*New & Notable Adult Nonfiction - October Highlights*

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Updated October 21, 2025
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*New & Notable Adult Nonfiction - October Highlights*

Published this month and new to the collection

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John Candy : A Life in Comedy
Myers, Paul/ Aykroyd, Dan (FRW)
Paper Book
The definitive biography of John Candy--a heartwarming portrait of one of comedy's most beloved and enduring stars. INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Reading this book was like reconnecting with an old friend. I laughed, I cried, I didn't want it to end." --Judd Apatow "A...
Last Rites
Osbourne, Ozzy
Paper Book
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  "People say to me, if you could do it all again, knowing what you know now, would you change anything? I'm like, f*** no. If I'd been clean and sober, I wouldn't be Ozzy. If I'd done normal, sensible things, I...
Paper Girl : A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Macy, Beth
Paper Book
An Instant National Bestseller! "There couldn't be a timelier book . . . searingly poignant, essential . . . Macy follows closely in the footsteps of . . . Barbara Ehrenreich and Tracy Kidder, combining memoir with reportage, a raft of sobering statistics and, most uniquely in our...
The Gales of November : The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Bacon, John U.
Paper Book
For three decades following World War II, the Great Lakes overtook Europe as the epicenter of global economic strength. The region was the beating heart of the world economy, possessing all the power and prestige Silicon Valley does today. And no ship represented the apex of the American Century...
38 Londres Street : on impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia
Sands, Philippe
Paper Book
In this intimate legal and historical detective story, the world-renowned lawyer and acclaimed author of East West Street traces the footsteps of two of the twentieth century's most merciless criminals--accused of genocide and crimes against humanity--testing the limits of immunity and...
Enshittification : why everything suddenly got worse and what to do about it
Doctorow, Cory
Paper Book
Enshittification: it's not just you--the internet sucks now. Here's why, and here's how we can disenshittify it. We're living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit...
Race Against Terror: Chasing an Al Qaeda Killer at the Dawn of the Forever War
Tapper, Jake
Paper Book
"Not only riveting to read but also shines an essential light on the quest for justice in the modern age of terrorism." --David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon In this thrilling true story, #1 New York Times...
The genius bat : the secret life of the only flying mammal
Yovel, Yossi (Ecologist and neurobiologist)
Paper Book
An awe-inspiring tour of bat world by the world's leading expert With nearly 1500 species, bats account for more than twenty percent of mammalian species. The most successful and most diverse group of mammals, bats come in different sizes, shapes, and colors, from the tiny...
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