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New Print Non-Fiction for February 2023

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Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Hebru Brantley Hebru Brantley. 709.2 B735
Thomas E. Crow The artist in the counterculture : Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and other tales from the edge 701 C953
Aaron Huey Mitakuye oyasin 779.2 H871

Biography & Genealogy

Lindsey Fitzharris The facemaker : a visionary surgeon's battle to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War I 617.092 G415
Rob Wilkins Terry Pratchett : a life with footnotes 823.914 P912
Jim Popkin Code name Blue Wren : the true story of America's most dangerous female spy--and the sister she betrayed 327.12 M764p
Frank Costigliola Kennan : a life between worlds 327.73 K34c
Maureen Dennison Roald Dahl : teller of the unexpected : a biography 823 D131d
Anastasia Carol Curwood Shirley Chisholm : champion of Black feminist power politics 328.73 C447
Hisham Matar The return : fathers, sons, and the land in between 823 M413
Howard Gardner A synthesizing mind : a memoir from the creator of multiple intelligences theory 150.92 G22
Stacy Schiff The revolutionary : Samuel Adams 973.3 A217
Christopher P. Andersen The King : the life of Charles III 941.086 C4762
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Spare 941.086 H249
Leo McCarthy One October night : a memoir 155.93 M127
Beverly Gage G-man : J. Edgar Hoover and the making of the American century 363.25 H7905

Business & Economics
Gabriella Rosen Kellerman Tomorrowmind : thriving at work with resilience, creativity, and connection--now and in an uncertain future 658.3 K286
Jim VandeHei Smart Brevity : the power of saying more with less 658.4 V225
Michael Gibson Paper belt on fire : how renegade investors sparked a revolt against the university 332.63 G357
Ha-Joon Chang Edible economics : a hungry economist explains the world 330 C456e

Chess
Improve your chess calculations : the Ramesh Chess course, Volume 1. 794.1 Im78
Gabor Kallai Basic chess openings 794.122 K14b
A. E. J. Mackett-Beeson Chessmen 794.1 M157
G. M. Čepukajtis Winning at Blitz : a fun guide to Blitz chess 794.1 C39
S. B. Voronkov Masterpieces and dramas of the Soviet Championships 794.157 V954

Computer Science
Henry Kissinger The age of AI : and our human future 006.3 K618
Laurent Richard Pegasus : how a spy in your pocket threatens the end of privacy, dignity, and democracy 005.8 R381

Food & Drink
Eric Ripert Vegetable simple 641.6 R588

Health & Medicine
F. Perry Wilson How medicine works and when it doesn't : learning who to trust to get and stay healthy 610.696 W746

History
Jacqueline Jones No right to an honest living : the struggles of Boston's black workers in the Civil War era 974.461 J77
Ana Maria. Spagna Pushed : miners, a merchant, and (maybe) a massacre 979.759 S73
Edward L. Widmer Lincoln on the verge : thirteen days to Washington 973.7 L73w
Kidada E. Williams I saw death coming : a history of terror and survival in the war against Reconstruction 973.8 W670
Valentine Low Courtiers : intrigue, ambition, and the power players behind the house of Windsor 941.085 L950
Amanda H. Podany Weavers, scribes, and kings : a new history of the ancient Near East 939.4 P751

Languages & Linguistics
The people's tongue : Americans and the English language 427 P41

Law
Mark C. Dillon The first Chief Justice : John Jay and the struggle of a new nation 347.73 J42
Ilona M. Bray Nolo's essential guide to buying your first home 643.12 B827

Literature & Writing
Ed Sams Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco : a pictorial guide 813 H22s
Matthew Hollis The waste land : a biography of a poem 821.9 E43

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Suzie Sheehy The matter of everything : how curiosity, physics, and improbable experiments changed the world 539.72 Sh356
Henry Petroski Force : what it means to push and pull, slip and grip, start and stop 531 P49
Lucio Russo The forgotten revolution : how science was born in 300 BC and why it had to be reborn 509.3 R921

Reference
The old farmer's almanac : calculated on a new and improved plan for the year of our Lord 2023 : fitted for Boston and the New England states, with special corrections and calculations to answer for all the United States. 031.02 O447
Guinness world records 2023. 032 G96
Performing Arts & Music
Dan Moller The way of Bach : three years with the man, the music, and the piano 780.92 B118m

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Pico Iyer The half known life : in search of paradise 203.5 I97h
Marjorie Ingall Sorry, sorry, sorry : the case for good apologies 158.2 In41

Politics & Government
Greta Thunberg The climate book 363.738 T535

Social Sciences & Current Events
Timothy B. Tyson The blood of Emmett Till 364.1 T46
Chris Belcher Pretty baby : a memoir 306.74 B427
Ian Bremmer The power of crisis : how three threats--and our response--will change the world 303.49 B836p

Travel & Geography
Lea Lane Places I remember : tales, truths, delights from 100 countries 910.4 L24
Rick Steves' Portugal. 914.69 S848

Posted on Mar. 23, 2023 by Heather Miles