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New Nonfiction & Biography September 2023 |
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Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance
by Azam Ahmed
This unputdownable book weaves together two stories: the story of a courageous mother, and the story of the rise of drug cartels and of violence in Mexico. Moving back and forth in time, this deeply researched account reveals how the drug cartels built their power in Mexico, and how they kidnap and murder victims. It is also the story of vigilante justice and the persistent bravery of one woman.
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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
by Anderson Cooper
The number one New York Times best-selling authors of Vanderbilt turn his focus on another legendary American family that built a business empire and became the richest family in America.
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Someone Somewhere Maybe: Poems
by Sophie Diener
For fans of Rupi Kaur, Cleo Wade, and Amanda Lovelace, Someone Somewhere Maybe speaks to the joys and sorrows of finding your way as a young woman today. Poignant and beautifully written, TikTok fan favorite Sophie Diener's debut poetry collection takes readers on an introspective journey through first love, first heartbreak, first loss, identity, and self-worth. This collection offers readers hope, healing, understanding, and the certainty that they are not alone.
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The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth
by Adam Goodheart
A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated human community on earth. The Sentinelese people want to be left alone and will shoot deadly arrows at anyone who tries to come ashore. As the web of modernity draws ever closer, the island represents the last chapter in the Age of Discovery—the final holdout in a completely connected world. This book will fascinate any reader interested in the limits—and dangers—of our modern, global society and its emphasis on ceaseless, unbroken connection.
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Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty
by Nikhil Goyal
Kensington, Philadelphia, is distinguished only by its poverty. It is home to Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel, three Puerto Rican children who live among the most marginalized children and families in the United States. This is their coming-of-age story. It is also the story of families beset by violence-the violence of homelessness, hunger, incarceration, stray bullets, sexual and physical assault, the hypermasculine logic of the streets, and the drug trade. Live to See the Day confronts a new age of American poverty, after the end of "welfare as we know it," after "zero tolerance" in schools criminalized a generation of students, after the odds of making it out are ever slighter.
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Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
by Kashmir Hill
In this riveting feat of reporting, Kashmir Hill illuminates the improbable rise of Clearview AI and how Hoan Ton-That, a computer engineer and Richard Schwartz, a Giuliani associate, launched a terrifying facial recognition app with society-altering potential. The story of Clearview AI opens up a window into a larger, more urgent one about our tortured relationship to technology, the way it entertains and seduces us even as it steals our privacy and lays us bare to bad actors in politics, criminal justice, and tech.
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Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page
by Cathy Rentzenbrink
Why do we want to write and what stops us? How do we fight the worry that no-one will care what we have to say? What can we do to overcome the obstacles in our way? Sunday Times bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink shows you how to tackle all this and more. Intertwined with reflections and exercises, Write It All Down is at once an intimate conversation and an invitation to share your story.
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To Infinity & Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Drawing on mythology, history and literature, a legendary astrophysicist and host of the award-winning StarTalk podcast takes us on entertaining journey to the farthest reaches of the cosmos where, along the way, science greets pop culture as he explains the triumphs—and bloopers—in Hollywood's blockbusters.
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Talking to My Angels: A Memoir
by Melissa Etheridge
The Grammy and Oscar award-winning rock star and trailblazing LGBTQ+ icon shares how numerous, life-altering tragedies served as a catalyst for growth, and what the past two decades have taught her about the value of music, love, family and life in the face of death.
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Creep: Accusations and Confessions
by Myriam Gurba
Taking us into the dark recesses of the toxic traditions that plague the U.S. and create the abusers who haunt our books, schools and homes, the author studies the ways in which oppression is collectively enacted and, interweaving her history and identity throughout, argues for a new way of conceptualizing oppression.
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Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
by Myeongseok Kang
After taking their first step into the world on June 13, 2013, BTS will celebrate the 10th anniversary of their debut in June 2023. They have risen to the peak as an iconic global artist and during this meaningful time, they look back on their footsteps in the first official book. Presented chronologically in seven chapters from before the debut of BTS to the present, their vivid voices and opinions harmonize to tell a sincere, lively, and deep story.
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Mrs. Jack: A Biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner
by Louise Hall Tharp
Originally published in 1965, this classic biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner has been re-issued by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to celebrate their centennial year. An American charmer and art collector, Isabella Stewart Gardner and her husband Jack kept company with the leading men of the day including Henry James, Henry Adams, John Singer Sargent and Whistler.
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