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A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
Lawrence Ingrassia - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover
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Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia delivers an intimate, gripping tale that sits at the intersection of memoir and medical thrillerIngrassia lost his mother, two sisters, brother, and nephew to cancer - different cancers developing... |
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A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Kevin Fedarko - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the beloved bestseller The Emerald Mile comes a rollicking and poignant account of the epic misadventure of two friends, zero preparation, and one dream: a 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of America's most magnificent national park and the grandest wilderness... |
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All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
Darcy Lockman
Format: Paperback
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Why do men do so little at home? Why do women do so much? Why don't our egalitarian values match our lived experiences?Journalist-turned-psychologist Darcy Lockman offers a clear-eyed look at the most pernicious problem facing modern parents - how progressive relationships become traditional... |
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American Grill: 125 Recipes for Mastering Live Fire
Tyler Florence - Abrams Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this ultimate grilling guide, chef, bestselling author, restaurateur, and beloved star of Food Network's Tyler's Ultimate embraces his love of deluxe American comfort food to teach readers how to char, caramelize, and marinate to perfection.
Tyler Florence's American Grill... |
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Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World
Craig Foster - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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"Amphibious Soul is an important book. . . . This book isn't about learning how to be wild but rather a guide to recognizing and reconnecting with the wild in and around us. It is a book that will inspire hope." - Jane Goodall
A passionate love story about nature that inspires... |
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And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You (N)ever Wanted to Know About Therapy
Joshua Fletcher - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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In the spirit of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, psychotherapist and host of the self-help podcast Disordered Joshua Fletcher provides a candid, funny, and revealing look inside the mind of a therapist as he faces his own struggles while treating patients with anxiety disorders.What goes... |
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Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
Austin Frerick - Island Press
Format: Hardcover
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"In this eye-opening debut study, Frerick, an agricultural policy fellow at Yale University, reveals the ill-gained stranglehold that a handful of companies have on America's food economy ... It's a disquieting critique of private monopolization of public necessities."... |
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Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
Alua Arthur - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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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 most visible death doula."A truly unique, inspiring perspective on the time we have, what we do with it, and how we let go of this... |
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Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
Salman Khan - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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"A true pioneer of harnessing the power of technology to help kids learn." - Bill GatesFrom the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution in education, its implications for parenting, and how we can best harness its power for good.Whether... |
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
Adam Higginbotham - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting - a riveting history that reads like a thriller.. On January 28, 1986,... |
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Empireworld: How British Imperialism Shaped the Globe
Sathnam Sanghera - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera explores the global legacy of the British Empire, and the ways it continues to influence economics, politics, and culture around the world.. 2.6 billion people are inhabitants of former British colonies. The empire's influence upon... |
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Everest 24: New Views on the 1924 Mount Everest Expedition
Norbu Tenzing - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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Commemorating the 100th anniversary of an enduring Everest mystery, this book sheds new light on the ill-fated 1924 Mount Everest expedition. Features unseen and rarely seen expedition images and cultural perspectives on the world's highest mountain. When British explorers George Mallory... |
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Get It Together: Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe
Jesse Watters - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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Can the political be way too personal? What if most radical activists are trying to change their lives by changing the whole country?
When Jesse Watters set out to interview a few dozen radical activists to find out where their wild ideas came from, he discovered two things that shocked... |
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Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier
Robert G. Parkinson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An acclaimed historian captures the true nature of imperialism in early America, demonstrating how the frontier shaped the nation.
We are divided over the history of the United States, and one of the central dividing lines is the frontier. Was it a site of heroism? Or was it where the full... |
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Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead
Lisa Selin Davis - Legacy Lit
Format: Hardcover
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Discover the complete social history of the housewife archetype, from colonial America to the 20th century, and re-examine common myths about the "modern woman." The notion of "housewife" evokes strong reactions. For some, it's nostalgia for a bygone era, simpler... |
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How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone: A Memoir
Cameron Russell - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A fierce and innovative memoir that explores who holds the power in an image-obsessed culture, from the model and activist who helped organize the movement to bring equity to the fashion industry.. Now I measure the distance from model to president. You can see it in pictures. It's... |
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In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
Sebastian Junger - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death - and what might follow - by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm.. For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest... |
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In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work
Kyla Scanlon - Crown Currency
Format: Hardcover
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"Few people can communicate how the economy actually works better than Kyla Scanlon." - Morgan Housel, author of The Psychology of Money. An illustrated guide to the mad math and terrible terminology of economics, from one of the internet's favorite financial educators. Is our national... |
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Salman Rushdie - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about... |
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Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers
Frank Figliuzzi - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A true-crime masterpiece." - Don Winslow, #1 bestselling author of The Force, The Cartel, and City on FireFrom the FBI's former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America's highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative's hunt... |
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Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
Tali Sharot - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Thinking Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit, a groundbreaking new study of how disrupting our well-worn routines, both good and bad, can rejuvenate our days and reset our brains to allow us to live happier and more fulfilling lives.. Have you ever noticed that what is thrilling... |
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Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History
Nellie Bowles - Thesis
Format: Hardcover
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From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles comes an irreverent romp through the sacred spaces of the New Left. As a Hillary voter, a New York Times reporter, and frequent attendee at her local gay bars, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco neighbors and friends - until... |
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Nuclear War: A Scenario
Annie Jacobsen - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States. Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart... |
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The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
Adam Smyth - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them. Books tell all kinds of stories - romances, tragedies, comedies - but if we learn to read the signs correctly, they can tell us the story of their own making too. The Book-Makers offers a new way into... |
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The Chain: Love, Betrayal, and the Sisterhood That Heals Us
Chimene Suleyman - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A devastating personal testimony and a searing indictment of persistent misogyny.In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her boyfriend, the father of her nascent child. It was the last day they would spend together. In an extraordinary... |
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The Distance Between Us: A Memoir
Reyna Grande - Washington Square Press; F First Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Reyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years in this “compelling . . . unvarnished, resonant” (BookPage) story of a childhood spent torn between two parents and two countries. As her parents make the dangerous trek across the Mexican border to “El Otro... |
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The Green Budget Guide: 101 Planet and Money Saving Tips, Ideas and Recipes
Nancy Birtwhistle - One Boat
Format: Hardcover
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'Worth its weight in gold' Gaby Roslin. 'Great for the pocket and the planet' Daisy Upton. Saving money doesn't have to cost the earth.What do you do with your expired oils and spices? How can you make the best use of your microwave and keep meals healthy and tasty?... |
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The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative
Gregg Hecimovich - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a preface by Henry Louis Gates Jr.In 1857, a woman escaped enslavement on a North Carolina plantation and fled to a farm in New York.... |
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The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
Carl Elliott - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Shocking cases of abusive medical research and the whistleblowers who spoke out against them, sometimes at the expense of their careers.
The Occasional Human Sacrifice is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face, and why it is not the kind of struggle that... |
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The Perilous Fight: Overcoming Our Culture's War on the American Family
Ben Carson, M.D. - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover
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Learn from one of our leading conservative voices how we can return to the biblical values our nation was founded upon, especially the vital importance of the family, in order to secure a prosperous future for generations to come.Does America no longer feel like home? Widespread divorce... |
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The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
George Stephanopoulos - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor ofThis Weekand co-anchor ofGood Morning America, recounts the crises that decided the course of history, from the place 12 presidents made their highest-pressure decisions: the White House... |
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The Third Perspective: Brave Expression in the Age of Intolerance
Africa Brooke - Hachette Go
Format: Hardcover
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In our deeply divided, binary world, honest discussion is stressful for all sides. International thought leader Africa Brooke says there is another way: the Third Perspective. . In this manifesto, Africa teaches us how to return to critical thinking and reduce societal divides by opening... |
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To the Gorge: Running, Grief, and Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail
Emily Halnon - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting narrative of love and loss, grief and joy, as one woman embarks on a quest for a record on the Pacific Crest Trail. . When Emily Halnon lost her beloved mother to a rare uterine cancer at just sixty-six years old, she wanted to do something monumental to honor the person her mother... |
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Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
Norman Ohler - Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed returns with 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.Berlin 1945. Following the fall... |
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Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics
Ernesto Londoño - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting look at the tremendous promise and inherent risks of the use of psychedelics in mental health treatment through the lens of a New York Times reporter whose journalistic exploration of this emerging field began with a personal crisis.. When he signed up for a psychedelic retreat... |
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Water on Fire: A Memoir of War
Tarek El-Ariss - Other Press
Format: Paperback
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In this evocative, insightful memoir, a leading voice in Middle Eastern Studies revisits his childhood in war-torn Lebanon and his family's fascinating history, coming to terms with trauma and desire.. Water on Fire tells a story of immigration that starts in a Beirut devastated by the Lebanese... |
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