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New Nonfiction Releases November, 2020 |
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The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard
by John Birdsall
A full-length biography inspired by the viral essay, "America, Your Food Is So Gay," recasts the iconic food personality as a closeted gay man who found acceptance and passion through a culturally rich career spent informing America's increasingly sophisticated palate.
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No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
by Michael J. Fox
The award-winning actor shares personal stories and observations about illness and health, aging, the strength of family and friends, and how our perceptions about time affect the way we approach mortality.
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Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
by Wright Thompson
Documents the story of the highly respected Kentucky bourbon magnate behind the $3,000-per-bottle Pappy Van Winkle Family Reserve, chronicling the remarkable story of his fight to protect the authentic, founder-inspired legacy of his family’s distillery.
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A Promised Land
by Barack Obama
A deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.
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This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing
by Jacqueline Winspear
This deeply personal portrayal of a post-War England we rarely see, the best-selling author reflects on her childhood in the English countryside, of working class indomitability and family secrets, of artistic inspiration and the price of memory.
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Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters
by Deborah Stone
The award-winning author of Policy Paradox reveals the inescapable link between quantifying and classifying to explain how humanity's approaches to numbers shape every facet of perception, from political opinions to how we are evaluated at work.
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Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
by Talia Lavin
The unapologetic journalist and anti-discrimination activist recounts her immersive investigation into white supremacy to reveal how it proliferates online, exposing a rampant Web subculture of religious extremism, misogyny, racism and anti-Semitism.
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
by Paul Farmer
The Harvard University global-health authority documents the 2014 Ebola crisis and the stories of victims and first responders while revealing the centuries of exploitation, injustice and state failures that rendered it history’s worst outbreak.
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Forgiving What You Can't Forget
by Lysa TerKeurst
Compassionate, Bible-based therapeutic advice by the best-selling author of It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way shares step-by-step recommendations for letting go of the past, understanding the meaning of true forgiveness and moving ahead in healthy relationships.
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Glory: Magical Visions of Black Beauty
by Kahran Bethencourt
The husband-and-wife team behind CreativeSoul Photography and the acclaimed AfroArt series combine striking photography of natural Black hairstyles with visual storytelling in a celebration of Black culture, heritage and self-acceptance.
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Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos
by Jeffrey Bezos
A collection of writings by the founder and CEO of Amazon includes a selection of Bezos’s unusual annual shareholder letters, speeches and interviews that offer insight into his background, his professional approaches and the evolutions of his ideas.
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The Lenin Plot: The Unknown Story of America's War Against Russia
by Barnes Carr
An espionage history of the "midnight war" to depose Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin describes the Wilson administration's military invasion of Russia to install an Allied-friendly dictator in Moscow, a plot that caused thousands of military and civilian deaths.
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Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo
by Teasel E. Muir-Harmony
A political history of the Apollo program reveals how its primary goal was to establish an international coalition that rapidly proved central to American foreign relations, prompting formal diplomatic practices of global unity.
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Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World
by Dalai Lama XIV
An appeal for environmental action by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and spiritual leader of Tibet urges decision-makers to fight climate change ignorance while encouraging younger readers to assert their right to a climate-friendly future.
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Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
by Jeffrey H. Jackson
Documents the story of the French activist couple best known by their artistic pseudonyms, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, describing their “paper bullet” anti-Nazi PSYOPS campaign and role in promoting resistance, Jewish culture and LGBTQ awareness.
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Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II
by Paul Betts
The award-winning Oxford historian and author of Within Walls offers a panoramic account of post-World War II Europe that examines the humanitarian relief organizations, war-crime prosecutions and peace campaigns that expanded to salvage damaged cultural traditions.
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Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
by Lisa Feldman Barrett
The author of How Emotions Are Made shares seven concise essays on such topics as how the human mind evolved, common misunderstandings about the brain and what is being discovered on the front lines of neuroscience research.
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Ten Lessons for a Post-pandemic World
by Fareed Zakaria
The CNN host and Washington Post columnist shares 10 lessons in subjects ranging from globalization and threat-preparedness to inequality and technological advancement to outline the likely political, social, technological and economic impact of the COVID-19 epidemic.
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Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
by Catherine Coleman Flowers
The Equal Justice Initiative’s “Erin Brockovich of Sewage” traces her evolution as an activist and the growing environmental justice movement on behalf of rural Americans whose are losing access to basic sanitation because of racism, poverty and climate change.
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The Best of Me
by David Sedaris
The American humorist, author and radio contributor presents shares his most memorable work in a collection of stories and essays that feature him shopping for rare taxidermy, hitchhiking with a quadriplegic and hand-feeding a carnivorous bird.
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The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread
by Harold Bloom
The Yale University humanities professor and award-winning author of Possessed by Memory shares trenchant critiques of 52 master works of literature, from Don Quixote and Wuthering Heights to Les Misérables and Vanity Fair.
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Dearly: New Poems
by Margaret Atwood
The internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author presents her first collection of poetry in over a decade that addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, nature – and zombies.
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Frolic and Detour: Poems
by Paul Muldoon
Frolic and Detour reminds us that the sidelong glance is the sweetest, the tangential approach the most telling, and shows us why Paul Muldoon was described by Nick Laird, writing in The New York Review of Books, as “the most formally ambitious and technically innovative of modern poets, [who] writes poems like no one else.”
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Home Body
by rupi kaur
A collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself - reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change. illustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark, rest here.
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Light for the World to See
by Kwame Alexander
A collection of three powerful poems that take on racism and Black resistance in America by New York Times best-selling author Kwame Alexander. Includes an introduction by the author.
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September Love
by Lang Leav
September Love captures the magic of each passing season, a pearl of wisdom waiting to be discovered with every page turned. A book that will inspire you to reach for the stars.
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The Tale of a Niggun
by Elie Wiesel
An evocative narrative poem based on true events from World War II traces the powerful sacrifice of a Persian rabbi and his community, who stood together to sing a wordless song of joy as they were massacred by the Nazis.
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Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age
by John Lithgow
The well-known actor and author of the New York Times bestseller Dumpty returns with another collection of hard-hitting satirical poems and illustrations about the Trump administration and its motley crew of characters.
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What Kind of Woman
by Kate Baer
A debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today, and the many roles we play - mother, partner, and friend.
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