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New Nonfiction Releases October, 2019
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Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
by James N. Mattis
A former Secretary of Defense and a former Assistant Secretary of Defense and combat Marine join forces to off an account of how they learned to lead in a chaotic world.
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The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando
by William J. Mann
The award-winning author of The Wars of the Roosevelts presents a complex portrait of the influential 20th-century actor that includes coverage of Brando’s civil rights activism and the childhood traumas that shaped his personal and professional life.
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Dad's Maybe Book
by Tim O'Brien
The best-selling author of The Things They Carried shares wisdom from a life in letters; lessons learned in wartime; and the challenges, humor and rewards of raising two sons.
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Face It
by Debbie Harry
Complemented by rare photos, a memoir by the iconic performance artist traces seven decades in the entertainment industry while discussing her professional collaborations, struggles with addiction, near-escape from Ted Bundy and Blondie alter-ego.
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Hitler: A Biography
by Peter Longerich
From one of the most prominent biographers of the Nazi period, a new and provocative portrait of the figure behind the century's worst crimes.
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How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
by Saeed Jones
The award-winning poet and author of Prelude to Bruise documents his coming-of-age as a young, gay, black man in an American South at a crossroads of sex, race and power.
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Janis: Her Life and Music
by Holly George-Warren
An intimate portrait of the counterculture music artist that includes coverage of her conservative upbringing, her extraordinary voice and her boundary-breaking legacy.
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Me: Elton John Official Autobiography
by Elton John
An official autobiography by the influential music artist, published to coincide with the release of Rocketman, includes coverage of John’s complicated upbringing in a London suburb, his celebrity collaborations, his struggles with addiction and the establishment of his AIDS Foundation.
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Molly: The True Story of the Amazing Dog Who Rescues Cats
by Colin Butcher
A veteran of the Royal Navy and longtime police officer describes how he rescued a willful but unusually intelligent dog who became his invaluable partner in The UK Pet Detective Agency helping owners track down their beloved lost pets.
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Ordinary Girls: A Memoir
by Jaquira Díaz
A biographical debut by a Pushcart Prize-winning writer traces her upbringing in the housing projects of Puerto Rico, her mother’s battle with schizophrenia, her personal struggles with sexual assault and her efforts to pursue a literary career.
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Self-portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race
by Thomas Chatterton Williams
The award-winning cultural critic and author of Losing My Cool draws on his controversial op-ed about the “one drop” rule that shaped his experiences and identity beliefs as a mixed-race youth who looked white but was treated as black.
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Still Here: The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch
by Alexandra Jacobs
A full chronicle of the Tony Award-winning star’s life and career includes coverage of her upbringing in Depression-era Detroit, her psychologically fraught creative collaborations, her struggles with addiction and her Tony Award-winning performances.
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Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir
by Jeannie Vanasco
A part-memoir, part-true-crime account and testament to female friendship describes how the author navigated sexual trauma by contacting her former friend and rapist, who agreed to come forward and explore how biases shape sexual violence and its perceptions.
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Toil & Trouble
by Augusten Burroughs
The best-selling author of Running with Scissors documents his lifelong capacity for causing impossible manifestations, exploring his mother’s revelations about their witch ancestry and his efforts to understand himself and his powers.
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Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
by Megan Phelps-Roper
The activist granddaughter of the founder of Topeka’s Westboro Baptist Church describes her work as their Twitter spokeswoman and how her dialogues with critics challenged her to question and eventually denounce the church’s extreme views on homosexuality.
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A Wild and Precious Life
by Edie Windsor
The LGBT rights activist and lead plaintiff for the United States v. Windsor Supreme Court case chronicles decades of gay life in New York City while exploring her advocacy role in promoting marriage equality. By the author of Pill Head.
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Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me
by Adrienne Brodeur
Describes the author's teenage experience of condoning and helping to facilitate her mother's epic affair with her husband's best friend, serving as confident and helpmate, and the catastrophic, and reverberating consequences that affected everyone involved.
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Year of the Monkey
by Patti Smith
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids comes a memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
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24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week
by Tiffany Shlain
The award-winning Internet pioneer and filmmaker chronicles the past, present and future of ideas about time and technology, outlining a strategy for clarity and life-quality based on disconnecting from technology for one restful day of the week.
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
by Bill Bryson
The award-winning author of A Short History of Nearly Everything presents an engaging head-to-toe tour of the human body that shares anecdotal insights into its functions, ability to heal and vulnerability to disease.
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Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud
by Tom Mueller
A riveting account of the heroes who are combating corporate, medical and government fraud traces the rise of whistleblowing through a series of important cases that reflect fundamental questions about the balance between free speech and state power.
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Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law
by James B. Stewart
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author tells his story of the war between President Trump and America’s principal law enforcement agencies, answering the questions that he believes the Mueller report couldn’t—or wouldn’t.
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Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
by H. W. Brands
The best-selling author of Traitor to His Class presents a sweeping history of the settling of the American west, revealing how migrant dreams and the promises of riches inspired both courage and violence.
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How to: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-world Problems
by Randall Munroe
The creator of the web comic xkcd and best-selling author of What If? and Thing Explainer shares inadvisable advice for responding to today’s problems, from using social-media for weather forecasts to powering a home by destroying the fabric of space-time.
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On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey
by Paul Theroux
Legendary travel writer Paul Theroux fearlessly drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind today's brutal headlines.
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Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide
by Richard Dawkins
The best-selling author of The God Delusion shares enlightening insights into how the natural world evolved without a designer, challenging the basic assumptions of world religions to argue that faith is not a necessary component of good behavior.
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Do You Mind If I Cancel?: (Things That Still Annoy Me)
by Gary Janetti
The acclaimed Instagram comedian and television writer and producer of such series as "Will & Grace" and "Family Guy" presents a collection of essays chronicling the highs, lows and laugh-out-loud indignities of his early life and career.
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Erosion: Essays of Undoing
by Terry Tempest Williams
Timely essays by the award-winning conservationist and author of The Hour of Land explore the concept of erosion, the paradox of desert landscapes and the environmental hazards of present-day American politics.
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Everything Must Go
by Kevin Coval
Award-winning poet Kevin Coval and graphic artist Langston Allston bare witness to the effects of gentrification in a Chicago neighborhood.
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Fear of Description
by Daniel Poppick
These poems tell the story of a generation that is at odds with its own ideals, precariously (or just un-) employed, and absolutely terrified of seeing itself in the planet's future.
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The Problem of the Many
by Timothy Donnelly
In his highly anticipated third book, Timothy Donnelly considers our fraught present from a perspective at once epic and personal. |
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