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New Nonfiction Books October 2025
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The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction--and a Search for Relief by Tom ZellerThe author combines personal experience and scientific investigation to explore the misunderstood world of chronic headaches through clinical trials, interviews with specialists and historical context, revealing how these conditions impact lives and why they have remained under-researched despite their prevalence and severity.
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How To Be a Goth: Notes on Undead Style by Tish WeinstockThe author celebrates the most hallowed of all subcultures permeating pop culture at every level - fashion, music, film, beauty - what was once the preserve of the hooded misfit, but now seeping into the mainstream - in this manual for the modern goth, divided into advice on style and beauty for three sartorial stages of life - the creepy teenage years, the trick or treat of adulthood and, finally, the witchy winter - carrying readers from cradle to crypt and including an inventory of important undead icons through the ages.
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Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland by Martha BarnetteAfter two decades as the co-host of A Way with Words, a Car Talk for lexiphiles, Barnette weaves together etymology, slang, regional vocabulary, idioms and linguistic diversity in a clear, informative, highly entertaining exploration of language - chock-full of anecdotes, humorous asides, new words, trivia and other lexicological delights.
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In for Dinner: 101 Delicious, Affordable Recipes To Share by Rosie KellettThe supper club host and former Violet Bakery employee shares affordable and approachable recipes, such as Conchigliette with Porcini Mushroom Ragu and Dark Chocolate Raspberry Cake, that are designed for sharing with friends, family or yourself (leftovers!).
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