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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 Secrets. Ebook
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. History. Ebook
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 Memoir. Downloadable 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 Marriage. Ebook
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 Plagues. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
King, Neil. American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal. Downloadable 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 Memoir. Ebook
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 Intentions. Ebook
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 Jr. Ebook
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 Memoir. Ebook, 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 Future. Ebook
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 Knew. Ebook
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.