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New Nonfiction December 2018
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Almost Everything
by Anne Lamott
The New York Times best-selling author of Hallelujah Anyway presents an inspirational guide to the role of hope in everyday life and explores essential truths about how to overcome burnout and suffering by deliberately choosing joy.
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Around the World in Eighty Wines
by Michael Veseth
Why these particular places? What are the eighty wines and what do they reveal? And what is the surprise plot twist that guarantees a happy ending for every wine lover? Come with us on a journey of discovery that will inspire, inform, and entertain anyone who loves travel, adventure, or wine.
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Basketball
by Jackie MacMullan
A revelatory history of basketball, published to coincide with a major ESPN and ABC series, draws on hundreds of interviews with leading athletes, coaches, executives and journalists from the NBA, WNBA, NCAA and international leagues.
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The Billionaire Raj
by James Crabtree
The Billionaire Raj takes readers on a personal journey to meet reclusive billionaires, fugitive tycoons, and shadowy political power brokers. From the sky terrace of the world’s most expensive home to impoverished villages and mass political rallies, Crabtree dramatizes the battle between crony capitalists and economic reformers, revealing a tense struggle between equality and privilege playing out against a combustible backdrop of aspiration, class, and caste.
The Billionaire Raj is a vivid account of a divided society on the cusp of transformation—and a struggle that will shape not just India’s future, but the world’s.
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions
by Stephen W. Hawking
The world-famous cosmologist and #1 best-selling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe’s biggest questions in a posthumous work.
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Bureau of Spies
by Steven T. Usdin
Covert intelligence gathering, propaganda, fake news stories, dirty tricks -- these tools of spy craft have been used for seven decades by agents hiding in plain sight in Washington's National Press Building. This revealing book tells the story of espionage conducted by both US and foreign intelligence operatives just blocks from the White House. Journalist Steven T. Usdin details how spies for Nazi Germany, imperial Japan, the Soviet Union, and the CIA have operated from the offices, corridors, and bars of this well-known press center to collect military, political, and commercial secrets.
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Catalan Food
by Daniel Olivella
Catalan cuisine authority Daniel Olivella serves historical narratives alongside 80 carefully curated Spanish food recipes, like tapas, paella, and seafood, that are simple and fresh.
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Chesapeake Requiem
by Earl Swift
The Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of The Big Roads presents a 200-year history of Chesapeake Bay's Tangier Island crabbing community while explaining how rapidly rising sea levels will render the island uninhabitable within 20 years.
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Chopin's Piano
by Paul Francis Kildea
The author of Benjamin Britten traces the history of musical Romanticism and Chopin's 24 Preludes through the instruments on which they were played, drawing on rare manuscripts to document the fate of his Mallorquin piano.
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The Cold War's Killing Fields
by Paul Thomas Chamberlin
Offers an international military history of the Cold War arguing that the decade-long superpower struggles were one of the three great conflicts of the 20th century alongside the two World Wars, and reveals how bloody the “Long Peace” actually was.
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The Death of Hitler
by Jean-christophe Brisard
Answers the lingering questions surrounding Hitler's death in his bunker using new and unprecedented access to secret Russian archives that also detail the layout of the bunker and offer eyewitness accounts of his final days.
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Einstein's Monsters
by Chris Impey
Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe, and yet they are ubiquitous. Every massive star leaves behind a black hole when it dies, and every galaxy harbors a supermassive black hole at its center. Frighteningly enigmatic, these dark giants continue to astound even the scientists who spend their careers studying them. Which came first, the galaxy or its central black hole? What happens if you travel into one ― instant death or something weirder? And, perhaps most important, how can we ever know anything for sure about black holes when they destroy information by their very nature?
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Gmorning, Gnight! : Little Pep Talks for Me & You
by Lin-Manuel Miranda
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An uplifting holiday gift from the creator and star of Hamilton, with beautiful illustrations by Jonny Sun, comes a book of affirmations to inspire readers at the beginning and end of each day.
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The Happy Cookbook
by Steve Doocy
A beautiful, full-color collection of recipes and stories that celebrate comfort and inspire happiness all year round from Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy and his wife, Kathy.
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How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England
by Ruth Goodman
Every age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed popular historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman shows in her madcap chronicle, Elizabethan England was particularly rank with troublemakers, from snooty needlers who took aim with a cutting “thee,” to lowbrow drunkards with revolting table manners. Goodman draws on advice manuals, court cases, and sermons to offer this colorfully crude portrait of offenses most foul.
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In the Footsteps of King David
by Yosef Garfinkel
The archaeological excavators of an Israeli city from the time of David draw on seven years of exhaustive investigations to share the significance of their findings and how they establish new links between the Bible and history.
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Liberated Spirits
by Hugh Ambrose
Examines the links between the 18th and 19th Amendments that led to their passages in the same year, sharing insights into the roles of women contributors, including Mabel Willebrandt and Pauline Sabin, in the campaigns to pass and repeal Prohibition.
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Living With the Gods
by Neil MacGregor
In the same format as his best-selling books A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany: Memories of a Nation--the acclaimed art historian now gives us a magnificent new book that explores the relationship between faith and society.
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The New Vegetarian South
by Jennifer Brulé
In this enlightening cookbook, chef Jennifer Brule brings southern-style food together with plant-based approaches to eating. Her down-to-earth style and 105 recipes will immediately appeal to vegetarians, vegans, and meat-eaters alike. These dishes are also a boon for those who simply love southern food and want to learn more about options for flexitarian eating.
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Off the Rails
by Susan Burrowes
Fifteen-year-old Hannah was a privileged young girl with a promising future, but that didn’t stop her from sliding into an abyss of sex, drugs, alcohol, and other high-risk behaviors. Off the Rails narrates Hannah’s sudden decline and subsequent treatment through the raw, honest, compelling voices of Hannah and her shocked and desperate mother―each one telling her side of the story.
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On Call in the Arctic
by Thomas J. Sims
A writer and actor who became a doctor describes his time working as the only physician in Nome, Alaska, where he provided care to a frontier town and surrounding Alaska Native villages in very remote areas.
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The Peregrine Returns
by Mary Hennen
Peregrine falcons have their share of claims to fame. With a diving speed of over two hundred miles per hour, these birds of prey are the fastest animals on earth or in the sky, and they are now well known for adapting from life on rocky cliffs to a different kind of mountain: modern skyscrapers. But adaptability only helps so much. In 1951, there were no peregrines left in Illinois, for instance, and it looked as if the species would be wiped out entirely in North America. Today, however, peregrines are flourishing.
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Playing to the Gods
by Peter Rader
Traces the infamous rivalry between two renowned 19th-century actresses credited with popularizing the natural style of acting that is celebrated today, sharing insights into their personalities, ambitions and relationships with each others' lovers.
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Presidents of War
by Michael R Beschloss
The best-selling author of The Conquerors charts the controversial leadership, public reputations and evolving political powers of American wartime presidents from the War of 1812 through Vietnam, including Lincoln, Wilson and LBJ. Illustrations.
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Retirement Fail
by Greg Sullivan
Every day, people just like you, people who have worked hard and saved carefully for retirement, make decisions that will eventually crack their nest egg. Just because you added to your 401(k) or IRA plan every year, invested wisely, and amassed significant savings, you are not necessarily home free. Ready or not, your decisions all along the retirement path can positively or negatively affect your financial future. In Retirement Fail, top financial advisor Greg Sullivan shares the insights he has gained over his thirty-five-year career in wealth management to help you identify potential pitfalls and learn how to safeguard your hard-earned retirement assets.
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Tech Generation
by Mike Brooks
Tech Generation: Raising Balanced Kids in a Hyper-Connected World guides parents in teaching their children how to reap the benefits of living in a digital world while also preventing its negative effects. Mike Brooks and Jon Lasser, psychologists with extensive experience working with kids, parents, and teachers, combine cutting-edge research and expertise to create an engaging and helpful guide that emphasizes the importance of the parent-child relationship.
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A Walk Through Paris
by Éric Hazan
The author of The Invention of Paris leads readers on a walking tour of the city, offering historical observations and relevant literary references that reveal the parts of the city that have been nearly erased due to planning and modernization.
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