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New Nonfiction Releases February, 2018
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Brave
by Rose McGowan
The "Charmed" star and award-winning director traces her childhood escape from an Italian cult and her rise in Hollywood, describing how she endured nightmarish exposure and sexualization before committing herself to feminist causes. |
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Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin's Moscow
by Michael Idov
The journalist recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside the media and cultural elite of Putin's Russia, a tenure marked by a dubious election, mass anti-government rallies, and his scripting of a top-grossing domestic film.
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Eat the Apple
by Matt Young
A combat veteran and writing instructor traces the darkly comic story of his youth and masculinity as they were shaped in an age of continuous war, describing how he joined the Marines as a way to temper his reckless nature before enduring three Iraq deployments shaped by Marine Corps culture and the misguided motivations that compel young men in wartime. |
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Halfway
by Tom Macher
Describes the painful family dynamics that compelled the author to escape into alcohol, a choice that got him kicked out of school and his home before he embarked on a recovery effort in a series of halfway houses and boys' homes. |
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Hiding Out: A Memoir of Drugs, Deception, and Double Lives
by Tina Alexis Allen
An actress and playwright reveals her struggle growing up as a gay woman amidst a strict Catholic upbringing, until, at 18, her dad found out she liked women—and revealed to her that he was gay as well—leading them to live their double lives together without their family's knowledge—until a dark secret about her father was revealed to the author.
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
by Maggie O'Farrell
Presents a memoir told entirely in seventeen near-death experiences stemming from a dangerous childhood illness, accidents, an encounter with a disturbed person, and the author's daily efforts to protect her daughter from the vulnerabilities of a high-risk condition.
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In Full Flight: A Story of Africa and Atonement
by John Hylan Heminway
Documents the story of the French-born member of the Flying Doctors Service who was revered throughout Kenya for treating hundreds of thousands of patients, discussing her past as a Nazi doctor and whether her postwar services compensated for her wartime acts. |
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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
by Francisco Cantú
A former agent for the U.S. Border Patrol describes his upbringing as the son of a park ranger and grandson of a Mexican immigrant, who upon joining the Border Patrol encountered the violence and political rhetoric that overshadows life for both migrants and the police.
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The Monk of Mokha
by Dave Eggers
Traces the story of Mokhtar Alkhanshali, a Yemeni-American in San Francisco, and his dream of resurrecting the ancient art of cultivating, roasting, and importing Yemeni coffee, an endeavor that is challenged by the brutal realities of Yemen's 2015 civil war.
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Movie Nights with the Reagans
by Mark Weinberg
Former special advisor and press secretary to President Ronald Reagan shares an intimate, behind-the-scenes look inside the Reagan presidency—told through the movies they watched together every week at Camp David.
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Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad
by Krystal A. Sital
The author describes her Trinidad upbringing in the shadow of her revered grandfather, a wealthy Hindu landowner who tyrannized over three generations of women in the author's family and whose life reflected their tranquil island home's history of violence, suppression and racial tension.
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker
A follow-up to The Better Angels of Our Nature challenges the doom-and-gloom outlooks of today's media to present dozens of graphs and charts demonstrating that life quality, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge and happiness are actually on the rise throughout the world as a result of the philosophies about an Enlightenment era that uses science to improve human existence.
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Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History
by Ulrich Raulff
A scholarly history of the relationship between horses and humans traces their essential roles in early civilization through the transformations of an increasingly mechanized modern world, exploring how horses have been sources of artistic, military, and athletic inspiration.
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Feel Free: Essays
by Zadie Smith
A collection of both previously unpublished works and classic essays includes discussions of recent cultural and political events, social networking, libraries, and the failure to address global warming. |
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Great at Work: How Top Performers Work Less and Achieve More
by Morten Hansen
Shares authoritative, practical advice on how to bolster individual performance, drawing on a study involving thousands of managers and employees to outline seven work practices for improving focus, scheduling, and organization.
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The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery
by Noel Rae
The author draws on personal accounts from the transatlantic slave trade era to share poignant, firsthand insights into what slavery was actually like from the perspectives of former slaves, slave owners and African slavers.
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How to Fix the Future
by Andrew Keen
A leading Internet commentator showcases global solutions for preserving the fundamentals of humanity and civilized society in an increasingly perilous digital world. |
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Limits of the Known
by David Roberts
The mountaineer recounts his search for meaning in the quests of history's famed explorers, drawing partially on his own relationship with extreme-risk adventure and serious illness to share insights into what may have motivated landmark expeditions and ascents.
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Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data
by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
The Oxford professor and author of Big Data shares predictions for how data will revolutionize the market economy and make cash, banks and big companies obsolete.
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