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New NonfictionSeptember 2016
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The wicked boy : the mystery of a Victorian child murderer
by Kate Summerscale
When a pair of preadolescent boys are implicated in the murder of their mother during the summer of 1895, the older is convicted and sent to the country's most infamous criminal lunatic asylum, where he embarks on a shocking new life that raises questions about period education, pulp fiction, criminality and mental illness. By the best-selling author of Queen of the White Cay.
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Seinfeldia : how a show about nothing changed everything
by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
An uproarious behind-the-scenes account of the creation of the hit television series describes how comedians Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld dreamed up the idea for an unconventional sitcom over coffee and how in spite of network skepticism and minimal plotlines achieved mainstream success.
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Patient H.M. : a story of memory, madness and family secrets
by Luke Dittrich
A first book by a National Magazine Award-winning investigative journalist explores the scientific, ethical and human dimensions of the 1953 brain operation by William Beecher Scoville that transformed understandings of memory science and triggered profound legal and medical debates.
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