New & Notable Adult Nonfiction - May Highlights

Selected new additions published this month

Updated June 17, 2024
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Bits and pieces : my mother, my brother, and me
Goldberg, Whoopi
Paper Book
From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influence on her early life. If it weren't for Emma Johnson, Caryn Johnson would have never become Whoopi Goldberg. Emma gave her children the loving care and wisdom they needed to succeed in life...
Coming home
Griner, Brittney
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the nine-time women's basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist--a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. "Compelling . . . An intimate, honest recollection of Griner's time...
Rebel girl : my life as a feminist punk
Hanna, Kathleen
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hey girlfriend I got a proposition goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want Kathleen Hanna's band Bikini Kill...
You never know : a memoir
Selleck, Tom
Paper Book
***THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck has lived every one of those miles in his own...
Challenger : a true story of heroism and disaster on the edge of space
Higginbotham, Adam
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Stunning...A heart-pounding thriller...Challenger is a remarkable book." --The Atlantic * "Superb...Compelling and exhaustively researched." --The Washington Post * "Devastating...A universal story that transcends time." --The New York...
It's not hysteria : everything you need to know about your reproductive health (but were never told)
Tang, Karen
Paper Book
An inclusive and essential new resource for reproductive health--including period problems, pelvic pain, menopause, fertility, sexual health, vaginal and urinary conditions, and overall wellbeing--from leading expert and fierce advocate Dr. Karen Tang Did you know that up to...
Trippy : the peril and promise of medicinal psychedelics
Londoño, Ernesto
Paper Book
A riveting look at the tremendous promise and inherent risks of the use of psychedelics in mental health treatment through the lens of a New York Times reporter whose journalistic exploration of this emerging field began with a personal crisis. When he signed up for a...

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