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New! Adult Nonfiction Staff Picks |
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Mark Twain
by Ron Chernow
Drawing on Twain's bountiful archives, including his fifty notebooks, thousands of letters, and hundreds of unpublished manuscripts, Chernow masterfully captures a man whose career reflected the country's westward expansion, industrialization, and foreign wars. No other white author of his generation grappled so fully with the legacy of slavery after the Civil War or showed such keen interest in African American culture. Today, more than one hundred years after his death, Twain's writing continues to be read, debated, and quoted.
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Close to Home: the Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door
by Thor Hanson
An award-winning natural-history writer uncovers hidden wonders in everyday environments, revealing how backyards, park and local landscapes host fascinating wildlife, scientific potential and opportunities to connect with and contribute to the health of our planet.
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There is No Place For Us: Working and Homeless in America
by Brian Goldstone
The working homeless, trapped by skyrocketing rents and stagnant wages in gentrifying cities, are examined through the lens of five families in Atlanta, showing the human cost of homelessness for people with full-time jobs, revealing the extent and causes of a crisis where housing is treated as a privilege.
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Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly
by Hannah Selinger
A vivid memoir of a sommelier's rise and fall in the restaurant industry, exploring the glamour, exploitation and emotional toll behind fine dining, celebrity encounters and the decision to leave a career that no longer fulfills.
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Canva for Dummies
by Jesse Stay
The essential guide to the popular, beginner-friendly graphic design platform Canva For Dummies is a beautiful full-color reference, covering everything you need to create dazzling visual materials in Canva Free and Pro versions.
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Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America
by Rebecca L. Davis
The first sweeping history of sex and sexuality in America since John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman's classic work, Intimate Matters, Rebecca L. Davis's Fierce Desires presents a story of dramatic and often surprising change. Creating a new genealogy of sexual pioneers, Davis writes back into history people and ideas that have been forgotten, ignored, or intentionally suppressed.
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Nightshining: A Memoir in Four Floods
by Jennifer Kabat
A braided memoir about flooding in the Catskills, the region's history regarding GE and cloud seeding, and the author's personal experiences.
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The Intermediaries: a Weimar Story
by Brandy Schillace
Set in interwar Germany, The Intermediaries tells the forgotten story of the Institute for Sexual Science, the world's first center for homosexual and transgender rights. Headed by a gay Jewish man, Dr. Magnus Hirshfeld, the institute aided in the first gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacements, acting as a rebellious base of operations in the face of rising prejudice, nationalism and Nazi propaganda. Brandy Schillace introduces readers to Dora Richter, an institute patient whom we follow from early desperate years to gender-affirming care and her right to live as a woman. She offers an example of queer resilience in the face of punishing cultural constraints.
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Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
by Caroline Fraser
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond—a gripping investigation of how a new strain of psychopath emerged out of a toxic landscape of deadly industrial violence.
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