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New Nonfiction Releases December, 2021 |
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Apparently There Were Complaints: A Memoir
by Sharon Gless
The Emmy Award-winning actress looks back on her five-decade career and her groundbreaking roles in such shows as Cagney and Lacey, Queer as Folk and Burn Notice.
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The Art of Bob Mackie
by Frank Vlastnik
The first-ever, comprehensive and authorized showcase of legendary fashion designer Bob Mackie’s fabulous life and work, featuring hundreds of photos and dozens of never-before-seen sketches from his personal collection.
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Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash
by Michael Stewart Foley
A leading historian discusses how Johnny Cash forged a political viewpoint based not on liberal or conservative ideology, but on empathy with the less fortunate, fueled by emotion, instinct and identification.
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Face the Music: A Memoir
by Peter Duchin
The internationally famous bandleader and pianist looks back on his 60-year career in music, including performing for every president from Lyndon Johnson to Bill Clinton, as well as his complicated personal past.
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Garbo: Her Life, Her Films
by Robert Gottlieb
The acclaimed critic and editor examines the life and work of Greta Garbo, from her childhood in the slums of Stockholm to the peak of Hollywood fame and features more than 250 photos of the legend.
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Ladyparts: A Memoir
by Deborah Copaken
The best-selling author of Shutterbabe details the breakdown of her body, including blood clots, breast biopsies, and heart palpitations in the midst of intense personal upheaval while navigating a health-care system geared towards the male body and profits.
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Magritte: A Life
by Alex Danchev
A celebrated biographer presents the first major biography of René Magritte, the single most significant purveyor of images to the modern world, exploring the path of this highly unconventional artist.
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Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton
by Joe Moshenska
Oxford professor Joe Moshenska rediscovers a poet whose rich contradictions confound his monumental image. Immersing ourselves in the rhythms and textures of Milton’s world, we move from the music of his childhood home to his encounter with Galileo in Florence into his idiosyncratic belief system and his strange, electrifying imagination.
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Sea State: A Memoir
by Tabitha Lasley
Part story of oil rigs and the men who work on them, part story of a journalist whose professional distance from her subject becomes perilously thin, this brutally honest memoir shows what happens when female desire butts up against a culture of masculinity in crisis.
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Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back
by Sarah Ransome
Finding the courage to finally speak out, the granddaughter of a wealthy British baron, who was recruited into Jeffrey Epstein’s network when she was 22 and imprisoned by a web of co-conspirators, stands her truth and encourages others to do the same.
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Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World
by Daniel Sherrell
Written from inside the climate movement, the author, in this memoir, love letter and an emotional work of criticism, reveals how the crisis is transforming our relationships to time, to hope and to each other.
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Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine
by Anna Della Subin
Looks at the history of men such as Christopher Columbus and Haile Selassie, who were worshipped as gods during moments of turbulence such as civil war, imperial conquest and revolution and what their experiences can teach us.
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The Age of AI: And Our Human Future
by Henry Kissinger
Three leading thinkers put their heads together to explore Artificial Intelligence and how it will change our relationships with knowledge, politics and the societies in which we live.
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Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show
by Jonathan Karl
The best-selling author and chief Washington correspondent for ABC News examines the turbulent final weeks and months of the Trump presidency and what it means for the future of the Republican Party.
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
by David Graeber
An activist and public intellectual teams up with a professor of comparative archaeology to deliver an account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence and social inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.
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Fixed.: How to Perfect the Fine Art of Problem Solving
by Amy E. Herman
An art historian and attorney uses works of art to present a new paradigm for problem-solving that focuses on critical thinking skills to help recognize and overcome biases that prevent us from seeing problems clearly.
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The Library: A Fragile History
by Andrew Pettegree
In this meticulously written and deeply researched book, this history of the library, from the ancient world to the digital age, introduces readers to the antiquarians and the philanthropists who shaped the world’s great collections.
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On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times
by Michael Ignatieff
An internationally renowned historian recreates the moments when great figures found the courage to confront their fate and the determination to continue unafraid and brings these stories into the present, helping us revive these traditions of consolation to meet the uncertainty of the 21st century.
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Once upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food
by Roanne van Voorst
An acclaimed anthropologist imagines a world in which most no longer use animals for food, clothing or other items, offering a clear and compelling vision of what it means to live in a world without meat.
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Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel
by Ethan Michaeli
Framed by the award-winning journalist’s own experience as an American with family roots in Israel, this book captures this increasingly fractured Israel, weaving together the personal histories of Israelis of all tribes into a narrative of social and political change.
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Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of the Sopranos
by Michael Imperioli
Packed with untold stories from behind the scenes and on the set, and inspired by the wildly successful Talking Sopranos podcast, two The Sopranos stars will finally reveal all the Soprano family secrets in a surprising, funny and honest new book.
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Year of the Hawk: America's Descent into Vietnam, 1965
by James A. Warren
A military and political history of the Vietnam War during 1965—the pivotal first year of the American conflict when the U.S. intervened directly with combat units in a struggle between communist and pro-Western forces in South Vietnam that had raged on and off for 20 years.
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American Christmas Stories
by Connie Willis
A collection of American Christmas stories spanning traditional, Civil War-era holiday storytelling to modern times in genres including science fiction, fantasy, westerns, humor and horror that focus on Christmas morning, gifts, wise men, nativities, family, commercialism, or dinners.
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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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Call Us What We Carry
by Amanda Gorman
The presidential inaugural poet—and unforgettable new voice in American poetry—presents a collection of poems that includes the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States.
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Dark Tourist: Essays
by Hasanthika Sirisena
Blends reportage, cultural criticism, and memoir to excavate sites of personal, cultural, and political trauma and find wider truths about sexuality, art, language, and identity.
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Everything I Don't Know
by Jerzy Ficowski
Beautifully translated by Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer, Ficowski's poems document the tragedy of the Holocaust with the direct and uncompromising voice with which he reminds us of the great poets such as Rózewicz and Swirszczynska, while remaining, all the while, himself.
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Flower Crowns & Fearsome Things
by Amanda Lovelace
In her new standalone poetry collection, poet amanda lovelace explores the complexity of femininity through alternating wildflower & wildfire poems.
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Madder: A Memoir in Weeds
by Marco Wilkinson
Marco Wilkinson uses his deep knowledge of undervalued plants, mainly weeds-invisible yet ubiquitous, unwanted yet abundant, out-of-place yet flourishing-as both structure and metaphor in these intimate vignettes.
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Memory into Memoir: A Writer's Handbook
by Laura Kalpakian
Memory into Memoir provides a lively guide for anyone looking to wrestle the unruly past onto the page. In thirteen chapters, Laura Kalpakian provides tools to develop narrative form, scenic depiction, character development, and dialogue.
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Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays
by Siri Hustvedt
Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in this new essay collection, which is an exploration of the shifting borders that define human experience, including boundaries we usually take for granted—between ourselves and others, nature and nurture, viewer and artwork—which turn out to be far less stable than we imagine.
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Wholehearted Faith
by Rachel Held Evans
In this final collection of original writings by the late author, her close friend brings together her unpublished essays and talks, reflections that explore why the Christian faith captivated her and drove her writing, teachings, activism and relationships.
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