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New Nonfiction Releases February, 2022 |
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Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School
by Kendra James
The first African American legacy student to graduate from the elite Taft prep school looks back on her three years there and how disillusioned it made her with America’s inequitable education system.
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Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life
by James Curtis
This biography of the beloved comic artist examines how his iconic look and acrobatic brilliance often obscured the fact that behind the camera he was one of our most gifted filmmakers.
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Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom
by Carl Bernstein
The Pulitzer Prize winning coauthor of All The President’s Men recounts the world of the 1960s as he experienced it as a young reporter learning his craft at the Washington Star.
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Coach K: The Rise and Reign of Mike Krzyzewski
by Ian O'Connor
This definitive biography of college basketball’s all-time winningest coach looks at how he built a basketball empire at Duke and led Team USA to three Olympic basketball gold medals.
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Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?: A Memoir
by Séamas O'Reilly
This memoir from one of eleven siblings raised by a single dad in Northern Ireland at the end of the Troubles follows the family as they struggle to keep the household running.
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The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth Century London
by Catherine Ostler
Taking readers into the sumptuous Georgian era, this fascinating look at the scandalous Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, whose infamous bigamy trial was bigger news in British society than the American War of Independence, reveals a woman who defied society’s expectations of her.
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Easy Street: A Story of Redemption from Myself
by Maggie Rowe
A successful television writer becomes friends with a neurodiverse middle-aged woman who helps her confront her own issues with mental illness and feelings of inadequacy while coming to peace with the choices she’s made.
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Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
by Lea Ypi
A reflection on "freedom" in a dramatic, beautifully written memoir of the end of Communism in the Balkans. With acute insight and wit, Lea Ypi traces the perils of ideology, and what people need to flourish.
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How I Survived a Chinese Re-education Camp: A Uyghur Woman's Story
by Gulbahar Haitiwaji
The first Uyghur woman to escape from a Chinese re-education camp recalls how she endured hundreds of hours of interrogations, torture, hunger, police violence, brainwashing and forced sterilization and how she escaped with the help of her daughter.
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In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage
by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
A Latinx powerhouse in the tech world of Silicon Valley returns home to Peru and turns her life around by climbing the world’s highest peaks along with other victims of childhood trauma.
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Lost & Found: A Memoir
by Kathryn Schulz
A staff writer at The New Yorker and winner of the Pulitzer Prize brilliantly explores of the role that loss and discovering play in all of our lives, in this part memoir, part guidebook to living in a world that always demands both our gratitude and our grief.
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Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
by Bernardine Evaristo
From the bestselling and Booker Prize–winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activism.
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Putting the Rabbit in the Hat
by Brian Cox
Capturing both his distinctive voice and his very soul, the actor shares his troubled, working-class upbringing in Scotland to the enormous effort that has gone into the making of the legend across theater, film and television we know today.
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Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival
by Walter Stahr
This biography sheds new light on Abraham Lincoln’s indispensable secretary of the Treasury, telling the forgotten story of a man at the center of the fight for racial justice in 19th century America.
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The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
by Adolph L. Reed
In this part memoir, part history, part analysis and firsthand accounts of the operation of the system that codified and enshrined racial equality, a leading scholar of race, American politics and equality unravels the personal and political dimensions of the Jim Crow order.
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This Will Be Funny Later: A Memoir
by Jenny Pentland
A funny, biting, and entertaining memoir of coming of age in the shadow of celebrity and finding your own way in the face of absolute chaos that is both a moving portrait of a complicated family and an exploration of the cost of fame.
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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
by Stephanie Foo
Drawing on interviews with scientists and psychologists, and trying a variety of innovative therapies, the author, diagnosed with Complex PTSD—a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously—investigates the little-understood science behind this disorder that has shaped her life.
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Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case
by Charles Henry Bosworth
The first-ever insider’s account of the case that’s captivated millions—the murder of Betsy Faria and the wrongful conviction of her husband—told by the defense attorney who fought for justice on behalf of Russel Faria.
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Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies
by Laura Thompson
Looks at the lives of heiresses throughout history such as Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American “Dollar Heiress,” Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress and Patty Hearst, the notorious heiress to a newspaper fortune turned terrorist.
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How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
by Barbara F. Walter
A leading political scientist examines the dramatic rise in violent extremism around the globe and sounds the alarm on the increasing likelihood of a second civil war in the United States.
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My Money My Way: Taking Back Control of Your Financial Life
by Kumiko Love
In this paradigm-shifting book, a single mom and founder of "The Budget Mom," who empowers women everywhere to regain control of their finances, gives you the tools to align your emotional health with your financial health—to let go of deprivation and embrace desire.
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Sickening
by John Abramson
Combining patient stories with his own experience serving as an expert in national drug litigation, the author, who has been on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for 20 years, shows how Big Pharma has corrupted American health care and presents a path toward reform.
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The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
by John A. List
Drawing on his original research, as well as fascinating examples from the realms of business, policymaking, education, and public health, he identifies five measurable vital signs that a scalable idea must possess, and offers proven strategies for avoiding voltage drops and engineering voltage gains.
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All the Poems
by Stevie Smith
The essential edition of one of modern poetry’s most distinctive voices: all Stevie Smith’s flabbergasting poems.
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Constellation Route
by Matthew Olzmann
Constellation Route uses the form of the letter to explore issues related to contemporary American society: the environment, race, love, grief, friendship, violence, and spirituality. The book is largely a metaphysical tribute to both the Post Office and the act of letter writing as a way to understand and create meaningful connections with the world at large.
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Duende: Poems, 1966-Now
by Quincy Troupe
The selected poems from over fifty years by the great poet and biographer and friend of Miles Davis.
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A Hundred Lovers
by Richie Hofmann
An erotic journal in poems, from a rising star in the American poetry scene, author of the highly acclaimed collection Second Empire.
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Rhyme's Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry
by Brad Leithauser
From the acclaimed poet, novelist, critic, and scholar, a lucid and edifying exploration of the building blocks of poetry and how they've been used over the centuries to assemble the most imperishable poems.
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Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020
by Carl Phillips
Then the War sees Carl Phillips turn his sharp and subtle gaze inward, charting the changing landscapes of his life and work in a collection of new and selected poems.
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