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July-September 2022 Issue
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Abdelmahmoud, Elamin. Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces.
Addison, Corban. Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial.
Alexander, Elizabeth. The Trayvon Generation.
Barrera, Jazmina. Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes.
Bingham, Emily. My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song.
Bruni, Frank. The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found. Downloadable audiobook
Byrne, Paula. The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym.
Calhoun, Ada. Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me.
Carvan, Tabitha. This Is Not a Book about Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something–Anything–Like Your Life Depends on It. Downloadable audiobook
Clague, Mark. O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Cooke, Lucy. Bitch: On the Female of the Species.
de Waal, Frans. Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist.
Dennis, David J. The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride.
Dougherty, Nancy. The Hangman and His Wife: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich.
Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert. The Turning Point: 1851, A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World.
Ephron, Delia. Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Ferrante, Elena. In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing.
Fischer, David Hackett. African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Freedom.
Fitzharris, Lindsey. The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War.
Frank, Jeffrey. The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953.
Fraser, Antonia. The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton and Her Fight for Women’s Justice.
Gaydos, Ellyn. Pig Years.
Gleeson, John. The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America’s Most Notorious Mobster.
Goetsch, Diana. This Body I Wore: A Memoir.
Golenbock, Peter. Whispers of the Gods: Tales from Baseball’s Golden Age, Told by the Men Who Played It.
Hardman, Robert. Queen of Our Time: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II. Downloadable audiobook
Hodges, Natalie. Uncommon Measure: A Journey through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time.
House, Cindy. Mother Noise: A Memoir.
Jawando, Will. My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist’s Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole.
Jefferson, Margo. Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir.
Jones, Chloé Cooper. Easy Beauty: A Memoir.
Kennedy, Kostya. True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson.
Kouchner, Camille. The Familia Grande: A Memoir.
Krasnostein, Sarah. The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and Our Place in the Middle.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. Translating Myself and Others.
Lange, Alexandra. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall.
Li, Zhuqing. Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China’s Civil War.
Lim, Louisa. Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong.
Liu, Simu. We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
The Lonely Stories: 22 Celebrated Writers on the Joys & Struggles of Being Alone. Ed. by Natalie Eve Garrett.
Lopez, Barry. Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays.
Lowery, Jack. It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic.
Mac Cumhaill, Clare. Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life.
Marron, Catie. Becoming a Gardener: What Reading and Digging Taught Me About Living.
McGrath, Ben. Riverman: An American Odyssey. Ebook
McKibben, Bill. The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened.
Mooallem, Jon. Serious Face: Essays.
Moss, Marissa R. Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be.
O’Brien, Keith. Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe.
Odell, Amy. Anna: The Biography.
O’Reilly, Séamas. Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?: A Memoir.
Overy, Richard. Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945. Ebook
Pasulka, Nicole. How You Get Famous: Ten Years of Drag Madness in Brooklyn.
Prioleau, Betsy. Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age.
Pyae Moe Thet War. You’ve Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar.
Rainbow, Randy. Playing with Myself. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Robinson, Kim Stanley. The High Sierra: A Love Story.
Rosen, Jody. Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle.
Rutkow, Ira. Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery.
Samuels, Robert. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice.
Sancton, Tom. The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire.
Sekyiamah, Nana Darkoa. The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing.
Seymour, Miranda. I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys.
Smith, Danyel. Shine Bright: A Personal History of Black Women in Pop. Downloadable audiobook
Smith, Michael. Cabin Fever: The Harrowing Journey of a Cruise Ship at the Dawn of a Pandemic.
Thompson, Erin L. Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments.
Thomson, Keith. Born To Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune.
Tiffany, Kaitlyn. Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It.
Villarosa, Linda. Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation.
Walker, Alice. Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000. Ebook
Ward, Lucy. The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus.
We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth. Ed by Dahr Jamail and Stan Rushworth.
White, Richard. Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits, and the Birth of a University.
The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate. Ed. by Amy Brady.
Yong, Ed. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us.