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New Nonfiction Releases March, 2020
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Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories
by Fanny Singer
A cookbook and memoir by the daughter of food activist Alice Waters shares recipe-complemented vignettes about the traditions that shaped her upbringing, her insights into her mother’s philosophies and her own culinary coming of age.
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein
Originally published in 1933, this new illustrated edition of Gertrude Stein’s most well-known work brings the glittering Parisian world to life, celebrating both Stein and Toklas in vivid color.
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Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone
by Madison Smartt Bell
A portrait of American novelist Robert Stone traces his relationship with a mentally unstable mother, his military service, his Stanford education, his membership in the Merry Pranksters and the publication of such novels as the award-winning Dog Soldiers.
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The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life
by Alexander Norman
The leading Tibetan scholar and author of Holder of the White Lotus presents a definitive biography of the 14th Dalai Lama that includes coverage of his discomfort with his political position, dangerous vulnerabilities and prophecy-rooted spiritual practice.
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Home Is a Stranger
by Parnaz Foroutan
The immigrant daughter of a Jewish mother and Muslim father who fled persecution in Iran describes how the death of her father and a harrowing diagnosis prompted her spiritual visit as a stranger to her homeland.
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More Myself: A Journey
by Alicia Keys
The 15-time Grammy Award-winning music artist traces her journey from self-censorship to full expression, describing her complicated relationship with her father, the people-pleasing nature that characterized her early career and her struggles with gender expectations.
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Nobody Will Tell You This but Me: A True (As Told to Me) Story
by Bess Kalb
The award-winning "Jimmy Kimmel Live" writer reflects on her relationship with her loving grandmother, the daughter of immigrants from 19th-century Belarus whose hardships, sacrifices and headstrong nature shaped the author’s perspectives on family and career.
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Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
by Rebecca Solnit
Describing her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, the author explores the influences around her that gave her a voice that has resonated with and empowered many others.
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Rust Belt Femme
by Raechel Anne Jolie
A fierce, unyielding memoir of queer self-discovery in '90s Cleveland.
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Untamed
by Glennon Doyle
An activist, speaker and philanthropist offers a memoir wrapped in a wake-up call that reveals how women can reclaim their true, untamed selves by breaking free of the restrictive expectations and cultural conditioning that leaves them feeling dissatisfied and lost.
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When My Time Comes
by Diane Rehm
A renowned radio host and best-selling author addresses the hotly contested cause of the right-to-die movement, of which she is one of the strongest voices.
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Yogi: A Life Behind the Mask
by Jon Pessah
A portrait of the 13-time World Series champion traces his rise to one of baseball’s most accomplished athletes, discussing such topics as his experiences as an impoverished first-generation immigrant, his heroic war service and his paradoxical quotes.
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1774: The Long Year of Revolution
by Mary Beth Norton
A Pulitzer Prize finalist and 2018 president of the American Historical Association examines the critical “long year” of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from December 1773 to mid-April 1775, from the Boston Tea Party and the First Continental Congress to the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
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Abandoned: America's Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection
by Anne Kim
The director of domestic and social policy at the Progressive Policy Institute examines the 11.5 percent of sixteen- to twenty-four-year-olds who age out of foster care and the justice system and are forced to navigate early adulthood alone and impoverished.
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Capital and Ideology
by Thomas Piketty
A follow-up to the best-selling Capital in the Twenty-First Century retraces global history while exposing the imbalances of contemporary politics and outlining a proposal for a new and fairer economic system.
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Cosmos: Possible Worlds
by Ann Druyan
Based on National Geographic’s internationally-renowned series, a long-awaited sequel to Carl Sagan’s best-seller explores the parallel evolutions of science and civilization, discussing such topics as the Big Bang, the Voyager missions and Cassini-Huygen’s remarkable findings.
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The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress
by Jennifer Steinhauer
A New York Times reporter offers a behind-the-scenes look at the historic cohort of diverse, young and groundbreaking women newly elected to the House of Representatives in 2018 as they arrive in Washington, D.C., and start working for change.
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Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
by Wes Moore
An account of the 2015 police-brutality killing of Freddie Gray retraces key events from the perspectives of seven insiders, including a conflicted Baltimore Police Department captain, the victim’s sister and the owner of the Baltimore Orioles.
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Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
by Bart D. Ehrman
Explores literary and cultural sources to reveal that common perceptions about heaven, hell and the afterlife are modern, competing beliefs that are neither found in the Old Testament nor what Jesus taught.
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How to Be an Artist
by Jerry Saltz
An award-winning art critic at New York magazine and Vulture offers rules, prompts, tips and insights for emerging artists to use to get through creative blocks, get the most from materials, manage career challenges and find joy in their work.
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In Our Prime: How Older Women Are Reinventing the Road Ahead
by Susan J. Douglas
A Professor of Communication and Media at the University of Michigan exposes the inherent ageism faced by mature women and celebrates today’s women who defy the stereotypes of getting older, embrace their age and remain strong and socially involved.
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Into the Abyss: A Neuropsychiatrist's Notes on Troubled Minds
by Anthony David
A cognitive neuropsychiatrist offers case studies and surprising insights from his 40-year career combining different fields, including social and cognitive psychology and neurology, in his quest to treat patients suffering from schizophrenia, Parkinson’s, trauma and chemical imbalances.
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Island Stories: An Unconventional History of Britain
by David Reynolds
Essential reading for anyone interested in global history and politics in the era of Brexit, a prizewinning Cambridge historian offers a multi-faceted new account of the last millennium to make sense of Britain’s turbulent present.
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The NRA: The Unauthorized History
by Frank Smyth
A former arms-trafficking investigator for Human Rights Watch offers a complete account of America’s most powerful, most secretive and most controversial nonprofit, and argues that it has strayed far from its origins.
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Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America
by Gerald L. Posner
The award-winning author of God’s Bankers traces the rise of the Salker family and the role of opioid addiction and soaring drug prices on healthcare, exposing the deadly consequences of industry corruption and profiteering.
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The Second Life of Tiger Woods
by Michael Bamberger
The best-selling author of Men in Green presents an intimate account of Tiger Woods’s comeback that discusses the golf champion’s high-risk back surgery, 2017 DUI arrest, rehabilitation and triumphant 2019 Masters victory.
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The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
by Robert B. Reich
The best-selling author of Saving Capitalism presents an urgent analysis of how corruption in American politics and economics is triggering wage stagnation, volatile job markets and other consequences, outlining how it happened and how everyday citizens can promote change.
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Break Your Glass Slippers
by Amanda Lovelace
In this companion to the bestselling and award-winning “Women Are Some Kind of Magic” poetry series, the author shows that in the epic tale of your life, you are the most important character while everyone is a forgotten footnote, even the prince.
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The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems
by N. Scott Momaday
This luminous collection demonstrates Momaday's mastery and love of language and the matters closest to his heart. To Momaday, words are sacred; language is power. Spanning nearly fifty years, the poems gathered here illuminate the human condition, Momaday's connection to his Kiowa roots, and his spiritual relationship to the American landscape.
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First, Catch: Study of a Spring Meal
by Thom Eagle
First, Catch is food writing at its best: a cookbook without recipes, an invitation to journey through the digressive mind of a chef at work, and a hymn to a singular nine-dish festive spring lunch.
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Had I Known: Collected Essays
by Barbara Ehrenreich
A selection of the best-selling writer and political activist’s most provocative signature writings includes her groundbreaking undercover investigations, op-ed pieces, essays and reviews, including the award-winning “Welcome to Cancerland.”
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Ledger: Poems
by Jane Hirshfield
The internationally renowned poet named “among the modern masters,” in this book of personal, ecological and political reckoning, shares a collection of indispensable poems that are tuned toward issues of consequence to all who share this world’s current and future fate.
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The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels
by Adam Nicolson
In The Making of Poetry, Adam Nicolson embeds himself in the reality of this unique moment, exploring the idea that these poems came from this particular place and time, and that only by experiencing the physical circumstances of the year, in all weathers and all seasons, at night and at dawn, in sunlit reverie and moonlit walks, can the genesis of the poetry start to be understood.
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My Wild Garden: Notes from a Writer's Eden
by Meir Shalev
Colorfully illustrated, this lovely book from the best-selling novelist, memoirist and champion gardener takes us to the perimeter of Israel’s Jezreel Valley where he has his beloved garden and shares his appreciation for the joy of living, quite literally, on Earth.
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Nineteen
by Makenzie Campbell
Nineteen is a collection of poetry that broaches heartbreak, love, loss, war, peace, and healing.
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Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems
by Carl Phillips
One of America’s most critically admired poets meditates on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance, in this powerful new poetry collection that is one of the author’s most tender, dynamic and startling books yet.
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Social Poetics
by Mark Nowak
In Social Poetics, Mark Nowak imagines a new theory for poetry in the 21st century. Part autobiography, part literary criticism, part Marxist theory, Nowak's new book traces a "people's history of the poetry workshop" and chronicles the past twenty years of his own activism in organizations he founded-the Union of Radical Workers & Writers (URWW) and the Worker Writers School.
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Wow, No Thank You: Essays
by Samantha Irby
A new collection of humorous and edgy essays from the author of Meaty and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life that highlight the ups and downs of aging, marriage and living with step-children in small-town Michigan.
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