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New Nonfiction Releases June, 2022 |
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Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
by Ada Calhoun
The New York Times-best-selling author recalls her strained relationship with her father, who shared an obsession with Frank O’Hara, the famed bohemian poet and member of The New York School art movement.
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American Seoul: A Memoir
by Helena Rho
In her powerful and moving memoir, Helena Rho reveals the courage it took to break away from the path that was laid out for her, to assert her presence, and to discover the freedom and joy of finally being herself.
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Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness
by Melissa Bond
A journalist recounts her accidental descent into prescription benzodiazepine dependence while caring from an infant daughter and special-needs son and details her harrowing months-long process of tapering off the medication.
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Chasing Lakes: Love, Science, and the Secrets of the Arctic
by Katey Walter Anthony
An aquatic ecologist and permafrost scientist recalls her journeys through the Arctic undertaking pioneering research on methane emissions as well as her own spiritual quest to find belonging in the wake of a broken childhood.
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Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood
by Stephen Tukel Mills
At thirteen years old, Stephen Mills is chosen for special attention by the director of his Jewish summer camp, a charismatic social worker intent on becoming his friend. Stephen, whose father died when he was four, places his trust in this authority figure, who first grooms and then molests him for two years.
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Fly Girl: A Memoir
by Ann Hood
The best-selling novelist shares funny, moving and sometimes shocking stories of life as a TWA flight attendant during the 1970s and 1980s as the airline industry underwent a huge transformation.
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Gender Euphoria
by Laura Kate Dale
In this groundbreaking anthology, nineteen trans, non-binary, agender, gender-fluid, and intersex writers share their experiences of gender euphoria.
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The Hangman and His Wife: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich
by Nancy Dougherty
A journey into the heart of Nazi evil: a portrait of one of the darkest figures of Hitler’s Nazi elite—Reinhard Heydrich, the designer and executor of the Holocaust, chief of the Reich Main Security, including the Gestapo—interwoven with commentary by his wife, Lina, from the author’s in-depth interviews.
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In the Early Times: A Life Reframed
by Tad Friend
A New Yorker writer, in this incredibly beautiful and courageous memoir, reflects on the pressures of middle age as he grapples with being a husband and father while trying to grasp who he is as a son.
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Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth
by Ben Westhoff
In this intimate exploration of race and inequality in America, the author investigates the life and death of someone he knew personally and examines what he did and did not know about his friend, uncovering a heartbreaking cycle of poverty, poor education, drug trafficking and violence.
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Ma and Me: A Memoir
by Putsata Reang
An award-winning journalist shares her struggle to make her Ma proud by becoming the consummate good Cambodian daughter, while dealing with the fallout after coming out to Ma, which eventually breaks their bond in two.
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Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays
by Minnie Driver
In an intimate collection, the beloved actor and natural-born storyteller chronicles her unconventional career path, navigating the depths of failure, fighting for success, discovering the wonder and challenge of motherhood and wading through immeasurable grief.
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Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship With Toni Morrison
by A. J. Verdelle
The award-winning author of The Good Negress shares her own path to success that led to a friendship with enigmatic cultural icon Toni Morrison, painting an illuminating portrait of the legendary author and offering an honest assessment of what it means to be a writer.
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Miss Memory Lane: A Memoir
by Colton Haynes
Pulling back the curtain on his life and career, the Arrow and Teen Wolf actor presents this brutally honest and moving memoir in which he shares his battles with abuse, addiction and stardom, and how he ultimately found redemption.
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Out of the Corner: A Memoir
by Jennifer Grey
The star of the iconic movie Dirty Dancing richly evokes the places and times that defined a nation, looks back on her unbridled romantic adventures in Hollywood, shares the fallout from a plastic surgery procedure that negatively impacted her career and reveals now she took her life back.
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A Portrait of the Scientist As a Young Woman
by Linda Elkins-tanton
This memoir from the world-renowned planetary scientist explores her remarkable life story, the struggles she faced as a woman in the field and her upcoming mission to the largest known metal-rich asteroid.
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The Summer Friend: A Memoir
by Charles McGrath
Painting a vivid picture of summer in New England, the author looks back at a sun-soaked season, at family, youth and a friendship forged between two men from different backgrounds who came together late in life.
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The Year of the Horses: A Memoir
by Courtney Maum
Alternating timelines and interwoven with historical portraits of women and horses alongside history’s attempts to tame both parties, the author, to treat her depression, returns to her childhood passion of horseback riding, becoming reacquainted with herself not only as a rider but as a mother, wife, daughter, writer and woman.
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Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
by Andrew Scull
From jails to hospitals to the analyst’s couch, the venues of psychiatry have shifted amid debate over the nature of mental illness: is it psychosocial or biological? Andrew Scull follows the path from the asylum to the street, from shock therapies to talk therapy, and on to psychiatry’s dependence on drugs, whose side effects are often ignored.
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Directed by James Burrows: Five Decades of Stories from the Legendary Director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and More
by James Burrows
From the director of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, and Will & Grace comes an insightful and nostalgic memoir that offers a bounty of behind-the-scenes moments from our favorite shows, peeling away the layers behind how a successful sitcom comes together--and stays that way.
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How to Raise an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
This guide for parents, caregivers and teachers focuses on strategies for talking to children about racism, how to avoid the mistakes of our past and help dismantle racist behaviors in ourselves and our world.
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The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World
by David K. Randall
From prehistory to present day, from remote Patagonia to the unforgiving badlands of the American West to the penthouses of Manhattan, this riveting narrative follows a fearless paleontologist who, after unearthing the first T-Rex fossils, saved NY’s struggling American Museum of Natural History.
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The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future
by Julia Hobsbawm
Analyzing the current remote-based workforce created by the pandemic, one of the foremost thinkers in business and organization voices the problems that beset work and advocates for using this moment to initiate the biggest transformational change in theworkplace in a century.
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The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
by Sam Knight
Interweaving madness, wonder, science and the supernatural, this incredible true story of a psychiatrist who, in 1966, investigated the power of premonition and established the “premonitions bureau,” explains how it plunged him deeper into the occult and convinced him he was destined for an early death.
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Reading the Water: Fly Fishing, Fatherhood, and Finding Strength in Nature
by Mark Hume
Fishing was Mark Hume’s passion since he was a young boy, a lifeline through a childhood marked by his family’s frequent moves. When he became a father, he knew he wanted to pass on his love of water, fishing, and the natural world to his daughters. Most of all, he wanted to give them hope for their future even as they were coming of age during uncertain times.
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Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
by Eric Jay Dolin
Presenting the nation’s first war as we have rarely seen it before, along with tales of daring maneuvers and deadly encounters, a best-selling historian reveals how privateers were in fact critical to America winning the Revolutionary War.
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Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases
by Paul Holes
An icon in the true crime world, the cold case investigator who finally caught the Golden State Killer provides an insider account of some the most notorious cases in contemporary American history and opens up to the most intimate scenes of his life.
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Before Whiteness
by D. S. Marriott
A searing indictment of anti-Black social and political violence by British-Jamaican poet and leading scholar of Afropessimism, D.S. Marriott.
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Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays
by Barry Lopez
An urgent, deeply moving final work of nonfiction from the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams and Horizon, a literary icon whose writing, fieldwork, and mentorship inspired generations of writers and activists.
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Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays
by Jill Gutowitz
This collection of personal essays from the New Jersey-based writer looks at queerness, relationships, pop culture, the internet and identity as well as the mainstreaming of lesbian culture.
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Smoking the Bible
by Chris Abani
An award-winning author of numerous books, Chris Abani moves between his Igbo ancestry and migration to the United States in poems that evoke the holiness of grief through the startling, central practice of inhaling an immolated Bible.
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Translating Myself and Others
by Jhumpa Lahiri
A collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.
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