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New Nonfiction

January 2024

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Biography

American Girls: One Woman's Journey into the Islamic State and Her Sister's Fight to Bring Her Home by Jessica Roy
American Girls: One Woman's Journey into the Islamic State and Her Sister's Fight to Bring Her Home by Jessica Roy
This in-depth account follows the journey of an American woman who ventured into ISIS-controlled Syria with her two children and extremist husband, and her sister’s relentless efforts to help her escape.

Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds by Michelle Horton
Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds by Michelle Horton
The sister of a woman incarcerated for killing her abusive partner reflects on how she rearranged her life to care for Nikki’s children while simultaneously launching a fight to get her released from prison. 

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock, M.D.
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock, M.D.
Part searing indictment of our healthcare system, part generational family memoir, part call to action, a physician and thought leader on bias and racism in healthcare recounts her journey to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.

More: A Memoir of Open Marriage by Molly Roden Winter
More: A Memoir of Open Marriage by Molly Roden Winter
The author, in this unputdownable memoir of love, desire and personal growth, shares how she and her husband embarked on an unexpected open marriage, allowing her to explore her sexuality but causing her to grapple with her past and what it means to be both a mother and her truest self.

Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice by Ben Rothenberg
Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice by Ben Rothenberg
Published to coincide with her return to tennis, this deeply reported, revealing biography of the Haitian-American/Japanese phenomenon and activist chronicles her rise to fame and the incredible impact she’s had on the game and on social justice as she advocates for racial justice and mental health.

Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself by Crystal Hefner
Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself by Crystal Hefner
A world-renowned model, advocate, entrepreneur and wife of the late Hugh Hefner provides a fascinating look behind-the-scenes at a powerful cultural icon and brand, revealing the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion and sharing her transformative journey to a person who finally recognized her true worth.

Rental Person Who Does Nothing: A Memoir by Shoji Morimoto
Rental Person Who Does Nothing: A Memoir by Shoji Morimoto
The author shares his unique perspective on how we look at work, relationships and life, and how we often have trouble talking about the things most important to us, with the people closest to us. 

The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon Shuster
The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon Shuster
An acclaimed journalist gives readers the first inside account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his team, who granted him unprecedented access.

Business & Economics

I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money by Madeline Pendleton
I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money by Madeline Pendleton
The TikTok superstar and founder of Tunnel Vision, a progressive and employee-centric clothing company, discusses her days living paycheck to paycheck while offering no-nonsense advice on taking control of your own financial life and building wealth.

Tightwads and Spendthrifts: Navigating the Money Minefield in Real Relationships by Scott Rick
Tightwads and Spendthrifts: Navigating the Money Minefield in Real Relationships by Scott Rick
In this science-based guide, the author, building on his original research, and surveying a vast body of interdisciplinary work, tells readers how to create a game plan for navigating financial decision-making that both Tightwads and Spendthrifts can rely on for a happy life together.

General Nonfiction

Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict into Connection by Julie Schwartz Gottman and John Gottman
Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict into Connection by Julie Schwartz Gottman and John Gottman
The founders of the world-famous Love Lab discuss how even the happiest and most successful couples fight and discuss ways how to harness conflict to build stronger, healthier relationships by calming down and staying connected. 

How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain Not Against It by Jessica McCabe
How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain Not Against It by Jessica McCabe
The creator and star of the YouTube channel “How to ADHD” presents strategies for neurodivergent readers to adapt to their environment and establish routines and systems to work with the ADHD brain. 

One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In by Kate Kennedy
One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In by Kate Kennedy
In this laugh-out-loud book filled with keen observations, a pop culture commentator and host of the millennial-focused podcast Be There in Five both celebrates and criticizes the culture that shaped her as a woman, tackling AOL Instant Messenger, American Girl Dolls, Spice Girl feminism, millennial motherhood and more.

This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets by Kwama Alexander
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets by Kwama Alexander
Exploring joy, love, origin, race, resistance and praise, this beautiful poetry anthology, featuring works from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time, is filled with poignant and delightful imagery, music and raised fists.

Health and Fitness

Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation by Dr. Jen Gunter
Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation by Dr. Jen Gunter
The New York Times best-selling author of The Vagina Bible offers empowering, period-positive, no-nonsense facts about the science, medicine and myths surrounding menstruation.

Gut Check: Unleash the Power of Your Microbiome to Reverse Disease and Transform Your Mental, Physical, and Emotional Health by Steven R. Gundry, M.D.
Gut Check: Unleash the Power of Your Microbiome to Reverse Disease and Transform Your Mental, Physical, and Emotional Health by Steven R. Gundry, M.D.
Offers a guide to the gut biome and its control over our bodies, revealing the unimaginably complex and intelligent ecosystem controlling our health and teaching us how to heal our guts to prevent and reverse every type of disease.

Rethinking Diabetes: What Science Reveals About Diet, Insulin, and Successful Treatments by Gary Taubes
Rethinking Diabetes: What Science Reveals About Diet, Insulin, and Successful Treatments by Gary Taubes
Exploring the history underpinning the treatment of diabetes, types 1 and 2, an award-winning journalist and best-selling author of Why We Get Fat reimagines diabetes care that argues for a recentering of diet over a reliance on insulin.

This Book May Save Your Life by Karan Rajan, Dr.
This Book May Save Your Life by Karan Rajan, Dr.
Steeped in science, medicine and his personal hospital experience, a surgeon and TikTok sensation, in this entertaining and educational survival guide, explains the weird and wonderful bodily functions that keep us going, offering practical advice and strategies to help you thrive and take control of your day-to-day health.

The Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics by Donald G. McNeil, Jr.
The Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics by Donald G. McNeil, Jr.
An award-winning New York Times science correspondent, reflecting on 25 years of covering infectious diseases and epidemics, shares what he’s learned reporting in over 60 countries to offer tough, prescriptive advice on what we can do to improve global health and be better prepared for the inevitable next pandemic.

Younger for Life: Feel Great and Look Your Best with the New Science of Autojuvenation by Anthony Youn, M.D.
Younger for Life: Feel Great and Look Your Best with the New Science of Autojuvenation by Anthony Youn, M.D.
From best-selling author and social-media-star doctor comes a step-by-step guide to reversing the effects of aging at any stage in life.

 History

Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti by Jake Johnston
Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti by Jake Johnston
Based on years of on-the-ground reporting, this inside account of how capitalism and politics led to the current crisis in Haiti and how it was exacerbated by years of U.S. and European investment.

Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József Debreczeni
Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József Debreczeni
This lost memoir from a Holocaust survivor, translated into English for the first time, provides an eyewitness account of his twelve horrifying months of incarceration and slave labor in World War II Nazi concentration camps.

The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust by Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa
The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust by Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa
Drawing on the manuscript of Mehlberg’s own unpublished memoir, supplemented with meticulous research, two historians and Holocaust experts tell the astonishing true story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat.

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer
A New Yorker staff writer examines the political factors in Central American countries such as El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras that have led to the humanitarian crises at American’s southern border as told through the stories of these migrants.

The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Dan Stone
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Dan Stone
A leading scholar offers an authoritative, revelatory new history of the Holocaust.

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton
Tracing the legacy of slavery to the treatment of Black people’s bodies and minds in our current healthcare system, a Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation’s last segregated asylums.

The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a New American Politics by Joshua Green
The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a New American Politics by Joshua Green
In this masterful account of one of our era’s defining political sagas, a national correspondent for Bloomberg Businessweek traces the rise of economic populism in the Democratic Party through the interwoven stories of three outsiders who emerged in the wake of the crash to lead the charge.

Sheridan’s Secret Mission: How the South Won the War After the Civil War by Robert Cwiklik
Sheridan’s Secret Mission: How the South Won the War After the Civil War by Robert Cwiklik
Recounts the late-Reconstruction Era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union hero dispatched to the South 10 years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black men, who were under siege by violent paramilitary groups like the White league intent on erasing their postwar gains.

Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science by Benjamin Breen
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science by Benjamin Breen
In this fascinating history of psychedelics in the 20th century, which shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley, an award-winning author follows star-crossed lovers Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson as they made it their life’s mission to reshape humanity through a new science of consciousness expansion.

Political Science

Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs by Benamin Herold
Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs by Benamin Herold
Told through the stories of five American families, a leading education journalist shows how the destructive legacy left behind by white suburban families has impacted the lives of the black and brown families who have inherited it.

A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration by Christopher Hitchens
A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration by Christopher Hitchens
This collection of essays, reviews, diary entries and letters from the late renowned writer includes his thoughts on Salman Rushdie, being spanked by Margaret Thatcher in The House of Lords and taking his son to the Oscars.

The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing and How I Got Out by Tina Nguyen
The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing and How I Got Out by Tina Nguyen
An acclaimed political journalist tells her story of loving and leaving the conservative movement (well before Trump), painting a shocking portrait of how they recruit, train and indoctrinate generations of young people in search of opportunity and shape them into leaders supporting the Republican party.

One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy by Dominic Erdozain
One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy by Dominic Erdozain
Taking us on a brilliant—and thought-provoking—historical journey, the author shows how the nation’s Founders did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee the individual right to bear arms and argues that, to save our democracy, we must fight for the Founders’ true idea of what it means to be free.

SELF-HELP

Come Together: the Science and Art! of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections by Emily Nagoski
Come Together: the Science and Art! of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections by Emily Nagoski
A health behaviorist who studied at the Kinsey Institute and author of Come as You Are dispels the myths around maintaining a happy sex life in a long-term relationship with humor, compassion and scientific rigor.

Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas
A social scientist dispels people’s tidy versions of reality and delves deeply into the theories of random chance and chaos to demonstrate that the world really works through random events that can alter the trajectory of our lives. 

The Hunger Habit: Why We Eat When We're Not Hungry and How to Stop by Judson Brewer, M.D., Ph.D.
The Hunger Habit: Why We Eat When We're Not Hungry and How to Stop by Judson Brewer, M.D., Ph.D.
An internationally renowned addiction psychiatrist offers a proven step-by-step program, grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience, that will help us understand what’s going on in our brains so we can heal the guilt and frustration we experience around eating—and heal our relationship with food and our bodies.

I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free by Tabitha Brown
I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free by Tabitha Brown
Presents an inspirational guide for encouraging positive changes in your life—one day and one challenge at a time.

The Life Brief: A Playbooks for No-Regrets Living by Bonnie Wan
The Life Brief: A Playbooks for No-Regrets Living by Bonnie Wan
Based on the business world’s most-used organizational tool, this essential guide for aligning life with your personal, professional, cultural and spiritual dreams features three phases to help you identify your core values and align every are of your life with them so you can feel fulfilled every day.

On Thriving: Harnessing Joy Through Life's Great Labors by Brandi Sellerz-Jackson
The Life Brief: A Playbooks for No-Regrets Living by Bonnie Wan
Drawing from both her experiences as a doula and personal stories from her own life, the author helps us wade through what she calls the four great labors of our lives, inviting a deep, soul-stirring investigation of our past and present to gather all that we need to thrive right where we are, right now.

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World, and How You Can, Too by Ijeoma Oluo
Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World, and How You Can, Too by Ijeoma Oluo
From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre comes an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.

Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism by Jenn M. Jackson
Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism by Jenn M. Jackson
This collection of eleven original essays from Harriet Jacobs and Ida B. Wells to Audre Lorde explore the legacy of Black women writers and leaders and repositions their intellectual and political work at the center of today’s liberation movements.

The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice by Elizabeth Flock
The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice by Elizabeth Flock
A renowned journalist and author of The Heart is a Shifting Sea investigates what few dare to confront, or even imagine: the role and necessity of female-led violence in response to systems built against women.

Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading by Chris Anderson
Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading by Chris Anderson
Recounting inspiring stories from the world’s boldest thinkers, the bestselling author, media pioneer and curator of TED shows how generosity has the power to transform outrage back into optimism and offers a playbook for how to embark on our own generous acts.

Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity by Michele Norris
Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity by Michele Norris
Spanning the full spectrum of race, ethnicity, identity and class, a Peabody Award-winning journalist presents six-word stories, essays and photographs from her decade-long work at The Race Card Project that provide a window into America during a tumultuous era. 

The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade by Hannah Durkin
The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade by Hannah Durkin
Chronicles the history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on U.S. soil, told through the stories of its survivors—the last documented survivors of any slave ship—whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways.

Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s by Sarah Ditum
Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s by Sarah Ditum
Reexamining the lives of nine women who defined the hell of celebrity in the 2000s, this book reveals how their portrayal has shaped the way all women are viewed today as their stories intersect with our current political, social and cultural climate.

TRUE CRIME

The Amish Wife: Unraveling the Lies, Secrets, and Conspiracy That Let a Killer Go Free by Gregg Olsen
The Amish Wife: Unraveling the Lies, Secrets, and Conspiracy That Let a Killer Go Free by Gregg Olsen
Returning to Amish Country to investigate the 1977 murder of pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman, the #1 New York Times best-selling author, with the help of aging witnesses and shocking long-buried letters, finally uncovers the disturbing truth—and the conspiracy of silence and secrets that kept it hidden for 45 years.