Easy Reading Nonfiction

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NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
By Po Bronson & Ashley Merriman
305.231 BRO
Award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman demonstrate that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring--because key twists in the science of child development have been overlooked.

The Art of Eating In: How I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove
By Cathy Erway
641.5973 ERW
In the city where dining is a sport, a gourmand swears off restaurants (even takeout ) for two years, rediscovering the economical, gastronomical joy of home cooking. Includes thirty original recipes.

Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
By Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney
153.8 BAU
The authors review the latest research to report key findings on willpower and offer practical advice for increasing it.

Moby Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
By Donovan Hohn
551.462 HOH
Whimsical curiosity begets a quixotic odyssey and troubling revelations about plastics polluting the seas in former high school teacher and journalist Hohn's charming account of what he learned searching for 28,800 rubber bath toys lost at sea in 1992.

Just My Type
By Simon Garfield
686.224 GAR
A romp through the history of fonts and the lives of the great typographers, revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live.