New Nonfiction – August 2026

1,000 days in America : an illustrated history of the moments that defined a nation / foreword and interviews by David M. Rubenstein prologue by David Treuer.

Court queens : celebrate the players, teams, and history of women's basketball / Emma Baccellieri and Jordan Robinson.

Fully baked : a messy memoir / Rosebud Baker.

Fair play : trans athletes and the fight for fairness / Katie Barnes.

Israel : what went wrong? / Omer Bartov.

Rookie : my public, private and secret life / Joshua Taylor Bassett.

The small stuff : how to lead a more gratifying life / Ian Bogost.

The double Dutch fuss : a memoir / Phill Branch.

A bite-sized history of Italy : gastronomic tales of the Roman Empire, resistance, and republic / Danielle Callegari.

All American patriotism : celebrating 250 years of America's greatness / Rachel Campos-Duffy foreword by Erika Kirk.

When memory fades : what to expect at every stage, from early signs to full support for Alzheimer's and dementia / Nathaniel Chin, MD with George Spencer.

Even the darkest night / by Christopher G. Choukalas, MD.

Live long and strong : the twelve health markers that add years to your life and strength to your days / Don Colbert, MD.

Catch the devil : a true story of murder, deception, and injustice on the Gulf Coast / Pamela Colloff.

The complete guide to strength and conditioning training / Morc Coulson and Matt Brown.

A course called home : adventures of an accidental golf course owner / Tom Coyne.

100 iconic buildings to see before you die : explore the world's most amazing architecture / by DK Travel.

The high-protein plate : 100 satisfying everyday recipes / Rachael DeVaux, RD photography by Eva Kolenko.

Love in the afternoon, and evening : essays and conversations on soap operas / Charlotte Druckman & Mayukh Sen.

Plant magic : enchanting botanicals to enhance your life / Cassandra Eason.

The savage landscape : how we made the wilderness / Cal Flyn.

Metropolitans : New York baseball, class struggle, and the people's team / A. M. Gittlitz.

If i am coming to your town, something terrible has happened : the life and times of a domestic war correspondent / Justin Glawe.

The almighty dollar : 500 years of the world's most powerful money / Brendan Greeley.

Regime change : inside the imperial presidency of Donald Trump / Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan.

If I don't return : a father's wartime journal / Mark Hertling, Lieutenant General, US Army (Retired).

A little more love : the life and legacy of Olivia Newton-John / Matthew Hild.

Crafting for your cat / 25 playful projects for you and your feline friends by Annika Hinds.

How to be a rich old lady : your guide to easy investing, building wealth, and creating the wild, beautiful life you want / Amanda Holden.

A beginner's guide to loom knitting : easy step-by-step designs for gifts, accessories, and the home / Lucy Hopping.

Homesick for a world unknown : the life of George B. Schaller / Miriam Horn.

Girls® : generation Z and the commodification of everything / Freya India.

Cross stitch cabinet of curiosities : 500 magical motifs and peculiar patterns / Grace Isobel.

Biological war : a scenario / Annie Jacobsen.

100 essential embroidery motifs / Susie Johns.

The courage to commit : embrace the radical power of sticking with something / Shawn Johnson and Andrew East with Jimmy Soni.

Legs hearts minds : loss and its remedies / Chris Jones.

A horse's world : a neuroscientist's journey into the equine mind / Janet L. Jones, PhD.

Mother Earth is our elder : a northern indigenous path toward sustainable living / Katlia.

15-minute art : pastels / Zena Kay.

The biggest lie : the prehistory of American fascism, 1818-1915 / Joseph Kelly.

Fantasy cross-stitch : create legendary beasts, mythical spirits, and fairy-tale realms to adorn your castle halls / Iris Kleinbussink.

A committee of one : how faith + action = a purposefull life / by Opal Lee The Grandmother of Juneetenth with Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts.

A pox on fools : the true believers, grifters, and cynics who convinced us to reject vaccines / by Thomas Levenson.

Alice Baber : an artist's triumph over tragedy / Gail Levin.

The book of birds : a field guide to wonder and loss / Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris.

30 in 30 : 30g of protein, 30 minutes or less, 100 plant-based recipes / Sophie Macfie.

Trying : a loving guide to navigating the emotions of infertility and loss / Alessa Martin & Liz Swenson.

Be easy : new & selected poems / Adrian Matejka.

Blooms every day : a modern guide to flower arranging / Amy McCord.

Liberation summer : the moment that changed the women's movement and the future of American politics / Micki McElya.

The fix : saving America from the corruption of a mob-style government / Barbara McQuade.

Don't wait to light the candles : poems / Allie Michelle.

Chemistry / by John T. Moore, EdD.

The make-believe : a memoir of magic and madness / Hannah Murray.

Coaching football for dummies / by National Alliance for Youth Sports with Greg Bach.

A short, strange trip : an untold story of magic mushrooms, madness, and a search for the meaning of life in the Amazon / John O'Connor.

Handbook for the revolution : building a more perfect union for the twenty-first century / Derrick Palmer.

The Nord Stream conspiracy : the inside story of the explosions that shook the world / Bojan Pancevski.

This is me : a reckoning / Hayden Panettiere.

Eat bitter : a story about guts, and food / Lydia Pang

Flamboyance : the power of living boldly / Jack Parlett.

All the feels: how to stay human in the digital world/ Pamela Pavliscak.

Yes to you, no to them : the discipline of saying no and the freedom that follows / Wallace Peeples.

Country of lords : neo-aristocrats, social Darwinists, tech utopians, and the long fight against equality in America / Kim Phillips-Fein.

Why we fight : a transformative road map to healing conflict in any relationship / Kim Polinder.

The breast advice : all you need to know about breast health, screening, and treatment / Dr. Elisa Port.

Cancel me if you can / Dave Portnoy.

Art but make it sports : epic matchups where art and sports collide / by LJ Rader.

Moral economics from prostitution to organ sales, what controversial transactions reveal about how markets work / Alvin E. Roth

Commemorative American quilts : stitching our heritage from 1876 to today / Sandra Sider foreword by Pamela Weeks.

Ulysses S. Cat and other animals I have known / Scott Simon line drawings by Liana Finck.

Sisters of the Midnight Sun : a murder in arctic Alaska / Rebecca Wright Stevens.

The Martha way : essential principles for mastering home and living / Martha Stewart.

The beginner's guide to macrame : easy techniques and 8 fun projects / Isabella Strambio.

Get it in writing : the ultimate guide to your rights at work / Ryan Stygar.

Cake picnic : recipes for the love of cake & friends / Elisa Sunga.

Chain reaction. how chemistry shapes us and our world / by Ijeoma Uchegbu.

A feather and a fork / by Crystal Wahpepah with Amy Paige Condon.

Black film : a history of Black representation and participation in the movies / David F. Walker.

The lost founder : James Wilson and the forgotten fight for a people's constitution / Jesse Wegman.

Liar's kingdom : how to stop Trump's deceit and save America / Andrew Weissmann.

A God-shaped nation : five hundred years of religion in America / Brook Wilensky-Lanford.

The summer of death : the great heat wave of 1936 and the making of modern-day America / Geoff Williams.

The Caribbean cookbook / Rawlston Williams.

The blind spot : how oligarchs dominate our democracy / Jeffrey Winters.

The hidden life of trees : what they feel, how they communicate discoveries from a secret world / Peter Wohlleben.

Fires in the night : the Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a secret history of eco-sabotage / Matthew Wolfe.