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New Nonficiton Releases May, 2020
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Fairest: A Memoir
by Meredith Talusan
The award-winning journalist and activist presents a coming-of-age memoir that describes her experiences as a Filipino boy with albinism, a white immigrant Harvard student, a transgender woman and an artist whose work reflects illusions in race, disability and gender.
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For All Who Hunger: Searching for Communion in a Shattered World
by Emily M. D. Scott
Describes the founding of St. Lydia’s Brooklyn, which began as an ad-hoc group of people from different backgrounds and social skills meeting over a meal and transformed into a progressive, LGBTQ+ affirming congregation that offers faith and love to all.
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Galileo: And the Science Deniers
by Mario Livio
The leading astrophysicist and best-selling author of Brilliant Blunders presents a fresh interpretation of the life of the “father of modern physics” that offers new insights into Galileo’s discoveries and the challenges he faced from religious opponents.
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Growing Old: Notes on Aging With Something Like Grace
by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Part memoir and part life-affirming map all of us may follow to embrace our later years with grace and dignity, this look at the social and historical traditions related to aging explores a wide range of issues connected with growing older.
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Here We Are: My Friendship With Philip Roth
by Benjamin Taylor
The closest friend of Philip Roth, also a noted writer, describes their lives and friendship as the pair experienced the happiness and sadness of aging together, reflected on writing and brightened each others’ days.
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Hollywood Park: A Memoir
by Mikel Jollett
The front man of indie band "The Airborne Toxic Event" reveals his upbringing in the infamous Church of Synanon cult, where he endured poverty, addiction and emotional abuse before slowly working his way toward college and a music career.
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James Monroe: A Life
by Tim McGrath
Describes the extraordinary life of Founding Father, statesman, diplomat and 5th president of the United States who sought to bridge divisions and sow unity despite never backing down from a fight, whether it be with Alexander Hamilton or George Washington.
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Officer Clemmons: More Than a Song
by François S. Clemmons
An intimate debut memoir by the Grammy Award-winning artist who famously played "Officer Clemmons" on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood traces his Oberlin College music studies, his embrace of his sexual orientation and his life-changing chance encounter with Fred Rogers.
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Orwell: A Man of Our Time
by Richard Bradford
A portrait of one of the most enduringly popular and controversial novelists of the last century.
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Pelosi
by Molly Ball
The award-winning TIME Magazine national political correspondent presents an intimate portrait of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that illuminates her leadership, less-recognized career accomplishments and her decisions throughout Donald Trump's impeachment.
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Sing Backwards and Weep
by Mark Lanegan
A gritty, gripping memoir by the singer Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, Soulsavers), chronicling his years as a singer and drug addict in Seattle in the '80s and '90s.
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Un-American: A Soldier's Reckoning of Our Longest War
by Erik Edstrom
A West Point graduate who served in Afghanistan challenges the War on Terror, calling it not just a tragedy, but a crime, and exposes how war actually exacerbates the problems it’s meant to solve.
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What We Carry: A Memoir
by Maya Lang
The author of The Sixteenth of June offers a memoir about immigrants and their native-born children, the complicated love between mothers and daughters, and the surprising discovery of strength.
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1939: A People's History of the Coming of the Second World War
by Fred Taylor
The best-selling author of Dresden draws on contemporary sources in an account of the fateful months between the Munich Agreement and Hitler's invasion of Poland that offers insight into the decisions of key leaders and the experiences of everyday citizens.
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Afropessimism
by Frank B. Wilderson
The award-winning author of Incognegro offers an account of the non-analogous experience of being black by theorizing the black experiences through a lens of perpetual and incomparable slavery that flourishes in today’s world.
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Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
by Augustine Sedgewick
A Harvard-educated economist documents the epic history of the role of coffee in connecting and dividing the modern world, tracing coffee’s unexpected 500-year evolution from an ingredient in a mysterious Muslim ritual to a major influencer in modern El Salvador.
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Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State
by Barton Gellman
The best-selling author of Angler and three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist reveals how he has been chillingly targeted for his role in helping Edward Snowden, sharing firsthand insights into today’s surveillance-industrial revolution and the fight for personal privacy.
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Fit Gurl: The Total-body Turnaround Program
by Melissa Alcantara
A no-nonsense fitness and nutrition plan by the Fitgurlmel Instagram star and Kim Kardashian's personal trainer outlines a four-step process for understanding one's body and its responses while committing to better health.
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How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
by Matt Ridley
The award-winning, best-selling author of The Rational Optimist describes the history of innovation and how it differs from invention through lively stories about steam engines, jet engines, search engines, airships, coffee, potatoes, vaping, antibiotics and mosquito nets.
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Sunny Days: The Children's Television Revolution That Changed America
by David Kamp
Reveals the behind-the-scenes story of the cultural heroes who created the beloved children’s TV programs Sesame Street, The Electric Company, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Free to Be ... You and Me and Schoolhouse Rock!—which collectively transformed American childhood for the better, teaching kids about diversity, the ABCs and feminism through a fun, funky 1970s lens.
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Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy
by David Frum
The best-selling author of Trumpocracy weighs the corrupting and divisive influence of the Trump administration while outlining recommendations for restoring productive, nonpartisan relationships that address racism and economic inequality.
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Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity
by Porochista Khakpour
The award-winning author of The Last Illusion presents a collection of essays that draws on his personal experiences to explore the realities of the Iranian-American immigration experience in the post-9/11 era of Donald Trump.
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Muddy Matterhorn: Poems 2009-2019
by Heather McHugh
Heather McHugh's first book in a decade, Muddy Matterhorn, reclaims the mix of high and low that is her sensibility's signature.
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Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone
by Minna Salami
The creator of an award-winning, internationally popular blog offers her thoughts, with an Africa-centered feminist outlook, on power, beauty, knowledge, gender politics and pop culture icons, from Ms. Laurn Hill, Beyoncé and Toni Morrison.
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Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose
by Kay Ryan
A bracing collection of critical prose, book reviews and previously unpublished observations draws on 30 years of writing and includes such essays as, “Radiantly Indefensible,” “Notes on the Danger of Notebooks” and “The Abrasion of Loneliness.”
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Weird but Normal: Essays
by Mia Mercado
A humorous and satirical collection of essays from a writer known for focusing on feminism and identity politics discusses how everything that makes us weird and awkward in life is actually quite normal.
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