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FICTION
Te-Ping Chen Land of big numbers
Patricia Lockwood No one is talking about this
Sarah Penner The lost apothecary
Chris Whitaker We begin at the end
Jane Smiley Perestroika in Paris
Richard Bachman The running man

Historical Fiction
Sadeqa Johnson Yellow wife
Kate Quinn The rose code
Janet Skeslien Charles The Paris library
Susan Meissner The nature of fragile things
Lauren Willig Band of sisters

Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage & Intrigue
Ava Barry Windhall
Harlan Coben Win
Jane Harper The survivors
Joe Ide Smoke
Sarah Pearse The sanatorium

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Genevieve Gornichec The witch's heart

Short Stories
Tracey Waddleton Send more tourists... the last ones were delicious

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Derf Backderf Kent State : four dead in Ohio 378.7713 B126 comics
Tian Year of the rabbit 959.604 T431 comics

CHILDREN'S

Fiction
Carole Lindstrom We are water protectors Child Lindstrom

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NON-FICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Jane Hall Breaking ground: architecture by women 720.82 H140

Biography & Genealogy
Ingrid Seward Prince Philip revealed 941.085 P551s
Tom Gallagher Salazar: the dictator who refused to die 946.9 S316g

Business & Economics
Philip Coggan More: a history of the world economy from the Iron Age to the Information Age 330.9 C656
Mauro F Guillén 2030: how today's biggest trends will collide and reshape the future of everything 330.9 G946
Dan Price Worth it : how a million-dollar pay cut and a $70,000 minimum wage revealed a better way of doing business 331.2 P931

Health & Medicine
Ruth Coker Burks All the young men: a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South 362.19 B919

History
Meredith F Small Inventing the world: Venice and the transformation of Western civilization 945.31 S63
Jerome Slater Mythologies without end: the US, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1917-2020 956.04 S151
Douglas Boin Alaric the Goth: an outsider's history of the fall of Rome 937 A121b
James Sullivan Unsinkable: five men and the indomitable run of the USS Plunkett 940.5459 S531
David Reynolds Island stories: an unconventional history of Britain 941 R46

Home & Family Management
Charles Byers DIY for renters: don't call the landlord: a renter's guide to repairs and personalizations that won't break your lease 643.7 B991
Nina Montenegro Mending life: a handbook for repairing clothes and hearts 646.3 M764

Literature & Writing
Gretel Ehrlich Unsolaced: along the way to all that is 818 E33u
Joanna Rakoff My Salinger year 818.603 R137
Patrick Wright Sea View has me again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness 833 J630w

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
David Attenborough A life on our planet: my witness statement and a vision for the future 508 A884L

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Casey Schwartz Attention: a love story 153.733 S399

Social Sciences & Current Events
Alicia Garza The purpose of power: how we come together when we fall apart 303.484 G199
Kenya Hunt Girl gurl grrrl: on womanhood and belonging in the age of black girl magic 305.48 H911
Micah Goodman The wondering Jew: Israel and the search for Jewish identity 305.892 G621
Elon Green Last call: a true story of love, lust, and murder in queer New York 364.152 G820
Colin Bryar Working backwards: insights, stories, and secrets from inside Amazon 381.14 B842

CHILDREN'S

Non-fiction
Blair Imani Making our way home: the Great Migration and the Black American dream Child 973.0496 I18

EBOOKS

Cait Flanders The year of less: how I stopped shopping, gave away my belongings, and discovered life is worth more than anything you can buy in a store
Gretel Ehrlich Unsolaced: along the way to all that is
Patrick Wright The sea view has me again: Uwe johnson in sheerness
Simon Winchester Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Eliot Higgins We Are Bellingcat Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
Nina Farley-Bates Your teen's miraculous brain: eight drug-free essentials for overcoming teen mental illness
Bruce Sterling The hacker crackdown: law and disorder on the electronic frontier
Jerry Kaplan Humans need not apply: a guide to wealth and work in the age of artificial intelligence
Michael Eric Dyson Long time coming: reckoning with race in America
Derf Backderf Kent State: four dead in Ohio
Stacey Steinberg Growing up shared: how parents can share smarter on social media-and what you can do to keep your family safe in a no-privacy world
Kristen Meinzer So you want to start a podcast: finding your voice, telling your story, and building a community that will listen
Paraic O'Donnell The house on Vesper Sands
Isabel Allende The soul of a woman
Danielle Steel Neighbors
Greer Macallister The Arctic fury
Julie Clark The last flight
Marie Benedict The Mystery of Mrs Christie Marie Benedict
Faye Kellerman The lost boys
Jennifer Robson Our darkest night
Darby Kane Pretty little wife
Colleen Coble Two reasons to run
Tarryn Fisher The wrong family
J T Ellison Her dark lies
Jayne Ann Krentz All the colors of night
Sarah Pearse The sanatorium
Jordan B Peterson Beyond order: 12 more rules for life
Andrew D Maynard Films from the future: the technology and morality of sci-fi movies
Jane Harper The survivors
Lynn Cahoon Killer comfort food
Traci Sorell Classified: the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
Henry David Thoreau Walden, or Life in the woods

E-AUDIOBOOKS

David Attenborough A life on our planet: my witness statement and vision for the future
Jon Fasman We see it all: Liberty and justice in an age of perpetual surveillance
Frank Wilczek Fundamentals: ten keys to reality
Alan P Lightman Probable impossibilities: musings on beginnings and endings
Grady Hendrix The Southern book club's guide to slaying vampires
Stuart Turton The devil and the dark water
Victoria Thompson Murder on Astor Place
Helene Tursten An elderly lady is up to no good
William Kent Krueger Heaven's keep
Craig Johnson Land of wolves
William Kent Krueger Thunder Bay
C J Box Wolf pack
Beth A Bechky Blood, powder, and residue: How Crime Labs Translate Evidence into Proof

EBOOKS
Louise Erdrich The round house
Kate Quinn The Alice network
Hannah Arendt Antisemitism: part one of the origins of totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt Imperialism: part two of the origins of totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt On violence
Hannah Arendt Totalitarianism: part three of The Origins of totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt Love and Saint Augustine
David Talbot The devil's chessboard: Allen dulles, the cia, and the rise of america's secret government
Ronald Bailey Ten global trends every smart person should know: and many others you will find interesting
Arlie Russell Hochschild Strangers in their own land: anger and mourning on the American right
Zoe Daniel Greetings from Trumpland: How an unprecedented presidency changed everything
Andy Wightman The poor had no lawyers: who owns Scotland and (how they got it)
Ilya Ilf The twelve chairs
Bob Jennerich Facing life's challenges head on: How jesus gets you through what you can't get around

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FICTION
Naima Coster What's mine and yours
Patricia Engel Infinite country
Nancy Johnson The kindest lie
Emily St John Mandel The glass hotel
Ottessa Moshfegh Death in her hands
Viet Thanh Nguyen The committed
Joyce Carol Oates Night Sleep Death The Stars
Susan Wiggs The Lost and Found Bookshop
C Pam Zhang How much of these hills is gold
Véronique Tadjo In the company of men
Torrey Peters Detransition, baby

Historical Fiction
María José Ferrada How to order the universe
Ariel Lawhon Code name Hélène
David Mitchell Utopia Avenue
Maggie O'Farrell Hamnet
Connie Schultz The daughters of Erietown
Janice Hadlow The other Bennet sister
Alexandra Lapierre The woman of a thousand names
Phan Qúê Mai Nguỹên The mountains sing

Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage & Intrigue
Tracy Clark Borrowed time
Alex Finlay Every last fear
Grady Hendrix The southern book club's guide to slaying vampires
Robert J Muller Murder at Mount Vernon: A Founding Fathers Mystery
Scott Turow The last trial
Daniel Friedman Running out of road
Riley Sager Home before dark
Olen Steinhauer The last tourist

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Max Brooks Devolution: a firsthand account of the Rainier Sasquatch massacre
Suzanne Collins The ballad of songbirds and snakes
Kazuo Ishiguro Klara and the sun
Alix E Harrow The once and future witches
N K Jemisin The city we became
Max Barry Providence

Short Stories
Tod Goldberg The low desert: gangster stories

CHILDREN'S

Fiction
Alan Gratz Ground Zero Child Gratz
Meena Harris Ambitious girl Child Harris

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NONFICTION
Biography & Genealogy
Alia Volz Home baked: my mom, marijuana, and the stoning of San Francisco 979.461 V889
Jan Morris Thinking again 823 M87

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism
Nancy F Cott Fighting words: the bold American journalists who brought the world home between the wars 070.92 C827

Business & Economics
Justin Farrell Billionaire wilderness: the ultra-wealthy and the remaking of the American West 333.72 F247

Food & Drink
Ashley L Jones Modern cast iron: the complete guide to selecting, seasoning, cooking, and more 641.589 J710
Emma Teal Laukitis The Salmon Sisters: feasting, fishing, and living in Alaska 641.69 L369

Health & Medicine
Daniel Lieberman Exercised: why something we never evolved to do is healthy and rewarding 612.044 L716e
Dennis C Turk The pain survival guide: how to become resilient and reclaim your life 616.047 T847

History
Annalee Newitz Four lost cities: a secret history of the urban age930.1 N46
Chris Wallace Countdown 1945: the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world 940.542 W155
Kathy Lee Peiss Information hunters: when librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in World War II Europe 940.5486 P359
Amy Stanley Stranger in the Shogun's city: a Japanese woman and her world 952.025 S251
Robert Spencer Rating America's presidents 973.09 S74r
John Matteson A worse place than hell: how the civil war battle of Fredericksburg changed a nation 973.7 M429
Ty Seidule Robert E Lee and me: a Southerner's reckoning with the myth of the Lost Cause 973.71 S426
Gary Kamiya Spirits of San Francisco: voyages through the unknown city 979.461 K156s

Languages & Linguistics
Albert Costa The bilingual brain: and what it tells us about the science of language 404.2 C823

Literature & Writing
Elizabeth George Mastering the process: from idea to novel 808.3 G34m
Barbara Ehrenreich Had I known: collected essays 814.54 E33

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Peter Wothers Antimony gold and Jupiter's wolf: how the elements were named 546.8 W913
Neil Shubin Some assembly required: decoding four billion years of life, from ancient fossils to DNA 576.8 S56
Wendy Williams The language of butterflies: how thieves, hoarders, scientists, and other obsessives unlocked the secrets of the world's favorite insect 595.78 W721

Performing Arts & Music
Sydney Ladensohn Stern The brothers Mankiewicz: hope, heartbreak, and Hollywood classics 791.4 M314s

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Steven Kotler The art of impossible: a peak performance primer 158.1 K874a
Emily M D ScottFor all who hunger: searching for communion in a shattered world 284.1 S832

Politics & Government
Claudio Saunt Unworthy republic: the dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian territory 323.1197 S257
William A Darity From here to equality: reparations for Black Americans in the twenty-first century 323.1196 D248
Jil lWatts The black cabinet: the untold story of African Americans and politics during the age of Roosevelt 323.1196 W349

Social Sciences & Current Events
Ronald Bailey Ten global trends every smart person should know : and many others you will find interesting 303.49 B154t
Thomas Piketty Capital and ideology 305 P636
Rosalind Miles The women's history of the modern world: how radicals, rebels, and everywomen revolutionized the last 200 years 305.42 M64
Frank B Wilderson Afropessimism 305.8 W645
Heather Cox Richardson How the South won the Civil War: oligarchy, democracy, and the continuing fight for the soul of America 306.2 R521
Glennon Doyle Untamed 306.89 D772u
Simon Winchester Land: how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world 333.3 W759L
James B Comey Saving justice: truth, transparency, and trust 363.25 C732s
Nicole Perlroth This is how they tell me the world ends: the cyberweapons arms race 363.32 P422
Bill Gates How to avoid a climate disaster: the solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need 363.738 G223
Scott L Newstok How to think like Shakespeare: lessons from a renaissance education 370.11 N479
Deirdre Mask The address book: what street addresses reveal about identity, race, wealth, and power
388.1 M379
Mark Bittman Animal, vegetable, junk : a history of food, from sustainable to suicidal 394.1 B62a

CHILDREN'S

Non-fiction
Nikki Grimes Kamala Harris: rooted in justice Child 328.73 H240g

George Orwell 1984 -- BBC Radio
George Orwell Homage to catalonia
George Orwell Burmese days
George Orwell Down and out in Paris and London
Paul Fussell The boys' crusade
Classic radio's greatest comedy shows Vol 1 : 12 half-hour original radio broadcasts
Classic radio's greatest comedy shows Vol 2
Classic radio's greatest detective shows volume 1 : 12 half-hour original radio broadcasts
Classic radio's greatest detective shows volume 2
Classic radio's greatest detective shows volume 3
Classic radio's greatest detective shows volume 4
Classic radio's greatest detective shows volume 5
Classic radio's greatest shows Volume 1: 12 half-hour original radio broadcasts
Classic radio's greatest shows Volume 2
Classic radio's greatest shows Volume 3
Classic radio's greatest shows volume 4
Classic radio's greatest shows volume 5
Peter Christen Asbjorsen The complete and original Norwegian folktales of asbjørnsen and Moe
Kimberly A Hamlin Free thinker: sex, suffrage, and the extraordinary life of Helen Hamilton Gardener
William A Darity From here to equality: reparations for black Americans in the twenty-first century
Steven Johnson The ghost map: [the story of London's most terrifying epidemic--and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world]
Paul Fussell The great war and modern memory
Adam Rutherford How to argue with a racist: what our genes do (and don't) say about human difference
Philipp Blom Nature's mutiny: how the little ice age of the long seventeenth century transformed the west and shaped the present
Neil Gaiman Norse mythology
Neil Gaiman The view from the cheap seats: selected nonfiction

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FICTION
Ethan Hawke A bright ray of darkness
Ashley Audrain The push
Helen Fisher Faye, faraway
Eman Quotah Bride of the sea
Nicholas Sparks The return

Historical Fiction
Ben Hopkins Cathedral
Gail Godwin Old Lovegood girls
John Preston The dig
Kristin Hannah The four winds

Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage & Intrigue
Caroline B Cooney Before she was Helen
Walter Mosley Blood grove
Harlan Coben The boy from the woods
Kathy Reichs A conspiracy of bones
P J Tracy Deep into the dark
Sarah Langan Good neighbors
Eliza Jane Brazier If I disappear

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Matt Ruff 88 names

CHILDREN'S

Fiction
Meena Harris Kamala and Maya's big idea Child Harris
Tae Keller When you trap a tiger Child Keller

NONFICTION

Biography & Genealogy
Gertrude Stein The autobiography of Alice B Toklas 818.5 T646s

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism
Michiko Kakutani Ex Libris 028 K139

Business & Economics
Rahul Rana Making Moonshots 658.4 R15

Computer Science
Neil Vega Mastering Evernote as the Brain Extension: A Guide to the Most Effective Tips and Tricks for Powerful Note Taking and Idea Organization for Your Study 005.57 V521

Health & Medicine
Matthew Cobb The idea of the brain: the past and future of neuroscience 612.8233 C633
Joel Fuhrman Eat for life: the breakthrough nutrient-rich program for longevity, disease reversal, and sustained weight loss 613.2 F959e

Literature & Writing
Geraldine Woods 25 great sentences and how they got that way 808.04 W861

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Ann Druyan Cosmos: possible worlds 520 D846

Performing Arts & Music
Mark Harris Mike Nichols: a life 791.4 N515

Politics & Government
Evan Osnos Joe Biden: the life, the run, and what matters now 328.73 B585o

Social Sciences & Current Events
Emmanuel Acho Uncomfortable conversations with a black man 305.8 A47
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich The fact of a body: a murder and a memoir 364.152 M369

AUDIOBOOKS [CD audio books]

Fiction
Benjamin Alire Sáenz Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe CD Fic Sáenz
Taylor Jenkins Reid Daisy Jones & the Six CD Fic Reid
Jojo Moyes The giver of stars CD Fic Moyes
Neil Gaiman The graveyard book CD Fic Gaiman
John Grisham The guardians CD Fic Grisham
Lisa See The island of sea women CD Fic See
Isabel Allende A long petal of the sea CD Fic Allende
Kiley Reid Such a fun age CD Fic Reid
Ta-Nehisi Coates The water dancer CD Fic Coates

Non-fiction
Erik Larson The splendid and the vile CD 940.532 C56L

DVDS

Action & Adventure
Jumanji: the next level

Children's
The lion king

Classics
Love
The painted veil
The roaring twenties
The sin of Madelon Claudet

Drama
The dresser

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Love and monsters
Tenet

Non-fiction
Putting it together: a musical review DVD 782.14 S69p
Soundbreaking: stories from the cutting edge of recorded music DVD 780.2 S842