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July - September 2020 Issue
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Abrams, Stacey. Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America.
Ackerman, Jennifer. The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think.
Alexander, Eileen. Love in the Blitz: The Long-Lost Letters of a Brilliant Young Woman to Her Beloved on the Front.
Alter, Charlotte. The Ones We’ve Been Waiting for: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America.
Arceneaux, Michael. I Don’t Want to Die Poor: Essays.
Aron, Nina Renata. Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love.
Basbanes, Nicholas A. Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Bascomb, Neal. Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best.
Beam, Alex. Broken Glass: Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight over a Modernist Masterpiece.
Boylan, Jennifer Finney. Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs.
Brower, Kate Andersen. Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump.
Brown, Molly McCully. Places I’ve Taken My Body: Essays.
Buford, Bill. Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking.
Carlson, Beuna Coburn. Farm Girl: A Wisconsin Memoir.
Carter, Zachary D. The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes.
Clemmons, Francois S. Officer Clemmons: A Memoir.
Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla. The Undocumented Americans.
Crenn, Dominique. Rebel Chef: In Search of What Matters.
Dabiri, Emma. Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture.
DePalma, Anthony. The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times.
Doherty, Maggie. The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s.
Eiland, Ashlee. Human(Kind): How Reclaiming Human Worth and Embracing Radical Kindness Will Bring Us Back Together.
Fritzsche, Peter. Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich.
Gates, Robert M. Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World.
Gee, Alastair. Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy.
Gessen, Masha. Surviving Autocracy.
Gewen, Barry. The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World.
Golia, Maria. Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure.
Gopnik, Blake. Warhol.
Greene, A. Kendra. The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland’s Most Unusual Museums.
Hansen, Valerie. The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World--and Globalization Began.
Harkup, Kathryn. Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings, and Broken Hearts.
Harvey, Samantha. The Shapeless Unease: The Year of Not Sleeping.
Hohn, Donovan. The Inner Coast: Essays.
Johnson, Steven. Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History’s First Global Manhunt.
Kalb, Bess. Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story.
Kamp, David. Sunny Days: The Children’s Television Revolution That Changed America.
Kaur, Valarie. See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love.
Khakpour, Porochista. Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity.
Laing, Olivia. Funny Weather.
Landdeck, Katherine Sharp. The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II.
Lawson, Shayla. This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope.
Lesser, Wendy. Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery.
Lyman, Monty. The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Largest Organ.
Mask, Deirdre. The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power.
Miller, Adrienne. In the Land of Men.
Moe, John. The Hilarious World of Depression.
Moore, Susanna. Miss Aluminum: A Memoir.
Moore, Wayétu. The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir.
O’Connell, Mark. Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back.
O’Donnell, Svenja. Inge’s War: A German Woman’s Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival under Hitler.
Ortberg, Daniel Mallory. Something That May Shock and Discredit You.
Palahniuk, Chuck. Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different.
Perl, Jed. Calder: The Conquest of Space, the Later Years, 1940-1976.
Petri, Alexandra. Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why: Essays.
Piketty, Thomas. Capital and Ideology.
Porter, Eduardo. American Poison: How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise.
Safina, Carl. Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace.
Sandler, Lauren. This Is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search for Home.
Sedgewick, Augustine. Coffeeland: One Man’s Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug.
Shah, Sonia. The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move.
Sheldrake, Merlin. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, & Shape Our Futures.
Stahr, Celia. Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist.
Stewart, Nikita. Troop 6000: The Girl Scout Troop That Began in a Shelter and Inspired the World.
Svensson, Patrik. The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World.
Swanson, Doug J. Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers.
Talusan, Meredith. Fairest: A Memoir.
Tran, Phuc. Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In.
Tsui, Bonnie. Why We Swim.
Wade, Francesca. Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars.
Watts, Jill. The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt.
Williams, Wendy. The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World’s Favorite Insect.
Yang, Jia Lynn. One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle over American Immigration, 1924-1965.
Zack, Ian. Odetta: A Life in Music and Protest.
Zweibel, Alan. Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier.