New Nonfiction

Updated February 10, 2025
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Our kindred creatures : how Americans came to feel the way they do about animals
Wasik, Bill,
Paper Book
A compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best-selling authors of Rabid Over just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral revolution on behalf of animals. Before the...
The light eaters : how the unseen world of plant intelligence offers a new understanding of life on Earth
Schlanger, Zoë,
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New Yorker's Best Books of 2024 * TIME's 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 * New York Magazine's 10 Best Books of the Year * Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2024 * Smithsonian's 10 Best Science Books of the Year * ...
Heavy : an American memoir
Laymon, Kiese,
Paper Book
*Named a Best Book of 2018 by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly...
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 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Economist, Financial Times, Foreign...
They just need to get a job : 15 myths on homelessness
Brosnahan, Mary,
Paper Book
"Readers will come away infuriated, with a greater understanding of the systemic causes of homelessness, and with more compassion for their homeless neighbors. Essential reading for any community affected by homelessness (which is all of them)." -Booklist, Starred Review ...
The survivors of the Clotilda : the lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade
Durkin, Hannah,
Paper Book
NAMED A TOP BOOK OF 2024 BY AMAZON AND WASHINGTON POST "The Survivors of the Clotilda, a comprehensive account of one of the most important parts of American history, is a triumph."--Booklist (starred review) "A welcome history of defiance and survival."--Kirkus Reviews ...

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