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July-September 2021 Issue
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Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Notes on Grief. eBook, eAudio
Amar, Akhil Reed. The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840.
Anderson, Carol. The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America.
Baszile, Natalie. We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy. eBook
Bird, Kai. The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter.
Bjarnason, Egill. How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island.
Bourdain, Anthony. World Travel: An Irreverent Guide. eBook, eAudio
Brammer, John Paul. ¡Hola Papi! How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Questions. eBook, eAudio
Broome, Brian. Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir.
Burrough, Bryan, et al. Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth.
Dabiri, Emma. What White People Can Do Next.
DeSilva, Jeremy. First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human.
Diamant, Anita. Period. End of Sentence.: A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice.
DiCaro, Julie. Sidelined: Sports, Culture, and Being a Woman in America.
Diski, Jenny. Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?: Essays.
Dobbs, Michael. King Richard: Nixon and Watergate: An American Tragedy.
Dunn, Jon. The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds.
Ellsworth, Scott. The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice.
Emezi, Akwaeke. Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir.
Etter, Lauren. The Devil’s Playbook: Big Tobacco, Juul, and the Addiction of a New Generation.
Fairbanks, Amanda M. The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind.
Faleiro, Sonia. The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing. eAudio
Flyn, Cal. Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape.
Flynn, Sean. Why Peacocks?: An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World’s Most Magnificent Bird.
Forna, Aminatta. The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion.
Fox, Margalit. The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History.
Gaines, Caseen. Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way.
Gordon-Reed, Annette. On Juneteenth. eBook, eAudio
Grinspan, Jon. The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915.
Hauck, Liz. Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up -- and What We Make When We Make Dinner.
Hernández, Daisy. The Kissing Bug: The True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease.
Hinton, Elizabeth. America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion since the 1960s.
Hirono, Mazie K. Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story. eBook
Hudes, Quiara Alegria. My Broken Language: A Memoir. eBook, eAudio
Issenberg, Sasha. The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Over Same-Sex Marriage.
Jones, Rickie Lee. Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour.
King, Ross. The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance.
Kushner, Rachel. The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020.
Laing, Olivia. Everybody: A Book About Freedom. eBook, eAudio
Lebo, Kate. The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with Recipes).
Letts, Elizabeth. Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Across America.
Malcolm Belc, Krys. The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood.
McAnulty, Dara. Diary of a Young Naturalist.
McHugh, Jess. Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books.
McKinley, Catherine E. The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women.
Midorikawa, Emily. Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice.
Miles, Tiya. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family’s Keepsake.
Montell, Amanda. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism.
Moore, Kate. The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear. eBook
O'Connor, Sinéad. Rememberings.
Oluseyi, Hakeem. A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars.
Perry, Grace. The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture.
Pham, Larissa. Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy.
Plokhy, Serhii. Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis. eBook
Rothman, Joshua D. The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America.
Rothschild, Mike. The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything.
Rubinstein, Julian. The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood.
Sales, Nancy Jo. Nothing Personal: My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno.
Schulman, Sarah. Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993.
Seife, Charles. Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity.
Sentilles, Sarah. Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours.
Slingerland, Edward. Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization.
Stanley, Jessamyn. Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance.
Summerscale, Kate. The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story.
Synnott, Mark. The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest.
Taylor, Alan. American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850.
Thompson, Richard. Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice, 1967-1975.
Tucker, Abigail. Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct.
Vijayan, Suchitra. Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India.
Villoro, Juan. Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico.
Washuta, Elissa. White Magic: Essays.
White, Edward. The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense.
Wickenden, Dorothy. The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights. eBook
Wright, Lawrence. The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID.
Zimmer, Carl. Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive.