New & Notable Adult Nonfiction - July Highlights

Selected new additions published this month

Updated August 12, 2024
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Alexander at the End of the World The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great.
Kousser, Rachel. 
Paper Book
"A heart-pounding, mind-bending adventure." --Ilyon Woo A riveting biography of Alexander the Great's final years, when the leader's insatiable desire to conquer the world set him off on an exhilarating, harrowing journey that would define his legacy.   By 330 B.C.E., Alexander...
Impossible Monsters Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion.
Taylor, Michael. 
Paper Book
When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country's southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But Mary Anning had in fact discovered the "first" ichthyosaur, and over...
Ask not the Kennedys and the women they destroyed
Callahan, Maureen (Journalist) 
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  |  #1 SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER   "The must-read book of the summer" (Megyn Kelly) from New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan: a "harrowing,...
The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards.
Waite, Jessica 
A widow's life is turned upside down when she uncovers the truth about her late husband in this lyrical, witty, and deeply moving memoir of tragedy and betrayal. In the midst of mourning her husband's sudden death, writer Jessica Waite discovered shocking secrets that undermined...
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...
A Hunger to Kill A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession that Changed a Small Town Forever.
Mager, Kim. 
Paper Book
In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager, a real-life version of Clarice Starling, reveals how she closed in on--and broke--one of Ohio's most infamous serial killers. On September 13, 2016, in the small town of Ashland, Ohio, emergency dispatchers received a 911 call...

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