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New Nonfiction Releases July 2023 |
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The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
by Michael Finkel
This riveting true story of art, crime, love and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost draws us into the strange and fascinating world of prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser, who stole and kept more than 300 objects until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down.
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Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart
by Rose Styron
The noted poet, journalist and human rights activist looks back on her extraordinary life with author Bill Styron as they socialized with Sinatra and the Kennedys and dealt with his crippling depression.
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The Boy Who Reached for the Stars: A Memoir
by Elio Morillo
In this cosmic and intimate memoir, the scientist known as the “space mechanic,” who overcame a history of systemic adversity and inequality in public education to realize his galactic dreams, shares his journey from Ecuador to NASA and beyond.
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The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
by Andrew Leland
In a book that is part memoir, part historical and cultural investigation, the author, midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, explores the state of being that awaits him, not only the physical experience of blindness but also its language, politics and customs so he can not only survive this transition but grow from it.
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Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness
by Shahd Alshammari
This lyrical hybrid memoir revisits a lifetime's worth of personal journals to slowly piece together a narrative of chronic illness—a moving account of survival, memory, loss, and hope.
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Jackie: Public, Private, Secret
by J. Randy Taraborrelli
Based on hundreds of new interviews, this often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady explores the flaws and contradictions that only served to make her even more iconic.
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Letting Magic In: A Memoir of Becoming
by Maia Toll
From the best-selling author of the Wild Wisdom series and The Night School comes the enchanted story of Maia Toll's own magical awakening, blending memoir and mysticism to empower and inspire readers to uncover their own inner magic.
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The Light Room
by Kate Zambreno
Moving through the seasons, this profound and affecting account of caretaking in a time of uncertainty and loss captures the isolation and exhaustion of a mother being home with a baby and a small child, but also small and transcendent moments of beauty and joy.
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Little Earthquakes: A Memoir
by Sarah Mandel
Discovering she had Stage Four breast cancer while pregnant with her second baby, a clinical psychologist who specializes in trauma, after receiving good news, was unable to celebrate due to being frozen in a dissociated state and used the “narrative therapy” she used with her patients to navigate her own trauma.
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My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering
by Martha Hodes
Drawing on deep archival research, childhood memories and conversations with relatives, friends and fellow hostages, a noted historian, a passenger on an airliner hijacked by Palestinians in 1970, sets out to understand both what happened in the Jordan desert and her own fractured family and childhood pain.
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No Ordinary Assignment: A Memoir
by Jane Ferguson
From award-winning journalist Jane Ferguson, an unflinching memoir of ambition and war—from The Troubles to the fall of Kabul.
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Owner of a Lonely Heart
by Bich Minh Nguyen
In this memoir about parenthood, absence and the condition of being a refugee, the author, who fled Saigon for America at the end of the Vietnam War, while her mother stayed behind, tells a coming-of-age story spanning her Midwestern childhood, her first meeting with her mother and becoming a parent herself.
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President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
by C. W. Goodyear
A prominent historian presents this magisterial biography chronicling the extraordinary, tragic life and times of our 20th president—an impoverished boy working his way from the frontier to the Presidency, trying to raise a more righteous, peaceful Republic out of the ashes of civil war.
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Still Laughing: A Life in Comedy from the Creator of Laugh-in
by George Schlatter
This inside look at the Golden Age of Hollywood in the wake of the cultural upheaval of the 60s and 70s follows the life and career of producer George Schlatter, the creator of Laugh-In—one of the most beloved shows in television history.
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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
by Laura Cumming
Featuring beautiful full-color images of Dutch paintings throughout, this stunning book about one of the most vibrant periods in European art and life is centered around the fascinating, little-known story of the Thunderclap–an enormous explosion in 1654 Holland that claimed the life of one of the greatest artists of the 17th century.
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The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia
by Samantha Leach
A "Bustle" editor, seeking to understand the death of her childhood best friend Elissa, focuses on her last years at a therapeutic boarding school and discovers Elissa's closest friends who shared both her name and a penchant for partying also died, offering a chilling account of the secret lives of young suburban women.
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Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning
by Sarah Weinman
Compiled by the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts and featuring contributions from fourteen of the most cutting-edge crime writers of our time, this anthology sheds light on cases that offer critical perspectives on our society.
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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
by John Vaillant
The best-selling author of The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival describes the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire disaster that drove 88,000 people from their homes instantly and how this is a shocking preview of a hotter, flammable world.
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Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement
by M.D. Meals, Roy A.
Shedding new light on the essential tissue that moves us through life, an orthopedic surgeon takes us on a wide-ranging journey through anatomy, biology, history and health to unlock the mysteries of our muscles and explore major advancements in medicine and fitness.
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Narcas: The Secret Rise of Women in Latin America's Cartels
by Deborah Bonello
Giving voice to the women of notorious drug-trafficking monarchies for the first time, a VICE journalist explores the hidden power these women wield in Latin American drug cartels and shows how they are fully capable of being as ambitious, innovative, ruthless and violent as their male counterparts.
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The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
by David Lipsky
Starring heroes, villains, pioneers and con artists, this dramatic narrative of the long, strange march of climate science masterfully traces the evolution of climate denial, which grew out of early efforts to build a network of untruth about products like aspirin and cigarettes.
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The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America
by Michael Waldman
The president and CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law presents an incisive analysis of how the Supreme Court's new conservative supermajority is overturning decades of law and its implications for American society as the country is being lead in a dangerous political direction.
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Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
An award-winning investigative journalist takes us on a shocking journey inside the waste industry, the secretive multibillion dollar world underpinning the modern economy, to tell a new story of humanity based on what we leave behind, and, along the way, shares a blueprint for building a healthier, more sustainable world.
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Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
by Jennifer Vanderbes
This gripping, never-before-told story of thalidomide, the most notorious drug of the 20th century that harmed scores of Americans, with its origins linked to the Nazis, gives voice to the unrecognized victims of this epic scandal and exposes the deceptive practices of Big Pharma that continue to endanger lives today.
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Deal: New and Selected Poems
by Randall Mann
Political and sequined, Deal: New and Selected Poems contains the most memorable of Mann’s previous five collections and presents new poems of disco, lament, and formal invention.
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So To Speak
by Terrance Hayes
These wondrous poems are lyric germinations of the often-incomprehensible predicaments of the present, as Terrance Hayes shapes language into figures of music and music into figures of language.
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Tabula Rasa
by John McPhee
Looking back at his career from the vantage point of his desk drawer, and reflecting on projects he never got around to– people to profile, regions he meant to portray, a literary legend presents a collection of vignettes and a “reminiscent montage” from a writing life.
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Wannabe: Reckonings With the Pop Culture That Shapes Me
by Aisha Harris
Exploring how elements of popular culture became the formative touchstones of her youth in the 1990s, the NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour cohost, in this collection of essays and observations, probes the most personal aspects of her life, setting in context with current sensations transforming culture now.
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We're All in This Together...: So Make Some Room!
by Tom Papa
A touring stand-up comedian presents 37 entertaining short essays, covering such topics as growing up, aging, dating, family life and pets, guaranteed to make readers laugh, but, more importantly, feel better about themselves while doing it.
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