10 New Nonfiction Arrivals at the Library

The collection at Emma S. Clark Memorial Library grows a little each week, and here are ten of the latest nonfiction arrivals.

• Titanic: The Last Night of a Small Town by John Welshman. Welshman, a social historian, delivers a minute-by-minute account of the last hours aboard the Titanic via 12 eyewitness accounts.
• Rethinking Depression: How to Shed Mental Health Labels and Create Personal Meaning by Eric Maisel. According to Amazon.com, "Maisel persuasively critiques this sickness model and prescribes a potent new approach that updates the best ideas of modern psychology."
• Grow, Cook, Eat by Willi Galloway. Both novice and seasoned gardeners will appreciate a book that shows you how to reap the rewards of keeping a kitchen garden.
• Before They're Gone: A Family's Year-Long Quest to Explore America's Most Endangered National Parks by Michael Lanza. Described as "delightful … a fresh and engaging way to tell the climate change story" by the Smithsonian.
• Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster by Abrahm Lustgarten. "A scathing expose," according to Reuters.
• You Can Heal Yourself: A Guide to Physical and Emotional Recovery After Injury or Illness by Julie K. Silver. For those who have suffered an injury, here's how to answer the questions like "What can I do to help my own recovery?" and "How can I keep my spirits up during my recovery?"
• Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity, and the Perfect Knuckleball by R.A. Dickey with Wayne Coffey. An athlete perseveres to become a professional ballplayer, sustained by his faith and his family.
• Carly's Voice: Breaking Through Autism by Arthur Fleischmann with Carly Fleischmann. "To read along as [Carly] expresses her feelings in conversations with her father is almost as stunning as when she writes of life inside her autistic head," writes Kirkus Reviews.
• How it Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe by Chris Impey. Received a starred review from Booklist: "Readers will never find more intellectual adventure packed into fewer pages."
• My Life in Prison: Memoirs of a Chinese Political Dissident by Jiang Qisheng. "Jiang offers stories of interactions with other prisoners, small joys, and great suffering as well as his own inner struggle to maintain an equilibrium that would help him survive astonishing absurdity and cruelty," according to Booklist.