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Adult Nonfiction Titles
Alamance County: A County at War by Don Bolden
American Refugee: true stories of the refugee experience by Diya Abdo
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a year of food life by Barbara Kingsolver
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
Beyond Innocence by Phoebe Zerwick
Black Boy Out of Time by Hari Ziyad
Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy Tyson
The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Choosing Civility by P.N. Forni
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satra
Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Elephant Company by Vicki Croke
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
The Gift Best Given by Edward Di Gangi
The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Hungry Roots by Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo
Mattie, Milo, and Me by Anne Abel
North of Normal by Cea Sunrise Person
The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women
The Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts
Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
So Happiness to Meet You by Karin Esterhammer
Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County by Kristen Green
Song in a Weary Throat by Pauli Murray
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
The Stranger in the Woods: the extraordinary story of the last true hermit by Michael Finkel
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
The Three-Year Swim Club by Julie Checkoway
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Way of Tenderness by Zenju Earthlyn
Welcome to the Circus of Baseball by Ryan McGee
The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel