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New eAudiobooks for September 2021

E-AUDIOBOOKS

Marcel Proust In search of lost time
Julie K Brown Perversion of justice : the Jeffrey Epstein story
Graham Greene The power and the glory
Saul Bellow Ravelstein
Rachel Vogelstein Awakening : #MeToo and the global fight for women's rights
Sigrid Nunez The friend
Tara Westover Educated : a memoir
Anna Qu Made in China : a memoir of love and labor
Edmund Gosse Father & son
Wallace Stevens The poetry of Wallace Stevens
Arnold Bennett Arnold Bennett's The old wives' tale.
Patricia Cornwell Chaos
Jennifer Chiaverini The Women's March : a novel of the 1913 woman suffrage procession
Elena Ferrante The days of abandonment
Lauren Beukes The shining girls
Sanjena Sathian Gold diggers
Ocean Vuong On earth we're briefly gorgeous
Dan Brown The lost symbol
Stephen Mack Jones August Snow
Virginia Feito Mrs. march
Stephen King The running man
Richard Brautigan The abortion : an historical romance 1966
Richard Brautigan A Confederate General from Big Sur
Richard Brautigan Dreaming of Babylon : a private eye novel, 1942
Richard Brautigan The hawkline monster : a gothic western
Richard Brautigan In watermelon sugar
Richard Brautigan So the wind won't blow it all away
Richard Brautigan Trout fishing in America
Richard Brautigan An unfortunate woman : a journey
Karin SlaughterFalse Witness
David Baldacci Daylight
Nathan Harris The sweetness of water
Miranda Cowley Heller The paper palace
Marie Benedict The personal librarian
Naomi Hirahara Clark and Division
William M Arkin The generals have no clothes : the untold story of our endless wars

Posted on Sep. 9, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New Print Non-Fiction for September 2021

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NON-FICTION

Applied Sciences
Chad T Hanson Smokescreen : debunking wildfire myths to save our forests and our climate 634.96 H198
James Rebanks Pastoral song : a farmer's journey 636.3 R289p

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Jerry Saltz How to be an artist 701.15 S379
Christina Weyl The women of Atelier 17 : modernist printmaking in midcentury New York 769.974 W546
Joshua Sanabria Unexpected : Salton Sea 779.092 S197

Biography & Genealogy
Susan Ronald The ambassador : Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940 973.917 R768
Ilhan Omar This is what America looks like : my journey from refugee to Congresswoman 328.73 O17
Anna Qu Made in China : a memoir of love and labor 973.0495 Q2
Alexander Norman The Dalai Lama : an extraordinary life 294.3 B917n

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism
Kim Todd Sensational : the hidden history of America's "girl stunt reporters" 071.3 T634
The God beat : what journalism says about faith and why it matters 070.4 G54
American Library Directory : 2020-2021. 027 A51 2020

Business & Economics
Frances Frei Unleashed : the unapologetic leader's guide to empowering everyone around you 658.314 F881
Eliot Brown The cult of We : WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the great startup delusion 333.33 B812
Matt Hart Win at all costs : inside Nike running and its culture of deception 338.768 H251

Chess
Axel Smith Street Smart Chess 794.12 S642
Gata Kamsky Gata Kamsky : chess gamer. Volume 2: Return (2004-2013) 794.15 K159r
Alexey Kuzmin Together with the candidates : Budapest 1950 to Berlin 2018 794.12 K978

Food & Drink
Brandon Jew Mister Jiu's in Chinatown : recipes and stories from the birthplace of Chinese American food 641.5951 J54

Health & Medicine
Geoff Manaugh Until proven safe : the history and future of quarantine 614.4 M267
Bruce Duncan Perry What happened to you? : conversations on trauma, resilience, and healing 616.8521 P46
Parley Anderson All this sitting is killing you 613.7 A54
Benjamin H Bratton The revenge of the real : politics for a post-pandemic world 614.4 B737
Leana S Wen Lifelines : a doctor's journey in the fight for public health 362.1 W467

History
Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019 973.0496 F825
Ann Hagedorn Sleeper agent : the atomic spy in America who got away 940.5486 K849
Margalit Fox The confidence men : how two prisoners of war engineered the most remarkable escape in history 940.472 F791
David A Price Geniuses at war : Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the dawn of the digital age 940.5486 P946
Frederic C Howe Socialized Germany 943.08 H855
Benjamin H Milligan By water beneath the walls : the rise of the Navy SEALs 359.984 M621
Catherine Belton Putin's people : how the KGB took back Russia and then took on the West 947.086 B453
Jan Brokken The just : how six unlikely heroes saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust 940.5318 B787

Law
Richard Delgado Critical race theory : an introduction 342.7308 D378

Literature & Writing
Matthew Specktor Always crashing in the same car : on art, crisis, & Los Angeles, California 813 S318
Jeanne Powell Deeply Notched Leaves : poems 811 P882d
Slouching towards Los Angeles : living and writing by Joan Didion's light 813.54 D55s

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Edith Widder Below the edge of darkness : a memoir of exploring light and life in the deep sea 551.46 W633
Christina Conklin The atlas of disappearing places : our coasts and oceans in the climate crisis 551.457 C761

Performing Arts & Music
Georgina Pazcoguin Swan dive : the making of a rogue ballerina 792.8 P298
Danny Trejo Trejo : my life of crime, redemption, and Hollywood 792.092 T718
Eddie Muller Dark city : the lost world of film noir 791.4 M958da
Jessica Simpson Open book 782.421 S613
James Lapine Putting it together : how Stephen Sondheim and I created "Sunday in the park with George" 792.6 L314

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Sam Kean The icepick surgeon : murder, fraud, sabotage, piracy, and other dastardly deeds perpetrated in the name of science 174.95 K25
Gwen Adshead The devil you know : stories of human cruelty and compassion 155.232 A86

Politics & Government
Adrianne Aron Human rights and wrongs : reluctant heroes fight tyranny 323.631 A672
Greg Grandin Empire's workshop : Latin America, the United States, and the making of an imperial republic 327.7308 G753
Amy Sohn The man who hated women : sex, censorship, and civil liberties in the Gilded Age 323.44 S26
Kehinde Andrews The new age of empire : how racism and colonialism still rule the world 325.32 A261
Political Ideas in the Romantic Age Their Rise & Influence on Modern Thought. 320.01 B515
Thomas C Holt The movement : the African American struggle for civil rights 323.1196 H758

Social Sciences & Current Events
Dax-Devlon Ross Letters to my white male friends 305.8 R733
Adam Serwer The cruelty is the point : the past, present, and future of Trump's America 305.8 S699
Joanne Samuel Goldblum Broke in America : seeing, understanding, and ending US poverty 362.5 G564
Melissa Bruntlett Curbing traffic : the human case for fewer cars in our lives 388.31 B838
The essential Kerner Commission report 363.32 E742
Jim Tankersley The riches of this land : the untold, true story of America's middle class 305.55 T156
Andrew D Baker To poison a nation : the murder of Robert Charles and the rise of Jim Crow policing in America 305.8 B171
Katherine Dykstra What happened to Paula : on the death of an American girl 363.259 D991
Curtis Wilkie When evil lived in Laurel : the "White Knights" and the murder of Vernon Dahmer 305.8 W653
James Suzman Work : a deep history, from the stone age to the age of robots 331.09 S968
Whitney Phillips You are here : a field guide for navigating polarized speech, conspiracy theories, and our polluted media landscape 302.23 P541
Rachel Vogelstein Awakening : #MeToo and the global fight for women's rights 305.42 V865
Ewa Majewska Feminist antifascism : counterpublics of the common 305.42 M288
Sarah Schulman Let the record show : a political history of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 362.1969 S386L
Courtney E Martin Learning in public : lessons for a racially divided America from my daughter's school 379.26 M363

Sports & Games
Nicholas Greene How to watch basketball like a genius : what game designers, economists, ballet choreographers, and theoretical astrophysicists reveal about the greatest game on Earth 796.3 G830

Travel & Geography
Joseph R Yogerst 100 drives, 5,000 ideas : where to go, when to go, what to see, what to do 917.3 N277o
Tim Parks The hero's way : walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna 945.08 P252
Allison Williams Moon handbooks. Pacific Northwest road trip 917.95 M818r

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Non-fiction
La Cenerentola : melodramma giocoso in due atti DVD 782.5 R85c
Secrets of the Bay DVD 574.92 S446

Posted on Sep. 7, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New Print Fiction for September 2021

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FICTION
Sunjeev Sahota China room
Silvia Moreno-Garcia Mexican gothic
Charlotte McConaghy Once there were wolves
Colleen Oakley The invisible husband of Frick Island

Historical Fiction
Leah Weiss All the little hopes
Lynda Rutledge West with giraffes
Jennifer Chiaverini The women's march
Maggie Shipstead Great circle
Derek B Miller How to find your way in the dark
Anne B Gass We Demand : The Suffrage Road Trip

Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage & Intrigue
Grady Hendrix The final girl support group
B A Paris The therapist
Riley Sager Survive the night

Short Stories
Adam Thompson Born into this
McSweeney's. 63. SS M175
Blackout SS B566
Nebula awards showcase #54 : the year's best of science fiction and fantasy SS N36

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Adrian Tomine The loneliness of the long-distance cartoonist 741.5 T657L comics

Music CDs

Jazz
Blue Mitchell The thing to do CD Jazz Mitchell
Chick Corea Antidote CD Jazz Corea
Joey DeFrancesco In the key of the universe CD Jazz DeFrancesco

World
Rodrigo y GabrielaMettavolution CD World Rodrigo

Posted on Sep. 7, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New Print Non-Fiction for August 2021

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NONFICTION

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

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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

New Print Fiction for August 2021

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FICTION
Valerie Perrin Fresh Water for Flowers
Diane Johnson Lorna Mott comes home
Katee Robert Neon gods
Kurt Tucholsky Castle Gripsholm
S A Cosby Razorblade tears
Miranda Cowley Heller The paper palace
Laurie Frankel One two three : a novel
Lucinda Riley The missing sister
Joshua Cohen The Netanyahus
William Kennedy Ironweed
Stefan Zweig Chess story
Margaux Deroux The Lost Diary of Venice
Kathy Reichs The bone code
Claire Heywood Daughters of Sparta
Diane Cook The new wilderness
Brandon Hobson The removed
Alexander McCall Smith The Bertie project
Lyn Liao Butler The tiger mom's tale
Katie M Kitamura Intimacies
Shelley Parker-Chan She who became the sun
Dana Spiotta Wayward
Pedro Mairal The woman from Uruguay

Historical Fiction
Marie Benedict The personal librarian
Alka Joshi The secret keeper of Jaipur
Kristin Harmel The forest of vanishing stars
Francine Prose The vixen
Lucinda Riley The seven sisters
Nathan Harris The sweetness of water
Jonathan Lee The great mistake
Orville SchellMy old home
Ron Nyren The book of lost light
Chris Bohjalian Hour of the witch
Anuk Arudpragasam A passage north

Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage & Intrigue
Caitlin Wahrer The damage
Simon R Green The house on Widows Hill
Sujata Massey The Bombay prince
Taylor Adams Hairpin Bridge
Martin Edwards Yesterday's papers Martin Edwards
Joe R Lansdale Moon lake : an East Texas gothic
Laura Lippman Dream girl
Robert J Harris A study in crimson : Sherlock Holmes 1942
Megan Miranda Such a quiet place
Alexander McCall Smith How to raise an elephant
Brad Thor Black ice
Dan Fesperman The cover wife
Charles Todd An Irish hostage
Michelle Richmond The wonder test
T J NewmanFalling
Stacey Abrams While justice sleeps

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Trevor Barton Brobots : the complete source code
K B Wagers Hold fast through the fire

Short Stories
Brandon TaylorFilthy animals
Xu Xu Bird talk and other stories by Xu Xu : modern tales of a Chinese romantic
Stuart Neville The traveller : and other stories
Berkeley noir SS B512
Jack Wang We two alone
Daniel MasonA registry of my passage upon the earth

Westerns
Tom Lin The thousand crimes of Ming Tsu

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Mike Hawthorne Happiness will follow 741.5 H39 comics

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Drama
55 steps

Posted on Aug. 3, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New eBooks for August 2021

EBOOKS
Sebastian Junger A death in Belmont
Sebastian Junger Fire
Sebastian Junger The perfect storm : a true story of men against the sea
James Howard Kunstler Too Much Magic : Wishful Thinking, Technology, And The Fate Of The Nation
James Howard Kunstler The long emergency : surviving the end of oil, climate change , and other converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century
Hugh Laurie The gun seller
Michael LewisThe Premonition : a pandemic story
Heather Cox Richardson How the South won the Civil War : oligarchy, democracy, and the continuing fight for the soul of America
Adam Hochschild King Leopold's ghost : a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa
Heather Cox Richardson West from Appomattox : the reconstruction of America after the Civil War
Richard Delgado Critical race theory : an introduction
Ada Calhoun Why we can't sleep : women's new midlife crisis
James Nestor Breath : The new science of a lost art
John T Jost A theory of system justification
Andrei Codrescu The poetry lesson
Andrei Codrescu The posthuman Dada guide : Tzara & Lenin play chess
Andrei Codrescu Whatever gets you through the night : a story of sheherezade and the Arabian entertainments
Andrei Codrescu New Orleans, mon amour : twenty years of writings from the city
Andrei Codrescu Ay, Cuba! : a socio-erotic journey
Andrei Codrescu The Blood Countess
Andrei Codrescu Casanova in Bohemia
Andrei Codrescu Messi@
Andrei Codrescu Wakefield
Richard Preston The wild trees : A story of passion and daring

Posted on Aug. 3, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New eAudiobooks for August 2021

Posted on Aug. 3, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New eAudiobooks for July 2021

Posted on Jul. 7, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New eBooks for July 2021

Posted on Jul. 7, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New Print Non-Fiction for July 2021

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Applied Sciences
Chelsea Wald Pipe dreams : the urgent global quest to transform the toilet 696.182 W142

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Cynthia Saltzman Plunder : Napoleon's theft of Veronese's Feast 759.5 S179
James K McAuleyThe house of fragile things : Jewish art collectors and the fall of France 704.0392 M119

Biography & Genealogy
Jason Riley Maverick : a biography of Thomas Sowell 330.092 S731
Andrew Morton Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters 941.085 E4345m

Business & Economics

Patrick Radden Keefe Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty 338.4761 K242

Computer Science
Erik J Larson The myth of artificial intelligence : why computers can't think the way we do 006.3 L329
K Allado-McDowell Pharmako-AI 004.01 A41

Food & Drink
Adrian Miller Black smoke : African Americans and the United States of barbecue 641.76 M647
Dena Grunt Table with a view : the history & recipes of Nick's Cove 641.5979 G927

Health & Medicine
Paul Farmer Fevers, feuds, and diamonds : Ebola and the ravages of history 614.5 F229

History
David ArmineHowarth The Shetland bus : a WWII epic of courage, endurance, and survival 940.5459 H85
John D Weaver The Brownsville Raid 355.1 W379
Nicole Archambeau Souls under siege : stories of war, plague, and confession in fourteenth-century Provence 944.9 A226
Lesley M M Blume Fallout : the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world 940.54 B625
The end of the Golden Gate : writers on loving and (sometimes) leaving San Francisco 979.461 E211
Caroline Moorehead A house in the mountains : the women who liberated Italy from fascism 940.5345 M825h
Jeffrey S Gurock The Jews of Harlem : the rise, decline, and revival of a Jewish community 974.7 G966
Daniel James Brown Facing the mountain : a true story of Japanese American heroes in World War II 940.5412 B877
Larry Loftis The princess spy : the true story of World War II spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones 940.5486 L827

Law
Amy Klobuchar Antitrust : taking on monopoly power from the Gilded Age to the digital age 343.73 K691
Linda M Fasulo An insider's guide to the UN 341.23 F266
Dorothy A Brown The Whiteness of wealth : how the tax system impoverishes Black Americans--and how we can fix it 343.0408 B812

Literature & Writing
Rachel Kushner The hard crowd : essays 2000-2020 814.6 K968
Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn Between two millstones. Book 2, Exile in America, 1978-1994 891.78 S69
Corey Rosen Your story, well told : creative strategies to develop and perform stories that wow an audience 808.5 R722
Nisi Shawl Writing the other : a practical approach 808.02 S537

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Paul Sen Einstein's fridge : how the difference between hot and cold explains the universe 536.7 S551
David Sibley What it's like to be a bird : from flying to nesting, eating to singing -- what birds are doing, and why 598 S56wh

Performing Arts & Music
Charles Casillo Elizabeth and Monty : the untold story of their intimate friendship 792.092 C269
Uwe Schütte Kraftwerk : future music from Germany 780.92 K892s
Tony Oppedisano Sinatra and me : in the wee small hours 780.92 S61o

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
James R Detert Choosing courage : the everyday guide to being brave at work 179.6 D480
Katie Engelhart The inevitable : dispatches on the right to die 179.7 E326
Simon McCarthy-Jones Spite : the upside of your dark side 152.4 M127
Ethan Kross Chatter : the voice in our head, why it matters, and how to harness it 158.1 K928

Politics & Government
Jon Meacham His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope 328.73 L674m

Social Sciences & Current Events
S Simard Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest 333.75 S42
Alec MacGillis Fulfillment : winning and losing in one-click America 381.142 M175
Elizabeth Warren Persist 303.4 W286
Brad Stone Amazon unbound : Jeff Bezos and the invention of a global empire 381 S877a
Minouche Shafik What we owe each other : a new social contract for a better society 320.01 S134
Tony Hiss Rescuing the planet : protecting half the land to heal the earth 333.75 H673
John Green The Anthropocene reviewed : essays on a human-centered planet 306 G820
Michael Patrick F Smith The good hand : a memoir of work, brotherhood, and transformation in an American boomtown 331.7622 S511
Annette Gordon-Reed On Juneteenth 394.263 G664
Michael Mechanic Jackpot : how the super-rich really live--and how their wealth harms us all 305.52 M464
Robert W Livingston The conversation : how seeking and speaking the truth about racism can radically transform individuals and organizations : a science-based approach 305.8 L762
Isabel Wilkerson Caste : the origins of our discontents 305.5 W68c
Susan Neiman Learning from the Germans : race and the memory of evil 305.8 N41

Travel & Geography
The rough guide to Thailand. 915.986 R856
Anthony Bourdain World travel : an irreverent guide 910.4 B768
Nick Caistor Mexico 917.2 E97
Fodor's Oregon. 917.95 F65
Fodor's Toronto 917.1354 F65
ChrisBarryFodor's Montréal & Québec City 917.14 F653

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Non-fiction
Some kind of heaven DVD 306.38 S521
The Black Church : this is our story, this is our song DVD 277.3 B561
Acasă, my home DVD 949.8 A17

Posted on Jul. 7, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang