Best of 2022: Adult Nonfiction | Indian Prairie Public Library District

1) The number ones: twenty chart-topping hits that reveal the history of pop music

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A narrative of the history of popular music through the lens of twenty pivotal hits at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, which began in 1958, reveals a remarkably fluid and connected story of music.

2) A coastline is an immeasurable thing: a memoir across three continents

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Daniel, Mary-Alice

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"Mary-Alice Daniel's family moved from West Africa to England when she was a very young girl, leaving behind the vivid culture of her native land in the Nigerian savanna. They arrived to a blanched, cold world of prim suburbs and unfamiliar customs. So began her family's series of travels across three continents in search of places of belonging. A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing ventures through the physical and mythical landscapes of Daniel's...

3) How to keep house while drowning: a gentle approach to cleaning and organizing

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Davis, KC

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"For anyone tired of staring at the same mess every day but struggling to find the time and willpower to fix it, popular therapist and TikTok star KC Davis presents a revolutionary method of cleaning to end the stress-mess cycle"--

4) The nineties: a book

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Klosterman, Chuck

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"Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, music"-- At the beginning, everyone's name and address was listed in the phone book, and everyone answered their landline because you didn't know who it was. By the end, exposing someone's address was an act of emotional violence, and nobody picked up their cell phone if they didn't know who was calling. Klosterman shows that in the 1990s there was a wholesale shift in how society...

5) I dream of dinner (so you don't have to): low-effort, high-reward recipes : a cookbook

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Slagle, Ali

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"150 fast and flexible recipes to use what you have and make what you want, from New York Times contributor Ali Slagle. With minimal ingredients and maximum joy in mind, Ali Slagle's no-nonsense, completely delicious recipes are ideal for dinner tonight--and every single night. Like she does with her instantly beloved recipes in the New York Times, Ali combines readily available, inexpensive ingredients in clever, uncomplicated ways for meals that...

6) Goodbye, again: essays, reflections, and illustrations

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Sun, Jonny

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"... a collection of touching and hilarious personal essays, stories, poems--accompanied by his trademark illustrations--covering topics such as mental health, happiness, and what it means to belong."--

7) It came from the closet: queer reflections on horror

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Vallese, Joe (EDT)/ Machado, Carmen Maria (CON)/ Owens Grimm, Bruce (CON)/ Lisowski, Zefyr (CON)

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"Twenty-five narrative essays by contemporary LGBTQ writers reflecting on queerness in horror film, from Hitchcock to HALLOWEEN"--