These nonfiction titles are coming out in November.
Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future / Vince Beiser
Examines the global competition to secure rare metals essential for technology and renewable energy, highlighting diverse efforts — from ocean mining to e-waste salvage and battery recycling — and explores the impact of this race on industries, wealth, and environmental sustainability.
From Under the Truck / Josh Brolin
This memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor vividly portrays a life filled with curiosity, pain and humor, recounting his unconventional childhood and personal struggles, with profound reflections on relationships, addiction, love and loss.
The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography / Peter Ames Carlin
In the tumultuous transition between the wide-open 80s and the anxiety of the early 90s, R.E.M. challenged the corporate and social order, chasing a vision and cultivating a magnetic, transgressive sound.
Cher: The Memoir, Part One / Cher
With her trademark honesty and humor, Cher: The Memoir traces how this diamond in the rough succeeded with no plan and little confidence to become the trailblazing superstar the world has been unable to ignore for more than half a century.
Citizen: My Life After the White House / Bill Clinton
The former president chronicles his post-presidential journey with personal insights, details his humanitarian work, reflects on major twenty-first-century events and highlights his enduring commitment to public service, family and democracy.
Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn / Christopher Cox
More than a century after he dominated American politics, Woodrow Wilson still fascinates. With panoramic sweep, Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn reassesses his life and his role in the movements for racial equality and women’s suffrage.
Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan / Matthew C. Halteman
Philosopher Matthew C. Halteman shows us how-despite all the forces arrayed against going vegan-we can create an abundant life for everyone without using animals for food.
Life’s Short, Talk Fast: Fifteen Writers on Why We Can’t Stop Watching Gilmore Girls / Ann Hood
In this heartfelt tribute to Gilmore Girls, contributors reflect on what the show has meant to them.
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World / Robin Wall Kimmerer
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass explains how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.
The Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the Wonders of Nature / Alan Lightman
A gorgeously illustrated exploration of the science behind the universe’s most stunning natural phenomena—from atoms and parameciums to rainbows, snowflakes, spider webs, the rings of Saturn, galaxies, and more.
What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World’s Most Familiar Bird / Sy Montgomery
This book reveals all the things that make chickens such remarkable creatures: only hours after leaving the egg, they are able to walk, run, and peck, and relationships are important to them and the average chicken can recognize more than one hundred other chickens.
Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist / Richard Munson
Munson’s riveting narrative explores how science underpins Franklin’s entire story―from tradesman to inventor to nation-founder―and argues that Franklin’s political life cannot be understood without giving proper credit to his scientific accomplishments.
Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops / Tim Robey
A riotous and revealing story of Hollywood’s most spectacular flops and how they ended careers, bankrupted studios and changed film history.
Martha the Cookbook: 100 Favorite Recipes With Lessons and Stories from My Kitchen / Martha Stewart
A must for anyone who has ever been inspired by the one and only Martha.
Growing Up Urkel: A Memoir / Jaleel White
A memoir by a noted icon of 90s television, the actor who portrayed Steve Urkel on the hit sitcom Family Matters.
Carson the Magnificent / Bill Zehme
A much-anticipated biography–20 years in the making–of the entertainer who redefined late-night television and reshaped American culture.
