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New Nonfiction Releases November, 2021
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Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life
by Alan Cumming
An intimate look at the making of a man, an actor, an advocate; and most importantly; a happy human being. A book that is funny, honest, fearless, and generous in its vulnerability.
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The Brothers: Inside the Private Worlds of William and Harry
by Christopher Andersen
Based on in-depth research, this highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times best-seller Diana’s Boys picks up where he left off, covering everything that has happened to the brothers as they have grown up, gotten married and had children—all while facing continual waves of controversy.
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Cokie: A Life Well Lived
by Steven V. Roberts
The husband of the late legendary journalist reflects on her career as a trailblazer for women as well as her private life, tenacious devotion to helping others and roles as wife, mother, advocate and historian.
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Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss
by David Magee
The creator of the national William Magee Institute for Student Wellbeing at the University of Mississippi, David Magee is on a mission to find and share solutions to one of America's biggest problems that touches too many high school and college students: self-medication and substance use disorder.
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Fauci Expect the Unexpected: Ten Lessons on Truth, Service, and the Way Forward
by National Geographic
Compiled from hours of interviews, this inspiring book from world-renowned infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci shares the lessons that have shaped the celebrated doctor’s life philosophy, offering an intimate view of one of the world's greatest medical minds as well as universal advice to live by.
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Friends from the Beginning: The Berkeley Village That Raised Kamala and Me
by Stacey Johnson-batiste
A vivid, intimate portrait of the friendship forged between Stacey Johnson Batiste and her childhood best friend, Vice President Kamala Harris; and of the community in which they were raised, and the lessons offered by those they loved and admired from childhood, through their teenage years, and up to the present day.
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Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995
by Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith's devoted editor Anna von Planta discovered her diaries and notebooks in 1995, tucked in a closet—with tantalizing instructions to be read. For years thereafter, von Planta meticulously culled from over eight thousand pages to help reveal the inscrutable figure behind the legendary pen. |
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Tiger King: The Official Tell-all Memoir
by Joe Exotic
In this no-holds-barred memoir, Joe Exotic, the star of the Netflix original documentary that managed to unite a nation during the 2020 global pandemic, reveals the man behind the headlines, proving that they can cage the Tiger King, but they can’t silence his roar.
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Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
by Danny Trejo
Redemptive and painful, poignant and real, this memoir from one of the most recognizable, prolific and beloved character actors traces his journey from crime, prison, addiction and loss to unexpected fame as Hollywood’s favorite bad guy with a heart of gold.
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Unprotected: A Memoir
by Billy Porter
The incomparable Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award winner shares his life story of coming of age in a world where simply being himself was a constant struggle and how unbreakable determination led him through countless hard times to where he is now.
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Volunteers: Growing Up in the Forever War
by Jerad W. Alexander
In this thought-provoking, fervent memoir, the author reveals what it was like to be raised on war, vividly recreating the masculine fantasies of American heroism and patriotism that animated his childhood—and at the same time brilliantly dismantling those myths.
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What Just Happened: Notes on a Long Year
by Charles Finch
A book critic and essayist, at the request of the Los Angeles Times, became a reluctant diarist in March 2020, resulting in this book in which he brings us into his own world where he provides an intimate, heartrending and hilariously astute account of one interminable year.
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The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World
by Claire Tomalin
The acclaimed literary biographer looks at the early life of influential writer and public figure H.G. Wells, from his school days and his emergence as writer of extraordinary depth to the publication of The Time Machine.
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
by Nikole Hannah-Jones
This ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began on the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery reimagines if our national narrative actually started in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of 20-30 enslaved people from Africa.
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An Afro-indigenous History of the United States
by Kyle Mays
This first history of the intersection of the Black and Native American struggles for freedom examines pre-Revolutionary America to today’s Black Lives Matter movement and indigenous activism against the use of Native American imagery in culture and sports.
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Collective Wisdom: Lessons, Inspiration, and Advice from Women over 50
by Grace Bonney
In the follow-up to the best-selling In the Company of Women, Grace Bonney turns her attention to older women in a celebration of intergenerational bonds between women, and the role those bonds play in sharing vital knowledge, stories, power, and history through generations.
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Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
by Brian P. Klaas
A provocative and revelatory look at what power is, who gets it, and what happens when they do, based on over 500 interviews with those who (for a while, at least) have had the upper hand.
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Flying Blind: The 737 Max Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
by Peter Robison
A behind-the-scenes look at how cost-cutting, toxic workplaces and cutthroat management at Boeing contributed to one of the worst disasters in modern aviation history as the company raced to beat their competition.
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Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944
by John C. McManus
In this second and final volume, a military historian and award-winning author continues the U.S. Army’s epic crusade in the Pacific War, from the battle of Saipan to the occupation of Japan, climaxing with the American return to the Philippines.
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Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA
by Tim Mak
The result of a four-year investigation, NPR journalist, drawing on never-before publicized documents and cultivated dozens of confidential sources with the NRA itself, exposes the gun group’s rampant corruption and slow decline, marking a change in the battle of gun rights and control in America.
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My Body
by Emily Ratajkowski
In this personal exploration of feminism, sexuality and power, of men’s treatment of women and women’s rationalizations for accepting that treatment, the acclaimed model and actress presents essays that chronicle moments of her life while investigation culture’s fetishization of girls and female beauty.
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The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women
by Anushay Hossain
A feminist policy analyst focusing on women’s health legislation, in this meticulously researched and deeply reported book, explores real women’s traumatic experiences with America’s healthcare system, including her own, and empowers everyone to use their experiences to bring about the healthcare revolution women need.
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The Power of Women: A Doctor's Journey of Hope and Healing
by Denis Mukwege
From a Nobel laureate, world-renowned doctor, and noted human rights activist comes an inspiring clarion call-to-action to confront the scourge of sexual violence and better learn from women's resilience, strength and power.
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Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism—and How to Do It
by Celeste Anne Headlee
Drawing on her experience as an award-winning journalist, and the latest research on bias, communication and neuroscience, the PBS host provides practical advice and insight for talking about race that will foster productive conversations that could bring us closer together.
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Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City
by Andrew Lawler
Bringing to life the unforgettable characters who have investigated this subterranean landscape, an acclaimed journalist takes readers into the tombs, tunnels and trenches of the Holy City, in this saga of biblical treasures, intrepid explorers and political upheaval.
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Against Silence: Poems
by Frank Bidart
An urgent new collection from Frank Bidart, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Bidart writes of the cycles we cannot escape and the feelings we cannot forget.
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Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground
by Uli Beutter Cohen
From the creator of the popular instagram account "Subway Book Review" comes a collection of over 150 of the most fascinating and inspiring stories from strangers on the subway--a glorious document of who we are, where we're going, and the stories that unite us.
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Feel Your Way Through: A Book of Poetry
by Kelsea Ballerini
The personal and poignant debut poetry collection from the award- winning singer, songwriter, and producer revolves around the emotions, struggles, and experiences of finding your voice and confidence as a woman.
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Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology
by Alice Oswald
In 300 varied entries, Gigantic Cinema narrates the weather of a single capricious day, from dawn, through rain, volcanic ash, nuclear dust, snow, light, fog, noon, eclipse, hurricane, flood, dusk, night and back to dawn again.
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Indigo: Arm Wrestling, Snake Saving, and Some Things in Between
by Padgett Powell
Gathering more than twenty pieces written during the past three decades, Indigo ranges widely in subject matter and tone, opening with "Cleve Dean," which takes Padgett Powell to Sweden for the World Armwrestling Federation Championships, through to its closing title piece, which charts Powell's lifelong fascination with the endangered indigo snake, "a thinking snake," and his obsession with seeing one in the wild.
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New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims
by Kazim Ali
An anthology representing the full range of contemporary expressions of Islam, as well as a full range of genres: poetry, fiction, essay, memoir, political writing, cultural writing, and plenty of texts which mix and match and blur all of these modes.
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O.B.B
by Paolo Javier
Crafted through years-long collaborations, O.B.B. aka The Original Brown Boy is a postcolonial techno dream-pop comics poem that records two decades of the author’s experiences as an immigrant and artist.
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Selected Poems
by Qing Ai
A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China's most acclaimed poets available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son, contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei.
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Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
by Rax King
A James Beard Award-nominated writer and host of the podcast "Low Culture Boil" offers this debut essay collection about the power of pop culture to imprint itself on our lives and shape our experiences, no matter one’s commitment to “good” taste.
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These Precious Days: Essays
by Ann Patchett
Turning her writer’s eye on her own experiences, the brilliant author transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be.
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Winter Roses After Fall
by R. H. Sin
From the authors of The New York Times bestsellers Empty Bottles Full of Stories and Falling Toward the Moon a new collection of compelling poetry and prose.
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