*New & Notable Adult Nonfiction - July Highlights*Unpublished

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From the acclaimed film critic and New York Times bestselling biographer of Paul Newman, the definitive biography of Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood, the most prolific and versatile actor-director in the history of the medium, and an indelible fixture of American culture.<...

Moving, atmospheric, truthful, perceptive and hilariously funny -- I loved it: a piece of our English history, the story of a vanished time, which feels close at hand but thoroughly gone. What a story. What a great story' - TESSA HADLEY In Homework, Geoff Dyer reflects on his childhood and...

**WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION AWARD 2024** **A Guardian, Observer, Economist & Waterstones Best Book of 2024** ** A Financial Times BEST SUMMER READ** 'One of those very special books that makes you put everything on hold so...

'Entertaining and vivid... This is a gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment' OBSERVER 'Reads like a thriller' THE SUN The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. For...

The epic stories of our planet's 4.54-billion-year history are written in strata--ages-old remnants of ancient seafloors, desert dunes, and riverbeds striping landscapes around the world. In this brilliantly original debut work, science writer Laura Poppick decodes strata to lead us on a journey...

Environmental journalist Alix Morris spends an eye-opening year getting to know these elusive, intelligent creatures, investigating the effects of their extraordinary return from the brink of extinction and how we can try to bring nature back into balance.   It...

From a professional bodybuilder and longtime Wall Street Journal reporter, a manifesto on how women can radically change their lives by tapping into their innate physical power When Wall Street Journal reporter Anne Marie Chaker discovered bodybuilding as a hobby in...