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New Nonfiction Releases August, 2020
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And in the End: The Last Days of the Beatles
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Ken McNab
A Scotland Evening Times journalist and lifelong fan reconstructs the seismic events of 1969 that shaped The Beatles' acrimonious final collaborations, from filmed rehearsals and the Get Back documentary to creative disagreements and Lennon's heroin use.
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The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir
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Michele Harper
A female, African American ER physician describes how her own life and encounters with her patients led her to realize that every human is broken and recognizing that and moving towards a place of healing can bring peace and happiness.
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Let's Never Talk About This Again: A Memoir
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Sara Faith Alterman
The producer of the Mortified series describes the innocence of her youth in suburban New England before her discovery that her father was a campy sex writer whose career she assumed when he developed early onset Alzheimer’s.
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Like Crazy: Life With My Mother and Her Invisible Friends
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Dan Mathews
A PETA Director of Campaigns describes how his elder care for his characteristically outlandish mother was shaped by haphazard home renovations, his mother’s late-in-life diagnosis with schizophrenia and their community’s compassionate support.
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The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad
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Mike Birbiglia
With humorous parenting observations, a New York Times best-selling author and award-winning comedian delivers a book for anyone who has ever raised a child, been a child, or refuses to stop acting like one.
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Notes on a Silencing
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Lacy Crawford
The author of Early Decision traces her healing journey after a traumatizing sexual assault at infamous St. Paul's boarding school, describing how she helped police uncover proof of the school's institutionalized mandate of silence.
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The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time
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Hugh Raffles
The award-winning author of Insectopedia shares the remarkable stories behind historical stones, drawing on years of research to profile examples ranging from Neolithic stone circles and Icelandic lava to mica from a Nazi concentration camp and Manhattan Lenape marble.
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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
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James Nestor
Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head.
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The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World
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Edward D. Melillo
Draws on research in laboratory science, agriculture, international cuisine and other disciplines to trace the historical relationship between humans and insects, detailing the role of insects in medical science, the world's food supply and other essential aspects of modern life.
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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Isabel Wilkerson
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns identifies the qualifying characteristics of historical caste systems to reveal how a rigid hierarchy of human rankings, enforced by religious views, heritage and stigma, impact everyday American lives.
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The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking)
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Katie Mack
From one a dynamic rising star in astrophysics comes an accessible and eye-opening look at five ways the universe could end, and the mind-blowing lessons each scenario reveals about the most important concepts in cosmology.
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The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide
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Zerlina Maxwell
A political analyst discusses how Donald Trump tapped into white male angst in his winning campaign and what progressives can do to help forge a new coalition that more accurately reflects the diversity of the American electorate.
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Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: a Recent History
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Kurt Andersen
The best-selling author of Fantasyland presents a deeply researched history of America’s 20th-century transition toward government-sanctioned, normalized inequalities that favor big business and resist progressive change while rendering everyday workers increasingly powerless.
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
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Austin Channing Brown
The author shares her experiences of growing up black, Christian, and female in white America, exploring the country's racial divide at all levels of society and how overcoming apathy and focusing on God's work in the world can heal persistent divisions.
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The Kids Are All Left : How Young Voters Will Unite America
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David Faris
In The Kids Are All Left, political scientist David Faris provides evidence that this isn't just a typical generational trend that will even out over time and explores the policy transformations that young Americans will pursue.
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Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-changing Brain
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David Eagleman
The Stanford University professor, host of the Emmy-nominated "The Brain" and author of Incognito draws on the latest scientific findings in a revelatory portrait of the human mind that explores how it continually adapts, recreates and forges new understandings.
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Shuttle, Houston: My Life in the Center Seat of Mission Control
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Paul Dye
NASA's longest-serving flight director explores how the high-stakes work of Mission Control and the Space Shuttle program has redefined humanity's relationship with the universe, describing the global impact of split-second decisions in dozens of high-risk missions.
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Surrender, White People!: Our Unconditional Terms for Peace
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D. L. Hughley
In his follow-up to the New York Times best-selling How Not to Get Shot the legendary comedy king humorously and satirically offers Caucasians terms, reparations and reconciliations as America becomes a majority-minority nation.
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Tales from the Ant World
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Edward O. Wilson
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard professor emeritus and author of Anthill shares eloquent descriptions of his natural-world encounters with ants, from his boyhood explorations in the Alabama woods to his perilous journeys into the Brazilian rainforest.
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This Is Your Brain on Food
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Uma Naidoo
A Harvard-trained psychiatrist, Cornell nutrition specialist and professional chef shares actionable dietary recommendations and brain-healthy recipes for foods that can support the treatments of common psychological and cognitive health challenges, from anxiety to sleep disorders.
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Vesper Flights
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Helen Macdonald
The award-winning author of H Is for Hawk presents a collection of top-selected essays about humanity's relationship with nature, exploring subjects ranging from captivity and immigration to ostrich farming and the migrations of songbirds from the Empire State Building.
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An American Sunrise: Poems
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Joy Harjo
A nationally best-selling volume of wise, powerful poetry from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States.
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The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro
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Fernando Pessoa
Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari's new translations of the complete poems of Alberto Caeiro, the imaginary master of the "heteronym" coterie created by the Portuguese modernist Fernando Pessoa.
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Finna: Poems
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Nate Marshall
In three key parts, Finna explores the mythos and erasure of names in the American narrative; asks how gendered language can provoke violence; and finally, through the celebration and examination of the Black vernacular, expands the notions of possibility, giving us a new language of hope.
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Guillotine: Poems
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Eduardo C. Corral
The second collection by the author of Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize.
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Middle Distance: Poems
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Stanley Plumly
A probing and commanding final volume from a master poet facing his own mortality.
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My Life As a Villainess: Essays
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Laura Lippman
A first non-fiction compilation by the award-winning author of The Lady in the Lake features original and previously published essays on subjects ranging from her childhood and education to her achievements as a reporter and crime-fiction author.
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Rendang
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Will Harris
Traveling from West Sumatra to Planet Mongo via the Gray's Inn Road, through Indonesian artifacts and issues of gentrification., this collection of poems is a dissection of (and love letter to) histories, places, and things.
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This Is One Way to Dance: Essays
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Sejal Shah
In the linked essays that make up her debut collection, the author explores culture, language, family, and place.
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