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New Nonfiction Releases October, 2023 |
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Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
by Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sharing his toolkit for a meaningful life, along with personal stories, and life-changing successes and life-threatening failures alike, the Austrian-born bodybuilder, actor, businessman, philanthropist and politician shows us how to put these tools to work, in service of whatever fulfilling future we can dream up for ourselves.
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Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
by Henry Winkler
With profound heart, charm and self-deprecating humor, the Emmy award-winning actor, producer and director, who has endeared himself to a new generation, shares the disheartening truth of his childhood, the pressures of a role that takes on a life of its own and the path forward once your wildest dream seems behind you.
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Breaking Through: My Life in Science
by Katalin Karikâo
In this gripping testament to perseverance and the power of conviction, the pioneering Hungarian American biochemist recounts her 30-year investigation into messenger RNA (mRNA), which nearly cost her everything, that led to the creation of vaccines that protected millions of people from the direst consequences of COVID-19.
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Creep: Accusations and Confessions
by Myriam Gurba
Taking us into the dark recesses of the toxic traditions that plague the U.S. and create the abusers who haunt our books, schools and homes, the author studies the ways in which oppression is collectively enacted and, interweaving her history and identity throughout, argues for a new way of conceptualizing oppression.
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Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
by Steve Inskeep
The host of NPR's Morning Edition illuminates Abraham Lincoln's life through 16 encounters, some well-known, some obscure, expanding our understanding of a politician who held strong to his moral compass while navigating between corrosive political factions—and who succeeded in uniting a nation.
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Down the Drain
by Julia Fox
Capturing her improbable evolution from grade-school outcast to fashion-world icon as well as her transition from girlhood to womanhood to motherhood, the multidisciplinary—and unapologetic—artist chronicles her shocking life and her unrelenting determination to not only survive but to achieve her dreams.
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Every Man for Himself and God Against All
by Werner Herzog
Spanning the seven continents and encompassing both documentary and fiction, the legendary filmmaker and celebrated author reflects on his epic artistic career as he unravels and relives his most important experiences and inspirations, telling his story for the first and only time.
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First Gen
by Alejandra Campoverdi
A trailblazing women's health advocate and former Obama aide discusses her experiences as Mexican American woman raised by an immigrant single mother in Los Angeles and the challenges of navigating social mobility as a first-generation Latina.
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How to Say Babylon
by Safiya Sinclair
This stunning story of the author's struggle to break free of her strict Rastafarian upbringing ruled by a father whose rigid beliefs, rage and paranoia led to violence shows how found her own power and provides a unique glimpse into a rarefied world we know little about.
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If You Would Have Told Me
by John Stamos
The three-time Emmy nominee, producer and musician reflects on his long career and how he beat the odds to become one of today's most successful and beloved actors.
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An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America
by Edwin Raymond
The highest-ranking whistleblower in NYPD history offers a rare, often shocking view of American policing that exposes institutional violence and corruption and presents a vision of radical hope and potential for change that could reform police departments across the country.
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I've Been Thinking
by Daniel C. Dennett
Dennett compels us to consider: What do I really think? And what if I’m wrong? This memoir will speak to anyone who seeks to balance a life of the mind with adventure and creativity.
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Jane Kenyon: The Making of a Poet
by Dana Greene
Dana Greene draws on a wealth of personal correspondence and other newly available materials to delve into the origins, achievement, and legacy of Kenyon's poetry and separate the artist's life story from that of her husband, poet Donald Hall.
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Madonna: A Rebel Life
by Mary Gabriel
The award-winning master biographer chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern era who has never stopped experimenting, pushing boundaries that changed culture globally, and fiercely defending a person's right to love whomever—and be whoever–they wanted.
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Making It So: A Memoir
by Patrick Stewart
The distinguished stage and screen actor whose illustrious career spans six decades and who has captivated audiences around the world presents his long-awaited memoir in which he recounts his journey thus far, from his humble beginnings in Yorkshire, England, to the very heights of Hollywood.
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A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Exploring the necessity of both forgetting and of memory, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization and ideas about Vietnam and America as well as a deep emotional openness about his life as a father and a son.
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A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
by Hilary Mantel
A posthumous collection of journalism and other writings by Hilary Mante reveals the beloved writer's cutting wit and singular voice on books, films, the royals, and her own life.
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Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
by Matt Singer
An award-winning editor and film critic raises the curtain on the often-antagonistic partnership, which later transformed into genuine friendship, between Robert Ebert and Gene Siskel whose signature “Two thumbs up!” would become the most trusted critical brand in Hollywood—one that still lives on today.
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Red Sapphire: The Woman Who Beat the Blacklist
by Julia Bricklin
Using declassified FBI and CIA files, interviews, and the personal papers of blacklisted writers and other sources, Red Sapphire depicts how for the better part of a decade, Weinstein was a leader in the Left's battle with the Right to shape popular culture during the Cold War, a battle that she eventually won.
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Romney: A Reckoning
by McKay Coppins
Drawing on interviews with Romney himself and his inner circle as well as his personal journals, this rare glimpse into the life of the politician who in recent years has been at the center of our nation's most defining political dramas.
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The Sister: North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the Most Dangerous Woman in the World
by Sung-Yoon Lee
A specialist on North Korea offers this authoritative account of Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korea's Supreme Leader, takes readers into a murderous dynasty whose lust for power entails the brutal suppression of civilians, a missile program that can reach the continental U.S. and the constant threat of global destruction.
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Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography
by Staci Robinson
More than a quarter of a century after his tragic death in 1996, this first-and-only authorized biography tells the powerful story of the one of the greatest and most controversial artists of all time whose unapologetic lyrics continue to inspire his fans around the world.
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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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Worthy
by Jada Pinkett Smith
Pulling no punches, the global superstar chronicles the lessons of her storied life, from her rebellious youth to Hollywood success, taking us from the depths of suicidal depression to the heights of self-love, spiritual healing and authentic feminine power, in this impactful and rare memoir that engages and educates.
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The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance
by Rebecca Clarren
An award-winning author blends together investigative reporting with personal family history to reveal the intertwined stories of her Jewish ancestors' land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that by the U.S. government, and the devastating cycle of loss of Indigenous land, culture and resources that continues today.
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Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will
by Robert M. Sapolsky
An acclaimed behavioral scientist tackles major arguments of free will and takes them out, navigating through the chaos and complexity of science, quantum physics and philosophy to apply a new understanding of life beyond free will to some of our most essential questions around punishment, morality and living well together.
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Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
by Mary Beard
The best-selling author of The Fires of Vesuvius presents a comprehensive history of the social and political world of the Roman emperors including Julius Caesar, Nero, Alexander Severus, Caligula and Marcus Aurelius.
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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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Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
by Taylor Lorenz
An acclaimed Washington Post reporter and leading authority on internet culture reveals how online influence came to upend the world, showing how this phenomenon become one of the most disruptive changes in modern capitalism, forming an unappreciated and insurgent digital dynamic resulting in new approaches to work, entertainment, fame and ambition.
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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
by Michael Lewis
The best-selling author of The Big Short, Flash Boys and Moneyball returns with the inside story of enigmatic CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and the spectacular collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange, FTX.
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The Hidden Language of Cats: How They Have Us at Meow
by Sarah L. Brown
Drawing on 30 years of experience, a renowned cat behavior scientist references historical records and examines modern scientific studies of cat-human communication to reveal previously unexplored secrets of how cats all over the world have learned to talk to us.
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How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
by David Brooks
Drawing from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and from the worlds of theater, philosophy, history and education, one of the nation's leading writers and commentators helps us become more understanding considerate toward others, and to find the joy that comes from being seen.
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I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country
by Elena Kostëiìuchenko
Interweaving reportage from the past 15 years with personal essays, a journalist who refused to be silenced offers this intimate and unprecedented portrait of Russia as she crossed the border into Ukraine to ensure the Russians witnessed the horrors Putin was committing in their name.
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Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
by Fergus M. Bordewich
In this bold and bracing record of America's past, a celebrated historian transports us to the front lines of President Grant's war on the Ku Klux Klan, reviving an unsung generation of grassroots Black leaders and key figures, while discussing the present-day battles to stamp out resurgent white supremacist ideologies.
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The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
by Stuart A. Reid
Reading like a Cold War spy thriller, this engrossing work of history recounts the U.S.-sanctioned plot in 1960 to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, the leader of the newly independent Congo, to forestall the spread of communism in Africa, which represented the opening chapter of a long horror story.
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Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins--from Spices to Vices
by Noah Whiteman
Based on cutting-edge science in the fields of evolution, chemistry and neuroscience, an evolutionary biologist reveals the origins of natural toxins produced by plants, mushrooms, microbes and even some animals, discussing how and why they evolved and the biological basis for our attraction—and addiction—to them.
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The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
by Liza Mundy
In this thrilling new perspective on history, the New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls turns her attention the women of the CIA who fought to become operatives, transformed spy craft and provided the data analysis that helped track down Bin Laden in his Pakistani compound.
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Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
by Steven Levitsky
Two Harvard professors, on the heels of their bestselling book How Democracies Die, draw on a wealth of examples, from 1930s France to present-day Thailand, to explain why and how political parties turn against democracy and issue an urgent call to reform our antiquated political institutions.
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White Holes
by Carlo Rovelli
An acclaimed theoretical physicist who has dedicated his career to uniting the time-warping ideas of general relativity and the perplexing uncertainties of quantum mechanics draws us into a strange world of white holes—equally compact objects in which the arrow of time is reversed.
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Black Friend: Essays
by Ziwe
Turning her attention to the culture at large, an expert at making people squirm by asking tough questions combines pop-culture commentary and her own personal stories that grapple with her (mis)understanding of identity.
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Black Love Letters
by Cole Brown
Celebrated Black writers and artists including John Legend, Ben Crump and Allisa Findley provide essays, letters and illustrations on the subject of "Black love” and rejoice in their heritage, though rife with pain and suffering, with joy.
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The Iliad
by Homer
The culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquity's most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Wilson's Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.
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The Jolliest Bunch: Unhinged Holiday Stories
by Danny Pellegrino
The popular podcast host of Everything Iconic and best-selling author offers this festive and funny collection of inappropriately improvised holiday monologues, taking readers on a nostalgic trip to the 90s and 2000s where they can reminisce about their own memories—the good, the bad and the cringeworthy.
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The Lights: Poems
by Ben Lerner
Experimenting in the animation of our common world, this stellar blend of verse and prose, voicemails and vignettes, songs and felt silences, written over the space of 15 years, registers the pleasures, risks and absurdities of making art and family and meaning against a backdrop of interconnect crises.
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Someone Somewhere Maybe: Poems
by Sophie Diener
For fans of Rupi Kaur, Cleo Wade, and Amanda Lovelace, Someone Somewhere Maybe speaks to the joys and sorrows of finding your way as a young woman today.
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A Strange Life: Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott
by Louisa May Alcott
Blending gentle satire with reportage and emotive autobiography, Alcott’s exquisite essays are as exceptional as the novels she is known for. Published together for the first time, this delightful selection shows us another side to one of our most celebrated writers.
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Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!
by David Zucker
This first-ever oral history of the making of the 1980's comedy classic Airplane!, which still continues to make audiences laugh 40 years after its release, is filled with anecdotes, behind the scenes trivia and never-before-revealed factoids from three titans of comedy filmmaking who unpack everything.
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The Way Forward
by Yung Pueblo
In this third and final installment of his poetic trilogy, the bestselling poet encourages readers to connect more deeply to their intuition, using it to remain focused and grounded amidst a world in constant flux.
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