New & Notable Adult Nonfiction - July Highlights

Selected new additions published this month

Updated August 12, 2024
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The secret lives of numbers a hidden history of math's unsung trailblazers
Kitagawa, Kate 
Paper Book
A new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, spanning six continents and thousands of years of untold stories. "A book to make you love math." --Financial Times Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation...
The Missing Thread A Women's History of the Ancient World.
Dunn, Daisy. 
Paper Book
"Thoroughly researched and sprightly.... a complete history of the [Mediterranean world] with the women added back in, as they always should have been."--The New York Times A dazzlingly ambitious history of the ancient world that places women at the center--from Cleopatra...
Never Enough.
Wilkinson, Andrew. 
Paper Book
"Like going to business school and therapy all in one book." --James Clear, New York Times Bestselling Author, Atomic Habits Once a barista in a small cafe making $6.50 an hour, Andrew Wilkinson built a business valued at over a billion dollars by the time he was...
Autocracy, Inc. : the dictators who want to run the world
Applebaum, Anne
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them "A masterful guide to the new age of authoritarianism... clear...
Guilty Creatures Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida.
Brottman, Mikita. 
Paper Book
"Murder, a love triangle, and small-town secrets in Tallahassee, Florida...an unputdownable read." --The New York Times "A compelling psychological double portrait of what happens when two people are forever bound by a life-altering secret." --Becky Cooper,...

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