All Categories>Nonfiction

Nonfiction
email/print EmailPrint

NEW RELEASES

cover Buy
People Who Eat Darkness
The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up

FSG Originals
Lucie Blackman—tall, blond, twenty-one years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter,...
  
cover Buy

More formats
Audio
The Real Crash
America's Coming Bankruptcy---How to Save Yourself and Your Country

St. Martin's Press
You might be thinking everything’s okay: the stock market is on the rise, jobs are growing, the worst of it is over.   You’d be wrong.   In The Real Crash,...
  
cover Buy
Selecting a President
Fundamentals of American Government

Thomas Dunne Books
The debut of a brand-new civics series for high school seniors and college freshmen, that clearly, concisely and cleverly explains how the United States elects...
  
cover Buy
Digital Vertigo
How Today's Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us

St. Martin's Press
"Digital Vertigo provides an articulate, measured, contrarian voice against a sea of hype about social media. As an avowed technology optimist, I'm grateful...
  
cover Buy
Poisoned Legacy
The Human Cost of BP's Rise to Power

Picador
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing eleven workers and creating the largest oil spill in the history of U.S. offshore...
  
cover Buy
Basic
Surviving Boot Camp and Basic Training

Thomas Dunne Books
There is absolutely nothing in the American experience comparable to basic training or boot camp. If you haven’t been through it, you can’t understand it....
  
cover Buy
The Blueberry Years
A Memoir of Farm and Family

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
“A truly inspiring story, in gorgeous prose, about one family’s journey into blueberry farming. Delicious reading.” —Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America...
cover Buy
Reunited
An Investigative Genealogist Unlocks Some of Life's Greatest Family Mysteries

St. Martin's Griffin
In this poignant and heartwarming narrative, renowned genealogist Pamela Slaton tells the most striking stories from her incredibly successful career of...
  
cover Buy
Straphanger
Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile

Times Books
Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation...
  Bonus
cover Buy
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia...

BESTSELLERS

cover Buy
A Night to Remember

Holt Paperbacks
The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick First...
cover Buy

More formats
Audio
Justice
What's the Right Thing to Do?

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
“For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport,” The Nation’s reviewer of Justice remarked. In his acclaimed book—based on his legendary Harvard...
cover Buy
Nickel and Dimed
On (Not) Getting By in America

Picador
Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans...
cover Buy
The Wrecking Crew
The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret

Thomas Dunne Books
“A fascinating look into the West Coast recording studio scene of the ’60s and the inside story of the music you heard on the radio. If you always assumed the...
cover Buy

More formats
Audio
That Used to Be Us
How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
America is in trouble. We face four major challenges on which our future depends, and we are failing to meet them—and if we delay any longer, soon it will be...
cover Buy

More formats
Audio
The World Is Flat 3.0
A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Picador
A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly...
cover Buy

More formats
Audio
Sophie's World
A Novel About the History of Philosophy

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie’s World has fired the imagination of readers...
cover Buy
Love Her to Death
The True Story of a Millionaire Businessman, His Gorgeous Wife, and the Divorce That Ended in Murder

St. Martin's True Crime
Love Her to Death John Glatt     A MARRIAGE: DESTROYED  They were a picture-perfect family—until a bitter divorce drove Darren Mack over the edge. A Reno...
  
cover Buy
Beautiful Souls
Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
On the Swiss border with Austria in 1938, a police captain refuses to enforce a law barring Jewish refugees from entering his country. In the Balkans half a...
cover Buy

More formats
Audio
The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Picador
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges...
cover Buy
The Empty Pot

Square Fish
An IRA-CBC Children's Choice.An American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists."
cover Buy
Law School Confidential
A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience: By Students, for Students

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
I WISH I KNEW THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW! Don’t get to the end of your law school career muttering these words to yourself! Take the first step toward building a...
  
cover Buy
Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0
Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

Picador
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Businessweek Best Business Book of the Year A Chicago...
cover Buy
Five Families
The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
For half a century, the American Mafia outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outgunned the FBI and other police agencies, wreaking unparalleled damages to America’s...