A list of great recent titles selected by our librarians.
April - June 2018 Issue
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Allen, Sandra. A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story About Schizophrenia.
Awdish, Rana. In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope.
Balko, Radley. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South.
Banville, John. Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir.
Barnes, Simon. The Meaning of Birds.
Beam, Cris. I Feel You: The Surprising Power of Extreme Empathy.
Beard, Mary. Women & Power: A Manifesto.
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing. (Ed. by Stephanie Stokes Oliver.
Bowler, Kate. Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved.
Bragg, Rick. The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma’s Table.
Buruma, Ian. A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir.
Butler, Isaac. The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America.
Cantú, Francisco. The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border.
Chute, Hillary L. Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere.
Coll, Steve. Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016.
Collingham, Lizzie. The Taste of Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World.
Cooper, Brittney. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower.
Crosley, Sloane. Look Alive Out There: Essays.
Dahl, Melissa. Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness.
Dauber, Jeremy. Jewish Comedy: A Serious History.
Dean, Michelle. Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion.
Easterbrook, Gregg. It’s Better than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear.
Eddo-Lodge, Reni. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race.
Eggers, Dave. The Monk of Mokha.
Ewing, Eve L. Electric Arches. (poetry)
Flock, Elizabeth. The Heart Is a Shifting Sea: Love and Marriage in Mumbai.
Freeman, Joshua B. Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World.
Frum, David. Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic.
Hagan, Joe. Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine.
Hall, Sands. Flunk, Start: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology.
Hewitt, Catherine. Renoir’s Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon.
Hilgers, Lauren. Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown.
Hoffman, Carl. The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure.
Jamison, Leslie. The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath.
Jerkins, Morgan. This Will Be My Undoing.
Julien, Maude. The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir.
Junor, Penny. The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown.
Kalder, Daniel. The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy.
Kaufman, Amy. Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America’s Favorite Guilty Pleasure.
Kelly, Scott. Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery.
Knapp, Cheston. Up Up, Down Down: Essays.
Mailhot, Terese Marie. Heart Berries: A Memoir.
Mann, Charles C. The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World.
Massing, Michael. Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind.
McBride, Sarah. Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality.
McNamara, Michelle. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer.
Mealer, Bryan. The Kings of Big Spring: God, Oil, and One Family’s Search for the American Dream.
Meyer, Michael. The Road to Sleeping Dragon: Learning China from the Ground Up.
Miller, T. Christian. A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America.
Moore, Lorrie. See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary.
Murad, Nadia. The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State.
Nicolson, Adam. The Seabird’s Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet’s Great Ocean Voyagers.
Norman, Abby. Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain.
O’Farrell, Maggie. I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death.
Parry, Richard Lloyd. Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone.
Paul, Joel R. Without Precedent: John Marshall and His Times.
Press, Joy. Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television.
Przybylo, Henry Jay. Counting Backwards: A Doctor’s Notes on Anesthesia.
Robinson, Marilynne. What Are We Doing Here?: Essays.
Rutherford, Adam. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes.
Sacks, Oliver. The River of Consciousness.
Smith, Zadie. Feel Free: Essays.
Sotelo, Analicia. Virgin. (poetry)
Stewart, Jeffrey C. The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke.
Stone, Daniel. The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats.
Taibbi, Matt. I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street.
Theoharis, Jeanne. A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History.
Veevers, Marian. Jane and Dorothy: A True Tale of Sense and Sensibility; The Lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth.
Weiss, Elaine. The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote.
Westover, Tara. Educated: A Memoir.
Whitaker, Mark. Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance.
Winkler, Adam. We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights.
Wright, Lawrence. God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State.
Yaffe, David. Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell.
Yalom, Irvin D. Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist’s Memoir.
Young, Matt. Eat the Apple: A Memoir.