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New & Noteworthy Nonfiction April 2026 |
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Crafting for Your Cat: 25 Playful Projects for You and Your Feline Friends
by Annika Hinds
Crafting for Your Cat is a fun collection of DIY projects ranging from simple, beginner-friendly crafts to more advanced builds for those ready to tackle a challenge. Each project comes with clear, step-by-step instructions, helpful tips, and room for customization so you can create something truly unique that suits your best friend!
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To See Beyond
by Anna Badkhen
In To See Beyond, Anna Badkhen probes the ways we ward off despair as she imagines the language we need for survival. Through engagement with contemporary literature and stories of everyday encounters with people around the world, she brings us closer to understanding how we balance delight and grief, joy and hurt, and choose to embrace life as a form of resistance.
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London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
by Patrick Radden Keefe
From the bestselling, prize-winning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had created a secret life which drew him into the dangerous criminal underworld that lies beneath London's glittering surface.
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What We Eat: A Global History of Food
by Pierre Singaravélou and Sylvain Venayre (editors)
What We Eat explores world history through the lens of the global journeys of nearly ninety food products. Leading historians trace the origins and popularization of items commonly found in supermarkets, showing how each food illuminates wider histories.
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Spirit Daughter: Own Your Power, Change Your Life
by Jill Wintersteen
Filled with practical tools and insights to navigate life's challenges and emphasizing the importance of intuition and self-awareness, Spirit Daughter is an invitation to rediscover your power. Through her own experiences of overcoming anxiety, depression, and self-doubt, Wintersteen reveals how to create calmness within, no matter what is happening externally, and unlock your highest potential.
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This Is Not about Running: A Memoir
by Mary Cain
By one of the fastest runners of her generation, an affecting, brutally honest memoir of elite sports gone wrong--and a clear-eyed call for how parents, coaches, and young athletes themselves can build a healthier youth sports culture.
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The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World
by Vicky Osterweil
A provocative history of Disney's rise to cultural dominance, pulling skeletons from the corporate closet to decode the political messages hidden in all of your favorite childhood movies. In The Extended Universe, Vicky Osterweil takes us on a quest to discover how Disney's imagineers have made it impossible to reflect on the wonders of growing up without thinking of Disney's movies, amusement parks, and merchandising.
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Just One More Game: A Pickleball Quest
by Clare Frank
An entertaining look at the meteoric rise of pickleball and one player's joyful obsession with the game. Just One More Game is writer Clare Frank's account of abandoning herself to a sport loved by millions (and hated by plenty of others).
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To Catch a Fish: Essays on the Joy, Frustration, Curiosity, and Allure of Fishing
by Mark Kurlansky
For as long as there have been humans, there have been humans trying to catch fish. Guiding readers through the waters and into the mind of the fish, Kurlansky considers who fish are and why they behave the way they do, and along the way delves into the many approaches to catching a fish, their ecology, and the ins and outs of cooking and eating your catch.
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