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January - March 2023 Issue
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Aviv, Rachel. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us. Downloadable audiobook
Basinger, Jeanine and Wasson, Sam. Hollywood: The Oral History.
Bee, Vanessa A. Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter’s Reflections on Belonging.
Bella, Timothy. Barkley: A Biography.
Bingham-Risher, Remica. Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions that Grew Me Up.
Braude, Mark. Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris.
Brinkley, Douglas. Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening.
Brookshire, Bethany. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains.
Brown, Nancy Marie. Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland's Elves Can Save the Earth.
Chaudry, Rabia. Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family. Downloadable audiobook
Copeland, Misty. The Wind at My Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor, Raven Wilkinson.
Corcoran, Katherine. In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, A Coverup, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press.
Daniel, Mary-Alice. A Coastline is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents.
Davis, Kenneth C. Great Short Books: A Year of Reading―Briefly.
Delmont, Matthew F. Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad. Downloadable audiobook
Désir, Alison Mariella. Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport That Wasn’t Built for Us. Ebook
Diemer, Andrew K. Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad.
Dionne, Evette. Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul.
Dylan, Bob. The Philosophy of Modern Song. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Freedland, Jonathan. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World. Ebook
Gage, Beverly. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. Ebook
Gaskill, Malcolm. The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World. Ebook
Gay, Ross. Inciting Joy: Essays. Ebook
Geanacopoulos, Daphne Palmer. The Pirate’s Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd.
Gordon, Lyndall. The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot’s Hidden Muse.
Greenidge, Kerri K. The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family.
Gristwood, Sarah. The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty.
Grose, Jessica. Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood. Downloadable audiobook
Hardy, Alyssa. Worn Out: How Our Clothes Cover Up Fashion’s Sins.
Hastings, Max. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962.
Hickman, Katie. Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West.
Hill, Jemele. Uphill: A Memoir.
Hornby, Nick. Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius.
Hotta, Eri. Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World.
Humes, Edward. The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder.
Hunter-Gault, Charlayne. My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives.
Imbler, Sabrina. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures.
It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror. (Ed. by Joe Vallese.)
Kepner, Tyler. The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series.
Kumar, Priyanka. Conversations with Birds.
Levy, Aidan. Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins.
Levy, Buddy. Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk.
Linn, Susan. Who’s Raising the Kids? Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children. Ebook
Lithwick, Dahlia. Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America.
Livingstone, Natalie. The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World’s Most Famous Dynasty.
MacGregor, Iain. The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Heart of the Greatest Battle of World War II.
McInerny, Nora. Bad Vibes Only: (And Other Things I Bring to the Table): Essays. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Morin, Brandi. Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising.
Nevala-Lee, Alec. Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller.
Nors, Dorthe. A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast.
Paranque, Estelle. Blood, Fire, & Gold: The Story of Elizabeth I & Catherine de Medici.
Parkin, Simon. The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp.
Pearlman, Jeff. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson.
Philip, Leila. Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America.
Phillips, Maya. Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse.
Pinckney, Darryl. Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan.
Quammen, David. Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus.
Radke, Heather. Butts: A Backstory.
Rauch, Arianna Warsaw-Fan. Declassified: A Low-Key Guide to the High-Strung World of Classical Music.
Ressa, Maria. How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight For Our Future. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Rodgers, Mary and Jesse Green. Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers. Ebook
Ruffin, Amber and Lamar, Lacey. The World Record Book of Racist Stories.
Rutherford, Adam. Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics.
Ryan, April. Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem. Ebook
Samatar, Sofia. The White Mosque: A Memoir.
Sassoon, Joseph. The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire.
Scott, James M. Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb.
Setiya, Kieran. Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way.
Strachey, Nino. Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Redefined Love, Freedom, and Self-Expression in 1920s England.
Tamblyn, Amber. Listening in the Dark: A Reclaiming of Women's Intuition.
Tarantino, Quentin. Cinema Speculation. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Tetro, Tony and Ambrosi, Giampiero. Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World’s Greatest Art Forger.
Wilkinson, Alec. A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age.
Wulf, Andrea. Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self.
Young, R.J. Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.