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New Nonfiction Releases August, 2023 |
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Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood
by Joanna Novak
An author struggling with a creative block and depression during her pregnancy tells the story of how an obsession with abstract expressionist painter Agnes Martin helped her face up to the joys and challenges of impending motherhood.
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Everything/Nothing/Someone: A Memoir
by Alice Carriere
This compelling literary debut tells the story of a young woman coming of age in the bohemian‘90s as she navigates through the challenges of adolescence and grapples with dissociative disorder.
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The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
by Monica Potts
In this gripping narrative, Potts deftly pinpoints the choices that sent her and her childhood friend Darci on such different paths and then widens the lens to explain why those choices are so limited. The Forgotten Girls is a profound, compassionate look at a population in trouble, and a uniquely personal account of the way larger forces, such as inheritance, education, religion, and politics, shape individual lives.
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A Pocketful of Happiness: A Memoir
by Richard E. Grant
The star of the 1987 cult classic "Withnail and I" recalls the pain of losing his wife of 40 years and the fulfillment of his promise to her to find a “pocketful of happiness in every day.”
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Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping
by Shane Mccrae
An award-winning poet presents this unforgettable memoir in which he recounts being kidnapped from his black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents until he finally discovers the truth, allowing him to finally reunite with his father and find his own place in the world.
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Toy Fights : A Boyhood
by Don Paterson
For readers of Douglas Stuart and Nick Hornby comes an uproarious, tenderhearted memoir of growing up in working-class Dundee in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
by Tahir Hamut Izgil
In this story of the political, social and cultural destruction of his homeland, a prominent poet and intellectual calls our attention to one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises: the persecution of the Uyghur people—a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China.
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Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
by Anna Funder
Drawing on newly discovered letters from George Orwell's wife, Eileen O'Shaughnessy, to her best friend, an award-winning author recreates the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century, pondering the question of what it takes to be a writer—and what it is to be a wife.
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Battlefield Cyber: How China and Russia Are Undermining Our Democracy and National Security
by Michael G. McLaughlin
The United States is being bombarded with cyber-attacks. From the surge in ransomware groups targeting critical infrastructure to nation states compromising the software supply chain and corporate email servers, malicious cyber activities have reached an all-time high. Russia attracts the most attention, but China is vastly more sophisticated. They have a common interest in exploiting the openness of the Internet and social media-and our democracy-to erode confidence in our institutions and to exacerbate our societal rifts to prevent us from mounting an effective response. Halting this digital aggression will require Americans to undertake sweeping changes in how we educate, organize and protect ourselves and to ask difficult questions about how vulnerable our largest technology giants are.
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It's a Gas: The Sublime and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World
by Mark Miodownik
In this hilarious guide, a best-selling science writer and materials scientist profiles the 10 gases that shaped human history, from hydrogen to neon, and presents the story of that tricky space where science and belief collide, and of the elusive limits of human understanding.
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The Place We Make: Breaking the Legacy of Legalized Hate
by Sarah L. Sanderson
In this incredible true story, the author discovers she's related to two White men who convicted and exiled a Black man from Oregon under the Exclusion Law in 1951, causing her to grapple with racism, faith and privilege as she investigates the cultural and theological fallout of this case.
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A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
by Natasha Tidd
Taking readers on a global journey through human history, historian Natasha Tidd examines how lies can change the world around us, from Julius Caesar’s deceptive PR machine to the cover ups that caused Chernobyl.
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The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
by Prudence Peiffer
In this multifaceted biographical portrait and riveting historical account, an art historian takes readers back to mid-20th-century NYC and to Coenties Slip, which was home to a circle of wildly talented and varied artists who created a unique community of creative expression and experimentation that changed the course of American art.
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Star Crossed: A True WWII Romeo and Juliet Love Story in Hitler's Paris
by Heather Dune Macadam
Drawn from never-before-published family letters, archival sources and exclusive interviews, this epic true story of love and resistance during World War II follows the romance between a Catholic resistance fighter and a Holocaust victim who met in a famous Paris café before war, prejudice and disapproving families set them on divergent and tragically inevitable paths.
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Truman and the Bomb: The Untold Story
by D. M. Giangreco
Based on previously unpublished research, noted historian D. M. Giangreco provides a concise account of President Harry S. Truman's decision to drop the atom bomb during World War II, focusing on the question: What did Truman know, and when did he know it?
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Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health
by James Tabery
Exposing the origin story of personalized medicine, one of power, politics and greed, and tracing its path from the Human Genome Project to the present, this thought-provoking book serves as a warning cry about the current trajectory of health care and charts a path to a more equitable alternative.
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Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II
by Lena S. Andrews
In this groundbreaking new history of the role of American women in World War II, a top military analyst for the CIA presents the inspiring, shocking and heartbreaking stories of these servicewomen that reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of combat in the war and illustrates important realities about modern warfighting.
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Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
by Leah L. Chang
This dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary Queen of Scots, who lived through the changes that transformed sixteenth-century Europe, shows how they learned that to rule as queen was to wage a constant war against the deeply entrenched misogyny of their time.
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The Art of Libromancy: Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century
by Josh Cook
If books are important to you because you're a reader or a writer, then how books are sold should be important to you as well. If it matters to you that your vegetables are organic, your clothes made without child labor, your beer brewed without a culture of misogyny, then it should matter how books are made and sold to you.
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Congratulations, the Best Is Over!: Essays
by R. Eric Thomas
The best-selling author of Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America presents a collection of relatable and humorous essays that explore his return to his hometown of Baltimore.
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The Diaspora Sonnets
by Oliver De la Paz
For fans of Diane Seuss and Victoria Chang, a coruscating collection that eloquently invokes the perseverance and myth of the Filipino diaspora in America.
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Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
by Thien Pham
Told through the lens of meaningful food and meals, this graphic novel chronicles the author's childhood immigration to America where food takes on new meaning as he and his family search for belonging, for happiness and for the American dream.
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Heavy Is the Head
by Sumaya Enyegue
Where does all the grief go when it’s not tugging at your wrist?” Enyegue’s debut collection is an ode to girlhood, to Blackness, to generational trauma, sexual assault, and mental health.
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Information Desk: An Epic
by Robyn Schiff
Set at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's information desk, this book-length poem in three parts takes readers on a soul-searching, thought-provoking journey to confront the violent forces that inform the museum's encyclopedic collection and the spiritual powers of art.
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Negative Money: Poems
by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Negative Money follows a speaker continually coming of age while probing the binary thresholds of racial and gender identity, violence and safety, security and precarity, love and loneliness.
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That Time We Ate Our Feelings: 150 Recipes for Comfort Food from the Heart
by Lisa Lucas
Proving that a good meal heals all, the stars of the hit sensation Corona Kitchen, mixing in hilarious (and relatable) personal anecdotes, present their most beloved dishes, along with never-before-shared creations, and the top-voted dishes of members of the Corona Kitchen community.
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