A list of great recent titles selected by our librarians.
October - December 2017 Issue
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Abu-Jamal, Mumia. Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
Berry, Damon T. Blood and Faith: Christianity in American White Nationalism.
Bidart, Frank. Half-Light: Collected Poems, 1965-2016. (poetry)
Bilton, Nick. American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road.
Blakeslee, Nate. American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West.
Brennan, Thomas J. Shooting Ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War.
Bruder, Jessica. Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century.
Campbell, Deborah. A Disappearance in Damascus: Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War.
Cook, Kevin. Electric October: Seven World Series Games, Six Lives, Five Minutes of Fame That Lasted Forever.
Cossins, Peter. The First Tour de France: Sixty Cyclists and Nineteen Days of Daring on the Road to Paris.
Dederer, Claire. Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning.
Double Bind: Women on Ambition. (ed. by Robin Romm)
Eisinger, Jesse. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives.
Erickson, Lori. Holy Rover: Journeys in Search of Mystery, Miracles, and God.
Fagone, Jason. The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies.
Florida, Richard. The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class -- and What We Can Do About It.
Ford, Elizabeth. Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward.
Forner, Karlyn. Why the Vote Wasn’t Enough for Selma.
Franken, Al. Al Franken, Giant of the Senate.
Friend, David. The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido.
Gallagher, Leigh. The AIRBNB Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions...and Created Plenty of Controversy. 9780544952669
Garbage with Jason Cohen. This Is the Noise That Keeps Me Awake.
Genoways, Ted. This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Farm.
Gettleman, Jeffrey. Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival.
Gidla, Sujatha. Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India.
Graff, Garrett M. Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself -- While the Rest of Us Die.
Greenblatt, Stephen. The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve.
Handy, Bruce. Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult.
Hanes, Stephanie. White Man’s Game: Saving Animals, Rebuilding Eden, and Other Myths of Conservation in Africa.
Hansen, Suzy. Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World.
Hayes, Elaine M. Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan.
Jackson, Lawrence Patrick. Chester B. Himes: A Biography.
Kalmus, Peter. Being the Change: How to Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution.
Kaplan, Fred. Lincoln and the Abolitionists: John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War.
Lashinsky, Adam. Wild Ride: Inside Uber’s Quest for World Domination.
Latson, Jennifer. The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness.
Levingston, Steven. Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights.
Losos, Jonathan B. Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution.
Lythcott-Haims, Julie. Real American: A Memoir.
MacLean, Nancy. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America.
Marshall, Tim. A Flag Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of National Symbols.
Martin, Chelsea. Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life.
Maupin, Armistead. Logical Family: A Memoir.
McCarter, Jeremy. Young Radicals: In the War for American Ideals.
McCarthy, Tom. Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays.
McCoy, Alfred W. In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power.
McManus, Erwin Raphael. The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life.
Merchant, Brian. The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone.
Merridale, Catherine. Lenin on the Train.
Morrison, Toni. The Origin of Others.
Mulley, Clare. The Women Who Flew for Hitler: A True Story of Soaring Ambition and Searing Rivalry.
Myles, Eileen. Afterglow: A Dog Memoir.
Nicholson, Hope. The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters from Comic Book History.
Nunn, Emily. The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart.
Olson, Lynne. Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood that Helped Turn the Tide of War.
Parker, Peter. Housman Country: Into the Heart of England.
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution and Imprisonment. (Ed. by Angela J. Davis)
Powers, Ann. Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music.
Prinstein, Mitchell. Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World.
Quinn, Zoë. Crash Override: How GamerGate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate.
Ruhlman, Michael. Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America.
Sachs, Harvey. Toscanini: Musician of Conscience.
Sancton, Thomas. The Bettencourt Affair: The World’s Richest Woman and the Scandal that Rocked Paris.
Saxena, Jaya. Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven.
Schilling, Heinz. Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Upheaval.
Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z. (ed. by Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar.)
Slezkine, Yuri. The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution.
Smith, Danez. Don’t Call Us Dead. (poetry)
Spence, Annie. Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks.
Stahr, Walter. Stanton: Lincoln’s War Secretary.
Steffens, Roger. So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley.
Sullivan, Teresa. Mikey and Me: Life with My Exceptional Sister.
Taubman, William. Gorbachev: His Life and Times.
Thomson, David. Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio.
Twitty, Michael. The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African-American Culinary History in the Old South.
Walls, Laura Dassow. Henry David Thoreau: A Life.
Westaby, Stephen. Open Heart: A Cardiac Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table.
White, Richard. The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896.
Wright, Robert. Why Buddhism is True.