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October-December 2020 Issue
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Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19. (Ed. by Jennifer Haupt)
Anderson, Scott. The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts.
Anonymous. Becoming Duchess Goldblatt.
Applebaum, Anne. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism.
Arsenault, Kerri. Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains.
Ball, Edward. Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy.
Barnett, Brittany K. A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom.
Barnett, Erica C. Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery.
Bonner, Betsy. The Book of Atlantis Black.
Bowden, Mark. The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories.
Bowdler, Michelle. Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto.
Brockovich, Erin. Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It.
Burton, Susan. Empty: A Memoir.
Cho, Catherine. Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness.
Cohen, Rachel. Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels.
Crawford, Lacy. Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir.
Cummings, Elijah. We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy.
Dapiran, Antony. City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong.
Davis, Wade. Magdalena: River of Dreams.
Demick, Barbara. Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town.
Dickey, Colin. The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained.
Dolin, Eric Jay. A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes.
Draper, Robert. To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq.
Eagleman, David. Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain.
Eilenberger, Wolfram. Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade that Reinvented Philosophy.
Frey, Sarah. The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life.
Giggs, Rebecca. Fathoms: The World in the Whale.
Gomez, Laura E. Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism.
Gorra, Michael. The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War.
Goudeau, Jessica. After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America.
Hall, Jake. The Art of Drag.
Hamby, Chris. Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia.
Hanley, Charles J. Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953.
Harvey, Miles. The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch.
Hazareesingh, Sudhir. Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture.
Herrera, Juan Felipe. Every Day We Get More Illegal. (poetry)
Hill, David. The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America’s Forgotten Capital of Vice.
Hinojosa, Maria. Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America.
Hobbs, Jeff. Show Them You’re Good: A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year Before College.
Jerkins, Morgan. Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots.
Johnson, Sarah Stewart. The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World.
Kleeman, Jenny. Sex Robots and Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex, and Death.
Kuhn, David Paul. The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution.
Lalami, Laila. Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America.
Lanier, Heather. Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir.
Macdonald, Helen. Vesper Flights: New and Collected Essays.
Macintyre, Ben. Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy.
Mack, Katie. The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking).
Marchant, Jo. The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars.
Mrazek, Robert J. The Indomitable Florence Finch: The Untold Story of a War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter and Savior of American POWs.
Murphy, Chris. The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy.
Nasaw, David. The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War.
Norman, Philip. Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix.
Paradis, Michel. Last Mission to Tokyo: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raiders and Their Final Fight for Justice.
Pearl, Nancy. The Writer’s Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives.
Pearlman, Jeff. Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty.
Perlstein, Rick. Reaganland: America’s Right Turn, 1976-1980.
Quinn, Bridget. She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next.
Rankine, Claudia. Just Us: An American Conversation.
Ross, Alex. Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music.
Russell, Kent. In the Land of Good Living: A Journey to the Heart of Florida.
Sabar, Ariel. Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife.
Seager, Sara. The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir.
Shimer, David. Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference.
Slaght, Jonathan C. Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl.
Smith, Mychal Denzel. Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream.
Smith, Zadie. Intimations: Six Essays.
Sow, Aminatou and Ann Friedman. Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close.
Ullrich, Volker. Hitler: Downfall 1939-1945.
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through. (Ed. by Joy Harjo) (poetry)
Zaman, Muhammad H. Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens.