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New Nonfiction Releases September 2022 |
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Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman
by Lucy Worsley
This biography of the legendary author focuses on the obstacles of class and gender she faced on the road to becoming a successful modern working woman, despite depicting herself as an ordinary Edwardian housewife.
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Dinners With Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
by Nina Totenberg
In this moving story of the joy and true meaning of friendship, NPR's award-winning legal affairs correspondent recounts her nearly 50-year friendship with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, presenting an extraordinary account of how they paved the way for future generations by tearing down professional and legal barriers.
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The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
by Peter Baker
Based on unprecedented access to key players, two top journalists and the best-selling authors of The Man Who Ran Washington tell the inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale.
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Enjoy Me Among My Ruins
by Juniper Fitzgerald
Juniper Fitzgerald recounts her life experiences as a queer, sex-working mother using childhood journal entries, feminist theories, and literary culture references.
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Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir
by Jann S. Wenner
The Rolling Stone magazine founder, co-editor and publisher offers a once-in-a-generation memoir from the beating heart of classic rock and roll.
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One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
by Michael Frank
The story of 99-year-old Stella Levi whose conversations with the writer Michael Frank over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world of Jewish Rhodes, the deportation to Auschwitz that extinguished 90 percent of her community and the resilience and wisdom of the woman who lived to tell the tale.
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A Place Called Home: A Memoir
by David Ambroz
A national poverty and child welfare expert who was raised homeless in New York City discusses how he escaped poverty to become a powerful child welfare advocate for the Obama administration and major U.S. companies.
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Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers
by Mary Rodgers
These memoirs of the theater star, author of books for young people, and chairman of the Juilliard School serve as both an eyewitness account from the Golden Age of American musical theater and a tale of a woman striving for a meaningful life.
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Solito
by Javier Zamora
A young poet reflects on his 3,000-mile journey from El Salvador to the United States when he was nine years old, during which he was faced with perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions during two life-altering months alongside a group of strangers who became an unexpected family.
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Stay True: A Memoir
by Hua Hsu
A New Yorker staff writer, in this gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self and the solace that can be found through art, recounts his close friendship with Ken, with whom he endured the successes and humiliations of everyday college life until Ken was violently, senselessly taken away from him.
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Token Black Girl: A Memoir
by Danielle Prescod
A fashion and beauty insider, in this revealing and candid memoir, unpacks the adverse effects of insidious white supremacy in the media to tell a personal story about recovery from damaging concepts of perfection, celebrating identity and demolishing social conditioning.
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Women Like Us
by Amanda Prowse
From her childhood, where there was no blueprint for success, to building a career as a bestselling novelist against all odds, Amanda Prowse explores what it means to be a woman in a world where popularity, slimness, beauty and youth are currency―and how she overcame all of that to forge her own path to happiness.
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Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
by Dipo Faloyin
An exuberant, opinionated, stereotype-busting view of contemporary Africa in all its splendid diversity by one of its leading new writers. A lively and diverse continent of fifty-four countries, over two thousand languages, and 1.4 billion people, the acclaimed journalist Dipo Faloyin boldly counters the stereotypes and highlights the realities of Africa's communities and histories.
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The Big Fix: Seven Practical Steps to Save Our Planet
by Hal Harvey
Sharing first-hand accounts of people already making needed changes, an energy policy advisor and longtime New York Times reporter offers everyday citizens a guide to the seven essential changes our communities must enact to bring our greenhouse gas emissions down to zero.
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
by Margaret A. Burnham
The director of Northeastern University's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project examines the legal apparatus that helped sustain Jim Crow-era violence, focusing on a series of harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960.
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The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care
by Rina Raphael
Examines how women, on their quest for wellness--and control of their lives--have been led down a path promising nothing short of salvation, with troubling consequences, and explores what wellness can actually offer, showing how it might shape a better future for the movement, and for our well-being.
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Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination
by Mark Bergen
In this first-of-its-kind book, a top technology reporter at Bloomberg reveals the inside story of YouTube's technology and business, detailing how it helped Google, its parent company, achieve unimaginable power, unleashing an outrage and addiction machine that that spun wildly out of the company's control and forever changes the world.
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They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
by Sarah Kendzior
Exploring the United States culture of conspiracy, a New York Times best-selling author exposes the conspiracy tactics powerful actors use to placate an inquisitive public, and how these conspiracies have shaped, and will continue to shape, our democracy.
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What We Owe the Future
by William MacAskill
Making a case for longtermism, which positively influences the long-term future a major priority of our time, an Oxford philosopher shows how if we put humanity's course to right, our future generations will thrive.
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The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves
by Alexandra Horowitz
The author of the classic Inside of a Dog, by observing her puppy Quid from week to week, makes new sense of a dogs behavior, keeping a lens on the puppy's point of view as she researches the science of early dog development.
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Balladz
by Sharon Olds
A new poetry collection from Pulitzer and T. S. Eliot Prize winner Sharon Olds.
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Golden Ax
by Rio Cortez
A collection of poems that explores personal, political and artistic frontiers with wry, tongue-in-cheek observations about contemporary life and meditations on her ancestors and Black womanhood from the author of The ABCs of Black History.
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Healing Through Words
by Rupi Kaur
New York Times bestselling author Rupi Kaur presents guided poetry writing exercises of her own design to help you explore themes of trauma, loss, heartache, love, family, healing, and celebration of the self.
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Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions that Grew Me Up
by Remica Bingham-Risher
Interweaving personal essays and interviews with 10 distinguished Black poets, an acclaimed essayist explores the impact of identity, joy, love and history on the artistic process, bringing to life the historical record of Black poetry from the latter half of the 20th century to the early decades of the 21st.
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Woman Without Shame: Poems
by Sandra Cisneros
The best-selling author of The House on Mango Street presents this moving collection of songs, elegies and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as woman artist.
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Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
by Alice Wong
Drawing on a collection of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more, the author uses her unique talent to share an impressionistic scrapbook of her life as an Asian American disabled activist, community organizer, media maker, and dreamer.
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