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New Nonfiction Releases January, 2020
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Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir
by Marsha Linehan
Traces the author’s journey from a suicidal teen to the award-winning developer of the life-saving DBT behavioral therapy, describing the hardscrabble existence she endured to get her education and the beneficial impact of Zen spirituality on her life quality.
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The Magical Language of Others
by E. J. Koh
Left behind when work requires her parents to return to Korea, a teen poet reconnects with family history to manage the impact of absent caregivers on her sense of self. By the award-winning author of A Lesser Love.
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Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death
by David George Marwell
A gripping portrait of the infamous Nazi doctor, written by the former Justice Department official who proved his death, draws on victim interviews and visits to crime scenes to detail Mengele’s university studies and brutal wartime experiments.
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Nobody Ever Talks About Anything but the End: A Memoir
by Liz Levine
A moving, funny, and inventive account of loss and grief, mental illness and suicide, from film and TV producer Liz Levine (Story of a Girl), written in the aftermath of the deaths of her sister and best friend.
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Normal: A Mother and Her Beautiful Son
by Magdalena M. Newman
The mother of a child with severe Treacher Collins syndrome describes their family’s courageous experiences with complicated and terrifying health challenges, more than 60 painful surgeries and the social alienation of a facial disfigurement.
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Rachel Maddow: A Biography
by Lisa Rogak
In a biography of one of the most popular anchors in cable news, a New York Times bestselling author shares little know details of Rachel Maddow’s life, from her childhood to her groundbreaking MSNBC show.
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Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
by Anna Wiener
The author chronicles her experience at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination, glory and, of course, progress.
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The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
by Christopher Caldwell
An American intellectual argues that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, instead left many Americans feeling alienated, despised, misled—and ready to put an adventurer in the White House.
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Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership
by Ed Gordon
A collection of conversations with such notables as Stacey Abrams, Harry Belafonte, Charlamagne tha God, Michael Eric Dyson, Jemele Hill, Eric Holder, Maxine Waters and others offers sage wisdom for navigating race in a radically divisive America.
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Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field
by Howard Bryant
An impassioned meditation on injustice in America examines the fundamental inequities behind the country’s most divisive issues, explaining how a normalizing of authoritarianism in today’s political arenas is undermining freedom and democracy for everyday people.
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A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism
by Caroline Moorehead
Drawing on previously untranslated sources, a prize-winning historian tells the little-known story of the women of the Italian-partisan movement and their fight for freedom against fascism in all its forms, while Europe collapsed in ruins around them.
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Sabotage: The Hidden Nature of Finance
by Anastasia Nesvetailova
An intellectual detective story traces the origins of financial sabotage, starting with the work of a prescient American economist who saw the capacity for banks and businesses to dissemble and profit as early as the 1920s.
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What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She
by Dennis E. Baron
The University of Illinois linguistics professor and national commentator on language issues explores evolving debates regarding modern pronoun usage, tracing the history of pronouns, the creations of new gender pronouns and the role of pronouns in establishing identity and rights.
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Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
by Ada Calhoun
The award-winning author of Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give presents a generation-defining exploration of the impossible standards being imposed on middle-aged Generation X women and what the author recommends to avoid burnout.
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Hope in the Mail: Reflections on Writing and Life
by Wendelin Van Draanen
The author of Flipped and The Running Dream describes how writing helped her navigate painful experiences and better understand the perspectives of others, sharing practical advice on how to create compelling plots and characters.
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Summer Snow: New Poems
by Robert Hass
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author presents a new volume of poetry in which he pays careful attention to the natural world and exhibits his virtuosic abilities, expansive intellect and tremendous readability.
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We Hope This Reaches You in Time
by Samantha King Holmes and r.h. Sin
A newly revised and expanded paperback edition that contains all-new bonus materials from the authors.
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