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New Nonfiction Releases July, 2020
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Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
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Anonymous
The award-winning fiction author of The Giant’s House who runs a popular humor Twitter account purporting to be an 81-year old European Duchess provides an autobiography of both herself and her social-media fictional counterpart.
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Bright Precious Thing: A Memoir
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Gail Caldwell
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe literary critic and best-selling author of Let’s Take the Long Way Home chronicles the women’s movement from the 1960s through the #MeToo era to evaluate its impact on her feminist pursuits.
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Honey and Venom: Confessions of an Urban Beekeeper
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Andrew Coté
A fourth-generation beekeeper describes the work of the Bees Without Borders organization, the quirky personalities he has encountered throughout his career and the remarkable apiaries he maintains on iconic buildings throughout New York City.
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Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
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Michelle Bowdler
A Harvard-trained social justice advocate and award-wining Tufts University health director shares the story of her own experience with sexual violence while examining how rape is or is not treated as a violent crime in today’s America.
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Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
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Natasha Trethewey
The former U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Native Guard shares a chillingly personal memoir about the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather.
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Miracle Country: A Memoir
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Kendra Atleework
Describes how the author's thriving childhood in the natural desert landscape of the Eastern Sierra Nevada was upended by her mother's tragic early death and how the region of her youth has been ravaged by climate change.
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Miss Aluminum: A Memoir
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Susanna Moore
The author of The Life of Objects describes how she used a friend’s trunk of expensive clothing to establish a career in 1963 Hollywood before embarking on a determined effort to uncover the truth about her mother’s death.
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Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina
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Chris Frantz
The drummer and co-founder of the iconic 1970s and 80s band traces his relationship with bassist Tina Weymouth and lead singer David Byrne throughout the creations of iconic hit songs and the concert film, Stop Making Sense.
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Riding With the Ghost: A Memoir
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Justin Taylor
The acclaimed author of The Gospel of Anarchy describes how his father's unsuccessful suicide attempt amidst struggles to keep his marriage together while fighting long-term illness and depression forced him to confront and reckon with troubles in his own life.
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Stray: A Memoir
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Stephanie Danler
From the best-selling author of Sweetbitter comes a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction, and of one woman’s attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past.
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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man
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Mary L. Trump
In this authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world's health, economic security, and social fabric.
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A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir
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Colin Jost
In a collection of humorous essays, the Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor tells the story of his life so far.
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14 Miles: Building the Border Wall
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D. W. Gibson
The award-winning journalist and author of The Edge Becomes the Center presents an eyewitness report on the construction of President Trump's border wall and how it is impacting San Diego residents and patrol agents.
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The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
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Steve Olson
The award-winning author of Eruption presents a gripping narrative account of the creation of the atomic bomb that shares the less-remembered work of World War II scientists who helped manufacture the plutonium for the bombs in America’s nuclear arsenal.
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Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
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Aminatou Sow
The feminist hosts of the "Call Your Girlfriend" podcast argue that close friendship is the most influential and important relationship a human life can have, sharing strategies for creating fulfilling, long-term relationships with friends.
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Break 'em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money
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Zephyr Teachout
Identifying big-platform monopolies that have resulted in the greatest economic and power imbalances since the Gilded Age, a leading anti-corruption scholar and activist shares bold recommendations for addressing major issues by eradicating monopolies and creating better antitrust safeguards.
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Clean: The New Science of Skin
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James Hamblin
A lively introduction to the new science of skin microbes and probiotics draws on expert and alternative-treatment insights to clarify contradictory recommendations and explain how to cultivate a healthy and natural biome for optimal skin health.
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Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All
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Suzanne Nossel
The CEO of PEN America and former executive director of Amnesty International USA outlines vital steps for maintaining open democratic debates that respect diversity while defending free speech and cultivating a more inclusive society.
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The Journeys of Trees: A Story About Forests, People, and the Future
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Zachary St. George
An urgent portrait of forest migration reveals how entire forests are experiencing unhealthy growth redirection as a result of deforestation, invasive pests and climate change, tracing the contributions of scientists and activists to help the world’s trees recuperate.
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The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom
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Lydia S. Dugdale
A Columbia University physician shares uplifting prescriptive advice on how to rethink death and the art of dying well, drawing on specialist insights in medical ethics and elder care to outline more qualitative, holistic approaches.
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The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-populism
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Thomas Frank
The author of the best-selling What’s the Matter with Kansas? and Listen, Liberal examines anti-populist sentiment in America and how it threatens the foundation of our democracy.
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Separated: Inside an American Tragedy
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Jacob Soboroff
The award-winning NBC News and MSNBC correspondent presents a deeply personal report from America’s borders on the wrenching human realities behind the Trump administration’s infamous decision to systematically separate thousands of children from their migrant families.
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The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
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Sarah Stewart Johnson
A Georgetown University planetary scientist presents a deeply personal account of the search for life on Mars, tracing her own journey as a scientist while exploring the work of historical scientists and artists whose achievements were inspired by the planet.
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Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
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Anne Applebaum
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist examines the current world-wide rise of authoritarianism and explains how it appeals to citizens by using conspiracy theory, political polarization, social media and nostalgia.
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Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
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Ian W. Toll
A conclusion to the trilogy that began with Pacific Crucible is based on the final year of World War II and follows MacArthur’s pledge to the Philippines, the kamikaze attacks on Allied fleets and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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The Caiplie Caves: Poems
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Karen Solie
Solie's fifth collection of poetry blends the story of a seventh-century monk with contemporary themes of economic class, environmentalism, and solitude in an ever-connected world.
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dayliGht: Poems
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Roya Marsh
A new voice explores sexuality, grief, and the resilience of the Black woman in an unconventional yet highly accessible debut poetry collection.
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Figure It Out: Essays
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Wayne Koestenbaum
In his new nonfiction collection, poet, artist, critic, novelist, and performer Wayne Koestenbaum enacts twenty-six ecstatic collisions between his mind and the world.
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Heed the Hollow: Poems
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Malcolm Tariq
The stirring debut collection of Malcolm Tariq, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, whose poems explore the concept of “the bottom” across blackness, sexuality, and the American South.
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If Men, Then: Poems
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Eliza Griswold
A darkly humorous new collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Wideawake Field, it charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe.
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The Inner Coast: Essays
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Donovan Hohn
Prize-winning essays on our changing place in the natural world by the best-selling author of Moby-Duck.
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Insecurity System: Poems
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Sara Wainscott
Winner of the 2019 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry, Insecurity System by Sara Wainscott is a wry exploration of memory, motherhood, interplanetary time-travel, and the precarious future.
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Locations of Grief: An Emotional Geography
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Catherine Owen
Exploring the landscapes of death and grief, this collection takes the reader through a series of essays, drawn together from twenty-four Canadian writers that reach across different ages, ethnicities and gender identities as they share their thoughts, struggles and journeys relating to death.
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Outraged: Why Everyone Is Shouting and No One Is Talking
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Ashley Dotty Charles
A rapper and the radio host on BBC Radio One describes how current cultural, online outrage has detracted from actual activism for things that are still actionable, like the gender pay gap, racial bias and gun control.
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So Forth: Poems
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Rosanna Warren
In response to griefs both historical and contemporary, So Forth contemplates the quest for the holy and the traditions of the sacred.
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Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now
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Andre Perry
A debut collection of essays, multiple-choice questions, screenplays and imagined talk-show interviews is inspired by the author’s search for personal and national identity in locales ranging from Washington, D.C. to Hong Kong.
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Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify: Essays
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Carolyn Holbrook
A collection of linked essays, follows Holbrook's transformation from a pregnant 16-year-old incarcerated in the Minnesota juvenile justice system through her years living in Minneapolis, raising a family, and eventually to the founder of an organization that challenges conventional ideas about writers of color and provides support for them.
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Trixie and Katya's Guide to Modern Womanhood
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Trixie Mattel
In essays and how-to sections peppered with hilarious, gorgeous photos, Trixie and Katya advise readers on beauty and fashion and tackle other vital components of a happy home, such as money, entertaining, and friendship; sharing advice and personal stories in high-concept fashion.
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