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A NYT Best of 2019…
“Higginbotham’s superb account of the April 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is one of those rare books about science and technology that read like a tension-filled thriller,” according to The Times Book Review editors. The chain of human errors and the systemic secrecy that led to this disaster are the heart of the book, and much more frightening than the radioactivity.
Current #1 NYT bestseller…
Elton John’s “Me” takes you through the extreme highs and deep lows of his upbringing and career. How can you not be entertained by the firsthand retelling of the life of one of music’s biggest divas ever? Yes, he did really call his office one day to ask if they could do something about the wind. “Me” is currently #1 on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list.
#ReadWithJenna…
Jenna Bush Hager’s final book club pick of 2019 is this indie darling from Margaret Renkl. “It’s beautiful and it is a slower pace but I kind of loved that at the end of the year. We end with something slow and reflective and gorgeous,” Hager said in the announcement. Renkl wrote this book about her mother’s life soon after her death.
Gripping winter cold case…
A thrilling account of the mysterious — and unsolved — deaths of a group of elite Russian hikers in 1959. The nine suddenly disappeared in the wintry wilds of the Ural Mountains. When their bodies were finally found, none was properly dressed for the brutal cold. Did they flee something terrible in the dead of night? Travel along with the investigation into what really happened without leaving your cozy couch.
A NYT Best of 2019…
An “instantly essential text,” according to The Times Book Review editors, who call Sarah M. Broom’s National Book Award-winning memoir “an extraordinary, engrossing debut.” The editors write, “‘The Yellow House’ is a full indictment of the greed, discrimination, indifference and poor city planning that led [Broom’s] family’s home to be wiped off the map” during Hurricane Katrina.
Book club pick…
Former NFL quarterback Andrew Luck selected “Red Notice” as his final book club pick of 2019. Written like a gripping thriller novel, Bill Browder’s account of exposing deep corruption in Russia and his unfailing will to fight against Vladimir Putin’s regime proves that sometimes fact is far stranger than fiction.
Award winning…
Hallie Rubenhold won the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize — the prestigious British award for the best nonfiction writing in English — for “The Five: The Untold Lives of Women Killed by Jack the Ripper.” Judges describe her book as “brilliantly written and brilliantly researched … And it is so relevant now in terms of how crimes, particularly sex crimes and crimes against women, can be reported and considered and talked about.”
Home for the holidays…
While your uncle is getting on your nerves at holiday gatherings, just think, there’s no way your family has even half the dysfunction of Augusten Burrough’s. Seriously, there’s a pedophile who lives in the shed behind his house. Defines “insanely funny.” (If your family is half as dysfunctional, you should start writing a book about it over winter vacation.)
In the news…
Impeachment proceedings continue to dominate headlines, but what would impeachment actually mean for Trump’s presidency? Find out by learning about what happened the three times impeachment has been invoked in the past.
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