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New Non-Fiction Arrivals at MPL
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Here are our new arrivals, click the title to view in our catalog:
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The 5 Years Before You Retire : Retirement Planning When You Need It the Most
by Emily Guy Birken
Most people don't realize they haven't saved enough for their retirement until their sixties and by then, it's often too late to save enough for a comfortable retirement. The 5 Years Before You Retire has helped thousands of people prepare for retirement-even if they waited until the last minute. In this new and updated edition, you'll find out everything you need to do in the next five years to maximize your current savings and create a realistic plan for your future.
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Brat : An '80s Story
by Andrew McCarthy
An emotionally honest memoir by an actor, director, and author who found his start as an 80s Brat pack member.
also available in audio
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Crying in H Mart : A Memoir
by Michelle Zauner
The Japanese Breakfast indie pop star presents a full-length account of her viral New Yorker essay to share poignant reflections on her experiences of growing up Korean-American, becoming a professional musician and caring for her terminally ill mother. Illustrations.
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Doom : The Politics of Catastrophe
by Niall Ferguson
Setting the great crisis of 2020 in broad historical perspective, Niall Ferguson challenges the conventional wisdom that our failure to cope better with disaster was solely a crisis of political leadership, as opposed to a more profound systemic problem.
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A Drop of Treason : Philip Agee and His Exposure of the CIA
by Jonathan Stevenson
"As the first agent to publicly betray the CIA, Philip Agee was on the run for over forty years--a pariah akin to Edward Snowden. Agee revealed in spectacular detail what many had feared about the CIA's actions, but he also outed and endangered hundreds of agents. Agee relentlessly opposed the CIA and the regimes it backed, whether in America or around the world. In Jonathan Stevenson's words, Agee became "one of history's successful viruses: undeniably effective and impossible to kill." In this first biography of Agee, Stevenson will reveal what made Agee tick, and what made him run"
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Forces of Nature : The Women Who Changed Science
by Anna Reser
From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women's discoveries in science.
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Freedom
by Sebastian Junger
Intricately crafted and thought-provoking, the author, ruminating on the concept of freedom, shares his journey walking the railroad lines of the east coast with three friends as an experiment in personal autonomy, but also in interdependence.
also available in audio
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The Ground Breaking : An American City and its Search for Justice
by Scott Ellsworth
In a part true-crime murder mystery, part narrative history, a New York Times best-selling author, 100 years after the Tulsa Race Massacre—the worst single incident of racial violence in all of American history—returns to his hometown in search of answers
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Killing the Mob : The Fight Against Organized Crime in America
by Bill O'Reilly
The authors, in the 10th book in a multimillion-selling Killing series, take on the Mob, tracing the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in the U.S., turning the most legendary criminal and their true-life escapades into a riveting crime novel.
also available in audio
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My Remarkable Journey
by Katherine Johnson
In this extraordinary memoir, the woman at the heart of the smash New York Times best-seller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures shares her personal journey from child prodigy in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia to NASA human computer.
also available in audio
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My Time Will Come : A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption
by Ian Manuel
Full of unexpected twists and turns as it describes a struggle to attain the glory of redemption, this at once wrenching and inspiring story shows how the author endured the savagery of the U.S. prison system and how his victim forgave him and advocated for his freedom.
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On Juneteenth
by Annette Gordon-Reed
The descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s recounts the origins of Juneteenth and explores the legacies of the holiday that remain with us.
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The Outlier : The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
by Kai Bird
An essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter's presidential legacy--from the expert biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus.
also available in audio
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Persist
by Elizabeth Warren
A former candidate for president, in a deeply personal book and a powerful call to action, writes about six perspectives that have influenced her life and advocacy, inspiring us to believe that if we’re willing to fight for it, profound change is within our reach.
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The Premonition
by Michael Lewis
The #1 best-selling author's nonfiction narrative pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19.
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Punch Me Up to the Gods
by Brian Broome
A coming-of-age memoir about Blackness, masculinity and addiction follows the author, a poet and screenwriter, as he recounts his experiences, revealing a perpetual outsider awkwardly squirming to find his way in.
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Test Gods : Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut
by Nicholas Schmidle
In the spirit of The Right Stuff, updated for the 21st century, Test Gods is an epic story about extreme bravery and sacrifice, about the thin line between lunacy and genius. Most of all, it is a story about the pursuit of meaning in our lives--and the fulfillment of our dreams.
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The Windsor Diaries, 1940-45 : My Childhood with the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaretby Alathea Fitzalan HowardThe never-before-published diaries of Alathea Fitzalan Howard—who spent her teenaged years living out World War II in Windsor Great Park with her close friends Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth, the future queen of the United Kingdom—provide an extraordinary and intimate look at the British Royal Family.
also available in audio
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