Adult Nonfiction Coming Soon

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Adult Fiction Coming Soon
Adult Bestsellers Coming Soon

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Miles, Tiya

Biography

From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understand

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Markel, Howard

Biography

A lively account of how Darwin's work on natural selection transformed science and society, and an investigation into the mysterious illness that plagued its author.

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Powers, Ann

Biography

Celebrated music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself.

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Shah, Khushbu

Cooking

“What is Indian food in America?”


In her eagerly anticipated debut cookbook, acclaimed food writer Khushbu Shah injects an electric and irresistible energy into the story of Indian food, with 125 recipes inspired by the cooking of the diaspora.

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Leon, Joel

Essays

A beautiful, painful, and soaring tribute to everything that Black men are and can be

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Laing, Olivia

Essays

Named as one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2024 by The Observer, BBC, Irish Times, and The Guardian Inspired by the restoration of her own garden, "imaginative and empathetic critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing embarks on an exhilarating investigation of paradise.

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Prose, Francine

Memoir

The first memoir from critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose, about the close relationship she developed with activist Anthony Russo, one of the men who leaked the Pentagon Papers--and the year when our country changed.

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Elwood, Phil

Memoir

A bridge-burning, riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the $129-billion industry that controls so much of what we see and hear in the media—from a man who used to pull the strings, and who is now pulling back the curtain.
 

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Romolini, Jennifer

Memoir

A deeply personal memoir about workaholism, the addictive nature of ambition, and the humbling process of picking yourself up when the world lets you down: an anti-girlboss tale for our times

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Mattoo, Priyanka

Memoir

From a wry, insightful, and very funny new voice, here is one woman’s search for home, from Kashmir to England to Saudi Arabia to Michigan to Rome and, finally, to Los Angeles—standalone essays that together form a sweeping portrait of a peripatetic life.
 

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Low, Amy

Memoir

This honest and emotional memoir presents much needed lessons and advice for navigating uncertainty in the worst of times. 
 

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Dunne, Griffin

Memoir

Griffin Dunne’s memoir of growing up among larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan finds wicked humor and glimmers of light in even the most painful of circumstances
 

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Telfer, Cece

Memoir

By turns harrowing and hopeful, MAKE IT COUNT is the inspiring story of the first openly transgender woman to win a NCAA title, following her traditional upbringing in Jamaica, her fight to become a US citizen, and her efforts to achieve her Olympic dreams.

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Fauci, Anthony

Memoir

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents
 

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Townsend, Alan

Memoir

A compassionate exploration of scientific wonder that offers “a fresh perspective on life, death, and the bittersweet consequences of impermanence,” (Jon Krakauer) as illuminated through the tragic dual cancer diagnoses of author Dr. Alan Townsend’s wife and daughter.

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Leadbeater, Cory

Memoir

A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer—struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction—and his life-changing decade working for Joan Didion

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O'Neill, Tracy

Memoir

A National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 honoree delivers her first nonfiction work: a compulsively readable, genre-bending story of finding her birth mother and learning the power of self-knowledge.

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Somerstein, Rachel

Health

An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in America—the cesarean section—and an exposé on the disturbing state of maternal medical care

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Liverpool, Layal

Health

A science-based, data-driven, and global exploration of racial disparities in health care access by virologist, immunologist, and science journalist Layal Liverpool, arguing that racism affects our biology

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Mather, Tamsin

Science

A mix of memoir, travel and popular science, charting journeys across deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some of the world's most important volcanoes, showing how these mountains of fire have and continue to shape our planet and its future

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Jabr, Ferris

Science

A vivid account of a major shift in how we understand Earth, from an exceptionally talented new voice. Earth is not simply an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather a planet that came to life.
 

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Cech, Tom R.

Science

One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2024 Exploring the most transformative breakthroughs in biology since the discovery of the double helix, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist unveils the RNA age.

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Kingdon, Amorina

Science

A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invade these critical soundscapes—from an award-winning science writer
 

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McIndoe, Peter

Social Science

The true story of the greatest conspiracy in US history—and how to fight back.
 

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Murgia, Madhumita

Social Science

A riveting human story of how artificial intelligence systems are shaping people’s lives around the globe, revealing the perils and inequities of the growing reliance on automated decision-making

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Brill, Steven

Social Science

A best-selling author documents how facts-shared truths-have lost their power to hold us together as a community, as a country, globally, and how belief in "alternative facts" and conspiracy theories have destroyed trust in institutions, leaders, and legitimate experts

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Dias, Elizabeth

Social Science

From two top New York Times journalists, the breathtaking untold story of the plan to overturn Roe v. Wade and the consequences for women, abortion, and the future of America

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Lim, Audrea

Social Science

An eye-opening examination of how treating land as a source of profit has a massive impact on racial inequality and the housing, gentrification, and environmental crises.

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Calarco, Jessica

Social Science

Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences.

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Pearlman, Wendy

Social Science

War forced millions of Syrians from their homes. It also forced them to rethink the meaning of home itself.

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Mukhopadhyay, Samhita

Social Science

We can bury the girlboss, but what comes next? The former executive editor of Teen Vogue tells the story of her personal workplace reckoning and argues for collective responsibility to reimagine work as we know it.

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Galle, Nadina

Social Science

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Jonathan Doerr, The Nature of Our Cities is a stirring exploration of how scientists from around the world are harnessing local ecology and innovative technology to protect the planet’s cities from the effects of climate change.

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Newitz, Annalee

Social Science

A sharp and timely exploration of the dark art of manipulation through weaponized storytelling, from the best-selling author of Four Lost Cities.

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Hernandez, Zeke

Social Science

The go-to book on immigration: fact-based, comprehensive, and nonpartisan.
 

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Killam, Kasley

Self Help

A groundbreaking redefinition of health and wellbeing that emphasizes the need for social health—a sense of belonging or social connection—to achieve true wellness, braiding together new science, mindset shifts, and practical wisdom for cultivating strong relationships in our own lives.

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McFadden, Julie

Self Help

What if we didn't consider death the worst possible outcome? What if we discussed it honestly, embraced hospice care, and prepared for the end of our lives with hope and acceptance? In this compassionate and knowledgeable guide, TikTok star Julie McFadden-known online as "Hospice Nurse Julie"-shares the valuable lessons she's learned in her fifteen years as an RN in the ICU and in hospice

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Jobb, Dean

True Crime

Catch Me If You Can meets The Great Gatsby meets Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief in this captivating Jazz Age true-crime caper about "the greatest jewel thief who ever lived" (Life Magazine), Arthur Barry, who charmed celebrities and millionaires—everyone from Rockefellers to members of the royal family—while simultaneously planning and executing the most audacious and lucrative heists of the 1920s. 
 

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Story, Louise

US History

A sweeping, deeply researched narrative history of Black wealth and the economic discrimination embedded in America’s financial system through public and private actions that created today’s Black-white wealth gap.

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Upholt, Boyce

US History

A sweeping history of the Mississippi River--and the centuries of human meddling that have transformed both it and America.

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Turley, Jonathan

US History

A timely, revelatory look at freedom of speech—our most basic right and the one that protects all the others.
 

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Dennie, Madiba K.

US History

A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism—the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives say the Founders meant it
 

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White, Catherine Joy

US History

From gender advisor to the UN Catherine Joy White comes This Thread of Gold, a lyrical celebration of the history of Black women who challenged stereotypes through film, politics, activism, and beyond.

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McGrath, Tom

US History

The “entertaining and insightful” first history of the Yuppie phenomenon, chronicling the roots, rise, triumph and (seeming) fall of the young urban professionals who radically altered American life between 1980 and 1987 (New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich). 

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Barber, William J.

US History

An explosive work with far-ranging historical implications, White Poverty promises to be one of the most influential books of the 2024 election cycle.

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Twilley, Nicola

World History

An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific mystery to globe-spanning infrastructure, and an essential investigation into how it has remade our entire relationship with food—for better and for worse
 

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Valosik, Vicki

World History

From vaudeville tank shows to the Olympic arena, a groundbreaking history of how women found synchronicity--and power--in water.

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Di Robilant, Andrea

World History

From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair (“A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing” —The Washington Post), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced European minds to the wider world through his passion for geography

Summaries provided by DPL's catalog unless otherwise noted. Click on each title to view more information.