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E-AUDIOBOOKS
Amy Tan The opposite of fate : Memories of a writing life
Chang-rae Lee Aloft
Sebastian Smee The art of rivalry : Four friendships, betrayals, and breakthroughs in modern art
Vanessa Hua Deceit and other possibilities : stories
Marilyn Chase Everything she touched : the life of Ruth Asawa
John Kenney I see you've called in dead : a novel
Lisa Ko The leavers : a novel
Erika Lee The making of Asian America : a history
A S Byatt The Matisse stories
Jeff Yang RISE : a pop history of Asian America from the nineties to now
Lydia Millet Atavists : stories
Marie-Helene Bertino Exit zero : stories

EBOOKS
Dan Franck Bohemian Paris : Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the birth of modern art
Andria Lo Chinatown pretty : fashion and wisdom from Chinatown's most stylish seniors
Wayne Thiebaud Delicious metropolis : the desserts and urban scenes of Wayne Thiebaud
Alison Isenberg Designing San Francisco : art, land, and urban renewal in the City by the Bay
Marilyn Chase Everything she touched : the life of Ruth Asawa
Marie Bostwick The book club for troublesome women : A novel

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NON-FICTION

Applied Sciences
Edward Humes Total garbage : how we can fix our waste and heal our world 628.44 H922
Nirmala Nataraj Spacecraft and rockets : photographs from the archives of NASA 629.47 N273
Nicole Johnsey Burke The 5-minute gardener : year-round garden habits for busy people 635 B959
Olivia Laing The garden against time : in search of a common paradise 635 L187
Lindsay Sisti The ultimate guide to houseplant propagation : step-by-step techniques for making more houseplants . . . for free! 635.965 S623
Tommy Tomlinson Dogland : passion, glory, and lots of slobber at the Westminster Dog Show 636.7 T659
David E. W. Fenner The art and philosophy of the garden 635 F336

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Brian Eno What art does : an unfinished theory 701 E592
Eugène Atget A vision of Paris : the photographs of Eugène Atget : the words of Marcel Proust 770.92 A86v

Biography & Genealogy
Mayukh Sen Love, Queenie : Merle Oberon, Hollywood's first South Asian star 792.092 O12s
Amanda Knox Free : my search for meaning 364.152 K741
David Sheff Yoko : a biography 700.92 O589
Lee Hawkins I am nobody's slave : how uncovering my family's history set me free 305.896 H393
Jessica Hoppe First in the family : a story of survival, recovery, and the American dream 362.292 H798
Melissa Blake Beautiful people : my thirteen truths about disability 362.4092 B636
Tracy O'Neill Woman of interest : a memoir 362.73 O586
Carol Lynn Mithers Rethinking rescue : Dog Lady and the story of America's forgotten people and pets 636.7 M684
Fawn Weaver Love & whiskey : the remarkable true story of Jack Daniel, his master distiller Nearest Green, and the improbable rise of Uncle Nearest 663.52 W363
Graydon Carter When the going was good : an editor's adventures during the last golden age of magazines 070.4 C323
Lincoln Abraham Mitchell Three years our mayor : George Moscone and the making of modern San Francisco 979.461 M896

Business & Economics
Jennifer Moss Why are we here? : creating a work culture everyone wants 658.312 M913
Allen C. Benello Concentrated investing : strategies of the world's greatest concentrated value investors 332.6 B465
Melody Wilding Managing up : how to get what you need from the people in charge 658.45 W673
Ramit Sethi Money for couples : no more stress, no more fights, just a 10-step plan to create your rich life together 332.024 S75m

Chess
Zsuzsa Polgár A world champion's guide to chess : step-by-step instructions for winning chess the Polgar way! 794.1 P76w
Jeroen Bosch How to out-prepare your opponent : a complete guide to successful chess opening preparation 794.122 B742
Cyrus Lakdawala Clinch it! : how to convert an advantage into a win in Chess 794.12 L192c
Gerard Welling The Lasker method to improve in chess : a manual for modern-day club players 794.1 L352w
Joel Benjamin World champion chess for juniors : learn from the greatest players ever Child 794.15 B459

Computer Science
Christopher Summerfield These strange new minds : how AI learned to talk and what it means 006.3 S955
Anil Ananthaswamy Why machines learn : the elegant math behind modern AI 006.3 A533

Food & Drink
Sam Cooper The fermentation kitchen : recipes and techniques for kimchi, kombucha, kōji, and more 641.4 C778
Nadiya Hussain Cook once, eat twice : [time-saving recipes to help you get ahead in the kitchen] 641.555 H972
Sarah Ahn Umma : a Korean mom's kitchen wisdom & 100 family recipes 641.5951 A286

Health
Naomi Watts Dare I say it : everything I wish I'd known about menopause 618.1 W348
Ilana Jacqueline Medical gaslighting : how to get the care you deserve in a system that makes you fight for your life 362.1 J162
Julie Radico You will get through this : a mental health first-aid kit : help for depression, anxiety, grief, and more 616.89 R129
John Green Everything is tuberculosis : the history and persistence of our deadliest infection 616.995 G820

History
Arnold Hylen Los Angeles before the freeways : images of an era 1850-1950 979.494 H996
Russell Shorto Taking Manhattan : the extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America 974.71 S56t
Picturing Black history : photographs and stories that changed the world 973.0496 P611
Clay Risen Red Scare : blacklists, McCarthyism and the making of modern America 973.918 R595
Gary Krist Trespassers at the Golden Gate : a true account of love, murder, and madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco 979.461 K928
Rick Atkinson The fate of the day : the war for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 973.3 A878
Nancy Goldstone The rebel empresses : Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, power and glamour in the struggle for Europe 940.28 G624
Who is government? : the untold story of public service 351 W628
Randy Shaw The Tenderloin : sex, crime, and resistance in the heart of San Francisco 979.461 S535

Law
Leah Litman Lawless : how the Supreme Court runs on conservative grievance, fringe theories, and bad vibes 347.732 L776
Elie Mystal Bad law : ten popular laws that are ruining America 349.73 M999

Literature & Writing
Marcel Proust Marcel Proust : letters to his mother. 843 P968Le
Scaachi Koul Sucker punch : essays 814.6 K881
Ira Madison Pure innocent fun : essays 814.6 M182
Lauren Markham Immemorial 809.93 M345

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Thor Hanson Close to home : the wonders of nature just outside your door 577.56 H251

Performing Arts & Music
Liz Pelly Mood machine : the rise of Spotify and the costs of the perfect playlist 780.285 P392
Paul Lisicky Song so wild and blue : a life with the music of Joni Mitchell 782.421 L769
Christopher Small Musicking : the meanings of performing and listening 781.1 S635

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Richard. Rorty Contingency, irony, and solidarity 190 R787c
Pico Iyer Aflame : learning from silence 204.2 I97
Lydia Kang Pseudoscience : an amusing history of crackpot ideas and why we love them 001.9 K856
Melinda French Gates The next day : transitions, change, and moving forward 158.1 F873

Reference
Maxine Arnold. Vogely A Proust dictionary Ref 843 P968
Avi Wigderson Mathematics and computation : a theory revolutionizing technology and science 511.3 W654
Jörg Bewersdorff Luck, logic, and white lies : the mathematics of games 519.3 B572

Social Sciences & Current Events
Catherine Coleman Flowers Holy ground : on activism, environmental justice, and finding hope 363.7 F644
Sarah Jones Disposable : America's contempt for the underclass 305.56 J791
David Pakman The echo machine : how right-wing extremism created a post-truth America 306.2 P152
Vauhini Vara Searches : selfhood in the digital age 302.23 V287
Wendell Berry Why I am not going to buy a computer : essays 303.4834 B534
Siva Sankrithi Do brown cows make chocolate milk? : family experiences around child-led learning 371.042 S227
Dana Mattioli The everything war : Amazon's ruthless quest to own the world and remake corporate power 381 M444
Jonathan (Jonathan J. M.) 2664302 Allen Fight : inside the wildest battle for the White House 324.973 A425f
Michael Luo Strangers in the land : exclusion, belonging, and the epic story of the Chinese in America 305.895 L964
Mary Brosnahan They just need to get a job : 15 myths on homelessness 362.592 B874
Cheryl L. Neely No human involved : the serial murder of Black women and girls and the deadly cost of police indifference 362.88 N379
Peter Schwartzstein The heat and the fury : on the frontlines of climate violence 304.2 S399
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson What if we get it right? : Visions of climate futures 363.7 J662
Eric Dezenhall Wiseguys and the White House : gangsters, presidents, and the deals they made 364.106 D532
Dan Slater The incorruptibles : a true story of kingpins, crime busters, and the birth of the American underworld 364.106 S631
Kim Mager A hunger to kill : a serial killer, a determined detective, and the quest for a confession that changed a small town forever 364.152 M192
Kate Winkler Dawson The sinners all bow : two authors, one murder, and the real Hester Prynne 364.152 D272s
Becky Holmes Keanu Reeves is not in love with you : the murky world of online romance fraud 306.73 H749
Steve Oney On air : the triumph and tumult of NPR 384.54 O588

Travel & Geography
Sarah Kendzior The last American road trip : a memoir 917.304 K337

Children's

Non-fiction
John A. Bain Chess tactics for students Child 794.1 B162

DVDS

Non-fiction
The world was ours : a film DVD 947.93 W927
Protocols of Zion DVD 305.892 P967

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FICTION
Brian Castleberry The Californians : a novel Fic Castleberry
Evie Wyld The echoes Fic Wyld
Olufunke Grace Bankole The edge of water : a novel Fic Bankole
Karissa Chen Homeseeking Fic Chen
Jacqueline Harpman I who have never known men Fic Harpman
Karen Thompson Walker The strange case of Jane O. : a novel Fic Walker
Philip Fracassi The third rule of time travel Fic Fracassi
Colwill Brown We pretty pieces of flesh : a novel Fic Brown
Katie Kitamura Audition Fic Kitamura
Camilla Barnes The usual desire to kill : a novel Fic Barnes
Ariel Courage Bad nature : a novel Fic Courage
Kevin Nguyen Mỹ documents : a novel Fic Nguyen
Therese Fowler A good neighborhood Fic Fowler
Manuel Betancourt Hello stranger : musings on modern intimacies Fic Betancour

Historical Fiction
Jo Harkin The pretender Fic Harkin
Jennifer Donnelly Where roses fall : a winter rose story Fic Donnelly
Alice Austen 33 Place Brugmann : a novel Fic Austen
Dominique Fortier Pale shadows Fic Fortier
David Baldacci Strangers in time Fic Baldacci
Joel H. (Joel Holloway) Morris All our yesterdays : a novel of Lady Macbeth Fic Morris
Isabel Allende My name is Emilia del Valle : a novel Fic Allende

Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage & Intrigue
John Banville The drowned : a novel Fic Banville
John Sandford Lethal prey Fic Sandford
Alex Finlay Parents weekend : a novel Fic Finlay
Robert Jackson Bennett The tainted cup Fic Bennett
Kate Atkinson Death at the sign of the rook Fic Atkinson
Jesse Q. Sutanto Vera Wong's guide to snooping (on a dead man) Fic Sutanto
Jesse Q. Sutanto Vera Wong's unsolicited advice for murderers Fic Sutanto
Maha Khan Phillips The museum detective Fic Phillips
Janet Evanovich Dirty thirty Fic Evanovich
Sarah Stewart Taylor Agony Hill : a mystery Fic Taylor
Marie Benedict The queens of crime : a novel Fic Benedict
Mick Herron Bad actors Fic Herron
Mick Herron Slough house Fic Herron
James Patterson The writer Fic Patterson
Harlan Coben Deal breaker : the first Myron Bolitar novel Fic Coben
Mick Herron The catch Fic Herron

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Ray Nayler Where the axe is buried : a novel Fic Nayler
M. R. Carey Once was Willem Fic Carey

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Becky Barnicoat Cry when the baby cries 741.5 B262 comics
Anders Nilsen Tongues. Book 1 741.5 N712t comics

DVDS

Classics
I am a camera
Robert Mitchum collection.
Bad girls of film noir. Volume 1.
Gotham City serials.
4 movie collection : Bobby Deerfield ; Baby, the rain must fall ; The chase ; Ship of fools.
The return of Frank James
Stagecoach
Tracy & Hepburn : the definitive collection.

Comedy
The best of Abbott & Costello. Volume 1
Soup to nuts
The best of Abbott & Costello. Volume 2

Drama
Wassup rockers
The hottest state
InterMission
Miss Julie
O Jerusalem

Foreign
He ni zai yi qi = Together DVD Chinese
Time regained DVD French
Vivement dimanche! = Confidentially yours DVD French
Jules et Jim = Jules and Jim DVD French
Two short films by François Truffaut : Les Mistons ; Antoine & Colette DVD French
Thieves and liars = : Ladrones y mentirosos DVD Spanish

Musicals
Jersey boys

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
X : the man with the x-ray eyes

BLU-RAYS

Drama
Mad men. Season two
Mad men. Season three
Mad men. Season one

MUSIC CDS

Popular
Sylvester Live at the opera house : the complete recordings CD Pop Sylvester

For many years Mechanics’ Institute has offered a Homebound Outreach program to members who are no longer able to visit the Library in person due to illness or disability. We’ve recently expanded the offerings and have updated the program name to better reflect the improved service. We are happy to introduce Library by Mail - Outreach Services and welcome new registrants to join the program.

Library by Mail allows us to mail books, DVDs, music CDs, magazines, and audiobook CDs directly to members who are facing surgery, long term illness, are suffering a disability, or are caring for someone with an illness or disability that makes it difficult to come into the library.

To enroll in the Library by Mail - Outreach Service, complete the simple form and pay a one-time $25.00 registration fee. Materials are mailed free of charge to members through a special service offered by the U.S. Postal Service. You must supply a short letter signed by your doctor, health care provider, or nurse certifying the condition that allows you to receive library materials by mail.

There is a limit of four items per request and library materials are mailed to you for a six-week checkout period. You may choose to borrow books, DVDs, music CDs, magazines or audiobook CDs. 

To register for this program, please complete the registration form or contact Cherilyn at 415-393-0101. We will have you on your way to home-delivered library materials in no time.

If you'd like to contribute resources or to assist with this program, contact 415-393-0102 or [email protected].

Click here for more detailed information and registration form.

Mechanics’ Institute is proud of our writers’ programs and offerings. As the members in our writers’ groups workshop their latest piece with colleagues and collaborate in our other programs related to the craft of writing (find the events here), we already have had quite a few talented members at the Mechanics’ Institute Library who are published authors and poets. Some more familiar members include Jack London, Daniel Handler, Gertrude Atherton, and our former chess director and current trustee John Donaldson. 

We are proud to showcase our members’ books on our shelves and in our collection and now have a “Featured Collection” display on the 2nd fl. that presents published materials from our members on a rotating basis. There are so many books and writings from our members that cover a range of topics and subject areas that it would be difficult for us to display them all at once so we’ve found another way to easily highlight these materials while browsing through the rows of books. How do you spot a member’s work in the stacks? We’ve labeled the books with a purple “Mechanics’ Institute Member Work” sticker on the spine. You can also search for a member author by typing in “Mechanics' Institute members work” or "members work" in the search field in our catalog, or for a complete list click here.

Have you found yourself facing surgery or a long-term illness? Has a disability left you homebound and unable to come into the Library? Mechanics’ Institute Library has a program that allows us to mail you books, audiobooks, and magazines. 

The program is called Outreach for the Homebound. It is strictly limited to homebound members who can no longer visit the Library due to illness, injury, or disability.

To enroll in Outreach, complete the simple form and pay a one-time $25.00 registration fee. Materials are mailed free of charge to members through a unique service offered by the U.S. Postal Service. You must supply a short letter signed by your doctor, health care provider, or nurse certifying the condition that makes it necessary for you to receive library materials by mail.

There is a limit of four items per request, and library materials are mailed to you for a six-week checkout period. You may choose to borrow books, magazines, or audiobooks. DVDs and music CDs, because of their fragile nature, are not included in the program.

Simply sign up using our online form: 

https://www.milibrary.org/services/mailorder. 

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FICTION
Percival Everett Dr. No
Tess Gunty The rabbit hutch
Alejandro Varela The town of Babylon
Gayl Jones The birdcatcher
John Elizabeth Stintzi My volcano
Adriana Herrera A Caribbean heiress in Paris
Ernesto Mestre-Reed Sacrificio
Cormac McCarthy Stella Maris
Meghan Quinn Runaway groomsman
Barbara Kingsolver Demon Copperhead
John Irving The last chairlift
Kevin Wilson Now is not the time to panic
Erik Tarloff Tell me the truth about love
Cormac McCarthy The passenger
Alice Elliott Dark Fellowship Point
Russell Banks The magic kingdom

Historical Fiction
Olivier Guez The disappearance of Josef Mengele
Yiyun Li The book of goose
Hugo Hamilton The pages
Louise Kennedy Trespasses
Kristin Harmel The book of lost names : a novel

Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage & Intrigue
Douglas J Preston Diablo Mesa
Robert Crais Racing the light : a novel
James Patterson Triple Cross
Louise Penny A world of curiosities
Katie Gutierrez More than you'll ever know
Phillip Margolin Murder at Black Oaks
Michael Connelly Desert star
Anthony Horowitz The twist of a knife
Katy Hays The Cloisters
Janet Evanovich Going rogue : rise and shine twenty-nine
Patricia Daniels Cornwell Livid
Chris Pavone Two nights in Lisbon

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Rebecca Roanhorse Tread of angels
Brandon Sanderson The lost metal
Tamsyn Muir Nona the ninth
Olivie Blake The Atlas paradox

Short Stories
George Saunders Liberation day : stories
Jamil Jan Kochai The haunting of Hajji Hotak : and other stories
Chelsea T Hicks A calm & normal heart
Arinze Ifeakandu God's children are little broken things
Ladee Hubbard The last suspicious holdout
Leigh Newman Nobody gets out alive
McSweeney's. 68. SS M175

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Charles Johnson All your racial problems will soon end : the cartoons of Charles Johnson. 741.5 J630 comics

Universal (Children's)

Fiction
Michaela Goade Berry song U Goade
Leo Timmers Elephant Island U Timmers
Caron Levis Feathers together : inspired by a pair of real birds with an unbreakable bond U Levis
Shelly Anand I love my body because U Anand
Thao Lam The line in the sand U Lam
Nina LaCour Mama and Mommy and me in the middle U LaCour
Jacqueline Woodson The year we learned to fly U Woodson
Marcelo Verdad The worst teddy ever U Verdad

E-AUDIOBOOKS
Douglas Adams Dirk Gently, two BBC Radio full-cast dramas : Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency and the long dark tea-time of the soul
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Original Albums : Two Full-cast Audio Dramatisations
Last chance to see : the original BBC Radio series : in search of the world's most endangered species
F Scott Fitzgerald The great Gatsby
Deborah Crombie A Bitter Feast : a novel
Deborah Crombie Garden of lamentations : a novel
Deborah Crombie No mark upon her : a novel
Deborah Crombie To dwell in darkness : a novel
Deborah Crombie All shall be well
Neil Postman Amusing ourselves to death : public discourse in the age of show business
Deborah Crombie And justice there is none
Colin Dexter The daughters of Cain
Deborah Crombie Leave the grave green
Colin Dexter Morse's greatest mystery and other stories
Deborah Crombie Mourn not your dead
Deborah Crombie Now may you weep Deborah Crombie.
Deborah Crombie A share in death
Iain Pears The Raphael affair
Deborah Crombie In a dark house
Annie Duke Quit : the power of knowing when to walk away
Deborah Crombie Necessary as blood
Patricia Cornwell Postmortem
Deborah Crombie The Sound of Broken Glass : Duncan Kincaid
Henry Beston The adventures of florian
Hans Christian Andersen The emperor's new clothes
C S Lewis The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Hollywood 360 Classic radio spotlights : orson welles
Classic radio's greatest mystery shows.
Classic radio's greatest science fiction shows. Hollywood 360.
The lives of Harry Lime, a.k.a. the third man. Hollywood 360.
The Mercury Theatre on the air.
Black Eye Entertainment Classic radio spotlight orson welles, vol. 2
Victor Hugo Les misérables : radio drama of the classic Victor Hugo masterpiece
Jules Verne Around the world in 80 days
Orson Welles Orson Welles : interviews
Russell Banks Affliction
Russell Banks Cloudsplitter : a novel
Russell Banks Continental drift
Russell Banks Foregone
Russell Banks The sweet hereafter
Stephen Budiansky Journey to the edge of reason : the life of Kurt Gödel
H P Lovecraft At the mountains of madness
H P Lovecraft The call of Cthulhu and other stories
H P Lovecraft The shadow over Innsmouth ; and, the whisperer in darkness
H P Lovecraft The thing on the doorstep and other stories
Tayari Jones An American marriage : a novel
Jacob S Hacker Let them eat Tweets : how the right rules in an age of extreme inequality
Jaroslav Hašek The good soldier Svejk
Arthur Miller The crucible
Guy Sajer The forgotten soldier
Paul Ekman Telling lies : Clues to deceit in the marketplace, politics, and marriage
Judy Melinek Working stiff : two years, 262 bodies, and the making of a medical examiner
Salman Rushdie The enchantress of Florence : a novel
Salman Rushdie Luka and the fire of life
Salman Rushdie Shalimar the Clown
David Baldacci The 6:20 man
Mary Beard The parthenon
Karin Slaughter Blindsighted : the first Grant County thriller
Howard Zinn A people's history of the United States : highlights from the twentieth century
Karin Slaughter Undone : a novel
Noam Chomsky Taming the rascal multitude : essays, interviews, and lectures 1997-2014
Noam Chomsky Because we say so
Vijay Prashad The darker nations : a people's history of the third world
Noam Chomsky How the world works
Edward S Herman Manufacturing consent : the political economy of the mass media
Ben Aaronovitch Midnight riot
Noam Chomsky On Palestine
David Williams A people's history of the Civil War : struggles for the meaning of freedom
Howard Zinn Truth has a power of its own : conversations about A people's history
Howard Zinn You can't be neutral on a moving train : a personal history of our times
Daphne Du Maurier Rebecca
Michael Connelly Desert star
Farah Pandith How we win : how cutting-edge entrepreneurs, political visionaries, enlightened business leaders, and social media mavens can defeat the extremist threat
Rajani LaRocca Red, white, and whole
Jonathan Rauch The constitution of knowledge : a defense of truth
We are the middle of forever : Indigenous voices from Turtle Island on the changing Earth
Priscilla Oliveras Anchored hearts
Edmund Richardson The king's shadow obsession, betrayal, and the deadly quest for the Lost City of Alexandria
Joseph A Schwarcz Quack quack : The Threat of Pseudoscience
Mark Danner Spiral : trapped in the forever war
J H Gelernter Captain Grey's gambit : a novel
Fintan O'Toole We don't know ourselves : a personal history of Ireland since 1958
Lisa Chen Activities of daily living a novel
Elie Mystal Allow me to retort : a black guy's guide to the Constitution

EBOOKS
Deborah Crombie A bitter feast : a novel
Deborah Crombie Garden of Lamentations
Deborah Crombie In a dark house
Deborah Crombie Necessary as blood
Deborah Crombie No mark upon her
Deborah Crombie Now may you weep
Deborah Crombie The sound of broken glass
Deborah Crombie To dwell in darkness : a novel
Deborah Crombie Water like a stone
Deborah Crombie Where memories lie
Elena Botella Delinquent : inside America's debt machine
Carlie Sorosiak Always, Clementine
Donna Leon Acqua alta
Jerzy Kosinski Being there
Donna Leon Death in a strange country
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki An introduction to Zen Buddhism
Michael Connelly Hieronymus Bosch
Colin Dexter Inspector morse A mysterious profile Colin Dexter
Michael Connelly The Lincoln lawyer
Alexandre Dumas The wolf leader
Bijan Bayne Black trailblazers 30 courageous visionaries who broke boundaries, made a difference, and paved the way Bijan Bayne
Robert Garland Roman legends brought to life Robert Garland
The complete fairy tales by Brothers Grimm
Howard Zinn A people's history of the United States
Howard Zinn Original zinn : conversations with david barsamian
Howard Zinn Passionate declarations : essays on war and justice
Terry Pratchett Good omens : the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch
Paul G Tremblay Head full of ghosts : a novel
Ruth Hogan The keeper of lost things
Howard Zinn Howard Zinn speaks : collected speeches, 1963 to 2009
Alain LeRoy Locke The new negro
Haruki Murakami Novelist As a Vocation
Hermann Broch The sleepwalkers : a trilogy
Erik Tarloff Tell me the truth about love
Rudolph Fisher The conjure-man dies : a mystery tale of dark Harlem
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Farewell to Manzanar : a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment
Farah Pandith How we win : how cutting-edge entrepreneurs, political visionaries, enlightened business leaders, and social media mavens can defeat the extremist threat
Rajani LaRocca Red, white, and whole
Danielle Smith-Llera Trash vortex : how plastic pollution is choking the world's oceans
Joe Schwarcz Quack quack : the threat of pseudoscience
Suzette Mayr The sleeping car porter
Elizabeth Garner Lost & found Elizabeth Garner
Audrey Blake The girl in his shadow : a novel
Russell Banks Foregone
Jacob S Hacker Let them eat Tweets : how the right rules in an age of extreme inequality
Radhika Vijay Scientific writing from scratch How to write your first research paper? Radhika Vijay
Mary Beard SPQR : a history of ancient Rome

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NON-FICTION

Applied Sciences
Lina Zeldovich The other dark matter : the science and business of turning waste into wealth and health 628.3 Z376
Horse girls : recovering, aspiring, and devoted riders redefine the iconic bond 636.1 H787

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Edward S Cooke Global objects : toward a connected art history 709 C774
Jerry Saltz Art is life : icons and iconoclasts, visionaries and vigilantes, and flashes of hope in the night 701 S379a
Vivian Maier 770.92 M217v
Elsa Schiaparelli Shocking : the surreal world of Elsa Schiaparelli 746.9 S329

Biography & Genealogy
David Alan King David the beloved : journey to find my lost heart 158.1 K521
Jared Kushner Breaking history : a White House memoir 973.933 K968
Michael Kenneth Williams Scenes from my life : a memoir 792.092 W670
Jann Wenner Like a Rolling Stone : a memoir 070.5092 W46
Javier Zamora Solito : a memoir 305.9069 Z148
Serhiĭ Rudenko Zelensky : a biography 947.7 R83
Mary Rodgers Shy : the alarmingly outspoken memoirs of Mary Rodgers 780.92 R616
Matthew Kennedy Joan Blondell : a life between takes 792.092 B622
Clint Hill My travels with Mrs. Kennedy 973.922 K354
David Maraniss Path lit by lightning : the life of Jim Thorpe 796.092 T398
Kelly Ripa Live wire : long-winded short stories 791.45 R48
Hua Hsu Stay true : a memoir 979.467 H859
John D'Emilio Memories of a gay Catholic boyhood : coming of age in the sixties 306.76 D395
Chelsea Manning Readme.txt : a memoir 355.343 M316
Graham Boynton Wild : the life of Peter Beard : photographer, adventurer, lover 770.92 B380
Paul Newman The extraordinary life of an ordinary man : a memoir 792.092 N554e
John Lahr Arthur Miller : American witness 812 M647L
Charles Leerhsen Down and out in paradise : the life of Anthony Bourdain 641.5 B768Le
Maggie Haberman Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America 973.933 T871h
Katherine Rundell Super-infinite : the transformations of John Donne 821 D68r
Lucy Worsley Agatha Christie : an elusive woman 823 C55w
Andrew Meier Morgenthau : power, privilege, and the rise of an American dynasty 973.0492 M851
Nina Totenberg Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships 791.44 T640

Business & Economics
Peter Zeihan The end of the world is just the beginning : mapping the collapse of globalization 338.91 Z46
Dakin Campbell Going public : how Silicon Valley rebels loosened Wall Street's grip on the IPO and sparked a revolution 658.152 C152
Kimberly Kay Hoang Spiderweb capitalism : how global elites exploit frontier markets 332.673 H650
Nomi Prins Permanent distortion : how the financial markets abandoned the real economy forever 338.54 P957
Phyl Terry Never search alone : the job seeker's playbook 650.14 T279
Chris Miller Chip war : the fight for the world's most critical technology 338.476 M647
Elena Botella Delinquent : inside America's debt machine 332.7 B657
Bruce Usher Investing in the era of climate change 332.6 U3i
Rana Foroohar Homecoming : the path to prosperity in a post-global world 338.6 F727
Orly Lobel The equality machine : harnessing digital technology for a brighter, more inclusive future 658.3 L783
Dave Liu The way of the Wall Street warrior : conquer the corporate game using tips, tricks, and smartcuts 650.1 L740
William D Cohan Power failure : the rise and fall of an American icon 338.7 C678

Chess
Lev Polugaevskiĭ The art of defence in chess 794.122 P779 1996

Food & Drink
Brian Freedman Crushed : how a changing climate is altering the way we drink 641.2 F875
Toni Tipton-Martin The Jemima code : two centuries of African American cookbooks 641.5929 T499je

Health & Medicine
Rina Raphael The gospel of wellness : gyms, gurus, Goop, and the false promise of self-care 613.0424 R181
Stephen M. Sagar Vitamin C : a 500-year scientific biography from scurvy to pseudoscience 615.328 Sa182
Kate Summerscale The book of phobias & manias : a history of obsession 616.8522 S95
David Quammen Breathless : the scientific race to defeat a deadly virus 614.5924 Q16
David B Nash How COVID crashed the system : a guide to fixing American health care 362.1962 N171

History
Dipo Faloyin Africa is not a country : notes on a bright continent 960 F197
Lucy Adlington The dressmakers of Auschwitz : the true story of the women who sewed to survive 940.5318 Ad599
Peter Caddick-Adams Fire and steel : the end of World War Two in the West 940.542 C121f
Scott Mann Operation Pineapple Express : the incredible story of a group of Americans who undertook one last mission and honored a promise in Afghanistan 958.104 M315
Neil deGrasse Tyson Starry messenger : cosmic perspectives on civilization 901 T944
Orlando Figes The story of Russia 947 F471s
Adam Hochschild American midnight : the Great War, a violent peace, and democracy's forgotten crisis 973.91 H685
Mikhail Khodorkovskiĭ The Russia conundrum : how the west fell for Putin's power gambit--and how to fix it 947.086 K46
S JConnolly On every tide : the making and remaking of the Irish world 909.04916 C762
Bill Lascher The golden fortress : California's border war on Dust Bowl refugees 979.4 L332
Kathryn S. Olmsted The newspaper axis : six press barons who enabled Hitler 940.5 O516
Giles Tremlett España : a brief history of Spain 946 T789e
Pekka Hämäläinen Indigenous continent : the epic contest for North America. 970.004 H198
Antony Beevor Russia : revolution and civil war, 1917-1921 947.084 B415
Jon Meacham And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle 973.7 L73me
Jonathan Freedland The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world 940.5318 V953f
Matthew F Delmont Half American : the epic story of African Americans fighting World War II at home and abroad 940.5403 D382
David de Jong Nazi billionaires : the dark history of Germany's wealthiest dynasties 940.531 J732
Peter Baker The divider : Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 973.933 B167
Andrei Martyanov Losing military supremacy : the myopia of American strategic planning 355.03 M367
Katie Hickman Brave hearted : the women of the American west 1836-1880 978.02 H528

Home & Family Management
Susan Linn Who's raising the kids? : big tech, big business, and the lives of children 649.1 L758

Law
Akhil Reed Amar The words that made us : America's constitutional conversation, 1760-1840 342.73 A485w
Mimi Lyster Zemmelman Building a parenting agreement that works : child custody agreements step by step 346.7301 Z53

Literature & Writing
Joan Didion : the last interview and other conversations 813 D55La
Frances Mayes A place in the world : finding the meaning of home 813.54 M468
Peggy Rowe Vacuuming in the nude : and other ways to get attention 813 R79
Mason J Crossbones on my life 811.6 J101
Joan Naviyuk Kane Dark traffic 811.6 K131d
Joan Naviyuk Kane Milk black carbon 811.6 K131
Ted Berrigan Get the money! : collected prose (1961-1983) 818.54 B533
Edna St. Vincent Millay Rapture and melancholy : the diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay 811 M63r
Sasha Pearl Bus poems1 and II plus 811.6 P35
Peter Brooks Seduced by story : the use and abuse of narrative 808 B873
John Keene Punks : new & selected poems 811.54 K251

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Sean M Carroll The biggest ideas in the universe : space, time, and motion 530.11 C319b
Carl J Pratt Quantum physics for beginners : from Wave Theory to Quantum Computing : understanding how everything works by a simplified explanation of quantum physics and mechanics principles 530.12 P888
Gary Maher Quantum physics for beginners : an easy guide revealing the secrets of quantum mechanics 530.12 M277
Randall Munroe What if? 2 : additional serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions 500 M968w

Performing Arts & Music
William Shatner Boldly go : reflections on a life of awe and wonder 792.092 S529b
Matthew Kennedy Roadshow! : the fall of film musicals in the 1960s 791.43 K38
Jan Swafford Johannes Brahms : a biography 780.92 B813sw
Bruce Davis The Academy and the award : the coming of age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 791.4 D290
Jessica Radloff The big bang theory : the definitive, inside story of the epic hit series 791.45 R119

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
John T McGreevy Catholicism : a global history from the French Revolution to Pope Francis 282 M178
Sherry Richert Belul Say it now : 33 creative ways to say I love you to the most important people in your life 152.41 B419
William MacAskill What we owe the future 171 M116w
Annie Duke Quit : the power of knowing when to walk away 158.1 D877
Karen Armstrong Sacred nature : restoring our ancient bond with the natural world 202.12 A73
Temple Grandin Visual thinking : the hidden gifts of people who think in pictures, patterns, and abstractions 152.14 G753
John Mordechai Gottman The love prescription : seven days to more intimacy, connection, and joy 152.41 G686
Mark Dawidziak Everything I need to know I learned in the Twilight Zone : a fifth-dimension guide to life 170.44 D322

Politics & Government
Sarah Kendzior They knew : how a culture of conspiracy keeps America complacent 303.6 K337
Nikki Haley If you want something done : leadership lessons from bold women 320.082 H137
Noam Chomsky The withdrawal : Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the fragility of U.S. power 327.73 C54wi
David Daley Unrigged : how Americans are battling back to save democracy 324.973 D141
Susan L Shirk Overreach : how China derailed its peaceful rise 320.951 Sh65
Anand Giridharadas The persuaders : at the frontlines of the fight for hearts, minds, and democracy 320.973 G525

Reference
Library and book trade almanac Ref 020.5 L697

Social Sciences & Current Events
Tom Blass Swamp songs : journeys through marsh, meadow and other wetlands 304.2 B613
Dan Jones The color of time : women in history 1850-1960 305.4 J710
Eugene Linden Fire and flood : a people's history of climate change, from 1979 to the present 304.2 L744f
Douglas Century The last boss of Brighton : Boris "Biba" Nayfeld and the rise of the Russian mob in America 364.106 C333
Resmaa Menakem My grandmother's hands : racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies 305.896 M521
Josh Chin Surveillance state : inside China's quest to launch a new era of social control 303.33 C441
Donald Yacovone Teaching white supremacy : America's democratic ordeal and the forging of our national identity 370.8 Y104
Maitland Ward Rated X : how porn liberated me from Hollywood 791.45 W257
Richard V Reeves Of boys and men : why the modern male is struggling, why it matters, and what to do about It 305.31 R332
Boyah J Farah America made me a Black man : a memoir 305.8 F221
Geoff Dembicki The petroleum papers : inside the far-right conspiracy to cover up climate change 363.738 D393
Traci Brynne Voyles The settler sea : California's Salton Sea and the consequences of colonialism 304.2 V948
T J English Dangerous rhythms : jazz and the underworld 306.4842 E58
Michael Fanone Hold the line : the insurrection and one cop's battle for America's soul 303.484 F217
Bill O'Reilly Killing the legends : the lethal danger of celebrity 306.48 O66
Bill McGuire Hothouse Earth : an inhabitant's guide 363.738 M148
Kate Winkler Dawson All that is wicked : a Gilded-Age story of murder and the race to decode the criminal mind 364.3 D272
Andy Kroll A death on W Street : the murder of Seth Rich and the age of conspiracy 364.152 K919

Travel & Geography
Eyewitness Vietnam 915.97 E975
Lonely Planet Alaska 917.98 L847
Andrew Doughty The ultimate Kauai guidebook : Kauai revealed 919.694 D732
Rick Steves' Spain. 914.6 S848
NFT, Not For Tourists guide to Los Angeles 917.9494 N899
NFT, Not For Tourists guide to London 914.21 N899
Rick Steves' France 914.4 S848
Insight Spain 914.6 I592
Top 10 Iceland 914.91 E975t
Lonely Planet Mexico 917.2 L847
Oahu revealed : the ultimate guide to Honolulu, Waikiki & beyond 919.693 O11

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Non-fiction
Brenna Maloney Buzzkill : fighting insect extinction from the ground up U 639.9757 M297
Mark Kurlansky Big lies : from Socrates to social media U 177.3 K968