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New! Adult Nonfiction Staff Picks
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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir
by RuPaul
From an international drag superstar and pop culture icon comes his most revealing and personal work to date—a deeply intimate memoir of growing up black, poor and queer in a broken home and discovering the power of performance, found family and self-acceptance.
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American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
by Cameron McWhirter
Tracing the AR-15 rifle from inception to ubiquity shows how an obsessive firearms designer invented this controversial weapon in his garage in the 1950s, which has become the firearm of choice of mass shooters, this moral history explores America's gun culture and love affair with technology, freedom and weaponry.
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Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected: a Biography
by Matthew Dennison
In this brand-new biography, Matthew Dennison re-evaluates the traditional narrative surrounding Dahl--that of school sporting hero, daredevil pilot, and wartime spy-turned-author--and examines surviving primary resources as well as Dahl's extensive literary output to tell the story of a man who identified as a rule-breaker, an iconoclast, and a romantic--both insider and outsider, war hero and child's friend.
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Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
by Catherine Coldstream
Provides a memoir of life inside the world of a traditional Carmelite monastery and the intense personal journey into and out of an enclosed life of poverty, chastity and obedience.
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Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History
by Benjamin Balint
A biography of the Polish-Jewish writer and artist includes an account of the discovery of his last artworks--murals painted on the walls of a villa occupied by a Nazi officer--sixty years after his death and the complicated political dispute over the ownership of the murals.
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