Welcome to our mystery unboxing feature with Westfield librarians, with a new episode released every month! In this episode, librarian Mary asked her colleagues for recommendations for nonfiction about current and cultural issues. All of these are available from the Westfield Athenaeum if you’re interested in them! For the list, with direct links to the catalog, check below the video!
Right Now Pile:
- The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano that Darkened the World and Changed History by William Klingaman and Nicholas Klingaman
- Don’t Make Me Pull Over! An Informal History of the Family Road Trip by Richard Ratay
- The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Apple: Skin to the Core (A Memoir in Words and Pictures) by Eric Gansworth
- How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon
Pretty Soon Pile:
- A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
- If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I? Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority by Angela Parker
- The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living by Joseph Marshall
- Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
- Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain.
- Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Me, and a Disaster Ten Miles into the Darkness by Neil Swidey
When They Come In Pile:
- Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew
- Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jensen
- Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo
- Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brown
- A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
