New & Notable Adult Nonfiction - July Highlights

Selected new additions published this month

Updated August 12, 2024
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The secret lives of numbers a hidden history of math's unsung trailblazers
Kitagawa, Kate 
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2024 British Academy Book Prize A new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, spanning six continents and thousands of years of untold stories. "A book to make you love math." --Financial Times Mathematics...
Ask not the Kennedys and the women they destroyed
Callahan, Maureen (Journalist) 
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  |  #1 SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER   "The must-read book of the summer" (Megyn Kelly) from New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan: a "harrowing,...
More, please on food, fat, bingeing, longing, and the lust for "enough"
Specter, Emma 
Paper Book
An unflinching and deeply reported look at the realities of binge-eating disorder from a rising culture commentator and writer for Vogue. Millions of us use restrictive diets, intermittent fasting, IV therapies, and Ozempic abuse to shrink until we are sample-size acceptable....
Autocracy Inc. The Dictators Who Want to Run the World.
Applebaum, Anne. 
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them "A masterful guide to the new age of authoritarianism... clear...
A Hunger to Kill A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession that Changed a Small Town Forever.
Mager, Kim. 
Paper Book
In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager, a real-life version of Clarice Starling, reveals how she closed in on--and broke--one of Ohio's most infamous serial killers. On September 13, 2016, in the small town of Ashland, Ohio, emergency...

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