New Nonfiction Books
November 2025
 
Our Librarians have selected these 10 new nonfiction books.
Mission Driven : The Path to a Life of Purpose by Mike Hayes
Mission Driven: The Path to a Life of Purpose
by Mike Hayes

Filled with smart, empathetic guidance, this volume is a road map for discovering what drives you and a playbook for translating those drives into opportunities - a book to help us satisfy our ambitions and our souls.
The new age of sexism : how AI and emerging technologies are reinventing misogyny by Laura Bates
The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny
by Laura Bates

With the advent of ever more high-tech equipment at our fingertips, there is a new wave of technologies that threaten gender equality anew as misogyny is baked into their design, dragging women back to the dark ages - right now.
Time to get real : how I built a billion-dollar business that rocked the fashion industry by Julie Wainwright
Time To Get Real: How I Built a Billion-Dollar Business That Rocked the Fashion Industry
by Julie Wainwright

Wainwright "spills the tea" on the entrepreneurial journey from a woman's perspective, including all the lessons learned and mistakes made along the way to a billion-dollar business and public company - in a book she wished she had when she was in the trenches - one that shares the whole exhilarating, stressful, glorious, messy truth about success.
The Blue Zones Kitchen one pot meals : 100 recipes to live to 100 by Dan Buettner
The Blue Zones Kitchen One Pot Meals: 100 Recipes To Live to 100
by Dan Buettner

Rooted in the dietary habits of the world's longest-lived communities, this collection of 100 plant-based recipes emphasizes one-pot, one-pan and sheet pan meals made with accessible ingredients, offering fast, longevity-focused options for breakfasts, mains, snacks and sides suited to busy home cooks.
Breakneck : China's quest to engineer the future by Dan Wang
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
by Dan Wang

Blending analysis with storytelling, the technology analyst examines how rapid change and political repression have sent ripples of pain throughout Chinese society, while the United States has stalled, transforming into a lawyerly society, reflexively blocking everything - good and bad - and posits the shocking similarities between the two nations In an era of animosity and mistrust.
Orient : two walks at the edge of the human by David Hinton
Orient: Two Walks at the Edge of the Human
by David Hinton

Poet and translator Hinton combines personal experience with Tao/Ch'an philosophical thinking as he combines natural history with classical Chinese poetry in this journal of his meditative walks in the desert of the American Southwest, where he finds parallels for this thinking in descriptions of the natural landscape handed down by the Hopi, for whom the "transformation of reality" is a "perpetual process" that develops "from a seed of emptiness" in the breath of all living things.
The unexpected journey : finding strength, hope, and yourself on the caregiving path by Emma Heming Willis
The Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope, and Yourself on the Caregiving Path
by Emma Heming Willis

Willis draws upon personal experience and expert insights to support dementia caregivers with practical advice, emotional validation and strategies for maintaining self-care and resilience while navigating the unpredictable, often isolating and life-altering reality of supporting a loved one with frontotemporal dementia.
Rocket dreams : Musk, Bezos, and the inside story of the new, trillion-dollar space race by Christian Davenport
Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos, and the Inside Story of the New, Trillion-Dollar Space Race
by Christian Davenport

Davenport offers a riveting, fly-on-the-wall account of the grit-fueled global battle to push humankind further into the cosmos, revealing that the science fiction dreams of the last century may soon become our reality.
Make me commissioner : I know what's wrong with baseball and how to fix it by Jane Leavy
Make Me Commissioner: I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How To Fix It
by Jane Leavy

The bestselling biographer and baseball devotee tours the country, talking with luminaries like Joe Torre, Dave Roberts, Jim Palmer, Dusty Baker, and more, to uncover not only what's wrong with baseball - and how to fix it - but also what's still right about baseball.
Native America : the story of the first peoples by Kenneth L. Feder
Native America: The Story of the First Peoples
by Kenneth L. Feder

A leading expert on Native American history and archaeology draws on archaeological, historical and cultural evidence to tell the ongoing story, more than 20,000 years in the making, of an incredibly resilient and diverse mixture of peoples, revealing how they have ingeniously adapted to the many changing environments of the continent, from the Arctic to the desert Southwest.
 
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