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New Nonfiction Releases April, 2022 |
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Badge of Courage: The Life of Stephen Crane
by Linda H. Davis
| Shipwrecks, war reportings, romance, and scandal. World famous at age twenty-four, renowned writer Stephen Crane’s wildly fascinating life reads just like a novel. Award-winning biographer Linda H. Davis provides unparalleled insight into the extraordinary life of this American classic. This reprint includes a new introduction from the author. | |
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Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life: A Memoir
by Delia Ephron
The best-selling novelist and screenwriter of "You’ve Got Mail" shares how she got a second chance at love later in life with Peter, a Bay Area psychiatrist; her battle with AML with Peter and friends by her side, and her feelings about facing death.
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Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
by Tara T. Green
Born in New Orleans in 1875 to a mother who was formerly enslaved and a father of questionable identity, Alice Dunbar-Nelson was a pioneering activist, writer, suffragist, and educator. Until now, Dunbar-Nelson has largely been viewed only in relation to her abusive ex-husband, the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. This is the first book-length look at this major figure in Black women's history, covering her life from the post-reconstruction era through the Harlem Renaissance.
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Playing With Myself
by Randy Rainbow
Setting the record straight, the man who conquered YouTube with a stylish pair of pink glasses shares the journey that led to Randy Rainbow, from his childhood as an often-misunderstood little boy to the creation of his trademark comedy character.
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Running Sideways: The Olympic Champion Who Made Track and Field History
by Pauline Davis
The inspiring story of Pauline Davis, a Bahamian sprinter who fought through poverty, inequality, and racism to compete in five Olympic Games and become the first woman from the Caribbean to win Olympic gold. She would inspire an entire nation and go onto become the first Black woman elected to the international governing body of athletics.
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Tied Up in Knotts: My Dad and Me
by Karen Knotts
In Tied Up in Knotts, a loving daughter provides a full-life narrative of her father: Don's difficult childhood in an abusive home, his escape into comedic performance, becoming a household name, his growth as a feature film actor, his failing health, and his family life throughout, leading to touching and hilarious moments that will make the reader laugh and cry.
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The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
This rare glimpse into one of the greatest literary personalities to ever have lived takes readers to the year 1851 during which Dickens embraces his calling as a chronicler of ordinary people’s lives and develops a new form of writing revealing just how interconnected the world was becoming.
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With or Without Me: A Memoir of Losing and Finding
by Esther Maria Magnis
Where is God when your loved ones get cancer? With or Without Me is an unsparing and eloquent critique of religion. Yet Esther Maria Magnis's frustration is merely the beginning of a tortuous journey toward faith. Esther Maria Magnis knows believing in God is anything but easy, because he allows people to suffer.
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The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird
by Jack E. Davis
Featuring stories of Founding Fathers, rapacious hunters, heroic bird rescuers and the lives of bald eagles themselves, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Gulf presents a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America, demonstrating how this bird’s wondrous journey may provide inspiration today.
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A Brief History of Equality
by Thomas Piketty
A leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding.
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Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
by F. B. M. de Waal
A world-renowned primatologist and author of Mama's Last Hug uses the behavior of chimpanzees and bonobos to demonstrate that biology does not automatically support the traditional gender roles based on gender and biological sex in human societies.
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The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER
by Thomas Fisher
From a renowned emergency room doctor and healthcare policy expert comes the riveting story of a year in the life of an emergency room on the South Side of Chicago during a pandemic—and a powerful argument that American healthcare is designed to sacrifice the lives of the most vulnerable.
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The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure
by Yascha Mounk
Drawing on history, social psychology and comparative politics, one of the most important political thinkers examines how diverse societies have long suffered from the ills of domination, fragmentation or structured anarchy, and provides a profound understanding of an urgent problem and genuine hope for our human capacity to solve it.
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Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
by Jeevan Vasagar
Lion City examines the different faces of Singaporean life - from education and health to art, politics and demographic challenges - and reveals how in just half a century, Lee forged a country with a buoyant economy and distinctive identity. It explores the darker side of how this was achieved too; through authoritarian control that led to it being dubbed 'Disneyland with the death penalty'.
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Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties
by David De Jong
In this landmark work of investigative journalism, the author, using a wealth of untapped sources, reveals how Germany’s wealthiest business dynasties amassed untold money and power by abetting the atrocities of the Third Reich, and exposes how America’s political expediency enabled these billionaires to get away with their crimes.
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The Trayvon Generation
by Elizabeth Alexander
Originally published in the New Yorker, one of the great literary voices of our time shares her celebrated and moving reflection on the challenges facing young Black America, illuminating our nation’s unresolved problem with race.
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Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America
by Mark Follman
From an award-winning Mother Jones editor comes the inside story of the decades-long search for identifiable profiles and warning signs of mass shooters, by way of the specialized teams of psychologists, cops and ordinary citizens working to predict and prevent violence in America.
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Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace
by Christopher Blattman
A seasoned peace builder and acclaimed expert on violence, drawing on decades of economics, political science, psychology and real-word interventions, examines the root causes and remedies for war, and gives new meaning to the adage “Give peace a chance.”
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Home
by Julio Anta
After being separated from his mother at the U.S. border, a young Guatemalan immigrant must learn to harness emerging super-human abilities while being hunted by the Federal Government.
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How to Be Normal: Essays
by Phil Christman
With exquisite attention to syntax and prose, the astoundingly well-read Christman pairs a deceptively breezy style with radical openness. In his witty, original hands, seemingly "normal" subjects are rendered exceptional, and exceptionally.
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In a Time of Distance: And Other Poems
by Alexander McCall Smith
A collection of poems from the best-selling No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency novels reflects on friendship, love and travel and celebrates people, places animals and reading using the same wit and charm that appears in her books.
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Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life
by Jonathan Van Ness
In a candid and curious essay collection, a Queer Eye star takes a thoughtful, in-depth look at timely topics through the lens of his own personal experience—instances that have required him to learn, grow, and find a better understanding of the world around him.
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Start Without Me: I'll Be There in a Minute
by Gary Janetti
In this perfect book for any of us who have felt the joy in holding a lifelong grudge, the New York Times best-selling author presents a hilarious, laugh-out-loud collection of true stories about the small moments that add up to a big life.
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Time Is a Mother
by Ocean Vuong
The highly anticipated collection of poems from an award-winning writer.
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Write for Your Life
by Anna Quindlen
The #1 New York Times best-selling novelist and author of A Short Guide to a Happy Life, using examples past, present and future, shows how writing connects us, to ourselves and those we cherish – and issues a clarion call to pick up the pen, and find yourself.
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