhone using iOS 17 and shows you how to send messages, make and receive calls, use FaceTime to make video calls, and to share music or videos while on a call, Make secure payments using your iPhone, Master neat features like personalizing your Call screen and setting up your iPhone to get real-time data even when on StandBy. Written in larger type and using non-technical language.

Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend

More than a decade after his sudden passing, James Gandolfini still exerts a powerful pull on television and film enthusiasts around the world. His charismatic portrayals of complex, flawed, but always human men illuminated the contradictions in all of us, as well as our potential for grace, and the power of love and family. Bailey traces his rise from bit parts to character roles he enlivened with menace and vulnerability, to Tony Soprano, the breakout role that would make him a legend, and onto a post-Sopranos career in which he continued to challenge himself and his audience.