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New Nonfiction Releases March, 2024 |
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Birding to Change the World
by Trish O'Kane
A writer and educator specializing in environmental justice and climate change chronicles her bird-watching journey and shares what she has learned from each new bird she's observed about life, social change and protecting the environment.
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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
by Kara Swisher
From an award-winning journalist comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.
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Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
by Natalie Dykstra
Chronicles the life of the creator of one of America's most stunning museums—an American original whose own life was remade by art; includes archival photos of her world, museum and the art she collected.
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Cloistered: My Years As a Nun
by Catherine Coldstream
Provides a memoir of life inside the world of a traditional Carmelite monastery and the intense personal journey into and out of an enclosed life of poverty, chastity and obedience.
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Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin
by Andre Dubus
This new collection of essays from the best-selling author of Townie: A Memoir and House of Sand and Fog reflects on his successes, failures and struggles with traditional and modern masculinity.
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The House of Hidden Meanings
by RuPaul
From an international drag superstar and pop culture icon comes his most revealing and personal work to date—a deeply intimate memoir of growing up black, poor and queer in a broken home and discovering the power of performance, found family and self-acceptance.
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How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone
by Cameron Russell
The model and activist who helped organize the movement to bring equity to the fashion industry chronicles how she learned to navigate the often-exploitative modeling industry and helped bring racial and gender justice to the fashion world.
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I Finally Bought Some Jordans
by Michael Arceneaux
A New York Times best-selling author returns with a humorous collection of essays about making your voice heard in an increasingly noisy and chaotic world.
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Ian Fleming: The Complete Man
by Nicholas Shakespeare
A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers.
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Life: My Story Through History
by Pope Francis
For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed history—from his earliest years during the outbreak of World War II in 1939 to the turmoil of today.
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The Making of a Leader: The Formative Years of George C. Marshall
by Josiah Bunting
A military historian, in this portrait of one of the greatest leaders of modern history, cuts through the legend of George Catlett Marshall to the man—his frustrations, passions, loves and brilliance—to reveal a humble commander who knew not only how to lead but how to see the leader in others.
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The Manicurist's Daughter
by Susan Lieu
The author faces her family's harrowing story: Vietnamese refugees who open two nail salons, well on their way to the American Dream, only to lose their inimitable matriarch after a routine plastic surgery operation goes horribly awry.
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Mother Island
by Jamie Figueroa
Drawing from Puerto Rican folklore and mythology, a literary lineage of women writers of color and narratives of identity, this cultural coming-of-age story follows the author as she, estranged from her culture, looks to her ancestors to reimagine her relationship to the past to claim herself.
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Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong
by Katie Gee Salisbury
Set against the glittering backdrop of the Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood, this celebration of the first Asian American movie star who graced Oscar-winning films shows how she moved away from being typecast as a China doll or dragon lady and worked towards reshaping Asian American representation in film.
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One Way Back
by Christine Blasey Ford
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court; this is the true behind-the-scenes story of that testimony.
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Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story
by Kristine S. Ervin
Weaving together themes of power, gender and justice, the author, who was just eight years old when her mother was brutally murdered, recounts her drive to know her mother, and in the process, reckons with contradictions of what a woman is allowed to be and what a "true" victim looks like.
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Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
by Jason De Leâon
An internationally recognized anthropologist, who embedded himself within a group of smugglers moving migrants across Mexico over the course of seven years, presents this first-ever, character-driven look at human smuggling that revolves around the life and death of one coyote who falls in love and tries to leave smuggling behind.
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Waiting for the Monsoon
by Rod Nordland
In 2019, a Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent who reported in over 150 countries, many in violent upheaval, was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor, which gave him the strength to face more personal conflicts, in this unforgettable final dispatch that reveals how facing the unknown can change our relationship to the world around us.
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The Asteroid Hunter : A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of Our Solar System
by D. S. Lauretta
The Principal Investigator of NASA's historic OSIRIS-Rex Asteroid Sample Return Mission offers a behind-the-scenes account of his team's daring quest to retrieve an asteroid sample—one that held the potential to not only unlock the secrets of life's origins but also to avert an unprecedented disaster.
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The Black Box: Writing the Race
by Henry Louis Gates
Through essays and speeches, novels, plays and poems, this epic story of Black self-definition in America is told through the myriad of writers who've led the way and who have used words to create a livable world—a "home"—for Black people destined to live out their lives in a racist society.
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The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City
by Kevin Baker
Filled with eye-opening stories from baseball's beginnings to the end of World War II, a historian presents all the legendary players, managers and owners, in all their vivid, complicated humanity, on and off the field, as well as a portrait of 19th-century American life in New York City, where it all started.
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Reading Genesis
by Marilynne Robinson
A noted novelist and thinker presents an interpretation of the book of Genesis.
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Secrets of the Octopus
by Sy Montgomery
A new book—written by the author of the international best-seller The Soul of an Octopus and enhanced with vivid National Geographic photography—brings readers closer than ever to these elusive creatures.
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Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
by Cal Newport
Harnessing the wisdom of history's most creative and impactful philosophers, scientists, artists and writers who mastered the art of producing valuable work with staying power, this timely book provides a roadmap for escaping overload and arriving instead at a more timeless approach to pursuing meaningful accomplishment.
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Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power
by Timothy W. Ryback
Drawing on previously inaccessible archival materials, the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library provides a new perspective and insights into Hitler's personal and professional lives during the six critical months before he seized power as chancellor of Germany and dismantled democracy.
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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
by Hanif Abdurraqib
One of our culture's most insightful critics and most of all, an Ohioan, reflects on the golden era of basketball during the 1990s and explores what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tensions between excellence and expectation and the very notion of role models.
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The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
by Pamela J. Prickett
In this extraordinary work of narrative nonfiction, two sociologists investigate the rising number of unclaimed dead in America today, following four individuals in Los Angeles at risk of going unclaimed, and introducing us to the scene investigators, notification officers and crematorium workers who care for them when no one else will.
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You Get What You Pay for
by Morgan Parker
In this memoir-in-essays, the author, weaving unflinching criticism with intimate anecdotes, examines America's cultural history and relationship to black Americans through the ages, providing a deeper examination of racial consciousness and its effects on mental well-being today.
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A Point of Beauty: True Stories of Holding on and Letting Go
by Moth (Organization)
This collection of true stories about finding beauty in life's transitions is curated by The Moth, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling and features contributions from Elizabeth Gilbert, Lin-Manuel Miranda and many more.
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Fodor's California: With the Best Road Trips
by Fodor's Travel Guides
A compact, updated guide to the top sites and experiences of California includes maps, suggested itineraries, excursions and recommendations to fit every budget and see it all, from seeing the Hollywood sign to the giant redwoods of Muir Woods.
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