Non Fiction
RED MEMORY: THE AFTERLIVES OF CHINA'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION
Written by Branigan, Tania
"It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their supposed political sins, while tens of millions were hounded, ostracized, and imprisoned.
GENEALOGY OF A MURDER: FOUR GENERATIONS, THREE FAMILIES, ONE FATEFUL NIGHT
Written by Belkin, Lisa
Independence Day weekend, 1960: a young cop is murdered, shocking his close-knit community in Stamford, Connecticut. The killer remains at large, his identity still unknown. But on a beach not far away, a young Army doctor, on vacation from his post at a research lab in a maximum-security prison, faces a chilling realization. He knows who the shooter is.
BRAVE THE WILD RIVER: THE UNTOLD STORY OF TWO WOMEN WHO MAPPED THE BOTANY OF THE GRAND CANYON
Written by Sevigny, Melissa L
In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world.
BELONGING: A DAUGHTER'S SEARCH FOR IDENTITY THROUGH LOSS AND LOVE
Written by Miller, Michelle
"[An] outstanding debut."--Publisher's Weekly (starred review)The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply personal story of her mother's abandonment and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades.
BABY BOOMER REWIND: GROWING UP IN THE 60'S
Written by Russo, Mario
This is the story of the Boomer Generation and what it was like growing up during the 1960s, arguably the most exciting and momentous time in our nation's history. Over 77 million Baby Boomers witnessed the Cold War, the threat of nuclear war, the moon landing, Vietnam, the civil rights movement, the women's movement, the sexual revolution and so much more!
UNCOMMON STORY
Written by Goncharov, Ivan
Goncharov was the leading Russian writer of the 1850s and, as the author of The Same Old Story, was regarded as "the real heir to Nikolai Gogol". But the publication of Turgenev's first full-length novel, A Nest of the Gentry, in 1859, at around the same time as Goncharov's Oblomov, which had been more than ten years in the making, suddenly changed the public's perception.
JACKIE: PUBLIC, PRIVATE, SECRET
Written by Taraborrelli, J Randy
From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
FIRST TO THE FRONT: THE UNTOLD STORY OF DICKEY CHAPELLE, TRAILBLAZING FEMALE WAR CORRESPONDENT
Written by Rinehart, Lorissa
The first authoritative biography of pioneering photojournalist Dickey Chapelle, who from World War II through the early days of Vietnam got her story by any means necessary as one of the first female war correspondents. "I side with prisoners against guards, enlisted men against officers, weakness against power." From the beginning of World War II through the early days o
SUMMER OF 1876: OUTLAWS, LAWMEN, AND LEGENDS IN THE SEASON THAT DEFINED THE AMERICAN WEST
Written by Wimmer, Chris
From the creator of the "Legends of the Old West" podcast, a book exploring the overlapping narratives of the biggest legends in frontier mythology. The summer of 1876 was a key time period in the development of the mythology of the Old West.
ELIOT AFTER THE WASTE LAND
Written by Crawford, Robert
Young Eliot: From St. Louis to "The Waste Land" was hailed as "exceptional" and "assiduous" (The New York Times).