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New Nonfiction Releases June, 2023 |
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Adult Drama: And Other Essays
by Natalie Beach
The writer of the viral New York Magazine piece “I Was Caroline Calloway” presents an absurdist and comical memoir-in-essays about the frenzied journey to adulthood in a world gone mad.
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Almost Brown: A Memoir
by Charlotte Gill
A best-selling and award-winning writer traces the complexities of her life within a multicultural household and her unconscious bias favoring one parent over the other in our society's racial tug of war.
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George: A Magpie Memoir
by Frieda Hughes
The daughter of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath recalls how she moved to the countryside to start a new life, but instead found herself rescuing a baby magpie and embarking on an unlikely journey toward joy and connection.
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How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
by Harrison Scott Key
The Thurber Prize-winning author recalls his hilarious and shocking spiritual journey through hell and back after discovering his wife's infidelity with a family friend by confronting his own failure to love his wife in the ways she needed.
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The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
by Hadley Vlahos
A hospice nurse shows that end-of-life care can teach us just as much about how to live as it does about how we die, sharing moving stories of joy, wisdom and redemption from her patients' final moments while offering wisdom and comfort for those dealing with loss.
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The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage
by Nick De Semlyen
This entertaining behind-the-scenes account of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ‘90s Hollywood charts Stallone and Schwarzenegger's carnage-packed journey from enmity to friendship against the backdrop of Reagan's America and the Cold War and reveals untold stories of the colorful characters who ascended in their wake.
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The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays
by Kelly McMasters
A memoir in intimate essays navigating marriage and motherhood, art and ambition, grief and nostalgia, and the elusive concept of home.
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Never Give Up: A Prairie Family's Story
by Tom Brokaw
In this heartfelt story of his own family's greatest generation: his parents, the legendary broadcast journalist relates his mother's can-do spirit and his father's philosophy of “never give up”, which enabled them to survive the Great Depression and WWII—and help build the American century.
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Pageboy: A Memoir
by Elliot Page
The Oscar-nominated star who, after the success of "Juno," became one of the world's most beloved actors, reveals how his career turned into a nightmare as he navigated criticism and abuse in Hollywood until he had enough and stepped into who he truly is with defiance, strength and joy.
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Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark
by Sarafina El-Badry Nance
In this science-packed memoir, an Egyptian-American astrophysicist captures both the wonders of the Universe and traces the earthbound obstacles—sexism, racism, anxiety, self-doubt, cancer diagnoses and recovery—she faced as she pursued her passion and lifelong love of the stars.
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Strong Female Character
by Fern Brady
Diagnosed with autism at the age of 34, one of the UK's hottest comedy stars reflects on the ways her undiagnosed autism influenced her youth, from the tree that functioned as her childhood best friend to the psychiatric facility where she ended up when no one knew what to do with her.
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Through the Groves: A Memoir
by Anne Hull
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, in this richly evocative coming-of-age memoir, chronicles her childhood in the Florida orange groves of the 1960s where she, as her sexual identity took shape, plotted her escape from this place she loved that would never love her back.
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To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories
by Sarah Viren
Part coming-of-age story, part psychological thriller, part philosophical investigation, this book, based in part on a viral New York Times essay, follows the author's quest to prove her wife's innocence in a sexual misconduct case, exploring the line between truth and deception, fact and fiction and reality and conspiracy.
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White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port
by Kate Storey
Drawing from conversations with family members, friends, neighbors, household and security staff, this multigenerational story of the Kennedy family as seen through their Hyannis Port compound on Cape Cod provides a sweeping history of an American dynasty that has left an indelible mark on our nation's politics and culture.
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The Wreck: A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother
by Cassandra Jackson
Equal parts investigative and deeply introspective, The Wreck is a profound memoir about recognizing the echoes of history within ourselves, and the alchemy of turning inherited grief into political activism.
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Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions
by Mattie Kahn
Recounting one of the most foundational and underappreciated forces in moments of American revolution--teenage girls--an award-winning writer uncovers how they have leveraged their unique strengths to organize and lay serious political groundwork for movements that often sidelined them.
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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
by Blair Lm Kelley
An award-winning historian shows how the experiences of the Black working class, from the earliest days of the republic to the essential worker of the Covid pandemic, is essential to a full understanding of the American story.
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Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law
by Richard Rothstein
This follow-up to The Color of Law, which brilliantly recounted how government at all levels created segregation, describes activities readers and supporters can do in their communities to challenge residential segregation and help remedy America's profoundly unconstitutional past.
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Little, Crazy Children
by James Renner
Drawing on research culled from police files, court records, transcripts, uncollected evidence and new interviews, this gripping work of investigative journalism revisits the 1990 unsolved murder of 16-year-old Lisa Pruett in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, revealing the dark secrets teens tell—and keep.
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Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses
by David Scheel
Drawing on his 25 years of studying octopuses, a renowned marine biologist investigates four major mysteries of these elusive beings, exploring amazing new scientific developments and weaving accounts of his research and surprising encounters with stories and legends of Indigenous peoples.
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The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
by Keyu Jin
Fluent in both Eastern and Western cultures, a world-renowned economist, born in China, educated in the U.S. and is now a tenured professor at the London School of Economics, explains how China became the most successful economic story of our time.
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The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them
by Peter Wohlleben
Sharing emerging scientific research about how forests shape climates both locally and across continents, the international bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how ancient forests pass their wisdom through generations and why our future lies in protecting them.
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The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World
by Bruce Feiler
Drawing from interviews with an extraordinarily diverse group of Americans, the New York Times bestselling author of Life Is in the Transitions shares his powerful new vision for finding meaning and purpose at work, empowering each of us to stop chasing someone else's dream and start chasing our own.
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The Soldier's Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II
by David Chrisinger
Drawing on access to all of Pyle's personal correspondences, an acclaimed writer paints a vivid portrait of the life and world of legendary journalist Ernie Pyle, an ordinary American hero who gave WWII a human face for millions of Americans, and interweaves his own travels searching for the landmarks Pyle wrote about.
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The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
by Alexander Stille
Reconstructing the inner life of a hidden parallel world through countless interviews and personal papers, this nearly unbelievable story recounts transformation of NYC's Sullivan Institute for Research in Psychoanalysis into an insular cult, with therapists controlling virtually every aspect of their patients' lives.
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A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
by Mark O'Connell
An award-winning author tells the true crime tale of a Dublin socialite who squandered all his money and planned and executed a 1982 bank robbery that left two innocent people dead and whose conviction created an infamous political scandal.
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What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
by Jennifer Ackerman
Illuminating the rich biology and natural history of owls, the most elusive of birds—and often a symbol of wisdom, knowledge and foresight—the New York Times best-selling author of The Genius of Birds takes us around the globe and through human history to understand the complex nature of these extraordinary creatures.
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What the Dead Know: Learning About Life As a New York City Death Investigator
by Barbara Butcher
Reflecting on twenty years of investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, an NYC death investigator, the second woman ever hired for this role, shares how, in dealing with death every day, she learned surprising lessons about life—and how some of those lessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself.
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Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage
by Helen Ellis
In this collection of surprising, sexy and comically candid essays, the New York Times bestselling humorist invites readers into the Coral Lounge, a room in her apartment where all the parties happen until it becomes a place of refuge during the pandemic for her and her husband.
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Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
by Claire Dederer
Exploring the audience's relationship with artists from Woody Allen to Michael Jackson, a New York Times bestselling author, book critic, essayist and reporter, in this candid, deeply personal book, discusses whether and how we can separate artists from their art.
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On Women
by Susan Sontag
A new collection of Susan Sontag's essays about women, edited by David Rieff and introduced by Merve Emre.
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Quietly Hostile: Essays
by Samantha Irby
In this much-anticipated new collection of hilarious essays, the beloved bestselling author takes us on another outrageously funny tour of all the gory details that make up the true portrait of a life behind the screenshotted depression memes.
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What Small Sound: Poems
by Francesca Bell
With unwavering tenderness and ferocity, Bell examines the perils and peculiarities of womanhood, motherhood, and our difficult, shared humanity.
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