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New Nonfiction Releases July, 2018
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9 Rules of Engagement
by Harris Faulkner
The news anchor and co-host of "Outnumbered" shares the life lessons she learned growing up in a military family, offering recommendations for how all families can benefit from the guiding principles of military life.
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The Boy With the Perpetual Nervousness: A Memoir
by Graham Caveney
A tribute to the power of the arts traces the journalist author's coming-of-age against a backdrop of the music and literature of the 1970s in the north of England, where his passions caught the attentions of a predatory mentor.
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Bruce Lee: A Life
by Matthew Polly
Featuring rarely seen photos, an authoritative biography of the martial arts film legend traces his early years in Hong Kong cinema, his work as a celebrity trainer, and his stereotype-breaking achievements.
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Cancerland: A Medical Memoir
by David T. Scadden, M.D.
The co-founder of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute illuminates the human side of cancer by sharing his personal memories of cancer from childhood through his research as an expert on immunology and oncology.
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Crux: A Cross-border Memoir
by Jean Guerrero
Chronicles the author's quest to find and save her charismatic, troubled, and elusive father, a self-mythologizing Mexican immigrant who traveled across continents--and across the borders between imagination and reality--fleeing real and invented persecutors.
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Eat Cake. Be Brave
by Melissa Radke
The East Texas "Upside Down French Braid" and "Red Ribbon" personality shares an empowering collection of essays about her midlife decision to be brave, change her life and regain her sense of self-worth.
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Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
by Ruby Lal
Presents a deeply researched portrait of the 17th-century Mughal Empire ruler that illuminates her genius as a designer, architect, politician, hunter, and partner. |
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From the Corner of the Oval: A Memoir
by Rebecca Dorey-Stein
A young woman who took a position as one of Barack Obama's stenographers relates her experiences as a Washington outsider in the Oval Office, discussing how she forged unlikely friendships and found her way in the service of the president. |
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Jell-O Girls: A Family History
by Allie Rowbottom
A descendant of the Jell-O dynasty traces the privilege, addiction and illness that has impacted generations of her family, tracing her late mother's obsessive research into a link between their family's lifestyle and poor health.
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Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life
by Amanda Stern
The author presents a relatable, darkly comic memoir about her lifelong struggles with anxiety, tracing her upbringing by a bohemian mother and sanitized, affluent father in a transforming New York City.
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No One Tells You This: A Memoir
by Glynnis MacNicol
The author describes the discrimination she endured as a successful career woman without a spouse or child, tracing her midlife journey of self-discovery and how it challenged her beliefs about love, death, sex, friendship and loneliness.
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Reporter: A Memoir
by Seymour M. Hersh
The investigative journalist presents an account of his decades-long career scooping some of the most high-impact stories of the last half century and offers recollections of key figures in American politics and journalism.
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Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir
by Wendy Mitchell
A memoir by a former British National Health Service employee and single parent describes her battles with early onset Alzheimer's, the management techniques she has developed to maintain her independence, and her efforts to make sense of her shifting world.
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Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry
by Florence Welch
The singer-songwriter of Florence + The Machine presents an illustrated collection of lyrics, art, ephemera, and never-before-seen poetry.
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You're on an Airplane: A Self-mythologizing Memoir
by Parker Posey
The "Queen of the Indies" star of such productions as Waiting for Guffman shares insider perspectives on a life in entertainment, exploring the therapeutic activities that enrich her life and her relationships with forefront directors.
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1968: Radical Protest and Its Enemies
by Richard Vinen
A history of one of the seminal years in the postwar world describes how rebellion and disaffection broke out around the globe on an extraordinary scale, resulting in an extraordinary range of protests that echoed into the 1970s.
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Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard
by Paul Collins
Traces the scandalous murder of a wealthy Harvard Medical School graduate and the ensuing trial that riveted mid-nineteenth-century America, exploring how the case established important precedents in medical forensics and the definition of reasonable doubt.
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Can You Tolerate This?
by Ashleigh Young
Presents a collection of essays on youth and aging, ambition and disappointment, Katherine Mansfield tourism and New Zealand punk rock, and the limitations of the body.
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The Cold War's Killing Fields
by Paul Thomas Chamberlin
Offers an international military history of the Cold War, arguing that the decades-long superpower struggles were one of the three great conflicts of the twentieth century alongside the two World Wars, and reveals how bloody the "Long Peace" actually was.
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The Death of Truth
by Michiko Kakutani
A Pulitzer Prize-winning critic offers an analysis of our current condition—a world where truth has become an endangered species—and presents a new way forward for our truth-challenged times.
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Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World
by Oren Harman
A lyrical exploration of how modern science illuminates what it means to be human shares the latest understandings about the birth of the universe and the evolution of the mind to create new mythologies connecting science to existential questions.
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