New Nonfiction

Updated September 29, 2025
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All the way to the river : love, loss, and liberation
Gilbert, Elizabeth
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK "A delicious mashup of narrative that's by turns harrowing and healing." -People "Entertaining, insightful, wrenching ... punch-to-the-gut powerful." -The Washington Post
The book of Sheen : a memoir
Sheen, Charlie
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For the first time, Charlie Sheen, the star of Platoon, Wall Street, Major League, and Two and a Half Men, writes the story of his extraordinary life in an unfiltered memoir. "We can live the stories or...
Daughter of daring : the trick-riding, train-leaping, road-racing life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood's first stuntwoman
O'Meara, Mallory
Paper Book
From LA Times bestselling author Mallory O'Meara, the story of America's first professional stuntwoman, Helen Gibson, who rose to fame during a time when women ruled Hollywood. Helen Gibson was a woman willing to do anything to give audiences a thrill. Advertised as "The...
A flower traveled in my blood : the incredible true story of the grandmothers who fought to find a stolen generation of children
Cohen Gilliland, Haley
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "[An] astonishing story...Powerful...Harrowing...Absorbing and lucid...You would have to harden your heart to be unmoved by the Abuelas' quest." --Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times "Inspiring...A triumphant saga of ordinary people doing extraordinary...
Is a river alive?
Macfarlane, Robert
Paper Book
Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an...
Softly, as I leave you : life after Elvis-a memoir
Presley, Priscilla
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER "A heartfelt record of stepping into one's own." --Publishers Weekly The long-awaited memoir by Priscilla Presley chronicling her difficult...
The unexpected journey : finding strength, hope, and yourself on the caregiving path
Willis, Emma Heming
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER "This book is a game changer for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. It comes out of Emma's pain, which she has turned into a purpose bigger than herself. I couldn't be prouder of her and the courage it...
Women of the fairy tale resistance : the untold stories of and by the writers behind the first fairy tales
Harrington, Jane (Writer)
Paper Book
Long before The Brothers Grimm, there was a sisterhood of writers who defied the patriarchy and launched a literary craze with their feminist fairy tales--these are their stories. In 17th century Paris, a group of women who called themselves conteuses (female...

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