Beyond Bestsellers - Nonfiction, Summer 2017
July - September 2017 Issue
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Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions.
Akyol, Mustafa. The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims.
Alexie, Sherman. You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir.
Appel, Marty. Casey Stengel: Baseball’s Greatest Character.
Baron, David. American Eclipse: A Nation’s Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World.
Bass, S. Jonathan. He Calls Me By Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty.
Bauerschmidt, Tim. Driving Miss Norma: One Family’s Journey Saying “Yes” to Living.
Begley, Adam. The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera.
Bowden, Mark. Huê 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam.
Callahan, David. The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age.
Carroll, Leah. Down City: A Daughter’s Story of Love, Memory and Murder.
Cassidy, Cody. And Then You’re Dead: What Really Happens if You Get Swallowed by a Whale, Are Shot from a Cannon, or Go Barreling over Niagara.
Chew-Bose, Durga. Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays.
Cole, Teju. Blind Spot.
Cooper, Helene. Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Davis, Heath Fogg. Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?
Davis, Jack E. The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea.
Dearborn, Mary V. Ernest Hemingway: A Biography.
Dembicki, Geoff. Are We Screwed?: How a New Generation Is Fighting to Survive Climate Change.
Dinerstein, Joel. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America.
Double Bind: Women on Ambition. (Ed. by Robin Romm)
Dyson, Michael Eric. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America.
Edge, John T. The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South.
Ewing, Jack. Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal.
Febos, Melissa. Abandon Me: Memoirs.
Forman, James, Jr. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America.
Gaitskill, Mary. Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays.
Garrow, David J. Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama.
Gay, Roxanne. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body.
Gerson, Stéphane. Disaster Falls: A Family Story.
Goldstein, Amy. Janesville: An American Story.
Gould, Jonathan. Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life.
Grann, David. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.
Hayes, Chris. A Colony in a Nation.
Hockenos, Paul. Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin.
Hoock, Holger. Scars of Independence: America’s Violent Birth.
Isenberg, Noah. We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie.
Jacobsen, Annie. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government’s Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis.
Jamison, Kay Redfield. Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character.
Johnson, Yvette. The Song and the Silence: A Story about Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright.
Kolhatkar, Sheelah. 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.
Lesser, Wendy. You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn.
Levy, Ariel. The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir.
MacLean, Nancy. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America.
Mahaffey, James. Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-rays, and Isotopic Murder--A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science.
Marzano-Lesnevich, Alexandria. The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir.
Matloff, Judith. No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World’s Violent Highlands.
Mekhennet, Souad. I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad.
Mintzker, Yair. The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew.
Mishra, Pankaj. Age of Anger: A History of the Present.
Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women.
Nathan, Joan. King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World.
Otto, Mary. Teeth: Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America.
Owen, David. Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River.
Parker, Willie. Life’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice.
Paul, Pamela. My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues.
Pearlman, Wendy. We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria.
Pico, Tommy. Nature Poem. (poetry)
Positano, Rock. Dinner with DiMaggio: Memories of an American Hero.
Rapport, Mike. The Unruly City: Paris, London, and New York in the Age of Revolution.
Ricks, Thomas E. Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom.
Riggs, Nina. The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying.
Rochman, Bonnie. The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids--and the Kids We Have.
Rosenberg, Rosalind. Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray.
Rosenthal, Elisabeth. An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back.
Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America.
Ryrie, Alec. Protestants: The Faith that Made the Modern World.
Safranski, Rüdiger. Goethe: Life as a Work of Art.
Sapolsky, Robert M. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst.
Searls, Damion. The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing.
Sharfstein, Daniel J. Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War.
Simic, Charles. Scribbled in the Dark. (poetry)
Stamper, Kory. Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries.
Stone, Geoffrey R. Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century.
Taylor, Benjamin. The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered.
Wallis, Michael. The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny.
Whipple, Chris. The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency.
Windhorst, Brian. Return of the King: LeBron James, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Greatest Comeback in NBA History.
Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb. Moses: A Human Life.