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July 2025: New Adult Nonfiction

A listing of new adult nonfiction books published in July.

Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County

11 items

  • In 2024, award-winning reporters Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf bring us the definitive, inside story of the most tumultuous and consequential presidential campaign in our history.
    Book, 20250708Penguin Press 20250708
  • From the author of The Ground Breaking, longlisted for the National Book Award, comes a riveting saga of the last year of the Civil War—and a revealing new account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
    Book, 20250715Dutton 20250715
  • From the New York Times bestselling Kennedy historian and author of Jackie: Public, Private, Secret comes the other side of the story―her husband’s: JFK: Public, Private, Secret.
    Book, 20250715St. Martin's Press 20250715
  • A debut essay collection by the inimitable cultural critic Maris Kreizman—an introspective, searing account of the life experiences that have pushed this former “good Democrat” even further to the political left.
    Book, 20250701Ecco Press 20250701
  • A news-making and electrifying portrait of sports phenomenon Caitlin Clark, whose dramatic ascendance in college basketball and now in the WNBA has captured the attention of media and fans unlike any other female team-sport athlete in history.
    Book, 20250708Scribner Book Company 20250708
  • In 1928, a young social worker and hobby pilot named Amelia Earhart arrived in the office of George Putnam, heir to the Putnam & Sons throne and hitmaker, on the hunt for the right woman for a secret flying mission across the Atlantic. A…
    Book, 20250715Viking 20250715
  • Empire of AI

    Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

    Hao, Karen,
    From a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman's OpenAI from the beginning, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshaping the planet in real time, from the cockpit of…
    Book, 2025New York : Penguin Press, 2025. — 006.3 HAO
  • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Disappearing Spoon , a romp through the entire history of humankind-from 75,000 B.C. to the dawn of the modern age.
    Book, 20250708Little Brown and Company 20250708
  • The murders of four innocent college students attending the University of Idaho left us all with so many questions. Now, after more than 300 interviews, James Patterson and prize-winning journalist Vicky Ward finally have some answers.
    Book, 20250714Little Brown and Company 20250714