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New Nonfiction Releases July, 2022 |
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Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto
by Edafe Okporo
This memoir from the global gay rights and immigration activist recounts his being forced to flee from a violent mob in his native Nigeria and his experiences navigating the confusing U.S. immigration system as a refugee.
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Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
by Taylor Brorby
A poet and essayist recalls growing up gay in rural North Dakota and how his experiences in the ravaged landscapes of coalfields and mining led him to a career in environmental activism.
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Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
by Keri Blakinger
The former figure skater shares her journey from the ice rink to a life of addiction that led to a two-year prison sentence, getting sober and becoming a reporter dedicated to exposing our flawed prison system.
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Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir
by Erika L. Sánchez
The New York Times best-selling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter returns with an honest and often hilarious memoir-in-essays that looks back on her wild youth and journey to becoming an award-winning novelist, poet and essayist.
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Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?: A Memoir
by Séamas O'Reilly
This memoir from one of eleven siblings raised by a single dad in Northern Ireland at the end of the Troubles follows the family as they struggle to keep the household running.
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Dinner for One: How Cooking in Paris Saved Me
by Sutanya Dacres
The creator and host of the podcast "Dinner for One" shares how she rebuilt her life after a painful divorce by beginning to cook dinner for one in her Paris kitchen while learning to date again.
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Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass
by F. E. Close
Drawing on years of conversations, this first major biography of the man who changed modern physics by discovering the Higgs boson, the missing piece in understanding why particles have mass.
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Game: An Autobiography
by Grant Hill
The full, frank story of a remarkable life's journey to the pinnacle of success as a basketball player, icon, and entrepreneur, to the depths of personal trauma and back, to a place of flourishing and peace made possible above all by a family's love.
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George Michael: A Life
by James Gavin
The biography of George Michael offers an expansive look at the troubled life of the legendary singer, songwriter, and pop superstar.
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I Can Take It from Here: A Memoir of Trauma, Prison, and Self-Empowerment
by Lisa Forbes
Recounts Lisa Forbes's harrowing journey into darkness--including a fourteen-year-long stint in a maximum-security prison--and her fierce resolve to understand the effects of the trauma she endured, to take personal responsibility for her actions, and to ensure that her history does not dictate her destiny.
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I'd Like to Play Alone, Please
by Tom Segura
The stand-up comedian and podcast host shares stories of his crazy life on the road and punishing schedule, including bizarre celebrity encounters and his philosophy that in an increasingly insane world, sometimes you just need to be alone.
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The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life With the Uninvited Hemingway
by Mark Kurlansky
Exploring the intersections between his life and Hemingway's, this biography of Hemingway through the eyes of a fellow author and journalist follows the author as he spends time in Paris and Spain both cities important to Hemingway's adventurous life and prolific writing.
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The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond
by Chris Blackwell
The founder of Island Records and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who is credited with being responsible for turning the world on to reggae music presents this lyrical, warmhearted and inspirational memoir about his extraordinary life and career.
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Muddy People: A Muslim Coming of Age
by Sara El Sayed
In this real-life coming age story for anyone who has ever struggled to figure out where they belong, the author, originally from Egypt, learns to navigate the social dynamics of their new home, from crushes, school and friends to her loving, but flawed family.
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My Moment: 106 Women on Fighting for Themselves
by Kristin Chenoweth
In this empowering collection of essays, a natural extension of the #MeToo movement, a diverse group of women, including Gloria Steinem, Joanna Gaines and Beanie Feldstein, reflect on the moment they realized they were ready to fight for themselves and how they've used this knowledge to make change.
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Rough Draft: A Memoir
by Katy Tur
In this deeply personal memoir about a life spent chasing the news, the MSNBC anchor and daughter of two pioneering helicopter journalists recounts her eccentric and volatile California childhood and charts her own journey to globe-trotting foreign correspondent as she tries to write her own story.
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Still Alright
by Kenny Loggins
Giving readers a candid and entertaining perspective on his life and 5-decade career, one of the most noteworthy musicians of the 1970s and 80s draws readers back to the musical eras theyve loved, as well as address the challenges and obstacles of his life and work.
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This Body I Wore: A Memoir
by Diana Goetsch
Chronicles one woman's long journey to coming out, a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans community over the past several decades, in this full account of trans life, one both unusually public and closeted.
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This Is Not a Pity Memoir
by Abi Morgan
Set over the course of two years, an award-winning screenwriter and playwright, in this moving story of love and family, shares how she, after her husband woke up from a medically induced coma, had to care for someone who believed she was an imposter.
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Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
by Huw Lemmey
Based on the hugely popular podcast series, this unconventional history of homosexuality subverts the notion of gay icons and queer heroes and examines the lives of less savory characters who have also influenced gay history.
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France: An Adventure History
by Graham Robb
The author of the New York Times best-seller Parisians presents a unique journey through French history as told through his own experiences and discoveries while living, working and traveling in France.
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Pig Years
by Ellyn Gaydos
An itinerant farmhand chronicles the wonders hidden within the ever-blooming seasons of life, death, and rebirth.
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The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
by David I. Kertzer
Based on newly opened Vatican archives, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Vatican scholar paints a new, dramatic portrait of what Pope Pius XII, one of the most controversial popes in Church history, did and did not do during WWII as the Nazis began their systematic mass murder of Europe's Jews.
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Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
by Patrick Radden Keefe
The prize-winning, New York Times best-selling author presents twelve of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker that form a deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up against them.
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Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate
by Jefferson Morley
Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, an intelligence expert and investigative journalist sheds new light on this scandal as the culmination of a concealed, deadly power struggle between President Richard Nixon and CIA Director Richard Helms.
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Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
by James Kirchick
Drawing on declassified documents, interviews and materials unearthed from presidential libraries and archives around the country, this chronicle of American politics illuminates how homosexuality shaped each successive presidential administration through the end of the 20th century.
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American Cycle
by Larry Beckett
A sequence of ten long poems inspired by our folklore and past, written over the span of forty-seven years. Its themes are love, local mythology, history, justice, memory, accomplishment, time.
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The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
by CJ Hauser
Expanding on her viral sensation "The Crane Wife," the author presents this deeply personal, candid and humorous memoir-in-essays that ponders what more expansive definitions of love might offer us all.
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Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
by Noor Hindi
In this defiant and urgent collection, Noor Hindi navigates Arab womanhood, migration, queerness, and Palestinian identity with striking and evocative lyricism.
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Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing
by Polly Barton
Fifty Sounds is a genre-defying meditation on language from an electric new voice. Divided into fifty onomatopoeic Japanese phrases, this elegantly written and deeply introspective memoir recounts the author's path to grasping the basics and becoming not only a literary translator but fluent in one of the most difficult vernaculars in the world.
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How to Read Now: Essays
by Elaine Castillo
An exploration and manifesto investigating the power of reading--and our potential to become radically better readers in the world.
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Love Poems in Quarantine
by Sarah Ruhl
An award-winning, multi-genre writer grapples with the pandemic, death of George Floyd, and other crises of our times in gnomic poems written from inside the purgatory (and sudden revelations) of quarantine.
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Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature
by Charles Baxter
In this collection of essays, the author, sharing years of wisdom and reflecting on what makes fiction work, presents this insightful and lasting work of criticism.
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The World As We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate
by Amy Brady
Including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Omar El Akkad and others, this collection from literary writers around the world offers timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives.
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