National Book Awards: Nonfiction
The National Book Awards are given to recognize achievements in four genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature.
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Staff PickBetween the world and me2015
Summary: "For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he,... more »- place hold (0)
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Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America2016
Summary: Americans like to insist that we are living in a postracial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as... more »- place hold (0)
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Master Of The Senate2010
Summary: The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his... more »- place hold ()
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The making of the atomic bomb2012
Summary: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award TWENTY-FIVE YEARS after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the seminal... more »- place hold (0)
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Age of ambition : chasing fortune, truth, and faith in the new China2014
Summary: "A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation From abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly... more »- place hold (0)
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The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X2020
Summary: An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long... more »- place hold (0)
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Just kids2010
Summary: In this memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of New York City : the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's and Strand bookstores and her new life in... more »- place hold (0)
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The year of magical thinking2005
Summary: Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage -- and a life, in good times and bad -- that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or... more »- place hold (0)
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Behind the beautiful forevers2012
Summary: The dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this fast-paced book, based on three years of... more »- place hold (0)
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In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex2001
Summary: In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage to hunt whales. Fifteen months later the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. Fearing cannibals on the islands... more »- place hold (0)
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The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl2006
Summary: "The Worst Hard Time is an epic story of blind hope and endurance almost beyond belief; it is also, as Tim Egan has told it, a riveting tale of bumptious charlatans, conmen, and tricksters,... more »- place hold (0)
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The swerve : how the world became modern2011
Summary: In this book the author transports readers to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from... more »- place hold (0)
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The yellow house2019
Summary: Sarah M. Broom's memoir tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities, New Orleans. This is the story of a... more »- place hold (0)
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The noonday demon : an atlas of depression2015
Summary: The author offers a look at depression in which he draws on his own battle with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, researchers, doctors, and others to assess the complexities of the... more »- place hold (0)
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Legacy Of Ashes2008
Summary: With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left... more »- place hold ()
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The unwinding : an inner history of the new America2013
Summary: Through an examination of the lives of several Americans and leading public figures over the past three decades, Packer portrays a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no... more »- place hold (0)
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How we die : reflections on life's final chapter1994
Summary: Attempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland explores how we shall die, each of us in a way that will be unique. Through particular stories of dying--of patients, and of his own... more »- place hold (0)
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The First Tycoon2009
Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDIn this groundbreakingbiography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon... more »- place hold ()
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The future is history : how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia2017
Summary: Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most powerful man in Russia" (The Wall Street Journal), award-winning journalist Masha Gessen is unparalleled in her understanding of the events and forces... more »- place hold (0)
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The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family2008
Summary: Historian and legal scholar Gordon-Reed presents this epic work that tells the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family, and their close blood ties to Thomas Jefferson.- place hold (0)
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All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake2021
Summary: In a display case in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture sits a rough cotton bag, called Ashley's Sack, embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a... more »- place hold (0)
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The new Negro : the life of Alain Locke2020
Summary: A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob... more »- place hold (0)
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