Welcome to the last nonfiction roundup of 2019. Publishing has slowed down for the end of the year but there are still several interesting new nonfiction titles that you should consider checking out! For a more extensive list of what’s coming out this month check our catalog.
Top Picks
“This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Medical Resident” by Adam Kay
Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a first-year doctor. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay’s “This Is Going to Hurt” provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the front lines of medicine. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns, this is everything you wanted to know — and more than a few things you didn’t — about life on and off the hospital ward. And yes, it may leave a scar.
“If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood” by Gregg Olsen
After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word “mom,” it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now. For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Even as others were drawn into their mother’s dark and perverse web, the sisters found the strength and courage to escape an escalating nightmare that culminated in multiple murders.
“Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating” by Christy Harrison
68 percent of Americans have dieted at some point in their lives. But upwards of 90% of people who intentionally lose weight gain it back within five years. And as many as 66% of people who embark on weight-loss efforts end up gaining more weight than they lost. If dieting is so clearly ineffective, why are we so obsessed with it? The culprit is diet culture, a system of beliefs that equates thinness to health and moral virtue, promotes weight loss as a means of attaining higher status, and demonizes certain ways of eating while elevating others. It’s sexist, racist, and classist, yet this way of thinking about food and bodies is so embedded in the fabric of our society that it can be hard to recognize. It masquerades as health, wellness, and fitness, and for some, it is all-consuming. In “Anti-Diet,” Christy Harrison takes on diet culture and the multi-billion-dollar industries that profit from it, exposing all the ways it robs people of their time, money, health, and happiness.
More Interesting New Releases for December
- “How Not to Diet: The Groundbreaking Science of Healthy, Permanent Weight Loss” by Michael Greger
- “Fix It with Food: More Than 125 Recipes to Address Autoimmune Issues and Inflammation: A Cookbook” by Michael Symon
- “Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington’s Mother” by Craig Shirley
- “Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything” by B.J. Fogg
