Shelf Talk posted: " November brings a cornucopia of notable and newsworthy nonfiction!Leading the pack is My Name is Barbra, Ms. Streisand's highly anticipated 992 page(!) memoir. Not a fan of Babs? Other memoirs to consider" Shelf Talk
November brings a cornucopia of notable and newsworthy nonfiction!
Leading the pack is My Name is Barbra, Ms. Streisand's highly anticipated 992 page(!) memoir. Not a fan of Babs? Other memoirs to consider include Elvis and the Colonel, Greg McDonald's look at the most legendary partnership in show business, and Jennifer Burns' biography of American economist Milton Friedman. For more atypical fare, check out Data Baby, where Susannah Breslin recounts her life as a psychological experiment, or The Night Parade, Jami Nakamura Lin's speculative memoir that draws upon Japanese mythology.
In current events, politicos will be interested in Tired of Winning, Jonathan Karl's exposé on how Donald Trump remade the Republican party, and Network of Lies, Brian Stetler's saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the battle for American democracy. On the tech front, Ben Mezrich pulls back the curtain on Elon Musk and the most controversial corporate takeover in history in Breaking Twitter; David Runciman reveals how we gave control of our lives to corporations, states and AIs in The Handover; and Jeff Horwitz goes behind the scenes at Facebook to expose its harmful secrets in Broken Code. Rob Copeland pens the unvarnished story of Wall Street hedge fund manager Ray Dalio in The Fund while Tim Schwab reckons with the myth of the good billionaire in The Bill Gates Problem. John Gray examines the emergence of a post-liberal nation-state in The New Leviathans while former poet laureate Tracy K. Smith pens a plea for the American soul in To Free the Captives. And Garrett M. Graff tells the inside story of the U.S. government's search for alien life here—and out there—in UFO while Max Marshall goes under the influence and above the law with an American fraternity in Among the Bros.
Foodies have much to look forward to in November. In baking, Samantha Seneviratne delivers 100 sweet recipes, along with kitchen tips, in Bake Smart; Great British Baking Showwinner Giuseppe Dell'Anno serves up sweet Italian treats in Giuseppe's Easy Bakes; Yossy Arefi returns with 60 simple recipes for cookies, bars, brownies, cakes and more in Snacking Bakes; and Nancy Silverton presents The Cookie That Changed My Life along with 100 other classic cakes, cookies, muffins and pies that will change yours. Michael Crupain focuses on the five foods that are essential for optimum health in The Power Five and Rose Previte introduces cooks to recipes from Lebanon and beyond in Maydan. Snoop Dogg teams up with rapper E-40 with a next-level cookbook of memorable recipes in Goon With the Spoon, while Aki Berry and Megumi Chano present 50 recipes, from biscuits to BBQ, inspired by TV's most lovable football team in The Unofficial Ted Lasso Cookbook. And cooks looking for more than recipes will de delighted by The Core of an Onion, which finds historian Mark Kurlansky looking at the cultural, historical and gastronomical layers of the culinary staple, while Fuchsia Dunlop tells the history, philosophy and techniques of Chinese food in Invitation to a Banquet.
A trio of new books will delight music lovers this month. Wilco's Jeff Tweedy returns with tales of the music that changed his life, and his music, in World Within a Song; Rush bassist Geddy Lee releases his long-awaited memoir, My Effin' Life; and Rob Harvilla takes readers through the greatest hits that define a weirdly undefinable decade in 60 Songs That Explain the '90s.
Looking for a new outlook or to change things up? Take a look at Lessons for Living by psychiatrist Phil Stutz, who helps people thrive in spite of adversity, or Same as Ever by Morgan Housel, the Seattle-based author of Psychology of Money, who presents timeless lessons about what never changes in an always changing world. Jedediah Jenkins, a 40-year-old gay man, travels the country with his eccentric, conservative mother to see if they can survive their differences in Mother, Nature. Emeran Mayer helps readers understand how food impacts the mind, microbiome and immunity in The Mind-Gut-Immune Connection. And while Jenny Marrs helps you create warm, intentional spaces for a beautiful life in House + Love = Home, Melissa Dilkes Pateras reveals housekeeping hacks you can't live without in A Dirty Guide to a Clean Home.
In science, Martin Sheldrake releases an illustrated edition of his bestseller on fungi, Entangled Life while Jay Owens tells the story of the modern world in a trillion particles in Dust. Ed Conway presents the six materials that shape modern civilization in Material World and Roma Agrawal considers seven small inventions that changed the world in a big way in Nuts and Bolts. Tim Marshall looks ahead to how competition in space will change our world in The Future of Geography. And mathematician Marcus du Sautoy goes Around the World in Eighty Games to unlock the secrets behind Tarot and Catan to Tic-Tac-Toe and Chutes and Ladders.
Three books highlight women in history. Emma Southon looks at the forgotten women of the Roman Empire in A Rome of One's Own; filmmaker Mary Haverstick digs deep to discover female spies at the heart of the Kennedy assassination in A Woman I Know; and Mary Mahoney and Allison Horrocks ask why we still can't quit American Girl in Dolls of Our Lives.
Finally, literary minded folx have some great poetry and essays to consider. Rachel Feder examines how the romantic narrative of Pride and Prejudice was born out of Gothic horror in The Darcy Myth, while Lauren Elkin meditates on the role of unruly bodies in feminist art in Art Monsters. Jason Travis Ott presents a pictoric lexicon of ostrobogulous locutions in Grandiloquent Words, and Jesse David Fox chronicles how comedy conquered culture, and the magic that makes it work, in Comedy Book. Finally, actress Megan Fox releases her debut poetry collection, Pretty Boys Are Poisonous.
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