1. Travel: Dewey area 917-Geography & Travel. "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed
2. Sports: Dewey area 797-Sports, Games & Entertainment. "The Boys In the Boat" by Daniel James Brown
3. Adventure: Dewey area 974-History of North America "The Perfect Storm" by Sebastian Junger
4. Food: Dewey area 641-Home & Family Management. "Heat" by Bill Buford
"The boys in the boat: nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Olympics"
by Daniel James Brown
The Boys in the Boat is the inspiring story of how a group of working-class young men from the University of Washington rowing team beat the odds and won gold at the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany. This fast-paced story will appeal to sports fans as well as to readers who enjoy a character-driven and richly detailed story of determination and hope set during the Great Depression.
This bestseller was the inspiration for the upcoming PBS documentary titled, "The Boys of '36" set to air on August 2nd.
"Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany" by Bill Buford
The seed of this story began to germinate when American author and journalist Bill Buford wrote a profile for The New Yorker magazine about celebrity chef Mario Batali, Buford's desire to shake things up in his life and his curiosity about what it takes to work in a professional kitchen lead him to somehow convince Mario Batali to let him work/volunteer in the kitchen of his 3 star restaurant, "Babbo" in NYC. And the adventure begins there.
All of the antics and drama that occur in a professional kitchen are on full display, but the story goes much deeper to include the larger-than-life Batali's backstory and life experiences as well as Buford's sojourn in Italy discovering the roots of Italian cuisine. This book is part biography, part memoir and part food journal. This witty, richly detailed book will appeal to readers that enjoy food writing, memoirs and biographies and life stories.
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