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Cudmore, Libby. Negative Girl. Datura: Angry Robot. Sept. 2024. 400p. ISBN 9781915523310. pap. $18.99. M This engaging detective mystery brings together two people who are bound in their love of [...]

F1 Racing Confidential: Inside Stories from the World of Formula One. By Giles Richards. July 2024. 304P. Grand Central, $32 (9781538768136); e-book (9781538768150). 796.72. Behind every Formula 1 race car [...]

Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections. By David Daley. Aug. 2024. 432p. Mariner, $32.50 (9780063321090). 320.973. The Voting Rights Act of 1965, forbidding racial discrimination [...]

The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld By Dan Slater. July 2024. 432p. Little, Brown, $32.50 (9780316427715); e-book (9780316427821). 364.1092. Early [...]

Investigating America's Most Notorious Strip Club: The FBI, the Gold Club, and the Mafia. By Mark Sewell. June 2024. 266p. Rowman & Littlefield, $34 (9781538190975); e-book (9781538190982). 363.1092. When Sewell [...]

Hot Dog Money: Inside the Biggest Scandal in the History of College Sports. By Guy Lawson. June 2024. 332p. Amazon/Little A, $28.99 (9781662519666); e-book (9781662519659). 796.332. In September 2017, a [...]

The Berman Murders: Unraveling the Mojave Desert's Most Mysterious Unsolved Crime. By Doug Kari. Mar. 2024. 258p. Rowman & Littlefield, $34 (9781538186381); e-book (9781538186398). 364.1523. In the early days of [...]

American Flannel: How a Band of Entrepreneurs Are Bringing the Art and Business of Making Clothes Back Home. By Steven Kurutz. Mar. 2024. 240p. Riverhead, $29 (9780593329610); e-book (9780593329634). 338.4. [...]

Rainmaker: Superagent Hughes Norton and the Money-Grab Explosion of Golf from Tiger to LIV and Beyond. By Hughes Norton and George Peper. Mar. 2024. 256p. Atria, $28.99 (9781668045268); e-book (9781668045282). [...]

Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling. By Jason De Leon. Mar. 2024. 400p. Viking, $32 (9780593298589); e-book (9780593298596). 364.1. The men, women, and children [...]

Crimes of the Centuries: The Cases That Changed Us. By Amber Hunt. Jan. 2024. 384p. Union Square, $29.99 (9781454949107).364.1523. In the late seventeenth century, the Massachusetts colony was rocked by [...]

Iceland Summer: Travels along the Ring Road. By Kurt Caswell. Oct. 2023. 190p. illus. Trinity Univ., paper, $22.95 (9781595342690). 914-91204. To experience the stark beauty of Iceland, author Caswell and [...]

Raising a Kid Who Can: Simple Strategies to Build a Lifetime of Adaptability and Emotional Strength. By Catherine McCarthy and others. Sept. 2023. 288p. Workman, paper, $19.99 (9781523518593). 649.1. Children [...]

The Devil to Pay: A Mobster's Road to Perdition. By Sean Scott Hicks. Mar. 2024. 288p. Blackstone, $27.99 (9798212227636). 364. Hicks arrived in the world experiencing turmoil. His mother gravitated [...]

The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport. By Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg. Mar. 2024. 304p. Mariner, $29.99 (9780063318625); e-book (9780063318632). 796.72. [...]

Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane: Nazi Gold and the Murder of an Entire French Town by SS Division Das Reich. By Vincent dePaul Lupiano. Mar. 2024. 280p. Globe Pequot, $29.95 (9781493073740); e-book [...]

Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor. By Ronald Drabkin. Feb. 2024. 272p. Morrow, $29.99 (9780063310070); e-book (9780063310094). 940.5426. Government secrecy is a catchall [...]

I Never Did Like Politics: How Fiorello La Guardia Became America's Mayor, and Why He Still Matters. By Terry Golway. Feb. 2024.304p. St. Martin's, $29 (9781250285782); e-book (9781250285799). 328.73. As [...]

Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Scientist. By Lisa G. Bailey. Feb. 2024.304p. Chicago Review, $28.99 (9781641606516). 363.256. Bailey opens her memoir with a visit to Knoxville's [...]

American Imam: From Pop Stardom to Prison Abolition. By Taymullah Abdur-Rahman. Feb. 2024.250p. Broadleaf, $26.99 (9781506489285). 297.8. The road to religious enlightenment came with many twists and turns for Abdur-Rahman, [...]

Last Call at Coogan's: The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar. By Jon Michaud. June 2023.320p. St Martin's, $29 (9781250221780); e-book (9781250221797). 647.95747. The forces of fate figured into [...]

Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (and How It Got That Way). By Rachel Slade. Jan. 2024. 352p. Pantheon, $28 (9780593316887). 338.476. The [...]

Many Hands Make a Farm: 47 Years of Questioning Authority, Feeding a Community, and Building an Organic Movement. By Jack Kittredge and Julie Rawson. Nov. 2023. 208p. Chelsea Green, paper, [...]

Blood and Lightning: On Becoming a Tattooer. By Dustin Kiskaddon. Feb. 2024. 264p. Stanford, $28 (9781503635609). 391.6. Tattooing requires a fine attention to detail, with both artist and customer likely [...]

Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree That Changed America. By Harry N. MacLean. Nov. 2023. 432p. Counterpoint, $30 (9781640095410); e-book (9781640095427). 364.1. Nebraska teenager Charles Starkweather always felt [...]

The Best American Food Writing, 2023. Ed. by Mark Bittman and Silvia Killingsworth. Oct. 2023. 208p. Mariner, paper, $18.99 (9780063322523); e-book (9780063322530). 641.30. Just like eating food, an essential and [...]

Life in the G: Minor League Basketball and the Relentless Pursuit of the NBA. By Alex Squadron. Oct. 2023. 288p. Univ. of Nebraska, $34.95 (9781496235855). 796-3230973 Many young basketball players [...]

Every Shot Counts: A Memoir of Resilience. By Carlos Boozer. Oct. 2023.280p. illus. Hanover Square, $29.99 (9781335454997); e-book (9780369736192). 796.323. Retired NBA power forward Carlos Boozer opens his memoir with [...]

Magic: The Life of Earvin 'Magic' Johnson. By Roland Lazenby. Oct 2023. 832p. Macmillan/Celadon, $40 (9781250248039); e-book (9781250248015). 796.323. A nearly unstoppable force on the basketball court, Earvin 'Magic' Johnson [...]

Being Henry: The Fonz ... and Beyond. By Henry Winkler. Oct. 2023. 256p. Macmillan/Celadon, $30 (9781250888099); e-book (9781250888105). 791.4502. In 1973, Henry Winkler was a 28-year-old auditioning for the role [...]

Letters for the Ages: The Private and Personal Letters of Winston Churchill. By Sir Winston S. Churchill. Ed. by James Drake and Allen Packwood. Sept. 2023. 256p. Bloomsbury, $25 (9781399408172). [...]

The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight. By Nicholas Dagen Bloom. May 2023.368p. illus. Univ. of Chicago, $35 (9780226824406). 388.40973. There has been [...]

Team Building: A Memoir about Family and the Fight for Workers' Rights. By Ben Gwin. June 2023.220p. Belt, $17.95 (9781953368331); e-book (9781953368348). 331.88. In 2019, Gwin (Clean Time, 2018) was [...]

Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future. By Oliver Franklin-Wallis. July 2023.400p. Hachette, $30 (9780306827112); e-book (9780306827136). 628.4. In 2018, the World Bank [...]

Control Freak: My Epic Adventure Making Video Games. By Cliff Bleszinski. Nov. 2022. 320p. Simon 8c Schuster, $28.99 (9781982149147); e-book (9781982149161). 794.8. About to debut a new video game in [...]

Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence. By Keith Ellison. May 2023.288p. Twelve, $30 (9781538725634); e-book (9781538725658). 363-20973 In May 2020, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison watched in [...]

Washed Ashore: Family, Fatherhood, and Finding Home on Martha's Vineyard. By Bill Eville. May 2023.256p. Godine, $26.95 (9781567927382); e-book (9781567927399). 810. Marthas Vineyard has never been far from Eville's thoughts. [...]

Coal Country Killing: A Culture, a Union, and the Murders That Changed It All. By Robert K. Tanenbaum and Steve Jackson. June 2023.336p. Post Hill, $30 (9781637588482). 364.1523. The United [...]

Building: A Carpenter's Notes on Life and the Art of Good Work. By Mark Ellison. May 2023.304p. Random, $28.99 (9780593449127). 684. Ellison didn't necessarily want to become a carpenter, but [...]

Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most. By Adam Alter. May 2023.320p. Simon & Schuster, $28.99 (9781982182960). 158.1. Professor of marketing and author Alter (Irresistible, [...]

Paper Valley: The Fight for the Fox River Cleanup. By P. David Allen II and Susan Campbell. Apr. 2023. 296p. illus. Wayne State Univ., paper, $26.99 (9780814349588); e-book (9780814349595). 333.7. [...]

Who Speaks for You? The Inside Story of the Prosecutor Who Took Down Baltimore's Most Crooked Cops. By Leo Wise. Apr. 2023. 288p. Johns Hopkins, $27.95 (9781421446509). 364. On February [...]

Return: A Journey Back to Living Wild. By Lynx Vilden. Apr. 2023.288p. HarperOne, $29.99 (9780063215108); e-book (9780063215115). 363.7. Lynx Vilden is in tune with nature and has made it her [...]

Gentleman Bandit: The True Story of Black Bart, the Old West's Most Infamous Stagecoach Robber. By John Boessenecker. Mar. 2023.384P. Hanover Square, $32.99 (9781335449429). 364.3. On July 26, 1875, Charles [...]

Writing while Parenting. By Ben Berman. Mar. 2023. 222p. Able Muse, paper, $22.95 (9781773491110); e-book (9781773491127). 814. Poet Berman (Figuring in the Figure, 2017) incorporates his personal life into his [...]

The Donora Death Fog: Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town. By Andy McPhee. Mar. 2023. 296p. illus. Univ. of Pittsburgh, paper, $24.95 (9780822966715). 363.7392. Donora, Pennsylvania, [...]

Under the Naga Tail: A True Tale of Survival, Bravery, Escape from the Cambodian Genocide. By Mae Bunseng Taing and James Taing. Feb. 2023. 352P. Greenleaf, $26.95 (9798886450187). 959.6. In [...]

A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back. By Bruce Schneier. Feb. 2023.304p. Norton, $30 (9780393866667). 300. Author and public-interest security technologist Schneier [...]