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New Nonfiction Releases May, 2022 |
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Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, a Life Rediscovered
by Melissa Gilbert
The New York Times best-selling author and star of "Little House on the Prairie" recounts her return to rustic life with her new husband in a cottage in the Catskill Mountains during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
by Margo Jefferson
The award-winning critic and memoirist has lived in the thrall of a cast of others--her parents and maternal grandmother, jazz luminaries, writers, artists, athletes, and stars, and she brings these figures to life in a new memoir.
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Easy Beauty: A Memoir
by Chloe Cooper Jones
A philosophy professor and freelance journalist born with a rare congenital condition which affects both her stature and gait discusses how she has navigated a world that both judges and pities her for her appearance.
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Finding Me: A Memoir
by Viola Davis
A noted actress's memoir, in her own words, spans her incredible, inspiring life, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to her present day.
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Hello, Molly!: A Memoir
by Molly Shannon
The actress looks back on losing her mother, sister and cousin in a car accident with her father at the wheel as well as her days as a beloved Saturday Night Live cast member.
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Lessons from the Edge
by Marie Yovanovitch
In a new memoir, the U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine, whose life and work have taught her the preciousness of democracy as well as the dangers of corruption, details her involvement in President Trump’s impeachment inquiry and her response to his smear campaign.
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Long Train Runnin': Our Story of the Doobie Brothers
by Tom Johnston
Only a very few rock bands have had the longevity, success, and drama of The Doobie Brothers. Born out of late 1960s NorCal, and led by Pat Simmons and Tom Johnston, they stood alongside their contemporaries The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers, and many others as an iconic American rock band. The train was rolling along, hits were flowing like wine, and arenas were packed with fans who wanted to see them live...then Tom Johnston, the band’s front man and lead guitarist, became ill and had to leave.
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Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up
by Selma Blair
The celebrated Hollywood actress and model, in this original, intelligent and wise memoir, lays bare her addiction to alcohol, her devotion to her brilliant and complicated mother, the moments she had flirted with death and how she found surprising salvation in her multiple sclerosis diagnosis.
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Mother Noise : A Memoir
by Cindy House
A poignant and beautiful memoir told in essays and graphic shorts about what life looks like twenty years after recovery from addiction—and how to live with the past as a parent, writer, and sober person.
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The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride
by David J. Dennis, Jr.
A dynamic family exchange that pivots between the voices of a father and son, The Movement Made Us is a unique work of oral history and memoir, chronicling the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter.
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Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations With a Body of Memory
by Sarah Polley
Exploring the dialogue between her past and present, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director and actor, whose work is celebrated for its honesty, complexity and deep humanity, presents six essays exploring what it is to live in one's body, in a constant state of becoming, learning and changing.
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Serenade: A Balanchine Story
by Toni Bentley
In this rich narrative, ballerina Toni Bentley recounts her experiences working with choreographer Balanchine during his final years, taking us backstage and onstage to learn about the serendipitous history and physical demands of Serenade and sharing the impact he had on her life.
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Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
by Danyel Smith
From a noted cultural critic comes a combination of memoir, criticism, and biography that tells the story of black women in music--from the Dixie Cups to Gladys Knight to Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, and Mariah Carey, as the foundational story of American pop.
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Tasha: A Son's Memoir
by Brian Morton
In this surprising portrait of an unforgettable woman, her son explores the lessons he learned from his mother, presents a stark look at caring for an elderly parent and offers a meditation on the business of trying to honor ourselves without forsaking our parents.
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Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable
by Zain E. Asher
A popular CNN anchor pays tribute to her mother, a widowed immigrant in South London who raised four successful children alone, including Oscar-nominated actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, painting a powerful portrait of the strength, tenacity, love and perseverance embodied in one woman.
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African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
by David Hackett Fischer
A brilliant synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and laws of the early United States.
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Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
by Susan Cain
The author of the best-selling Quiet discusses how a bittersweet state of mind can actually be a kind of silent energy that aids us in overcoming our personal and societal suffering.
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Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945
by Richard Overy
A reassessment of World War II, from Britain's leading military historian, Richard Overy. Blood and Ruins sets out to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath.
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The High Sierra: A Love Story
by Kim Stanley Robinson
In this stunning tribute to the Sierra Nevada mountains, a New York Times best-selling writer explores what makes this span of mountains one of the most compelling places on Earth and shares his own personal experiences to inspire other travel readers to prepare for a life-changing adventure.
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How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
by Bill Gates
The technologist, business leader and philanthropist who founded Microsoft explains the science of fighting pandemics, discusses the lessons learned from COVID-19 and provides a path forward to preventing another pandemic from taking millions of lives.
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Liberalism and Its Discontents
by Francis Fukuyama
A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order.
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Lily's Promise: Holding on to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond—a Story for All Generations
by Lily Ebert
On Yom Kippur, 1944, fighting to stay alive as a prisoner in Auschwitz, Lily Ebert made a promise to herself. She would survive the hell she was in and tell the world her story, for everyone who couldn’t. Now, at ninety-eight, this remarkable woman—and TikTok sensation, thanks to the help of her eighteen-year-old great-grandson—fulfills that vow, relaying the details of her harrowing experiences with candor, charm, and an overflowing heart.
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My Life: Growing Up Asian in America
by Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment
A collection of thirty heartfelt, witty, and hopeful thought pieces on the experience of growing up Asian American, for fans of Minor Feelings.
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The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
by Matthew Continetti
The author gives a sweeping account of conservatism’s evolution, from the Progressive Era through the present. Drawing out the tensions between the desire for mainstream acceptance and the pull of extremism, Continetti argues that the more one studies conservatism’s past, the more one becomes convinced of its future.
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Cain Named the Animal: Poems
by Shane McCrae
Cain Named the Animal expands upon the biblical, heavenly world that McCrae has been building throughout his previous collections; he writes of Eden, of the lost tribe that watched time enter the garden and God rehearse the world, and of the cartoon torments of hell.
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Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984-2021
by Gary Indiana
The novelist, cultural critic, and indie icon serves up sometimes bitchy, always generous, erudite, and joyful assessments from the last thirty-five years of cutting edge film, art, and literature.
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Happy-Go-Lucky
by David Sedaris
The best-selling, award-winning author of Calypso and regular contributor to The New Yorker is back with a whole new collection of satirical and humorous essays that chronical his own life and ordinary moments that turn beautifully absurd.
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In Praise of Good Bookstores
by Jeff Deutsch
Drawing on his lifelong experience as a bookseller the author aims, in a series of brief essays, to consider how concepts like space, time, abundance, measure, community, and reverence find expression in a good bookstore, and to show some ways in which the importance of the bookstore is both urgent and enduring.
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My Hollywood and Other Poems
by Boris Dralyuk
A tender collection of original and translated poetry from the editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books exploring the lives and longing of Russian immigrants in L.A.
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The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy
by James Crews
James Crews, editor of the best-selling How to Love the World, presents an all-new anthology of poems that explore the theme of kindness, featuring more than 100 uplifting and accessible poems by a diverse group of well-known and emerging contemporary poets, including Julia Alvarez, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ross Gay, Ada Limón, Danusha Lameris, Alberto Ríos, and more.
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Ten Days in a Mad-house
by Brad Ricca
Nellie Bly’s complete, true-to-life 19th-century investigation of Blackwell Asylum captures a groundbreaking moment in history and reveals a haunting and timely glimpse at the starting point for conversations on mental health.
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Thin Places
by Kerri ní Dochartaigh
Both a celebration of the natural world and a memoir of one family's experience during the Troubles.
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The Third Person
by Emma Grove
A boldly drawn, unforgettable memoir about trauma and the barriers to gender affirming health care.
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The Unwritten Book: An Investigation
by Samantha Hunt
Through literary criticism, family history, history, and memoir, inspired by Sebald, Joyce, Ali Smith, Morrison, Faulkner, and many others, the author explores questions of motherhood, hoarding, legacies of addiction, grief, how we insulate ourselves from the past, how we misinterpret the world.
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The Very Last Interview
by David Shields
Going back nearly 40 years, an internationally bestselling author gathers every interview he’s ever given to present a bitingly humorous, relentlessly self-questioning self-portrait focusing on such topics as Process, Childhood, Failure, Capitalism, Suicide and Comedy.
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Vinegar Hill: Poems
by Colm Tóibín
A wide variety of poems, ranging in setting and topic, Vinegar Hill deals with gay experience and with the experience of loss, with memory and a fading past as well as the present moment.
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Woman, Eat Me Whole: Poems
by Ama Asantewa Diaka
A bold, mesmerizing debut collection exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it means to move between cultures.
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Zoom Rooms: Poems
by Mary Jo Salter
Both timeless and timely, and directing us to moments we may otherwise miss, this brilliant collection of poems considers the strangeness of our recent existence, together with the enduring constants in our lives.
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