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.
October - December 2024 Issue
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Atlanta, Ellen. Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women.
Auslander, Shalom. Feh: A Memoir.
Beck, Richard. Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life.
Benoit, Rich. Going Fast and Fixing Things: True Stories from the World’s Most Popular DIY Repair Expert and Car Aficionado.
Bergstein, Rachelle. The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us.
Bierman, Paul. When the Ice Is Gone: What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth's Tumultuous History and Perilous Future.
Bingham, Clara. The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973.
Bishop, Patrick. Paris 1944: Occupation, Resistance, Liberation.
Blanco, Victoria. Out of the Sierra: A Story of Rarámuri Resistance.
Brottman, Mikita. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida.
Cabrol, Nathalie A. The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist's Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life.
Chowdhary, Zara. The Lucky Ones: A Memoir.
Chu, Jon M. and McCarter, Jeremy. Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen.
Cook, Jesselyn. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family.
Cooper, Paul. Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline.
Courogen, Carrie. Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius.
Danticat, Edwidge. We're Alone: Essays.
Davis, Rebecca L. Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America.
Driver, Alice. Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company.
Dunn, Daisy. The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World.
Evans, Richard J. Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich.
Fox, Margalit. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss. Ebook
Fuller, Thomas. The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory.
Gibson, Susannah. The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women’s Movement.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World.
Gordon, Tamela J. Hood Wellness: Tales of Communal Care from People Who Drowned on Dry Land.
Graham, Jasmin. Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist.
Gumbs, Alexis Pauline. Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.
Henion, Leigh Ann. Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark.
Henry, Spencer and Reyes, Madison. Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death.
Hochschild, Arlie Russell. Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right.
Hoppe, Jessica. First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream.
Jabr, Ferris. Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life.
Karmel, Ian and Karmel, Alisa. T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People. Downloadable audiobook
Kaye, Anthony E. and Downs, Gregory P. Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History.
Kershenbaum, Arik. Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication.
La Tray, Chris. Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home.
Laing, Olivia. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise.
Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology. Edited by Rigoberto González.
Levitin, Daniel J. I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine.
Mattoo, Priyanka. Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir.
McClanahan, Paige. The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel.
Mertens, Maggie. Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women.
Mithers, Carol Lynn. Rethinking Rescue: Dog Lady and the Story of America's Forgotten People and Pets.
Nagle, Rebecca. By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land.
Peri, Camille. A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Powers, Ann. Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell.
Prose, Francine. 1974: A Personal History.
Purnell, Sonia. Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue.
Questlove. Hip-Hop is History.
Quinn, Josephine. How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History.
Radclyffe, Oliver. Frighten the Horses: A Memoir.
Reading, Amy. The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker.
Reeve, Elle. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics.
Rishi, Farah Naz. Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir.
Romig, Rollo. I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist's Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India.
Rooks, Noliwe. A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune.
Schaap, Rosie. The Slow Road North: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country.
Schutt, Bill. Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans.
Schwartz, Theodore H. Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery.
Sheftall, M G. Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses.
Slater, Dan. The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld.
Smarsh, Sarah. Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class.
Smith, Danez. Bluff: Poems.
Smith, Tanya. Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System―and Pocketed $40 Million.
Specter, Emma. More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough".
Twilley, Nicola. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves.
VanDeMark, Brian. Kent State: An American Tragedy.
Van Duyne, Emily. Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation.
Walker, Jerald. Magically Black and Other Essays.
Walker, Sara Imari. Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence.
White, Catherine Joy. This Thread of Gold: A Celebration of Black Womanhood.
Whitman, Debra B. The Second Fifty: Answers to the 7 Big Questions of Midlife and Beyond.
Yong, Sable. Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity.
Zaki, Jamil. Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness. Ebook, downloadable audiobook