New Arrivals Added To Our Adult Nonfiction Collection in the last 7 days
"Born and raised in rural West Virginia, Jonathan Corcoran was the youngest and only son of three siblings in a family balanced on the precipice of poverty. His mother, a traditional, evangelical, and insular woman who had survived abuse and abandonment,was often his only ally. Together they navigated a strained homelife dominated by his distant, gambling-addicted father and shared a seemingly unbreakable bond. When Corcoran left home to attend Brown University, a chasm between his upbringing an
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"Recipes from the bar and kitchen of Brooklyn's pioneering independent movie house. Great food and original cocktails curated to each night's classic or contemporary film screening has made Nitehawk's kitchen famous-a pioneer of the dine-in theater movement. Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg, and now at its second location in Prospect Heights, has transcended its local gem status and become an icon of New York City since its opening in 2011. In his first ever book, owner Matthew Viragh and his tea
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"Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a "lively, engaging, and often wise" (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family ofBlack country music. Country music had brought Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in American music history: she is the first Black woman to cowrite a number one country hit, Trisha Yearwood's "
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"A leading Democrat challenges his party to return to liberal values and evidence-based science. Democrats were the party of intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and faith in scientific and liberal empiricism. They once took pride in understanding how to read science critically, exercising healthy skepticism toward notoriously corrupt entities like the drug companies that brought us the opioid crisis, and were outraged by the phenomenon of "agency capture" and the pervasive control of priv
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"Rarely in the history of American democracy has there been such uncertainty about its viability. The same applies to American capitalism. It too is under scrutiny as it has not been since at least the Great Depression, almost a hundred years ago. There is of course a connection between the two. Failures of capitalism create uncertainties in democracies. And deficiencies in democracies raise concerns over capitalism. In the United States democracy and capitalism have been in tandem since the beg
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"Like butter in French cooking or olive oil in Italian, jangs are the soul of Korean cuisine. These umami sauces are found in every meal, from soups and stews, to salads, marinades, and even desserts, adding depth and complexity to every dish. The foundation of the three main jangs- gochujang, doenjang, and ganjang-is simple. Soybeans, water, and salt are dried, aged, and fermented in earthenware pots, extracting flavor from their environment and slowly blossoming into intensely flavored jangs.