*New & Notable Adult Nonfiction - August Highlights*

Published this month and new to the collection

Updated August 20, 2025
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Baldwin : a love story
Boggs, Nicholas
Paper Book
Drawing on new archival material, original research, and interviews, this spellbinding book is the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, revealing how profoundly his personal relationships shaped his life and work. Baldwin: A Love Story, the first...
The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound: A Memoir
Antrobus, Raymond
A groundbreaking exploration of deafness by a young award-winning poet--a memoir, a cultural history, and a call to action "Expansive, generous, and massively tender."--Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There's Always This Year "Beautifully complicates and expands our...
A Truce That Is Not Peace
Toews, Miriam
Paper Book
"Essential reading. A companion for turbulent times." -Laura van den Berg Internationally bestselling author Miriam Toews' memoir of the will to write-a work of disobedient memory, humor, and exquisite craft set against a content-hungry, prose-stuffed society.
The Invention of Charlotte Bronte: A New Life
Watson, Graham
Paper Book
A profoundly moving, ground-breaking biography that challenges the established narrative to reveal the Brontë family as they've never been seen before. Charlotte Brontë had a life as seemingly dramatic as her heroine Jane Eyre. Turning her back on her tragic past,...
Between two rivers : ancient Mesopotamia and the birth of history
Al-Rashid, Moudhy N.
Paper Book
Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time. What they left behind, in a vast region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, preserves leaps in human ingenuity, like the earliest depiction of a...
King of kings : the Iranian revolution : a story of hubris, delusion and catastrophic miscalculation
Anderson, Scott 1959-
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of the landmark bestseller Lawrence in Arabia comes a stunningly revelatory narrative history of the Iranian Revolution, one of the most momentous events in modern times. This groundbreaking work exposes the jaw-dropping...

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