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New Nonfiction Releases November, 2023 |
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Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland
by Scott Shane
This riveting account of the little-known abolitionist, liberator and writer recounts how he organized mass escapes from Washington, Baltimore and surrounding counties to freedom in the north, risking his own freedom to battle what he called “the most inhuman system that ever blackened the pages of history.”
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Grimoire Girl: Creating an Inheritance of Magic and Mischief
by Hilarie Burton Morgan
The actor, producer and New York Times best-selling author, who has collected and catalogued life in all its strange wonder from an early age, shares how she assembled a patchwork inheritance of a lifetime of learning for her children, and encourages readers to create their own Grimoire by looking inward.
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Late Romance: Anthony Hecht: a Poet's Life
by David Yezzi
Published to celebrate the 100th year of his birth as well as to coincide with an edition of his collected poems, this first-ever definitive biography of the American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who witnessed WWII firsthand shows how he channeled his emotions into poetry of lasting meaning, control and death.
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Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea
by Hannah Stowe
A book to sweep you away from the shore, into a wild world of water, whale, storm, and starlight— to experience what it’s like to sail for weeks at a time with life set to a new rhythm.
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My Effin' Life
by Geddy Lee
Filled with never-before-seen photos, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and Rush bassist recounts his life inside and outside the band, talking candidly about his childhood, tracking the history of Rush, and sharing intimate stories of his lifelong friendships with his bandmates.
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My Name is Barbra
by Barbra Streisand
In her own words, the living legend tells the story of her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her first star-making appearances in NY nightclubs to her breakout performance in Funny Girl to the long string of successes in every medium in the years that followed.
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Radical: A Life of My Own
by Xiaolu Guo
Part memoir, part lexicon, part love letter, this thought-provoking book about separation—by continents, by language and from people—reflects on identity and meaning from the fringe of society as the author searches for creative freedom after stepping away from her family and everything she built for herself.
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The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation
by Raquel Willis
One of the most formidable Black trans activists in history, in this passionate and powerful memoir, recounts the possibility of transformation after tragedy, and how complex moments can push us all to take necessary risks and bloom toward collective liberation.
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Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
by Patricia Evangelista
In this thoroughly reported and deeply human chronicle of the Philippines' drug war and Rodrigo Duterte's assault on the country's struggling democracy, a trauma journalist immerses herself in the world of killers and survivors, capturing the atmosphere of fear created when an elected president decides some lives are worth less than others.
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Walk Through Fire
by Sheila C. Johnson
The cofounder of BET and the first African American woman billionaire vividly details her struggles, including racism, loss, emotional abuse and depression, that she overcame to become one of the most accomplished businesswomen in America, finally finding herself and her place in this world.
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Warriors, Rebels & Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X
by Moshik Temkin
Using art, film and literature to illustrate the drama of the past, the author refashions his wildly popular course at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government for a wider audience, showing how, in a world desperate for good leadership, we can evaluate those decisions and draw lessons for today.
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What the Taliban Told Me
by Ian Fritz
A memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in Afghanistan in a war that is lost.
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Worthy
by Jada Pinkett Smith
Pulling no punches, the global superstar chronicles the lessons of her storied life, from her rebellious youth to Hollywood success, taking us from the depths of suicidal depression to the heights of self-love, spiritual healing and authentic feminine power, in this impactful and rare memoir that engages and educates.
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American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860
by Edward L. Ayers
A celebrated historian turns his distinctive historical sensibility to a formative period of American history defined by competing strains of innovation and dissent that continues to echo in our society today.
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Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story
by McMillan Marshall
The New York Times best-selling author of Friday Night Lights recounts his investigation of a small-time fraternity Xanax trafficking ring that uncovered a murder, student deaths and millions of dollars circulating around an elite, hidden world.
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The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning With the Myth of the Good Billionaire
by Tim Schwab
Offering a groundbreaking expose of the Gates Foundation, an investigative journalist reveals a genius engineer who has innovated a method to turn extreme wealth into undemocratic political power, enabling him to shape global policy in public health, education and agriculture in whatever way he decides.
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Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods
by Sarah Lohman
A leading culinary historian looks at the ways American food traditions are in danger of being lost and discusses how we can reverse this trend by supporting community food organizations and producers.
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Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed: Notes from Periracial America
by Kim McLarin
| With accumulated wisdom and sharp-eyed clarity, Kim McLarin addresses the joys and hardships of being an older Black woman in contemporary, “periracial” America. The author utilizes deeply personal experiences to illuminate the pain and power of aging, Blackness and feminism, in the process capturing the endless cycle of progress and backlash that has long shaped race and gender. | |
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The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang
by Tom Clavin
Taking us back to the Wild West on October 5, 1892, this gripping true account of the Dalton Gang—four brothers and their rotating cast of accomplices—follows their attempt to rob two banks in broad daylight in Coffeyville, Kansas, simultaneously, which led to an epic gun battle that left eight men dead.
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Listen: On Music, Sound and Us
by Michel Faber
Drawing on a wide range of factors that shape our experience of sound, this lyrical exploration of music examines how we listen it and why we listen to it in the first place, challenging the very dichotomy between ‘good' and ‘bad' music and changing our relationship with the heard world.
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LIV and Let Die
by Alan Shipnuck
A trusted correspondent on the front lines of golf delivers a no-holds-barred account of LIV Golf's bid to usurp the PGA Tour–one of the most chaotic moments in golf history.
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Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
by David Leonhardt
Drawing on decades of writing about the economy for the New York Times, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, in this definitive biography of American dream, offers an eye-opening account of how the U.S. built the most prosperous mass economy in history after the Depression, and how that economy gradually unraveled.
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Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
by Rachel Maddow
A noted MSNBC anchor traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis.
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Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree That Changed America
by Harry N. MacLean
Drawing on new material, reporting and conclusions, this definitive story of 19-year-old Charles Starkweather, who, in 1958, murdered 10 people with his 14-year-old girlfriend, recounts this shocking event that served as the inspiration for the movie "Natural Born Killers" and Springsteen's iconic album "Nebraska."
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UFO: The Inside Story of the Us Government's Search for Alien Life Here - and Out There
by Garrett M. Graff
This thrilling story of science, the Cold War, Nazi research, atomic anxieties, secret spy planes and the space race draws on original archival research, declassified documents and interviews to present a narrative history of humanity's hunt for alien life, including the military and CIA's secret, decades-long quest to study UFOs.
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Heirloom Rooms: Soulful Stories of Home
by Erin Napier
In this visual celebration of the homes we live in and love, the host of HGTV's Home Town shares a collection of personal essays as she walks us through every room in her home, telling the story of a family's life and encourage us to document our own homemade memories.
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Hell, I Love Everybody: Poems
by James Tate
An essential collection of James Tate’s extraordinary poems that will captivate today’s readers, with a foreword by Terrance Hayes.
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Now I Lay Me Down to Fight: A Poet Writes Her Way Through Cancer
by Katherine J. Hutson
Cancer, did you know that I am a poet? In stirring verse and essays, Katy Bowser Hutson chronicles her battle with breast cancer and the complications of faith amid such a fight. Accentuated by the art of Jodi Hays, Katy's words lead us through her resistance to sickness, fight for survival, and wrestling toward beauty.
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Remembrance: Selected Correspondence of Ray Bradbury
by Ray Bradbury
Told through letters from his late teens to his ninth decade, this collection shows the iconic author's progression through life as he knew it, illuminating his enduring legacy as a storyteller, novelist and space-age visionary whose works turned into popular adaptations for stage, film and television.
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School of Instructions
by Ishion Hutchinson
The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet writes a stunning memorial work that excavates the forgotten experience of West Indian soldiers during World War I.
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Thin Skin: Essays
by Jenn Shapland
Weaving together historical research, interviews and her everyday life in New Mexico, a National Book Award finalist and powerful literary mind probes the lines between self and work, human and animal, need and desire as she examines capitalism's toxic creep into the land, our bodies and our thinking.
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Up Late
by Nick Laird
Acclaimed poet Nick Laird reflects on the strange and chaotic times we live in with singular precision, clarity, and daring.
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