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New Nonfiction April 2023

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Biography

The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen

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An acclaimed author investigates the forces that led his closest childhood friend, a paranoid schizophrenic with brilliant promise who defied the odds and graduated from Yale Law School, to kill the woman he loved, in this exploration of the ways in which we understand – and fail to understand – mental illness. 

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Choosing to Run: A Memoir by Des Linden

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This inspirational memoir from the two-time Olympian and Boston Marathon winner traces her unique path to the top of professional running and how she built her own personal business model and brand.

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Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen by Jane Draycott

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Presents the first biography of one of the most fascinating yet long-neglected rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Antony and Cleopatra.

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The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America by Monica Potts

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While working as a journalist covering poverty, the author returns to her hometown in the Ozarks where she connects with her childhood best friend, who, once talented and ambitious, has become a statistic, and retraces the moments of decision and chance that led them toward two such different destinies. 

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George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy by Sally Bedell Smith

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Based on exclusive access to the Royal Archives, a New York Times best-selling author looks at how King George VI and Queen Elizabeth’s marriage saved the monarchy during World War II and forged the path for Elizabeth II. 

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Honey, Baby, Mine by Laura Dern & Diane Ladd. Foreword by Reese Witherspoon

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This collection of personal conversations from the actress and mother-daughter duo Laura Dern and Diane Ladd covers topics from ambition and legacy to intimacy, love, success and marriage. 

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I Can't Save You: A Memoir by Anthony Chin-Quee

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By sharing stories from his life and career, a board-certified otolaryngologist confronts his past mistakes, relationships and depression while discussing what it means to be both a physician and a Black man today. 

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Lebron by Jeff Benedict

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From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Tiger Woods comes a biography of LeBron James, one of the greatest athletes of all time and the figure at the center of social movements, based on three years of exhaustive research and more than 200 interviews. 

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A Living Remedy: A Memoir by Nicole Chung

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The best-selling author of All You Can Ever Know returns with a memoir of her experiences as a Korean adoptee and the challenges she faced holding on to family bonds in the face of hardship and tragedy. 

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Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming by Ava Chin

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Beautifully written, meticulously researched and tremendously resonant, this sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act traces the story of her pioneering family members’ epic journey to lay down roots in America, piecing together how they bore and resisted the weight of the Exclusion laws. 

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True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times by Robert Greenfield

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This revelatory biography of the world-famous playwright and actor delves deeply into his life as well as the ways in which his work illuminates it, making the case for Shepard not just as a great American writer but a unique figure who first brought the sensibility of rock ‘n’ roll to theater. 

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The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided by Alexander Larman

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The next volume in the author's chronicle of the Windsor family follows the royals as they go to war with Adolf Hitler—and each other. 

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You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith

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The best-selling poet and author of Keep Moving offers a memoir that explores coming of age in the middle of life. 

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General Nonfiction

Adrenal Transformation Protocol: A 4-Week Plan to Release Stress Symptoms and Go from Surviving to Thriving by Izabella Wentz

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An internationally acclaimed thyroid specialist, licensed pharmacist and New York Times best-selling author of Hashimoto's Protocol offers a recover plan to heal and reverse adrenal dysfunction, or the body's inability to produce essential hormones when it mismanages stress. 

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The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom by Chrissy King

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From an author and Instagram personality comes a narrative mix of memoir, inspiration and specific exercises and prompts, with timely messages about social and racial justice, and how the world needs to move beyond body positivity to something even more exciting and revolutionary—body liberation. 

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Flower Love: Lush Floral Arrangements for the Heart and Home by Kristen Griffith-Vanderyacht

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An expert floral designer and host of Netflix The Big Flower Fight brings accessible, gorgeous floral arrangements to flower lovers everywhere, through his unique geometric approach to design, the Ten Floral Commandments and visual step-by-step instructions. 

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Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East by Steven Simon

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A former National Security Council staffer examines the U.S. engagement in the Middle East and the motivations, strategies and shortcomings of each presidential administration’s policies from Reagan to the present day. 

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It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs by Mary Louise Kelly

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A longtime NPR Reporter discusses how childhood has an expiration date and how it is easy to lose site of the ticking clock while working and putting off the important things, like attending soccer games and other rites of childhood. 

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More Numbers Every Day: How Data, Stats, and Figures Control Our Lives and How to Set Ourselves Free by Micael Dahlen & Helge Thorbjornsen

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Drawing on groundbreaking, empowering, sometimes horrifying and sometimes humorous research, the authors show us how numbers creep into our heads and bodies, affecting how we think and feel as we measure ourselves against others and compare our real experiences to imagined averages. 

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Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences by Joan Biskupic

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With unparalleled access to key players, a CNN senior legal analyst and Supreme Court expert provides an urgent and inside look at the history-making era in the Supreme Court during the Trump and post-Trump years, including its reversal of Roe v. Wade. 

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The Secret Gate: A True Story of Courage and Sacrifice During the Collapse of Afghanistan by Mitchell Zuckoff

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The #1 New York Times best-selling author of 13 Hours tells the incredible true story of American diplomat Sam Aronson, who, in the final hours of the U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan, helped Homeira Qaderi, a celebrated author, academic and women’s liberation champion, and her 8-year-old son escape. 

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Tell Me What You Want: A Therapist and Her Clients Explore Our 12 Deepest Desires by Charlotte Fox Weber

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Explores the 12 fundamental psychological needs we all share and goes behind the closed doors of therapy to guide us in navigating our deepest longings. 

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Welcome to the Circus of Baseball: A Story of the Perfect Summer at the Perfect Ballpark at the Perfect Time by Ryan McGee

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A popular ESPN reporter shares his hilarious experiences working as a fresh-out-of-college intern for the Asheville Tourists in 1994, detailing a magical summer of minor league baseball during which he, while learning the ropes. witnessed mascot fights, terrifying game-day entertainment, and the spirit of community. 

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History

The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 by Jonathan Healey

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A noted historian transports us back to 17th-century England, painting a vivid portrait of a country in the midst of a revolutionary age where new ideas were forged that were angry, populist, and almost impossible for monarchs to control, and where wealth, creativity and daring curiosity heralded a new world. 

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A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South by Peter Cozzens

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The acclaimed historian chronicles the brutal Creek War of 1813-1814, where Andrew Jackson shattered Native American control of the Deep South which led to the infamous Trail of Tears and set the stage for the Civil War. 

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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist traces the Ku Klux Klan’s rise to power in the 1920s, driven by the con man D.C. Stephenson, and how a seemingly powerless woman named Madge Oberholtzer brought them to their knees. 

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Follow Me to Hell: Mcnelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice by Tom Clavin

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The New York Times bestselling author looks back at 200 years of Texas Ranger history, focusing on the story of how legendary Ranger Leander McNelly and his men brought justice to a lawless frontier. 

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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester

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Examining such disciplines as education, journalist, encyclopedia creation, museum curation, photography and broadcasting, an award-winning writer explores how humans have attained, stored and disseminated knowledge and how continues to change our lives and our minds. 

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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy

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Drawing on the latest research in fields ranging from genetics and anthropology to archaeology and economics, this revelatory book takes us through 60,000 years of history to show how the major transformations in history have been shaped by eight major outbreaks of infectious disease. 

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The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War by Chad L. Williams

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Drawing on a broad range of sources, including his unpublished manuscript and research materials, this dramatic account of the most significant scholar-activist in African American history’s failed efforts to complete the definitive history of Black participation in WWI offers new insight into this largely forgotten book. 

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science

The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan

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Spanning centuries and continents, this groundbreaking book, blending brilliant historical writing and cutting-edge research, reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development – and demise – of civilizations across time.

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On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory by Thomas Hertog

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Stephen Hawking’s closest collaborator, who worked shoulder to shoulder for 20 years, presents a new vision of the universe’s birth that will profoundly transform the way we think about our place in the order of the cosmos and may ultimately prove to be Hawking’s greatest scientific legacy. 

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Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe by Philip Plait

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Drawing on the latest scientific research and his prodigious imagination, a renowned astronomer and science communicator takes us on an immersive tour of the universe to view ten of the most spectacular sights outer space has to offer, including the strange, beautiful shadows cast by a hundred thousand stars. 

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SELF-HELP

Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and into the World by Gretchen Rubin

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Drawing on cutting-edge science, philosophy, literature and her own efforts to practice what she learns, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Happiness Project offers profound insights and practical suggestions for heightening our senses and using our powers of perception to live richer lives. 

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Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most by Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan Mcannally-Linz

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A guide to defining and then creating a flourishing life, based on the popular class at Yale. 

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Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution by Rainn Wilson

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Best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on The Office, the comedic actor, producer and writer, sharing his struggles with loss and addiction, explores the possibility and hope for a spiritual revolution to address today’s greatest issues – mental health, racism and sexism, climate change and economic injustice. 

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The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple but Not Easy by William H. McRaven

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Providing the most important leadership lessons he has learned over the course of four decades, Admiral McRaven, who received the honor of the title “Bullfrog,” which is given to the Navy SEAL who has served the longest on active duty, reveals the qualities that separate the good from the truly great. 

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Social Science

Birth: Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America by Rebecca Grant

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Follows three first-time mothers as they experience pregnancy and giving birth in modern America that recounts with all the ups downs, fears, joys and everyday moments of each woman’s pregnancy and postpartum journey and discusses the rising popularity of midwifery. 

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Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future by Jean M. Twenge

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An expert on generational change looks at the six generations of Americans currently alive, from the Silents to the still-named generation born after 2012, and how they connect, conflict and compete with one another. 

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Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe

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Told through a series of 248 notes, this brilliant volume explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake, touching upon such themes as language, beauty, memory, history and literature. 

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True Crime

Fire on the Levee: The Murder of Henry Glover and the Search for Justice After Hurricane Katrina by Jared Fishman & Joseph Hooper

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A former federal prosecutor and founder of Justice Innovation Lab describes his struggles investigating a mysterious, post-Katrina death in New Orleans  that led him to uncover a police shooting and subsequent burning of the victim's body. 

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Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco by Stephan Talty

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Drawing on first-time, exclusive interviews with Koresh’s family and numerous survivors, this gripping account paints a psychological portrait of the Branch Davidians’ leader, recounting the tragedy at Waco and the government mistrust in inspired.

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Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many by Mona Gable

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An investigation into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind when she was eight months pregnant highlights the shocking epidemic of violence against Native American women in America and the societal ramifications of government inaction. 

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There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the Ira, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll

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Drawing on interviews and original reporting, revealing new information and weaving together previously unconnected threads, a veteran journalist, in this book that reads like a thriller, recounts how the IRA came close to killing Margaret Thatcher and the epic manhunt that followed.

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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

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In this tale of shipwreck, survival and savagery, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon recounts the events on His Majesty’s Ship The Wager, a British vessel that left England in 1740 on a secret mission, resulting in a court martial that revealed a shocking truth.

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