Lost in the Stacks: Cruising Attitude
A bubbly journey through the friendly skies above and crashpads below, Cruising Attitude by Heather Poole delights the reader with funny, charming, outrageous anecdotes about life as a flight attendant.
Julie Nelson
As a Collection Development Professional, Julie selects some of the nonfiction books and audiobooks to add to the adult collection. She enjoys reading and sharing the "hidden gems" she finds in the nonfiction stacks.
Julie's Posts
Lost in the Stacks: Below Stairs
It was bad enough having to polish every shoe in the house – but iron the shoelaces? It was true, then, a kitchen maid really was the lowest of the low.
Lost in the Stacks: An Unquenchable Thirst: Following Mother Teresa in Search of Love, Service and an Authentic Life
As young Mary Johnson stared at the cover of Time magazine featuring the loving eyes and wizened face of Mother Teresa, she knew her calling: to become a Missionary of Charity.
Lost in the Stacks: Driving with Dead People
Sure there was a corpse in the back of the hearse, but that didn’t stop Monica and Julie from joyriding down Main Street.
Lost in the Stacks: Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
They come in thousands, these girls from rural China, teenagers and young adults, alone or in groups, they flock to the booming South China city Dongguan. Here they make handbags, athletic shoes, rubber parts and electronics for eleven hours a day and, if a girl is lucky, Sunday off, in the endless factories that comprise [...]
Lost in the Stacks: Curse of the Narrows
9:04 a.m., December 6, 1917, Halifax, Nova Scotia: clocks would stop; glass would shatter; thousands would be homeless; bodies – smashed, burned, bloodied – would stack up; a city would never be the same.
Lost in the Stacks: In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
A prison sentence transformed Neil White’s life forever, but it took a group of outcasts to show him the way.
Lost in the Stacks: Breath: A Lifetime in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung
Some people might see life in a tiny village, in the family home, in an iron lung, the ultimate confinement. Some might consider being fed and bathed and totally dependent on others no life at all –Martha Mason disagrees.
Lost in the Stacks: Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin
Oh those madcap Jazz Age writers! The insults fly, the gin flows and the quips are unending as Marion Meade takes you on a boisterous romp through the 1920s.
Lost in the Stacks: My Korean Deli
Gab decided she needed to buy her Korean mother a store, specifically a Korean deli in Brooklyn, so her mother could support herself and Gab could repay her mother for all her sacrifices. Husband Ben finds this plan to be a little lacking in commonsense.
Lost in the Stacks: The Foremost Good Fortune
Imagine being in a foreign country and being diagnosed with a potentially terminal illness. Imagine not having the words to describe your concerns and being faced with a culture which had different ideas about treatment. The Foremost Good Fortune by Susan Conley is a poignant, sometimes funny memoir about a bewildered outsider confronting her own mortality.
