New Nonfiction – April 2021

Coming back : how to win the job you want when you’ve lost the job you need / Fawn Germer.

Germer, Fawn, author.

Beyond order : 12 more rules for life / Jordan B. Peterson.

Peterson, Jordan B., author.

Paranormal crimes : supernatural and unexplained true crime cases that have mystified authorities / Conrad Bauer.

Bauer, Conrad, author.

You don’t belong here : how three women rewrote the story of war / Elizabeth Becker.

Becker, Elizabeth (Journalist), author.

How to do the work : recognize your patterns, heal from your past, and create your self / Dr. Nicole LePera.

LePera, Nicole, author.

The energy paradox : what to do when your get-up-and-go has got up and gone / Steven R. Gundry, MD with Amely Greeven.

Gundry, Steven R, author.

Unwinding anxiety : new science shows how to break the cycles of worry and fear to heal your mind / Judson Brewer, MD, PhD.

Brewer, Judson, author.

Nervous energy : harness the power of your anxiety / Dr. Chloe Carmichael, clinical psychologist.

Carmichael, Chloe, author.

Remember : the science of memory and the art of forgetting / Lisa Genova.

Genova, Lisa, author.

Keep sharp : [build a better brain at any age] / Sanjay Gupta, M.D. with Kristin Loberg.

Gupta, Sanjay, 1969- author.

Women and other monsters : building a new mythology / Jess Zimmerman.

Zimmerman, Jess, author.

Your fully charged life : a radically simple approach to having endless energy and filling every day with yay / Meaghan B. Murphy with Beth Janes O’Keefe.

Murphy, Meaghan B, author.

Make your own sunshine : inspiring stories of people who find light in dark times / Janice Dean.

Dean, Janice, author.

The enlightenment : the pursuit of happiness, 1680-1790 / Ritchie Robertson.

Robertson, Ritchie, author.

Lies my preacher told me : an honest look at the Old Testament / Brent A. Strawn.

Strawn, Brent A., author.

The Gospels / a new translation by Sarah Ruden.

Turning of days : lessons from nature, season, and spirit / Hannah Anderson text illustrations by Nathan Anderson.

Anderson, Hannah, 1979- author.

The three Cs that made America great : Christianity, capitalism and the Constitution / Mike Huckabee, Steve Feazel.

Huckabee, Mike, 1955- author.

Church, interrupted : havoc & hope : the tender revolt of Pope Francis / John Cornwell.

Cornwell, John, 1940- author.

Lifeblood of the parish : men and Catholic devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn / Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada.

Maldonado-Estrada, Alyssa, author.

No pain, no Gaines : the good stuff doesn’t come easy / Chip Gaines.

Gaines, Chip, 1974- author.

The delusions of crowds : why people go mad in groups / William J. Bernstein.

Bernstein, William J., author.

Conflicted : how productive disagreements lead to better outcomes / Ian Leslie.

Leslie, Ian, 1972- author.

Everything will be okay : life lessons for young women (from a former young woman) / Dana Perino.

Perino, Dana, author.

Men who hate women : from incels to pickup artists : the truth about extreme misogyny and how it affects us all / Laura Bates.

Bates, Laura, 1986- author.

The Barbizon : the hotel that set women free / Paulina Bren.

Bren, Paulina, author.

The soul of a woman : on impatient love, long life, and good witches / Isabel Allende.

Allende, Isabel, author.

Conversations in black : on power, politics, and leadership / Ed Gordon.

Gordon, Ed, 1960- author.

Raceless : in search of family, identity, and the truth about where I belong / Georgina Lawton.

Lawton, Georgina, author.

This is the fire : what I say to my friends about racism / Don Lemon.

Lemon, Don, 1966- author.

Tomorrow sex will be good again : women and desire in the age of consent / Katherine Angel.

Angel, Katherine, author.

Gay bar : why we went out / Jeremy Atherton Lin.

Lin, Jeremy Atherton, author.

Socialists don’t sleep : Christians must rise or America will fall / Cheryl K. Chumley.

Chumley, Cheryl K., 1968- author.

When America stopped being great : a history of the present / Nick Bryant.

Bryant, Nicholas A., author.

Endpapers : a family story of books, war, escape, and home / Alexander Wolff.

Wolff, Alexander, author.

We are Bellingcat : global crime, online sleuths, and the bold future of news / Eliot Higgins.

Higgins, Eliot, author.

Evil geniuses : the unmaking of America : a recent history / Kurt Andersen.

Andersen, Kurt, 1954- author.

Back to business : finding your confidence, embracing your skills, and landing your dream job after a career pause / Nancy McSharry Jensen and Sarah Duenwald.

Jensen, Nancy McSharry, author.

How rights went wrong : why our obsession with rights is tearing America apart / Jamal Greene.

Greene, Jamal, author.

The whiteness of wealth / how the tax system impoverishes Black Americans – and how we can fix it / Dorothy A. Brown.

Brown, Dorothy A., author.

Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free : and other paradoxes of our broken legal system / Jed S. Rakoff.

Rakoff, Jed S., author.

Modern warriors : real stories from real heroes / Pete Hegseth.

Hegseth, Pete, author.

The hospital : life, death, and dollars in a small American town / Brian Alexander.

Alexander, Brian, author.

Last call : a true story of love, lust, and murder in queer New York / Elon Green.

Green, Elon, author.

Blood gun money : how America arms gangs and cartels / Ioan Grillo.

Grillo, Ioan, 1973- author.

How to avoid a climate disaster : the solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need / Bill Gates.

Gates, Bill, 1955- author.

We own this city : a true story of crime, cops, and corruption / Justin Fenton.

Fenton, Justin, author.

Dirty gold : the rise and fall of an international smuggling ring / Jay Weaver, Nicholas Nehamas, Jim Wyss, and Kyra Gurney.

Weaver, Jay (Journalist) author.

The good girls : an ordinary killing / Sonia Faleiro.

Faleiro, Sonia, author.

The officer’s daughter : a memoir of family and forgiveness / Elle Johnson.

Johnson, Lois (Television writer and producer), author.

Killer triggers / Joe Kenda.

Kenda, Joe, author.

Terror to the wicked : America’s first trial by jury that ended a war and helped to form a nation / Tobey Pearl.

Pearl, Tobey, author.

Maniac : the Bath School disaster and the birth of the modern mass killer / Harold Schechter.

Schechter, Harold, author.

The rope : a true story of murder, heroism, and the dawn of the NAACP / Alex Tresniowski.

Tresniowski, Alex, author.

Confident women : swindlers, grifters, and shapeshifters of the feminine persuasion / Tori Telfer.

Telfer, Tori, author.

The Don : the story of Toronto’s infamous jail / Lorna Poplak.

Poplak, Lorna, author.

The ten year war : Obamacare and the unfinished crusade for universal coverage / Jonathan Cohn.

Cohn, Jonathan, author.

Guilty admissions : the bribes, favors, and phonies behind the college cheating scandal / Nicole LaPorte.

LaPorte, Nicole, author.

Fulfillment : winning and losing in one-click America / Alec MacGillis.

MacGillis, Alec, author.

The secret life of groceries : the dark miracle of the American supermarket / Benjamin Lorr.

Lorr, Benjamin, author.

Come fly the world : the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am / Julia Cooke.

Cooke, Julia, author.

Dress codes : how the laws of fashion made history / Richard Thompson Ford.

Ford, Richard T. (Richard Thompson)

A boob’s life : how America’s obsession shaped me… and you / Leslie Lehr.

Lehr, Leslie, author.

Becoming an event planner / Armand Limnander.

Limnander, Armand.

Gory details : adventures from the dark side of science / Erika Engelhaupt illustrations by Briony Morrow-Cribbs.

Engelhaupt, Erika, author.

The disordered cosmos : a journey into dark matter, spacetime, and dreams deferred / Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.

Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda, author.

Probable impossibilities : musings on beginnings and endings / Alan Lightman.

Lightman, Alan P., 1948- author.

Cosmic queries : StarTalk’s guide to who we are, how we got here, and where we’re going / Neil deGrasse Tyson with James Trefil edited by Lindsey N. Walker.

Tyson, Neil deGrasse, author.

First light: switching on stars at the dawn of time / Emma Chapman.

Chapman, Emma (Emma Olivia), author.

Einstein’s fridge : how the difference between hot and cold explains the universe / Paul Sen.

Sen, Paul, author.

Ms. Adventure : my wild explorations in science, lava, and life / Jess Phoenix.

Phoenix, Jess, author.

The genome odyssey : medical mysteries and the incredible quest to solve them / Euan Angus Ashley, M.D., Ph.D.

Ashley, Euan A., author.

The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race / Walter Isaacson.

Isaacson, Walter, author.

The zoologist’s guide to the galaxy : what animals on earth reveal about aliens–and ourselves / Arik Kershenbaum.

Kershenbaum, Arik, author.

The loneliest polar bear : a true story of survival and peril on the edge of a warming world / Kale Williams.

Williams, Kale (Reporter), author.

Women in white coats : how the first women doctors changed the world of medicine / Olivia Campbell.

Campbell, Olivia, author.

Count down : how our modern world is threatening sperm counts, altering male and female reproductive development, and imperiling the future of the human race / Shanna H. Swan, PhD with Stacey Colino.

Swan, Shanna H., author.

Ageless : the new science of getting older without getting old / Andrew Steele.

Steele, Andrew, author.

The new normal : a roadmap to resilience in the pandemic era / Jennifer Ashton, M.D., M.S., with Sarah Toland.

Ashton, Jennifer, 1969- author.

Hooked : food, free will, and how the food giants exploit our addictions / Michael Moss.

Moss, Michael, 1955- author.

Eat smarter : use the power of food to reboot your metabolism, upgrade your brain, and transform your life / Shawn Stevenson.

Stevenson, Shawn, author.

Ancient remedies : secrets to healing with herbs, essential oils, CBD, and the most powerful natural medicine in history / Dr. Josh Axe.

Axe, Josh, author.

I’m so effing tired : a proven plan to beat burnout, boost your energy, and reclaim your life / Amy Shah, MD.

Shah, Amy, author.

Kill shot : a shadow industry, a deadly disease / Jason Dearen.

Dearen, Jason, author.

Cosmic careers : exploring the universe of opportunities in the space industries / Alastair Storm Browne, Maryann Karinch.

Browne, Alastair Storm, author.

Deer-resistant native plants for the Northeast / Ruth Rogers Clausen, Gregory D. Tepper.

Clausen, Ruth Rogers, 1938- author.

The ultimate meal prep cookbook : one grocery list. a week of meals. no waste / America’s Test Kitchen.

America’s Test Kitchen (Firm), author.

Easy meal prep : the ultimate playbook for make-ahead meals / Good Housekeeping.

The New York Times cooking : no-recipe recipes / Sam Sifton photographs by David Malosh and food styling by Simon Andrews.

Sifton, Sam, author.

Eat better, feel better : my recipes for wellness and healing, inside and out / Giada De Laurentiis.

De Laurentiis, Giada, author.

The pegan diet : 21 practical principles for reclaiming your health in a nutritionally confusing world / Mark Hyman, MD.

Hyman, Mark, 1959- author.

Jew-ish : reinvented recipes from a modern mensch : a cookbook / by Jake Cohen photography by Matt Taylor-Gross.

Cohen, Jake, 1993- author.

The food of Oaxaca : recipes and stories from Mexico’s culinary capital / Alejandro Ruiz with Carla Altesor with a foreword by Enrique Olvera photographs by Nuria Lagarde.

Ruiz, Alejandro (Chef) author.

Food between friends / Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Julie Tanous photographs by Eva Kolenko.

Ferguson, Jesse Tyler, author.

Rodney Scott’s world of BBQ : every day is a good day / Rodney Scott & Lolis Eric Elie.

Scott, Rodney, author.

Japanese soups : 66 nourishing broths, stews and hotpots / Keiko Iwasaki.

Iwasaki, Keiko, author.

The twentysomething handbook : everything you actually need to know about real life / Nora Bradbury-Haehl.

Bradbury-Haehl, Nora, author.

A beginner’s guide to America : for the immigrant and the misinformed / Roya Hakakian.

Ḥakkākiyān, Ruʼyā, author.

Already toast : caregiving and burnout in America / Kate Washington.

Washington, Kate, 1972- author.

Good work : how to build a career that makes a difference in the world / Shannon Houde.

Houde, Shannon, author.

Betting on you : how to put yourself first and (finally) take control of your career / Laurie Ruettimann.

Ruettimann, Laurie, author.

Make your own map : career success strategy for women / Kathryn Bishop.

Bishop, Kathryn, 1958- author.

Ladies get paid : the ultimate guide to breaking barriers, owning your worth, and taking command of your career / Claire Wasserman.

Wasserman, Claire, author.

Crush your career : ace the interview, land the job, and launch your future / Dee Ann Turner.

Turner, Dee Ann, author.

Just work : get sh*t done, fast & fair / Kim Scott.

Scott, Kim (Kim Malone), author.

American cider : a modern guide to a historic beverage / Dan Pucci and Craig Cavallo.

Pucci, Dan, author.

Made for living : collected interiors for all sorts of styles / Amber Lewis photographs by Tessa Neustadt.

Lewis, Amber, author.

Stranger than kindness / Nick Cave.

Cave, Nick, 1957- author, artist.

Nothin’ but a good time : the uncensored history of the ’80s hard rock explosion / [interviews by] Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock.

A little devil in America : notes in praise of black performance / Hanif Abdurraqib.

Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983- author.

Shooting Midnight Cowboy : art, sex, loneliness, liberation, and the making of a dark classic / Glenn Frankel.

Frankel, Glenn, author.

Masterpiece : America’s 50-year-old love affair with British television drama / Nancy West.

West, Nancy Martha, 1963- author.

Sidelined : sports, culture, and being a woman in America / Julie DiCaro.

DiCaro, Julie, author.

Sparring with Smokin’ Joe : Joe Frazier’s epic battles and rivalry with Ali / Glenn Lewis.

Lewis, Glenn, 1947- author.

Mouths of rain : an anthology of Black lesbian thought / edited by Briona Simone Jones.

Let me tell you what I mean / Joan Didion foreword by Hilton Als.

Didion, Joan, author.

Festival days / Jo Ann Beard.

Beard, Jo Ann, author.

Notes from the bathroom line : humor, art, and low-grade panic from 150 of the funniest women in comedy / edited by Amy Solomon.

The girl explorers : the untold story of the globetrotting women who trekked, flew, and fought their way around the world / Jayne Zanglein.

Zanglein, Jayne E., 1954- author.

The road less traveled : the secret battle to end the Great War, 1916-1917 / Philip Zelikow.

Zelikow, Philip, 1954- author.

The ravine : a family, a photograph, a Holocaust massacre revealed / Wendy Lower.

Lower, Wendy, author.

The note through the wire : the incredible true story of a prisoner of war and a resistance heroine / Doug Gold.

Gold, Doug, author.

Fortune’s many houses : a Victorian visionary, a noble Scottish family, and a lost inheritance / Simon Welfare.

Welfare, Simon, author.

Queens of the Crusades : England’s medieval queens, Book two : 1154-1291 / Alison Weir.

Weir, Alison, 1951- author.

The spymaster of Baghdad : a true story of bravery, family, and patriotism in the battle against ISIS / Margaret Coker.

Coker, Margaret, author.

The daughters of Kobani : a story of rebellion, courage, and justice / Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.

Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach, author.

Red line : the unraveling of Syria and America’s race to destroy the most dangerous arsenal in the world / Joby Warrick.

Warrick, Joby, author.

Fears of a setting sun : the disillusionment of America’s founders / Dennis C. Rasmussen.

Rasmussen, Dennis C. (Dennis Carl), 1978- author.

Grace & steel : Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the women of the Bush dynasty / J. Randy Taraborrelli.

Taraborrelli, J. Randy, author.

New York, New York, New York : four decades of success, excess, and transformation / Thomas Dyja.

Dyja, Tom, author.

Growing up Bank Street : a Greenwich Village memoir / Donna Florio.

Florio, Donna, 1955- author.

The Collinwood tragedy : the story of the worst school fire in American history / James Jessen Badal.

Badal, James Jessen, 1943- author.

The Bears Ears : a human history of America’s most endangered wilderness / David Roberts.

Roberts, David, 1943- author.

Speak, Okinawa : a memoir / Elizabeth Miki Brina.

Brina, Elizabeth Miki, 1981- author.

Walking with ghosts : a memoir / Gabriel Byrne.

Byrne, Gabriel, 1950- author.

Unfinished : a memoir / Priyanka Chopra Jonas.

Chopra Jonas, Priyanka, author.

In search of a kingdom : Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the perilous birth of the British Empire / Laurence Bergreen.

Bergreen, Laurence, author.

Radiant : the dancer, the scientist and a friendship forged in light / Liz Heinecke.

Heinecke, Liz Lee, author.

Justice, justice thou shalt pursue : a life’s work fighting for a more perfect union / Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Amanda L. Tyler.

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, author.

Grant’s Tomb : the epic death of Ulysses S. Grant and the making of an American pantheon / Louis L Picone.

Picone, Louis L., author.

Between two kingdoms : a memoir of a life interrupted / Suleika Jaouad.

Jaouad, Suleika, author.

Lady Bird Johnson : hiding in plain sight / Julia Sweig.

Sweig, Julia, author.

Dusk, night, dawn : on revival and courage / Anne Lamott.

Lamott, Anne, author.

Believe it : [how to go from underestimated to unstoppable] / Jamie Kern Lima.

Lima, Jamie Kern, author.

Model citizen : a memoir / Joshua Mohr.

Mohr, Joshua, author.

The babysitter : my summers with a serial killer / Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan.

Rodman, Liza, author.

Philip Roth : a counterlife / Ira Nadel.

Nadel, Ira Bruce, author.

Places of mind : a life of Edward Said / Timothy Brennan.

Brennan, Timothy, 1953- author.

The good hand : a memoir of work, brotherhood, and transformation in an American boomtown / Michael Patrick F. Smith.

Smith, Michael Patrick F., author.

Consent a memoir / Vanessa Springora translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer.

Springora, Vanessa, author.

Thaddeus Stevens : Civil War revolutionary, fighter for racial justice / Bruce Levine.

Levine, Bruce, author.

Turn your season around : how God transforms your life / Darryl Strawberry, with Lee Weeks.

Strawberry, Darryl, author.

Doomed romance : broken hearts, lost souls, and sexual tumult in nineteenth-century America / Christine Leigh Heyrman.

Heyrman, Christine Leigh, author.

Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher : a monkey’s head, the Pope’s neuroscientist, and the quest to transplant the soul / Brandy Schillace.

Schillace, Brandy, author.

The York patrol : the real story of Alvin York and the unsung heroes who made him World War I’s most famous soldier / James Carl Nelson.

Nelson, James Carl, author.

Black boy out of time : a memoir / Hari Ziyad.

Ziyad, Hari.

Spilt milk : memoirs / Courtney Zoffness.

Zoffness, Courtney, author.

I had a miscarriage : a memoir, a movement / Jessica Zucker, PhD.

Zucker, Jessica, author.