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April-June 2021 Issue
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Abdurraqib, Hanif. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance.
Adamson, Glenn. Craft: An American History.
Alexander, Brian. The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town.
Allende, Isabel. The Soul of a Woman: On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches.
Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin. When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today.
Bailey, Blake. Philip Roth: The Biography.
Bates, Laura. Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists; The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All.
Beard, Jo Ann. Festival Days.
Beck, Koa. White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind.
Becker, Elizabeth. You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War.
Bittman, Mark. Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal.
Bond, Julian. Julian Bond’s Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement.
Bren, Paulina. The Barbizon: The Hotel that Set Women Free.
Brina, Elizabeth Miki. Speak, Okinawa.
Brooks, Rosa. Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City.
Brown, Emma. To Raise a Boy: Classrooms, Locker Rooms, Bedrooms, and the Hidden Struggles of American Boyhood.
Byrne, Gabriel. Walking with Ghosts: A Memoir.
Clark-Flory, Tracy. Want Me: A Sex Writer’s Journey into the Heart of Desire.
Cohn, Jonathan. The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage.
Cooke, Julia. Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am.
Cox, John Woodrow. Children Under Fire: An American Crisis.
Douglas, Ed. Himalaya: A Human History.
Duckworth, Tammy. Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir.
Dyja, Thomas. New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation.
Ehrlich, Gretel. Unsolaced: Along the Way to All That Is.
Febos, Melissa. Girlhood: Essays.
Frank, Matthew Gavin. Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa.
Frankel, Glenn. Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song.
Ghazvinian, John. America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present.
Gilmour, Charlie. Featherhood: A Memoir of Two Fathers and a Magpie.
Glaser, Gabrielle. American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption.
Gonsalez, Marcos. Pedro’s Theory: Reimagining the Promised Land.
Green, Elon. Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York.
Greene, Richard. The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene.
Han, Chenxing. Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists.
Healy, Thomas. Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia.
Heinecke, Liz. Radiant: The Dancer, the Scientist, and a Friendship Forged in Light.
Hiss, Tony. Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth.
Jaffe, Sarah. Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone.
Kolbert, Elizabeth. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future.
Lawton, Georgina. Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong.
Lee, Hermione. Tom Stoppard: A Life.
Lieber, Ron. The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make.
Lieberman, Daniel. Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding.
McGarrahan, Ellen. Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice.
Meiburg, Jonathan. A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey.
Miller, Reuben Jonathan. Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration.
Miller, Tessa. What Doesn’t Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness--Lessons from a Body in Revolt.
Montgomery, Ben. A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South.
Newitz, Annalee. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age.
Nijhuis, Michelle. Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction.
Nimura, Janice P. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women--and Women to Medicine.
Owusu, Nadia. Aftershocks: A Memoir.
Pang, Amelia. Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods.
Perlroth, Nicole. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race.
Pitzer, Andrea. Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World.
Pogue, David. How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos.
Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda. The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred.
Rapp Black, Emily. Sanctuary: A Memoir.
Ricketts, Rachel. Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy.
Robertson, Ritchie. The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790.
Rosser, Kareem. Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever.
Sands, Philippe. The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive.
Schillace, Brandy. Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey’s Head, the Pope’s Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul.
Tichenor, Liz. The Night Lake: A Young Priest Maps the Topography of Grief.
Tubbs, Anna Malaika. The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation.
Tyson, Neil DeGrasse. Cosmic Queries: StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going.
Vanderbilt, Tom. Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning.
Weidensaul, Scott. A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds.
Wilczek, Frank. Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality.
Winchester, Simon. Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World.