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Beyond Bestsellers - Nonfiction, Summer 2023

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

July - September 2023 Issue

       

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Anthony, Carl Sferrazza.  Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy
Auder, Alexandra.  Don’t Call Me Home

Balint, Benjamin.  Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History
Barber, Charles.  In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took on the US Army
Belkin, Lisa.  Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night.  
Betancourt, Manuel.  The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me about (Desiring) Men
Biggs, Joanna.  A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again.  
Bilger, Burkhard.  Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family SecretsEbook
Black, George.  The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam.   
Blackhawk, Ned.  The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. HistoryEbook
Brady, Amy.  Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks--A Cool History of a Hot Commodity.  

Cargle, Rachel E.  A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining
Chin, Ava.  Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
Chin-Quee, Anthony.  I Can't Save You: A Memoir.  
Chung, Nicole.  A Living Remedy: A MemoirDownloadable audiobook
Cozzens, Peter.  A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South.   

Dederer, Claire.  Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma.  

Ellis, Helen.  Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy MarriageEbook
England, Vaudine.  Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong

Farley, Audrey Clare.  Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
Frankopan, Peter.  The Earth Transformed: An Untold History.  
Freeman, Hadley.  Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
Fridland, Valerie.  Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English.  
Friedman, Jena.  Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera

Geronimus, Arline T.  Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society.  
Grabar, Henry.  Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Green, Jaime.  The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos.  
Gwynne, S.C.  His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine.  

Hallman, J. C.  Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health
Harris, Aisha.  Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me.  
Healey, Jonathan.  The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
Hessel, Katy.  The Story of Art Without Men.  
Holley, Santi Elijah.  An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
Holten. Katie.  The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape.  
Hughes, Frieda.  George: A Magpie Memoir.  

Jackson, Cassandra.  The Wreck: A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother.  
Jamison, Kay Redfield.  Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind.   
Johnson, Scott C. The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

Kelleher, Katy.  The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption.  
Kennedy, Jonathan.  Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight PlaguesEbook, downloadable audiobook
King, Neil.  American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and RenewalDownloadable audiobook

Leach, Samantha.  The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia
Lee, Julia.  Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America.  
Losos, Jonathan B.  The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa.  
Luckerson, Victor.  Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street

Mar, Alex.  Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy.  
Marshall, Greg.  Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It.   
May, Gregory.  A Madman's Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom.  
Myers, Leah.  Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity.  

Ng, Fae Myenne.  Orphan Bachelors: A MemoirEbook

Petri, Alexandra.  Alexandra Petri's US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)
Pick-Goslar, Hannah and Dina Kraft.  My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds.  Ebook
Pittard, Hannah.  We Are Too Many: A Memoir (Kind Of).  
Plait, Philip.  Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe

Rosen, Jonathan.  The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good IntentionsEbook

Scott, Jonathan.  Into the Groove: The Story of Sound from Tin Foil to Vinyl.  
Seletzky, Leta McCollough.  The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King JrEbook
Sevigny, Melissa L.  Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon. Downloadable audiobook
Sharpe, Christina.  Ordinary Notes.  
Snyder, Rachel Louise.  Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A MemoirEbook, downloadable audiobook
Spalding, Katie.  Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses.   
Steinberg, Jonny.  Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage.  
Stille, Alexander.  The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune.
Strasdin, Kate.  The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman's Wardrobe.     

Tobar, Héctor.  Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Twenge, Jean M.  Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents--And What They Mean for America's FutureEbook

Vaillant, John.  Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
Vance. Ashlee.  When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach.
Velour, Sasha.  The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag.  
Viren, Sarah.  To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories

Wallace, Daniel.  This Isn’t Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I KnewEbook
Wallace, Max.  After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller.  
Wang, Connie.  Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures.  
Ward, Ashley.  Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Senses.
Williams, Chad L.  The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War
Wong, Jane.  Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City