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Beyond Bestsellers - Nonfiction, Fall 2023

Great recent titles you may have missed, selected by our librarians.

October - December 2023 Issue

       

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Ahmed, Azam.  Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance.  
Andrews, Lena S.  Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War IIEbook

Brown, Jericho, editor.  How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill.  

Campoverdi, Alejandra.  First Gen: A Memoir.  
Carlisle, Clare.  The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life
Carrière, Alice.  Everything/Nothing/Someone: A MemoirEbook, downloadable audiobook
Chang, Leah L.  Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power.  
Coulter, Kristi.  Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career.  

Dickie, Gloria.  Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future.

Edin, Kathryn J.; Shaefer, H. Luke; Nelson, Timothy J.  The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
Eilenberger, Wolfram.  The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times.  

Field, Andy.  Encounterism: The Neglected Joys of Being in Person.  
Flam, Laura and Liebowitz, Emily Sieu.  But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the '60s Girl Groups.  
Flannery, Kate.  Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los AngelesEbook, downloadable audiobook
Francis, Gavin.  Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence.  
Franklin-Wallis, Oliver.  Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future.  
Freedman, Samuel G.  Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights.  
Funder, Anna.  Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life.  

Glatt, John.  Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders
Goldfarb, Ben.  Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet.
Goodyear, C.W.  President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier.  
Goyal, Nikhil.  Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty
Grush, Loren.  The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
Gupta, Prachi.  They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies that Raised Us.  Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Gurba, Myriam.  Creep: Accusations and Confessions.  

Hamilton, Lisa M.  The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival.  
Hardin, Lara Love.  The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and HealingEbook, downloadable audiobook
Hartigan, Patti.  August Wilson: A Life
Huang, Yunte.  Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History.

Jones, Robert P.  The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: And the Path to a Shared American Future.  
Julavits, Heidi.  Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years.  

Kissinger, Meg.  While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of SilenceEbook, downloadable audiobook 

Leland, Andrew.  The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight.  
Lepore, Jill.  The Deadline: Essays.  
Lipsky, David.  The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial.  Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Love, Bettina L.  Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal.  

Maclear, Kyo.  Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets.  
Mann, William J.  Bogie & Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair.  
McAdam, Jennifer.  Devil’s Coin: My Battle to Take Down the Notorious Onecoin Cryptoqueen.  
McCrae, Shane.  Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping.  Ebook, downloadable audiobook
McKenzie, Ben and Silverman, Jacob.  Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of FraudEbook, downloadable audiobook  
McPhee, John.  Tabula Rasa. Volume 1.
McPhee, Martha.  Omega Farm: A Memoir.  
McWhirter, Cameron.  American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15.  
Meals, Roy A.  Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement.
Meckler, Laura.  Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity.
Meltzer, Marisa.  Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier.  
Mikanowski, Jacob.  Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land.  
Miles, Tiya.  Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation.  
Monosson, Emily.  Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic
Moss, Stephen.  Ten Birds That Changed the World.  

Nancherla, Aparna.  Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome.  
Ndopu, Eddie.  Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever.  
Nguyen, Bich Minh.  Owner of a Lonely Heart: A MemoirEbook

Posnanski, Joe.  Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 MomentsEbook, downloadable audiobook

Ramsey, Donovan X.  When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood EraEbook, downloadable audiobook
Reeves, Roger.  Dark Days: Fugitive Essays.  
Rush, Elizabeth.  The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth.  

Schama, Simon.  Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations.  
Shane, Scott.  Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland.  
Shange, Ntozake.  Sing a Black Girl's Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange
Shields, Aomawa.  Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe
Shih, David.  Chinese Prodigal: A Memoir in Eight Arguments.  
Simmons, Ruth J.  Up Home: One Girl's Journey
Smilios, Maria.  The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis.  
Spillar, Katherine.  50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution.  
Stark, Peter.  Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation
Stowe, Hannah.  Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea.  

Thom, Kai Cheng.  Falling Back in Love With Being Human: Letters to Lost SoulsDownloadable audiobook
Thomas, R. Eric.  Congratulations, the Best is Over!: Essays.  Ebook, downloadable audiobook

Walker, Tamara J.  Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad.  
Winder, Elizabeth.  Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones
Winn, Raynor.  Landlines: The Remarkable Story of a Thousand-Mile Journey Across Britain.  

Yeebo, Yepoka.  Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World.  

Zambreno, Kate.  The Light Room.