Here is a quick look at the most noteworthy nonfiction titles being released this February. Visit our catalog for a more extensive list.
Top Picks
“Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier’s First Gunfighter” by Tom Clavin
In July 1865, “Wild Bill” Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO– the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation that made him a marked man to every gunslinger in the Wild West. The legend of Wild Bill has only grown since his death in 1876, when cowardly Jack McCall famously put a bullet through the back of his head during a card game. Bestselling author Tom Clavin has sifted through years of western lore to bring Hickok fully to life in this rip-roaring, spellbinding true story.
“The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations” by Toni Morrison
“The Source of Self-Regard” is brimming with all the elegance of mind and style, the literary prowess and moral compass that are Toni Morrison’s inimitable hallmark. It is divided into three parts: the first is introduced by a powerful prayer for the dead of 9/11; the second by a searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., and the last by a heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. In the writings and speeches included here, Morrison takes on contested social issues: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, “black matter(s),” and human rights. She looks at enduring matters of culture: the role of the artist in society, the literary imagination, the Afro-American presence in America literature, and in her Nobel lecture, the power of language itself.
“No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Dedliest Animal in History” by Dane Huckelbridge
Nepal, c. 1900: The single deadliest animal in recorded history began stalking humans, moving like a phantom through the lush foothills of the Himalayas. As the death toll reached an astonishing 436 lives, a young local hunter was dispatched to stop the now-legendary man-eater before it struck again. One part pulse-pounding thriller, one part soulful natural history of the endangered Royal Bengal tiger, Dane Huckelbridge’s “No Beast So Fierce” is the gripping, true account of the Champawat Tiger, which terrified northern India and Nepal from 1900 to 1907, and Jim Corbett, the Legendary hunter who pursued it.
Best of the Rest
- “Parkland: Birth of a Movement” by Dave Cullen
- “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland” by Patrick Radden Keefe
- “Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe” by Roger McNamee
- “The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life” by Katy Butler
