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New Nonfiction Releases January, 2024 |
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The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History
by Manjula Martin
In this part memoir, part natural history, part literary inquiry, the author recounts her experiences in Northern California during the worst fire season on record, which causes her to question her own assumptions about nature and the complicated connections between people and the land on which we live.
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Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons With Racism in Medicine
by Uché Blackstock
Part searing indictment of our healthcare system, part generational family memoir, part call to action, a physician and thought leader on bias and racism in healthcare recounts her journey to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
by Joy-Ann Reid
Tracing the extraordinary lives and legacy of two civil rights icons, this gripping account of Medgar and Myrlie Evers is told through their relationship and the work that went into winning basic rights for Black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today.
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Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice
by Ben Rothenberg
Published to coincide with her return to tennis, this deeply reported, revealing biography of the Haitian-American/Japanese phenomenon and activist chronicles her rise to fame and the incredible impact she's had on the game and on social justice as she advocates for racial justice and mental health.
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One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
by Kate Kennedy
In this laugh-out-loud book filled with keen observations, a pop culture commentator and host of the millennial-focused podcast Be There in Five both celebrates and criticizes the culture that shaped her as a woman, tackling AOL Instant Messenger, American Girl Dolls, Spice Girl feminism, millennial motherhood and more.
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Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself
by Crystal Hefner
A world-renowned model, advocate, entrepreneur and wife of the late Hugh Hefner provides a fascinating look behind-the-scenes at a powerful cultural icon and brand, revealing the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion and sharing her transformative journey to a person who finally recognized her true worth.
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Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish
by Francesca Peacock
Shining on a light on the remarkable—and in her time scandalous—17th century writer who pioneered the science fiction novel, this biography of the brilliant, courageous proto-feminist largely forgotten by history chronicles her complex and controversial life.
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Rental Person Who Does Nothing: A Memoir
by Shoji Morimoto
The author shares his unique perspective on how we look at work, relationships and life, and how we often have trouble talking about the things most important to us, with the people closest to us.
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Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
by Jâozsef Debreczeni
This lost memoir from a Holocaust survivor, translated into English for the first time, provides an eyewitness account of his twelve horrifying months of incarceration and slave labor in World War II Nazi concentration camps.
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The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
by Tim Alberta
An award-winning journalist follows up his New York Times bestseller American Carnage with this profoundly troubling portrait of the American evangelical movement in which he investigates the ways in which conservative Christians have pursued, exercised and often abused power in the name of securing this earthly kingdom.
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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
by Antonia Hylton
Tracing the legacy of slavery to the treatment of Black people's bodies and minds in our current healthcare system, a Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregated asylums.
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The Purest Bond: Understanding the Human-Canine Connection
by Jennifer Golbeck
Blending groundbreaking research with uplifting real-life tales, this feel-good book explores the benefits our canine companions can have on our physical, emotional, cognitive and social well-being, often without our realizing it.
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This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets
by Kwame Alexander
Exploring joy, love, origin, race, resistance and praise, this beautiful poetry anthology, featuring works from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time, is filled with poignant and delightful imagery, music and raised fists.
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Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair
by Christian Wiman
In this intricately woven tapestry of poetry, memoir, theology and criticism, an award-winning poet, through 50 brief pieces, framed by two more, unravels the seductive appeal of despair.
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The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
by Michael Finkel
This riveting true story of art, crime, love and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost draws us into the strange and fascinating world of prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser, who stole and kept more than 300 objects until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down.
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The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
by Jonathan Rosen
An acclaimed author investigates the forces that led his closest childhood friend, a paranoid schizophrenic with brilliant promise who defied the odds and graduated from Yale Law School, to kill the woman he loved, in this exploration of the ways in which we understand--and fail to understand--mental illness.
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The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
by Andrew Leland
In a book that is part memoir, part historical and cultural investigation, the author, midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, explores the state of being that awaits him, not only the physical experience of blindness but also its language, politics and customs so he can not only survive this transition but grow from it.
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
by Cat Bohannon
Covering the past 200 million tears to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex, this groundbreaking account of the real origin of our species—and a sweeping revision of human history—will completely change what you think you know about evolution.
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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
by John Vaillant
The best-selling author of The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival describes the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire disaster that drove 88,000 people from their homes instantly and how this is a shocking preview of a hotter, flammable world.
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How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
by Safiya Sinclair
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by her father’s strict patriarchal views and repressive control of her childhood, to find her own voice as a woman and poet.
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Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
by Gary J. Bass
The product of 10 years of research and writing, this riveting story of wartime action, dramatic courtroom battles and the epic formative years that set the stage for the Asian postwar era recounts the trial of Japan's leaders as war criminals to create a legal framework to prosecute war crimes.
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King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig
Drawing on recently declassified FBI files, this first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon reveals the courageous and often emotionally troubled man who demanded peaceful protest but was rarely at peace with himself, while showing how his demands for racial and economic justice remain just as urgent today.
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Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
by Greg Marshall
In this hilarious and heartfelt memoir, the author shares outrageous stories of a singular childhood and his coming out of two closets—as a gay man and as a man living with cerebral palsy—examining what it means to transform when there are parts of yourself you can't change.
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A Living Remedy: A Memoir
by Nicole Chung
The bestselling author of All You Can Ever Know returns with a memoir of her experiences as a Korean adoptee and the challenges she faced holding on to family bonds in the face of hardship and tragedy.
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My Name is Barbra
by Barbra Streisand
In her own words, the living legend tells the story of her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her first star-making appearances in NY nightclubs to her breakout performance in Funny Girl to the long string of successes in every medium in the years that followed.
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Ordinary Notes
by Christina Sharpe
Told through a series of 248 notes, this brilliant volume explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake, touching upon such themes as language, beauty, memory, history and literature.
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Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of Latino
by Héctor Tobar
The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, sharing his personal experiences as the son of Guatemalan immigrants and the stories told to him by his Latinx students, offers a spirited response to racist ideas about Latino people, investigating topics that include the U.S.-Mexico border “wall,” urban segregation and gangs.
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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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Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
by Malcolm Harris
In PALO ALTO, the first comprehensive history of Silicon Valley, Malcolm Harris examines how and why Northern California evolved in the particular, consequential way it did, tracing the ideologies, technologies, and policies that have been engineered there over the course of 150 years of Anglo settler colonialism, from IQ tests to the "tragedy of the commons," racial genetics, and "broken windows" theory.
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Poverty, by America
by Matthew Desmond
Drawing on history, research and original reporting, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, revealing there is so much poverty in America not in spite of our wealth but because of it, and builds a startingly original case for eliminating poverty in our country.
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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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Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
by Jamie Loftus
In a book that is part travelogue, part cultural history, a popular comedian embarks on a cross-country road trip researching the landscape of American hot dogs as they're served today, weighing in on the reality of hot dog production, the best hot dog in the U.S. and critically overlooked bun infrastructure problems.
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Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
by Patricia Evangelista
In this thoroughly reported and deeply human chronicle of the Philippines' drug war and Rodrigo Duterte's assault on the country's struggling democracy, a trauma journalist immerses herself in the world of killers and survivors, capturing the atmosphere of fear created when an elected president decides some lives are worth less than others.
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
by David Grann
In this tale of shipwreck, survival and savagery, the bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon recounts the events on His Majesty's Ship The Wager, a British vessel that left England in 1740 on a secret mission, resulting in a court martial that revealed a shocking truth.
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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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The Woman in Me
by Britney Spears
The noted pop star offers a moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.
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You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
by Maggie Smith
The award-winning poet explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself, interweaving snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness and narrative itself and revealing how, in the aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and make something beautiful.
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