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July - September 2019 Issue
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Ackerman, Elliot. Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning.
Alison, Jane. Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative.
Aronson, Louise. Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life.
Asher, Colin. Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren.
Atkinson, Rick. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777.
Bazelon, Emily. Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration.
Bernanke, Ben S. Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons.
Bilefsky, Dan. The Last Job: The “Bad Grandpas” and the Hatton Garden Heist.
Black, Dustin Lance. Mama’s Boy: A Story from Our Americas.
Bobrow-Strain, Aaron. The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story.
Bowden, Mark. The Last Stone: A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation.
Brinkley, Douglas. American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race.
Brown, Jericho. The Tradition.
Burt, Stephanie. Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems.
Callahan, Maureen. American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century.
Caro, Robert A. Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing.
Carr, Erin Lee. All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir.
Cep, Casey. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee.
Connell, John. The Farmer’s Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm.
DeRogatis, Jim. Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly.
Diamond, Jared. Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis.
Ellis, Helen. Southern Lady Code: Essays.
Ensler, Eve. The Apology.
Epstein, David. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.
Gottlieb, Lori. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed.
Greene, Jayson. Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir.
Harman, Claire. Murder by the Book: The Crime that Shocked Dickens’s London.
Hawes, Jennifer Berry. Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness.
Hemon, Aleksandar. My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You.
Hoganson, Kristin L. The Heartland: An American History.
Honigsbaum, Mark. The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris.
Houston, Pam. Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country.
Jones, Brian Jay. Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination.
Kepner, Tyler. K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches.
Kershaw, Ian. The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017.
Kilgariff, Karen and Georgia Hardstark. Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide.
Levin, Josh. The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth.
Lynskey, Dorian. The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell’s 1984.
Macfarlane, Robert. Underland: A Deep Time Journey.
Maraniss, David. A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father.
McCullough, David. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West.
McKibben, Bill. Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Moore, Peter. Endeavour: The Ship that Changed the World.
Moraga, Cherríe. Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir.
Morrison, Robert. The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern.
Norris, Mary. Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen.
Okorafor, Nnedi. Broken Places and Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected.
Olson, Lynne. Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler.
Packer, George. Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century.
Parker, Morgan. Magical Negro: Poems.
Prior-Palmer, Lara. Rough Magic: Riding the World’s Loneliest Horse Race.
Purnell, Sonia. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II.
Quindlen, Anna. Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting.
Reichl, Ruth. Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir.
Rich, Nathaniel. Losing Earth: A Recent History.
Rinaldi, Karen. (It’s Great to) Suck at Something: The Unexpected Joy of Wiping Out and What It Can Teach Us About Patience, Resilience, and the Stuff that Really Matters.
Rose, Sarah. D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II.
Sacks, Oliver. Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales.
Satow, Julie. The Plaza: The Secret Life of America’s Most Famous Hotel.
Scenters-Zapico, Natalie. Lima :: Limón.
Scorah, Amber. Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life.
Snyder, Rachel Louise. No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us.
The Stonewall Reader. Ed. by New York Public Library.
Thompson, Clive. Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World.
Tobia, Jacob. Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story.
Waters, John. Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder.
Wineapple, Brenda. The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation.
Young, Damon. What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays.