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New Nonfiction Releases October 2022 |
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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
by Jon Meacham
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer examines life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and how he navigated the crises of slavery, secession and war by both marshaling the power of the presidency while recognizing its limitations.
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Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President
by Jonathan Darman
This biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt focuses on how his struggles with polio helped forged the strength and wisdom that helped him guide America and the world through the twin crises of the Great Depression and World War II.
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The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir
by Paul Newman
Culled from thousands of pages of transcripts, this raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of the greatest movie star of the past 75 years, told with searing honesty, covers everything: his traumatic childhood, his career, his drinking, his intimate life with Joanne Woodward and his innermost fears and passions and joys.
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The Family Outing: A Memoir
by Jessi Hempel
When her family comes out--some embracing queer identities and another revealing a traumatic experience with a serial killer--other personal revelations and reckonings come to light, causing each of them to question their place in the world in new and liberating ways.
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Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
by Alan Rickman
Told through his diaries--a 25-year passion project--the beloved actor, political activist and more grants us access to his thoughts and insights on theater performances, the craft of acting, politics, friendships, work projects and his general musings on life.
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Making a Scene
by Constance Wu
The star of "Crazy Rich Asians" delivers her memoir in a series of essays.
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Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
by Andrew Meier
With unprecedented, exclusive access to family archives, and meticulously researched, an award-winning journalist and biographer chronicles how the Morgenthaus, who, after coming to America from Germany in 1866, made history in international diplomacy, in domestic politics and in America's criminal justice system.
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Mussolini's Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
by Caroline Moorehead
Drawing on archival material, some newly released, along with memoirs and personal papers, this incredible story recounts the life of Mussolini's daughter Edda, a proponent of fascism who played a key role in one of the most terrifying and violent periods in human history.
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My travels with Mrs. Kennedy
by Clint Hill
The best-selling authors of Mrs. Kennedy and Me reveal never-before-told stories of Secret Service Agent Clint Hills travels with Jacqueline Kennedy through Europe, Asia, and South America.
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Readme.txt
by Chelsea Manning
When her sentence for disclosing classified and diplomatic records from Iraq is commuted by President Barack Obama, a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst recounts how her pleas for increased institutional transparency and government accountability took place alongside a fight to defend her rights as a trans woman.
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The Revolutionary Samuel Adams
by Stacy Schiff
Offers a biography of a noted Founding Father, the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution.
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Token Black Girl: A Memoir
by Danielle Prescod
A fashion and beauty insider, in this revealing and candid memoir, unpacks the adverse effects of insidious white supremacy in the media to tell a personal story about recovery from damaging concepts of perfection, celebrating identity and demolishing social conditioning.
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Uphill: A Memoir
by Jemele Hill
The Emmy Award-winning former cohost of ESPNs SportsCenter, who was fired for calling President Trump a white supremacist, shares the whole story of her work, the women of her family and her complicated relationship with God as she forges a new path, no matter how uphill life's battles might be.
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Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me
by Ralph Macchio
Based on both the classic movies and his current show, the actor, in this entertaining and nostalgic memoir, reflects on the legacy of "The Karate Kid" in film, pop culture and his own life.
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You Should Sit Down for This: A Memoir About Wine, Life, and Cookies
by Tamera Mowry
In this empowering book, the beloved actress and TV personality shares how she stopped letting other people define her, tapped into her faith and tossed away negativity to hone her own happiness and create a unique path forward for herself, and encourages us to do the same.
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Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West
by Katie Hickman
Drawing on letters, diaries and contemporary accounts, this history of womens experiences in the Wild West focuses tells the stories of both the women who were brutally exploited as well as those fought incredible odds to forge home and identities.
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The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-hop
by Jonathan P. D. Abrams
Drawing on more than 300 interviews conducted over three years with DJs, executives, producers and artists, a New York Times best-selling author offers the most comprehensive account to date of hip-hops rise, conveying the drive, the stakes and the relentless creativity that ignited one of the greatest revolutions in modern music.
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The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series
by Tyler Kepner
Brings to life the rich history of baseball's signature event, the World Series, through fascinating stories dating back to the beginning in 1903 that are filled with humor, lore and analysis.
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Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
by Pekka Hämäläinen
The author overturns the traditional, Eurocentric narrative, demonstrating that, far from being weak and helpless "victims" of European colonialism, Indigenous peoples controlled North America well into the 19th century.
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Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
by Andrea Wulf
In 1790s Germany, an extraordinary group of young rebelspoets, novelists and philosophersincited a revolution of the mind that launched Romanticism, transforming our world forever, in this inspiring book that explores the extremely modern tension between the dangers of selfishness and the thrilling possibilities of free will.
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Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921
by Antony Beevor
Drawing upon the most up-to-date scholarship and archival research, this gripping narrative forms the complete picture of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe between 1917 and 1921, a struggle that became a world war by proxy, as told through the eyes of those individuals who experienced it firsthand.
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Saving Main Street: Small Business in the Time of Covid-19
by Gary Rivlin
A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter follows three small businesses and their employees, their struggles and their strategies to survive during and after COVID-19, while exploring how the decline of this American way of retail impacts our notions of American exceptionalism, community and civic duty.
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Presenting revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, drawing on his own experience as a researcher, doctor and prolific reader, explores medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells.
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The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible
by Luke Mogelson
An award-winning war correspondent, after years of living abroad, returns to the U.S., presenting an eyewitness account of how during a season of sickness, economic uncertainty and violence Americans started to breakdown, in this unique record of a pivotal moment in history and an urgent warning about those to come.
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Alone in the House of My Heart
by Kari Gunter-Seymour
With poems that are as complicated, breathtaking, and ravaged as Ohio's southeastern foothills, state poet laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour shares an insider's appreciation for Appalachia's hard-worked land and hardworking people, who persevere with honor, humility, and courage through multigenerational struggles.
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A Brilliant Loss: Poems
by Eloise Klein Healy
A poetic journey into the loss of language and the reclaiming of it. Healy had Wernicke's aphasia in 2013 when she was the first poet laureate of the City of Los Angeles, and the virus hit her the night of her reading with Caroline Kennedy at the Central Library. Wernicke's aphasia affects language and the use of words. This collection shows Healy's brain has access to its deepest unconscious, and that place is poetry.
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Canopy
by Linda Gregerson
Linda Gregerson's new collection is a compendium of lives touched by the radical fragility of the planet and, ultimately, the endless astonishment and paradox of being human within the larger ecosystem.
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Craft and Conscience: How to Write About Social Issues
by Kavita Das
Craft and Conscience helps writers weave together their narrative craft, conscience, and analytical and research skills, to create prose to illuminate and underscore the individual and collective impact of crucial issues of our time.
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Listening in the Dark: Women Reclaiming the Power of Intuition
by Amber Tamblyn
Some of the most striking women-identifying visionaries in literature, science, art, education, medicine and politics share their insights and reflections on learning how to follow their own gut reactions in pivotal, crossroad moments, helping readers to connect with their own inner wisdom and better listen to their intuition.
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The Symmetry of Fish
by Su Cho
From National Poetry Series winner Su Cho, a debut poetry collection about immigration, memory, and a family's lexicon.
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