*New & Notable Adult Nonfiction - April Highlights*

Published this month and new to the collection

Updated April 17, 2025
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Children of radium : a buried inheritance
Dunthorne, Joe
Paper Book
In the tradition of When Time Stopped and The Hare with Amber Eyes, this subversive family memoir investigates the dark legacy of the author's great-grandfather, a talented German-Jewish chemist who wound up developing chemical weapons and gas mask filters for the Nazis. ...
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
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 her...
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
Becker, Adam
Paper Book
This "wild and utterly engaging narrative" (Melanie Mitchell) shows why Silicon Valley's heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions--with escaping death, building AI tyrants, and creating limitless growth--are about oligarchic power, not preparing for the future ...
The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Jaouad, Suleika
Paper Book
A guide to the art of journaling--and a meditation on the central questions of life--by the bestselling author of Between Two Kingdoms, with contributions from Hanif Abdurraqib, Jon Batiste, Salman Rushdie, Gloria Steinem, George Saunders, and many more "The Book of...

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