*New & Notable Adult Nonfiction - December Highlights*

Published this month and new to the collection

Updated December 11, 2025
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Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton
Ackmann, Martha
Paper Book
A larger-than-life new biography of country music legend and philanthropist Dolly Parton. In Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton, Martha Ackmann chronicles the life of an American Original. From her impoverished childhood in the Smoky Mountains...
Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It
McDonald, Samuel Miller
Paper Book
For readers of Thomas Piketty, David Graeber, and Jared Diamond: A bold, provocative, wide-ranging argument about the human idea of progress that offers a new vision of our future Progress is power. Narratives of progress, the stories we tell about whether a society is moving...
Cells: The Illustrated Story of Life
Sardet, Christian
Paper Book
In the fifteenth century, as astronomers charted the skies and explorers mapped the globe, the nature of life itself remained a mystery. It wasn't until the seventeenth century that Robert Hooke, looking through one of the earliest microscopes, coined the term cell. Nearly two centuries...

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