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New Nonfiction: April 2024
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Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability
by Melissa Blake
A disability activist and social media influencer shares her story of living with a genetic bone and muscular disorder and the struggles that millions like her face in a society that makes them feel invisible.
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The Lede: Dispatches From a Life in the Press
by Calvin Trillin
Drawing on his six-decade career, the best-selling author and beloved New Yorker writer, in this fascinating, opinionated portrait of journalism, uses his unique combination of reportage and humor to take on his own professional environment: the American press.
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The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City
by Kevin Baker
Filled with eye-opening stories from baseball's beginnings to the end of World War II, a historian presents all the legendary players, managers and owners, in all their vivid, complicated humanity, on and off the field, as well as a portrait of 19th-century American life in New York City, where it all started.
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Secure Love: Create a Relationship That Lasts a Lifetime
by Julie Menanno
A couple's therapist behind the popular Instagram account @TheSecureRelationship presents this groundbreaking guide to understanding secure attachment in adult relationships to help you break free from negative cycles and create the bond you've been longing for.
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Tiffy Cooks: 88 Easy Asian Recipes from My Family to Yours
by Tiffy Chen
With 88 (a very lucky number in Chinese culture) flavor-packed recipes, the TikTok sensation behind Tiffy Cooks shares memories and dishes shaped by growing up in Taiwan and inspired by her travels across Southeast Asia, in this celebration of Asian food and family.
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Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future
by Daniel Lewis
A compelling global exploration of nature and survival as seen via a dozen species of trees that represent the challenges facing our planet, and the ways that scientists are working urgently to save our forests and our future.
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A Year of Last Things: Poems
by Michael Ondaatje
The influential and internationally acclaimed author of seven novels, including the Booker Prize-winning The English Patient that became a major film that won Academy Awards, returns to poetry with a collection of prose that merges memory with the present.
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