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April - June 2024 Issue
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Abdurraqib, Hanif. There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension.
Alexander, Kwame, editor. This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets. Downloadable audiobook
Alford, Natasha S. American Negra: A Memoir.
Arana, Marie. LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority.
Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin. So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (and Why We’re Still So Obsessed with It).
Arsenault, Raymond. John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community.
Blehm, Eric. The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him.
Blitzer, Jonathan. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Boyle, Rebecca. Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are.
Breen, Benjamin. Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science.
Butler, Blake. Molly.
Chayka, Kyle. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Clein, Emmeline. Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm.
Coll, Steve. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq.
Cwiklik, Robert. Sheridan’s Secret Mission: How the South Won the War After the Civil War.
Darlington, Miriam. Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World.
Dearborn, Mary V. Carson McCullers: A Life.
Debreczeni, József. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz.
DeRuiter, Geraldine. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury.
Durkin, Hannah. The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade.
Erdozain, Dominic. One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Figueroa, Jamie. Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico.
Finkel, David. An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country.
Gates, Henry Louis Jr. The Black Box: Writing the Race.
Ghosh, Amitav. Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories.
Gregory, Philippa. Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History.
Gutierrez, Elizabeth Camarillo. My Side of the River: A Memoir. Downloadable audiobook
Henderson, Rob. Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class.
Herold, Benjamin. Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs.
Heti, Sheila. Alphabetical Diaries.
Hirsch, Annabelle. A History of Women in 101 Objects.
Howsare, Erika. The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors.
Hylton, Antonia. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Jackson, Jenn M. Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism.
Joyce, Patrick. Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World.
Kaplan, James. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool.
Kasher, Moshe. Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes. Ebook
Klaas, Brian. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters. Downloadable audiobook
Lieu, Susan. The Manicurist's Daughter: A Memoir.
Liontas, Annie. Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery.
Markham, Lauren. A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging.
Martin, Manjula. The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History.
McCallum, Jack. The Real Hoosiers: Crispus Attucks High School, Oscar Robertson, and the Hidden History of Hoops.
McCammon, Sarah. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church.
Morimoto, Shoji. Rental Person Who Does Nothing: A Memoir. Ebook
Nguon, Chantha and Green, Kim. Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes.
Norris, Michele. Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity. Ebook
O'Connor, John. The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster.
Oluo, Ijeoma. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—And How You Can, Too.
Ondaatje, Michael. A Year of Last Things: Poems.
Parker, Morgan. You Get What You Pay For.
Paul, Caroline. Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking―How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age.
Perlin, Ross. Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York.
Purnell, Brontez. Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt: A Memoir in Verse.
Raboteau, Emily. Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse.”
Ranganath, Charan. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters.
Robbie, Margot; Mukamal, Andrew, et al. Barbie: The World Tour.
Rodgers, Jodi. How to Find a Four-Leaf Clover: What Autism Can Teach Us about Difference, Connection, and Belonging.
Rogers, Katie. American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden.
Rothenberg, Ben. Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice.
Salisbury, Katie Gee. Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong.
Sante, Lucy. I Heard Her Call My Name.
Sciutto, Jim. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War.
Shatz, Adam. The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon.
Shechtman, Anna. The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle.
Slater, Lyn. How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon.
Spencer, Charles. A Very Private School: A Memoir.
Stanley, Bob. The Story of the Bee Gees: Children of the World.
Stone, Dan. The Holocaust: An Unfinished History.
Swanson, James L. The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America.
Taffa, Deborah Jackson. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir.
Traub, James. True Believer: Hubert Humphrey's Quest for a More Just America.
Trentmann, Frank. Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022.
Trofimov, Yaroslav. Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence.
Wolraich, Michael. The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age. Ebook