New Adult Nonfiction & Biography

Updated May 29, 2026
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AI snake oil : what artificial intelligence can do, what it can't, and how to tell the difference
Narayanan, Arvind
Paper Book
From two of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI--and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and products Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You're not alone. AI is...
I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything
Stern, Joanna
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What happens when intelligent machines aren't just in our pockets but are also driving our cars, making our decisions, folding our laundry, and educating our kids? You've heard the hype: AI will make us healthier, give every...
American Rambler: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed
Fitzgerald, Isaac
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * New York Times bestselling author Isaac Fitzgerald sets off into the heart of America, following the path of the legendary Johnny Appleseed on an epic journey that both takes him far from home and brings him closer to it. "Rollicking,...
Birth Vibes: Stories and Strategies for an Empowered Birth
Hamilton, Jen
Paper Book
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSLLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER "A refreshingly compassionate roadmap built on boundaries, clarity, and real communication, because growing a family shouldn't mean losing yourself." ―Eve Rodsky...
Blank space : a cultural history of the twenty-first century
Marx, W. David
Paper Book
Over the past twenty-five years, pop culture has suffered from a perplexing lack of reinvention. We've entered a cultural 'blank space' - an era when reboots, rehashes, and fads flourish, while bold artistic experimentation struggles to gain recognition. Why is risk no longer rewarded, and how did...
Enchanting Book Nooks: Miniature Worlds and Settings to Craft and Decorate
Vidaling, Raphaele
Paper Book
These miniature still-life rooms are the latest popular trend on social media, offering a creative way to relieve stress and celebrate a love of all things cozy and crafty. Book nooks--miniature dioramas of charming spaces designed for display as a bookshelf insert or as a...
Famesick : A Memoir
Dunham, Lena.
Paper Book
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In this rowdy, frank reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, the remarkable mind behind the hit series Girls and the bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl asks whether fulfilling her creative ambitions has been...
Ghost Stories: A Memoir
Hustvedt, Siri
Paper Book
A searing memoir of love and grief centered around the loss of Siri Hustvedt's husband, Paul Auster. "Genuinely moving...Hustvedt's book is like Didion's [The Year of Magical Thinking] in tone...a grainy and resonant book about loneliness, despair, and confusion. It's...
Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
Epstein, David
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fascinating stories. . . . Boxing ourselves in may be the ultimate way to think outside the box." --Wall Street Journal "I thought David Epstein's first two books were brilliant, but Inside the Box is his best. I'll never...
Kitchen Confidential: 25th Anniversary edition
Bourdain, Anthony.
Ebook
Anthony Bourdain, host of Parts Unknown, reveals "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine" in his breakout New York Times bestseller Kitchen Confidential.Bourdain spares no one's appetite when he told all about what happens behind the kitchen door....
London Falling : A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
Keefe, Patrick Radden.
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the bestselling, prizewinning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had created a secret life which...
Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000
Walters, Barry
"An excellent history of the queer world's countless music scenes." -Emma Alpern, Vulture "An essential book for this moment." -Rob Sheffield The definitive history of LGBTQ music, from Stonewall to RuPaul, and its impact on culture and American life<...
The psychology of money : timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Housel, Morgan
Paper Book
Over 10 million copies sold around the world. The original book from Morgan Housel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Spending Money. Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to...
Rasputin : the downfall of the Romanovs
Beevor, Antony
"This story of credulous, out-of-touch monarchs steering their country into disaster never loses its sinister appeal."--The New York Times "A beautifully written, clear-eyed biography of a very Russian tragedy."--The Sunday Times From one of our most...
The second emancipation : Nkrumah, pan-Africanism, and global Blackness at high tide
French, Howard W.
Paper Book
The Second Emancipation, the second work in a trilogy from best-selling author Howard W. French about Africa's pivotal role in shaping world history, underscores Adam Hochschild's contention that French is a "modern-day Copernicus." The title--referring to a brief period beginning in 1957 when...
Ten Clear Days
Beck Rubin, Eric
The first in-depth fictional account of the final stages of pursuing the right to die.  When Eric Beck Rubin's grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, requests medical assistance in dying, it divides her family. Over ten increasingly tense days, we come to know her story and...
You've Changed: The Promise and Price of Self-Transformation
Denizet-Lewis, Benoit
Paper Book
"A blazingly smart, thoughtful, funny, and moving book about the endless hope--and the occasional limits--of human transformation." --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love and All the Way to the River From New York Times bestselling author Benoit...

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