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New Nonfiction Releases June, 2020
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
by Brenda Jones
Part of a four-book series celebrating women in congress, this biography of the voice of the future and Representative for New York’s 14th congressional district describes how she took on the older, white, male head of the Queens Democratic machine.
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All the Way to the Tigers: A Memoir
by Mary Morris
The award-winning author of The Jazz Palace describes how a catastrophic injury forced her to cancel a dream vacation and contemplate permanent disability before a reading of Death in Venice inspired her life-changing tiger-spotting safari.
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Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occupied Paris
by Arthur J. Magida
Documents the story of artist Noor Inayat Khan, the daughter of an Indian Sufi mystic who joined the British SOE during World War II and became an only wireless operator in Paris during the crucial months leading up to D-Day.
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Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
by Nicholas A. Basbanes
Draws on exclusive access in a major literary portrait of the beloved 19th-century poet that reassesses Longfellow’s remarkable stature and celebrity as well as his close friendships with such fellow artists as Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Oscar Wilde.
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The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
by Wayétu Moore
The author shares her experiences of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United States, shining the light on the great political and personal forces that continue to affect many migrants around the world.
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Elizabeth Warren
by Brenda Jones
Part of a four-book series celebrating women in congress, this biography of the Massachusetts Senator with presidential aspirations describes her humble childhood in Oklahoma, becoming a very popular professor at Harvard Law and her championing for rights of lower-income families.
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Empty: A Memoir
by Susan Burton
An award-winning This American Life documentary producer shares the story of her battles with anorexia and a binge-eating disorder, describing the painful compulsions that shaped her education, career and relationships.
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The Madwoman and the Roomba: My Year of Domestic Mayhem
by Sandra Tsing Loh
A comic exploration of the realities of middle age for today’s women traces a year in the radio commentator’s life that is marked by chronic disorganization, financial challenges, health setbacks, college applications, a long-term relationship and online webinars.
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Maxine Waters
by Brenda Jones
Part of a four-book series celebrating women in congress, this biography of the Representative for California’s 43rd congressional district describes growing up with a single mother in Missouri to forging a new political path for young people of color.
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Nancy Pelosi
by Brenda Jones
Part of a four-book series celebrating women in congress, this biography of the historic, trailblazing Speaker of the House describes how being the daughter of a Congressman and Democratic party organizer in Maryland prepared her to play the political game.
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Rebel Chef: In Search of What Matters
by Dominique Crenn
The first female chef in the United States to receive three Michelin Stars, who never even went to culinary school or trained in French kitchens, describes how she charted her own unconventional course and opened her influential San Francisco restaurant.
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Unvarnished: A Gimlet-eyed Look at Life Behind the Bar
by Eric Alperin
A behind-the-scenes tour of how today’s sophisticated bars operate outlines the examples of Los Angeles speakeasy The Varnish while exploring the profession of bartending as a chosen vocation and providing 100 classic and sophisticated recipes.
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Awakening in the Dream: Contact With the Divine
by David Wilcock
The best-selling author of The Synchronicity Key draws on his telepathic experiences with future-predicting beings to explore hidden new understandings about extraterrestrial life, dreams, sacred science, and channeling one’s Higher Self.
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The Brothers York: A Royal Tragedy
by Thomas Penn
The author of Winter King presents an account of the War of the Roses that profiles the three charismatic York brothers of 15th-century England and the internal rivalries and public rebellions that tore apart their ruling dynasty.
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Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy
by Alastair Gee
An account of the 2018 Camp Fire that razed the town of Paradise, California draws on hundreds of interviews with residents, firefighters, police and scientific experts to document its horrific impact, including the establishment of an unfolding refugee crisis.
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The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency
by John Dickerson
The author writes about presidents in history—such as Washington, Lincoln, FDR and Eisenhower—and in contemporary times—from LBJ and Reagan to Bush, Obama, and Trump—to show how a complex job has been done, and why we need to reevaluate how we view the presidency, how we choose our presidents and what we expect from them once they are in office.
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Humankind: A Hopeful History
by Rutger Bregman
The author of Utopia for Realists challenges popular conceptions of an innately selfish human race to offer new historical and evolutionary perspectives that argue we are more hardwired for kindness, cooperation and trust.
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Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power
by David Dayen
Through vignettes and case studies, the editor of the "American Prospect" shows what it means to live in this new age of monopoly and how we might resist this corporate hegemony.
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Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
by Stacey Abrams
The award-winning House Democratic Leader and best-selling author of Lead from the Outside draws on extensive national research to outline an empowering blueprint for ending voter suppression, reclaiming identity and reshaping progressive politics in America.
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Protocol: The Power of Diplomacy and How to Make It Work for You
by Capricia Penavic Marshall
The former U.S. Chief of Protocol under President Obama and the social secretary for the Clinton family explains why etiquette matters in diplomacy and how to use facilitation effectively to navigate cultural complexities with empowerment and respect.
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Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture
by Emma Dabiri
A BBC presenter and contributor for The Guardian describes the stigmatism of black hair and its encoded racism through history, from pre-colonial Africa through the Harlem Renaissance, to the modern Natural Hair Movement.
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Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News
by Lisa Napoli
The journalist author of Radio Shangri-La blends media and history in an account of the founding of CNN by Ted Turner and a motley assortment of cable-television visionaries, big-league rejects and non-union newcomers, whose collective successes exceeded their wildest ambitions.
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Country, Living
by Ira Sadoff
Sadoff’s eighth poetry collection seeks to understand why cultural norms have kept people from their fullest, most engaged selves.
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Dear Friend and Gardener: Letters on Life and Gardening
by Beth Chatto
In this exchange of personal letters two of Britain's leading gardeners - Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto - share their successes and failures, and learn from each other's experiences in their two very different gardens.
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Fantasia for the Man in Blue
by Tommye Blount
In his debut collection Fantasia for the Man in Blue, Tommye Blount orchestrates a chorus of distinct, unforgettable voices that speak to the experience of the black, queer body as a site of desire and violence.
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For Now
by James Richardson
National Book Award finalist James Richardson meditates on everything from artichokes to cosmology and creates fables of limitation and desire.
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Furiously Funny: Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock
by Terrence T. Tucker
A combustible mix of fury and radicalism, pathos and pain, wit and love--Terrence Tucker calls it "comic rage," and he shows how it has been used by African American artists to aggressively critique America's racial divide.
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God's Green Earth
by Noelle Kocot
Visionary poems from a masterful poet guiding imagination and language through the daily sublime.
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Memory
by Bernadette Mayer
This beautiful, large-format book combines over a thousand of Mayer’s photographs (Mayer shot a roll of film every day during the month of July in 1971) with poems and stream-of-consciousness writing.
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Not Go Away Is My Name
by Alberto Ríos
Resistance and persistence blend together as Ríos uses his poetic storytelling to help heal the wounds along the southern border.
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Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why: Essays
by Alexandra Petri
Adapted from the author’s viral Post columns, a riotous essay collection on the normalized horrors of today’s world outlines logical and reassuring reasons behind the seemingly inexplicable changes in American politics and culture throughout the past four years.
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The Park
by John Freeman
John Freeman explores how parks—tiny microcosims of the world—are simultaneously natural and constructed, exclusionary and open, welcome and threatening.
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