|
|
New Nonfiction Releases February, 2023 |
|
|
B.F.F.: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Foundby Christie TateThe author of the New York Times bestseller Group reflects on her lifelong struggles to sustain female friendship and how the return of an old friend helped her explore the reasons she has avoided attachment.
|
|
|
|
Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER
by Farzon A. Nahvi
This medical memoir focuses on one emergency room doctor's shift and focuses on the riveting story of a 43-year-old woman who arrives in the ER in sudden cardiac arrest and the challenges it presents for physicians.
|
|
|
|
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
by Alice Robb
A former student at the elite School of American Ballet describes how the strict codes of that world, which included thinness, stoicism and submission, forced her to grapple with the contradictions and challenges of modern womanhood.
|
|
|
|
Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
by Camonghne Felix
The acclaimed author of Build Yourself a Boat examines a painful breakup and subsequent healing through the prism of her childhood dyscalculia--a disorder that makes it difficult to learn math.
|
|
|
|
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
by Kate Zernike
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist tells the powerful and inspiring story of Nancy Hopkins, a reluctant feminist who, in 1999, became the leader of 16 female scientists who forced MIT to publicly admit it had been discriminating against its female faculty for years.
|
|
|
|
Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
by Lauren Fleshman
One of the most decorated American distance runners of all time reflects on her experiences and offers a plan for reform of a sports landscape that is failing young female athletes.
|
|
|
|
The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph
by Oksana Masters
The United States' most decorated winter Paralympic or Olympic athlete tells how she overcame Chernobyl disaster-caused physical challenges through sheer determination and a drive to succeed to win the world's best in elite rowing, biathlon, cross-country skiing and road cycling competitions.
|
|
|
|
Never Forget Our People Were Always Free: A Parable of American Healing
by Benjamin Todd Jealous
Told in a series of parables, this courageous and empathetic book, drawing from a life lived on America' racial fault line, illuminates for each of us how the path to healing our nation's broken heart starts with each of us having the courage to heal our own.
|
|
|
|
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance
by Mensun Bound
A renowned marine biologist presents this extraordinary firsthand account of the discovery of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance a century to the day after Shackleton's death that captures the intrepid spirit that joins two mariners across the centuries--both of whom accomplished the impossible.
|
|
|
|
Sink
by Joseph Earl Thomas
In a series of exacting and fierce vignettes, the author, who found salvation in geek culture, takes readers through the unceasing cruelty of his impoverished childhood toward an understanding of what it means to lose the desire to fit in and build community and love on your own terms.
|
|
|
|
Spare
by Harry
With its raw, unflinching honesty, Prince Harry's memoir--in which he discusses the effect of his mother Princess Diana's death on his life--is full of insight, revelation, self-examination and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.
|
|
|
|
Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction
by Max Allan Collins
The first-ever biography of the most popular and most influential pulp writer of all time, written by the collaborator who knew him best.
|
|
|
|
Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
by Peggy Orenstein
Sharing her year-long journey as a daughter, wife, mother, writer and maker, the New York Times best-selling author, a lifelong knitter, shows how she, to keep herself engaged and cope with a series of seismic shifts in family life, set out to make a sweater from scratch.
|
|
|
|
Walk the Blue Line
by James Patterson
Presents the dramatic true stories, told in their own words, of the patrol officers and K9 handlers, sheriffs and detectives who risk their lives every day to protect and serve, revealing what it's really like to wear the uniform and carry the weight of the responsibility they've been given.
|
|
|
|
We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship
by Will Schwalbe
Tracing an extraordinary, life-changing college friendship over decades of challenge and change, this warm, funny and irresistible book follows the author as he, joining a little-known secret society at Yale, finds an unlikely friend in a physically imposing, loud, star wrestler determined to become a Navy SEAL.
|
|
|
|
Chasing Icebergs: How Frozen Freshwater Can Save the Planet
by Matthew H. Birkhold
Chasing Icebergs delivers a kaleidoscopic history of humans' relationship with icebergs, and offers an urgent assessment of the technological, cultural, and legal obstacles we must overcome to harness this freshwater resource.
|
|
|
|
The Climate Book
by Greta Thunberg
Gathering together the wisdom of over 100 experts, the world's leading climate activist arms us with the knowledge we need to combat climate disaster, showing there is hope, but only if we listen to the science before it's too late.
|
|
|
|
Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time
by Sheila Liming
Makes a case for the necessity of unstructured social time as a key element of our cultural vitality and how it can help take back our social lives from the constant swirl of social media.
|
|
|
|
The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media
by Emily Hund
Tells the story of how early digital creators scrambling for work amid the Great Recession gave rise to the multibillion-dollar industry that has fundamentally reshaped culture, the flow of information, and the way we relate to ourselves and each other.
|
|
|
|
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
by Michael Schulman
Chronicling the remarkable, sprawling history of the Academy Awards and the personal dramas that have played out on the stage and off camera, this entertaining exploration of the Oscars features a star-studded cast of some of the most powerful Hollywood players of today and yesterday.
|
|
|
|
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
by Malcolm Harris
In PALO ALTO, the first comprehensive history of Silicon Valley, Malcolm Harris examines how and why Northern California evolved in the particular, consequential way it did, tracing the ideologies, technologies, and policies that have been engineered there over the course of 150 years of Anglo settler colonialism, from IQ tests to the "tragedy of the commons," racial genetics, and "broken windows" theory.
|
|
|
|
Reading the Glass: A Captain's View of Weather, Water, and Life on Ships
by Elliot Rappaport
A professional captain of traditional sailing ships who has spent 30 years at sea offers a sailor's-eye-view of the moving parts of our atmosphere, unveiling the larger patterns it holds: global winds, storms, air masses, jet streams and the longer arc of our climate.
|
|
|
|
Slime: A Natural History
by Susanne Wedlich
Takes us on a sticky scientific adventure through the 3-billion-year history of slime, exploring its part in the evolution of life and its cultural and emotional significance, from its starring role in the horror genre to its subtle influence on Art Nouveau.
|
|
|
|
You Can't Always Say What You Want: The Paradox of Free Speech
by Dennis Baron
This book outlines the historical context of laws regulating rights to freedom of speech, and explores future threats to these freedoms. Now more than ever, we are living in a free speech paradox: powerful speakers weaponize their rights in order to silence those less-powerful speakers who oppose them.
|
|
|
|
Black and Female: Essays
by Tsitsi Dangarembga
This paradigm-shifting essay collection weaves the personal and political in an illuminating exploration of race and gender.
|
|
|
|
Serious Face: Essays
by Jon Mooallem
One of our most acclaimed practitioners of narrative journalism, through this collection of brilliant and profound essays, investigates hope, heartbreak, crime. Punishment, idealism and catharsis across the world and within himself.
|
|
|
|
Wanting: Women Writing About Desire
by Margot Kahn
An intimate and empowering anthology of essays that explore the changing face of female desire in whip-smart, sensuous prose, with pieces by Tara Conklin, Camille Dungy, Melissa Febos, Lisa Taddeo, and others.
|
|
|
|
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
by Mehdi Hasan
An award-winning journalist, anchor and expert debater, who thrives on arguments as a surefire way to establish the truth, shows how anyone can communicate with confidence, rise above the tit-for-tats on social media and triumph in a successful and productive debate in the real world.
|
|
|
|
|
|