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October - December 2019 Issue
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Abdurraqib, Hanif. A Fortune for Your Disaster.
Alexievich, Svetlana. Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II.
Appelbaum, Binyamin. The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society.
Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents. Ed. by Lise Funderburg.
Arana, Marie. Silver, Sword & Stone: Three Crucibles of the Latin American Story.
Austin, Nefertiti. Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America.
Batchelor, Bob. The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition’s Evil Genius.
Benfey, Christopher. If: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years.
Blackburn, Julia. Time Song: Journeys in Search of a Submerged Land.
Boyer, Anne. The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer and Care.
Broom, Sarah M. The Yellow House.
Crucet, Jennine Capó. My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education.
Cumming, Laura. Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother’s Disappearance as a Child.
Cusk, Rachel. Coventry: Essays.
Day, Daniel R. Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem; A Memoir.
Demuth, Bathsheba. Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait.
Denhollander, Rachael. What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth About Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics.
DeParle, Jason. A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century.
Eltahawy, Mona. The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls.
Faber, Toby. Faber & Faber: The Untold History of a Great Publishing House.
Foner, Eric. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
Ford, Clementine. Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and Toxic Masculinity.
Fuller, Alexandra. Travel Light, Move Fast.
Gerrard, Nicci. The Last Ocean: A Journey Through Memory and Forgetting.
Girma, Haben. Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law.
Goldberg, Carrie. Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls.
Graff, Garrett M. The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11.
Grant, James. Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian.
Harjo, Joy. An American Sunrise: Poems.
Jamison, Leslie. Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays.
Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist.
King, Charles. Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century.
Kröger, Lisa. Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction.
Lemann, Nicholas. Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream.
Lenz, Lyz. God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America.
Leonard, Christopher. Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power In America.
McCann, Anthony. Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff.
McCulloch, Gretchen. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language.
Mehta, Suketu. This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto.
Messineo, Janet. Casting into the Light: Tales of a Fishing Life.
Moaveni, Azadeh. Guest House for Young Widows: The Women of ISIS.
Monroe, Rachel. Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime and Obsession.
Moser, Benjamin. Sontag: Her Life and Work.
Natterson-Horowitz, Barbara. Wildhood: The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals.
Neiman, Susan. Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil.
O’Mara, Margaret. The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America.
Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World. Ed. by Zahra Hankir.
Paxson, Maggie. The Plateau.
Payne, Doris. Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief.
Perez, Inti Chavez. Respect: Everything a Guy Needs to Know About Sex, Love, and Consent.
Perry, Imani. Breathe: A Letter to My Sons.
Pesta, Abigail. The Girls: An All-American Town, a Predatory Doctor, and the Untold Story of the Gymnasts Who Brought Him Down.
Phelps-Roper, Megan. Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church.
Poniewozik, James. Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America.
Prejean, Helen. River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey.
Regan, Iliana. Burn the Place: A Memoir.
Row, Jess. White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination.
Schlossberg, Tatiana. Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impacts You Don’t Know You Have.
Sesay, Isha. Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram.
Smith, Carmen Giménez. Be Recorder: Poems.
Smith, Patti. Year of the Monkey.
Straczynski, J. Michael. Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood.
Straight, Susan. In the Country of Women: A Memoir.
Sverdrup-Thygeson, Anne. Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects.
Tolentino, Jia. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion.
Tough, Paul. The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us.
Urbina, Ian. The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier.
Vaughters, Jonathan. One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels.
Watson, Cecelia. Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark.
Weschler, Lawrence. And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks.
White, Duncan. Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War.
Williams, Rachel DeLoache. My Friend Anna: The True Story of the Fake Heiress Who Conned Me and Half of New York City.
Wilson, Robert. Barnum: An American Life.
Winegard, Timothy C. The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator.
Wragg, Jessica. Girl on the Block: A True Story of Coming of Age Behind the Counter.