Category Notable Nonfiction

Not Without My Sister

Not Without My Sister Celeste Jones Memoir The bestselling, devastating account of three sisters torn apart, abused and exploited at the hands of a community that robbed them of their childhood. It reveals three lives, separate but entwined, that have…

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Natural Disaster 

Natural Disaster Ginger Zee Memoir ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee pulls back the curtain on her life in Natural Disaster. Ginger grew up in small-town Michigan where she developed an obsession with weather as a young girl. Ginger opens…

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Liar’s Poker

Liar’s Poker Michael Lewis Business Memoir The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job…

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Larry McMurtry: A Life

Larry McMurtry: A Life Tracy Daugherty Memoir In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chronicler of the American West, and as the Great Plains’ keenest witness since…

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Katy

Katy Carol Adams Non Fiction Settlers coming to the Katy area in the mid-1800s found a cane-filled creek on the vast coastal prairie. The area became known as Cane Island. When the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (MKT) Railroad laid tracks in the 1890s,…

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Greenlights 

Greenlights Matthew McConaughey Memoir I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys…

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Going Infinite

Going Infinite Michael Lewis Business Non Fiction When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world’s youngest billionaire and crypto’s Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted,…

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Furiously Happy

Furiously Happy Jenny Lawson Mental Health “I’ve often thought that people with severe depression have developed such a well for experiencing extreme emotion that they might be able to experience extreme joy in a way that ‘normal people’ also might…

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