Collection: Non-Fiction's

  • The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe By Marlene L. Daut

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    The essential biography of the controversial revolutionary and only king of Haiti. Henry Christophe (1767 - 1820) is one of the most richly complex figures in the...

  • Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War By Michael Vorenberg

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    One historian’s journey to find the end of the Civil War—and, along the way, to expand our understanding of the nature of war itself and how...

  • Spring: The Story of a Season By Michael Morpurgo

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    THE NO 4 SUNDAY TIMES AND NO 1 SATURDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA GUARDIAN AND TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2025MICHAEL MORPURGO'S FIRST BOOK OF ADULT NON-FICTION IN FORTY YEARS'A joyous meditation on the season of new...

  • Yellow Singing Sail: A Memoir of an Only Child in China By Yinfan Huang

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    For fans of New Kid and Stealing Home, an unforgettable portrait of childhood during the one-child era in China.In this graphic novel memoir, Yinfan Huang describes...

  • A Life in Fifty Books: A Publisher's Memoir By Anthony Cheetham

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    'There are good publishers and there are great publishers. And then there's Anthony Cheetham.' Richard DawkinsIn November 1966, by way of Mexico City, Eton College, Balliol...

  • My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy By Edward Hirsch

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    From the award-winning poet, dark comic microbursts of prose deliver a whole childhood, at the hands of an aspiring middle-class Jewish family whose hard-boiled American values...

  • Here Be Dragons: Treading the Deep Waters of Motherhood, Mean Girls, and Generational Trauma By Melanie Shankle

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Nobody’s Cuter than You comes a poignant, deeply personal story about trusting God to heal generational wounds so you can...

  • The Snag: A Mother, A Forest, and Wild Grief By Tessa McWatt

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    In her memoir The Snag, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Shame on Me, Tessa McWatt, takes on personal and collective grief, and the solace and inspiration to be...

  • All the Parts We Exile: A Memoir By Roza Nozari

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    Longlisted for the Toronto Book AwardFrom a queer Muslim woman and artist, a generous, heartfelt and insightful memoir about family and finding the path to one's...

  • Marinovich: Outside the Lines in Football, Art, and Addiction By Todd Marinovich

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    "A brutal look at the tragedy of addiction . . . Details the one-time prodigy’s athletic highs in high school and college and his subsequent lows." —BooklistOne...

  • There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America By Brian Goldstone

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    NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a...

  • What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife By Robert Garland

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    An entertaining and enlightening book about how ancient peoples dealt with death—and what we might learn from themA lively story of death, What to Expect When You’re...

  • The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering By Daniel Light

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    A sweeping history of mountaineering before Everest, and the epic human quest to reach the highest places on Earth. Whether in the name of conquest, science,...

  • Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed and Wonder By Philip Marsden

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    Discover the wonders and perils of the earth’s precious metals—what they have offered us as humans, and how they’ve forever changed our relationship with the world...

  • The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History By Nir Arielli

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    A human history of one of the planet’s most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions....

  • Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America By Jane Borden

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    An “engrossing, unputdownable” (Amanda Montell, New York Times bestselling author) pop history that explains why the eccentric doomsday beliefs of our Puritan founders are still driving American culture today,...

  • How I Found Myself in the Midwest: A Memoir of Reinvention By Steve Grove

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    A passionate testimony to the power of moving forward by going back home, a Midwestern native shares hope in going local.Just after turning forty, Steve Grove...

  • Crush: My Year as an Apprentice Winemaker By Nicholas O'Connell

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    In Crush Nicholas O’Connell provides a behind-the-scenes look at the daily operations of some of the world’s most prestigious wineries on the West Coast. This insider’s view of...

  • Harbingers: What January 6 and Charlottesville Reveal About Rising Threats to American Democracy By Timothy J. Heaphy

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    A clear-eyed assessment of where we go from here—detailing how to combat misinformation and isolation—from the foremost expert on American political violence“A soulful and significant contribution...

  • American Bulk: Essays on Excess By Emily Mester

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    A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2024Raised with hoarding and compulsive shopping, Emily Mester is caught in between. What happens when consumption begins to consume you back? In...

  • Detransition: The Path Back to Self: Unheard Voices, Hard Truths, and the Journey of Those Who Changed Their Minds About Gender By Ester Emerson

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    In a world where identity is celebrated but questioning it is taboo, Detransition: The Path Back to Self brings to light the often unheard voices of those who...

  • El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary By Nora Berend

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    The life and afterlife of a medieval hero and an exploration of heroism, myth-making and national identity through the centuries.Rodrigo Diaz lived a violently colourful life...

  • Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation By Bennett Parten

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    Considered one of “the most innovative studies of American emancipation in the Civil War” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass), Somewhere Toward Freedom is a groundbreaking...

  • Warbody: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare By Joshua P. Howe

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    A friendship between an environmental historian and a chronically ill US Marine yields a powerful exploration into the toxic effects of war on the human body....