New Nonfiction
American hostage by Micah Garen.
Kidnapped by militants in southern Iraq, where he and fianc e Carlton were making a film on the looting of important archaeological sites, Garen was threatened with death as the world watched and Carlton fought for his release.
The horses in my life by Monty Roberts.
Monty Roberts is famous the world over as "the man who listens to horses," and for his autobiography of the same name. In this new book, he celebrates his best-loved horses, chosen from the tens of thousands he has worked with over the past 60 years.
Postwar: a history of Europe since 1945 by Tony Judt.
Tony Judt's Postwar makes one lament the overuse of the word "groundbreaking." It is an unprecedented accomplishment: the first truly European history of contemporary Europe, from Lisbon to Leningrad, based on research in six languages, covering thirty-four countries across sixty years in a single integrated narrative, using a great deal of material from newly available sources. Tony Judt has drawn on forty years of reading and writing about modern Europe to create a fully rounded, deep account of the continent's recent past.
Summer of ordinary ways by Nicole Lea Helget.
Practicing baseball with Dad, then watching him go after a cow with a pitchfork in a fit of rage. Playing chicken on the county road with semi trucks full of hogs. Flirting with the milkman. Chasing with your sisters after Wreck and Bump, mangy mutts who prowl farmsteads killing chickens and drinking fuel oil. Dandelion wine. The ghost of a girl buried alive over a century ago. These unforgettable, sometimes hilarious images spill from a fierce and wondrous childhood into the pages of The Summer of Ordinary Ways.