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New Nonfiction Releases March, 2023 |
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Belonging: A Daughter's Search for Identity Through Loss and Love
by Michelle Miller
The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply personal story of her mother's abandonment and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades.
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First Light: A Journey Out of Darkness
by Lucas Matthiessen
A deeply felt literary memoir of one man's journey to redemption through vision loss, alcoholism, and the burden of a family legacy. First Light is a memoir of loss and learning. By pulling himself out of addiction and accepting that he will lose his sight completely, Lucas transitions from being "the son of" someone famous to an individual with his own strong sense of self. Despite continued personal tragedies, Lucas develops a second sight that is aimed inward, laying his triumphs and failures bare.
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House Concert
by Igor Levit
Igor Levit ranks among the greatest pianists of his generation, described by The New York Times as ‘one of the essential artists of our time’. But his influence reaches far beyond music: he uses his public platform to speak out against racism, antisemitism and all forms of intolerance and prejudice. Convinced of the duty of the musician to remain an engaged citizen, he is recognized and admired for his willingness to take a stand on some of the great issues of our day, even though it has come at considerable personal cost.
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How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
by Clancy W. Martin
Based on his viral essay “I’m Still Here,” the acclaimed writer and professor of philosophy chronicles his own multiple suicide attempts and discusses how the desire to kill oneself is almost always temporary and avoidable.
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Into the Soul of the World: My Journey to Healing
by Brad Wetzler
Suffering from PTSD and severe depression from past trauma, battling an addiction to overprescribed psychiatric medication, and at the rock bottom of his career, journalist Brad Wetzler had nowhere to go. So he set out on a journey to wander and hopefully find himself—and the world—again.
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Luck of the Draw: My Story of the Air War in Europe
by Frank D. Murphy
In this classic WWII bomber memoir, a former navigator with the 100th Bombardment Group takes readers on combat missions in the hostile skies over occupied Europe, making us appreciate the sacrifice and unflinching sense of duty shared by these boys of yesterday.
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Mary and Mr. Eliot: A Sort of Love Story
by Mary Trevelyan
A rediscovered story of unrequited love, Mary and Mr. Eliot reveals an intimate new portrait of T. S. Eliot--and of its author, a formidable woman sidelined by literary history.
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Once upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
by Oliver Darkshire
By turns unhinged and earnest, Once Upon a Tome is the colorful story of life in one of the world’s oldest bookshops and a love letter to the benign, unruly world of antiquarian bookselling, where to be uncommon or strange is the best possible compliment.
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The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
by Ricardo Nuila
Recounting the stories of five individuals denied access to health insurance, a physician, who emphasizes people over payments, interweaves their dramas into a singular narrative that contradicts the established idea that the only way to receive good healthcare is with good insurance.
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Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics
by Anastasia Carol Curwood
This definitive account of the trailblazing black political and feminist icon reveals new truths for understanding the social movements of Chisholm's time and the opportunities she forged for herself through multicultural, multigenerational and cross-gender coalition building.
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Stash: My Life in Hiding
by Laura Cathcart Robbins
A voice-driven, gripping, and propulsive addiction memoir about a wealthy Black woman on a journey to becoming whole while grappling with issues of substance abuse, race, class, self-sabotage, and love, by the host of the popular podcast, "The Only One in the Room."
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Tell Me Good Things: On Love, Death, and Marriage
by James Runcie
In this startling and intimate memoir of life before death and love after grief, the internationally best-selling author tells the story of his wife's battle with Lou Gehrig's disease and her death, while celebrating her life, in all its color, humor and brightness.
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Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson
by Rebecca Boggs Roberts
This nuanced portrait of one of American history's most influential, complicated women, who, in 1919, became the first acting woman president, takes an unflinching look at Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, whose personal quest for influence reshaped the position of First Lady into one of political prominence forever.
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The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie Ten Boom
by Larry Loftis
A New York Times best-selling author writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during World War II--at the cost of losing her family and being sent to a concentration camp, only to survive, forgive her captors and live the rest of her life as a Christian missionary.
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What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love
by Laurel Braitman
The New York Times best-selling author shares how, in the years following her beloved father's death, she denied her suffering and lived with the constant fear of loss that left her terrified of love and intimacy until she set out on a journey to confront the grief she'd been avoiding for so long.
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The Book of Animal Secrets: Nature's Lessons for a Long and Happy Life
by David Agus
A pioneering physician, biomedical researcher and #1 New York Times best-selling author explores all the ways we can harness the wonders of the animal kingdom in our own, very human lives, making us rethink what's possible for our health and wellbeing--now and in the future.
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It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies
by Jessica Wilson
A dietitian, storyteller and community organizer offers a cultural discussion of body image, food, health and wellness by focusing on the bodies of Black women and how our culture's obsession with thin, white women reinforces racist ideas and ideals.
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It's Ok to Be Angry About Capitalism
by Bernard Sanders
A popular U.S. senator and former presidential candidate offers a progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like.
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The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam
by George Black
This inspirational story follows a small group of veterans, scientists and Quaker-inspired pacifists and their Vietnamese partners as they used their moral authority, scientific and political ingenuity and sheer persistence to heal the horrors left in the wake of the military engagement in Southeast Asia.
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A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All
by Adam Benforado
A revelatory investigation into how America is failing its children, and an urgent manifesto on why helping them is the best way to improve all of our lives. By the New York Times best-selling author of Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice.
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Poverty, by America
by Matthew Desmond
Drawing on history, research and original reporting, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, revealing there is so much poverty in America not in spite of our wealth but because of it, and builds a startingly original case for eliminating poverty in our country.
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Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
by Jenny Odell
In this thought-provoking, deeply hopeful reframing of time, the author takes us on a journey through other temporal habitats, urging us to become stewards of different rhythms of life, to imagine an existence, identity and source of meaning outside the world of work and profit.
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Saying It Loud: 1966—The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement
by Mark Whitaker
Deeply researched and widely reported, this exploration of the Black Power phenomenon that began to challenge the traditional civil rights movement in 1966 offers brilliant portraits of the major characters in the yearlong drama and the fierce battles over voting rights, identity politics and the teaching of Black history.
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Walk the Walk: How Three Police Chiefs Defied the Odds and Changed Cop Culture
by Neil Gross
Taking readers deep inside three unusual police departments in California, Colorado and Georgia, this book, informed by research, and by turns gripping, tragic and inspirational, follows the chiefs--and their officers and detectives--as they worked to replace aggressive culture with something better.
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We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
by Roxanna Asgarian
This shocking expose of the foster care and adoption systems that continue to fail America's most vulnerable children recounts the murder-suicide of a white married couple and their six Black children, revealing, a pattern of abuse and neglect that went ignored with fateful consequences.
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Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
by Susan Magsamen
Combining breakthrough research, insights from multidisciplinary pioneers and real-life stories, this authoritative guide to the new science of neuroaesthetics shows how the arts, from painting and dancing to expressive writing, architecture and more, are essential for improving physical and mental health.
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Chrome Valley: Poems
by Mahogany L. Browne
From Lincoln Center’s inaugural poet-in-residence comes this unflinching collection that intricately mines the experience of being a Black woman in America.
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Couplets: A Love Story
by Maggie Millner
A dazzling, genre-bending debut about one woman's coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone.
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More to Say: Essays & Appreciations
by Ann Beattie
Bringing penetrating insight into literature and art that’s both familiar and unfamiliar, a master storyteller presents a wide-ranging collection of writings that explore novels, short stories, paintings and photographs by artists ranging from Alice Munro to Elmore Leonard, from Sally Mann to John Loengard.
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Punks: New & Selected Poems
by John Keene
A generous treasury in seven sections that spans decades and includes previously unpublished and brand-new work.
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Why Read: Selected Writings 2001–2021
by Will Self
One of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today presents a plethora of thought-provoking essays examining how the human stream of consciousness flows into and out of literature, asking readers how, what and ultimately why we should read in an ever-changing world.
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Yours Truly: An Obituary Writer's Guide to Telling Your Story
by James R. Hagerty
Through personal stories, on-the-job anecdotes and insights, a longtime obituary writer for The Wall Street Journal explains how to make sure your story is told the way you want, and how it's never too late to improve your narrative with a stronger ending.
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