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New Nonfiction Releases February, 2021
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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
by Suleika Jaouad
An Emmy Award-winning writer and activist describes the harrowing years she spent in early adulthood fighting leukemia and how she learned to live again while forging connections with other survivors of profound illness and suffering.
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Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
by Chad Sanders
An evocative tribute to Black achievement in a discriminating world draws on interviews with Black leaders, scientists, artists, activists and champions while exploring the author’s own experiences of being forced to emulate white culture.
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Blindfold: A Memoir of Capture, Torture, and Enlightenment
by Theo Padnos
The award-winning journalist and author of Undercover Muslim presents a searing account of his experiences with being captured and tortured in Syria by al Qaeda for two years, detailing his related witness to Syrian village life.
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The Bona Fide Legend of Cool Papa Bell
by Lonnie Wheeler
The late co-author of I Had a Hammer documents the life of the Negro League star and Hall of Famer, tracing Bell's sharecropping heritage, his extraordinary switch-hitting talents and the ways Major League Baseball's race barriers impacted his career.
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Consent
by Vanessa Springora
A powerful indictment of gender inequality and child sexual exploitation describes the author’s perspectives as a 13-year-old girl who was seduced, manipulated and publicly heralded as the muse of a celebrated, 50-year-old writer.
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George Washington: The Political Rise of America's Founding Father
by David O. Stewart
The award-winning author of The Summer of 1787 traces the political evolution of George Washington, examining how he matured from a headstrong youth to the commander in chief of the Continental Army and unanimously elected first American President.
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Mike Nichols: A Life
by Mark Harris
The author of Pictures at a Revolution draws on interviews with such notables as Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks to document the remarkable creative achievements and private struggles of entertainment wunderkind, Mike Nichols.
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Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir
by Rebecca Carroll
A woman describes growing up as the only black person in a rural New Hampshire town, the tense relationship she had with her birth mother, her loyalty towards her adoptive parents and her search for racial identity.
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Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
by Rosa Brooks
A former Washington DC reserve officer and Georgetown University law professor presents an insider’s critique of policing in America that explains the complex relationship between law enforcement and vulnerable communities while calling for urgently needed change.
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Unfinished: A Memoir
by Priyanka Chopra
In a revealing memoir, readers will accompany one of the world’s most recognizable women on her journey of self-discovery.
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Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story
by Talib Kweli
One of the most lyrically gifted, socially conscious rappers of the past 20 years offers a firsthand account of hip-hop as a political force.
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The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
by Steven Kotler
The peak performance expert and author of The Rise of Superman draws on cutting-edge neuroscience to outline a blueprint for extreme performance improvement based on the examples of history's elite athletes, artists, scientists and CEOs.
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The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
by Henry Louis Gates
The Harvard University professor, NAACP Image Award recipient and Emmy Award-winning creator of "The African Americans" presents a history of the Black church in America that illuminates its essential role in culture, politics and resistance to white supremacy.
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Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels
by Ioan Grillo
From the acclaimed author of El Narco comes a searing investigation into the role of the drug trade in the black market for firearms, both within the U.S. and across the U.S.-Mexican border.
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The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups
by William J. Bernstein
Inspired by Charles Mackay’s 19th-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, an award winning financial theorist and historian examines the history of financial and religious mass manias over the past five centuries.
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The New Normal: A Roadmap to Resilience in the Pandemic Era
by Jennifer Ashton
The Chief Medical Correspondent at ABC News presents a guide to resilience in the era of COVID, sharing insights into how to understand evolving medical updates, adapt to evolving norms and make responsible choices throughout the pandemic.
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Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob
by Russell Shorto
The best-selling author of The Island at the Center of the World examines the history of the mob in small-town America and his grandfather’s clandestine activities as the head of a Pennsylvania gambling empire.
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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
by Adam M. Grant
The Wharton organizational psychologist and best-selling author of Originals examines the critical art of rethinking, explaining how questioning one's opinions and opening the minds of others can promote personal and professional excellence.
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We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption
by Justin Fenton
Documents the corrupt activities of Sergeant Wayne Jenkins and the Gun Trace Task Force of 2015-2017 Baltimore, revealing how they skimmed confiscated drugs and money while planting evidence to hide their crimes, triggering wrongful convictions and at least two deaths.
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The Aeneid
by Virgil
A fresh and faithful translation of Virgil's Aeneid restores the epic's spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of Western culture.
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American Melancholy: Poems
by Joyce Carol Oates
A latest poetry collection by the National Book Award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys observes the human heart and mind while exploring subjects ranging from politics and racism to poverty and loss.
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Love and Other Poems
by Alex Dimitrov
Dimitrov explores the tension of living between the world of imagination and our growing sense of political disenchantment.
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Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings
by Alan P. Lightman
The author of Einstein's Dreams presents a collection of scientific, meditative essays on the possibilities and impossibilities of nothingness and infinity, exploring such questions as the link between neurons and consciousness and whether life can really be lab-created.
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What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology
by Paul Nurse
A Nobel Prize-winning scientist heralds the achievements of forefront innovators while drawing on personal lab expertise to illuminate five major ideas underpinning biology, including the cell, the gene, evolution by natural selection, life as chemistry and life as information.
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