Nonfiction
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You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Smith, MaggieCanongate Books 2023'Life, like a poem, is a series of choices' In her long-awaited debut memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, award-winning poet Maggie Smith explores in lyrical vignettes the...
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Digital Empires : The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
Bradford, AnuOxford University Press 2023Financial Times Best Books of 2023 in Economics The global battle among the three dominant digital powers?the United States, China, and the European Union?is intensifying. All thre...
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Never Enough : When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It
Breheny Wallace, JenniferPenguin Publishing Group 2023AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement culture” overtaking our kids' and parents' lives, and a new framework for fighting backI...
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The Underworld : Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
Casey, SusanKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2023NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its...
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There Is No Right Way to Meditate
Sakugawa, YumiAndrews McMeel Publishing 2023 Revised and Expanded EditionTake a moment and breathe. With Yumi's uplifting guidance, you will dig deeper into your soul to discover the tranquility already surrounding you. In There Is No Right Way to Medit...
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The Art Thief : A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Finkel, MichaelKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2023NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser. •...
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Wonder Drug : The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
Vanderbes, JenniferRandom House Publishing Group 2023“A shocking saga of pharmaceutical malpractice . . . Wonder Drug is both a first-rate medical thriller and the searing account of a forgotten American tragedy.”—Patrick Radden Keef...
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Because there were no children in Ravensbrück
Millinger, LenaIsaberg förlagThe story of Gladys and Ivan Neuman Ivan Newman has five days to find evidence that the story of his sufferings in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, which he presented to the Un...
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Icon : What Killed Marilyn Monroe, Volume Two
Vitacco-Robles, GaryBearManor Media 2023"Does anyone really want to know what caused the death of Marilyn Monroe?"The long afterlife of cultural and cinematic icon Marilyn Monroe has created a tragic paradox. In this pos...
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The Slow Traveller : An intentional path to mindful adventures
Tinsley, JoLeaping Hare Press 2023The Slow Traveller is a stunning call to change the way we travel today. Full of evocative photographic naturescapes and expertly guided by veteran slow traveller, Jo Tinsley of E...
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What an Owl Knows : The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
Ackerman, JenniferPenguin Publishing Group 2023An instant New York Times bestseller! A New York Times Notable Book of 2023Named a Best Book of 2023 by Publishers Weekly From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a...
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Slow AF Run Club : The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run
Evans, MartinusPenguin Publishing Group 2023A practical guide and a celebration of running for runners of all sizes and athletic ability, from the founder of the Slow AF Run Club. Ten years ago, Martinus Evans got some stern...
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Burn It Down : Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood
Ryan, MaureenHarperCollins 2023NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the YearIn this spectacular, newsmaking exposé that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its heel...
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Icon : What Killed Marilyn Monroe, Volume One
Vitacco-Robles, GaryBearManor Media 2023"Does anyone really want to know what caused the death of Marilyn Monroe?" The long afterlife of cultural and cinematic icon Marilyn Monroe has created a tragic paradox.In this pos...
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Flawless : Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital
Hu, ElisePenguin Publishing Group 2023One of Porchlight's Business Books of the Year | One of Vox's Best Books of 2023 | An NPR Book of the Day | Required Reading from New York Post | One of Nylon's 13 May Books to Add...
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The Global Coup d'Etat
Nordangård, JacobPharos Media ProductionsMost people probably associate the phrase ‘coup d’etat’ with a sudden, violent takeover, with tanks around government buildings, takeover of media channels, purges of dissidents, a...
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Dear Zoe Ukhona: a Journey through Infertility and Adoption
Mandela, Zindzi; Hvenegaard, PelleSaga EgmontIn English for the first time, with a foreword written by Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson Mandela, this is a heartbreaking memoir of infertility, adoption, and fatherhood from o...
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First and Last Things
Wells, H. G.Saga Egmont‘The world of fact is not what it appears to be’. Acclaimed author H.G. Wells ponders some of life’s biggest questions in this transgressive and unique work. Taking us on a journe...
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All The Kings Horses
Cajsdotter, EmelieBalkong FörlagHow would the world become, if there were no hierarchies? This story begins with a meeting between an aggressive pony and the author, Emelie Cajsdotter. This pony taught her that t...
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The Russo-Ukrainian War : The Return of History
Plokhy, SerhiiW. W. Norton & Company 2023An authoritative history of Europe's largest military conflict since World War II, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Gates of Europe. Despite repeated warnings fro...