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New Nonfiction Releases September, 2019
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Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death
by Anthony Everitt
A reconstruction of the life of the ancient Greek conqueror highlights his contradictory depictions throughout history, placing his achievements against a backdrop of his own historical time to discuss his growing empire, respect for regional traditions and mysterious death.
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Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
by Imani Perry
A professor of African-American studies explores the terror, grace and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America, sharing insights into what it means to parent children in a persistently unjust world.
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The Education of an Idealist
by Samantha Power
The Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.N. Ambassador traces her journey from an Irish immigrant to a human rights activist, sharing insights into her career as a war correspondent and her influential views on foreign policy.
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The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
by Corey Robin
An analysis of the controversial Supreme Court justice examines Thomas’ opinions against a backdrop of his autobiographical and political writings, revealing his pessimistic beliefs about the absolute racism of white people and the impossibility of progress.
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Idiot Wind: A Memoir
by Peter Kaldheim
A memoir of one man's journey from addiction back to sobriety and sanity via the road.
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Inside Out: A Memoir
by Demi Moore
Actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir.
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The Last Ocean: A Journey Through Memory and Forgetting
by Nicci Gerrard
The award-winning journalist and coauthor of the Nicci French best-sellers presents a lyrical, humane investigation into dementia that explores the journeys of both patients and their loved ones, exposing misguided protocols that contribute to unnecessary end-of-life pain.
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The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg
by Eleanor Randolph
The veteran New York Times journalist presents a revealing portrait of the billionaire philanthropist and former New York City Mayor, covering such topics as his modest Jewish upbringing, Harvard education and creation of the lucrative Bloomberg machine.
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Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
by Nefertiti Austin
A literary diversity activist draws on her personal experiences as an African-American adoptive mother to reveal the virtual absence of Black representation in today’s parenting culture and the challenges that diverse families encounter from the adoption community.
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The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace
by Patricia E. J. Wiltshire
A leading forensic ecologist blends science writing with true-crime narrative in a tour of the lesser-known interface between crime and nature, drawing on her decades as a college professor and expert consultant for the UK police.
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Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal
by Renia Spiegel
A first English-language translation of teen holocaust victim Renia Spiegel’s secret journal chronicles her witness to the Nazi invasion of Poland, her Jewish family’s forced relocation to the Przemsyl ghetto and her attempt to go into hiding.
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River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey
by Helen Prejean
An activist nun known for campaigning to end the death penalty describes her spiritual journey from a person who prayed for God to solve the problems of the world to someone who works to transform social injustices herself.
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Summertime: George Gershwin's Life in Music
by Richard Crawford
A portrait of the legendary American composer draws extensively from his letters and other firsthand sources to explore how his music bridged popular-classical divides, his achievements in multiple venues and his early death at the beginning of his Hollywood endeavors.
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To Feel the Music: A Songwriter's Mission to Save High-Quality Audio
by Neil Young
The iconic music artist and an award-winning tech journalist reveal how today’s convenient but compressed digital music has significantly compromised how music was intended to be heard, describing the mission of the Neil Young Archives to provide high-resolution, top-quality music.
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The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You
by Dina Nayeri
The award-winning author of Refuge draws on first-person testimonies in an urgent portrait of the refugee crisis that reveals how it happened and the harmful ways that Western governments respond to the inhumane conditions refugees endure.
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Crossfire Hurricane: Inside Donald Trump's War on the FBI
by Josh Campbell
A CNN analyst presents an insider’s account of the historic investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, the 45th President’s unprecedented attacks on the FBI and the passionate efforts of everyday people to uphold democratic law.
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Everything Is Figureoutable
by Marie Forleo
The award-winning star of "MarieTV" and host of "The Marie Forleo Podcast" outlines a simple mindset that significantly increases the odds of pursuing goals successfully, sharing advice on how to manage self-doubt, haters and making high-risk decisions.
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Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of Isis
by Azadeh Moaveni
An intimate account of the women who made the choice to leave their lives behind to join a peaceful Islamic state documents how university students and career women found themselves trapped within the violence of a brutal caliphate.
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How to Raise a Reader
by Pamela Paul
Written by two New York Times book reviewers, a parent’s guide to raising a life-long reader shares reassuring, practical ideas for engaging children of all ages, offering recommended reading lists arranged by age and subject matter.
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Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have to
by David A. Sinclair
The acclaimed Harvard professor and one of Time’s “Most Influential People” identifies common misconceptions about aging, sharing provocative insights into the cutting-edge, global effort to slow, stop and reverse aging.
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The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
by Daron Acemoglu
The authors of the best-selling Why Nations Fail present a big-picture framework that explains how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others, outlining strategic recommendations for overcoming the economic and social barriers to equality.
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On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal
by Naomi Klein
The best-selling author of The Shock Doctrine presents comprehensive, long-form essays linking current political and economic choices to environmental consequences, explaining how bold climate action can also provide a blueprint for a just and thriving society.
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
by Garrett M. Graff
A panoramic oral history of the September 11 attacks draws on hundreds of interviews with government officials, first responders, survivors, friends and family members to recount events from the perspectives of firsthand witnesses.
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Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond
by Alexandra Horowitz
The best-selling author of Inside of a Dog examines the complex interspecies pairing that has bonded humans and dogs, tracing the contradictions, from breeding to abandonment, that mark present-day human-canine relationships.
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Permission to Feel
by Marc A. Brackett
The founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence outlines a blueprint for understanding human emotions and using them wisely so that they can help, rather than hinder, personal success and well-being.
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Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
by Mike Isaac
The award-winning New York Times technology correspondent chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of Uber against a backdrop of mobile-era changes throughout Silicon Valley, covering such subjects as its union battles, toxic culture and aggressive marketing tactics.
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Elements of Fiction: Meditations on the Structure of Revelation
by Walter Mosley
The award-winning author of the Easy Rawlins series presents a follow-up to This Year You Write Your Novel that offers conversational, instructive chapters demonstrating the essential elements of fiction, from character and plot development to context and description.
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A Fortune for Your Disaster
by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
In this follow-up to The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, a poet, essayist, biographer and music critic presents a poetry collection about how one rebuilds oneself after heartbreak.
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Grief Sequence
by Prageeta Sharma
Offering a series of poems rooted in the profoundly narrative yet disorienting experience of losing a loved one, Prageeta Sharma, summons all of her resources in order to attempt any semblance, poetic or otherwise, of clear sense in trauma.
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Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays
by Leslie Jamison
Combining memoir, criticism and journalism, the best-selling author of The Empathy Exams offers readers 14 new essays that are by turns ecstatic, searching, staggering and wise.
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Soundmachine
by Rachel Zucker
Through heartbreaking, often comic, genre-non-conforming pieces spanning the past 10 years, Rachel Zucker trains her relentless attention on marriage, motherhood, grief, the need to speak, depression, sex, and many other topics.
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