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New Nonfiction Releases May, 2021
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Billie Eilish
by Billie Eilish
The legendary recording artist shares an inside look at her life — both on and off the stage — through hundreds of never-before-seen photos.
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Brat: An 80's Story
by Andrew McCarthy
An emotionally honest memoir by an actor, director, and author who found his start as an 80s Brat pack member.
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
by Patrick Radden Keefe
The award-winning author of Say Nothing presents a narrative account of how a prominent wealthy family sponsored the creation and marketing of one of the most commonly prescribed and addictive painkillers of the opioid crisis.
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Finish Strong: A Father's Code and a Son's Path
by Nate Ebner
The Olympic rugby player and New England Patriot tells the story of what a father will do for a son, and what a son will do for a father, offering a reminder that the lessons parents embody for their children continue long after they are gone.
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Lessons from the Edge
by Marie Yovanovitch
In a new memoir, the U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine, whose life and work have taught her the preciousness of democracy as well as the dangers of corruption, details her involvement in President Trump’s impeachment inquiry and her response to his smear campaign.
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Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
by Suzanne Koven
Tracing the arc of her life, the author reflects on her career in medicine, revealing how she forged her authentic identity in a modern landscape that is as overwhelming and confusing as it is exhilarating in its possibilities.
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My Remarkable Journey
by Katherine Johnson
In a new memoir, the woman at the heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures shares her personal journey from child prodigy in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia to NASA human computer.
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Nothing Personal: My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno
by Nancy Jo Sales
A memoir about sex, dating, and relationships in the digital age, intertwined with a brilliant investigation into the challenges to love and intimacy wrought by dating apps, by a New York Times best-selling author.
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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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Sacrifice: A Gold Star Widow's Fight for the Truth
by Michelle Black
Drawing on exclusive interviews with the survivors of her husband’s unit, research into the military leadership and accountability and her own unique vantage point as a gold star widow, the author sets out to find the truth behind her Green Beret husband’s death.
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Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn't Ours
by Sarah Sentilles
The author shares what she learned from fostering a newborn — about injustice, about mistakes, and about how to better love and protect people outside of our immediate families.
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Sunshine Girl
by Julianna Margulies
Filled with intimate stories and revelatory moments, this deeply powerful memoir from the award-winning actress is a riveting self-portrait of a woman whose resilience in the face of turmoil will leave readers intrigued and inspired.
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Things I Learned from Falling: A Memoir
by Claire Nelson
Surviving a 25-foot fall while at Joshua Tree National Park, a journalist reflects on the four days during which she was exposed to the elements and wilderness of Southern California, sharing what she learned about herself and her will to survive while waiting to be rescued.
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The Wild Silence
by Raynor Winn
This follow-up to the bestseller The Salt Path follows the difficulties faced by the author and her husband who is facing a terminal diagnosis after returning home from a 630-mile trek walking across the English coastline.
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The Windsor Diaries: 1940-45: My Childhood With the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret
by Alathea Fitzalan Howard
The 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.
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Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump
by Edward-Isaac Dovere
The award-winning Atlantic staff writer and Ticket podcaster offers a critical assessment of the splintered Democratic party during the Trump years, citing the disparities that are challenging the party's political stances on moderation, multiethnic liberalism and socialism.
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Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America
by Gigi Georges
This captivating and empathetic book, offering hope for the future of rural America, follows five girls as they come of age in one of the most challenging and geographically isolated regions on the Eastern seaboard — Washington County, Maine.
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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.
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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds
by Jon Dunn
An acclaimed nature writer, photographer and wildlife tour leader travels the full length of the range of the hummingbird on a quest to find them, from near the Artic Circle to near-Antarctic islands.
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The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
by Scott Ellsworth
Part true-crime murder mystery, part narrative history, a New York Times bestselling 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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Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power
by Zachary Karabell
Using his complete access to the company’s archives, an acclaimed historian, commentator and former financial executive offers a sweeping history of the legendary private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman, exploring its central role in the story of American wealth and its rise to global power.
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Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America
by Bill O'Reilly
The authors, in this tenth book in the 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.
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King Richard: Nixon and Watergate--an American Tragedy
by Michael Dobbs
The bestselling author of One Minute to Midnight, drawing on thousands of hours of newly released taped recordings, takes readers into the heart of the Watergate conspiracy, recreating these traumatic events in cinematic detail.
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On Juneteenth
by Annette Gordon-Reed
In this intricately woven tapestry of American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, 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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Persist
by Elizabeth Warren
A former presidential candidate, in this 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 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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State of Emergency
by Tamika D. Mallory
A globally recognized civil rights activist presents an unwavering history of American systemic racism, a first-hand view of what makes for effective activism today and a vision for lasting, positive change.
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You Will Get Through This Night
by Daniel Howell
Presenting an entertaining and personal way from the perspective of someone who has been through it all, this no-nonsense book gives you the tools to understand your mind so you can be in control and really live.
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Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
by Carol Leonnig
To expose the shortcomings of the Secret Service, a national investigative reporter at The Washington Post interviewed countless current and former agents and whistleblowers who risked their careers to speak to her about an agency that is broken and in desperate need of reform.
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Black Girl, Call Home
by Jasmine Mans
In her latest collection, competitive spoken-word poet Jasmine Mans explores the intersection of race, feminism, and queer identity.
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The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
by Amanda Gorman
On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration, captivating the nation and bringing hope to viewers and listeners around the world.
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Home Is Not a Country
by Safia Elhillo
A novel in verse follows the experiences of a misfit teen in a discriminatory suburban community who questions her mixed heritage before unexpected family revelations force her to fight for her own identity. By the award-winning author of The January Children.
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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing: Essays
by Lauren Hough
The author, who has had many identities – an airman in the U.S. Air Force, a cable guy, a bouncer at a gay club – recounts her childhood growing up in the infamous cult "The Children of God," in this searing and extremely personal collection of essays.
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Made to Explode: Poems
by Sandra Beasley
In her fourth collection, acclaimed poet Sandra Beasley interrogates the landscapes of her life.
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Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?: Essays
by Jenny Diski
A collection of nonfiction from the prolific author of Stranger on a Train tackles a wide variety of topics including death, motherhood, sexual politics, the joys of solitude and her own cancer diagnosis.
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The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion
by Aminatta Forna
A stunning new collection of essays from the author of Happiness explores border crossings both literal and philosophical, our relationship with the natural world, and the stories that we tell ourselves.
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The Wreckage of My Presence: Essays
by Casey Wilson
In this brilliant collection of essays, the author shares her thoughts on the joys and vagaries of modern-day womanhood and motherhood, introduces the not-quite-typical family that made her who she is, and persuasively argues that lowbrow pop culture is the perfect lens through which to understand human nature.
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Yearbook: Essays
by Seth Rogen
A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of "Superbad" and "Pineapple Express" and one of the producers of "The Disaster Artist."
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