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January-March 2022 Issue
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Ai, Weiwei. 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir. Ebook
Antrim, Donald. One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival. Ebook
Applegate, Debby. Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age. Ebook
Auster, Paul. Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane.
Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora. (Ed. by Bryant Terry)
Blain, Keisha N. Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America.
Bowen, Sesali. Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist.
Boyle, Kevin. The Shattering: America in the 1960s.
Bragg, Rick. The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People. Ebook, Downloadable audio
Brands, H. W. Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution.
Brooks, Mel. All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business. Downloadable audio
Burgess, Ann Wolbert. A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind.
Carter, Ilise S. The Red Menace: How Lipstick Changed the Face of American History.
Cheshire, James. Atlas of the Invisible: Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World.
Cohen, Uli Beutter. Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground.
Dauber, Jeremy. American Comics: A History.
de Visé, Daniel. King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King.
Dogon, Mondiant. Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee’s Search for Home.
Dyson, Michael Eric. Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America.
Elliott, Andrea. Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City. Ebook
Fielding-Singh, Priya. How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America.
Foster, Craig. Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher’s Extraordinary World.
Foster, Sutton. Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life. Ebook
Fox, Porter. The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World.
Gee, Henry. A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters.
Ghosh, Amitav. The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis.
Gottlieb, Robert. Garbo.
Gross, Robert A. The Transcendentalists and Their World.
Hanson, Thor. Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change.
Haygood, Wil. Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World.
Hewett, Jen. This Long Thread: Women of Color on Craft, Community, and Connection.
Indyk, Martin. Master the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy.
Jones, Dan. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages.
Jones, Faith. Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult.
Kang, Lydia. Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World’s Worst Diseases.
King, Rax. Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer.
Mackrell, Judith. The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II.
Marks, Ann. Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny.
Marshall, Tim. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World.
Mays, Kyle T. An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States.
Mazower, Mark. The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe.
Moorer, Allison. I Dream He Talks to Me: A Memoir of Learning How to Listen.
Mosco, Rosemary. A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World’s Most Misunderstood Bird.
Murakami, Haruki. Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love.
Myers, Marc. Rock Concert: An Oral History as Told by the Artists, Backstage Insiders, and Fans Who Were There.
Offit, Paul A. You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation. Downloadable audio
O’Gieblyn, Meghan. God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning.
O’Meara, Mallory. Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol.
Oppenheimer, Mark. Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood.
O’Sullivan, Suzanne. The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness.
Pettegree, Andrew. The Library: A Fragile History.
Picardie, Justine. Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture.
Porter, Billy. Unprotected: A Memoir. Ebook
Questlove. Music Is History. Ebook, Downloadable audio
Quinones, Sam. The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth. Ebook
Reich, Rob, et al. System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot.
Robison, Peter. Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing.
Ruhl, Sarah. Smile: The Story of a Face. Downloadable audio
Samaha, Albert. Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes. Downloadable audio
Sanneh, Kelefa. Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres.
Schuller, Kyla. The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism.
Seal, Mark. Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather.
Sedaris, David. A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020). Ebook, Downloadable audio
Sen, Mayukh. Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America.
Smith, Tracy K. Such Color: New and Selected Poems.
Solnit, Rebecca. Orwell’s Roses.
Sorel, Edward. Profusely Illustrated: A Memoir.
Stewart, Matthew. The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture.
Stockman, Farah. American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears. Downloadable audio
Streep, Abe. Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana.
Sturgis, Matthew. Oscar Wilde: A Life.
Thubron, Colin. The Amur River: Between Russia and China.
Wheatcroft, Geoffrey. Churchill’s Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill. Ebook
White, Richard Antoine. I’m Possible: A Story of Survival, a Tuba, and the Small Miracle of a Big Dream.
Wolk, Douglas. All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told.