NYT - E-Book Nonfiction | Des Moines Public Library

1) Hidden figures: the American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race

Author

Shetterly, Margot Lee

Notes

#1 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program; describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes.

2) Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

Author

Vance, J. D

Series

Thorndike Press large print basic

Notes

#2 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 25 week(s).

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Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.

3) When breath becomes air

Author

Kalanithi, Paul

Series

Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction

Notes

#8 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 48 week(s).

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"At the age of 36, on the verge of a completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi's health began to falter. He started losing weight and was wracked by waves of excruciating back pain. A CT scan confirmed what Paul, deep down, had suspected: he had stage four lung cancer, widely disseminated. One day, he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next, he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that,...

4) Born a crime: stories from a South African childhood

Author

Noah, Trevor

Series

Audible Studios on BrillianceAudio

Notes

#13 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29.

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"Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man's relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother{u2014}his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life." --from Amazon.