Get ahead of the crowd with these great recent releases that may not be on the New York Times bestseller list, but that have critics and readers talking.
July - September 2024 Issue
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Alexander, Caroline. Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World.
Álvarez, Noé. Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico.
Bale, Anthony. A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes.
Bossiere, Zoë. Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir.
Brodeur, Michael Andor. Swole: The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscle.
Ciment, Jill. Consent: A Memoir.
Cockrell, Will. Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World.
Crampton, Caroline. A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria.
Curzan, Anne. Says Who?: A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares about Words.
Dolin, Eric Jay. Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World.
Drew, Lanham J. Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves.
Dubus, Andre III. Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin.
Elliott, Carl. The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No.
Fedarko, Kevin. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon.
Fuller, Alexandra. Fi: A Memoir of My Son.
Geroulanos, Stefanos. The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins.
Glass, Sara. Kissing Girls on Shabbat.
Goodman, Peter S. How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain.
Handler, Daniel. And Then? and Then? What Else?.
Hanna, Kathleen. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk.
Held, Shai. Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life.
Hemming, Henry. Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland.
Ingrassia, Lawrence. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery.
Jackson, Kellie Carter. We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance.
Jacobs, A. J. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution’s Original Meaning.
Jones, Lucy. Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood.
Junger, Sebastian. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife.
Kaltenegger, Lisa. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos.
Kincaid, Jamaica. An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children (illustrated by Kara Walker).
Korda, Michael. Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets.
Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd. The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt.
Luthra, Shefali. Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America.
MacNicol, Glynnis. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris.
Mak, Geoffrey. Mean Boys: A Personal History.
Mather, Tamsin A. Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves.
Miles, Tiya. Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People.
Millet, Lydia. We Loved It All: A Memory of Life.
Mollick, Ethan. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI. Downloadable audiobook
Montell, Amanda. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality.
Mullins, Carrie. The Book of Mothers: How Literature Can Help Us Reinvent Modern Motherhood.
Murgia, Madhumita. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI.
Nelson, Maggie. Like Love: Essays and Conversations.
Nezhukumatathil, Aimee. Bite by Bite: Nourishments & Jamborees.
Nichols, Kerry. Puppy Brain: How Our Dogs Learn, Think, and Love Hardcover.
O’Keefe, Edward F. The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President.
Oyler, Lauren. No Judgment: Essays.
Page, Susan. The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Painter, Nell Irvin. I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays.
Parkinson, Robert G. Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier.
Ponomarenko, Illia. I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv.
Poon, Oiyan A. Asian American Is Not a Color: Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family.
Powers, Ann. Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell.
Prasad, Aarathi. Silk: A World History.
Questlove and Greenman, Ben. Hip-Hop Is History.
Randall, Alice. My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future.
Randall, Julian. The Dead Don't Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit.
Robinson, Marilynne. Reading Genesis.
Rothfeld, Becca. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess.
Sanghera, Sathnam. Empireworld: How British Imperialism Shaped the Globe.
Scheer, Paul. Joyful Recollections of Trauma.
Seller, Bakari. The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn't and How We All Can Move Forward Now.
Shakespeare, Nicholas. Ian Fleming: The Complete Man.
Sharma, Nina. The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown.
Sinha, Manisha. The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920.
Small, Zachary. Token Supremacy: The Art of Finance, the Finance of Art, and the Great Crypto Crash of 2022.
Smyth, Adam. The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives.
Stanmore, Tabitha. Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic.
Swift, Earl. Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery.
Taylor, Alan. American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873.
Valby, Karen. The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History.
Villarreal, Vanessa Angélica. Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders.
Wallace, Carvell. Another Word for Love: A Memoir.
Wasik, Bill and Murphy, Monica. Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals.
Wong, Alice. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire.
Zakaria, Fareed. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present.