New Nonfiction
100 ways to beat the blues by Tanya Tucker.
Country music legend and bestselling author Tanya Tucker brings together the blues-beating secrets of celebrity friends and down-home acquaintances in an uplifting book that is the perfect pick-me-up. Includes advice from such greats as Garth Brooks, Dennis Hopper, and Gayle Sayers.
Chocolate: the bittersweet saga of dark and light by Mort Rosenblum.
In this narrative, Mort Rosenblum delves into the mysteries of cacao: its history, its legends and lore, the processes that make chocolate. Rosenblum follows the chocolate trail, cooking up mole poblano - chili-laced chicken with chocolate - under a Mexican volcano; visiting plantations during an African rebellion; helping French master chocolatiers make palets d'or - bite-size, gold-flecked bricks of dark chocolate. He probes the empires of Hershey and Godiva, and the closed-door realm of Valrhona. He watches at each step as humble cacao pods on spindly trees in dank jungles end up as creamy mousse au chocolat. He meets with buyers and tasters in the United States and across Europe to discover the diverse trends, demands, and traditions of chocolate lovers. And, along the way, he investigates the bitter fights and rivalries - the dark side of the chocolate trade.
It's my party too: the battle for the heart of the GOP and the Future of America by Christine Todd Whitman.
Whitman takes readers inside the tumultuous world of politics today to reveal how a moderate approach can work wonders, while the arrogant and unyielding bullying of the conservatives only leads to more division.
Mayo Clinic fitness for everybody by Diane Dahm.
Splendid solution: Jonas Salk and the conquest of polio by Jeffry Kluger.
Kluger reveals the thrilling story of Jonas Salk's quest to conquer polio in this medical adventure full of rivalries and last minute reversals that culminated in one of the greatest accomplishments of the 20th century.
Taking heat: the president, the press, and my years in the White House by Ari Fleischer.
Taking Heat is an introspective exploration of the top political events in the first half of the Bush administration, as well as the candid observations of a professional who stood in the bright lights of the world stage.
What we knew: Terror, mass murder, and everyday life in Nazi Germany by Eric A. Johnson.
The horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of the most disturbing questions in modern history: why did Hitler's party appeal to millions of Germans, and how entrenched was anti-Semitism among the population? How could anyone claim, after the war, that the genocide of Europe's Jews was a secret? Did ordinary non-Jewish Germans live in fear of the Nazi state? In this unprecedented firsthand analysis of daily life as experienced in the Third Reich, What We Knew offers definitive answers to these most important questions.