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New Nonfiction Releases March 2017
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Dadland
by Keggie Carew
A family memoir about the author's race to document her father's story as a World War II paratrooper before his mind succumbed to dementia relates how he overcame formidable obstacles and maverick impulses to join an elite special ops unit that was a first collaboration between the American and British Secret Services.
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Gizelle's Bucket List: My Life with a Very Large Dog
by Lauren Fern Watt
A light beat, epic account of how the 20-something author brought her giant English Mastiff to her first tiny New York apartment after college, while navigating boyfriends, first jobs, her mother's illness and a bucket list that involves her dog's participation.
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How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life
by Lilly Singh
The larger-than-life YouTube personality best known as "Superwoman" shares inspirational advice for fighting for one's dreams by working hard and embracing dedicated, uncompromising approaches to personal success.
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Icefall: Adventures at the Wild Edges of Our Dangerous, Changing Planet
by John All
The executive director of the American Climber Science Program, famed for his life-risking viral videos documenting climate change, shares dramatic accounts of some of his most significant experiences while outlining how humans will be adapting to dynamic environmental shifts.
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Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
by Helene Cooper
A harrowing but triumphant portrait of the Liberian women's movement and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize shares insights into her early experiences as an abuse survivor, her imprisonments for defying her country's oppressive patriarchal rule and her significant humanitarian changes after winning the 2005 Liberian presidential election.
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The Price of Illusion: A Memoir
by Joan Juliet Buck
A former editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue presents an account of her four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles and Paris, a vocation that enabled her to learn key differences about illusion versus substance and the qualities of genuine happiness.
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The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir
by Ariel Levy
An award-winning New Yorker staff writer and author of Female Chauvinist Pigs shares a profound, hopeful memoir of her own experiences with devastating loss to council fellow survivors about the healing aspects of accepting difficult life challenges that are beyond our control.
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Scared Selfless: My Journey from Abuse and Madness to Surviving and Thriving
by Michelle Stevens
A psychologist and founder of the Post-Traumatic Success nonprofit describes the brutal experiences with a pedophile that led to her multiple personality disorder and her long journey to recovery, sharing her work to raise awareness about sexual abuse, its effects on victims and effective methods for healing.
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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
by Michael Finkel
Documents the true story of a man who endured a hardscrabble, isolated existence in a tent in the Maine woods, never speaking with others and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins, for 27 years, in a portrait that illuminates the survival means he developed and the reasons behind his solitary life.
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Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted
by Laura Caldwell
A collective literary protest against wrongful convictions tells the stories of more than a dozen innocent men and women who were convicted of serious crimes and forced to endure a flawed criminal justice system before their exonerations, in an anthology that includes contributions by Lee Child, Sara Paretsky, Michael Harvey, Laurie King, Phillip M. Margolin and Jan Burke.
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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
by Holly Tucker
Draws on transcripts, letters and diaries to chronicle how an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s led to Nicolas de La Reynie's appointment as Paris's first police chief, the installation of lanterns that turned Paris into the City of Light and the investigations in the criminal underground that implicated Louis XIV's mistress.
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A Colony in a Nation
by Chris Hayes
An Emmy Award-winning news anchor and best-selling author argues that there are really two Americas—a Colony and a Nation.
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
by Dan Egan
An award-winning journalist traces the scientific, historical and ecological factors that are endangering the Great Lakes, discussing the late-19th century's effort to connect the lakes to the Atlantic, which unexpectedly introduced invasive species from the natural world.
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Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less
by Tiffany Dufu
An inspiring memoir by a leading figure in the women's leadership movement counsels women on how to cultivate the essential skills of reevaluating expectations, setting realistic goals and meaningfully engaging with others in order to thrive in personal and professional arenas.
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Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
by Jessica Nutik Zitter
An ICU and Palliative Care specialist reveals medical school training gaps in caring for dying patients, describing the professional experiences that compelled her to become a caregiver for the dying and counselor to patients and caregivers about enabling a positive end of life.
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The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
by Frank Ostaseski
The co-founder of the Zen Hospice Project and pioneer behind the compassionate care movement shares an inspiring exploration of the lessons of the dying that can help others live better by prioritizing the author's "Five Invitations" about being more receptive to friendship, approaching challenges with wholeness and making time for rest.
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
by Lisa Feldman Barrett
Outlines new theories about how the brain constructs emotions to evaluate a growing potential for revolutionizing psychology, health care, law enforcement and modern understandings about the human mind.
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How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids
by Jancee Dunn
A candid account of the author's struggles to revitalize her post-baby marriage describes how she resented societal roles that made her the only caregiver to her new daughter and the counseling and research that were part of her effort to resolve unbalanced family dynamics.
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How the Hell Did This Happen?: The Election of 2016
by P. J O'Rourke
The political satirist and best-selling author shares irreverent insights into the stranger-than-fiction 2016 presidential election to profile its colorful candidates, primaries, debates and related issues.
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Lies We Believe About God
by William P. Young
The best-selling author of The Shack presents a conversational exploration of 33 common misunderstandings about ideas that people have and share about God, drawing on personal anecdotes that refute critical perspectives about his character, "Papa."
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The Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder and Genius
by Gail Saltz
An inspiring examination of the connection between potential and conditions commonly mistaken as disabilities shares layperson stories and the insights of the latest neuropsychiatric research to reveal how specific deficits in certain brain areas are directly associated with the potential for great talent.
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Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
by J. P. Romney
A lighthearted history of printed books is told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers as collected by the popular rare book expert from the History Channel's hit series, Pawn Stars.
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Solve for Happy: Engineering Your Path to Joy
by Mo Gawdat
The vice president of business innovation at Google's [X] draws on his personal expertise with logic and problem solving to outline strategic approaches to algorithm brain science designed to help readers to work through serious loss and grief with an ultimate goal to securing an optimal sense of well-being.
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South and West: From a Notebook
by Joan Didion
Two excerpts from never-before-seen notebooks by the National Book Award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking offer insights into her literary mind and process and includes notes on her Sacramento upbringing, her life in the Gulf states, her views on prominent locals and her experiences during a formative Rolling Stone assignment.
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Strong Is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves
by Kate T. Parker
A visual celebration depicting strong girls in remarkable photographs ranges from yogis and skateboarders to cancer survivors and valedictorians, demonstrating how their examples of female power are about confidence, creativity, kindness and independence as much as muscle.
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Superfandom: How Our Obsessions are Changing What We Buy and Who We Are
by Zoe Fraade-Blanar
An in-depth analysis of the influence of fans, which the author terms "society's alpha customers," on modern life and culture, offers insight into the psychology and history of fandom while exploring how new digital tools are enabling convergences between brand owners and their consumers.
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Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife
by Leslie Kean
The best-selling author of UFOs presents an extensively researched investigation into the existences of reincarnation, near-death experiences, psychic abilities and other paranormal phenomena ranging from clairvoyance and out-of-body experiences to remote viewing and psychic espionage.
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Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission
by Barry Friedman
A law professor and director of the Policing Project discusses how our rights are being eroded through an under-regulated police force who, left unchecked by the courts, has become increasingly militarized and made everyone a suspect through CCTV, location tracking and predictive policing.
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We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere: 9 Principles to Live By
by Gillian Anderson
An award-winning actress, producer and activist combines forces with a broadcast journalist to inspire women to use practical, psychological and spiritual tools to create a more fulfilling way of life and to attain happiness and freedom from the have-it-all superwoman culture.
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Why Wall Street Matters
by William D. Cohan
Citing such examples as Occupy Wall Street, Bill Maher's satirical critique and Bernie Sanders's calls for big-bank dissolution, an impassioned defense of the banks challenges common misconceptions while explaining why thriving banks are in everyone’s best interest.
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