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Adult Fiction Coming Soon
Adult Bestsellers Coming Soon

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Pears, Iain

Biography

An extraordinary love story of two unlikely figures played out against the backdrop of the Cold War.

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Strauss, Gwen

Biography

A profoundly moving celebration of love under the darkest of circumstances
 

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Boin, Douglas

Biography

A thrilling new history of the late Roman Republic, told through one woman's quest for justice.

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West, Kevin

Cooking

From the critically acclaimed author of Saving the Season comes an accessible, comprehensive, and inspiring guide to growing your own garden and incorporating homegrown produce into everyday cooking—no matter how much or how little space you have.
 

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Galvez, Edith

Cooking

Easy, mouthwatering comfort food and mostly Mexican-American recipes from one of social media’s biggest stars.
 

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Kellett, Rosie

Cooking

101 delicious and achievable, budget-friendly, vegetable-forward recipes made for communal eating and entertaining, from food writer, chef, and supper club host Rosie Kellett.
 

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Zeinali, Patrick

Cooking

Save time and delight your taste buds with 80 delicious recipes from internet chef and quick-and-easy expert Patrick Zeinali

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Norris, Denne Michele

Essays

Inspired by the groundbreaking Electric Literature series, a vital essay anthology spotlighting and celebrating trans and gender-nonconforming writers of color.

 

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Boggs, Nicholas

Literary Biography

Baldwin: A Love Story tells the overlapping stories of Baldwin's most sustaining intimate and artistic relationships: with his mentor, the Black American painter Beauford Delaney; with his lover and muse, the Swiss painter Lucien Happersberger; and with his collaborators, the famed Turkish actor Engin Cezzar and the iconoclastic French artist Yoran Cazac.

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Morris, Susana M

Literary Biography

A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work.

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Newton, Jim

Music Biography

A kaleidoscopic history of the Grateful Dead that explores the American counterculture through the life of iconoclastic frontman Jerry Garcia, and his merry band
 

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Carlin, Peter Ames

Music History

A fascinating behind-the-scenes account of the making of Bruce Springsteen’s ground-breaking album, Born to Run – one of the most iconic records in rock history – Tonight in Jungleland combines lush music writing with unprecedented inside access to Springsteen, his bandmates, and the full story behind every song… and coincides with the album’s 50th anniversary in August 2025.
 

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Deville, Chris

Music History

The definitive history of indie rock—from Iron & Wine and Death Cab for Cutie to Fiona Apple and St. Vincent—and how the genre shifted the musical landscape and shaped a generation
 

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Queen, Khadijah

Memoirs

We stay fighting, even if we don't call it war.
 

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Uhle, Amanda

Memoirs

For fans of The Glass Castle and The Liars’ Club, a tender, heartbreaking, and hilarious memoir chronicling the challenges of growing up with a desperately scheming father, a mother plagued by an acute hoarding disorder, and parenting parents while seeking independence.
 

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Yu, Kaila

Memoirs

A deeply personal memoir-in-essays from former pinup model and lead singer of Nylon Pink Kaila Yu, reckoning with being an object of Asian fetishism and how media, pop culture, and colonialism contributed to the oversexualization of Asian women.
 

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Antrobus, Raymond

Memoirs

A groundbreaking exploration of deafness by a young award-winning poet—a memoir, a cultural history, and a call to action
 

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Tenore Tarpley, Mallary

Memoirs

Written by journalist and professor at the University of Texas-Austin Mallary Tenore Tarpley, Slip offers a groundbreaking framework for understanding eating disorder recovery and interweaves poignant personal stories, immersive reporting, and cutting-edge science.
 

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Hercules, Olia

Memoirs

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, award-winning Ukrainian chef and food writer Olia Hercules decided it was finally time to tell her story.

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Slutty Cheff

Memoirs

A hilarious, hot, and steamy account of coming of age in and out of the kitchen, from the anonymous chef and columnist, Slutty Cheff.
 

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Price, Kate

Memoirs

For readers of Educated, The Glass Castle, and Know My Name comes a powerful new memoir that is a remarkable testament of survival and resilience. At once harrowing and exquisite, haunting and inspiring, Kate Price’s story will leave readers with a profound assurance in the power to heal.
 

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Caldwell, Chloe

Memoirs

From the author of the bestselling Women, a living document of disenfranchised grief and queer reawakening

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Stoner, Alyson

Memoirs

Alyson Stoner's memoir—from family and eating issues to religious trauma—begins in Hollywood, but its chilling relatability will impact anyone navigating identity, purpose, and mental health
 

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Toews, Miriam

Memoirs

Internationally bestselling author Miriam Toews' memoir of the will to write-a work of disobedient memory, humor, and exquisite craft set against a content-hungry, prose-stuffed society.

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Thomas, Michael

Memoirs

From Reconstruction, to Jim Crow and the Civil Rights movement, Thomas explores fathers and sons, lovers and beloved, trauma and recovery, race and de-racination in a beautifully unique memoir.

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Hazell, Keeley

Memoirs

A fierce and funny essay collection exploring the relationship between class and feminism, sexual politics, and the power of writing your own story; from the former Page Three model who inspired the iconic Ted Lasso character Keeley Jones.
 

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Tilghman, Lee

Memoirs

A powerful and illuminating memoir that exposes the stark and rarely-seen reality of influencing as a career.
 

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Mescudi, Scott Kid Cudi

Memoirs

A raw, fearless memoir from the Grammy Award-winning artist, actor, and designer Kid Cudi about a kid from Cleveland who found purpose in the darkness and became a guiding light for a generation.

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Brandin, Ash

Parenting

From "The Gamer Educator", an openminded guide to parenting alongside screens and gaming, offering practical solutions to managing your family's screen time.​
 

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Foster, Nick

Philosophy

This is a book about the future. But it's not another one of those books that tries to tell you about what the future will be; it's a book about how we think about the future. It examines the origins, strengths, and weaknesses of each mode of thought through interesting asides, historical references, and tales from Foster himself.

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Purcell, Sebastian

Philosophy

A practical and eye-opening guide to the Aztec philosophy on how to live.

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Wang, Dan

Political Science

A riveting, firsthand investigation of China's seismic progress, its human costs, and what it means for America.

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Fugelsang, John

Political Science

In the spirit of George Carlin and Christopher Hitchens, the son of a former Catholic nun and a Franciscan brother delivers a deeply irreverent and biblically correct takedown of far-right Christian hatred—a book for believers, atheists, agnostics, and anyone who’ll ever have to deal with a Christian nationalist.
 

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Dabhoiwala, Fara

Political Science

Fara Dabhoiwala argues that free speech, though a central democratic value, owes its origin and evolution less to high-minded ideals than to venal interests. Shaped by greed, technological change, and the insoluble challenges of slander and falsehood, free speech is inherently contradictory--both a basis of liberty and a weapon of the powerful.

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McKibben, Bill

Science

From the acclaimed environmentalist, a call to harness the power of the sun and rewrite our scientific, economic, and political future.

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Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste

Science

The radical, paradigm-shifting international bestseller that destroys our delusions about energy consumption and will change the way we talk about climate change.

 

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Berman, Marc

Science

From the acclaimed founder of environmental neuroscience, Dr. Marc Berman, comes a groundbreaking guide that reveals how interacting with nature can be the secret to improved mental and physical health.
 

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Beekman, Madeleine

Science

In a radical new story about the birth of our species, The Origin of Language argues that it was not hunting, fighting, or tool-making that forced early humans to speak, but the inescapable need to care for our children.
 

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Brannen, Peter

Science

How carbon dioxide made planet Earth, shaped human history, and now holds our future in the balance.

 

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Josephson, Meg

Self Help

From psychotherapist and social media star Meg Josephson, a groundbreaking “cure for chronic people-pleasing” (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that explores the common survival instinct called fawning and offers “explanations, comfort, and best of all, solutions” (Christie Tate, New York Times bestselling author).
 

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Leaf, Caroline

Self Help

Your mental health matters! Addressing the most common challenges we all face in this life, this practical guide from a bestselling author, speaker, and neuroscientist offers actionable and evidence-based strategies to help you cope in the moment, fight overwhelm, and experience a better, more fulfilled life.

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Baron, David

Social Science

Long before NASA began contemplating a visit to our neighboring world, a turn-of-the-century Mars craze invaded the public's imagination, here thrillingly retold in David Baron's The Martians.
 

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Walter, Shoshana

Social Science

Pulitzer finalist Shoshana Walter exposes the country’s failed response to the opioid crisis, and the malfeasance, corruption, and snake oil which blight the drug rehabilitation industry.
 

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Ray, Ranita

Social Science

A powerful exposé of the American public education system's indifference toward marginalized children and the "slow violence" that fashions schools into hostile work and learning environments.
 

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Walton, Johnathan

True Crime

These are the 14 red flags to spot the scammer in your life before they con you—from a victim-turned-vigilante and host of the hit podcast Queen of the Con.
 

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Stein, Samantha

True Crime

Written from a never-before-seen perspective, a real-life Mindhunter’s provocative true crime memoir takes readers inside the prison interview room—and the minds—of serious sex offenders, as she assesses the fates of those charged with the most disturbing acts imaginable.
 

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Harp, Seth

True Crime

A groundbreaking investigation into a string of unsolved murders at America’s premier special operations base, and what the crimes reveal about drug trafficking and impunity among elite soldiers in today’s military
 

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Gayle, Caleb

US History

The remarkable story of Edward McCabe, a Black man who tried to establish a Black state within the United States.
 

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McKissack Daniel, Cheryl

US History

The riveting story of the McKissack family—the founders of the leading Black design and construction firm in the United States, from its beginnings in the mid-1800s to its thriving status today—in a moving celebration of resilience and innovation.
 

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Wright, Jennifer

US History

From the author of Madame Restell and Get Well Soon, a biography of Mamie Fish that explores how women used parties and social gatherings to gain power and prestige.
 

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Graff, Garrett M

US History

On the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, the Pulitzer Prize finalist whose work is “oral history at its finest” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) delivers an epic narrative of the atomic bomb’s creation and deployment, woven from the voices of hundreds of scientists, generals, soldiers, and civilians.
 

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Hutton, Paul Andrew

US History

From the author of The Apache Wars, the true story of the American West, revealing how American ambition clashed with the realities of violence and exploitation.
 

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Cozzens, Peter

US History

Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West is the first book dedicated the story of early Deadwood. It also probes timeless subjects such as race and sex, crime and punishment, religion and recreation, and everyday life in a manner that will immerse readers in the sights, sounds, tastes, and smells of the frontier West.

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Okeowo, Alexis

US History

From a New Yorker staff writer and PEN Award winner, a blend of memoir, history, and reportage on one of the most complex and least understood states in America.
 

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Mahler, Jonathan

US History

A sweeping chronicle of four tumultuous years in 1980s New York that changed the city forever—and anticipated the forces that would soon divide the nation
 

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Queeney, Tim

World History

A unique and compelling adventure through the history of rope and its impact on civilization, in the vein of single-subject bestsellers like Salt and Cod
 

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Seierstad, Asne

World History

From the internationally bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul, an expansive, deeply felt portrait of Afghanistan, examining the human cost of wars fought, lost, and won.

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Sheftall, M G

World History

The second volume in a prize-worthy two-book series based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors about each of the atomic bomb drops, first in Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, that hastened the end of the Pacific War.

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Al-Rashid, Moudhy

World History

Humanity's earliest efforts at recording and drawing meaning from history reveal how lives millennia ago were not so different from our own.

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Strauss, Barry

World History

A new history of two centuries of Jewish revolts against the Roman Empire, drawing on recent archeological discoveries and new scholarship by leading historian Barry Strauss.
 

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Anderson, Scott

World History

A stunningly revelatory narrative history of one of the most momentous events in modern times, the jaw-dropping stupidity of the American government, and the dawn of the age of religious nationalism.

Summaries provided by DPL's catalog unless otherwise noted. Click on each title to view more information.