Beyond Bestsellers - Nonfiction, Winter 2019

Great recent titles selected by our librarians.

January - March 2019 Issue

 

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Blight, David W.  Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. 
Chemaly, Soraya.  Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger.
Chung, Nicole.  All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir. 
Cohen, Joshua.  Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction. 
Cohen, Leonard.  The Flame: Poems, Notebooks, Lyrics, Drawings.  

Dery, Mark.  Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey.
Dessa.  My Own Devices: Essays from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love.
Diamond, Michael.  Beastie Boys Book. 
Dobrow, Julie.  After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America’s Greatest Poet.
Dorey-Stein, Beck.  From the Corner of the Oval: A Memoir. 

Edim, Glory (Ed.), Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves.
Eichenwald, Kurt.  A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir. 
Ellis, Joseph J.  American Dialogue: The Founding Fathers and Us. 
Ewing, Eve L.  Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side. 

Feinstein, John.  Quarterback: Inside the Most Important Position in the National Football League.
Ferrera, America.  American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures. 
Fountain, Ben.  Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution.
Franzen, Jonathan.  The End of the End of the Earth. 
Fry, Hannah.  Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms. 
Fukuyama, Francis.  Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment. 

Gabriel, Mary.  Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement that Changed Modern Art. 
George, Rose.  Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood.
Goodman, Ruth.  How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts.
Grande, Reyna.  A Dream Called Home.
Gray, John.  Seven Types of Atheism. 
Greenspan, Alan.  Capitalism in America: A History.
Gubar, Susan.  Late-Life Love: A Memoir. 

Haygood, Wil.  Tigerland, 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing. 
Heidler, David S.  The Rise of Andrew Jackson: Myth, Manipulation, and the Making of Modern Politics. 
Hilsum, Lindsey.  In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin.
Imani, Blair.  Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History.

Jauhar, Sandeep.  Heart: A History. 
Johnson, Lacy M.  The Reckonings: Essays. 
Kandel, Eric R.  The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves. 
Kelly, Joseph.  Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin.
Klein, Linda Kay.  Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free. 
Klinenberg, Eric.  Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life. 

Laymon, Kiese.  Heavy: An American Memoir. 
Leader, Zachary.  The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005.
Leavy, Jane.  The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created.
Lepore, Jill.  These Truths: A History of the United States. 

Nesbit, Jeff.  This Is the Way the World Ends: How Droughts and Die-Offs, Heat Waves and Hurricanes Are Converging on America. 
Norman, Jesse.  Adam Smith: Father of Economics. 
North, Ryan.  How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler. 

Oakes, Lauren E.  In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World. 
O’Toole, Jennifer.  Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum.
Pagels, Elaine.  Why Religion?: A Personal Story. 
Pearlman, Jeff.  Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL.
Perry, Imani.  Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry.
Plath, Sylvia.  The Letters of Sylvia Plath, v.2: 1956-1963.  (Ed. by Peter K. Steinberg) 
Pomerantz, Gary M.  The Last Pass: Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End.
Prideaux, Sue.  I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche.
Roberts, Andrew.  Churchill: Walking with Destiny. 

Scales, Helen.  Eye of the Shoal: A Fishwatcher’s Guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything.
Schwartz, Samuel I.  No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future.
Seymour, Miranda.  In Byron’s Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron’s Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace. 
Singer, P. W.  LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media. 
Skaife, Christopher.  The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London.
Soloway, Jill.  She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy.
Stanley, Jason.  How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. 
Tinsley, Omise’eke.  Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism. 
Tóibin, Colm.  Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce. 

Vargas, Jose Antonio.  Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen. 
Wolf, Maryanne.  Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World. 
Wright, Tom.  Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World.
Yang, Wesley.  The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays.