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Beyond Bestsellers - Nonfiction, Fall 2018

Great recent titles selected by our librarians.

October - December 2018 Issue

 

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Alford, Henry.  And Then We Danced: A Voyage into the Groove
Anderson, Carol.  One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy.
Anderson, Sam.  Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Tam, and the Dream of Becoming a World-Class Metropolis
Andrés, José.  We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time.
Appiah, Kwame Anthony.  The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity
Arnold, Catharine.  Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History.
Asghar, Fatimah.  If They Come for Us: Poems.  
Atkins, William.  The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places.
Auerbach, David.  Bitwise: A Life in Code
Austerlitz, Saul.  Just a Shot Away: Peace, Love, and Tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont. 

Carter, Stephen L.  Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster.
Chivers, C.J.  The Fighters: Americans in Combat in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Clark, Anna.  The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy.
Cockell, Charles S.  The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution
Crabtree, James.  The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Gilded Age.
Cunningham, Bill.  Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographs

Harari, Yuval Noah.  21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Havrilesky, Heather.  What if This Were Enough?: Essays
Hayes, Terrance.  American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins.  
Higgins, Maeve.  Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else
Horace, Matthew.  The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America’s Law Enforcement.

Kakutani, Michiko.  The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
Kashner, Sam.  The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee.
Kaukonen, Jorma.  Been So Long: My Life and Music
Kildea, Paul.  Chopin’s Piano: In Search of the Instrument that Transformed Music.
Levy, Deborah.  The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography.
Limón, Ada.  The Carrying: Poems.  
Lynch, David.  Room to Dream

Macy, Beth.  Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America.
McBride, Joseph.  How Did Lubitsch Do It
McCubbin, Lisa.  Betty Ford: First Lady, Women’s Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer.
Mitchell, Wendy.  Somebody I Used to Know
Mohr, Tim.  Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
Moore, Michael Scott.  The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast.

O’Brien, Keith.  Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
Painter, Nell.  Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
Pawel, Miriam.  The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela.  (Ed. by Sahm Venter)
Prose, Francine.  What to Read and Why

Quammen, David.  The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
Rioux, Anne Boyd.  Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters.
Rowbottom, Allie.  Jell-O Girls: A Family History
Rush, Elizabeth.  Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

Samaha, Albert.  Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City
Schaefer, Kayleen.  Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship.
Smarsh, Sarah.  Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth.
Smith, Nicholas.  Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers.
Stern, Amanda.  Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life
Sundberg, Kelly.  Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival.