New Nonfiction – October 2024

Upworthy good people : stories from the best of humanity / [edited by] Gabriel Reilich & Lucia Knell illustrations by Libby VanderPloeg.

The road is good : how a mother's strength became a daughter's purpose / Uzo Aduba.

Pixel flesh : how toxic beauty culture harms women / Ellen Atlanta.

America's deadliest election : the cautionary tale of the most violent election in American history / Dana Bash with David Fisher.

The devil at his elbow : Alex Murdaugh and the fall of a Southern dynasty / Valerie Bauerlein.

Homeland : the war on terror in American life / Richard Beck.

The third Gilmore Girl / Kelly Bishop, with Lindsay Harrison [foreword by Amy Sherman-Palladino]

Reagan : his life and legend / Max Boot.

America first : Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the shadow of war / H. W. Brands.

She-wolves : the untold history of women on Wall Street / Paulina Bren.

A hell of a storm : the battle for Kansas, the end of compromise, and the coming of the Civil War / David S. Brown.

Lucky loser : how Donald Trump squandered his father's fortune and created the illusion of success / Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig.

The secret life of the universe : an astrobiologist's search for the origins and frontiers of life / Nathalie A. Cabrol.

Ask not : the Kennedys and the women they destroyed / Maureen Callahan.

Targeted: Beirut : the 1983 Marine barracks bombing and the untold origin story of the war on terror / Jack Carr and James M. Scott.

Digital dharma : how AI can elevate spiritual intelligence and personal well-being / Deepak Chopra.

The story of a heart : two families, one heart, and the medical miracle that saved a child's life / Dr. Rachel Clarke.

Something lost, something gained : reflections on life, love, and liberty / Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Cocaine & rhinestones : a history of George Jones and Tammy Wynette / Tyler Mahan Coe illustrations by Wayne White.

Becoming Elizabeth Arden : the woman behind the global beauty empire / Stacy A. Cordery.

Mariel : an autistic woman's inspiring journey / Mike Costanza, Author of the real Seinfeld.

Billionaire, nerd, savior, king : Bill Gates and his quest to shape our world / Anupreeta Das.

Above the noise : my story of chasing calm / DeMar DeRozan, with Dave Zarum.

Dinosaurs at the dinner party : how an eccentric group of Victorians discovered prehistoric creatures and accidentally upended the world / Edward Dolnick.

Life and death of the American worker : the immigrants taking on America's largest meatpacking company / Alice Driver.

Who's that girl? : a memoir / Eve with Kathy Iandoli.

What's next : a backstage pass to the West Wing, its cast and crew, and its enduring legacy of service / Melissa Fitzgerald & Mary McCormack.

Likeable badass : how women get the success they deserve / Alison Fragale, PhD.

Herod & Mary : the true story of the tyrant king and the mother of the risen Savior / Kathie Lee Gifford with Dr. Bryan Litfin.

Grizzly confidential : an astounding journey into the secret life of North America's most fearsome predator / Kevin Grange.

Survival is a promise : the eternal life of Audre Lorde / Alexis Pauline Gumbs.

A confident cook : recipes for joyous, no-pressure fun in the kitchen / Tamron Hall and Lish Steiling photographs by Lauren Volo.

The end of everything : how wars descend into annihilation / Victor Davis Hanson.

Nexus : a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI / Yuval Noah Harari.

No road leading back : an improbable escape from the Nazis and the tangled way we tell the story of the Holocaust / Chris Heath.

Directional living : a transformational guide to fulfillment in work and life / Megan Hellerer.

The deaf girl : a memoir of hearing loss, hope, and fighting against the odds / Abigail Heringer.

First in the family : a story of survival, recovery, and the American dream / Jessica Hoppe.

When things don't go your way : Zen wisdom for difficult times / Haemin Sunim translated by Charles Shure and Haemin Sunim.

Lovely one : a memoir / Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Farewell Yellow Brick Road : memories of my life on tour / Elton John foreword by David Furnish.

What if we get it right? : visions of climate futures / Ayana Elizabeth Johnson.

Quantum physics / by Andrew Zimmerman Jones.

Eden undone : a true story of sex, murder, and utopia at the dawn of World War II / Abbott Kahler.

Preppy Kitchen super easy : 100 simple and versatile recipes / John Kanell, founder of Preppy Kitchen with Rachel Holtzman photographs by David Malosh.

The Mediterranean dish : simply dinner : 125 easy Mediterranean diet-inspired recipes to eat well and live joyfully / Suzy Karadsheh with Summer Miller photographs by Caitlin Bensel.

The mysterious Mrs. Nixon : the life and times of Washington's most private first lady / Heath Hardage Lee.

I heard there was a secret chord : music as medicine / Daniel J. Levitin.

The Eastern Front : a history of the Great War, 1914-1918 / Nick Lloyd.

The siege : a six-day hostage crisis and the daring special-forces operation that shocked the world / Ben Macintyre.

Two wheels to freedom : the story of a young Jew, wartime resistance, and a daring escape / Arthur J. Magida.

One day I'll grow up and be a beautiful woman : a mother's story / Abi Maxwell.

The small and the mighty : twelve unsung Americans who changed the course of history, from the founding to the civil rights movement / Sharon McMahon.

It's a gas : the sublime and elusive elements that expand our world / Mark Miodownik.

Precious : the history and mystery of gems across time / Helen Molesworth.

A quiet company of dangerous men : the forgotten British Special Operations soldiers of World War II / Shannon Monaghan.

White robes and broken badges : infiltrating the KKK and exposing the evil among us / Joe Moore with Jon Land [foreword by Congressman Jamie Raskin].

By the fire we carry : the generations-long fight for justice on Native land / Rebecca Nagle.

We will be jaguars : a memoir of my people / Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson.

Out of the darkness : the mystery of Aaron Rodgers / Ian O'Connor.

Confronting the presidents : no spin assessments from Washington to Biden / Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard.

Supremacy : AI, ChatGPT, and the race that will change the world / Parmy Olson.

Good lookin' cookin' : a year of meals : a lifetime of family, friends, and food / Dolly Parton & Rachel Parton George with Maurice Miner photographs by Aubrie Pick.

The inner clock : living in sync with our circadian rhythms / Lynne Peeples.

The highest law in the land : how the unchecked power of sheriffs threatens democracy / Jessica Pishko.

Why we love football : a history in 100 moments / Joe Posnanski.

Kingmaker : Pamela Harriman's astonishing life of power, seduction, and intrigue / Sonia Purnell.

How the world made the West : a 4,000-year history / Josephine Quinn.

The serial killer's apprentice : the true story of how Houston's deadliest murderer turned a kid into a killing machine / Katherine Ramsland and Tracy Ullman.

Into unknown skies : an unlikely team, a daring race, and the first flight around the world / David K. Randall.

Scotland Yard : a history of the London police force's most infamous murder cases / Simon Read.

Drawn testimony : my four decades as a courtroom sketch artist / Jane Rosenberg.

The highest calling : conversations on the American presidency / David M. Rubenstein.

The bean book : 100 recipes for cooking with all kinds of beans, from the Rancho Gordo kitchen / Steve Sando with Julia Newberry photography by Ed Anderson.

On the edge : the art of risking everything / Nate Silver.

The rising : the twenty-year battle to rebuild the World Trade Center / Larry Silverstein.

The incorruptibles : a true story of kingpins, crime busters, and the birth of the American underworld / Dan Slater.

On freedom / Timothy Snyder.

Zahav home : cooking for friends & family / Michael Solomonov, Steven Cook produced by Dorothy Kalins Ink photography: Michael Persico art direction: Don Morris Design recipe editor: Kim O'Donnel.

Live nourished : make peace with food, banish body shame, and reclaim joy / Shana Minei Spence, MS, RDN, CDN.

Lessons for living : what only adversity can teach you / Phil Stutz.

The devil's best trick : how the face of evil disappeared / Randall Sullivan.

Men have called her crazy : a memoir / Anna Marie Tendler.

The barn : the secret history of a murder in Mississippi / Wright Thompson.

The Ambitious Kitchen cookbook : 125 ridiculously good for you, sometimes indulgent, and absolutely never boring recipes for every meal of the day / Monique Volz photographs by Kristin Teig.

Make it easy : a healthy meal prep & menu planning guide / Danielle Walker photographs by Erin Scott.

Life as no one knows it : the physics of life's emergence / Sara Imari Walker.

Dr. Patrick Walsh's guide to surviving prostate cancer / Edward M. Schaeffer, MD, PHD, Janet Farrar Worthington, and Patrick C. Walsh, M.D..

Keeping the faith : God, democracy, and the trial that riveted a nation / Brenda Wineapple.

Monet : the restless vision / Jackie Wullschläger.

Earth to moon : a memoir / Moon Unit Zappa.