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April - June 2020 Issue
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Ackmann, Martha. These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson.
Álvarez, Noé. Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land.
Barnes, Julian. The Man in the Red Coat.
Baron, Dennis. What’s Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She.
Bennett, Juda. The Toni Morrison Book Club.
Berry, Daina Ramey. A Black Women’s History of the United States.
Bruning, John R. Race of Aces: WWII’s Elite Airmen and the Epic Battle to Become the Masters of the Sky.
Bryant, Howard. Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field.
Caldwell, Christopher. The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties.
Calhoun, Ada. Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis.
Cercas, Javier. Lord of All the Dead: A Nonfiction Novel.
Coe, Alexis. You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington.
Cohen, Adam. Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America.
Davidson, Tommy. Living in Color: What’s Funny About Me.
Denworth, Lydia. Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond.
Diaz, Natalie. Postcolonial Love Poem.
Dorman, Jacob S. The Princess and the Prophet: The Secret History of Magic, Race, and Moorish Muslims in America.
Eagle, Thom. First, Catch: Study of a Spring Meal.
Ehrman, Bart D. Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife.
Eisenberg, Emma Copley. The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia.
Eyre, Eric. Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic.
Farrier, David. Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils.
Fehrman, Craig. Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote.
Feinstein, John. The Back Roads to March: The Unsung, Unheralded, and Unknown Heroes of a College Basketball Season.
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases. Ed. by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman.
Garrett, Kent & Jeanne Ellsworth. The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the Eighteen Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever.
Gornick, Vivian. Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader.
Hammer, Joshua. The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird.
Hardy, Jason. The Second Chance Club: Hardship and Hope After Prison.
Hernández, César Cuauhtémoc García. Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants.
Hernandez Castillo, Marcelo. Children of the Land.
Hochschild, Adam. Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes.
Hong, Cathy Park. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning.
Hvistendahl, Mara. The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and
Industrial Espionage.
Ingrassia, Lawrence. Billion Dollar Brand Club: How Dollar Shave Club, Warby Parker and Other Disruptors Are Remaking What We Buy.
Irby, Samantha. Wow, No Thank You: Essays.
Jackson, Richie. Gay like Me: A Father Writes to His Son.
Jahren, Hope. The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here.
Kaplan, Fred. The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War.
Kearse, Bettye. The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family.
Kennicott, Philip. Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning.
Kolker, Robert. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family.
Kornhauser, Jacob. The Cup of Coffee Club: 11 Players and Their Brush with Baseball History.
Kristof, Nicholas D. Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope.
Leduc, Amanda. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space.
MacLean, Rory. Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe.
Maher, Sanam. A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star.
A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home. Ed. by Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary.
Marwell, David G. Mengele: Unmasking the “Angel of Death.”
McAlevey, Jane. A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy.
Mitchell, Jerry. A Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era.
Moorehead, Caroline. A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism.
Murdoch, Sierra Crane. Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country.
Paperny, Anna Mehler. Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person.
Pittman, Craig. Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther.
Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women. Ed. by Lizzie Skurnick.
Ramey, Sarah. The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: A Memoir.
Ravitch, Diane. Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools.
Rifkind, Donna. The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler’s Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Shapiro, James. Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future.
Shapland, Jenn. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers.
Sharlet, Jeff. This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers.
Shubin, Neil. Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA.
Smith, Danez. Homie: Poems.
Solnit, Rebecca. Recollections of My Nonexistence.
Sorin, Gretchen. Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights.
Stern, Jessica. My War Criminal: Personal Encounters with an Architect of Genocide.
Streeter, Leslie Gray. Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like “Journey” in the Title.
Thomas, R. Eric. Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays.
Thompson, Laura. Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford: The Biography
Urofsky, Melvin I. The Affirmative Action Puzzle: A Living History from Reconstruction to Today.
Wasson, Sam. The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood.
Yaffa, Joshua. Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia.
Zimmerman, Eilene. Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy.
Zucchino, David. Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy.