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New Non-fiction: September 2016
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Adnan's Story: the search for truth and justice after Serial by Rabia ChaudryA full-length account of the story investigated by the award-winning Serial podcast draws on some 170 documents and letters to trace the experiences of Adnan Syed, who in 2000 was sentenced to life for the murder of his ex-girlfriend and who the author and other supporters are certain is innocent.
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The Fifty-Year Mission: the complete, uncensored, and unauthorized oral history of Star Trek by Edward GrossIncluding the voices of hundreds of television and film executives, writers, creators and cast, a second volume of a 50-year oral history of Star Trek tells the story of the post-Original Series era by the people who were there, in their own words, sharing the inside scoop; revealing shocking truths; and chronicling the trials, tribulations and secrets.
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The Kingdom of Speech by Tom WolfeTaking readers on a rollicking ride through history, a master storyteller and reporter, whose legend began in journalism, presents a paradigm-shifting argument that speech - not evolution - is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.
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Patient H.M.: a story of memory, madness and family secrets by Luke DittrichA 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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The Terror Years: from al-Qaeda to the Islamic State by Lawrence WrightTen powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS.
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