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Biography
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell
A blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages and highlights of magical thinking.
All You Need Is Love the Beatles in Their Own Words: Unpublished, Unvarnished, and Told by the Beatles and Their Inner Circle by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines
An oral history of The Beatles from never-before-seen interviews.
A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria by Caroline Crampton
A book that is part cultural history, part literary criticism and part memoir explores the world of hypochondria.
Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine by Damon Tweedy
From the New York Times best-selling author of Black Man in a White Coat comes a powerful and urgent call to center psychiatry and mental health care within the mainstream of medicine.
Fi: A Memoir of My Son by Alexandra Fuller
The award-winning New York Times best-selling author of Don’t Let’s Go to The Dogs Tonight discusses how she faced the sudden and unexpected death of her 21-year-old son and her struggles to not abandon her two surviving daughters.
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
The internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner speaks out for the first time about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, when an attempt was made on his life, in this deeply personal meditation on violence, art, loss, love and finding the strength to stand up again.
Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis
For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed history—from his earliest years during the outbreak of World War II in 1939 to the turmoil of today.
A Life Impossible: Living With Als: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence by Steve Gleason with Jeff Duncan
A former NFL player who was diagnosed with ALS shares his story of living with a disease that doctors said should have killed him a decade ago and how he has learned to love and treasure life.
The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn't and How We All Can Move Forward Now by Bakari Sellers
The New York Times best-selling author of My Vanishing Country examines the modern political landscape and policies that are impacting black families and communities and offers solutions for a better tomorrow.
Our Fight by Ronda Rousey with Maria Burns Ortiz
The MMA, UFC and WWE superstar, in this candid chronicle of her last decade, explores the great of her life and, ultimately, how she rebuilt her life into something better in the aftermath by replacing her pursuit of perfection with the pursuit of happiness, finding an opportunity in disguise among the wreckage.
Power and Glory: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty by Alexander Larman
A master chronicler of the House of Windsor brings his acclaimed trilogy to a dramatic and poignant conclusion.
Rebel Rising: A Memoir by Rebel Wilson
From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilarious, and inspiring book about her unconventional journey to Hollywood success and loving herself.
The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters by Susan Page
The definitive biography of one of the most successful female broadcasters of all time—Barbara Walters—a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air.
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their Stories Are Better Than the Bestsellers by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann
Showcasing the smart and talented people who live between the pages, this inspiring collection of true stories, as told to one of the greatest novelists of our time, invites us into a world where we can feed our curiosities, discover new voices and find whatever we want or require.
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench with Brendan O'Hea
For the very first time, a noted actor opens up about every Shakespearean role she has played throughout her seven-decade career, from Lady Macbeth and Titania to Ophelia and Cleopatra.
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History by Karen Valby
Steeped in the glamour and grit of professional ballet, this captivating account of five extraordinarily accomplished Black ballerinas, the Swans of Harlem, celebrates both their historic careers and their 50-year sisterhood, offering a window into the history of Black ballet, hidden for too long.
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Weaves together biography, memoir and history and takes readers along on the emotional journey she and her husband embarked upon in the last years of his life.
Warren and Bill: Gates, Buffett, and the Friendship That Changed the World by Anthony McCarten
An Academy Award-nominated screenwriter presents this fascinating account of the extraordinary friendship between Warren Buffet and Bill Gates that impacted each man and led to change on a grander scale as they jointly addressed some of the world’s most critical problems by giving their wealth away.
Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World by Rae Wynn-Grant
In a vulnerable and urgent memoir, the author explores the ever-shifting relationship between humans, animals and the earth through her personal journey to becoming a wildlife ecologist.
The Wives by Simone Gorrindo
Tells the story of one woman’s experience of joining a community of army wives after leaving her New York City job—a profoundly intimate look at marriage, friendship and today’s America.
Business & Economics
Beyond Getting by: The Financial Diet's Guide to Abundant and Intentional Living by Holly Trantham
The team behind The Financial Diet website presents a guide for women who want to transition to a life where money is a tool for achieving what they want and not just a reflection of their worth.
Family & Relationships
Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End by Alua Arthur
A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from America’s preeminent death doula.
Rattled: How to Calm New Mom Anxiety With the Power of the Postpartum Brain by Nicole Pensak
A noted doctor provides practical and emotional support to new mothers, helping to relieve the anxiety and pressure for perfection in motherhood and paving the way for a better beginning for families and babies.
Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show by Tommy Tomlinson
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and the author of The Elephant in the Room comes the first inside account of the Westminster Dog Show—America’s oldest and most beloved dog show—following one dog on his quest to become a champion.
Good Housekeeping Organize Your Life by Good Housekeeping
Decluttering your home has never been easier with this step-by-step action plan, plus hundreds of genius tricks help you create a calm and tidy life.
House Rules: How to Decorate for Every Home, Style, and Budget by Myquillyn Smith
The New York Times best-selling author, also known as “The Nester,” presents 100 decorating truths for any house, style and budget that can help beautify any room and create more vibrant and livable spaces.
Somehow: Thoughts on Love by Anne Lamott
Full of her trademark compassion and humanity, the New York Times best-selling explores the transformative power of love in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity and guides us forward.
A Year of Last Things: Poems by Michael Ondaatje
The influential and internationally acclaimed author of seven novels, including the Booker Prize-winning The English Patient that became a major film that won Academy Awards, returns to poetry with a collection of prose that merges memory with the present.
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live.
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson
Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers and plantation ledgers, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Splendid and the Vile offers a gripping account of the months between Lincoln’s election and the start of the Civil War, which tore a deeply divided nation in two.
Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery by Earl Swift
Tells the forgotten story of the mass killing of 11 black farmhands on a Georgia plantation in the spring of 1921—a crime which exposed for the nation the existence of the “peonage system,” a form of legal enslavement established after the Civil War across the American South.
Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age by Norman Ohler and and Marshall Yarbrough
A provocative new history of drugs and postwar America examining the untold story of how Nazi experiments into psychedelics covertly influenced CIA research and secretly shaped the War on Drugs.
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides
Part high-seas adventure, part examination of the Age of Exploration, this account of Captain James Cook’s last voyage in 1776 charts how his overt and covert missions came to a head on the island of Hawaii and left behind a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.
Literary Collections
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld
The author issues a call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as decluttering, mindfulness, David Cronenberg, sadomasochism and women who wait.
Nature
We Loved It All: A Memory of Life by Lydia Millet
An anti-memoir from a celebrated novelist explores the pain and joy of being a parent, child and human at a moment when the richness of the planet’s life is deeply threatened.
Political Science
The Age of Grievance by Frank Bruni
A best-selling author and longtime New York Times columnist examines the ways in which grievance has come to define our current culture and politics, on both the right and left.
New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West by David E. Sanger and Mary K Brooks
Drawing on interviews with top officials from five administrations, U.S. intelligence agencies, foreign governments and tech companies on the front line, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist presents this remarkable first draft history chronicling America’s return to superpower conflict, the choices that lie ahead and what is at stake of the U.S. and the world.
Psychology
Secure Relating: Holding Your Own in an Insecure World by Sue Marriott and Ann Kelley
Integrating modern attachment theory, relational neuroscience and depth psychology into practical tools, two experienced mental health professionals and hosts of the Therapist Uncensored podcast offer a fresh and innovative approach to understanding and improving relationships in today’s increasingly polarized world.
Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking-- How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives As We Age by Caroline Paul
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Gutsy Girl comes a humorous, inspiring, deeply researched exploration into the science and psychology of the outdoors and our place in it as we age.
Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos by Lisa Kaltenegger
An astrophysicist unlocks the mysteries of alien worlds, from lava planets to multi-sun systems, using Earth as a key and humanity's curiosity as fuel, in a thrilling quest to answer whether we are alone in the universe.
Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small Town America by Jonathan Vigliotti
A veteran journalist embarks on a poignant American odyssey, tracing the human toll of climate change that is no longer just a warming future, guiding readers across our current wildfire-ravaged landscapes, hurricane-battered coasts and vanishing ecosystems.
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts
The best-selling author of A Sense of the World tells the story of two scientific rivals and their mission to survey all life and the clash of ideas that had profound consequences for humanity.
Liberated Love: Release Codependent Patterns and Create the Love You Desire by Mark Groves and Kylie McBeath
Readers will learn how to begin and maintain relationships that allow true self-expression—to feel safe and to feel real, involving, sustaining love.
Think This, Not That: 12 Mindshifts to Breakthrough Limiting Beliefs and Become Who You Were Born to Be by Josh Axe
Teaches 12 powerful mindshifts to break through limiting beliefs, spark personal transformation and build a more meaningful life.
Like Love: Essays and Conversations by Maggie Nelson
A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists.
The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos by Angela Garcia
Journies into Mexico City’s and California’s anexos, the informal addiction treatment centers where mothers send their children to escape the violence of the drug war.
The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America by Tracie McMillan
An award-winning journalist combines gripping memoir, top-notch original reporting and rigorous research to measure the cash value of being white in America.
