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New Nonfiction Releases June 2015
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Bastards: A Memoir
by Mary Anna King
In a stirring memoir of finding one's family and oneself, the author, after her mother can no longer care for her, is sent from Camden, New Jersey, to Oklahoma, where she is legally adopted by her grandparents and gets a new name and a new life, but is haunted by the past and the siblings she left behind.
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Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
by Sarah Hepola
In an unflinchingly honest memoir that is both hilarious and heartbreaking, the author shares her journey to sobriety, a new adventure she never wanted, after her drinking--which she once believed gave her confidence, intimacy and creativity--led to blackouts that drained her spirit and destroyed her life. Reading-group guide available.
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Down the Rabbit Hole: The Curious Adventures of Holly Madison
by Holly Madison
A former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner describes how her years inside the Playboy Mansion went from a fairytale of A-list celebrity parties to an oppressive regime of strict rules, scheduled sex and a total loss of identity, so much so that she even contemplated suicide.
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Getting Real
by Gretchen Carlson
The celebrity news anchorwoman on FOX News describes her childhood in Minnesota as a violin prodigy and her rise through the ranks of reporting for local television stations and offers advice to women about how to find real-world success.
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Happily Ali After: And Other Fairly True Tales
by Ali Wentworth
The actress, comedian and New York Times best-selling author picks up where she left off in Ali in Wonderland, dissecting modern life—and this time, on a mission of self-improvement—in a series of comic vignettes.
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Joan of Arc: A History
by Helen Castor
Tells the story of the extraordinary peasant girl from Domremy as never told before, revealing a living, breathing woman confronting the challenges of faith and doubt and placing her actions in the context of the larger political and religious conflicts of this period in France.
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Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs
by Ben Mezrich
Offers insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs. This story starts in the early 1990s with the formation of the huge oil company Sibneft owned by Roman Abramovich, and takes the reader right through from Boris Yeltsin's resignation, Putin's rise to power and Alexander Litvinenko's assassination to Berezkovsky's court case in 2011.
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The Seven Good Years: A Memoir
by Etgar Keret
A master storyteller presents a life-affirming and humorous memoir that traces the seven years between the birth of his son, Lev, during a terrorist attack and his father's battle with cancer that brought the family back together even as the threat of war loomed over their home and permeated daily life.
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Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals that Brought Me Home
by Jessica Fechtor
After an aneurysm burst in her brain, nearly killing her and taking away her sense of smell and the sight in her left eye, a popular food blogger shares her journey of recovery, which began in the kitchen as she drew strength from the restorative power of cooking and baking.
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The Theft of Memory: Losing My Father, One Day at a Time
by Jonathan Kozol
Presents a personal account of the life of the author's father, a nationally-renowned neurologist who spent his life helping to establish emerging fields in mental health before being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
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Under the Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America
by Joseph Kim
A man who escaped the devastating famine in North Korea, despite being abandoned as a boy, tells the story of his survival inside the oppressive country, his escape and subsequent rescue by activists and Christian missionaries and his success in the United States thanks to a newfound faith and courage.
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Word Nerd: Dispatches From the Games, Grammar, and Geek Underground
by John D. Williams
The former executive director of the National SCRABBLE Association describes the inner-workings of tournaments and the top players, provides a list of words that were once banned from the game and discusses the dearth of allowable vowel-less words.
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The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power
by Thomas J. Christensen
A Princeton University professor of world politics presents a compelling assessment of Chinese-U.S. relations that challenges common misconceptions while explaining the importance of involving China in the promotion of global order while dissuading the country against regional aggression.
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The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America
by Colin Quinn
A comedian and former host of SNL's “Weekend Update” presents a humorous and candid debate about race in modern America, questioning why acknowledging cultural differences has become a taboo subject and discussing his own personal life experiences.
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The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime
by Harold Bloom
Focusing on 12 American writers—including Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and Hart Crane—a renowned American literary critic discusses the greatest authors of American literature whose works make up what he calls the American sublime.
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A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama's Vision for Our World
by Daniel Goleman
The New York Times best-selling author of Emotional Intelligence and decades-long friend of the Dalai Lama presents the values that are central to the Dalai Lama's concept, highlights science that supports the Dalai Lama's beliefs, and offers instructive anecdotes of people and projects already bringing vision into reality.
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
by Richard H. Thaler
Argues that economical trends cannot be predicted as much as often is thought, mainly because humans are so unpredictable, and reveals how behavioral economic analysis opens up new ways to look at everything from household finance to assigning faculty offices in a new building.
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Modern Romance
by Aziz Ansari
The acclaimed stand-up comedian and Emmy Award-nominated star of Parks and Recreation evaluates how technology is shaping today's romances, citing the work of forefront social scientists while considering the differences between courtships of the past and present.
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Power Score: Your Formula for Leadership Success
by Geoff Smart
Provides leaders with a simple strategy to improve the performance of their teams through the calculating of priorities, players and relationships; and, by increasing that total, realize more value, impact, earnings and overall success.
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Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle That Gave Birth to the Globe
by Chris Laoutaris
Shedding new light on the creation of the Globe Theatre, a rousing history profiles Lady Elizabeth Russell, one of the most formidable women of the Renaissance who, the perpetrator of many crimes and the inciter of numerous riots, became the leader of a movement aimed at destroying Shakespeare's theatrical troupe.
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Sick in the Head: Conversations about Life and Comedy
by Judd Apatow
The director of The 40-Year-Old Virgin presents a collection of uproarious and intimate conversations with some of today's most popular comedians, drawing on his teenage radio hosting days to include pieces from the early years of such names as Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno and Sandra Bernhard.
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