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Top 25 September Nonfiction (page 4)

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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
Kirkus Star ON A FARTHER SHORE: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF RACHEL CARSON
by William Souder
"A poignant, galvanizing, meaningful tribute."
Fifty years after the publication of Rachel Carson's seminal Silent Spring, Pulitzer Prize nominee Souder (Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America, 2004, etc.) examines the legacy and lasting impact of Carson's passionate environmental work. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
Kirkus Star EVERY LOVE STORY IS A GHOST STORY: A LIFE OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
by D.T. Max
"A stellar biography of a complicated subject: Max's portrait skillfully unites Wallace's external and internal lives."
A thorough, understated account of the life of the pioneering author and how his addictions and fiction intersected. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
Kirkus Star THE VOYEURS
by Gabrielle Bell, illustrated by Gabrielle Bell
"Playfully drawn and provocatively written, the memoir reinforces Bell's standing among the first rank of the genre's artists."
"Graphic memoir" only hints at the artistry of a complex, literary-minded author who resists the bare-all confessionalism so common to the genre and blurs the distinction between fiction and factual introspection. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
Kirkus Star HOW CHILDREN SUCCEED: RETHINKING CHARACTER AND INTELLIGENCE
by Paul Tough
"Well-written and bursting with ideas, this will be essential reading for anyone who cares about childhood in America."
Turning the conventional wisdom about child development on its head, New York Times Magazine editor Tough (Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America, 2008) argues that non-cognitive skills (persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit and self-confidence) are the most critical to success in school and life. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
Kirkus Star LINCOLN'S CODE: THE LAWS OF WAR IN AMERICAN HISTORY
by John Fabian Witt
"Truly remarkable, composed with all the precision and insight you expect from a law professor, marked by all the elegance and sparkling readability you don't."
Artfully mixing law, history and sharp analysis, a Yale law professor examines the persistent struggle to reconcile justice and humanitarianism in America's conduct of war. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2012
Kirkus Star A REAL EMOTIONAL GIRL: A MEMOIR ABOUT CANCER, DEATH, GRIEF, AND MOVING FORWARD
by Tanya Chernov
"A contemplative, profoundly moving meditation on life, love and death."
In her debut, Los Angeles Review poetry and translations editor Chernov probes her grief over losing a much-loved father and the inability of contemporary society to accept profound emotion. Read full book review >