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Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Simon Morley Seven keys to modern art 709.04 M827
Diana Souhami No modernism without lesbians 709.04 S46
Mark Stevens Francis Bacon : revelations 750.92 B12s
Lee Lai Stone fruit 741.5 L185
Philip Hoare Albert and the whale : Albrecht Dürer and how art imagines our world 709.2 D96

Biography & Genealogy
Genesis P-Orridge Nonbinary : a memoir 709.2 P1
Anne Sebba Ethel Rosenberg : an American tragedy 351.74 R723
Dennis J Kucinich The division of light and power 352.16 K955

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism
Library and book trade almanac 020.5 L697 2020

Business & Economics
Joe Coulombe Becoming Trader Joe : how I did business my way and still beat the big guys 381.456 C85
Eric Cole Cyber crisis : protecting your business from real threats in the virtual world 364.16 C68
Virginia A McArthur Let's talk about estate planning 332.024 M118
Jamie Ducharme Big vape : the incendiary rise of Juul 338.7679 D856

Chess
Vladimir Barsky A modern guide to checkmating patterns : improve your ability to spot typical mates 794.12 B28
David Llada The thinkers 794.1092 L770
New in chess yearbook = New in chess Jahrbuch 794.1 N53y

Computer Science
Matthew MacDonald Wordpress : the missing manual : the book that should have been in the box 005.3 W924mw
Lisa Sabin-Wilson WordPress 005.3 W924s

Health & Medicine
A world out of reach : dispatches from life under lockdown : selections from The Yale Review's "Pandemic Files" 362.1962 W893
Justine Bateman Face : one square foot of skin 301 B317
David A Sinclair Lifespan : why we age--and why we don't have to 612.68 S616
Sarah Everts The joy of sweat : the strange science of perspiration 612.793 E276
Lawrence Wright The plague year : America in the time of COVID 614.5924 W951
Robert Kolker Hidden Valley Road : inside the mind of an American family 616.89 K813

History
Francis Fukuyama After the end of history : conversations with Francis Fukuyama 901 F961a
Daniel P Bolger The Panzer killers : the untold story of a fighting general and his Spearhead Tank Division's charge into the Third Reich 940.5412 R720
Russell Duncan Freedom's shore : Tunis Campbell and the Georgia freedmen 975.8 D912
James M Banner The ever-changing past : why all history is revisionist history 907.2 B226
Gregory P Downs After Appomattox : military occupation and the ends of war 973.7 D759
Alexander C T Geppert Fleeting cities : imperial expositions in fin-de-siècle Europe 907.44 G353
Michela Wrong Do not disturb : the story of a political murder and an African regime gone bad 967.5710 W95d
Gigi Georges Downeast : five Maine girls and the unseen story of rural America 974.1 G295
Aviva Chomsky Central America's forgotten history : revolution, violence, and the roots of migration 972.8 C548
Tom Dyja New York, New York, New York : four decades of success, excess, and transformation 974.7 D996
Scott Borchert Republic of detours : how the New Deal paid broke writers to rediscover America 973.917 B644
Edison Eskeets Send a runner : a Navajo honors the long walk 979.1004 E42
Christopher I Beckwith Empires of the Silk Road : a history of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present 958 B389
Lynne Olson Madame Fourcade's secret war : the daring young woman who led France's largest spy network against Hitler 940.5486 O52

Home & Family Management
Gary Quesenberry Spotting danger before it spots your kids 613.6 Q37

Languages & Linguistics
Shannon R Becker French for reading and translation 440 B388

Law
Ian Rosenberg The fight for free speech : ten cases that define our First Amendment freedoms 342.7308 R723

Literature & Writing
Zadie Smith Intimations : six essays 824.9 S64
Katherine Langrish From spare room to wardrobe: travels in Narnia with my nine-year-old self 823.912 L285
André Aciman Homo irrealis : essays 814.6 A181
Dinty W Moore To hell with it : of sin and sex, chicken wings, and Dante's entirely ridiculous, needlessly guilt-inducing Inferno 818.54 M821
LMP 2021 : literary market place : the directory of the American book publishing industry with industry indexes 655.52 L77 2021

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Mark S Monmonier How to lie with maps 526 M74
Jorge Cham We have no idea : a guide to the unknown universe 523.1 C355
Jonathan Meiburg A most remarkable creature : the hidden life and epic journey of the world's smartest birds of prey 598.96 M475
Andrew H Knoll A brief history of Earth : four billion years in eight chapters 550 K72
Michael Pollan This is your mind on plants 581.6 P771
Jeremy DeSilva First steps : how upright walking made us human 599.93 D460

Performing Arts & Music
Kitt Shapiro Eartha & Kitt : a daughter's love story in black and white 792.092 K65
Alan K Rode Michael Curtiz : a life in film 791.4 C947
Michael Koresky Films of endearment : a mother, a son and the '80s films that defined us 791.43 K841
Dolly Parton Dolly Parton : songteller, my life in lyrics 780.92 P27d
Jessica Hopper The first collection of criticism by a living female rock critic 781.66 H798x
Chris Thomas King The blues : the authentic narrative of my music and culture 781.643 K580
Lisa Napoli Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie : the extraordinary story of the founding mothers of NPR 791.44 N162

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Jordan B Peterson Beyond order : 12 more rules for life 170.44 P485b
Elissa Washuta White magic : essays 133.4 W319
Irvin D Yalom A matter of death and life 155.93 Y19m
John Gray Feline philosophy : cats and the meaning of life 128 G778
Adam M Grant Think again : the power of knowing what you don't know 153.42 G761

Politics & Government
Jacqueline Keeler Standoff : Standing Rock, the Bundy movement, and the American story of sacred lands 323.1197 K245
Mazie Hirono Heart of fire : an immigrant daughter's story 328.73 H668
Josh Hawley The tyranny of big tech 322.3 H316
Andrew J Bacevich After the apocalypse : America's role in a world transformed 327.73 B118
David Freedlander The AOC generation : how millennials are seizing power and rewriting the rules of American politics 305.2 F734
Sebastian Junger Freedom 323.44 J95
Mia Bay Traveling Black : a story of race and resistance 305.896 B356
Mark R LevinAmerican Marxism 320.973 L665
Jonathan Stevenson A drop of treason : Philip Agee and his exposure of the CIA 327.127 S847
John Lewis Carry on : reflections for a new generation 328.73 L674c

Reference
VideoHound's golden movie retriever 2021 Ref 791.4 V65

Social Sciences & Current Events
J Nicole Jones Low Country : a southern memoir 305.562 J762
Laura Bates Men who hate women : from incels to pickup artists : the truth about extreme misogyny and how it affects us all 305.3 B318
John T Jost A theory of system justification 303.372 J795
Kate Aronoff Overheated : how capitalism broke the planet--and how we fight back 363.73 A769
Jason Vuic The swamp peddlers : how lot sellers, land scammers, and retirees built modern Florida and transformed the American dream 333.33 V987
James Baldwin Nothing personal 814 B178no
Paula Stone Williams As a woman : what I learned about power, sex, and the patriarchy after I transitioned 306.768 W670
Dean Jobb The case of the murderous Dr Cream : the hunt for a Victorian era serial killer 364.152 J576
Ruby McConnell Ground truth : a geological survey of a life 363.7 M134
Sara Gay FordenThe house of Gucci : a sensational story of murder, madness, glamour, and greed 364.152 F758
Clint Smith How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America 306.362 S511
Andy Horowitz Katrina : a history, 1915-2015 363.34 H785
Nathaniel Rich Second nature : scenes from a world remade 304.28 R499
Julie K Brown Perversion of justice : the Jeffrey Epstein story 364.153 B812
Sheera Frenkel An ugly truth : inside Facebook's battle for domination 302.3 F889
Dan Davies Lying for money : how legendary frauds reveal the workings of the world 364.16 D25

Travel & Geography
Moon handbooks Tahoe & Reno 917.935 M818
Zion & Bryce Canyon national parks 917.92 L847
Austria 914.36 L847
Frommer's easyguide to Montreal and Quebec City 2015 917.14 F93e
Frommer's Montréal day by day 917.14 F93m
Canada 917.1 L847
Fodor's Scotland 914.11 F653
Amsterdam 914.923 L847
Coastal Oregon 917.951 M818
Moon handbooks Austin, San Antonio & the hill country 917.643 M818
British Columbia & the Canadian Rockies 917.11 L847
Ireland 914.15 L847
Canadian Rockies 917.11 M818c
Incredible archaeology : inspiring places from our human past 930.1 I217
Moon Rhode Island 917.45 M818
Bhutan 915.498 L847
Yellowstone & Grand Teton 917.87 M818y
Moon handbooks New York State 917.47 M818
Moon handbooks Vancouver with Victoria, Vancouver Island & Whistler 917.112 M818
Arizona & the Grand Canyon 917.91 M818
Ireland's best trips : 34 amazing road trips 914.15 L847b
Fodor's essential Hawaii 919.69 F653
Moon Texas 917.64 M818
Fodor's Puerto Vallarta 917.23 F65

DVDS

Non-fiction
Collective DVD 362.1 C685
Hemingway : a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick DVD 813.52 H479
Planet of the humans DVD 363.738 P693

Posted on Aug. 3, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang