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New Nonfiction Releases August, 2019
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Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention
by Donna Freitas
The university lecturer and author of The Body Market chronicles her toxic relationship with her mentor, an acclaimed professor whose unwanted abusive attentions transformed her life and compelled her advocacy work.
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Finding Zsa Zsa: The Gabors Behind the Legend
by Sam Staggs
A biographer, film historian and Gabor family friend reveals that, behind the headlines, is a true story more dramatic, fabulous, and surprising than the Gabors' self-styled legend indicates.
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Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
by Haben Girma
Documents the incredible story of the first deaf and blind graduate of Harvard Law School, tracing her refugee parents' harrowing experiences in the Eritrea-Ethiopian war and her development of innovations that enabled her remarkable achievements.
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In the Country of Women: A Memoir
by Susan Straight
The award-winning author of Highwire Moon presents a narrative social history and tribute to the indomitable women ancestors of husband Dwayne Sims’ family, whose resilient spirits were shaped by slavery, Jim Crow racism and abusive relationships. |
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My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress
by Rachel DeLoache Williams
Tells the true story of Anna Delvey, a young con artist posing as a German heiress in New York City—as told by the former Vanity Fair photo editor who got seduced by her friendship and then scammed out of more than $62,000.
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Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan
by Alan Paul
An unstinting account of the guitar legend's life and career draws on firsthand insights from family members and loved ones to discuss topics ranging from Vaughan's creative endeavors and battles with addiction to his tumultuous marriage and fatal helicopter crash.
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Travel Light, Move Fast
by Alexandra Fuller
The best-selling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight explores how her late father's service during the Rhodesian War, work as a banana farmer in Zambia and preference of unpredictability over security inspired her life.
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When I Was White: A Memoir
by Sarah Valentine
A coming-of-age memoir traces the author's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh before she discovered that her father was a black man, a revelation that transformed her sense of identity and raised questions about family choices.
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Boss Up!: This Ain’t Your Mama’s Business Book
by Lindsay Teague Moreno
The millionaire podcaster and stay-at-home mother of three counsels women from all walks of life on how to gain the skills and confidence to create businesses that enable flexibility, fulfillment and financial security.
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For the Good of the Game
by Bud Selig
The veteran MLB commissioner provides an insider's assessment of professional baseball in today's world, revealing how he worked with players, managers, fellow owners and fans to help bring the game into the modern age.
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Gender and Our Brains
by Gina Rippon
A leading cognitive neuroscience researcher draws on cutting-edge discoveries to challenge the myth that there is a biological distinction between male and female brains, offering scientific proof that brains are adaptable mosaics comprised of both male and female components.
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How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
A best-selling author, National Book Award-winner and professor combines ethics, history, law and science with a personal narrative to describe how to move beyond the awareness of racism and contribute to making society just and equitable.
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The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
by David G Robson
Draws on cutting-edge understandings in expertise and intelligence to reveal how smart people are equally or more prone to making mistakes, citing lessons that can be learned from the setbacks of intellectuals ranging from Benjamin Franklin to Richard Feynman.
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The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
by Ian Urbina
A Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative reporter profiles the rampant criminal and exploitative activities of the world's unmonitored ocean regions, uncovering a vast global network of industry corruption, piracy and trafficking.
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Radical Ritual: How Burning Man Changed the World
by Neil Shister
A journalist and festival participant explains why Burning Man is a historically significant event and describes the gathering's contributions to avant-garde postmodernism and new social paradigms by its fusing together of 1960s humanism with the modern tech of Silicon Valley.
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Talking to Robots: Tales from Our Human-robot Futures
by David Ewing Duncan
The award-winning author of Experimental Man announces the arrival of high-capacity artificial-intelligence machines, drawing on expert insights to explain how the robots of today and the near-future will transform the definition of humanity and revolutionize the world.
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100 Poems
by Seamus Heaney
Complemented by an introduction by the Heaney family, a volume of 100 poems by the late Nobel Prize laureate and author of Finders Keepers includes intimate, prize-winning selections that reflect the evolving stages of his literary life.
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Battle Dress: Poems
by Karen Skolfield
"In her prize-winning collection, U.S. Army veteran Karen Skolfield explores the narratives of a young soldier, her older counterpart, and her fellow soldiers, offering a rare glimpse of a female soldier's training and mental conditioning in a poetic voice that is at once accessible and otherworldly, gutsy and insightful."
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Be Recorder: Poems
by Carmen Giménez Smith
Be Recorder offers readers a blazing way forward into an as yet unmade world. The many times and tongues in these poems investigate the precariousness of personhood in lines that excoriate and sanctify.
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Don't Wait Up: Confessions of a Stay-at-Work Mom
by Liz Astrof
A humorous collection of essays on motherhood from the award-winning television comedy writer and producer of 2 Broke Girls includes coverage of her career, her dysfunctional childhood and the haphazard realities of parenting today.
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A Double Life
by Karolina Pavlova
An unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova’s A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of escaping its strictures.
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Human Relations and Other Difficulties: Essays
by Mary-Kay Wilmers
The editor of the London Review of Books provides an incisive collection of essays exploring a concern with the relation between the genders—the effect men have on women, and the ways in which men limit and frame women’s lives.
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March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women
by Kate Bolick
A 150th anniversary tribute to Louisa May Alcott’s coming-of-age classic features contributions by four acclaimed authors, including Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado and Jane Smiley, who explore their lifelong engagement with Little Women and the novel’s enduring relevance.
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White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination
by Jess Row
Examines the concept of “whiteness” in American fiction by comparing: ”white flight” into suburbs or gentrified downtowns to white writers who set their stories in isolated of emotionally insulated landscapes, including Don DeLillo, Annie Dillard and David Foster Wallace.
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