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New Adult Non-Fiction: May 2025

Check Out These New Adult Non-Fiction Titles For May 2025. - April MCFL

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  • What My Father and I Don't Talk About

    Sixteen Writers Break the Silence

    A follow-up to the wildly successful What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About, this collection of essays from sixteen notable writers breaks the silence on the complex—and sometimes contentious—relationships we have with our fathers. What My Mother…
    Book, 2025New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025
  • Who Deserves Your Love

    How to Create Boundaries to Start, Strengthen, or End Any Relationship

    Davis, KC,
    A gentle approach to hard relationships, this is a new, practical approach to relationships from celebrated therapist KC Davis. She will help you determine which relationships are right for you—and which are not—and what to do about them. Is love…
    Book, 2025New York : Simon Element, [2025]
  • Lessons From My Teachers

    From Preschool to the Present

    Ruhl, Sarah, 1974-
    An inspiring meditation on the life-altering bonds between teacher and student and the ineffable wisdom imparted both inside and outside the classroom, from critically acclaimed author, MacArthur genius, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Tony…
    Book, 2025New York : Marysue Rucci Books, 2025
  • Ocean

    Earth's Last Wilderness

    Attenborough, David, 1926-
    Award-winning broadcaster and natural historian David Attenborough and longtime collaborator Colin Butfield present a powerful call to action focused on our planet's oceans, exploring how critical this habitat is for the survival of humanity and the…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, 2025
  • Detoxify

    the Everyday Toxins Harming Your Immune System and How to Defend Against Them

    Cohen, Aly, 1973-
    Help relieve chronic illness and holistically bolster your immune system by minimizing exposure to immune-disrupting chemicals, with this approachable, revolutionary book and 21-day program from integrative rheumatologist Dr. Aly Cohen. Immune…
    Book, 2025New York : Simon Element, 2025
  • The Crucial Years

    the Essential Guide to Mental Health & Modern Puberty in Middle Childhood (ages 6-12)

    Ziegler, Sheryl,
    An essential guide for parents and caregivers, this book offers insights, strategies, and understanding to navigate middle childhood (ages 6–12). Dr. Sheryl Gonzalez Ziegler, a seasoned clinical psychologist and mother, highlights ways to foster…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Harvest, an imprint of William Morrow, 2025
  • Super Agers

    An Evidence-based Approach to Longevity

    Topol, Eric J., 1954-
    Super Agers is a detailed guide to a revolution transforming human longevity. This is a breakthrough moment in the history of human health care. The person making that bold claim is one of the most respected medical researchers in the world, Eric…
    Book, 2025New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025
  • Apocalypse

    How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures

    Wade, Lizzie,
    A richly imagined new view on the great human tradition of apocalypse, from the rise of Homo sapiens to the climate instability of our present, that defies conventional wisdom and long-held stories about our deep past to reveal how cataclysmic…
    Book, 2025New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2025
  • The #1 Dad Book

    Be the Best Dad You Can Be--in 1 Hour!

    Patterson, James, 1947-
    “Funny and wise … Important advice from a trusted source … This book will appeal to overwhelmed new dads looking for some reinforcement that they're doing okay.” –Booklist Dad, your new life begins in one hour. I did the homework, so you don’t…
    Book, 2025New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2025
  • Queen of All Mayhem

    the Blood-soaked Life & Mysterious Death of Belle Starr, the Most Dangerous Woman in the West

    Huckelbridge, Dane,
    A riveting, deeply researched, blood-on-the-spurs biography of Belle Starr, the most legendary female outlaw of the American West. On February 3, 1889, just two days shy of her forty-first birthday, Myra Maybelle Shirley—better known at that point…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025]
  • The Afterlife of Malcolm X

    An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America

    Whitaker, Mark,
    Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the first major study of Malcolm X’s influence in the sixty years since his assassination, exploring his enduring impact on culture, politics, and civil rights. Malcolm X has become…
    Book, 2025New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025
  • Lawless

    How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes

    Litman, Leah,
    Something is deeply rotten at the Supreme Court. How did we get here and what can we do about it? Crooked Media podcast host Leah Litman shines a light on the unabashed lawlessness embraced by conservative Supreme Court justices and shows us how to…
    Book, 2025New York : One Signal Publishers, Atria, [2025]
  • The Sailing of the Intrepid

    the Incredible Wartime Voyage of the Navy's Iconic Aircraft Carrier

    Williams, Montel,
    From twenty-two-year naval and marine veteran Montel Williams comes a page-turning history of how one World War II aircraft carrier’s crew defied all odds, redefining the very meaning of what it means to struggle, persevere and survive. 1944. The…
    Book, 2025Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2025]
  • Yet Here I Am

    Lessons From a Black Man's Search for Home

    Capehart, Jonathan,
    Pulitzer Prize winning writer, editor and TV host Jonathan Capehart recounts powerful stories from his life about embracing identity, picking battles, seizing opportunity and finding his voice. MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart is one of the most…
    Book, 2025New York : GCP, 2025
  • The Optimist

    Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future

    Hagey, Keach,
    From an acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter comes the first biography of the enigmatic leader of the AI revolution, charting his ascent within the tech world as well as his ambitions for this powerful new technology. On November 30, 2022, OpenAI…
    Book, 2025New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2025]
  • CRAVE

    CUPCAKES, CAKES, COOKIES, AND MORE FROM AN ICONIC BAKERY RELEASE DATE: 2025/05/06

    Jackson, Carolyne Mcintyre/ Willoughby, Jodi
    Crave brings 70+ recipes for all things sweet from the founders of the Prairies’ famous bakery. Growing up on the family farm near High River, Alberta, sisters Carolyne McIntyre Jackson and Jodi Willoughby were surrounded by talented bakers,…
    Book, 2025Pgw 2025
  • Melting Point

    Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land

    Cockerell, Rachel, 1994-
    A New York Times Most Anticipated Book. This dazzling, innovative family memoir tells the story of a long-lost plan to create a Jewish state in Texas. On June 7, 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews sets sail not to Jerusalem or New York, as…
    Book, 2025New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025
  • From “a writer who’s absolutely going places” (Roxane Gay), a remarkable, inventive debut memoir about a mother-daughter relationship across cycles of poverty, separation, and illness, exploring how we forge identity in the face of imminent…
    Book, 2025New York : Scribner, 2025
  • Second Life

    Having a Child in the Digital Age

    Hess, Amanda (Journalist),
    As an internet culture critic for The New York Times, Amanda Hess had built a reputation among readers as a sharp observer of the seductions and manipulations of online life. But when Hess discovered she was pregnant with her first child, she found…
    Book, 2025New York : Doubleday, 2025
  • Dirty Kitchen

    a Memoir of Food and Family

    Damatac, Jill,
    In the style of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings, filmmaker Jill Damatac blends memoir, food writing, and colonial history as she cooks her way through recipes from her native-born Philippines and shares stories of her undocumented family in…
    Book, 2025New York : One Signal Publishers, Atria, 2025