New Nonfiction | April 2026 – Bloomfield Township Public Library

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Attention: Writing on Life, Art, and the World / Anne Enright
This stunning collection unites Enright’s cultural criticism, literary, and autobiographical writing for the first time. True to the themes that saturate her award-winning fiction, Attention explores the intersection between the personal and political, the subtleties of bodily autonomy, complex family dynamics, and the challenges of intimacy in crystalline, urgent prose.
The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and Then Disappeared: Shere Hite and the Hite Report / Rosa Campbell
Despite being one of the leading thinkers of the second wave feminist movement, today Shere Hite is little known, little written about, and, unsurprisingly, little read. Her groundbreaking book, The Hite Report, was the first feminist exploration of the link between sex and male power. How, then, did it, and Hite, disappear from public consciousness?
The Dark Frontier: Unlocking the Secrets of the Deep Sea / Jeffrey Marlow
The Dark Frontier is an engaging narrative journey grounded in Marlow’s research and wide-ranging knowledge, together with insights from hundreds of experts, from deep-sea scientists to conservationists and UN diplomats.
Honest Motherhood: On Losing My Mind and Finding Myself / Libby Ward
Equal parts memoir and manifesto, flush with refreshing takeaways, Honest Motherhood is a rallying cry for moms to let go of perfection, choose themselves, and give their kids what they need most–a mother who is present and whole.
It’s Not Just You: How to Navigate Eco-Anxiety and the Climate Crisis / Tori Tsui
With clarity and heart, Tsui traces her lived experience as a queer woman of color navigating mental illness and activism on a global scale: from sailing across the Atlantic for a climate summit to finding healing with Indigenous communities in Colombia. Alongside personal reflections, she amplifies the voices of marginalized organizers, critiques the commodification of wellness, and insists that true climate action must also be mental health care. By refusing simplistic fixes, It’s Not Just You insists on justice, solidarity, and radical care as the antidotes to our present-day despair.
Korean Messiah: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea’s Personality Cult / Jonathan Cheng
At the center of this story is North Korea’s founder, Kim Il Sung, son of two fervent Christians and progenitor of an ideology known as Kimilsungism, an exercise in idolatry that has elevated him, and his successor son and grandson, to Christlike status.
Like, Follow, Subscribe: Influencer Kids and the Cost of a Childhood Online / Fortesa Latifi
Journalist Fortesa Latifi dives into the lives of children whose parents mine their everyday activities for monetizable content, exposing issues like privacy violations, financial abuse, and the absence of child labor protections.
The Madness of Believing: A Memoir from Inside Alex Jones’s Conspiracy Machine / Josh Owens
Josh’s story is one playing out across America: that of impressionable young people pulled into a dangerous world where reality and fiction are blurred, and extremist beliefs gain steam. The Madness of Believing is a reckoning with this climate, one that provides riveting insight into these supposedly radical, truth-driven organizations while exposing their dangerous rhetoric and lies.
Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class / Noam Scheiber
With striking empathy, Scheiber paints a vivid portrait of this new working class while telling the dramatic story of its revolt against the status quo. He describes how recent developments like the proliferation of artificial intelligence and the war in Gaza have further fueled its discontent, and he explains why the college-educated working class will continue to demand change in the workplace, in cities like New York, and in national politics for years to come.
The Presidency of Joseph R. Biden: A First Historical Assessment / Julian E. Zelizer
These incisive essays trace the full arc of Joe Biden’s presidency from its early successes to the setbacks that ultimately consumed it.
Reading Pictures: A History of Illustration / D.B. Dowd
Richly illustrated with more than four hundred images spanning the iconic to the unexpected, Reading Pictures reframes the story of illustration within the broader histories of race, gender, literacy, and the transmission of cultural memory. It reveals how reading and looking have become increasingly integrated, and that, as images have become ever more prevalent today with the digital revolution, what is meant by literacy has evolved.
The Rolling Stones: The Biography / Bob Spitz
This is a story with many dark corners, including a surprising number of deaths. But whether Jagger and Richards sold their souls to the devil is at the crossroads for blues greatness or just squeezed their heroes for every drop of inspiration, in the end their connection to their music and to each other put them in a category of one, where they very much remain.
Selling Opportunity: The Story of Mary Kay / Mary Lisa Gavenas
Here is the definitive history of a peculiarly American industry and a mid-century mindset that ennobled extreme self-reliance, sticking to your guns, and blind faith in the American dream.
A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South / Melvin Patrick Ely
A revelatory new account of slavery, uncovering a surprising web of relationships between Black and white people that ranges far beyond the familiar template of “master-slave” dynamics.
This Is Not about Running: A Memoir / Mary Cain
By one of the fastest runners of her generation, an affecting, brutally honest memoir of elite sports gone wrong–and a clear-eyed call for how parents, coaches, and young athletes themselves can build a healthier youth sports culture.
This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark / Craig Fehrman
A major revisionist history of the Lewis and Clark expedition: offers a fresh and more accurate account of one of the most important episodes in American history, humanizing forgotten figures and shattering long-held myths.