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July 2024 - Nonfiction New Releases |
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JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography
by RoseMarie Terenzio
Sharing never-before-told stories and insights, JFK Jr.'s closest friends, confidantes, lovers, classmates, teachers and colleagues paint a vivid portrait of one of the most notable figures of the 20th century, revealing how the boy who saluted became the man America came to know and love who still captures public imagination 25 years after his tragic death.
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Madoff: The Final Word
by Richard Behar
Shocking, infuriating, riveting (and at times absurdly funny), Madoff shows us how Bernie ensnared thousands of investors. As Behar’s dogged reporting over the last fifteen years makes clear, however, there aren’t many innocents left standing by the end of this tale. Just about everyone involved is guilty, at a minimum, of humanity’s most consistent weakness: greed.
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More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for Enough
by Emma Specter
Blending memoir, reportage and in-depth interviews with some of the most knowledgeable commentators currently writing about body shape and fatness, “emotional eating” and food disorders, a rising culture commentator for Vogue examines the ways in which compulsory thinness, diet culture and the seductive promise of “wellness” have resulted in warping countless Americans' relationship with healthy eating.
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My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous
by Barrett Brown
In this entertaining and enlightening book, an award-winning journalist, who served four years in prison for leaking intelligence documents, recounts exploits from a life shaped by an often self-destructive drive to speak truth to power, exposing the incompetence and injustices that plague media and politics.
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Tiger, Tiger: His Life, As It's Never Been Told Before
by James Patterson
This first full-scale biography chronicles the impossible life of Tiger Woods whose phenomenal success, despite potentially career-ending injuries and multiple public scandals, led to his induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame, becoming a lasting influence who continues to inspire every rising generation.
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All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way
by Fred C. Trump
With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, breaks his decades-long silence in this honest memoir and sheds a whole new light on the family name.
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Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
by Maureen Callahan
A best-selling author and journalist reveals the dark history of the generations of Kennedy men who have physically and psychologically abused the women in their lives despite their carefully curated depiction of honor and integrity.
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This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South
by Alan Pell Crawford
Weaving throughout the stories of heroic men and women, unsung patriots, during America's Revolutionary War, this groundbreaking, important recovery of history excavates the three missing years between Monmouth and Yorktown, long ignored by historians, which recounts the fierce battles fought in the South.
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Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida
by Mikita Brottman
From the critically-acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman comes the murky retelling of the murder of Mike Williams committed under the haze of faith and devotion. Perfect for true-crime and literary fiction fans alike.
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The Horse: a Galloping History of Humanity
by Timothy C. Winegard
This riveting narrative of the horse's enduring reign across human history—and our everyday lives—shows how this noble animal revolutionized the way we hunted, traded, traveled, farmed, fought, worshipped and interacted, from the thundering cavalry charges of Alexander the Great to the Great Manure Crisis of 1894 and beyond.
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The Missing Thread: a Women's History of the Ancient World
by Daisy Dunn
Reconceiving our understanding of the ancient world by emphasizing women's roles within it, from Cleopatra to Boudica, Sappho to Fulvia, and countless others, an award-winning classicist documents how women of antiquity are undeniably woven through the fabric of history, and in this monumental work, finally take center stage.
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The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973
by Clara Bingham
This first oral history of the decade (1963-1973) that built the modern feminist movement through the individual voices of the people who lived it captures emotions of this personal, cultural and political revolution where women insisted on being treated as first-class citizens, forever changing the fabric of American life.
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Reap the Whirlwind: Violence, Race, Justice, and the True Story of Sagon Penn
by Peter Houlahan
In 1983 San Diego, when two white patrol officers in search of a gang member follow a pickup carrying seven young Black men, resulting in a violent confront, the truck's driver, Sagon Penn, fled the scene, which led to a whirlwind of crime and punishment that profoundly altered Southern California.
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The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers
by Kate Kitagawa
Spanning six continents and thousands of years of untold stories, as well as just about every mathematical discipline, a renowned math historian and a science journalist/mathematician make the case that the history of math is infinitely deeper, broader and richer than the narrative we think we know.
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Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist
by Jasmin Graham
A marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences shares how she flourished outside of academia by remembering the important lesson she learned from sharks: keep moving forward, in this guidebook to respecting and protecting some of nature's most misunderstood and vulnerable creatures—and grant the same grace to ourselves.
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What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean
by Helen Scales
In this bracing yet hopeful exploration of the ocean's future, an acclaimed marine biologist takes us into the realms of animals that epitomize today's increasingly challenging conditions, offering innovative ideas for protecting coastlines and cleaning the toxic seas to maintain a sense of awe and wonder at the majesty beneath the waves.
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Autocracy, Inc.: the Dictators Who Want to Run the World
by Anne Applebaum
The Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times best-selling author looks at how autocratic countries such as China, Russia and Iran undermine Western democracies through a complex network of kleptocratic financial structures.
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The Education Wars: a Citizen's Guide and Defense Manual
by Jennifer Berkshire
Explaining the sudden obsession with race and gender in schools, as well as the ascendancy of book-banning efforts, this timely book outlines the core issues driving the education wars, laying out what's at stake for parents, teachers and students and providing a roadmap for ensuring public education survives this present assault.
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The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982
by Chris Nashawaty
Examining the eight science fiction films released in 1982, including E.T., Blade Runner, The Thing and Mad Max, a legendary entertainment journalist shows how these cult classics changed the careers of some of Hollywood's now-biggest names as well as the art of moviemaking to this day.
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Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
by Michael Taylor
Chronicling the development of paleontology and evolutionary biology that challenged the Scriptures, this page-turning narrative reveals the central role of dinosaurs and their discovery in toppling traditional religious authority and changing perceptions about the Bible, history and humankind's place in the world.
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The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
by Joe Conason
An American journalist and commentator, in this unsparing and often comic narrative, chronicles the transformation of conservatism into a racketeering enterprise, detailing the right's descent into a movement whose principal aim is not to protect freedom or defend the Constitution, but merely to line the pockets of those who endanger the nation.
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Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve
by Drew Afualo
In this part manual, part manifesto, part memoir that smashes the patriarchy, the content creator and women's rights advocate shows that behind her fearsome laugh is a mission and a life philosophy, a strategy for self-confidence from the inside out and a call to rid the internet—and our hearts, minds and lives—of “terrible men.”
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Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future
by Jeremy Kahn
A Fortune magazine journalist draws on his expertise and extensive contacts among the companies and scientists at the forefront of artificial intelligence to offer dramatic predictions of AI’s impact over the next decade, from reshaping our economy and the way we work, learn, and create to unknitting our social fabric, jeopardizing our democracy, and fundamentally altering the way we think.
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Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-Than-Human World
by Brandon Keim
Inviting readers to discover an expanded sense of community and kindship beyond our own species, an acclaimed scientist, in this wide-ranging, wonder-filled exploration of animals' inner lives, shows the people—philosophers, ecologists, wildlife doctors—who are reimagining our relationships to the wild creatures populating our communities.
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Other Rivers: a Chinese Education
by Peter Hessler
In this deeply personal and illuminating account of two generations of students in China's heartland, a staff writer at the New Yorker, who observed the country's tumultuous changes over the past quarter century, examines China's past, present and future and what we can learn from it, for good and ill.
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Reinventing Love: How the Patriarchy Sabotages Heterosexual Relations
by Mona Chollet
Drawing from pop culture, politics and literature, an acclaimed French feminist and author of In Defense of Witches provides a thought-provoking, accessible look at how heterosexual relationships can improve and evolve under a feminist lens, giving women back their voice.
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Sharing Space: an Astronaut's Guide to Mission, Wonder, and Making Change
by Cady Coleman
Illustrated with stories from her life and training, one of America's few female astronauts shares counterintuitive insights integral to her success, including leveraging insecurities to beat expectations, knowing when to adapt and when to press for changes and how to be the glue that holds a disparate team together.
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The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession
by Amy Stewart
Profiling 50 extraordinary people whose lives have been transformed by their obsessive passion for trees, this lively compendium, along with side trips to investigate more about trees, reveals what drives one to collect something as enormous, majestic and deeply rooted as a tree.
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We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: Tips, Tales, Travels
by Gary Janetti
Sharing stories of his varied trips around the world, which double as personal meditations, the New York Times best-selling author, television writer and producer tackles the absurdity and glory of travel, delivering practical advice on all aspects of a traveler's life, making this the perfect getaway companion.
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