New Nonfiction Releases
December 2011

These books are being published and released this month. They have been ordered by the Library and will be available soon.

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• Biography and Memoir 
• General Nonfiction

Biography & Memoir

Brothers (And Me): A Memoir of Loving and Giving
By Donna Britt
This memoir of a former Washington Post columnist describes her relationships with all the men in her life, including her father, three brothers, two husbands, three sons and many friends, and tries to determine why she always puts their needs above her own.

The Diary of a Player: How My Musical Heroes Made a Guitar Man Out of Me
By Brad Paisley with David Wild
Deeply personal and revealing, country music’s biggest superstar shares what music means to him, who inspired his love of music, and memorable stories about the many great players in the business he has encountered over the years.

Mr. CSI: How a Vegas Dreamer Made a Killing in Hollywood, One Body at a Time
By Anthony Zuiker
The creator of the popular TV show, CSI, explores the death of his father and his own unlikely rise in Hollywood.

Soulacoaster: The Diary of Me
By R. Kelly with David Ritz
The three-time Grammy Award-winning R&B producer best known for such hits as “I Believe I Can Fly” and “Ignition” traces the story of his life and career, describing his battle with a learning disorder, his collaborations with such icons as Michael Jackson and Aretha Franklin, and his difficulties with life-threatening personal and legal challenges.

The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World
By Derek Chollet and Samantha Power
A book that includes Richard Holbrooke’s own writings as well as reflections by friends and colleagues looks at the life of a master American diplomat who worked for Presidents Clinton and Obama in locations from Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

General Nonfiction

Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World
By The Dalai Lama
A follow-up to the best-selling Ethics for a New Millennium outlines a system of secular ethics that both transcends religion and incorporates religious tolerance for the overall improvement of human life on individual, community, and global levels, offering an accompanying guided meditation practice for cultivating key human values.

Blah, Blah, Blah: What to Do When Words Don’t Work
By Dan Roam
The author of the award-winning The Back of the Napkin outlines effective strategies for preventing vocabulary misuse and overuse, explaining how to apply his “vivid thinking” principles to improve learning, share ideas, and overcome specific obstacles to productivity.

The Book of (Holiday) Awesome: When the Christmas Lights All Work, Successfully Regifting a Present, Drinking with Grandma
By Neil Pasricha
The author of The Book of Awesome is back with a new collection that focuses on all the little, awesome things that make the holidays great.

Bowing to Beijing: How Barack Obama Is Hastening America’s Decline and Ushering a Century of Chinese Domination
By Brett Decker & William C. Triplett II
The authors argue that China’s rise toward global superpower status is leading to America’s decline and blame President Barack Obama for China’s success.

The Compound Effect
By Darren Hardy
Hardy offers a system for taking advantage of everyday decisions, and promises to help improve readers’ business lives, relationships, and other areas of daily life.

Full-Filled: The 6-Week Weight-Loss Plan for Changing Your Relationship With Food – and Your Life – From the Inside Out
By Renée Stephens with Samantha Rose
A practical reference by the host of the iTunes motivational podcast, Inside Out Weight Loss, outlines a step-by-step plan for promoting long-term fitness through awareness-raising coverage of such topics as the emotional components of weight gain and “trigger foods” that can influence health goals.

Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World’s Greatest Companies
By Jim Stengel
Stengel draws on nine years of empirical research with 50,000 companies to demonstrate how top-performing businesses in a range of fields have effectively connected with fundamental human emotions to improve financial performance, outlining an action framework that draws on the examples of leading businesses and management guidelines.

Being George Washington: The Indispensable Man, as You’ve Never Seen Him
By Glenn Beck
Combining biography and George Washington’s own writings with his definitive trademark insights, comments, and sidebars, the controversial TV host asserts that Washington’s beliefs and values are especially important as the 2012 election approaches.

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway
Edited by Sandra Spanier and Robert W. Trogdon
A collection for more than 6,000 letters written by Ernest Hemingway, beginning when he was 8 years old, includes notes passed to school friends, letters to family, exchanges with writers and editors, and reveals previously unknown correspondence.

Life Is Not a Reality Show: Keeping It Real With the Housewife Who Does it All!
By Kyle Richards
The star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills shares lifestyle advice based on her successful management of her home and family responsibilities, offering insight into how she achieved a healthy work/life balance without nannies, stylists, or personal chefs.

Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-45
By Neill Lochery
The author looks at Lisbon, Portugal’s role during World War II as the only European city in which both the Axis and Allies operated openly, and shows how the nation became a haven for exiled royalty, refugees, spies, secret police, bankers, prominent Jews, writers, artists, escaped POWs, and black marketeers, among others.

Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings and America’s First Imperial Adventure
By Julia Flynn Siler
Siler examines the 19th-century clash between the Polynesian people and the expanding capitalist powers of America, Britain, and France, centering on Lili’uokalani, the last queen of Hawaii.

Man Seeks God: My Flirtations With the Divine
By Eric Weiner
After a health scare, an atheist travels the world searching for an experience of the divine, from meditating with Tibetan lamas in Nepal and unblocking his chi in China, to studying the Kabbalah in Israel.

The Mayo Clinic Diabetes Diet: By the Weight-Loss Experts at Mayo Clinic
By The Mayo Clinic
A leading authority in health and nutrition lays out a step-by-step diet plan for losing weight and controlling Type 2 diabetes.

New: Understanding Our Need for Novelty & Change
By Winifred Gallagher
Offering insights into the mind’s psychological drive to pursue new things, Gallagher shares advice for “neophiliac” aficionados of new experiences about how to embrace today’s dynamic and creative culture while living sensibly and satisfyingly.

One on One: Behind the Scenes With the Greats in the Game
By John Feinstein
The popular sports commentator for NPR and CBS describes his most interesting encounters with coaching greats and sports legends, including Bob Knight, Joe Torre, Jack Nicklaus, Ivan Lendl, and Mary Carillo.

The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan
By Michael Hastings
Following his  Rolling Stone expose that may have contributed to the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal, the author offers his uncensored insights and analysis of the United States’ involvement in Afghanistan.

The Petite Advantage: Achieve That Long, Lean Look. The Specialized Plan for Women 5’4” and Under
By Jim Karas
Tailored to the needs of petite women, a weight-loss guide explains how to make the most of a shorter body’s capacity for rapid change, outlining a three-week eating and cardio plan that challenges conventional methods.

SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama bin Laden
By Chuck Pfarrer
A former assault element commander of SEAL Team Six and author of the best-selling Warrior Soul: The Memoir of a Navy SEAL shares never-before-revealed details in his thorough account of the raid that took down Osama bin Laden.

Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
By Sam Sommers
A lighthearted exploration of the unconscious forces that influence a life reveals the unrecognized power of context in everyday situations while sharing recommendations for using contextual insights to reshape how one sees the world and improve personal productivity and relationships.

Smart Trust: Creating Prosperity, Energy, and Joy in a Low-Trust World
By Stephen M. R. Covey
Building on the philosophies introduced in the best-selling The Speed of Trust, Covey counsels professionals on how to promote trustworthy relationships in a time of extreme distrust, sharing hundreds of international examples about individuals, teams, and organizations that have reaped the benefits of establishing trust in their business dealings.

Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Cooperation
By Richard Sennett
Sennett discusses why people tend to avoid social situations with those unlike themselves and offers a path toward greater interaction between people of different races, ethnicities, religions, and economic classes.

Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy
By Joan Magretta
Enjoying full cooperation of Porter himself, including an original Q&A section, Magretta examines and explains Porter’s revolutionary business frameworks.

What Is Health?
By David Agus
Agus challenges popular conceptions to outline new methods for promoting wellness and longevity, arguing that traditional medicine has not been successful in treating serious illness while urging readers to embrace a systemic understanding of the body that incorporates the use of revolutionary technologies.

World Changers: 25 Entrepreneurs Who Changed Business as We Knew It
By John A. Byrne
A compelling collection of interviews with the best and brightest entrepreneurs who have changed the way we live – from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to Howard Schultz of Starbucks.

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