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New Print Non-Fiction for November 2023

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NON-FICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts

Art is art : collaborating with neurodiverse artists at Creativity Explored 704.0874 A784
Yayoi Kusama Infinity net : the autobiography of Yayoi Kusama 709.2 K968i
Charles Darwent Surrealists in New York : Atelier 17 and the birth of abstract expressionism 709.04 D228
Dan Nadel KAWS 709.2 K22

Biography & Genealogy

Yunte Huang Daughter of the dragon : Anna May Wong's rendezvous with American history 792.092 W868h
Janet Wallach Flirting with danger : the mysterious life of Marguerite Harrison, socialite spy 327.12 H318
Britney Spears The woman in me 780.92 S741
Oliver Soden Masquerade : the lives of Noël Coward 792.092 C87s
Benjamin Taylor Chasing bright medusas : a life of Willa Cather 813 C361t
Adam Sisman The secret life of John le Carré 823 L456s
Mari Sandoz Crazy Horse : the strange man of the Oglalas 970.2 C91s
Lisa Napoli Ray and Joan : the man who made the McDonald's fortune and the woman who gave it all away 361.7 N162
Ralph Watson McElvenny The greatest capitalist who ever lived : Tom Watson Jr. and the epic story of how IBM created the digital age 338.761 W34g
Hilary Mantel A memoir of my former self : a life in writing 823 M292me

Business & Economics

David Leonhardt Ours was the shining future : the story of the American dream 330.973 L584
Lyn Alden Broken money : why our financial system is failing us and how we can make it better 330 A358

Chess

John Nunn The king-hunt 794.12 C88 1996
Tim Brennan Tactics time : 1001 chess tactics from the games of everyday chess players 794.1 B83
Christof Sielecki Keep it simple: 1.e4 : a solid and straightforward chess opening repertoire for white 794.122 S571k
Axel Smith Rolf Martens : the chess genius, maoist and rebel 794.1092 M377a
Alexey W. Root Prepare with chess strategy U 794.1 R782

Computer Science

Paul Barry Head first Python 005.1 B279

Food & Drink

Michał Korkosz Polish'd : modern vegetarian cooking from global Poland 641.5943 K845

History

Roger Moorhouse The forgers : the forgotten story of the Holocaust's most audacious rescue operation 940.5318 M825
Peter Brown Journeys of the mind : a life in history 930.5092 B87
Gary Jonathan Bass Judgment at Tokyo : World War II on trial and the making of modern Asia 341.69 B317
Neill Lochery Cashing out : the flight of Nazi treasure, 1945-1948 940.531 L812
Steven Ujifusa The last ships from Hamburg : business, rivalry, and the race to save Russia's Jews on the eve of World War I 305.892 U33
John King Portal : San Francisco's Ferry Building and the reinvention of American cities 979.4 K521
David Mitchell Unruly : the ridiculous history of England's kings and queens 941 M681
Matthew Longo The picnic : a dream of freedom and the collapse of the Iron Curtain 947.084 L856

Literature & Writing

Brian Turner The goodbye world poem 811 T94
Ntozake Shange Sing a Black girl's song : the unpublished work of Ntozake Shange 818 S52
Uwe Wittstock February 1933 : the winter of literature 830.9 W832

Natural Sciences & Mathematics

Stuart Ritchie Science fictions : how fraud, bias, negligence, and hype undermine the search for truth 500 R598

Performing Arts & Music

Matt Singer Opposable thumbs : how Siskel & Ebert changed movies forever 791.43 S617
Peter Biskind Pandora's box : how guts, guile, and greed upended TV 791.45 B622

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion

Lauren Fogel Mersy Desire : an inclusive guide to navigating libido differences in relationships 155.3 F655

Politics

Fredrik deBoer How elites ate the social justice movement 303.3 D287

Social Sciences & Current Events

M. R. O'Connor Ignition : lighting fires in a burning world 363.37 O183
Héctor Tobar Our migrant souls : a meditation on race and the meanings and myths of "Latino" 305.8 T628
Cole Stangler Paris is not dead : surviving hypergentrification in the city of light 307.3 S785
Alexandrea J. Ravenelle Side hustle safety net : how vulnerable workers survive precarious times 331.25 R253
Tom Wheeler Techlash : who makes the rules in the digital gilded age? 303.483 W562
Brian Merchant Blood in the machine : the origins of the rebellion against big tech 303.483 M554
Travis Alabanza None of the above : reflections on life beyond the binary 305.3 A316
Ganesh Sitaraman Why flying is miserable : and how to fix it 387.7 S623
Des Fitzgerald The living city : why cities don't need to be green to be great 307.76 F553

Sports & Games

Michael MacCambridge The big time : how the 1970s transformed sports in America 796.0973 M122

Travel & Geography

Demece Garepis San Francisco Bay shoreline adventures : best of the San Francisco Bay trail and bay water trail : access maps to the entire San Francisco Bay and water trail 917.946 G229
Mexico. 917.2 L847

Posted on Dec. 14, 2023 by Heather Miles