Beyond Bestsellers - Nonfiction, Spring 2017
April - June 2017 Issue
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Akyol, Mustafa. The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims.
Armitage, David. Civil Wars: A History in Ideas.
Bair, Deirdre. Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend.
Baker, Kevin. American the Ingenious: How a Nation of Dreamers, Immigrants, and Tinkerers Changed the World.
Barrett, Lisa Feldman. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain.
Bellos, David. The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables.
Biello, David. The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth’s Newest Age.
Bloom, Paul. Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion.
Brotton, Jerry. The Sultan and the Queen: the Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam.
Campisi, Charles. Blue on Blue: An Insider’s Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops.
Carroll, Leah. Down City: A Daughter’s Story of Love, Memory, and Murder.
Czerski, Helen. Storm in the Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life.
Dann, Kevin. Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau.
Deutsch, Kevin. Pill City: How Two Honor Roll Students Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire.
Dickinson, Amy. Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Coming Home.
Dolce, Joe. Brave New Weed: Adventures into the Uncharted World of Cannabis.
Egan, Dan. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes.
Englund, Will. March 1917: On the Brink of War and Revolution.
Epstein, Edward Jay. How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft.
Farrell, John A. Richard Nixon: The Life.
Friedman, Thomas L. Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations.
Fuller, Randall. The Book That Changed America: How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation.
Fulton, Sabrina. Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin.
Gerwarth, Robert. The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness.
Hahn, Steven. A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910.
Hammond, Claudia. Mind Over Money: The Psychology of Money and How to Use It Better.
Harding, Andrew. The Mayor of Mogadishu: A Story of Chaos and Redemption in the Ruins of Somalia.
Hatch, Steven. Inferno: A Doctor’s Ebola Story.
Hegar, Mary Jennings. Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman’s Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front.
Hughes-Wilson, John. The Secret State: A History of Intelligence and Espionage.
Hustvedt, Siri. A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind.
Isenberg, Noah. We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie.
Jelly-Shapiro, Joshua. Island People: The Caribbean and the World.
Kazin, Michael. War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918.
King, Coretta Scott. My Life, My Love, My Legacy.
Knausgaard, Karl Ove. Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game.
Kolhatkar, Shellah. Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street.
Kurlansky, Mark. Havana: A Subtropical Delirium.
Kwak, James. Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality.
Lemmo, David. Tarzan: Jungle King of Popular Culture.
Linder, Joselin. The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future.
Liptrot, Amy. The Outrun: A Memoir.
Lohman, Sarah. Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine.
Malek, Alia. The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria.
Markey, Eileen. A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura.
Masters, Alexander. A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in the Trash.
Merali, Zeeya. A Big Bang in a Little Room: The Quest to Create New Universes.
Merkin, Daphne. This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression.
Moran, Caitlin. Moranifesto.
Myers, Marc. Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits that Changed Rock, R&B and Pop.
Neilsen, Larry A. Nature’s Allies: Eight Conservationists Who Changed Our World.
O’Loughlin, Sheryl. Killing It!: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Head Without Losing Your Heart.
Oliver, Mary. Upstream: Selected Essays.
Orr, David. You, Too, Could Write a Poem: Selected Reviews and Essays, 2000-2015.
Our Black Sons Matter: Mothers Talk About Fears, Sorrows, and Hopes. (Ed. by George Yancy)
Pomfret, John. The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present.
Powers, Ron. No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America.
Ricca, Brad. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City’s Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation.
Rizvi, Ali A. The Atheist Muslim: A Journey from Religion to Reason.
Roper, Lyndal. Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet.
Saldaña, Stephanie. A Country Between: Making a Home Where Both Sides of Jerusalem Collide.
Schor, Esther. Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language.
Smith, Patricia. Incendiary Art. (poetry)
Sorel, Edward. Mary Astor’s Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936.
Staiti, Paul. Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution Through Painters’ Eyes.
Stamper, Kory. Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries.
Stubbs, John. Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel.
Summers, Michael. Exoplanets: Diamond Worlds, Super Earth, Pulsar Planets, and the New Search for Life Beyond Our Solar System.
Tallis, Nicola. Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey.
Tara, Sylvia. The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body’s Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You.
Tarlo, Emma. Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair.
Taubes, Gary. The Case Against Sugar.
Tucker, Holly. City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris.
Wadman, Meredith. The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease.
Warraich, Haider. Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life.
Weatherford, Jack. Genghis Khan and the Quest for God: How the World’s Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom.
Webb, Amy. The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe Is Tomorrow’s Mainstream.
Wideman, John Edgar. Writing to Save a life: The Louis Till File.
Wright, N. T. The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus’s Crucifixion.