*New & Notable Adult Nonfiction - April Highlights*

Published this month and new to the collection

Updated April 17, 2025
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Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir
Hoppus, Mark
Paper Book
***The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!*** A smart, funny, and refreshing memoir from Mark Hoppus, the vocalist, bassist, and founding member of pop-punk band blink-182. This is the story of an angst-filled kid from the desert, navigating the chaos of his parents' bitter...
America, America: A New History of the New World
Grandin, Greg
Paper Book
"Dazzling. Sweeping. Mind-altering. World-changing. . . . Destined to become our new reference for understanding the making of the modern world." --Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author of Doppelganger "Scintillating . . . It's a monumental new view of the New...
Children of radium : a buried inheritance
Dunthorne, Joe
Paper Book
*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick* In the tradition of When Time Stopped and The Hare with Amber Eyes, this "profound...comic...[and] unconventional" (The New York Times) family memoir investigates the dark legacy of the...
So very smallHow Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease
Levenson, Thomas
Paper Book
The centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease reveals as much about human reasoning--and the pitfalls of ego--as it does about microbes. "Essential reading . . . Thomas Levenson brings to brilliant life the social history of medical detective work...
Dear writer : pep talks & practical advice for the creative life
Smith, Maggie
Paper Book
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith distills creativity and the craft of writing with a practical guide perfect for fans of Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic and Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird. Drawing from...
I am Maria : my reflections and poems on heartbreak, healing, and finding your way home
Shriver, Maria
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A book like no other, I Am Maria weaves Shriver's hard-earned wisdom with her own deeply personal poetry. I Am Maria reminds readers there is strength and love on the other side of all of our hardest days. I Am Maria...
Searches : selfhood in the digital age
Vara, Vauhini
Paper Book
From the author of The Immortal King Rao, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a personal exploration of how technology companies have both fulfilled and exploited the human desire for understanding and connection A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: The New York Times, Esquire,...
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
Harris, Gardiner
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America's oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies--from an award-winning investigative journalist "A page-turning drama that raises life-or-death questions about the...
The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward
French Gates, Melinda
Paper Book
In a rare window into some of her life's pivotal moments, Melinda French Gates draws from previously untold stories to offer a new perspective on encountering transitions. "You don't get to be my age without navigating all kinds of transitions. Some you embraced and some...

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