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New Nonfiction Releases January, 2021
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Aftershocks: A Memoir
by Nadia Owusu
An award-winning essayist combines literary memoir and cultural history to examine her personal struggles with her mixed-heritage identity and the emotional trauma of her mother’s abandonment and father’s dark secrets.
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Billie Eilish
by Mick O'Shea
This illustrated biography of one of the most streamed artists on the planet chronicles her journey from recording her first hit when she was fifteen to her current domination of the music – and fashion – scene.
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Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas
by Alexi Pappas
The award-winning writer, filmmaker and Olympic athlete describes her childhood embrace of female role models in the aftermath of her mother’s suicide, detailing the hard work, unrelenting resolve and private depression that challenged her own ambitions.
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Dog Flowers
by Danielle Geller
An award-winning essayist draws on archival documents in a narrative account that explores how her family’s troubled past and the death of her mother, a homeless alcoholic, reflected the traditions and tragic history of her Navajo heritage.
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Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
by Michelle Duster
Written by her great-granddaughter, a historical portrait of the boundary-breaking civil rights pioneer includes coverage of Wells’s early years as a slave, her famous acts of resistance and her achievements as a journalist and anti-lynching activist.
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Just as I am: A Memoir
by Cicely Tyson
The Academy, Tony, and three-time Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer tells her stunning story, looking back at her six-decade career and life.
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Mozart: The Reign of Love
by Jan Swafford
The award-winning composer and biographer shares insights into Wolfgang Mozart’s remarkable mind and how his boundless energy, hedonism and extraordinary perspectives shaped his history-impacting achievements. By the author of Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph.
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To Be Honest
by Michael Leviton
A memoir discusses an unusual upbringing in a family fanatically devoted to honesty, and what came after.
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Walking With Ghosts
by Gabriel Byrne
The award-winning star of several films discusses everything from his Irish childhood to his Hollywood and Broadway success.
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Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
by Tom Vanderbilt
The author of Traffic celebrates the pleasures of learning something new regardless of age, describing the remarkable connections he made during a year spent trying new things, from joining an amateur choir to attending surf camp in Costa Rica.
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Change: How to Make Big Things Happen
by Damon Centola
Lays out a paradigm-busting new theory about the complex way innovative ideas, movements, and behaviors spread from the edges of society to impact everyone, and how to use these ideas to effect the change you want to see in the world.
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Himalaya: A Human History
by Ed Douglas
A magisterial history of the Himalayas tells the epic story of peoples, cultures, and adventures among the world’s highest mountains.
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
by Simon Winchester
The author of The Perfectionists explores the concept of land ownership and how it has shaped history, examining how people fight over, steward and occasionally share land, and what humanity’s proprietary relationship with land means for the future.
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Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty
by Maurice Chammah
A history of the death penalty in Texas and its influence on the 1972 SCOTUS ruling examines the contributions of key prosecutors, judges and defendants while explaining how the state’s example reflects critical vulnerabilities in the American criminal justice system.
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The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
by Michael E. Mann
A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a 30-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet.
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The Power of Voice: A Guide to Making Yourself Heard
by Denise Woods
The internationally renowned celebrity voice coach shares proven exercises and techniques for developing an authentic voice, offering recommendations for how to overcome common obstacles to become a confident and effective speaker.
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Run to Win: Lessons in Leadership for Women Changing the World
by Stephanie Schriock
The president of EMILY’s List offers a playbook for activist women that shares actionable recommendations for facilitating leadership, teaming up with others and organizing and executing effective campaigns in male-dominated business and political environments.
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This Is the Voice
by John Colapinto
The award-winning author of As Nature Made Him draws on diverse sources to explain how the ability to speak distinguishes humans from other species and reflects the most complex and intricate activity that humans can perform.
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Till Murder Do Us Part
by James Patterson
A woman begins to suspect that her husband isn’t actually who he says he is and a teenager has her life upended during the hunt for a missing girl in two true-crime stories from the prolific and best-selling author.
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Unsolaced: Along the Way to All That Is
by Gretel Ehrlich
The author of The Solace of Open Spaces present a meditative account of how the planet’s animals, elements and natural landforms have shaped her life and understanding of a world besieged by climate change.
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When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep
by Antonio Zadra
Two world-renowned sleep and dream researchers present a comprehensive exploration of human dreaming that draws on up-to-date neuroscience research to illuminate what dreams are, where they come from, why we have them and what they mean.
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Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots
by James Suzman
An anthropological study of the role of work in human evolution challenges deeply held assumptions to explain the different ways our ancient ancestors conducted and regarded work prior to the eras of migration, food production and city development.
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Homer: The Iliad and the Odyssey
by Homer
The Iliad and The Odyssey in accessible prose translations, ideal for those wanting to be thrown into the action of these thrilling tales.
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Homo Irrealis: Essaysby André AcimanThe author of Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with a collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.
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In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece
by Salamishah Tillet
A distinguished cultural critic blends literary history, biography and memoir in an exploration of Alice Walker’s National Book Award-winning novel that examines its influence against a backdrop of the civil rights encroachments of the early 1980s.
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In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays
by Karl Ove Knausgård
From a New York Times best-selling author comes a collection of ambitious, remarkably erudite essays on art, literature, culture, and philosophy.
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
by Joan Didion
A volume of 12 previously uncollected early pieces shares insights into the author’s evolving literary style and includes reflections on such topics as a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a Vegas WWI veteran reunion and a visit to San Simeon.
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