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New Nonfiction Releases March, 2022 |
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The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found
by Frank Bruni
A New York Times columnist, after a rare stroke renders him blind in his right eye, learns he could lose his sight altogether and recounts his adjustment to this daunting reality—a medical and spiritual journey on which he reappraised his own priorities.
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Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons
by Jeremy Denk
A renowned pianist recalls his implausible artistic journey, including a move to New Mexico, far from the classical music nerve centers, a challenging college career, and eventual emergence as a MacArthur “Genius” and frequent performer at Carnegie Hall.
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Home in the World: A Memoir
by Amartya Sen
From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a long-awaited memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to betterment of humanity.
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Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return
by Rebecca Mead
A writer for The New Yorker chronicles how she returned to her birth city of London, including the challenge of establishing a new home for her dual-national son in London and grappling with the complex legacy of her parents.
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The Other Side of Yet: Finding Light in the Midst of Darkness
by Michelle D. Hord
A media executive, who has suffered loss at almost every phase of her life, shares how, while we can’t control the pain or trauma that alters life as we knew it before, we can always pivot to a “yet” and rebuild a new “after.”
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Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison
by Daniel Genis
Formerly a well-educated young addict dubbed the “Apologetic Bandit,” the author shares his 10-year stint in the New York penal system—a decade where he learned to survive the brutalities of prison by reading 1,046 books.
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Take Up Space: The Unprecedented AOC
by Lisa Miller
Through essays and reported stories on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s meteoric rise and impact written by New York’s top writers and commentators, we get an in-depth look at the youngest member of 118th Congress – and the youngest woman to serve in US history.
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Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation
by Erika Krouse
In this part memoir, part literary true crime, the author becomes consumed by a sexual assault investigation that grows into a national scandal and a historic civil rights case, and, when everything around her implodes, she must figure out how to win the case without losing herself.
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To Boldly Grow: Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyard
by Tamar Haspel
In this part memoir, part how-to guide, a self-proclaimed “crappy gardener” goes from cluelessness to competence by using “first-hand food” as her guiding principle, learning to scrounge dinner from the landscape around her and changing the way we think about our food—and ourselves.
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To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
by Carole Emberton
Giving us a kaleidoscopic look at the lived experiences of emancipation, and challenging the consequences of failing to reckon with the afterlife of slavery, this candid oral history recounts the story of Priscilla Joyner who embarked on a quest to define freedom after the Civil War.
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Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century
by Stephen Galloway
Drawing on new research, interviews with family and friends, and a groundbreaking exploration of Vivien’s battle with mental illness, the executive editor of The Hollywood Reporter studies the tempestuous marriage of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier as they struggled with love, loss and the ultimate agony of their parting.
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Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
by Matti Friedman
The little-known story of Leonard Cohen’s concert tour to the front lines of the Yom Kippur War, including never-before-seen selections from an unfinished manuscript by Cohen and rare photographs.
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Abundance: The Inner Path to Wealth
by Deepak Chopra
The New York Times best-selling author returns with a guide on how to forge an inner path to abundance, tap into a deeper sense of awareness and become an agent of change in your life.
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Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
by Ira M. Rutkow
Looks at the history of surgery from the Stone Age to today and traces its incredible progress from fledgling science to the seemingly impossible modern feat of organ transplants.
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Illogical: Saying Yes to a Life Without Limits
by Emmanuel Acho
In this thought-provoking book, the New York Times bestselling author of Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man empowers us to throw conventional wisdom out the window by asking us to replace the limits set for us, and which we set for ourselves, with infinite possibilities.
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The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure
by Dan Werb
Drawing on decades of scientific investigation, an epidemiologist, tracing the rise of the coronavirus family and society’s desperate attempt to counter its threat, tells the story of a group of scientists who foresaw the danger and spent decades working to stop a looming pandemic.
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The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
by Oded Galor
Weaving together economics, history, archaeology, anthropology, mathematics and the nature sciences, this thought-provoking book by an influential economist and founder of "Unified Growth Theory" examines exactly what sets humans apart from the rest of the animal kingdom.
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Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
by Caroline Elkins
Drawing on more than a decade of research on four continents, and covering 200 years of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian shows how the British Empire’s pervasive use of violence throughout the 20th century was exported, modified and institutionalized in colonies around the world.
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Life Between the Tides
by Adam Nicolson
Accompanied by great thinkers as he journeys between the tides, both in the pools he builds along the coast of Scotland and through the timeline of scientific discovery, the author explores the marine life inhabiting these pools with a scientist’s curiosity and a poet’s wonder.
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The Nineties
by Chuck Klosterman
Discussing everything nineties, including film, music, sports, TV, politics, changes regarding race and class and sexuality, a New York Times bestselling author shows how this decade brought about a revolution in the human condition that we are still groping to understand.
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The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
by Daniel H. Pink
Drawing on research in social psychology, neuroscience and biology, as well as true stories and practical takeaways, this book lays out a dynamic new way of thinking about regret to help us live richer, more engaged lives.
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Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
by Elizabeth Williamson
Drawing on hours of interviews and exclusive sources and access, a New York Times journalist documents Sandy Hook and its aftermath, where a conspiracy theorists have forced the victims and survivors to defend that an event even occurred.
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Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses
by Jackie Higgins
This extraordinary book analyzes the incredible sensory capabilities of 13 animals, including the cheetah, orb-weaving spider and harlequin mantis shrimp, that hold the key to better understanding how we make sense of the world around us.
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The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
by Cathy O'Neil
Dissecting the relationship between shame and power, this warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America’s “shame industrial complex” in the age of social media and hyper-partisan politics shows how it is being weaponized to shift responsibility for social problems from institutions to individuals.
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Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
by Roger Lowenstein
Through a financial lens, a well-respected journalist and master storyteller shows how Lincoln used the urgency of financing the Civil War to transform a union of states into one united nation and, for the first time, established a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
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Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood
by DaMaris B. Hill
From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing comes a new book of narrative in verse that takes a personal and historical look at the experience of Black girlhood.
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The Eightfold Path
by Steven Barnes
Eight strangers looking for enlightenment from an ancient spiritual teacher are trapped in a cave high in the mountains on their way to his temple. One of his acolytes directs them to each tell a story that the group can learn from as they wait out the horrible snowstorm that rages outside the cave’s entrance.
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Keeping Two
by Jordan Crane
20 years in the making, the long-awaited graphic novel masterpiece from acclaimed cartoonist Jordan Crane.
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Policing the City: An Ethno-graphic
by Didier Fassin
Adapted from the landmark essay "Enforcing Order," this striking graphic novel offers an accessible inside look at policing and how it leads to discrimination and violence.
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