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Applied Sciences
Lina Zeldovich The other dark matter : the science and business of turning waste into wealth and health 628.3 Z376
Horse girls : recovering, aspiring, and devoted riders redefine the iconic bond 636.1 H787

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Edward S Cooke Global objects : toward a connected art history 709 C774
Jerry Saltz Art is life : icons and iconoclasts, visionaries and vigilantes, and flashes of hope in the night 701 S379a
Vivian Maier 770.92 M217v
Elsa Schiaparelli Shocking : the surreal world of Elsa Schiaparelli 746.9 S329

Biography & Genealogy
David Alan King David the beloved : journey to find my lost heart 158.1 K521
Jared Kushner Breaking history : a White House memoir 973.933 K968
Michael Kenneth Williams Scenes from my life : a memoir 792.092 W670
Jann Wenner Like a Rolling Stone : a memoir 070.5092 W46
Javier Zamora Solito : a memoir 305.9069 Z148
Serhiĭ Rudenko Zelensky : a biography 947.7 R83
Mary Rodgers Shy : the alarmingly outspoken memoirs of Mary Rodgers 780.92 R616
Matthew Kennedy Joan Blondell : a life between takes 792.092 B622
Clint Hill My travels with Mrs. Kennedy 973.922 K354
David Maraniss Path lit by lightning : the life of Jim Thorpe 796.092 T398
Kelly Ripa Live wire : long-winded short stories 791.45 R48
Hua Hsu Stay true : a memoir 979.467 H859
John D'Emilio Memories of a gay Catholic boyhood : coming of age in the sixties 306.76 D395
Chelsea Manning Readme.txt : a memoir 355.343 M316
Graham Boynton Wild : the life of Peter Beard : photographer, adventurer, lover 770.92 B380
Paul Newman The extraordinary life of an ordinary man : a memoir 792.092 N554e
John Lahr Arthur Miller : American witness 812 M647L
Charles Leerhsen Down and out in paradise : the life of Anthony Bourdain 641.5 B768Le
Maggie Haberman Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America 973.933 T871h
Katherine Rundell Super-infinite : the transformations of John Donne 821 D68r
Lucy Worsley Agatha Christie : an elusive woman 823 C55w
Andrew Meier Morgenthau : power, privilege, and the rise of an American dynasty 973.0492 M851
Nina Totenberg Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships 791.44 T640

Business & Economics
Peter Zeihan The end of the world is just the beginning : mapping the collapse of globalization 338.91 Z46
Dakin Campbell Going public : how Silicon Valley rebels loosened Wall Street's grip on the IPO and sparked a revolution 658.152 C152
Kimberly Kay Hoang Spiderweb capitalism : how global elites exploit frontier markets 332.673 H650
Nomi Prins Permanent distortion : how the financial markets abandoned the real economy forever 338.54 P957
Phyl Terry Never search alone : the job seeker's playbook 650.14 T279
Chris Miller Chip war : the fight for the world's most critical technology 338.476 M647
Elena Botella Delinquent : inside America's debt machine 332.7 B657
Bruce Usher Investing in the era of climate change 332.6 U3i
Rana Foroohar Homecoming : the path to prosperity in a post-global world 338.6 F727
Orly Lobel The equality machine : harnessing digital technology for a brighter, more inclusive future 658.3 L783
Dave Liu The way of the Wall Street warrior : conquer the corporate game using tips, tricks, and smartcuts 650.1 L740
William D Cohan Power failure : the rise and fall of an American icon 338.7 C678

Chess
Lev Polugaevskiĭ The art of defence in chess 794.122 P779 1996

Food & Drink
Brian Freedman Crushed : how a changing climate is altering the way we drink 641.2 F875
Toni Tipton-Martin The Jemima code : two centuries of African American cookbooks 641.5929 T499je

Health & Medicine
Rina Raphael The gospel of wellness : gyms, gurus, Goop, and the false promise of self-care 613.0424 R181
Stephen M. Sagar Vitamin C : a 500-year scientific biography from scurvy to pseudoscience 615.328 Sa182
Kate Summerscale The book of phobias & manias : a history of obsession 616.8522 S95
David Quammen Breathless : the scientific race to defeat a deadly virus 614.5924 Q16
David B Nash How COVID crashed the system : a guide to fixing American health care 362.1962 N171

History
Dipo Faloyin Africa is not a country : notes on a bright continent 960 F197
Lucy Adlington The dressmakers of Auschwitz : the true story of the women who sewed to survive 940.5318 Ad599
Peter Caddick-Adams Fire and steel : the end of World War Two in the West 940.542 C121f
Scott Mann Operation Pineapple Express : the incredible story of a group of Americans who undertook one last mission and honored a promise in Afghanistan 958.104 M315
Neil deGrasse Tyson Starry messenger : cosmic perspectives on civilization 901 T944
Orlando Figes The story of Russia 947 F471s
Adam Hochschild American midnight : the Great War, a violent peace, and democracy's forgotten crisis 973.91 H685
Mikhail Khodorkovskiĭ The Russia conundrum : how the west fell for Putin's power gambit--and how to fix it 947.086 K46
S JConnolly On every tide : the making and remaking of the Irish world 909.04916 C762
Bill Lascher The golden fortress : California's border war on Dust Bowl refugees 979.4 L332
Kathryn S. Olmsted The newspaper axis : six press barons who enabled Hitler 940.5 O516
Giles Tremlett España : a brief history of Spain 946 T789e
Pekka Hämäläinen Indigenous continent : the epic contest for North America. 970.004 H198
Antony Beevor Russia : revolution and civil war, 1917-1921 947.084 B415
Jon Meacham And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle 973.7 L73me
Jonathan Freedland The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world 940.5318 V953f
Matthew F Delmont Half American : the epic story of African Americans fighting World War II at home and abroad 940.5403 D382
David de Jong Nazi billionaires : the dark history of Germany's wealthiest dynasties 940.531 J732
Peter Baker The divider : Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 973.933 B167
Andrei Martyanov Losing military supremacy : the myopia of American strategic planning 355.03 M367
Katie Hickman Brave hearted : the women of the American west 1836-1880 978.02 H528

Home & Family Management
Susan Linn Who's raising the kids? : big tech, big business, and the lives of children 649.1 L758

Law
Akhil Reed Amar The words that made us : America's constitutional conversation, 1760-1840 342.73 A485w
Mimi Lyster Zemmelman Building a parenting agreement that works : child custody agreements step by step 346.7301 Z53

Literature & Writing
Joan Didion : the last interview and other conversations 813 D55La
Frances Mayes A place in the world : finding the meaning of home 813.54 M468
Peggy Rowe Vacuuming in the nude : and other ways to get attention 813 R79
Mason J Crossbones on my life 811.6 J101
Joan Naviyuk Kane Dark traffic 811.6 K131d
Joan Naviyuk Kane Milk black carbon 811.6 K131
Ted Berrigan Get the money! : collected prose (1961-1983) 818.54 B533
Edna St. Vincent Millay Rapture and melancholy : the diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay 811 M63r
Sasha Pearl Bus poems1 and II plus 811.6 P35
Peter Brooks Seduced by story : the use and abuse of narrative 808 B873
John Keene Punks : new & selected poems 811.54 K251

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Sean M Carroll The biggest ideas in the universe : space, time, and motion 530.11 C319b
Carl J Pratt Quantum physics for beginners : from Wave Theory to Quantum Computing : understanding how everything works by a simplified explanation of quantum physics and mechanics principles 530.12 P888
Gary Maher Quantum physics for beginners : an easy guide revealing the secrets of quantum mechanics 530.12 M277
Randall Munroe What if? 2 : additional serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions 500 M968w

Performing Arts & Music
William Shatner Boldly go : reflections on a life of awe and wonder 792.092 S529b
Matthew Kennedy Roadshow! : the fall of film musicals in the 1960s 791.43 K38
Jan Swafford Johannes Brahms : a biography 780.92 B813sw
Bruce Davis The Academy and the award : the coming of age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 791.4 D290
Jessica Radloff The big bang theory : the definitive, inside story of the epic hit series 791.45 R119

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
John T McGreevy Catholicism : a global history from the French Revolution to Pope Francis 282 M178
Sherry Richert Belul Say it now : 33 creative ways to say I love you to the most important people in your life 152.41 B419
William MacAskill What we owe the future 171 M116w
Annie Duke Quit : the power of knowing when to walk away 158.1 D877
Karen Armstrong Sacred nature : restoring our ancient bond with the natural world 202.12 A73
Temple Grandin Visual thinking : the hidden gifts of people who think in pictures, patterns, and abstractions 152.14 G753
John Mordechai Gottman The love prescription : seven days to more intimacy, connection, and joy 152.41 G686
Mark Dawidziak Everything I need to know I learned in the Twilight Zone : a fifth-dimension guide to life 170.44 D322

Politics & Government
Sarah Kendzior They knew : how a culture of conspiracy keeps America complacent 303.6 K337
Nikki Haley If you want something done : leadership lessons from bold women 320.082 H137
Noam Chomsky The withdrawal : Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the fragility of U.S. power 327.73 C54wi
David Daley Unrigged : how Americans are battling back to save democracy 324.973 D141
Susan L Shirk Overreach : how China derailed its peaceful rise 320.951 Sh65
Anand Giridharadas The persuaders : at the frontlines of the fight for hearts, minds, and democracy 320.973 G525

Reference
Library and book trade almanac Ref 020.5 L697

Social Sciences & Current Events
Tom Blass Swamp songs : journeys through marsh, meadow and other wetlands 304.2 B613
Dan Jones The color of time : women in history 1850-1960 305.4 J710
Eugene Linden Fire and flood : a people's history of climate change, from 1979 to the present 304.2 L744f
Douglas Century The last boss of Brighton : Boris "Biba" Nayfeld and the rise of the Russian mob in America 364.106 C333
Resmaa Menakem My grandmother's hands : racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies 305.896 M521
Josh Chin Surveillance state : inside China's quest to launch a new era of social control 303.33 C441
Donald Yacovone Teaching white supremacy : America's democratic ordeal and the forging of our national identity 370.8 Y104
Maitland Ward Rated X : how porn liberated me from Hollywood 791.45 W257
Richard V Reeves Of boys and men : why the modern male is struggling, why it matters, and what to do about It 305.31 R332
Boyah J Farah America made me a Black man : a memoir 305.8 F221
Geoff Dembicki The petroleum papers : inside the far-right conspiracy to cover up climate change 363.738 D393
Traci Brynne Voyles The settler sea : California's Salton Sea and the consequences of colonialism 304.2 V948
T J English Dangerous rhythms : jazz and the underworld 306.4842 E58
Michael Fanone Hold the line : the insurrection and one cop's battle for America's soul 303.484 F217
Bill O'Reilly Killing the legends : the lethal danger of celebrity 306.48 O66
Bill McGuire Hothouse Earth : an inhabitant's guide 363.738 M148
Kate Winkler Dawson All that is wicked : a Gilded-Age story of murder and the race to decode the criminal mind 364.3 D272
Andy Kroll A death on W Street : the murder of Seth Rich and the age of conspiracy 364.152 K919

Travel & Geography
Eyewitness Vietnam 915.97 E975
Lonely Planet Alaska 917.98 L847
Andrew Doughty The ultimate Kauai guidebook : Kauai revealed 919.694 D732
Rick Steves' Spain. 914.6 S848
NFT, Not For Tourists guide to Los Angeles 917.9494 N899
NFT, Not For Tourists guide to London 914.21 N899
Rick Steves' France 914.4 S848
Insight Spain 914.6 I592
Top 10 Iceland 914.91 E975t
Lonely Planet Mexico 917.2 L847
Oahu revealed : the ultimate guide to Honolulu, Waikiki & beyond 919.693 O11

Universal (Children's)

Non-fiction
Brenna Maloney Buzzkill : fighting insect extinction from the ground up U 639.9757 M297
Mark Kurlansky Big lies : from Socrates to social media U 177.3 K968

Posted on Dec. 2, 2022 by Cherilyn Chang