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New Nonfiction Books September 2025 |
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Art above Everything: One Woman's Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life by Stephanie Elizondo GriestAfter a break-up and serious health crisis in her early 40s, the artist/author turned to other women artists for their perspectives on that perennial question: Is art enough? Here Griest introduces readers to legendary writers, visual artists, dancers and musicians across the globe, who talk intimately about their art, what it requires, what it gifts them and what it costs them.
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I Want To Burn This Place Down: Essays by Maris KreizmanThis sharp and witty collection of essays traces one woman's disillusionment with the American dream, as she unpacks personal and political awakenings that led her from hopeful liberalism to radical critique of a deeply unequal, broken system.
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The Expressway World by Richard J. WilliamsDividing neighborhoods, depressing land values and concentrating atmospheric pollutants, the mammoth infrastructure of the expressway is now crumbling. Williams explores how we built this world and questions what we will now do with it, counterintuitively proposing that we find ways to live with it and adapt it to a different future, inspired by the many examples where people have already reinvented this challenging legacy on their own terms. |
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Seeds of Victory: Defeat, Triumph, and the American Way of War by James EllmanEllman, who has a reputation for his reconsiderations of military history, takes a close look at eight pivot points on the ground, in the air and at sea, from the American Revolution through the Korean War, to explore how American defeats have fueled crucial victories through resilience and strategic adaptation, learning from its many losses, recovering and turning them into victories, and thereby shaping the nation's path from loss to triumph in warfare.
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Buzz Me In: Inside the Record Plant Studios by Martin PorterPorter offers the inside story of Record Plant Studios - the real "Hotel California" - that reveals how the greatest music of the seventies was recorded and why the artists checked out but rarely left this heart of the largest boom in music history's record production.
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Nature on the Edge: Lessons for the Biosphere from the California Coast by Bruce A. ByersEcologist Byers offers readers new perspectives on two iconic California coastal regions, San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate and the Santa Barbara Channel Islands, part of a network of international biosphere reserves organized by the UNESCO, tracing the history of nature conservation in these places and introducing the committed individuals who led those efforts and provided effective models for action.
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Existential Bread by Jim FranksJim Franks does not want you to make his bread (by providing glossy photos and detailed recipes); he wants you to make your bread (by sharing his practice and what he has learned). In a world of "shoulds" and "bottom lines", he creates space while providing structure for you to fall in love with the ancient act of making bread.
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The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation's Fight over Its Future by Carter ShermanAfter having traveled the country and reported on gender and equality, the award-winning journalist posits why young Americans are still having less and more complicated sex than past generations: (mis)education, the internet and politics are changing the ways in which young people experience sex, love and relationships as life outside the bedroom directly impacts everything within it.
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Post-Traumatic Parenting: Break the Cycle and Become the Parent You Always Wanted to Be by Robyn KoslowitzKoslowitz goes beyond the social-media fads like "gentle" and "responsive" parenting to provide a clear, easy-to-follow and substantive guide, offering what to do and why it works, so that traumatized parents can create the relationships they want with their children, breaking the cycle, enjoying the journey and creating healthy, joyful, dynamic and lasting relationships.
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