New Adult Nonfiction & Biography

Updated August 27, 2025
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Blind spots : when medicine gets it wrong, and what it means for our health
Makary, Marty
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times Bestseller From Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Price We Pay-an eye-opening look at the medical groupthink that has led to public harm, and...
Canada Unscripted
Sarin, Vic.
Paper Book
Canada Unscripted: Conversations with Canadian Media Icons showcases 21 of the most influential voices in Canadian film and broadcasting. In these intimate and often surprising interviews, celebrated actors, journalists, directors, and producers share stories that are raw, funny, and deeply...
Deadwood : gold, guns, and greed in the American West
Cozzens, Peter
Paper Book
The true story of the Black Hills gold rush settlement once described as "the most diabolical town on earth" and of its most colorful cast of characters, from Wild Bill Hickok to Calamity Jane to Al Swearingen and Sheriff Seth Bullock. "In these pungent pages, you can smell the...
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky : An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
Graff, Garrett M.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Magisterial...A stunning account that brings to the fore the nuclear saga's surreal combination of ingenuity, fate, and terror." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) * "If you are an intelligent person, or at the very least think you are, you have to...
A Gangster's Life : War and Addiction in the New Underworld
Edwards, Peter.
Paper Book
In this gripping tale of a modern-day outlaw, Shane Dankoski meticulously recounts his time as a high-ranking member of the United Nations gang of British Columbia in the early 2000s. Under constant threat from other gangs, including the Wolfpack and Hells Angels, Shane spent a decade evading the...
Guinness world records 2026 : Canadian Edition
Paper Book
BE PART OF IT! Discover the incredible achievements and inspiring stories of record breakers from around the world... and how you can become one of them. With all new content - from high-end hotels to deserted ghost towns and talented pets to global...
Queer Country Crossroads : Stories of Strength, Struggle and Belonging from Rural Canada
Kyle, Mabe.
Paper Book
What does it mean to grow up trans in a rural town? To move from Toronto to a small community in Manitoba? To start a queer ice hockey tournament on the Sunshine Coast? To be the first out queer man that your new friend knows on a first-name basis? Queer Country Crossroads is an anthology...
Reflechissez et devenez riche
Hill, Napoleon
Paper Book
To lose a war : the fall and rise of the Taliban
Anderson, Jon Lee
Paper Book
"A book that is as deeply humane and profoundly rendered as any I've read about Afghanistan, or any other war." --Elliot Ackerman, New York Times Book Review From one of the great foreign correspondents of our time, author of some of the most essential reporting from...
Waiting to be heard a memoir
Knox, Amanda.
Paper Book
Amanda Knox spent four years in a foreign prison for a crime she did not commit, as seen in the Netflix documentary Amanda Knox. In the fall of 2007, the 20-year-old college coed left Seattle to study abroad in Italy, but her life was shattered when her roommate was murdered in their...

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