new nonfiction

Here are some recently published and soon-to-be-published nonfiction titles, both hardcover and paperbacks.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity By Katherine Boo Cover Image
$27.00
This book has been declared out of stock indefinitely, so we are unlikely to be able to get it.
ISBN: 9781400067558
Published: Random House - February 7th, 2012

Steve Jobs By Walter Isaacson Cover Image
$38.00
ISBN: 9781451648539
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Simon & Schuster - October 24th, 2011

Bossypants By Tina Fey Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780316056878
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Back Bay Books - January 3rd, 2012

Thinking, Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman Cover Image
$36.00
ISBN: 9780374275631
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - October 25th, 2011

What It Is Like to Go to War By Karl Marlantes Cover Image
$25.00
ISBN: 9780802119926
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Atlantic Monthly Press - August 30th, 2011

Nonfiction title by the author of the bestselling novel Matterhorn, about Vietnam. (The author grew up in Seaside, Oregon!)


The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer By Siddhartha Mukherjee Cover Image
$22.00
ISBN: 9781439170915
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Scribner - August 9th, 2011

Up the Capitol Steps: A Woman's March to the Governorship By Barbara Roberts Cover Image
$24.95
ISBN: 9780870716102
Availability: On Our Shelves Now as of 24 Hours Ago. Call first to confirm.
Published: Oregon State University Press - October 1st, 2011

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World By Michael Lewis Cover Image
$25.95
This book has been declared out of stock indefinitely, so we are unlikely to be able to get it.
ISBN: 9780393081817
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - October 3rd, 2011

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created By Charles C. Mann Cover Image
$35.00
This book has been declared out of stock indefinitely, so we are unlikely to be able to get it.
ISBN: 9780307265722
Published: Knopf - August 9th, 2011

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History By S. C. Gwynne Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781416591061
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Scribner - May 10th, 2011

Drawing From Memory By Allen Say, Allen Say (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Allen Say, Allen Say (Illustrator)
$24.99
ISBN: 9780545176866
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Scholastic Press - September 1st, 2011

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin By Erik Larson Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780307408846
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Crown - May 10th, 2011

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen By Christopher McDougall Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780307279187
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Vintage - March 29th, 2011

Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life By Michael Moore Cover Image
$28.34
This book has been declared out of stock indefinitely, so we are unlikely to be able to get it.
ISBN: 9780446532242
Published: Grand Central Publishing - September 13th, 2011

Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships By Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780061707810
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Harper Perennial - July 5th, 2011

Ryan read at our store last summer to a standing-room-only crowd from his book on the ancient roots of human sexuality. Now out in paperback.


The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements By Sam Kean Cover Image
$21.99
ISBN: 9780316051637
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Back Bay Books - June 6th, 2011

Interestingly, books on the periodic table have been hot hot hot lately. Kean's is now available in paperback.


Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy By Caroline Kennedy (Foreword by), Michael Beschloss (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Caroline Kennedy (Foreword by), Michael Beschloss (Introduction by)
$60.00
This book has been declared out of stock indefinitely, so we are unlikely to be able to get it.
ISBN: 9781401324254
Published: Hyperion - September 14th, 2011

At Home: A Short History of Private Life By Bill Bryson Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780767919395
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Anchor - October 4th, 2011

Following Ezra: What One Father Learned About Gumby, Otters, Autism, and Love From His Extraordi nary Son By Tom Fields-Meyer Cover Image
$15.00
This book has been declared out of stock indefinitely, so we are unlikely to be able to get it.
ISBN: 9780451234636
Published: Berkley - September 6th, 2011