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New Nonfiction Releases August, 2022 |
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Acceptance: A Memoir
by Emi Nietfeld
The writer and software engineer looks back on her dysfunctional childhood years as a homeless teenager and eventual graduation from Harvard and how society's fixation on resilience comes with a terrible cost.
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All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire
by Rebecca Woolf
A successful writer and blogger looks back at her troubled marriage as well as how the sudden illness and death of her husband led to her own rebirth as a mother, widow and sexual being.
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Choices: To the Hills and Back Again
by Audrina Patridge
From the star of MTVs The Hills and The Hills: New Beginnings, a candid and insightful reflection on tabloid fame, the powerlessness and loss of self in toxic situations, and the life-changing power of even our smallest choices.
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Diana, William, and Harry
by James Patterson
The world's best-selling author examines the heartbreaking story of Princess Diana, taken from her sons William and Harry at a painfully young age, and how they carried on her name and spirit into adulthood.
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Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery
by Casey Parks
Part memoir, part investigative reporting, a sweeping journalistic saga explores sexuality and gender, family trauma and the redemptive force of love.
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Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
by Isaac Fitzgerald
The founding editor of BuzzFeed Books explores a more expansive vision of masculinity in a series of personal essays that chronicle his journey growing up in a Boston homeless shelter and efforts to take control of his own story.
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Eliot After the Waste Land
by Robert Crawford
This second volume of the definite biography of T.S. Eliot covers his adult life, drawing heavily on recently unsealed letters between the author and his longtime love and muse, Emily Hale.
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I'm Not Broken: A Memoir
by Jesse Leon
In this unflinching and inspiring memoir, Jesus Leon tells an extraordinary story of resilience and survival, shining a light on a childhood spent devastated by sex trafficking, gang life, and substance abuse.
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Listening Well: Bringing Stories of Hope to Life
by Heather Morris
The best-selling author of Cilkas Journey shares the story behind her inspirational writing journey and the defining experiences of her life, exploring how she learned to really listen to the stories people told, a skill she believes we can all learn.
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The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir
by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Interweaving spellbinding family stories, resurrected Colombian history and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, the author shares her inheritance of the secrets the power to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick and move the clouds.
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My Boy Will Die Of Sorrow: A Memoir Of Immigration From The Front Lines
by Efrén C. Olivares
Sharing gripping family separation stories alongside his own, a human rights lawyer gives voice to immigrants who have been punished and silenced for seeking safety and opportunity, discussing what nationhood means in America and challenging us to question our own empathy and compassion.
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Normal Family: On Truth, Love, And How I Met My 35 Siblings
by Chrysta Bilton
In this unputdownable story of nature, nurture and coming to terms with one's true inheritance, the author, introducing her deeply dysfunctional yet fiercely loving family that is anything but normal, reveals how a colorful cast of characters were thrown together by chance and DNA.
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Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
by David Maraniss
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist presents a new biography of Americas greatest all-around athlete and gold medal winner who survived racism, alcohol addiction, broken marriages and financial distress to become a myth and a legend.
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Pretty Baby: A Memoir
by Natalie West
Moving between the embodied world of the pro domme and the abstract realm of academia, a former sex worker, who branded herself a L.A.s Renowned Lesbian Dominatrix, reveals how lessons from the classroom apply to the dungeon and vice versa, showing how power and desire can be renegotiated or reinforced.
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Scenes from My Life: A Memoir
by Michael Kenneth Williams
Written by the late, iconic actor before his death, this candid and moving memoir of hard-won success, struggles with addiction and a lifelong mission to give back tells the story of his whole life in his own voice, in his own words, as only he could.
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Split Decision: Life Stories
by Ice-T
In this no-holds barred memoir, the award-winning actor, rapper and producer and Spike, his former crime partner, recount the shocking stories of their shared pasts and how a split decision set them on very different paths one to stardom and one to prison after a robbery ended tragically.
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Tanqueray
by Stephanie Johnson
Expanding on one of the "Humans of New York's" most-followed stories, this book filled with never-before-told tales, personal photos from her own collection and glimpses of NYC in the 1970s follows Tanqueray, an indefatigable woman who was once one of the best-known burlesque dancers in the city.
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To Fall in Love, Drink This: A Wine Writer's Memoir
by Alice Feiring
A James Beard Award winner for wine journalism offers this insightful and entertaining memoir in vignettes that doubles as a love letter to wine and a lifelong coming-of-age story in which she discusses the hurdles she has overcome, suffusing each with love, romance, pain, joy and love.
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Where you end and I begin : a memoir
by Leah McLaren
When her mercurial mother reveals she, from the ages of 12 to 15, was the lover of her 45-year-old married pony club instructor, the basis of all her ill-conceived life choices, Leah, haunted by this revelation, searches for the truth of what became of her mothers rapist.
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Why Didn't You Tell Me?: A Memoir
by Carmen Rita Wong
When her immigrant mother's long-held secrets are revealed, bring clarity to so much of her life, the author, after her mother passes away, searches to understand who she really is, in this story of race and culture in America and how they shape who we think we are.
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A Woman's Battles and Transformations
by Édouard Louis
The internationally best-selling author of The End of Eddy and History of Violence discusses his mother's liberation from history, heartbreak, politics and power after she leaves his father.
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Asian American Histories of the United States
by Catherine Ceniza Choy
This history of Asian migration, labor and community formation in the U.S. emphasizes how the Asian American experience is essential to any understanding of both our history and current day crises.
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Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions
by Batja Mesquita
A pioneer in the field of cultural psychology discusses how emotions are not necessarily innate but are made as we live our lives together in shared cultural contexts and how acknowledging our differences can help humanize us.
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Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld
by T. J. English
A noted journalist, screenwriter and best-selling author of Havana Nocturne turns his research and narrative skills on the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in some of the early 20th century's most notorious vice districts.
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Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
by Seirian Sumner
A Professor of Behavioral Ecology examines the highly complex and diverse secret world of wasps and how they hold our fragile ecosystem in balance despite their reputation as winged assassins with formidable stings.
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The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan
by Elliot Ackerman
Using the dramatic rescue efforts in Kabul as his framework, a New York Times best-selling author presents this powerful and dramatic eyewitness account in which he weaves a personal history of the wars long progression, beginning with the initial invasion in the months after 9/11.
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Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
by Rinker Buck
The author of the New York Times best-seller The Oregon Trail, building an authentic wooden flatboat from a bygone era, casts off down the Mississippi river, charting his own geographical and emotional journey, while providing a satisfying work of history.
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Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
by Gaia Vince
Drawing on a career of environmental reporting and over two years of travel to the front lines of climate migration across the globe, an award-winning science journalist, in this urgent call-to-action, discusses the underreported, seismic consequences of climate change and how it will reshape us all.
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On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care
by Victor Ray
Drawing on the radical thinking of Dr. Martin Luther King, Hr., Ida B. Wells and W.E.B. Du Bois, among others, a renowned scholar, through thoughtful essays, traces the foundations of Critical Race Theory, showing why it matters and why we all should care.
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Race and Reckoning: From Founding Fathers to Today's Disruptors
by Ellis Cose
Through meticulous research and with astute detail, and spanning from the nations earliest years to the COVID pandemic, this thought-provoking book dissects how Americas overall narrative breeds racial resentment rooted in conjecture over fact.
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The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
by Steven W. Thrasher
Drawing from heart-rending stories of friends, activists and teachers navigating COVID, HIV and other viruses, a preeminent LGBTQ scholar and journalist presents, for the first time, his unified theory of one of the most pressing social justice issues of our time how viruses expose the fault lines of society.
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The Collection Plate: Poems
by Kendra Allen
Explores both how we collect and erase the voices, lives, and innocence of underrepresented bodies--and behold their pleasure, pain, and possibility.
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Great Literary Friendships
by Janet Phillips
Explores twenty-four literary friendships in succinct, structured entries, from William Shakespeare to Elena Ferrante.
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No Land in Sight: Poems
by Charles Simic
One of our nations most beloved poets reflects on a lifetimes worth of pleasure and loss, capturing fleeting moments of modern life to uncover all the beauty and worry hiding in plain sight, in this testament to all we leave in our wake and simultaneously, all we hang on to.
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Selected Books of the Beloved
by Gregory Orr
An expansive, lyric testament to the formidable mystery of love, spanning several previous volumes all in dedication to the beloved.
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She Memes Well: Essays
by Quinta Brunson
A stand-up comedian, who plays the lead role in the HBO sketch series "A Black Lady Sketch Show," presents an earnest, laugh-out-loud collection of essays about her weird road to internet notoriety.
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Tomboyland: Essays
by Melissa Faliveno
A fiercely personal and startlingly universal essay collection about the mysteries of gender and desire, of identity and class, of the stories we tell and the places we call home.
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