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New Nonfiction Releases June, 2021
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Cack-Handed: A Memoir
by Gina Yashere
The producer and writer of the CBS hit series "I Heart Abishola" tells the story of growing up as child of Nigerian immigrants in London and her career as a stand-up comic and eventual Hollywood success.
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Diary of a Young Naturalist
by Dara McAnulty
A world-renowned youth climate activist chronicles a year in the life of his Northern Ireland home, describing the beauty of his biosphere while juggling exams, friendships, campaigning and living with the complexities of autism.
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Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
by Anne Sebba
This biography of the wife and mother executed for espionage-related crimes tells how despite the flimsy evidence against her, refused to incriminate her husband and faced the death penalty for a crime she didn’t commit.
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A Ghost in the Throat
by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Moving fluidly between past and present, quest and elegy, poetry and those who make it, A Ghost in the Throat is a shapeshifting book: a record of literary obsession; a narrative about the erasure of a people, of a language, of women; a meditation on motherhood and on translation; and a story about finding your voice by freeing another’s.
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Here, Right Matters: An American Story
by Alexander Vindman
The former U.S. Army lieutenant, whose decision to report a phone call from former President Donald Trump to the President of Ukraine led to an impeachment, recounts his Ukrainian childhood and career as an intelligence official.
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House of Sticks: A Memoir
by Ly Tran
An intimate, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir recounting a young girl’s journey from war-torn Vietnam to Ridgewood, Queens, and her struggle to find her voice amid clashing cultural expectations.
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Kin: A Memoir
by Shawna Kay Rodenberg
A Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award Winner, in this mesmerizing memoir of survival, shares her experiences growing up Appalachia – a community ravaged by the coal industry, but for all that, rich in humanity, beauty and the complex knots of family love.
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Leaving Breezy Street: A Memoir
by Brenda Myers-Powell
The co-founder of Chicago’s Dreamcatcher Foundation takes readers into her brutal, beautiful life as she, at fourteen with two babies to feed and clothe, worked the streets around the country until she found her way home to a place of dignity, self-respect, truth and loving kindness.
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Letters to a Young Athlete
by Chris Bosh
A legendary NBA player shares his remarkable story, infused with hard-earned wisdom about the journey to self-mastery from a life at the highest level of professional sports.
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Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic
by Emma Goldberg
A New York Times reporter, weaving together in-depth interviews with doctors, their diaries and notes, this page-turning account follows the medical students who received their degrees early to help treat thousands of critically ill COVID-19 patients in New York City during the height of the pandemic.
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Little Matches: A Memoir of Grief and Light
by Maryanne O'Hara
A grieving mother describes the raw emotions of the loss of her daughter to cystic fibrosis, how she was left in an existential crisis and the signs she began to see of her daughter’s enduring presence.
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Notes on Grief
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist comes a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father.
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Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
by Cheryl Diamond
In this impossible-to-believe true story of self-discovery and triumph, the author, born into a family of outlaws with no proof that she even existed, shares her escape from the only people she had in the world in order to survive.
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Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story
by Stephen Davis
Featuring exclusive interviews with the band and never-before-published photos from personal archives, this definitive account, written by a best-selling rock biographer, tells the story of the quintessential band of the 1980s, which has cemented its legacy in the pop pantheon.
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Rememberings: Scenes from My Complicated Life
by Sinéad O'Connor
Complete with anecdotes told in singular form, the acclaimed, controversial singer-songwriter recounts her troubled childhood and musical triumphs, revealing the enduring power of song.
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The Secret to Superhuman Strength
by Alison Bechdel
A comics and cultural superstar delivers a deeply layered story of her fascination, from childhood to adulthood, with every fitness craze throughout the years, from Jack LaLanne in the 60s to the existential oddness of present-day spin classes.
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Somebody's Daughter
by Ashley C. Ford
One of the prominent voices of her generation, the author presents this coming-of-age recollection of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and a traumatic event, revealing the threads between who you are and what you are born into.
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The Ugly Cry
by Danielle Henderson
An humorous, moving memoir about a grandmother’s ferocious love and redefining what it means to be family.
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After the Apocalypse: America's Role in a World Transformed
by Andrew J. Bacevich
An expert in history and international relationships discusses how American foreign policy must change to meet the challenges of a new world order based on climate change, the ascendancy of information technology and shifts in global power.
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The Appalachian Trail: A Biography
by Philip D'Anieri
Presents the fascinating backstory of the dreamers and builders who created the Appalachian Trail, America’s most beloved trek, and the unforgettable characters who explored it, defined it and captured national attention by hiking it.
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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
by Bryan Burrough
Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths, exploring why they had their day for so long, and explaining why the ugly fight about its meaning is now coming to a head.
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Letters to My White Male Friends
by Dax-Devlon Ross
A book aimed at the millions of middle-aged white men who are suddenly awakening to race and racism helps readers understand what it meant to be America’s first generation raised after the civil rights era.
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Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942
by Max Hastings
In this action-packed story of courage, fortitude, loss and triumph, a renowned historian recreates one of the most thrilling events of World War II — the British action to save its troops from starvation on Malta.
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The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
by Kai Bird
A biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus, drawing on interviews with members of Carter’s administration as well as recently unclassified documents from his presidential library, reevaluated the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter’s presidential legacy.
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The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid
by Lawrence Wright
Honoring the medical professionals around the country who’ve risked their lives to fight the virus, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Projections: A Story of Human Emotions
by Karl Deisseroth
In a portrait of the human mind, a renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist explores the biological and physical nature of our inner worlds through poignant, and at times shocking, clinical stories.
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The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
by Carlo M. Cipolla
Published for the first time in the U.S., a tongue-in-cheek guide by a leading economist identifies human ignorance as the source of most of the world’s problems, offering advice for defending oneself against political snags, unreasonable colleagues and boundary-encroaching relatives.
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The Complete Stories
by Noah Warren
Poems of grieving and tentative joy ask how we can go forward with our own mottled pasts, into the futures we can’t predict but for which we must bear responsibility.
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Dialogues With Rising Tides
by Kelli Russell Agodon
In Kelli Russell Agodon’s fourth collection, each poem facilitates a humane and honest conversation with the forces that threaten to take us under. The anxieties and heartbreaks of life—including environmental collapse, cruel politics, and the persistent specter of suicide—are met with emotional vulnerability and darkly sparkling humor.
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Embodied: An Intersectional Feminist Comics Poetry Anthology
by Kenzie Allen
Mystical, rooted, painful, joyous, and ecstatic; visions of the body, our genders, and our very identities from across the spectrum of contemporary poetry come together in this monumental intersectional feminist anthology where verse and comics unite in spectacular new ways.
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The Essential June Jordan
by June Jordan
The Essential June Jordan honors the enduring legacy of a poet fiercely dedicated to building a better world.
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How to Tell Stories to Children
by Silke Rose West
Two early childhood educators with thousands of storytelling hours between them—distill the key ingredients of storytelling into a surprisingly simple method that can make anyone an expert storyteller.
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I Had a Brother Once
by Adam Mansbach
A genre-defying work—both memoir and epic poem—about the struggle for wisdom, grace, and ritual in the face of unspeakable loss.
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King Kong Theory
by Virginie Despentes
An autobiography, a call for revolt, a manifesto for a new punk feminism, King Kong Theory is Despentes’s most beloved and reviled work, and is here in a new translation.
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Little Elegies for Sister Satan
by Michael Palmer
Shaped by the poet’s long view of history, these beautiful lamenting poems take sudden bracing plunges into close-up views of our apocalypse.
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Lost in Summerland: Essays
by Barrett Swanson
After joining his brother on a trip to a New York psychic community, the author embarks on a wild ride through the world of American spiritualism, introducing us to a new reality.
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Migratory Birds
by Mariana Oliver
A sensitive, stunning debut on movement, migration, and loss.
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The Renunciations: Poems
by Donika Kelly
The Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift one’s sense of self in the face of trauma.
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She Memes Well: Essays
by Quinta Brunson
A stand-up comedian, who plays the lead role in the HBO sketch series "A Black Lady Sketch Show," presents an earnest, laugh-out-loud collection of essays about her weird road to internet notoriety.
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White Magic: Essays
by Elissa Washuta
Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends. Following a decade of abuse, addiction, PTSD, and drug treatment for a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, she felt drawn to the real spirits and powers her dispossessed and discarded ancestors knew, while she undertook necessary work to find love and meaning.
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