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New Nonfiction Releases October, 2021
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The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family
by Ron Howard
By turns confessional, nostalgic, heartwarming and harrowing, the award-winning filmmaker and his brother, an audience-favorite actor, share their unusual family story of navigating and surviving life as sibling child actors.
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The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery
by Ross Gregory Douthat
An Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times shares his five-year struggle with a disease that doesn’t officially exist—the chronic form of Lyme disease, exploring the limits of modern medicine, the conversations you unexpectedly partake in and the secrets only suffering reveals.
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Eruption: Conversations With Eddie Van Halen
by Brad Tolinski
The life of the late groundbreaking musician is recalled through over 50 hours of interviews and delves both into his musical legacy as well as his lifelong issues with social anxiety and substance abuse.
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Going There
by Katie Couric
A tell-all memoir about breaking boundaries, persevering, and witnessing the reckoning in media.
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My First Thirty Years: A Memoir
by Gertrude Beasley
Originally published in Paris in 1925, the themes in this book are still relevant to readers today, telling the story of a woman who grew up in brutal circumstances, but who ultimately found a way out. Beasley's memoir is one of the most raw coming-of-age historical biographies of women ever written that was suppressed and essentially lost to history-until now.
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Orwell's Roses
by Rebecca Solnit
This reflection on George Orwell’s passion for gardening, particularly flowers, and his involvement with the natural world reveals his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and the intertwined politics of power and nature.
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Oscar Wilde: A Life
by Matthew Sturgis
Drawing on newly discovered letters, documents, first draft notebooks and the full transcript of the libel trial, this meticulously researched account of Oscar Wilde’s life returns the man “to his times, and to the facts,” giving us Wilde’s own experience as he experienced it.
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The Redemption of Bobby Love: A Story of Faith, Family, and Justice
by Bobby Love
Capturing the imaginations of millions on Humans of New York, this inspiring, dramatic and heartwarming true story follows Bobby Love, an escaped convict whose secret was finally revealed to his wife and family when the FBI and NYPD arrived on his doorstop 38 years later.
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Running Is a Kind of Dreaming: A Memoir
by J. M. Thompson
Using his expert knowledge of the inner workings of the brain, illness and madness, a clinical psychologist and counselor shares his own descent into darkness and how physical movement saved him and helped him run toward his present.
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Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle
by Danté Stewart
Using his personal experiences to reclaim and reimagine spiritual virtues like rage, resilience and remembrance, the author presents this moving meditation that discusses being Black and learning to love in a loveless, anti-Black world.
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Smile: The Story of a Face
by Sarah Ruhl
A MacArthur genius and two-time Pulitzer finalist shares, through a series of piercing, witty and lucid meditations, her journey as a patient, wife, mother and artist as she searches for a cure for Bell’s palsy while simultaneously grappling with the reality of her new face.
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Taste: My Life Through Food
by Stanley Tucci
The food-obsessed, award-winning actor, reflecting on the intersection of food and life, presents a heartfelt and delicious memoir of life in and out of the kitchen that takes readers on a gastronomic journey through the good times and bad.
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Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee's Search for Home
by Mondiant Dogon
A Congolese author, human rights activist and refugee ambassador who has lived in refugee camps since 1996 and has faced the very worst of humanity speaks up for forever refugees everywhere, in this heartbreaking lens on the global refugee crisis.
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Unrequited Infatuations
by Stevie Van Zandt
A member of the E Street Band, a political songwriter and performer, a hardcore activist and actor on the Sopranos chronicles the twists and turns of his surprising life in this one-of-a-kind memoir that doubles as an epic tale of self-discovery.
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You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories
by Gabrielle Union
The best-selling author of We’re Going to Need More Wine is back with You Got Anything Stronger?, a deeper, yet still humorous, conversation.
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Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy
by Martin Indyk
Based on newly available documents from American and Israeli archives, extensive interviews and the author’s own interactions with some of the main players, this book returns to the origins of American-led peace efforts and to the man who created the Middle East peace process—Henry Kissinger.
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Music Is History
by Questlove
Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, a Sundance award-winning director and bestselling author chooses one essential track from each year, revealing the pivotal role that American music plays around issues of race, gender, politics and identity.
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On Animals
by Susan Orlean
Examining animal-human relationships through captivating stories she has written over the course of her career, the author, in this book that is equal parts wonderful and profound, celebrates the cross-species connections that grace our collective existence.
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Only the Rich Can Play
by David Wessel
Provides portraits of those seeking to take advantage of a massive tax break, which was an unnoticed part of the 2017 Trump tax bill, following the money to see who profited from this plan that was supposed to spur development of blighted areas and help people out of poverty.
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Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison
by Chris Hedges
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist recounts his experiences teaching his first class at East Jersey State Prison, giving a human face and a voice to those our society too often demonizes and abandons, and exposing the injustice of America’s penal system.
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Peril
by Bob Woodward
The transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stands as one of the most dangerous periods in American history. But as bestselling author Bob Woodward and acclaimed reporter Robert Costa reveal for the first time, it was far more than just a domestic political crisis.
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Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
by Dan Jones
This epic history of the medieval world, which was forged by the big forces that still occupy us today—climate change, pandemic disease, mass migration and technological revolutions, shows us how every sphere of human life and activity was transformed in the thousand years covered by this book.
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Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
by Mary Beard
Against a background of today’s “sculpture wars,” one of the world’s leading classicists and cultural commentators tells the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture and the representation of power for more than two millennia.
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World War C: Lessons from the Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One
by Sanjay Gupta
Drawing on his insider access to the drama’s unfolding, including conversations with the world’s top public health experts, the CNN chief medical correspondent and America’s frontline COVID-19 health journalist shares what he’s learned and how we can prepare for—or prevent—the next one.
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100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
by Pamela Paul
The editor of The New York Times Book Review takes a look at life before the internet and how many of the fundamental human experiences we need have disappeared and how nearly every aspect of modern life has been changed.
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Black Nerd Problems: Essays
by William Henry Evans
The creators of the popular website Black Nerd Problems present a witty collection of essays on subjects such as Mario Kart, Game of Thrones and dealing with grief through stand-up comedy.
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The Breaks: An Essay
by Julietta Singh
An epistolary essay about race, inheritance, and mothering at the end of the world.
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A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
by David Sedaris
In this follow-up to his previous volume of diaries, Theft by Finding, the award-winning humorist chronicles the years 2003-2020, charting the years of his rise to fame with his trademark misanthropic charm and wry wit.
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Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much
by Jen Winston
In this collection of provocative and humorous essays, the social media writer and creator reflects on her personal experiences with sexism and biphobia while trying to find stability and a sense of her own self.
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Such Color: New and Selected Poems
by Tracy K. Smith
Collects the best poems the author’s award-winning books, which culminates in brilliant new poems that confront America’s historical and contemporary racism and injustices while urging us toward love as a resistance to everything that impedes it.
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