New Adult Nonfiction Books
New Arrivals Added To Our Adult Nonfiction Collection in the last 7 days
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| Steal the menu - a memoir of forty years in food by Sokolov, Raymond A. |
"Four decades of memories from a gastronome who witnessed the food revolution from the (well-provisioned) trenches--a delicious tour through contemporary food history. When Raymond Sokolov became food editor of The New York Times in 1971, he began a long, memorable career as restaurant critic, food historian, and author. Here he traces the food scene he reported on in America and abroad, from his pathbreaking dispatches on nouvelle cuisine chefs like Paul Bocuse and Michel Gue´rard in France to |
May 20, 2013 |
| Saving normal - an insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, big pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life by Frances, Allen, 1942- |
Francis argues that the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders threatens to destroy what is considered normal and that grief, sorrow, stress, disappointment, and other feelings are part of life, not a psychiatric disease. |
May 20, 2013 |
| Southern League - a true story of baseball, civil rights, and the deep South's most compelling pennant race by Colton, Larry. |
The story of Alabama's first-ever integrated sports team--the Barons of baseball's Southern League--tracing its 1964 season and the heat of Birmingham and its citizens during a tumultuous year. |
May 20, 2013 |
| Someone could get hurt - a memoir of twenty-first century parenthood by Magary, Drew, author. |
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May 20, 2013 |
| Short cuts - artists in China by Fuesser, Thomas, 1960- |
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May 20, 2013 |
| She left me the gun - my mother's life before me by Brockes, Emma. |
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May 20, 2013 |
| Scatter, adapt, and remember - how humans will survive a mass extinction by Newitz, Annalee, 1969- |
"In its 4.5 billion-year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How?"--Dust jacket flap. |
May 20, 2013 |
| River cottage veg - 200 inspired vegetable recipes by Fearnley-Whittingstall, Hugh. |
A comprehensive collection of 200+ recipes that embrace vegetarian cuisine as the centerpiece of a meal, from the leading food authority behind the critically acclaimed River Cottage series. Pioneering champion of sustainable foods Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall embraces all manner of vegetables in his latest cookbook, an inventive offering of more than two hundred vegetable-based recipes, including more than sixty vegan recipes. Having undergone a revolution in his personal eating habits, Fearnle |
May 20, 2013 |
| The war below - the story of three submarines that battled Japan by Scott, James (James M.) |
The "story of the submarine force that helped win World War II in the Pacific by ravaging Japan's merchant fleet and destroying the nation's economy. Focusing on the unique stories of three of the wars top submarines--Silversides, Drum, and Tang--[the author] takes readers beneath the waves to experience the determination, heroism, and tragedy that defined the submarine service"--Dust jacket flap. |
May 20, 2013 |
| Wild ones - a sometimes dismaying, weirdly reassuring story about looking at people looking at animals in America by Mooallem, Jon. |
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May 20, 2013 |
| The call of Everest - the history, science, and future of the world's tallest mountain by Anker, Conrad. |
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May 20, 2013 |
| Dimaggios - three brothers, their passion for baseball, their pursuit of the American dream by Clavin, Thomas, author. |
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May 20, 2013 |
| Confessions of a sociopath - a life spent hiding in plain sight by Thomas, M. E. |
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May 20, 2013 |
| Collected poems 1996-2011 by Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927- |
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May 20, 2013 |
| Brilliant blunders - from Darwin to Einstein-- colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe by Livio, Mario, 1945- |
"Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe"-- |
May 20, 2013 |
| Diners, drive-ins, and dives, the funky finds in flavortown - America's classic joints and killer comfort food by Fieri, Guy. |
"The Food Network star is back with an all-new, all-American book in his #1 New York Times bestselling series. In its seventeenth season, Guy Fieri's Diners, Drive-ins and Dives continues its reign as America's best source for finding the funky, scratch-made, and delicious. Now the host and #1 New York Times bestselling author returns with more of his favorite joints across the country--and a few in Canada! In this third entry in his Diners, Drive-ins and Dives series, Guy keeps his motto front |
May 20, 2013 |
| A dog walks into a nursing home - lessons in the good life from an unlikely teacher by Halpern, Sue. |
"A layabout mutt does a second act as a therapy dog working with the infirm and the aged, and fetches from that clarifying, life-and-death realm an inspiring sense of the core human virtues - love, fortitude, justice, charity, prudence, restraint, hope, and fun - and how to live them now.""-- |
May 20, 2013 |
| Eleven rings - the soul of success by Jackson, Phil. |
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May 20, 2013 |
| Fodor's Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire by Rogol, Josh, author. |
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May 20, 2013 |
| The feud - the Hatfields & McCoys, the true story by King, Dean. |
The in-depth "true" story of this legendarily fierce--and far-reaching--clash in the heart of Appalachia. |
May 20, 2013 |