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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Empire of Pain, about the opioid epidemic - will make you question everything the FDA approves

Madame Secretary - Madeleine Albright's autobiography

The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulright - probably my favorite nonfiction ever. Takes the daily diary of a woman from colonial New England who was a midwife and extrapolates all kinds of detail about the lives of ordinary women during that time period

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer - series of essays/linked chapters about Indigenous peoples' interactions with nature and what we can learn from them

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain - a young woman during WWI, authobiography

Life and Death of the Great Lakes - fascinating investigative reporting about the ecological disaster in the Great Lakes

All That She Carried by Tiya Miles - looks at the items a young enslaved girl brought with her out of slavery and what they tell us about her life and that of her ancestors

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All That She Carried was fantastic!

It's not new by a long stretch, but if you're local, Rosa Lee by Leon Dash remains one of the most compelling books I've ever read. Also not new but with a local hook, Katharine Graham's Personal History.[/quote]

Thank you, Rosa Lee looks fantastic and I hadn't heard of it. I read and LOVED Katharine Graham's autobiography. Probably the best autobiography I've ever read. [/quote]
Rosa Lee was [i]tough[/i].

All That She Carried [i]was[/i] fantastic. Is the bag still on display at NMAAHC? [/quote]

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