By Kee Malesky
Adult Non-fiction - Upper Level - 031.02 M
Here's a fun little book filled with random facts. The entries follow the calendar year, so naturally I went straight to my birthday. That date's fact is about the history of salt - which is much more fascinating in a one-paragraph blurb than you'd think! That's the beauty of this book: each date has a paragraph-long fact, so you can literally learn something new every day with very little time or effort required.
Compiled by Gemma Elwin Harris
Adult Non-fiction - Upper Level - 031.02 B
The entries in this book are a bit longer - a few pages each in most cases. It is a fairly little book, though, so the pages are short. Questions answered include "Why does the moon change shape" (p.133), "Where did the first seed come from?" (p.137), and even philosophical questions like "Who is God?" (p.197, answered from multiple perspectives). This is a great book for all ages! (Where did the first seed come from??)
By Jenny Volvovski, Julia Rothman, and Matt Lamothe
Adult Non-fiction - Upper Level - 502 V
Rounding out this "learn something new" theme is a book that answers questions about science with illustrations. Each section asks a question, gives a (fairly scientific) answer, and illustrates it with full-page artwork. These are mostly two-page sections - one for the question-and-answer and one for the illustration. There are awesome cross-sections like the one on the cover, beautiful intricate drawings like the one about the Circadian Clock (p.78), and a more fanciful drawing of giant sea creatures riding a giant wave to answer "Do rogue waves exist?" (p.46). This book is wonderfully browsable and the questions and answers are very interesting.
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