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Non-fiction
Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Liam Wong TO:KY:OO 779.092 W87
Alice Neel Alice Neel : people come first 750.92 N378pe
George W Bush Out of many, one : portraits of America's immigrants 759.13 B978

Biography & Genealogy
Julia Sweig Lady Bird Johnson : Hiding in plain sight 973.923 J661
Michelle Zauner Crying in H Mart : a memoir 780.92 Z193
Dan Morain Kamala's way : an American life 328.73 H240m

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism
John B Thompson Book wars : the digital revolution in publishing 070.5 T468b

Business & Economics
Michael Heller The gridlock economy : how too much ownership wrecks markets, stops innovation, and costs lives 330.1 H47
Dambisa Moyo How boards work : and how they can work better in a chaotic world 658.422 M938
Stephanie Kelton The deficit myth : modern monetary theory and the birth of the people's economy 339.5 K299

Chess
Sam Shankland Small steps 2 success 794.12 S528
Jan Timman Timman's triumphs : my 100 best games 794.15 T58t
John Donaldson Bobby Fischer and his world 794.15 F52d
Stuart Rachels The best I saw in chess : games, stories and instruction from an Alabama prodigy who became U.S. champion 794.15 R119
Barry Hymer Chess improvement : it's all in the mindset 794.1 H99
Boris Gelfand Decision Making In Major Piece Endings 794.124 G316
Tibor Karolyi Petrosian year by year. Volume 1 : (1942-1962) 794.15 P49y
Cyrus Lakdawala Rewire Your Chess Brain 794.1 L192
Boris Gelfand Technical Decision Making In Chess 794.124 G316t
Chess informant = Šahovski informator = Shakhmatnyĭ informator. 794.12 S13

Health & Medicine
Michele Harper The beauty in breaking : a memoir 616.025 H29
Robert H Lustig Metabolical : the lure and the lies of processed food, nutrition, and modern medicine 616.044 L972
James Hamblin Clean : the new science of skin 613 H174
Edward M Hallowell ADHD 2.0 : new science and essential strategies for thriving with distraction-from childhood through adulthood 618.92 H193
Charles Kenny The plague cycle : the unending war between humanity and infectious disease 614.4 K399
Elaine A Moore Alzheimer's disease and infectious causes : the theory and evidence 616.831 M781
Michael Lewis The premonition : a pandemic story 614.5924 L675p

History
Robert Whiting Tokyo Junkie : 60 years of bright lights and back alleys . . . and baseball 952.135 W61
Gwen Strauss The nine : the true story of a band of women who survived the worst of Nazi Germany 940.53 S827
Ronald Brownstein Rock me on the water : 1974 : the year Los Angeles transformed movies, music, television, and politics 979.494 B825
Wendy Lower The ravine : a family, a photograph, a Holocaust massacre revealed 940.5318 L917r
Sandell Morse The spiral shell : a French village reveals its secrets of Jewish resistance in World War II : a memoir 940.5318 M835

Home & Family Management
Danielle Dreilinger The secret history of home economics : how trailblazing women harnessed the power of home and changed the way we live 640.92 D813

Literature & Writing
How to write a mystery : a handbook from Mystery Writers of America 808.3 C536
Joy Harjo She had some horses 811 H28s
Meredith Heller Write a poem, save your life : a guide for teens, teachers, and writers of all ages 808.1 H367
John Mullan The artful Dickens : the tricks and ploys of the great novelist 823 D5482mu
Saul Friedländer Proustian uncertainties : on reading and rereading In search of lost time 843.9 P96f

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
D J Spiegelhalter The art of statistics : how to learn from data 519.5 S75
Erika Engelhaupt Gory details : adventures from the dark side of science 500 E326
Oliver B Linton Fractals : on the edge of chaos 514.7 L658
Chiara Marletto The science of can and can't : a physicist's journey through the land of counterfactuals 501 M343

Performing Arts & Music
Mick LaSalle Dream state : California in the movies 791.43 L33d
Julianna Margulies Sunshine girl : an unexpected life 792.092 M337
Steven C Smith Music by Max Steiner : the epic life of Hollywood's most influential composer 781.54 S351sm

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Susan Schneider Artificial you : AI and the future of your mind 006.3 S35
Kate Summerscale The haunting of Alma Fielding : a true ghost story 133.1 S95
Jess Zimmerman Women and other monsters : building a new mythology 155.3338 Z655
Daniel Kahneman Noise : a flaw in human judgment 153.42 K129n
Benjamin Storey Why we are restless : on the modern quest for contentment 170.44 S742

Politics & Government
Georgina Lawton Raceless : in search of family, identity, and the truth about where I belong 305.896 L425
Simon Kuper Spies, lies and exile : the extraordinary story of Russian double agent George Blake 327.12 B581k

Social Sciences & Current Events
Anne Case Deaths of despair and the future of capitalism 306.3 C337
Chip Jacobs The darkest glare : a true story of murder, blackmail, and real estate greed in 1979 Los Angeles 364.152 J171
Abigail Tucker Mom genes : inside the new science of our ancient maternal instinct 306.874 T891
Isabel Allende The soul of a woman : on impatient love, long life, and good witches 305.42 A43
Jeff Adachi The case of San Francisco public defender Frank Ebgan: murder and scandal in the 1930s 364.152 A191
Eric Berkowitz Dangerous ideas : a brief history of censorship in the West, from the ancients to fake news 363.31 B513
Louis Menand The free world : art and thought in the Cold War 306.0973 M53
Rachel Ricketts Do better : spiritual activism for fighting and healing from White supremacy 305.8 R424
Bob Calhoun The murders that made us : how vigilantes, hoodlums, mob bosses, serial killers, and cult leaders built the San Francisco Bay Area 364.152 C128
Don Lemon This is the fire : what I say to my friends about racism 305.896 L544
Ellen McGarrahan Two truths and a lie : a murder, a private investigator, and her search for justice 364.152 M171
Elizabeth Kolbert Under a white sky : the nature of the future 304.2 K81
Justin Fenton We own this city : a true story of crime, cops, and corruption 364.1 F367
Carol Leonnig Zero fail : the rise and fall of the Secret Service 363.283 L554

Sports & Games
Allen Steck A mountaineer's life 796.52 S81
Julie DiCaro Sidelined : sports, culture, and being a woman in America 796.082 D547
Patrick DeanA window to heaven : the daring first ascent of Denali, America's wildest peak 796.52 D344

Posted on Jun. 15, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang