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New Nonfiction Releases August 2017
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Autumn
by Karl Ove Knausgaard
A first entry in a planned four-part autobiographical series by the award-winning author of Our of the World is comprised of sensory letters written to his unborn daughter that describe his childhood and daily life with his wife and older children in rural Sweden.
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Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults
by Laurie Penny
The author of Unspeakable Things argues that feminism, in this day and age, is still a true liberation struggle, one connected to all struggles for equal rights and freedom.
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Dangerous Animals: A Memoir with Claws
by Kirstin McMillan
A celebrity dog trainer and daughter of former circus performers describes how her siblings and she were subjected to their animal-trainer father's cruel and domineering personality before she ran away and rediscovered love and connection through her bond with a homeless basset hound.
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Dying
by Cory Taylor
A deeply affecting meditation on dying and a wise tribute to life.
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Hail to the Chin: Further Confessions of a B Movie Actor
by Bruce Campbell
A raucous follow-up to If Chins Could Kill shares all-new confessions by the actor best known from the Evil Dead film series and the Ash vs. Evil Dead and Burn Notice TV series, covering the past decade of his experiences in acting and on the Wizard World convention circuit.
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The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder
by Carolyn Murnick
A New York magazine online editor recounts how after diverging from her increasingly precocious childhood best friend, she was compelled to investigate her friend's party lifestyle and shocking murder, possibly by an alleged serial killer now facing trial.
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Mozart: The Man Revealed
by John Suchet
The illustrated life-story of the world’s most beloved composer, bringing vividly to life the man himself, his influences, achievements, and the glittering milieu of the Habsburg empire in eighteenth-century Europe.
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Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir
by Jill Bialosky
An unconventional and inventive coming-of-age memoir organized around forty-three remarkable poems by poets such as Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath, from a critically acclaimed author and poet.
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Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
by Patricia Williams
The popular comedian traces her youth in Atlanta's most troubled neighborhood at the height of the crack epidemic, discussing the experiences with an alcoholic mother, four siblings, petty crime and prostitution that led to her becoming a mother at age 13 before resolving to secure a better life for her children.
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Rescued from ISIS: The Gripping True Story of How a Father Saved His Son
by Dimitri Bontinck
Documents the gripping true story of how the author rescued his son from a radical mosque that brainwashed him into becoming a jihadist soldier, describing the months of unassisted work that were required and how his success reverberated throughout the world, triggering pleas from other families whose children were similarly indoctrinated.
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The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer's Tale
by James Atlas
A biographer describes what it’s like to document the lives of other, more famous people and revisits the experiences and work of the classical biographers who brought the lives of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell to life.
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The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed
by Scott Parazynski
A man who was a NASA astronaut for 17 years discusses his amazing life, including a global ozone-mapping mission, serving as John Glenn's crewmate, a death-defying spacewalk, becoming the only astronaut to summit Mt. Everest and much more.
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Stanton: Lincoln's war secretary
by Walter Stahr
The award-winning author of the best-selling Seward documents the story of the 16th President's controversial secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, detailing his role in raising the Union army, directing military movements, imposing penalties on Confederates and organizing the search for assassin John Wilkes Booth.
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Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult
by Bruce Handy
A nostalgic ramble through classic children's literature by a Vanity Fair contributing editor explores the stories of forefront authors and illustrators while revealing the wisdom that can be found in masterpieces ranging from The Cat in the Hat and Charlotte's Web to Goodnight Moon and The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
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Chancer: How One Good Boy Saved Another
by Donnie Kanter Winokur
Desperate to alleviate her son’s constant rages and their crushing toll on the family, Donnie comes up with an innovative, untested, four-pawed solution: a golden retriever service dog named Chancer.
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The Dogs of Avalon: The Race to Save Animals in Peril
by Laura Schenone
After adopting a greyhound, an Irish woman embarks on a quest to stop the abuse being done to the breed after they no longer can run fast enough during dog races, becoming the head of the Irish SPCA and creating a healing sanctuary.
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Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
by Tim Harford
Describes the history of economic change through the 50 inventions that had the most impact and explores the hidden connections they share, from paper money and the horse collar, to bar codes and spreadsheets.
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Ghost of the Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption
by Benjamin Rachlin
The true story of a man who was wrongly convicted of rape and sent to prison for life, who worked tirelessly for 24 years to prove his innocence and finally founded North Carolina’s Innocence Inquiry Commission to help others in similar predicaments.
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In Good Faith: Secular Parenting in a Religious World
by Maria Polonchek
More Americans are religiously unaffiliated than ever before, but secular parents face particular challenges raising children outside religion. This book balances a personal story with research and exploration, using nonreligious sources to cover topics traditionally answered for by religion, including morality, awe, death, meaning, and tradition.
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The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
by Howard Markel
The author traces the story of brothers Harvey and Will Kellogg, one of whom became a revered doctor and founder of the famous Battle Creek Sanitarium, the other of whom founded the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, which eventually became General Mills.
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Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame
by Michael Kodas
A renowned journalist and forest fire expert shares his experiences in some of the world's most dangerous and remote regions to explore the rising phenomenon of large-scale fires, the damage they cause, what they reveal about the environment and how they are being battled by today's elite firefighters.
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Morningstar: Growing Up with Books
by Ann Hood
The award-winning author of The Book That Matters Most reveals the personal stories behind her written works, describing her early years in a Rhode Island mill town and the books that shaped her love of literature, her political views and her travel ambitions.
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Not Quite a Genius
by Nate Dern
A collection of hilarious, absurdist essays from a senior writer at Funny or Die include an open letter to Charles Manson, an archaeologist's exploration into a suburban man cave and an angry missive from Leif Erikson to Christopher Columbus.
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Why Poetry
by Matthew Zapruder
An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder
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The Wrong Way to Save Your Life: Essays
by Megan Stielstra
From a new American writer comes this powerful collection of personal essays on fear, creativity, art, faith, academia, the Internet, and justice.
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