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New Nonfiction Releases September, 2017
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The Autobiography of Gucci Mane
by Gucci Mane
A highly anticipated memoir by the prolific hip-hop artist traces his unlikely path to stardom and personal rebirth, discussing his early years in Alabama and Georgia, his activities as a drug dealer, the experiences that inspired his influential street anthems and his recent prison term.
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The Best of Us
by Joyce Maynard
The New York Times best-selling author of To Die For describes what it was like to find the love of her life only to lose him to pancreatic cancer one year into their marriage.
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Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend
by Meryl Gordon
Drawing on exclusive access to thousands of pages of Bunny Mellon's letters, diaries and appointment books, as well as more than 175 interviews, the author chronicles the life of the style icon and aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden and was living witness to 20th-century U.S. history.
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The Choice: Embrace the Possible
by Edith Eva Eger
A dual memoir and practical guide to healing by an eminent psychologist and Holocaust survivor counsels patients on how to escape the prisons of their own minds, describing her harrowing experiences in Auschwitz and how it gave her particular insights into the challenges of PTSD.
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Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook
by Alice Waters
The award-winning executive chef of Chez Panisse in California presents the story of her tumultuous culinary journey, describing her efforts to promote distinctive flavors in a time of uniform convenience foods, her achievements within the bohemian 1960s cultural circuit and her ongoing reflections as the head of one of the world's most influential restaurants.
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Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.
by Danielle S. Allen
The author tells the harrowing story of how her cousin was imprisoned at the age of 15 for attempted carjacking, serving a sentence of 14 years, and how she took him in upon his release, only to lose him to the deadly streets of South Central L.A.
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The Kardashians: An American Drama
by Jerry Oppenheimer
An unauthorized family biography by the best-selling author of Crazy Rich dissects the scandals and secrets of the infamous reality TV clan, from the overshadowed life of patriarch Robert Kardashian to "momager" Kris Jenner's top-secret plan for the future.
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A Life Well Played: My Stories
by Arnold Palmer
A new commemorative edition of the best-selling autobiography offers additional insights into familiar stories while sharing new ones, drawing on wisdom gleaned from his experiences on and off the course, in a volume that features a new foreword by Jack Nicklaus.
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Queens of the Conquest
by Alison Weir
Vivid profiles of five powerful Norman queens examine their enduring influence and the myths and prejudices that obscured their achievements, in a first joint biography that includes portraits of Matilda of Flanders, William the Conqueror's wife; and Empress Matilda, the mother of King Henry II. By the best-selling author of The Lost Tudor Princess.
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Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime
by Ben Blum
Documents the story of a teen Colorado star and aspiring U.S. Army Ranger who inexplicably helped commit an armed robbery hours before being deployed to Iraq, describing the efforts of the author, his first cousin, to investigate the influence of the young man's superior and the darker practices of the Ranger indoctrination program.
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Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
by Ellen Pao
The co-founder of the award-winning diversity nonprofit Project Include shares the full story behind her landmark 2015 whistleblower lawsuit against powerhouse venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins, exploring what her case and refusal to settle revealed about Silicon Valley discrimination and complicity in revenge porn and online harassment.
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Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years
by David Litt
The senior comic speechwriter and presidential advisor presents an account of his college education through his years working with Barack Obama, sharing behind-the-scenes anecdotes and his reflections on Obama's legacy in the age of Trump.
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Unstoppable: My Life So Far
by Maria Sharapova
The five-time Grand Slam winner presents the remarkable story of how her father relocated her at the age of seven from their native Russia to America to develop her tennis talents before she embarked on a record-setting career shaped by astonishing competitions, her provocative beliefs and her recent fight to return to the court.
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What Happened
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
A new book of essays by the former Secretary of State includes entries describing her experiences in the 2016 presidential campaign and incorporates hundreds of inspirational quotes that have shaped her life and work.
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What Is It All but Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man
by Art Garfunkel
Traces the author's experiences before, during, and after Simon & Garfunkel, from his youth in the mid-twentieth century and early successes with Paul Simon to the heyday of their popularity and the gradual divides that ended their partnership
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Americana: A 400-year History of American Capitalism
by Bhu Srinivasan
A narrative history of American capitalism profiles the inventions, techniques and industries that drove the nation forward, from the telegraph and railroads through guns, banking, flight, suburbia and sneakers.
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Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
by John McPhee
A guide to writing long-form nonfiction, written by the legendary New Yorker author and teacher, is presented as a series of lighthearted essays that share insights into the lessons he has learned on the writing process during his years at Princeton University.
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
by Kurt Andersen
The best-selling author of Heyday explains how the influences of dreamers, zealots, hucksters and superstitious groups shaped America's tendency toward a rich fantasy life, citing the roles of contributors ranging from P. T. Barnum and Billy Graham to Disney and Donald Trump in perpetuating conspiracy theories, self-delusion and magical thinking.
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The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
by Lauren Markham
An urgent chronicle of contemporary immigration follows the harrowing journey of a pair of teenaged twins from El Salvador who were forced by gang violence to see safety and a better life in the United States, an endeavor marked by family estrangement, a mounting coyote debt and America's complicated immigration policies.
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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
by Bill O'Reilly
In a book told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Great Britain’s King George III, the authors chronicle the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe.
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-first Century
by Jessica Bruder
The author chronicles her time embedded in a pool of transient older Americans who—finding that social security has come short, and often underwater on mortgages—have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers and vans, forming a growing community of nomads: migrant laborers who call themselves “workampers.”
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One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps
by Andrea Pitzer
In a harrowing work based on archival records and interviews during travel to four continents, the author reveals the chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps—from 1890s Cuba to the Philippines and Southern Africa in the early 20th century to the Nazi concentration camps, the Soviet Gulag and more.
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Orders to Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder
by Amy Knight
A detailed account of the practice of covert assassination in Russian politics in the years since Putin's ascendance draws on a wealth of circumstantial evidence to document the regime-benefiting deaths of innumerable journalists, activists and political opponents.
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Principles: Life and Work
by Ray Dalio
The founder and co-chairman of the high-performing hedge fund Bridgewater Associates outlines the unconventional principles that he developed over four decades to create unique successes in his personal and professional arenas.
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The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
by Dan Jones
The best-selling author of The Plantagenets presents a narrative history of the knights Templar that draws on extensive original sources to separate fact from myth, exploring their actual work and influence, the reasons they fell out of favor and whether or not they were guilty of heresy.
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What It's Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience
by Gregory Berns
A noted neuroscientist relates how he and his team taught dogs to go into an MRI scanner completely awake, an experiment that helped them discover what makes dogs have different capacities for self-control and value systems and a complex understanding of human speech, and which was expanded to other animals.
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