New & Notable Adult Nonfiction - September Highlights

Published this month and new to the collection

Updated October 11, 2024
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Who could ever love you : a family memoir
Trump, Mary L.
Paper Book
Instant New York Times and USA Today nonfiction bestseller! A New York Times Nonfiction Book to Read this Fall A People Magazine Best Book of September The Week Five Riveting Books to Take You Through September<...
Book and dagger : how scholars and librarians became the unlikely spies of World War II
Graham, Elyse
Paper Book
The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today's CIA, was quickly...
By the fire we carryThe Generations-long Fight for Justice on Native Land
Nagle, Rebecca
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year  * An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2024  * A Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction "Impeccably researched. . . . A fascinating...
The siege : a six-day hostage crisis and the daring special-forces operation that shocked the world
Macintyre, Ben 1963-
Paper Book
"For six days, it was the Iranian Embassy on Princes Gate in London that riveted the world. . . . Macintyre's superb reconstruction restores it to vivid, complex life."--The Washington Post A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and...
What if we get it right? : visions of climate futures
Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . "With a thoughtfully curated series of essays, poetry, and conversations, the brilliant scientist and climate expert Ayana Elizabeth Johnson has assembled a group of dynamic people who are willing to imagine what seems impossible, and articulate those visions...
A Woman Among Wolves : My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery
Boyd, Diane K./ Chadwick, Douglas H. (FRW)
Paper Book
A debut memoir from one of the first women biologists in the United States to study wild wolves in their natural habitat--a story of passion, resilience, and determination. "This is a book about a courageous woman. Often alone in wild country, she endures hardships and...
Nexus : a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI
Harari, Yuval N.
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. "Striking original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the...
On freedom
Snyder, Timothy
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A brilliant exploration of freedom--what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival--by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny "A rigorous and...
Something Lost, Something Gained : Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
Paper Book
What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach. ...

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