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New Nonfiction Releases July, 2021
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Centerstage: My Most Fascinating Interviews - from A-Rod to Jay-Z
by Michael Kay
The veteran Yankees broadcaster and host of "CenterStage" compiles his most revealing interviews, including a selection of behind-the-scenes stories, to share candid insights into the careers of such personalities as Mike Tyson, Rob Reiner and Bob Costas.
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The Complete Memoirs
by Pablo Neruda
The classic memoir of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, now expanded with newly-discovered material.
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Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River
by John N. Maclean
The son of the author of A River Runs Through It presents a memoir of his family’s century-long love affair with fly-fishing in Montana’s Blackfoot River and his own quest to hook the fish of a lifetime.
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The Invention of Oscar Wilde
by Nicholas Frankel
Explores Wilde's self-creation as a "work of art" and a carefully constructed cultural icon.
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London's Number One Dog-Walking Agency
by Kate MacDougall
With sharp wit, delightful observations, and plenty of canine affection, the author, a former Sotheby’s employee turned dog walker, reveals her unique and unconventional coming-of-age story, as told through the dogs she walks, and the London homes and neighborhoods they inhabit.
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Nonbinary: A Memoir
by Genesis P-Orridge
For fans of industrial music, performance art, gender bending, the occult and punk rock, this revealing memoir takes readers on a journey through creativity and destruction, pleasure and pain as it follows the life of a pioneering industrial music and visual artist.
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Open Skies: My Life As Afghanistan's First Female Pilot
by Niloofar Rahmani
The first female fixed-wing pilot for the Afghan Air Force in 2013, who received the International women of Courage Award, shares how she had to break through social barriers to demonstrate confidence, leadership and decisiveness to realize her dreams.
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Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story
by Julie K. Brown
An award-winning investigative journalist, building on her three-part series in the Miami Herald, recounts her investigation of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage sex-trafficking operation that finally brought him to justice while exposing the powerful people and broken system that protected him.
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Pessoa: A Biography
by Richard Zenith
A thorough exploration of the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.
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Seeing Serena
by Gerald Marzorati
Chronicles the global sports celebrity’s return to tennis after giving birth to her daughter, and provides an insightful cultural analysis of the most consequential female athlete of her time.
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Sinatra and Me: In the Wee Small Hours
by Tony Oppedisano
Featuring never-before-seen photos and offering startlingly fresh anecdotes and new revelations that center on some of the most famous people of the past 50 years, this revealing portrait pulls back the curtain to reveal a man whom history has, in many ways, gotten wrong.
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What's Good?: A Memoir in Fourteen Ingredients
by Peter Hoffman
An influential chef and food thinker combines personal stories with explorations into the cultural, historical and botanical backstories of the food we eat and the ingredients we use.
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Where You Are Is Not Who You Are
by Ursula Burns
In this candid book, part memoir and part cultural critique, the first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company writes movingly about her journey from tenement housing on Manhattan’s Lower East Side to the highest echelons of the corporate world.
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The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
by Annie Murphy Paul
Unearthing the untold history of how artists, scientists and authors have used mental extensions to solve, discover and create, an acclaimed science journalist presents a dramatic new view of how our minds work, offering practical advice on how we can all think better.
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Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
by Daniel Kahneman
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, comes an exploration of why people make bad judgments.
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Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music
by Eric Weisbard
A critical guide to American popular music writing, unfolds chronologically, with entries on authors, artists, and topics beginning with William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer.
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Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning
by Alan Maimon
An award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist gives us a profound understanding the Central Appalachia region from his years of careful reporting that paints a portrait of a people staring down some of the most destructive forces at work in America today.
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A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form
by Brenda Lynn Miller
An acknowledged expert in these forms, Brenda Miller gives writers practical advice on how to sustain and invigorate their writing practice, while also encouraging readers to explore their own writing lives.
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Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light: Essays
by Helen Ellis
The bestselling author of Southern Lady Code returns with a collection of comic essays that reflect on the middle-aged experience of modern women, with characters such as fifty-year-old new moms and garage sale swindlers.
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Connoisseurs of Worms
by Deborah Warren
In these poems, the always-original Deborah Warren enchants the ear and dazzles the eye of the imagination.
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Goldenrod: Poems
by Maggie Smith
The award-winning poet and best-selling author of Keep Moving offers a new collection of poems that explore the actions of daily life and reflect on parenthood, solitude, love and memory.
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More Anon: Selected Poems
by Maureen N. McLane
More Anon gathers a selection of poems from Maureen N. McLane's critically acclaimed first five books of poetry.
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Stereo(type): Poems
by Jonah Mixon-Webster
Urgent and radical, this collection of poems about Blackness, the self and the dismantling of corrupt powers in the fight for freedom challenges stereotypes.
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