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Beyond Bestsellers - Nonfiction, Fall 2020

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

October-December 2020 Issue

       

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Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19.  (Ed. by Jennifer Haupt)
Anderson, Scott.  The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts.
Anonymous.  Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
Applebaum, Anne.  Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
Arsenault, Kerri.  Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains

Ball, Edward.  Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
Barnett, Brittany K.  A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
Barnett, Erica C.  Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery
Bonner, Betsy.  The Book of Atlantis Black
Bowden, Mark.  The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories
Bowdler, Michelle.  Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
Brockovich, Erin.  Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It
Burton, Susan.  Empty: A Memoir

Cho, Catherine.  Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
Cohen, Rachel.  Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels
Crawford, Lacy.  Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir
Cummings, Elijah.  We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy.

Dapiran, Antony.  City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong
Davis, Wade.  Magdalena: River of Dreams
Demick, Barbara.  Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
Dickey, Colin.  The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained
Dolin, Eric Jay.  A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes
Draper, Robert.  To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq

Eagleman, David.  Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
Eilenberger, Wolfram.  Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade that Reinvented Philosophy

Frey, Sarah.  The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life

Giggs, Rebecca.  Fathoms: The World in the Whale
Gomez, Laura E.  Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism
Gorra, Michael.  The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War
Goudeau, Jessica.  After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America

Hall, Jake.  The Art of Drag
Hamby, Chris.  Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
Hanley, Charles J.  Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953
Harvey, Miles.  The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch
Hazareesingh, Sudhir.  Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
Herrera, Juan Felipe.  Every Day We Get More Illegal.  (poetry) 
Hill, David.  The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America’s Forgotten Capital of Vice
Hinojosa, Maria.  Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America
Hobbs, Jeff.  Show Them You’re Good: A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year Before College

Jerkins, Morgan.  Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
Johnson, Sarah Stewart.  The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World

Kleeman, Jenny.  Sex Robots and Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex, and Death
Kuhn, David Paul.  The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution.

Lalami, Laila.  Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
Lanier, Heather.  Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

Macdonald, Helen.  Vesper Flights: New and Collected Essays.
Macintyre, Ben.  Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy
Mack, Katie.  The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
Marchant, Jo.  The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars
Mrazek, Robert J.  The Indomitable Florence Finch: The Untold Story of a War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter and Savior of American POWs
Murphy, Chris.  The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy.

Nasaw, David.  The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
Norman, Philip.  Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix

Paradis, Michel.  Last Mission to Tokyo: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raiders and Their Final Fight for Justice
Pearl, Nancy.  The Writer’s Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives
Pearlman, Jeff.  Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
Perlstein, Rick.  Reaganland: America’s Right Turn, 1976-1980

Quinn, Bridget.  She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next.

Rankine, Claudia.  Just Us: An American Conversation
Ross, Alex.  Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
Russell, Kent.  In the Land of Good Living: A Journey to the Heart of Florida

Sabar, Ariel.  Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife
Seager, Sara.  The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir
Shimer, David.  Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference
Slaght, Jonathan C.  Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl
Smith, Mychal Denzel.  Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream
Smith, Zadie. Intimations: Six Essays
Sow, Aminatou and Ann Friedman.  Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

Ullrich, Volker.  Hitler: Downfall 1939-1945

When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through.  (Ed. by Joy Harjo)  (poetry) 

Zaman, Muhammad H.  Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens