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New Nonfiction Releases January, 2022 |
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41-Love: A Memoir
by Scarlett Thomas
A 41-year-year old writer confronts a mid-life crisis by returning to the thing she loved most as a child but abandoned as she grew older—tennis—and find she’ll do almost anything to win.
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The American Art Tapes: Voices of American Pop Art
by Nicolette Jones
Published here for the first time, the daughter of British artist and university lecturer John Jones who, in 1965, interviewed 100 artists in the U.S., presents a fascinating selection of his edited conversations with American artists practicing in 1965-1966, which tell the story of pop art.
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High-risk Homosexual: A Memoir
by Edgar Gomez
The Florida-born writer presents a memoir tracing his hard-won path to taking pride in himself as a gay Latinx man despite the culture of machismo surrounding him, including his uncle’s cockfighting ring in Nicaragua.
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Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness
by Laura Gayle Coates
A powerful true story and groundbreaking account of bias in the courtroom from CNN senior legal analyst Laura Coates, recounting her time as a Black female prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind a Raisin in the Sun
by Charles J. Shields
This dramatic telling of a passionate life uses previously unpublished interviews with close friends in politics and theater, privately held correspondence, and deep research to reconcile old mysteries and raise new questions about a life not fully described until now.
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Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich; 1945-1955
by Harald Jähner
A revelatory history of the transformational decade after World War II when Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat, turned away from fascism, and reckoned with the corruption of its soul, and the horrors of the Holocaust.
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The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
by Rosemary Sullivan
Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team led by a retired FBI agent—has finally solved the mystery that has haunted generations since World War II: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?
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A Diary of the Plague Year: A Chronicle of 2020
by Elise Engler
An artist who decided to create a pictorial record of one year of news by illustrating the first headline she heard on her radio every day presents a chronicle of the momentous year 2020.
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Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma
by Galit Atlas
The author entwines the stories of her patients, her own stories, and decades of research to help us identify the links between our life struggles and the “emotional inheritance” we all carry. For it is only by following the traces those ghosts leave that we can truly change our destiny.
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God: An Anatomy
by Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Re-examines the original depiction of God by ancient worshippers with a distinctly male body and superhuman powers and instead presents a more corporeal image of a deity who walks, talks, weeps and laughs.
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How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink
by Paco Underhill
An entertaining and timely exploration of how our food - from where it's grown to how we buy it - is in the midst of a transformation, showing how this is our chance to do better, for us, for our children, and for our planet, from a global expert on consumer behavior.
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Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America
by Al Sharpton
Righteous Troublemakers shines a light on everyday people called to do extraordinary things—like Pauli Murray, whose early work inspired Thurgood Marshall; Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus months before Rosa Parks did the same, and Gwen Carr, whose private pain in losing her son Eric Garner stoked her public activism against police brutality.
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Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed With Being Happy
by Whitney Goodman
The radically honest psychotherapist behind the popular Instagram account @sitwithwhit shares the latest research along with everyday examples and client stories that reveal how damaging toxic positivity is to ourselves and our relationships, and presents simple ways to experience and work through difficult emotions.
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Worn: A People's History of Clothing
by Sofi Thanhauser
Telling five stories—of linen, cotton, silk, synthetics and wool—this sweeping, engaging social history, drawn from years of intensive research and reporting from around the world, discusses the clothes we wear and where they come from, illuminating our world in unexpected ways.
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The Best American Magazine Writing 2021
by Sid Holt
The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 presents outstanding journalism and commentary that reckon with urgent topics, including COVID-19 and entrenched racial inequality.
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Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America
by Randal Maurice Jelks
Evoking Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” these meditations, speak specifically to the many public issues we presently confront in the United States—economic inequality, freedom of assembly, police brutality, ongoing social class conflicts, and geopolitics. Award-winning author Randal Maurice Jelks invites readers to reflect on US history by centering on questions of democracy that we must grapple with as a society.
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You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
by Zora Neale Hurston
Drawn from three decades of Zora Neal Hurston's work, this anthology showcases her development as a writer, from her early pieces expounding on the beauty and precision of African American art to some of her final published works, covering the sensational trial of Ruby McCollum, a wealthy Black woman convicted in 1952 for killing a white doctor.
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