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What's New in eAudiobooks for May

E-AUDIOBOOKS
Albert Costa The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language
Matt Ridley How innovation works: and why it flourishes in freedom
Rosalind Miles The women's history of the modern world: how radicals, rebels, and everywomen revolutionized the last 200 years
Mark Harris Mike nichols : A life
BillGatesHow to avoid a climate disaster: the solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need
Richard White California exposures: envisioning myth and history
Chris Wallace Countdown 1945: the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
Fareed Zakaria Ten lessons for a post-pandemic world
Paul Matzko The radio right: how a band of broadcasters took on the federal government and built the modern conservative movement
Leon Uris O'Hara's choice
Leon Uris Redemption
Alexander Wolff Endpapers: a family story of books, war, escape, and home
Donald E Westlake The busy body
Donald E Westlake Dancing Aztecs
Jaroslav Pelikan Jesus through the centuries: His place in the history of culture
Thomas Merton The christian in the world
Thomas Merton The Christian life today
Thomas Merton Living contemplatively in the modern world
Thomas Merton A message of contemplatives to the world
Thomas Merton Thomas Merton on the mystical life and Martin Buber
Thomas Merton Thomas Merton on Augustine, Jerome, and Ambrose : the philosophy of the great Latin fathers
Thomas Merton Thomas Merton on Franz Kafka
Thomas Merton Thomas Merton's Great sermons and reflections
Ernest Hemingway Three stories and ten poems
John Julius Norwich Absolute monarchs: a history of the papacy
John Julius Norwich Four princes: Henry Viii, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the obsessions that forged modern Europe
Italo Calvino Italian folktales
Franz Kafka A hunger artist
Ben Goldacre Bad pharma: how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients
Ben Goldacre Bad science: quacks, hacks, and big pharma flacks
J D Vance Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
Chris Voss Never split the difference: negotiating as if your life depended on it
Sarah Penner The lost apothecary
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney Good company
Kate Quinn The rose code
Madeline Miller The song of Achilles
Michael Connelly The law of innocence
Flynn Berry Northern spy : a novel
John Sandford Ocean Prey
Tana French The searcher : a novel
JoAnne Tompkins What comes after
Paula McLain When the stars go dark
Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants
Michael A Singer The untethered soul: the journey beyond yourself
Jessica Bruder Nomadland: surviving America in the twenty-first century
Fredrik Backman Anxious people
Brenda Chapman Butterfly kills
BrendaChapmanCold mourning

Posted on May. 10, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New Print Non-Fiction for May

NON-FICTION

Applied Sciences
R W Hamming The art of doing science and engineering: learning to learn 620 H183

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Mark Nelson Hollywood Arensberg: avant-garde collecting in midcentury LA 708.1794 N331
Alexander Nemerov Fierce poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York 759.13 F829n
James Gardner The Louvre: the many lives of the world's most famous museum 708.4 L89g
Dennis Hopper Dennis Hopper: photographs 1961-1967 779 H778
Blake Gopnik Warhol 750.92 W27g

Biography & Genealogy
Les Payne The dead are arising: the life of Malcolm X 320.54 L778
Allen J Abel The short life of Hughie McLoon: a true story of baseball, magic, and murder 796.357 M459a
Michael J Fox No time like the future: an optimist considers mortality 792.092 F793n
Erik Edstrom Un-American: a soldier's reckoning of our longest war 958.104 E79
Liz Lee Heinecke Radiant: the dancer, the scientist, and a friendship forged in light 792.8 H468
Susan Page Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the lessons of power 328.73 P39pa
Glenn Stout Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid: America's original gangster couple 364.155 W618s
Anne Glenconner Lady in waiting: my extraordinary life in the shadow of the crown 941.085 G484
Blake Bailey Philip Roth: the biography 813.54 R84b
Jonathan Alter His very best: Jimmy Carter, a life 973.926 C32a
Samanth Subramanian A dominant character: the radical science and restless politics of J. B. S. Haldane 570.92 S164

Business & Economics
Ali Kriegsman How to Build a Goddamn Empire: Advice on Creating Your Brand with High-Tech Smarts, Elbow Grease, Infinite Hustle, and a Whole Lotta Heart. 658.421 K894
Robert Wringham The Good life for wage slaves: how to live beautifullu as a white-collar drudge 302.35 W95
Emily Heyward Obsessed: building a brand people love from day one 658.8 H519
Gerald L Posner Pharma: greed, lies, and the poisoning of America 338.4761 P85
Kurt Andersen Evil geniuses: the unmaking of America 330.973 A544

Computer Science
Gabriel René The spatial web: how web 3.0 will connect humans, machines and AI to transform the world 004.6 R290

Food & Drink
William SitwellThe restaurant: a 2,000-year history of dining out 647.95 S623r
Michael Moss Hooked: food, free will, and how the food giants exploit our addictions 613.2 M913h

Health & Medicine
Andrew Steele Ageless: the new science of getting older without getting old 612.67 S322
Robin Lane Fox The invention of medicine: from Homer to Hippocrates 610.938 L265
Anna Mehler Paperny Hello I want to die please fix me: depression in the first person 362.1968 P197
Abdul El-Sayed Medicare for all: a citizen's guide 368.42 E74
Jason Karlawish The problem of Alzheimer's: how science, culture, and politics turned a rare disease into a crisis and what we can do about it 616.831 K146
James Nestor Breath: the new science of a lost art 613.192 N468
Alex Riley A cure for darkness: the story of depression and how we treat it 616.8527 R573

History
Tracy Campbell The year of peril: America in 1942 973.9 C152
Jonathan Lichtenstein The Berlin shadow: living with the ghosts of the Kindertransport 940.5318 L617
Carl Hoffman Liar's circus: a strange and terrifying journey into the upside-down world of Trump's MAGA rallies 973.933 H699
Bettye Kearse The other Madisons: the lost history of a president's Black family 973.5 K214
Kerri Arsenault Mill town: reckoning with what remains 974.1 A72
Winston Churchill The river war 962.403 C563
Saul David Crucible of hell: the heroism and tragedy of Okinawa, 1945 940.542 D280
Margaret MacMillan War: how conflict shaped us 355.02 M167
Brian Castner Stampede: gold fever and disaster in the Klondike 971.9 C353s
Katherine Sharp Landdeck The women with silver wings: the inspiring true story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II 940.5449 L232
Florian Huber Promise me you'll shoot yourself: the mass suicide of ordinary Germans in 1945 940.53 H862
Judith Batalion The light of days: the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos 940.5318 B311

Law
Brittany K Barnett A knock at midnight: a story of hope, justice, and freedom 340.092 B264

Literature & Writing
Why to these rocks: 50 years of poems from the Community of Writers 811.008 W622
Amanda Gorman The hill we climb: an inaugural poem for the country 811.6 G68
Ward Farnsworth Farnsworth's classical English style 808.02 F237

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Katie Mack The end of everything (astrophysically speaking) 523.1 M153
Carl Safina Becoming wild: how animal cultures raise families, create beauty, and achieve peace 591.7 S128
Walter Isaacson The code breaker: Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race 576.5 D744i
Alan P Lightman Probable impossibilities: musings on beginnings and endings 523.1 L724p
Aimee Nezhukumatathil World of wonders: in praise of fireflies, whale sharks, and other astonishments 590 N499
Patrik Svensson The book of eels: our enduring fascination with the most mysterious creature in the natural world 597.43 S25
Donald R Prothero The story of evolution in 25 discoveries: the evidence and the people who found it 576.8 P967s
Eric Jay Dolin A furious sky: the five-hundred-year history of America's hurricanes 551.55 D66

Performing Arts & Music
Gabriel Byrne Walking with ghosts 792.092 B996
Sharon Stone The beauty of living twice 792.092 S711
David Thomson A light in the dark: a history of movie directors 791.43 T482L
Olivia Laing Funny weather: art in an emergency 701 L187
Ian Zack Odetta: a life in music and protest 780.92 O28
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong When women invented television: the untold story of the female powerhouses who pioneered the way we watch today 791.45 A735w

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Julia Galef The scout mindset: why some people see things clearly and others don't 153.4 G131
Nancy Pearcey Love thy body: answering hard questions about life and sexuality 241.697 P316
Rachel Jankovic You who?: why you matter and how to deal with it 233 J259
Frederik L Schodt My Heart Sutra: a world in 260 characters 294.385 S363

Politics & Government
Jon Fasman We see it all: liberty and justice in an age of perpetual surveillance 323.4482 F263
Ben Macintyre Agent Sonya: Moscow's most daring wartime spy 327.12 M152
Scott Anderson The quiet Americans: four CIA spies at the dawn of the Cold War--a tragedy in three acts 327.12 A549
Stacey Abrams Our time is now: power, purpose, and the fight for a fair America 324.6 A834
Raffi Berg Red Sea spies: the true story of Mossad's fake diving resort 327.12 B452
Anne Applebaum Twilight of democracy: the seductive lure of authoritarianism 321.9 A64
Alexander Wolff Endpapers: a family story of books, war, escape, and home 325.21 W855

Reference
Jonathan Waterman National Geographic atlas of the National Parks 917.304 N277
Jan Yager Help yourself now: a practical guide to finding the information and assistance you need 361 Y107

Social Sciences & Current Events
Nicole Laporte Guilty admissions: the bribes, favors, and phonies behind the college cheating scandal 378.1 L315g
Amelia Pang Made in China: a prisoner, an SOS letter, and the hidden cost of America's cheap goods 331.11 P193
Richard Haiduck Shifting gears: 50 baby boomers share their meaningful journeys in retirement 306.38 H125
Catherine LiuVirtue hoarders: the case against the professional managerial class Catherine Liu 305.52 L78
Talia Lavin Culture warlords: my journey into the dark web of white supremacy 320.569 L394
Dianne M Stewart Black women, Black love: America's war on African American marriage 305.48 S491
Beth A Bechky Blood, powder, and residue: how crime labs translate evidence into proof 363.25 B387
Brian Alexander The hospital: life, death, and dollars in a small American town 362.1 A261
Edward Ball Life of a Klansman: a family history in white supremacy 305.8 B187
Ruby Hamad White tears brown scars: how white feminism betrays women of color 305.8 H17
Paul Matzko The radio right: how a band of broadcasters took on the federal government and built the modern conservative movement 384.54 M439
Koa Beck White feminism: from the suffragettes to influencers and who they leave behind 305.42 B388
Helen Lewis Difficult women: a history of feminism in 11 fights 305.42 L673
Ruʼyā Ḥakkākiyān A beginner's guide to America: for the immigrant and the curious 352.73 H155
Ioan Grillo Blood gun money: how America arms gangs and cartels 363.33 G859
Liza Rodman The babysitter: my summers with a serial killer 364.152 R618
Jay Weaver Dirty gold: the rise and fall of an international smuggling ring 364.133 W379
Alastair Gee Fire in Paradise: an American tragedy 363.34 G27
Becky Cooper We keep the dead close: a murder at Harvard and a half century of silence 364.152 C784
John E Douglas The killer's shadow: the FBI's hunt for a white supremacist serial killer 364.152 D73k
Michael Eric Dyson Long time coming: reckoning with race in America 305.8 D998L
Claudia Rankine Just us: an American conversation 305.8 R211
Julia Cooke Come fly the world: the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am 387.7 C772
Joshua D Rothman The ledger and the chain: how domestic slave traders shaped America 306.362 R745

CHILDREN'S

Non-fiction
Rebecca E Hirsch Where have all the bees gone? Child 595.79 H615

Posted on May. 10, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New Print Fiction for May

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FICTION
Nona Fernández The twilight zone
Susan Crandall Whistling past the graveyard
Sanjena Sathian Gold diggers
Brit Bennett The mothers
Carol Edgarian Vera
Kim Neville The memory collectors
Gabriela Garcia Of women and salt
Dewaine Farria Revolutions of all colors
Imbolo Mbue How beautiful we were
Willy Vlautin The night always comes
Hala Alyan The arsonists' city
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz The passenger
Pip Williams The dictionary of lost words
Dario Diofebi Paradise, Nevada: (this town wasn't built on winners)
Helen Oyeyemi Peaces
Jen Silverman We play ourselves
Kirstin Valdez Quade The five wounds
Tif Marcelo In a book club far away
Daniela Krien Love in case of emergency

Historical Fiction
Denny S Bryce Wild women and the blues
Mary Monroe Mrs. Wiggins
Roy Jacobsen White shadow
Stacy D Flood The salt fields
Stephanie Dray The women of Chateau Lafayette
Madeline Martin The last bookshop in London

Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage & Intrigue
Alexandra Andrews Who is Maud Dixon?
Sarah Gailey The echo wife
Nadine Matheson The Jigsaw manl
John Verdon On Harrow Hill
Peter Swanson Every vow you break
Michael Sears Tower of Babel
C S Harris What the devil knows
Candice Fox Gathering dark
Camilla Sten The lost village
Richard O'Rawe Northern heist
Donna Leon Transient desires
Paula McLain When the stars go dark
Craig Johnson The cold dish

Short Stories
Haruki Murakami The first person singular
Dantiel W Moniz Milk blood heat
Jo Ann Beard Festival days

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Frederik L Schodt Manga! Manga!: the world of Japanese comics 741.53 S363w comics

DVDS

Comedy
A rainy day in New York

Posted on May. 10, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New Fiction This Week

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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

Posted on Apr. 15, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New Non-Fiction For This Week

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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

Posted on Apr. 15, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New eBooks for This Week

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

Posted on Apr. 14, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New eAudiobooks for This Week

Posted on Apr. 14, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New eBooks For March

New Print Fiction for March

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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

Posted on Mar. 12, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New Print Non-Fiction for March

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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

Posted on Mar. 12, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang