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September's Nonfiction Titles PDF
Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm by DeMar DeRozan with David Zarum
The outspoken and respected NBA athlete looks back on his public struggle with depression and his efforts to increase awareness about mental health and reduce the stigma of reaching out for help.
Becoming Elizabeth Arden: The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire by Stacy A. Cordery
An acclaimed biographer examines the life of the woman who revolutionized the beauty industry and help women to embrace glamour by pioneering innovative approaches to marketing and advertising and a holistic understanding of health and beauty.
Beyond the Throne: Epic Journeys, Enduring Friendships, and Surprising Tales by Kristian Nairn
Sharea behindthescenes stories of the perils and triumphs of Game of Thrones—from the actor who played Hodor and became one of the most recognizable figures of the global television phenomenon.
Connie by Connie Chung
A trailblazing journalist delves into her storied career as the first Asian woman to break into an overwhelmingly white, male-dominated television news industry.
First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream by Jessica Hoppe
An intimate memoir of recovery by a Latinx writer, advocate and creator of @NuevaYorka.
Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue by Sonia Purnell
Drawing on fresh research, interviews and newly discovered sources, this thought-provoking reexamination of one of the 20th century’s greatest unsung power players reveals brings to life the sex, politics, yachts, palaces and fabulous clothes, reasserting her rightful place at the heart of history.
The Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company by Alice Driver
Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, an explosive exposé of the toxic labor practices at the largest meatpacking company in America features the immigrant workers who had the courage to fight back.
Lovely One by Ketanji Brown Jackson
In this unflinching account, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court pulls back the curtain to marry the public record of her life with what is less known, chronicling her extraordinary path to become a jurist on America’s highest court.
Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success by Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig
This meticulous, nearly century-spanning narrative, written by two Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporters, tracks Trump’s financial rise and fall, and rise and fall again, providing the definitive true accounting of Trump and his money—and the final word on the myth of Trump, the self-made billionaire.
One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Mother's Story by Abi Maxwell
Following one New Hampshire family over the course of three years, this heartbreaking, unputdownable memoir finds the author contending with the rural America where she was raised and, years later, where she is now raising her trans child who caught in the riptide of our nation’s culture wars.
Rage: On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant . . . And Completely over It by Lester Fabian Brathwaite
Part memoir, part cultural critique, part live grenade, this darkly comedic exploration of Blackness, queerness and the American dream is a searing social commentary on such topics as dating, rejection, racism, sexuality, identity and more at a time when creative anger feels like the best response to inequality.
The Road Is Good: How a Mother's Strength Became a Daughter's Purpose by Uzo Aduba
A memoir of Black immigrant identity, telling the story of an unforgettable matriarch, is a unique coming-of-age story by a Nigerian American actress.
Runaway Train: Or, the Story of My Life So Far by Eric Roberts with Sam Kashner
In a brutally candid memoir, an Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee pulls no punches about the ups and downs of his career and his sometimes stormy relationship with his famous sister, Julia.
Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child's Life by Rachel Clarke
A true story of two families linked by one heart, written by a best-selling author and palliative-care doctor.
The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir by Kelly Bishop
An award-winning and actress chronicles her six decades in show business, from Broadway to Hollywood with A Chorus Line, Dirty Dancing, Gilmore Girls and much more.
Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir by Mary L. Trump
An intimate, heartbreaking memoir concerns a father, a mother and a family’s exile.
The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker by Amy Reading
The New Yorker. Offers a biography of a trailblazing and era-defining New Yorker editor who helped build the magazine’s prestigious legacy and transform the 20th-century literary landscape for women.
Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis by Ryann Liebenthal
An expert on the student loan crisis examines the corruption and bad policies that have led to the $1.7 trillion crisis that has saddled college graduates with crippling debt while lining the pockets of private lenders.
Likeable Badass: How Women Get the Success They Deserve by Alison Fragale
Equal parts behavioral science and life hacks, a psychologist and professor, weaving together rigorous research with actionable advice and powerful real-life stories from a diverse array of women, shows how woman can achieve the kind of reputation that leads to a seat at the table and fulfilling career path.
She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street by Paulina Bren
Looks at the women who sought, and gained, a piece of the action on Wall Street.
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World by Parmy Olson
A technology columnist at Bloomberg tells the story of how two rival companies have grappled for control of power technology and brings to light the exploitation of the greatest invention in human history, and how it will impact us all.
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
From the Stone Age through the canonization of the Bible, Stalinism, Nazism and the resurgence of populism today, a historian and philosopher explores human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world, addressing the urgent choices we face as nonhuman intelligence threatens our very existence.
Sexism & Sensibility: Raising Empowered, Resilient Girls in the Modern World by Jo-Ann Finkelstein
In this urgently needed resource for proactive parenting, a Harvard-educated psychologist unpacks the universal experiences that girls live with and offers proven solutions for helping girls understand and confront sexism in all its shapes and forms.
Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health by Marty Makary, M.D.
From a Johns Hopkins medical expert and the New York Times-best-selling author of The Price We Pay comes an eye-opening look at the medical groupthink that has led to public harm, and what you need to know about your health.
10/7: 100 Human Stories by Lee Yaron
An account of the 10/7 attacks on Israel by Hamas is told through the stories of its victims and the communities they called home.
America First: Roosevelt Vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War by H. W. Brands
A bestselling historian examines the clash between President Franklin Roosevelt and popular Charles Lindbergh in the years leading up to World War II and how Roosevelt was able to defeat the isolationists led by Lindbergh.
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson
Recounting one of the most notorious and consequential killings in American history—the 1955 murder and torture of Emmett Till, a Black boy barely in his teens, in barn in Money, Mississippi, this story about property, money, power and white supremacy is still ongoing and implicates all of us.
Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II by Elyse Graham
This untold story of the academics who became OSS spies and invented modern spycraft tells how they were able to change the course of World War II and help defeat the Nazis.
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle
An award-winning reporter and member of the Cherokee Nation recounts the generations-long fight for tribal sovereignty in Eastern Oklahoma and the 1990s murder case that led the Supreme Court to reaffirm native rights to the land.
Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
Aims a critical eye at every U.S. president—from Washington to Biden—, including their lives, policies, foibles and legacies.
Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II by Abbott Kahler
During the Great Depression, a Los Angeles oil mogul and his crew of Smithsonian scientists discover a group of European exiles trying to create a utopia in the Galapagos Islands only to find it descended into chaos and murder.
The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency by David M. Rubenstein
The New York Times best-selling author of The American Story and How to Lead and host of PBS’s History with David Rubenstein interviews living American presidents and top historians and journalists who reflect on the U.S. presidency, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Maggie Haberman, Ron Chernow and more.
How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History by Josephine Quinn
A Professor of Ancient History at Oxford University subverts the usual understanding that civilizations develop independently and instead focuses on the ways in which the emergence of the West was informed by influences from all over the globe.
Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World by David K. Randall
Through larger-than-life characters, treacherous landings, disease and triumph, an award-winning author brings to life the 1924 race to circumvent the globe for the first time by air that pitted a team of four underdog American pilots against the best aviators in the world, demonstrating how one race returned America to aviation greatness.
No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust by Chris Heath
This by turns shattering and hope-giving account tells the remarkable story of a dozen prisoners who, in 1941 during the Holocaust, made an improbable escape by digging a tunnel with bare hands and spoons, while also providing a complex, urgent analysis of why their story has rarely been told, and never accurately.
A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men: The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II by Shannon Monaghan
This story of the four remarkable men who comprised one of the first units of Britain’s special operations units shows how their work during the Cold War helped forge a new and safer world.
The Siege: A Six-day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-forces Operation That Shocked the World by Ben MacIntyre
A history of one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue attempts of our time, by the New York Times best-selling author of Operation Mincemeat and The Spy and the Traitor.
The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement by Sharon McMahon
Offers inspiring portraits of 12 ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of the United States.
Stench: The Making of the Thomas Court and the Unmaking of America by David Brock
With an insider’s perspective from his time within the conservative movement, a Democratic activist presents this searing exposé of Clarence Thomas that is exhaustively researched and revelatory in its access to the world of what has effectively become the Thomas Court—conservative regime of corruption.
Targeted Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror by Jack Carr and James M. Scott
A #1 New York Times best-selling author and a Pulitzer Prize finalist examine the 1983 terrorist bombing of U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut.
America's Deadliest Election: The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History by Dana Bash with David Fisher
CNN’s Chief Political Correspondent and the host of Sunday morning’s State of the Union focuses on the often violent and turbulent early American elections and what they can tell us about our current political climate.
Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future by Jason Stanley
From the best-selling author of How Fascism Works comes a searing confrontation with the far right’s efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality and class.
Fools on the Hill: The Hooligans, Saboteurs, Conspiracy Theorists, and Dunces Who Burned Down the House by Dana Milbank
The nationally syndicated op-ed columnist looks at the dysfunctional state of the current GOP house, led by right-wing conspiracy theorists such as Marjorie Taylor Green and Jim Jordon who have no interest in governing.
The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy by Jessica Pishko
A leading authority on sheriffs in America investigates the impunity with which sheriffs act in policing their communities and the troubling role they play in American life, law enforcement and, increasingly, national politics.
Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life by Richard Beck
An exploration of how the protracted war on terror reshaped nearly every facet of American life and changed peoples’ attitudes of themselves and their neighbors and even affected our choice of cars and popular entertainment.
I Used to Like You Until...: How Binary Thinking Divides Us by Kat Timpf
The New York Times best-selling author of You Can’t Joke About That examines the dangers of binary thinking, and how it threatens to take over our institutions, relationships and even our freedoms.
On Freedom by Timothy Snyder
Called “the leading interpreter of our dark times,” an acclaimed Yale historian, drawing on the work of philosophers and political dissidents, conversations with contemporary thinkers and his own experiences, explores freedom, identifying the practices and attitudes that will allow us to design a government in which we and future generations can flourish.
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia by Stephanie Baker
A Russian expert and veteran journalist explains in fascinating detail how the West has cracked down on illicit Russian money and weaponized economic tools to counter an unprecedented Ukrainian land grab by Russia.
A Return to Common Sense: How to Fix America Before We Really Blow It by Leigh McGowan
The viral TikTok sensation PoliticsGirl offers a political book for non-political people.
Trump in Exile by Meridith McGraw
A behind-the-scenes account of Mar-a-Lago as former president Donald Trump regroups from an election defeat that he refuses to acknowledge and plots his return is filled with deep insights and never-before-seen details.
Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty by Hillary Rodham Clinton
A former senator and presidential candidate offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face and the future within our reach.
You Are Not Alone for Parents and Caregivers: The Nami Guide to Navigating Your Child’s Mental Health—with Advice from Experts and Wisdom from Real Families by Christine M. Crawford
A guide for parents, educators, caregivers and mental-health professionals explains how to navigate mental healthcare for the young people in their lives.
Category Five: Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed Them by Porter Fox
An urgent and stunning story of chasing the world’s most devastating storms looks at the fallout of global warming, including superstorms, hurricanes, typhoons and spiraling freak weather.
The Inner Clock: Living in Sync With Our Circadian Rhythms by Lynne Peeples
Explains how the groundbreaking science of circadian rhythms can help people sleep better, feel happier and improve their overall health.
It's a Gas: The Sublime and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World by Mark Miodownik
In this engaging follow-up to his best-selling Stuff Matters and Liquid Rules, the acclaimed science writer and materials scientist takes us on an often-humorous tour of gases, which are used to create life-altering technologies, chronicling twelve gases that have shaped human history.
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Through essays and vibrant conversations—infused with data, poetry and art—the author maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures.
Digital Dharma: How AI Can Elevate Spiritual Intelligence and Personal Well-Being by Deepak Chopra
A New York Times bestselling author and spiritual leader offers an exploration of how to embrace artificial intelligence as a tool for both personal growth and a deeper understanding of human potential and well-being.
Directional Living: A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life by Megan Hellerer
This handbook on crafting a life of fulfillment and purpose, penned by the popular “Conscious Career Coach” shares the transformative program that has guided numerous women, among them Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, toward discovering their career trajectories.
Upworthy Good People: Stories from the Best of Humanity by Gabriel Reilich and Lucia Knell
Communicates the transformative power of kindness through stories of more than 100 good people, brought to readers by Upworthy, the social-media platform where millions find inspiration, joy and daily affirmation.
