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Children Under Fire: An American Crisis
By John Woodrow Cox
MARCH | ECCO | $28.99
Cox shines a light on America’s gun violence crisis through deeply personal and profoundly affecting stories of the children who live with its everlasting repercussions.
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
By Suleika Jaouad | February | Random House | $28
Jaouad’s memoir begins where most others end: she’s come out on the other side of an earth-shattering cancer diagnosis, and doctors pronounce her cured. Embarking on a 15,000-mile road trip across America, she sets out to meet the strangers she connected with while in the hospital.
Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods
By Amelia Pang
FEBRUARY | ALGO N QUIN BOOKS | $27.95
Investigative journalist Pang scrutinizes the labor practices behind the fast fashion and cheap goods we consume daily by following the life of Sun
Yi, a Chinese engineer and political prisoner who secreted an “SOS” note into a Kmart-bound Halloween decoration.
Social Chemistry: Decoding the Patterns of Human Connection
By Marissa King
JANUARY | DUTTON | $28
Yale professor King deftly explores human connections and social networks, both professional and personal, and how we can identify our own styles and benefit from them during even the most fractured of times.
Come Fly the World: The Jet-age Story of the Women of Pan Am
By Julia Cooke | March | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | $28
At the height of Pan Am’s heyday, a stewardess was required to be under 26, 105–140 pounds and between 5'3" and 5'9". Cooke takes us behind-the-scenes of all this and more in the nascent jet age, from Saigon to Hong Kong and back, through the eyes of these sky-bound women.
Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes
By Gabrielle Korn
JANUARY | ATRIA BOOKS | $17
Former Nylon editor in chief Korn’s wry and resonant collection of essays peels back the curtain on fashion media and being a woman in the age of social media in a way that’s both vulnerable and empowering.
Changes: An Oral History of Tupac Shakur
By Sheldon Pearce | June | Simon & Schuster | $28
Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Tupac’s birth and the 25th anniversary of his death, Changes is a history unlike any other, told with breathtaking sincerity by the people who knew him in life.
Troubled: The Failed Promise of America’s Behavioral Treatment Programs
By Kenneth R. Rosen
JANUARY | LITTLE A. | $24.95
Newsweek’s own Rosen draws on his own experience and more than 100 interviews in this brutally frank expose of America’s “tough love” programs, following four graduates on their journey to adulthood and revealing the disturbing truth about the redirection industry.
Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer
By Harold Schechter
MARCH | LITTLE A. | $24.95
A shocking but littleremembered tragedy unfolded at a primary school in Michigan one day in 1927—leaving 38 children and six adults dead. With careful research and captivating scenes, Schechter probes how echoes of the massacre reverberate even today.
Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit our Addictions
By Michael Moss
MARCH | RANDOM HOUSE | $28
The bestselling author of Salt Sugar Fat lays bare the depths of the processed food industry, how our behavior is altered by addictive foods and the dangers that lie in wait surrounding the food that we eat.
Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob
By Russell Shorto
FEBRUARY | W.W. NORTON & COMPANY | $26.95
Shorto finally turns a key in the proverbial locked drawer of his family’s chest, only to find a web of mob figures waiting to tell their story. He brings us along from New York to California and places in between as the story of his family’s hidden figures vividly unfolds.
So Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin’ True Story of the New York Mets—the Best Worst Team in Sports
By Devin Gordon | March | Harper | $27.99
Lifelong fan Gordon puts together a delightful history of the Mets that’s just like the National League team itself: inspiring, heartbreakingly hilarious, miraculous and all around amazin’.