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New Nonfiction Releases November, 2022 |
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Dying of Politeness: A Memoir
by Geena Davis
In this candid memoir, the Academy Award winner recalls her journey from a quiet and polite childhood to a screen icon who helped lead the way to gender parity in Hollywood.
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Finale: Late Conversations With Stephen Sondheim
by D. T. Max
Conducted during the last years of the iconic composer's life, a deeply personal collection of interviews highlights the legend's work and his opinions and thoughts on music, movies, family, New York, aging and the creative process.
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A Heart That Works
by Rob Delaney
The co-creator and co-star of the hit series Catastrophe presents a deeply personal memoir about the death of his young son from a brain tumor and takes readers through the grief and pain that followed.
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Heretic: A Memoir
by Jeanna Kadlec
Married to an evangelical pastor's son with a comfortable life, the author describes her reckoning with religious trauma and Midwestern values as she shed years of indoctrination, piety and repression and came out as queer.
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Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet
by Robert Pinsky
A candid self-portrait and, underlying Pinsky's notable public presence and unprecedented three terms as poet laureate of the United States, a unique poetic understanding of American culture.
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The Lives of Brian: A Memoir
by Brian Johnson
Brian Johnson's memoir from growing up in a small town to starting his own band to ultimately replacing Bon Scott, the lead singer of one of the world biggest rock acts, AC/DC.
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Maybe We'll Make It: A Memoir
by Margo Price
Country music star Margo Price shares the story of her struggle to make it in an industry that preys on its ingenues while trying to move on from devastating personal tragedies.
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Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome
by Anthony Everitt
An acclaimed biographer and historian, in this nuanced biography of the cruel, vain and incompetent ruler, reveals the contradictions inherent in the reign of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus and offers a reappraisal of his life, bringing ancient Rome to life a city rife with political intrigues that could turn deadly in an instant.
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The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd
by Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos
In this incredible work of narrative nonfiction, filled with romance and high seas adventure, a historian and journalist charts the life of Sarah Kidd, who secretly aided and abetted her infamous husband, pirate Captain Kidd, from within the strictures of polite society in 17th- and 18th-century New York.
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Punk Paradox: A Memoir
by Greg Graffin
A historical memoir and cultural criticism of punk rock’s evolution, by the legendary singer-songwriter of Bad Religion.
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Sit, Stay, Heal: What Dogs Can Teach Us About Living Well
by Renee Alsarraf
In this moving and uplifting memoir filled with life lessons and metaphors, an esteemed veterinary oncologist, fighting her own battle with cancer, shows us why canines are the perfect guides to help us navigate traumatic and difficult experiences--and how they are reminders of the power of the human spirit.
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Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
by Bono
One of the music world's most iconic artists writes about his remarkable life for the first time, from his early days growing up in Dublin, to U2's meteoric rise to fame, to his more than 20 years of activism dedicated to the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty.
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Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
by Andrew K. Diemer
Establishing the man known as the Father of the Underground Railroad in his rightful place in American history, this remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an abolitionist who dedicated his life to antislavery work, shows how he helped to lay the groundwork for long-lasting activism in the Black community.
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Waypoints: My Scottish Journey
by Sam Heughan
The Scottish actor and star of Outlander sets out on a nearly 100-mile walk along Scotland's rugged West Highland Way to explore his heritage and map out the moments that shaped his views on dreams, ambition, family, friendships, love and life.
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As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
by Matthew Cobb
Examines the history and future of the revolutionary and awe-inspiring technology of genetic engineering and how it has both thrilled and terrified scientists who have demonstrated the power to change life itself.
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The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
by Sean M. Carroll
A theoretical physicist and a genius for making complex notions entertaining shows how physics offers deep insights into the workings of the universe, in this inspiring introduction to a way of seeing that will resonate across cultural and generation boundaries for many years to come.
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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
by Chris Miller
An economic historian looks at the decades-old battle to control the microchip industry, which has emerged as the world's most critical resource, and how it will define the conflict between the United States and China in the upcoming decades.
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Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe
by Brian Swimme
The host and co-creator of PBS’s Journey of the Universe examines how the discovery of the universe’s origins have shaped our contemporary consciousness and had a profound impact on humanity.
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The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
by Edward Humes
After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf and CeCe Moore solve the murder of a teenage couple with the help of genetic genealogy, which brings up questions of consent and privacy despite the fact we have the tools to catch the many killers responsible for approximately 250,000 murders in the U.S.
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The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation
by John Lancaster
Reclaiming one of the most important moments in American aviation history, this incredible, untold story recounts the transcontinental air race of October 1919, which riveted a nation as the aviators pioneered the first coast-to-coast air route, despite much drama and tragedy.
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future
by Maria Ressa
A Philippine Journalist who received the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize presents strategies for speaking truth to power, challenging corruption and standing up against authoritarians to battle information and lies.
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The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America
by H. W. Brands
A best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the lives of two war chiefs General William Tecumseh Sherman and Geronimo over the course of the 1870s and 1880s during which they confronted each other in the final battle for the American West would be.
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Permanent Distortion: How the Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever
by Nomi Prins
A journalist, speaker, respected commentator and former Wall Street executive exposes a world fractured by policies crafted by the largest financial institution, led by the Federal Reserve, that have supercharged the financial system while selling out regular citizens and leading to social and political reckonings.
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Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
by Ian Kershaw
Chronicles the modern era, which saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death, while attempting to understand these rulers and the times in which they lived that allowed them such unrestrained and murderous power and what brought that era to an end.
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The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
by Malcolm Gaskill
Taking readers back in time to Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1651 by drawing on rich, previously unexplored source material, this gripping narrative combines history, anthropology, sociology, politics, theology and psychology to evoke a strange past, one where lives were steeped in the divine and the diabolic, in omens, curses and enchantments.
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Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
by Andy Greenberg
With unprecedented access to the major players in federal law enforcement and private industry who have cracked the Bitcoin blockchain, a veteran cybersecurity reporter presents this thrilling, globe-spanning story of dirty cops, drug bazaars, trafficking rings and the biggest takedown of an online narcotics market in the history of the internet.
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A Book of Days
by Patti Smith
In a companion to her Instagram account, this photography book from the acclaimed singer, songwriter, poet, painter and National Book Award winning author of Just Kids showcases a year of her life through personal images of 365 days.
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Bright Unbearable Reality: Essays
by Anna Badkhen
In these essays, Badkhen addresses the human condition in the era of such unprecedented dislocation, contemplates the roles of memory and wonder in how we relate to one another, and asks how we can soberly and responsibly counter despair and continue to develop—or at least imagine—an emotional vocabulary against depravity.
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Conversations With Birds
by Priyanka Kumar
The acclaimed filmmaker and novelist presents a collection of essays that focus on her journey through the American west tracking the avian world while rediscovering her own place in the landscape.
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A Fade of Light
by Nate Fakes
A memoir of a cartoonist's formative experiences in life and his close relationship with his stepdad, who is later diagnosed with a rare form of dementia.
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The Funny Stuff: The Official P. J. O’Rourke Quotationary and Riffapedia
by P. J. O'Rourke
This testament to one of the truly original American writers of the last 50 years collects his best material, from his earliest days at the National Lampoon in the 1970s, through his classic reporting for Rolling Stone in the 80s and 90s, to his post-Trump, pandemic, new media musings.
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Novelist As a Vocation
by Haruki Murakami
In this highly personal look at the craft of writing, an internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares his own creative process as well as his thoughts on the sparks of creativity that inspire other writers, artists and musicians.
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Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions
by Steve Martin
In this illustrated memoir of his forty years in the movie biz, the Academy Award-winning actor, using his unparalleled wit, shares anecdotes from the sets of his beloved films, bringing readers directly into his world, capturing the everyday moments that make up a movie stars life.
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The World Record Book of Racist Stories
by Amber Ruffin
The host of The Amber Ruffin Show and writer/cast member on NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers and her sister present a hilarious, intergenerational look at the absurdity of everyday racism as experienced across age, gender and appearance.
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