The smart folks at Kirkus Reviews have picked the 150 books you’ll want on your shelves this Fall, including these Macmillan titles! IF I SURVIVE YOU by Jonathan EscofferyTHE BOOK OF GOOSE by Yiyun LiBLISS MONTAGE by Ling MaTHE CONSEQUENCES by Manuel MuñozWHITE HORSE by Erika T. WurthSTRANGERS TO OURSELVES: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel AvivBLACK SKINHEAD: Reflections on Blackness […]
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Kirkus Best of 2019–Nonfiction
Kirkus Reviews continues their Best of 2019 round-up with their Nonfiction picks, including these 16 Macmillan titles! THE BRITISH ARE COMING: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson THE UNDYING: Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care by Anne Boyer COVENTRY: Essays by Rachel Cusk THE […]
Nonfiction Round-Up (10/09)
A memoir of growing up in and leaving the Westboro Baptist Church, inspiration from Habitat for Humanity’s CEO, a rescue dog that saves other beloved pets, the story of marriage equality from a civil rights activist, the history of rock structures around the world, and the unification of European countries and cities–all in today’s nonfiction […]
Starred Review Round-Up (8/2/19)
Surviving childhood trauma, overcoming a hostile medical system, a cultural history of 19th century Europe, 80 years of the American Dream, and German Jewish women on the legacy of racism… All in today’s starred review round-up! GIRL by Edna O’Brien “In a feat of empathy and imagination, the Irish writer O’Brien portrays one girl’s torments […]