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October - December 2023 Issue
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Ahmed, Azam. Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance.
Andrews, Lena S. Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II. Ebook
Brown, Jericho, editor. How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill.
Campoverdi, Alejandra. First Gen: A Memoir.
Carlisle, Clare. The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life.
Carrière, Alice. Everything/Nothing/Someone: A Memoir. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Chang, Leah L. Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power.
Coulter, Kristi. Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career.
Dickie, Gloria. Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future.
Edin, Kathryn J.; Shaefer, H. Luke; Nelson, Timothy J. The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America.
Eilenberger, Wolfram. The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times.
Field, Andy. Encounterism: The Neglected Joys of Being in Person.
Flam, Laura and Liebowitz, Emily Sieu. But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the '60s Girl Groups.
Flannery, Kate. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Francis, Gavin. Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence.
Franklin-Wallis, Oliver. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future.
Freedman, Samuel G. Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights.
Funder, Anna. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life.
Glatt, John. Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders.
Goldfarb, Ben. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet.
Goodyear, C.W. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier.
Goyal, Nikhil. Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty.
Grush, Loren. The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts.
Gupta, Prachi. They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies that Raised Us. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Gurba, Myriam. Creep: Accusations and Confessions.
Hamilton, Lisa M. The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival.
Hardin, Lara Love. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Hartigan, Patti. August Wilson: A Life.
Huang, Yunte. Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History.
Jones, Robert P. The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: And the Path to a Shared American Future.
Julavits, Heidi. Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years.
Kissinger, Meg. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Leland, Andrew. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight.
Lepore, Jill. The Deadline: Essays.
Lipsky, David. The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Love, Bettina L. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal.
Maclear, Kyo. Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets.
Mann, William J. Bogie & Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair.
McAdam, Jennifer. Devil’s Coin: My Battle to Take Down the Notorious Onecoin Cryptoqueen.
McCrae, Shane. Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
McKenzie, Ben and Silverman, Jacob. Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
McPhee, John. Tabula Rasa. Volume 1.
McPhee, Martha. Omega Farm: A Memoir.
McWhirter, Cameron. American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15.
Meals, Roy A. Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement.
Meckler, Laura. Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity.
Meltzer, Marisa. Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier.
Mikanowski, Jacob. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land.
Miles, Tiya. Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation.
Monosson, Emily. Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic.
Moss, Stephen. Ten Birds That Changed the World.
Nancherla, Aparna. Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome.
Ndopu, Eddie. Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever.
Nguyen, Bich Minh. Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir. Ebook
Posnanski, Joe. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Ramsey, Donovan X. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Reeves, Roger. Dark Days: Fugitive Essays.
Rush, Elizabeth. The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth.
Schama, Simon. Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations.
Shane, Scott. Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland.
Shange, Ntozake. Sing a Black Girl's Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange.
Shields, Aomawa. Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe.
Shih, David. Chinese Prodigal: A Memoir in Eight Arguments.
Simmons, Ruth J. Up Home: One Girl's Journey.
Smilios, Maria. The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis.
Spillar, Katherine. 50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution.
Stark, Peter. Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation.
Stowe, Hannah. Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea.
Thom, Kai Cheng. Falling Back in Love With Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls. Downloadable audiobook
Thomas, R. Eric. Congratulations, the Best is Over!: Essays. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Walker, Tamara J. Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad.
Winder, Elizabeth. Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones.
Winn, Raynor. Landlines: The Remarkable Story of a Thousand-Mile Journey Across Britain.
Yeebo, Yepoka. Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World.
Zambreno, Kate. The Light Room.