If you want to know more of the story about some of your favorite musicians, check out the following titles from our new nonfiction shelf.

“All You Need is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words, Unpublished, Unvarnished, and Told by the Beatles and Their Inner Circle” by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines. Learn all the back stage, never before told, often shocking, details of life with the Beatles.

Focusing on the year 1963, “Shake it Up Baby: The Rise of Beatlemania and the Mayhem of 1963” by Ken McNab will take you inside the meteoric rise of the Beatles, from small clubs in Scotland to the phenomena that followed.

Jazz fans will enjoy learning more about the making of the iconic album “Kind of Blue” in the new book “3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the Lost Empire of Cool” by James Kaplan.

.The next three books will take you back to the 1960’s and 1970’s eras. “What a Fool Believes” by Michael McDonald shares Michael’s journey to becoming a Rock & Roll Hall-of-Fame artist with Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers as well as a celebrated soloist in his own right. “My Mama, Cass” by Owen Elliot-Kugell is a daughter’s tribute to the mom she lost too soon. To the rest of the world she was Mama Cass Elliot, but to her daughter she was just mom. “Traveling on the Path of Joni Mitchell” by Ann Powers gives you an inside look at Joni Mitchell’s life and the music that defined an era.

From cofounding and reaching multi-platinum status with the band Hootie & the Blowfish to having number one hits on Billboards Country Chart, Darius Rucker has had a lot of musical success. In “Life’s Too Short” Darius chooses to tell his story through the music that influenced him and the songs he sings.

“In this landmark book, “Hip-Hop Is History”, Questlove skillfully traces the creative and cultural forces that made and shaped hip-hop, highlighting both the forgotten but influential gems and the undeniable chart-topping hits―and weaves it all together with the stories no one else knows.” (Amazon)

The last title is “Rebel Girl: My Life As a Feminist Punk” by Kathleen Hanna. She lets you into her life through the highs and lows of her punk career as the front woman for the bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre.

If you would like to place a request for any of these titles, visit www.newulmlibrary.org and choose the Library Catalog or call 507-359-8331 to speak to a staff member. New Ulm Public Library is located at 17 North Broadway and is open Monday-Thursday from 9:30 a.m.-8 p.m. and Friday-Saturday from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.