New Nonfiction | July 2026 – Bloomfield Township Public Library

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You Won’t Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters / Rachel Aviv
Tells the stories of mothers and daughters searching for each other and for themselves. Rachel Aviv explores the complexity of this relationship in seven essays, six originally published in The New Yorker and reconceived for this intimate, revelatory book.
The Day After: How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World / Brian Tyler Cohen
This book is a wake-up call about the decades-long project that led to Trump’s America. It’s the playbook for progressives who want to do far more than restore the status quo. This is how we build a stronger country, with hope and opportunity for all — before our democracy slides into a distant memory.
Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast / Pamela Colloff
The riveting, true story of an audacious con man who helped send another man to death row for a murder he did not commit.
Push the Wall: My Life, Writing, Drawing, and the Art of Storytelling / Frank Miller
Miller’s mix of autobiographical lessons evokes Patti Smith’s Just Kids as it weaves his struggles as a seventeen-year-old kid fresh from Vermont into a seedy 1970s New York City with his eventual success on reimagining Daredevil and Wolverine. From there to Miller’s rescue and revitalization of Batman, to his time in Hollywood, the Sin City comics and film adaptations he would codirect, and the retelling of the Spartans’ last stand in 300. Miller, by constantly challenging himself as an artist and writer on his terms, built an iconoclastic career.
The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness / Cal Flyn
Flyn takes the reader into breathtaking wilds—deep into dark forests, to the tops of mountains, and into the hearts of deserts—asking provocative questions about the nature of wilderness, its preservation, and its meaning.
Biological War: A Scenario / Annie Jacobsen
This is what could happen; a ticking-clock roadmap to the hours, days, and weeks following the release of a biological agent, that serves as the most essential, forward-looking journalism in preparation for urgent societal upheaval.
Liberation Summer: The Moment That Changed the Women’s Movement and the Future of American Politics / Micki McElya
Engagingly told and meticulously researched, Liberation Summer proves how the battle for beauty’s meaning has always been inextricably political—and how its enduring impact continues to shape our politics today.
Barrymore: The Spectacular, Tumultuous Life of America’s Prince of Players / Terry Chester Shulman
Dive into the story of John Barrymore’s family, the underbelly of his Hollywood and Broadway productions, and the dangers of fame and fortune. Direct quotes from performances, letters, journals, and other sources paint Barrymore as a creative genius who struggled with personal demons and, hardships notwithstanding, left an indelible impact on the stage and silver screen—the echoes of which are still felt today.
Sisters of the Midnight Sun: A Murder in Arctic Alaska / Rebecca Wright Stevens
Wright Stevens is a defense attorney living in the Lower 48 when she suddenly finds herself a widow and an empty nester. In need of a radical change, she accepts a public defender position in Utqiagvik, on Alaska’s North Slope, an oil-rich area the size of Wyoming where the Iñupiat community holds great cultural, political, and economic power. Weaving a detailed portrait of Utqiagvik alongside Wright’s complex self-portrait of an outsider in an isolated community, Sisters of the Midnight Sun is a riveting true account that brings to vivid life a land at the edge of the habitable world.
A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies / David Thomson
This revisionist history is as alert to technology and business as it is to art and fun in tracing our pursuit of the lifelike instead of life. By turns trenchant, lyrical, and comic, Thomson uncovers our addiction to voyeurism and villainy, and a habit of passivity that has betrayed our political and cultural identity. In a survey that reaches from Metropolis to Rear Window to Anora, this will redirect ideas about film everywhere.
Iceland Annie: The Evolution of a Crossfit Games Legend / Annie Thorisdottir
In 2011, Annie Thorisdottir earned the title “Fittest Woman on Earth” after winning the CrossFit Games in only her third year as a competitor. In 2012, she did it again, becoming the first woman to ever win the Games twice, solidifying herself amongst the CrossFit greats. Now, for the first time ever, Thorisdottir shares the intimate details of her career, delving into her mental resilience, determination, and the struggles and triumphs she’s faced as a top-level competitor over three separate decades.
Blow by Blow: The Jeff Beck Story / Brad Tolinski
With his shag haircut and white Stratocaster guitar, Jeff Beck was an icon known and loved by millions. Culled from approximately 30 hours of interviews with the late guitarist himself, numerous conversations with those closest to him, and extensive research, the book sheds new light on his genius.
Honolulu Blues: How Loving a Losing Team Created a Winning Man / Joel Walkowski
Learning from the Lions what his father couldn’t teach him, Joel charts his journey to sobriety while caring for his dying father, coming to terms with the fact that there’s a difference between failing and never having been set up for success. Honolulu Blues proves the Lions story is the story of being human—carving your own path out of the ruts of the past and accepting that you don’t have to win to be worth rooting for.
Our Wild Familiars: How Animals Are Adapting to Cities and Reshaping the Natural World / Dan Werb
Acting as a guide to the curious, Werb reveals how the cracks in our millennia-long efforts to shield ourselves against the outside world might just lead us to a new and necessary balance with nature—or to an ever more savage future.
Voice-A-Versa: Finding My Voice(s) Behind the MIC / Billy West
West is one the most accomplished and beloved voice actors alive today. He’s brought to life original animated characters like Stimpy from Ren & Stimpy, Doug Funnie, and Philip J. Fry, Dr. Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, and Professor Farnsworth (and more) on Futurama. West recounts his remarkable life in show business and the circuitous route that got him there.
Up All Night: A World History of Nightlife / Imogen Willetts
How did jazz develop in the dancehalls of turn-of-the-century New Orleans? What was it like to party in 1920s Paris? Why were we so obsessed with the messy chaos of the early aughts LA scene? And what, in our increasingly online lives, are we missing when we pass up the chance of a big night out? Join party historian Imogen Willetts for a guided tour behind the velvet rope of history’s wildest nights out.