*New & Notable Adult Nonfiction - May Highlights*

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Updated May 16, 2025
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Second life : having a child in the digital age
Hess, Amanda (Journalist)
Paper Book
One of TIME Magazine's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 . One of LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025. 'Acutely empathetic, thoroughly researched, funny, irreverent and moving' Observer 'What a book! Has the lyricism and intelligence of a...
Proto : How One Ancient Language Went Global
Spinney, Laura
Paper Book
'The fascinating story of ancient words ... new revelations await' The Guardian 'A magisterial feat' New Scientist ________________________________ One ancient language transformed our world. This is its story. Star. Stjarna. Stare. Thousands of miles...
Odyssey
Fry, Stephen
Paper Book
Troy has fallen. After ten years of war, Odysseus dreams of lying in the arms of his beloved wife Penelope, and of teaching his son Telemachus a warrior's ways. However, gods toy with the desires of little mortals. Angered by this upstart's presumption, Poseidon - God of the ocean realms - curses...
The AI Con : The Hype, the Myth and the Power Grab of the Century
Bender, Emily
Paper Book
A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called 'artificial intelligence', exposing the real harm these technologies do to our jobs, health, society and environment, who stands to gain from them, and how to fight back. Is AI going to take over the world...
Is A River Alive?
Macfarlane, Robert.
Paper Book
At its heart is a single, transformative idea- that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings - who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law. Inspired by the activists, artists and lawmakers of the young 'Rights of Nature' movement, Macfarlane takes the reader on an...
The peepshow : the murders at 10 Rillington Place
Summerscale, Kate
Paper Book
FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times, Financial Times, Spectator, Independent, Tablet and New Statesman 'I loved it' Richard Osman 'Shattering' Val McDermid 'Gripping...

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