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October - December 2018 Issue
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Alford, Henry. And Then We Danced: A Voyage into the Groove.
Anderson, Carol. One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy.
Anderson, Sam. Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Tam, and the Dream of Becoming a World-Class Metropolis.
Andrés, José. We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time.
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity.
Arnold, Catharine. Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History.
Asghar, Fatimah. If They Come for Us: Poems.
Atkins, William. The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places.
Auerbach, David. Bitwise: A Life in Code.
Austerlitz, Saul. Just a Shot Away: Peace, Love, and Tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont.
Bauer, Shane. American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment.
Beevor, Antony. The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II.
Berger, Joel. Extreme Conservation: Life at the Edges of the World.
Bishop, Mary Carter. Don’t You Ever: My Mother and Her Secret Son.
Bolin, Alice. Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving American Culture.
Brennan-Jobs, Lisa. Small Fry: A Memoir.
Brohi, Khalida. I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan.
Brooks, Kim. Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear.
Brown, Craig. Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret.
Carter, Stephen L. Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster.
Chivers, C.J. The Fighters: Americans in Combat in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Clark, Anna. The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy.
Cockell, Charles S. The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution.
Crabtree, James. The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Gilded Age.
Cunningham, Bill. Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographs.
Freeman, Joanne B. The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War.
Gerald, Casey. There Will Be No Miracles Here.
Giridharadas, Anand. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World.
Goldfarb, Ben. Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Leadership in Turbulent Times.
Guerrero, Jean. Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir.
Harari, Yuval Noah. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.
Havrilesky, Heather. What if This Were Enough?: Essays.
Hayes, Terrance. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins.
Higgins, Maeve. Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else.
Horace, Matthew. The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America’s Law Enforcement.
Kakutani, Michiko. The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump.
Kashner, Sam. The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee.
Kaukonen, Jorma. Been So Long: My Life and Music.
Kildea, Paul. Chopin’s Piano: In Search of the Instrument that Transformed Music.
Levy, Deborah. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography.
Limón, Ada. The Carrying: Poems.
Lynch, David. Room to Dream.
Macy, Beth. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America.
McBride, Joseph. How Did Lubitsch Do It?
McCubbin, Lisa. Betty Ford: First Lady, Women’s Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer.
Mitchell, Wendy. Somebody I Used to Know.
Mohr, Tim. Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
Moore, Michael Scott. The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast.
O’Brien, Keith. Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History.
Painter, Nell. Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over.
Pawel, Miriam. The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation.
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela. (Ed. by Sahm Venter)
Prose, Francine. What to Read and Why.
Quammen, David. The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life.
Rioux, Anne Boyd. Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters.
Rowbottom, Allie. Jell-O Girls: A Family History.
Rush, Elizabeth. Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore.
Samaha, Albert. Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City.
Schaefer, Kayleen. Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship.
Smarsh, Sarah. Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth.
Smith, Nicholas. Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers.
Stern, Amanda. Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life.
Sundberg, Kelly. Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival.
Traister, Rebecca. Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger.
Weinman, Sarah. The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World.
Williams, Paige. The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy.
Wiman, Christian. He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art.