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Beyond Bestsellers - Nonfiction, Spring 2021

Great recent titles you may have missed, selected by our librarians.

April-June 2021 Issue

       

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Abdurraqib, Hanif.  A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Adamson, Glenn.  Craft: An American History
Alexander, Brian.  The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
Allende, Isabel. The Soul of a Woman: On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches
Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin.  When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today

Bailey, Blake.  Philip Roth: The Biography
Bates, Laura.  Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists; The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All
Beard, Jo Ann.  Festival Days
Beck, Koa.  White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
Becker, Elizabeth.  You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
Bittman, Mark.  Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
Bond, Julian.  Julian Bond’s Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Bren, Paulina.  The Barbizon: The Hotel that Set Women Free
Brina, Elizabeth Miki.  Speak, Okinawa
Brooks, Rosa.  Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
Brown, Emma.  To Raise a Boy: Classrooms, Locker Rooms, Bedrooms, and the Hidden Struggles of American Boyhood
Byrne, Gabriel.  Walking with Ghosts: A Memoir

Clark-Flory, Tracy.  Want Me: A Sex Writer’s Journey into the Heart of Desire
Cohn, Jonathan.  The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage
Cooke, Julia.  Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
Cox, John Woodrow.  Children Under Fire: An American Crisis

Douglas, Ed.  Himalaya: A Human History
Duckworth, Tammy.  Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir
Dyja, Thomas.  New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation

Ehrlich, Gretel.  Unsolaced: Along the Way to All That Is

Febos, Melissa.  Girlhood: Essays
Frank, Matthew Gavin.  Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa
Frankel, Glenn.  Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.  The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
Ghazvinian, John.  America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
Gilmour, Charlie.  Featherhood: A Memoir of Two Fathers and a Magpie
Glaser, Gabrielle.  American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
Gonsalez, Marcos.  Pedro’s Theory: Reimagining the Promised Land
Green, Elon.  Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
Greene, Richard.  The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene

Han, Chenxing.  Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists
Healy, Thomas.  Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
Heinecke, Liz.  Radiant: The Dancer, the Scientist, and a Friendship Forged in Light
Hiss, Tony.  Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth

Jaffe, Sarah.  Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

Kolbert, Elizabeth.  Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

Lawton, Georgina.  Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong
Lee, Hermione.  Tom Stoppard: A Life
Lieber, Ron.  The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make
Lieberman, Daniel.  Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

McGarrahan, Ellen.  Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice
Meiburg, Jonathan.  A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey
Miller, Reuben Jonathan.  Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
Miller, Tessa.  What Doesn’t Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness--Lessons from a Body in Revolt
Montgomery, Ben.  A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South

Newitz, Annalee.  Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Nijhuis, Michelle.  Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
Nimura, Janice P.  The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women--and Women to Medicine

Owusu, Nadia.  Aftershocks: A Memoir

Pang, Amelia.  Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods
Perlroth, Nicole.  This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
Pitzer, Andrea.  Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World.  
Pogue, David.  How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos
Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda.  The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

Rapp Black, Emily.  Sanctuary: A Memoir
Ricketts, Rachel.  Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy
Robertson, Ritchie.  The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
Rosser, Kareem.  Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever

Sands, Philippe.  The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive
Schillace, Brandy.  Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey’s Head, the Pope’s Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul

Tichenor, Liz.  The Night Lake: A Young Priest Maps the Topography of Grief
Tubbs, Anna Malaika.  The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
Tyson, Neil DeGrasse.  Cosmic Queries: StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going

Vanderbilt, Tom.  Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning

Weidensaul, Scott.  A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
Wilczek, Frank.  Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
Winchester, Simon.  Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World