Expand your horizons with big fall nonfiction guaranteed to teach, inspire, and entertain.
Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier by Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey
You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime.
With insight, compassion, and hope, Brooks and Winfrey reveal how the tools of emotional self-management can change your life―immediately. They recommend practical, research-based practices to build the four pillars of happiness: family, friendship, work, and faith. And along the way, they share hard-earned wisdom from their own lives and careers as well as the witness of regular people whose lives are joyful despite setbacks and hardship. Build the Life You Want is your blueprint for a better life.
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Up Home: One Girl’s Journey by Ruth J. Simmons
An inspiring, indelible memoir from the daughter of sharecroppers in East Texas who became the first Black president of an Ivy League University—an uplifting story of girlhood and the power of family, community, and the classroom to transform one young person’s life.
“Simmons’s evocative account of her remarkable trajectory from Jim Crow Texas, where she was the youngest of twelve children in a sharecropping family, to the presidencies of Smith College and Brown University shines with tenderness and dignity.”—The New York Times Book Review
“A riveting work of literature, destined to take its place in the canon of great African American autobiographies.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University
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Learn more about Ruth Simmons in the PBS series, Finding Your Roots
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria Smilios
New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nursing shortage.
“Edna, Missouria, and Virginia answered a call for nurses and changed the world. These courageous women who desegregated hospitals and tamed an airborne killer at last receive necessary, poignant recognition in Maria Smilios’ exquisitely rendered history.”—Sarah Rose, author of D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
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Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux
The “endlessly entertaining” (Matt Levine) and “ludicrously compelling” (Evan Osnos) account of the crypto delusion, and how Sam Bankman-Fried and a cast of fellow nerds and hustlers turned useless virtual coins into trillions of dollars
“One of the greatest business stories of all time.”—A.J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Puzzler
“This book is ludicrously compelling. I, quite literally, couldn’t put it down—and I don’t even care about crypto.”—Evan Osnos, National Book Award–winning author of Age of Ambition
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To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Lindsey Nyx Walker
This enlightening illustrated narrative by the world’s most celebrated astrophysicist explains the universe from the solar system to the farthest reaches of space with authority and humor.
The book begins as we leave Earth, encountering new truths about our planet’s atmosphere, the nature of sunlight, and the many missions that have demystified our galactic neighbors. But the farther out we travel, the weirder things get. What’s a void and what’s a vacuum? How can light be a wave and a particle at the same time? When we finally arrive in the blackness of outer space, Tyson takes on the spookiest phenomena of the cosmos: parallel worlds, black holes, time travel, and more.
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 260 Million Years of Evolution by Cat Bohannon
A myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today.
“A page-turning whistle-stop tour of mammalian development that begins in the Jurassic Era, Eve recasts the traditional story of evolutionary biology by placing women at its center . . . The book is engaging, playful, erudite, discursive and rich with detail.”—Sarah Lyall, The New York Times
“A smart, funny, scientific deep-dive into the power of a woman’s body, Eve surprises, educates, and emboldens.”—Bonnie Garmus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry
Available October 3rd in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions
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Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection by Jeremy Nobel, MD
Insight into our new world of loneliness that offers solace, hope, and solutions.
“In this powerful book, Jeremy Nobel shows us how using the arts and creativity as ‘a gateway to imagination and empowerment’ can not only empower us to combat loneliness and isolation, but also profoundly change our minds and bodies.”—Susan Magsamen, New York Timesbestselling author of Your Brain on Art
“Project UnLonely offers practical guidance and scientific context on to how to fight loneliness in individuals and societies. His evidence-based approach elevates artistic expression to its rightful position of being as important as diet, exercise, and sleep.”—Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Successful Aging
Available October 3rd in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions
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The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word.
“In The Dictionary People—a lively, funny book, full of eccentrics—Sarah Ogilvie finds all the magical characters who contributed to making the Dictionary. This is an exquisitely written book.”—Jamaica Kincaid
“Enthralling and exuberant, Sarah Ogilvie tells the surprising story of the making of the OED. Philologists, fantasists, crackpots, criminals, career spinsters, suffragists, and Australians: here is a wonder book for word lovers.”—Jeanette Winterson
Available October 17th in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions
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The Joy Strategist: Your Path to Inner Change by Grace Harry
A prescriptive on how to re-discover joy and live with it in our personal, professional, and creative lives, written by a top music executive who guided the careers of legendary hip-hop, R&B, and pop singers.
“Having personally used the contents of this book as my GPS for the last five years, I highly recommend to each and every soul to not make “joy” a four-letter word. Prioritize it. Practice it. Protect it, and let it protect you.”—Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson
“The Joy Strategist is tremendously enlightening, I’ve read many books that deal with self love and roads to happiness but Grace Harry has a very special powerful way for us to reach our best selves and actually achieve joy in our lives.”—Common
Available October 17th in Hardcover
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The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA by Liza Mundy
The acclaimed author of Code Girls returns with a revelatory history of three generations at the CIA—the women who fought to become operatives, transformed spycraft, and tracked down Osama bin Laden.
“This masterful book cements Liza Mundy as one of our foremost historians.”—Kate Moore, bestselling author of The Radium Girls
“A rip-roaring read about spycraft and the CIA’s inner workings . . . an inspiring group portrait of extraordinary CIA women whose careers are multisided profiles in courage.”—Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Ghost Wars
Available October 17th in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions
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Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights.
“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would’ve helped me find a more joyful path to progress.”—Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles tennis champion
“I read Hidden Potential in one sitting, loved it, and have been thinking about it ever since. Which is the highest praise I can give a book. This is Adam Grant’s finest work—it will inspire you to bigger dreams.”—Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers and host of Revisionist History
Available October 24th in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions
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How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain.
The act of seeing another person, Brooks argues, is profoundly creative: How can we look somebody in the eye and see something large in them, and in turn, see something larger in ourselves? How to Know a Person is for anyone searching for connection, and yearning to be understood.
Available October 24th in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions
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