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New Nonfiction Releases April, 2023 |
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All My Knotted-Up Life
by Beth Moore
An incredibly thoughtful, disarmingly funny, and intensely vulnerable glimpse into the life and ministry of a woman familiar to many but known by few. All My Knotted-Up Life is a beautifully crafted portrait of resilience and survival, a poignant reminder that if we ever truly took the time to hear people's full stories...we'd all walk around slack-jawed.
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American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal
by Neil King
A former Wall Street Journal reporter chronicles his 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C. to New York City in an effort to rediscover what matters in life after a life-threatening battle with cancer.
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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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Brown Boy: A Memoir
by Omer Aziz
Brown Boy is an uncompromising interrogation of identity, family, religion, race, and class, told through Omer Aziz’s incisive and luminous prose.
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Choosing to Run: A Memoir
by Des Linden
This inspirational memoir from the two-time Olympian and Boston Marathon winner traces her unique path to the top of professional running and how she built her own personal business model and brand.
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The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
by Monica Potts
While working as a journalist covering poverty, the author returns to her hometown in the Ozarks where she connects with her childhood best friend, who, once talented and ambitious, has become a statistic, and retraces the moments of decision and chance that led them toward two such different destinies.
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Happily: A Personal History with Fairy Tales
by Sabrina Orah Mark
An award-winning fiction author, poet and writer of the acclaimed Paris Review column "Happily" presents a memoir-in-essays on fairy tales and their surprising relevance to the surreality of modern life.
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Hijab Butch Blues
by Lamya H
A queer Muslim immigrant recalls her coming of age and how she drew inspiration from the stories in the Quran throughout her lifetime search for safety and belonging.
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I Can't Save You: A Memoir
by Anthony Chin-Quee
By sharing stories from his life and career, a board-certified otolaryngologist confronts his past mistakes, relationships and depression while discussing what it means to be both a physician and a black man today.
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LeBron
by Jeff Benedict
The bestselling biographer turns his attention to basketball, providing the definitive biography of one of the greatest athletes of all time that chronicles not only LeBron James' meteoric rise to fame but also his solid family, political activism and business empire.
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Life on Delay: Making Peace With a Stutter
by John Hendrickson
A senior editor at The Atlantic, taking us deep inside the mind and heart of a stutterer, writes candidly about the issues stutterers like him face daily, leading us through the evolution of speech therapy and sharing portraits of fellow stutterers who have changed his life.
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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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Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
by Ava Chin
Beautifully written, meticulously researched and tremendously resonant, this sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act traces the story of her pioneering family members' epic journey to lay down roots in America, piecing together how they bore and resisted the weight of the Exclusion laws.
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Skinfolk: A Memoir
by Matthew Pratt Guterl
The author narrates the saga of his parents' experiment to raise their own biological children alongside children adopted from Korea, Vietnam, and the South Bronx, relating how their best intentions proved inadequate for confronting the racism and xenophobia that added to the complexity of holding together a large family.
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Wake Up With Purpose!: What I’ve Learned in My First Hundred Years
by Jean Dolores Schmidt
In this part life story, part philosophy and part spiritual guide filled with history, wonder and common-sense wisdom, the 102-year-old Loyola Chicago matriarch and basketball icon, known to millions as simply “Sister Jean,” shares the life lessons she's learned from her century-long life.
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The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided
by Alexander Larman
This never-before-told-story of World War II in Britain and America focuses on the Windsor family, their conflicted relationships and the events that rocked the international press, showing how they finally managed to put their differences aside and unite to help win the greatest conflict of their lifetimes.
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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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Birth: Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America
by Rebecca Grant
Follows three first-time mothers as they experience pregnancy and giving birth in modern America that recounts with all the ups, downs, fears, joys and everyday moments of each woman's pregnancy and postpartum journey and discusses the rising popularity of midwifery.
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The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
by Jonathan Healey
A noted historian transports us back to 17th-century England, painting a vivid portrait of a country in the midst of a revolutionary age where new ideas were forged that were angry, populist, and almost impossible for monarchs to control, and where wealth, creativity and daring curiosity heralded a new world.
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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
by Peter Frankopan
Spanning centuries and continents, this groundbreaking book, blending brilliant historical writing and cutting-edge research, reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development--and demise--of civilizations across time.
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It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-overs
by Mary Louise Kelly
A longtime NPR Reporter discusses how childhood has an expiration date and how it is easy to lose sight of the ticking clock while working and putting off the important things, like attending soccer games and other rites of childhood.
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Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco
by Stephan Talty
Drawing on first-time, exclusive interviews with Koresh's family and numerous survivors, this gripping account paints a psychological portrait of the Branch Davidians' leader, recounting the tragedy at Waco and the government mistrust in inspired.
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On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
by Thomas Hertog
Stephen Hawking's closest collaborator, who worked shoulder to shoulder for 20 years, presents a new vision of the universe's birth that will profoundly transform the way we think about our place in the order of the cosmos and may ultimately prove to be Hawking's greatest scientific legacy.
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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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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
by Jonathan Kennedy
Drawing on the latest research in fields ranging from genetics and anthropology to archaeology and economics, this revelatory book takes us through 60,000 years of history to show how the major transformations in history have been shaped by eight major outbreaks of infectious disease.
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This Is a Book for People Who Love Mushrooms
by Meg Madden
A celebratory compendium of nature's weirdest and most wonderful fungi, with gorgeously illustrated profiles of notable mushrooms and information on foraging, understanding, and appreciating these magnificent living things.
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Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe
by Philip Plait
Drawing on the latest scientific research and his prodigious imagination, a renowned astronomer and science communicator takes us on an immersive tour of the universe to view ten of the most spectacular sights outer space has to offer, including the strange, beautiful shadows cast by a hundred thousand stars. Illustrations.
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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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The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple But Not Easy
by William H. McRaven
Providing the most important leadership lessons he has learned over the course of four decades, Admiral McRaven, who received the honor of the title "Bullfrog," which is given to the Navy SEAL who has served the longest on active duty, reveals the qualities that separate the good from the truly great.
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The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War
by Chad Louis Williams
Drawing on a broad range of sources, including his unpublished manuscript and research materials, this dramatic account of the most significant scholar-activist in African American history's failed efforts to complete the definitive history of Black participation in World War I offers new insight into this largely forgotten book.
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Above Ground
by Clint Smith
Clint Smith's vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world.
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Gravity and Center: Selected Sonnets, 1994-2022
by Henri Cole
Gravity and Center collects almost thirty years of deeply original work by one of America’s greatest living poets. As his writing has grown and changed, Henri Cole has conceived and articulated an approach of his own to one of poetry’s most enduring and challenging forms: the sonnet.
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In Limbo
by Deb J. J. Lee
Set between New Jersey and Seoul, this coming-of-age story follows the author as she goes to South Korea, where she realizes something that changes her perspective on her family, her heritage and herself.
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Ms Davis: A Graphic Biography
by Sybille Titeux de la Croix
In this follow-up to their New York Times bestselling graphic biography of Muhammad Ali, the acclaimed French writer and artist duo tell the story of Black activist, professor, and prison abolitionist Angela Davis.
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No Sweet Without Brine: Poems
by Cynthia Manick
Cynthia Manick’s poetry collection personifies love of self and culture through fresh observations and bitter truths voiced with breathtaking lyricism.
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Omfg, Bees!: Bees Are So Amazing and You're About to Find Out Why
by Matt Kracht
Are you ready for the ultimate bee book? With lighthearted watercolor and ink drawings, humorous quips, lists, and musings, OMFG, BEES! will show you just how important these esteemed bee-list celebrities really are. (Hint: We can't live without them.)
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The Orange Tree
by Dong Li
Debut collection of poems that weaves stories of family history, war, and migration.
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Standing in the Forest of Being Alive
by Katie Farris
Standing in the Forest of Being Alive is a memoir-in-poems that reckons with erotic love even as the narrator is diagnosed and treated for breast cancer at the age of thirty-six during a time of pandemic and political upheaval. With humor and honesty, the book portrays both the pleasures and the horrors of the lover, the citizen, and the medical subject.
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Ursula K. Le Guin: Collected Poems
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin’s career began and ended with poetry. This sixth volume in the definitive Library of America edition of her works gathers, for the first time, her collected poems—from her earliest collection Wild Angels (1974) through her final publication, the collection So Far So Good, which she delivered to her editor just a week before her death in 2018.
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