Nonfiction Round-Up (10/25/2023)

This week, we delve into a poignant reflection on how music can guide us through love and loss, an original guide to navigating spending in relationships, and a haunting, but ever-prescient, newly translated lost memoir surrounding one man’s survival from Auschwitz.

SOUNDTRACK OF SILENCE: LOVE, LOSS, AND A PLAYLIST FOR LIFE BY MATT HAY

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“While Hay doesn’t sugarcoat his circumstances—he unsparingly recounts his lengthy recovery from multiple brain surgeries, for example—his optimism in the face of adversity is stirring. This moving memoir makes magic out of facing the music.”—Publishers Weekly

TIGHTWADS AND SPENDTHRIFTS: NAVIGATING THE MONEY MINEFIELD IN REAL RELATIONSHIPS BY SCOTT RICK

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Tightwads and Spendthrifts, is a science-based guide to understanding and transforming how we manage money, both on our own and in relationships. Building on his original research, and surveying a vast body of interdisciplinary work, Tightwads and Spendthrifts will help you understand your own financial psychology and how it plays out in your relationships. Can tightwads and spendthrifts live together in harmony? Rick says “yes,” but not without first asking hard questions about whose opinion should count most when making a financial decision. After all of the issues have been aired, he tells readers how to create a game plan for navigating financial decision making that both Tightwads and Spendthrifts can rely on for a happy life together.

COLD CREMATORIUM: REPORTING FROM THE LAND OF AUSCHWITZ BY JÓZSEF DEBRECZENI

Available for download on Edelweiss know more. LibraryReads votes due by December 1st.

“A Hungarian-speaking journalist/poet who lived mostly in Yugoslavia, Debreczeni barely survived the gruesome selection process when he arrived at Auschwitz in 1944. After 12 months, he ended up in the so-called Cold Crematorium at the forced labor camp Dörnhau, where prisoners too weak to work awaited execution. He was saved when the Germans abandoned the camp as the Allies closed in. Published in 1950 but never translated, Debreczeni’s memoir is now appearing in 15 languages worldwide.”—Library Journal

SOUNDTRACK OF SILENCE: LOVE, LOSS, AND A PLAYLIST FOR LIFE by Matt Hay; 9781250280220; 1/24/24
TIGHTWADS AND SPENDTHRIFTS: NAVIGATING THE MONEY MINEFIELD IN REAL RELATIONSHIPS by Scott Rick; 9781250280220; 1/9/24
COLD CREMATORIUM: REPORTING FROM THE LAND OF AUSCHWITZ by József Debreczeni; 9781250290533; 1/23/24