New Adult Nonfiction – 500-699

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Adventures With Ari: Life As a Canine Naturalist

Miles, Kathryn

Traces the author’s forays into experiencing nature and promoting green agendas in accordance with a dog’s perspective, in an account that describes the rewards she enjoyed while exploring the natural world and seasons at the side of her free-spirited puppy.

 

Flyaway: How a Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings

Gilbert, Suzie

A bird rehabilitation specialist describes her experiences with assisting injured animals and the impact of her work on her family life, in an account that remembers the special birds she has helped and the life lessons she learned throughout the course of her career.

 

The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food–Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, when the Nation’s Food was Seasonal

Kurlansky, Mark

The author of Cod, Salt, and The Big Oyster, Kurlansky seems well placed to write this account of a Works Progress Administration project that sent writers like Eudora Welty and Nelson Algren out in the field to chronicle America’s eating habits.

 

How to Date Like a Grown-Up: Everything You Need to Know to Get Out There, Get Lucky, or Even Get Married in Your 40s, 50s, and Beyond

Daily, Lisa

By the time you hit forty, you have a pretty good idea of what you want when it comes to dating, love, and romance. But how do you get it? “How to Date  Like a Grown-up” will tell you everything you need to know to find the love you’re looking for (even after a long marriage or other dating hiatus), how to get married (if that’s what you’re after), or how to just get lucky.

 

In the Womb: Animals

Tallack, Peter

In the Womb: Animals follows the developmental path of three different mammals utilizing some of the most amazing technology available.  This resource is perfect for animal-lovers and inquisitive minds alike.

 

Living the Sweet Life in Paris: Adventures of an American Pastry Chef

Lebovitz, David

David Lebovitz moved to Paris in 2002 to start a new life. After cramming all his worldly belongings into three suitcases, he arrived, hopes high, at his new apartment near the Bastille. But as this career pastry chef and cookbook author would soon learn, it’s a different world en France.

 

Nature’s Great Events: The Pulse of the Planet

Bass, Karen (EDT) / Leith, Brian (INT)

“Nature’s Great Events” is the book companion to the Discovery Channel’s landmark wildlife documentary, “Seasons of Survival,” Using groundbreaking filming techniques and state-of-the-art scientific technologies, the book and the documentary on which it is based are epic in every sense, charting six seasonal events that transform entire ecosystems and the life experiences of the thousands of animals within them, from the largest mammals to the smallest microorganisms.

 

The Soul of Medicine

Nuland, Sherwin

Like all doctors, Sherwin Nuland collects stories, and over thirty years in the practice of surgery, he has collected a consider number of both his own stories as well as the stories of surgeons he has worked with and admires.  Doctors have peculiar ways of approaching certain kinds of problems, and many of those ways are captured with grace and elequence in The Soul of Medicine.

 

Who’s Got Your Back

Ferrazzi, Keith

The author of the bestselling Never Eat Alone offers the real secret to our career and personal success: the importance of developing a circle of trusted friends and advisors to help us achieve our fullest potential—the kind of support that is behind virtually every successful president, executive, and leader.

 

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