November New Books

November 2019 New Books

Business and AIM

• The future of tech is female : how to achieve gender diversity / Douglas M. Branson.

Criminal Justice

• Charged : the new movement to transform American prosecution and end mass incarceration / Emily Bazelon.

• Good kids, bad city : a story of race and wrongful conviction in America / Kyle Swenson.

• The secret world : a history of intelligence / Christopher Andrew.

• Suspect citizens : what 20 million traffic stops tell us about policing and race / Frank R. Baumgartner, Derek A. Epp, Kelsey Shoub.

Education

• Building on resilience : models and frameworks of Black male success across the P-20 pipeline / edited by Fred A. Bonner II ; foreword by Tim King ; afterword by Robert T. Palmer.

• Diverse millennial students in college : implications for faculty and student affairs / edited by Fred A. Bonner II, Aretha F. Marbley, and Mary F. Howard-Hamilton.

• The new education : how to revolutionize the university to prepare students for a world in flux / Cathy N. Davidson.

Fine Arts

• Born to run / Bruce Springsteen.

• Key modern architects : 50 short histories of modern architecture / Andrew Higgott.

• Mo’ meta blues : the world according to Questlove / by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and Ben Greenman.

Health, Human Performance and Recreation

• Youth sports in America : the most important issues in youth sports today / Skye G. Arthur-Banning, editor ; P. Brian Greenwood and Mary Sara Wells, associate editors.

History

• Civil rights music : the soundtracks of the civil rights movement / Reiland Rabaka.

• The dictator next door : the good neighbor policy and the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945 / Eric Paul Roorda.

• El Norte : the epic and forgotten story of Hispanic North America / Carrie Gibson.

• The heartbeat of Wounded Knee : native America from 1890 to the present / David Treuer.

• The Popol Vuh : a new English version / translated from the K’iche’ by Michael Bazzett.

• Upon the altar of the nation : a moral history of the American Civil War / Harry S. Stout.

• Why the cocks fight : Dominicans, Haitians, and the struggle for Hispaniola / Michele Wucker.

Language and Literature

• Complete poems / Herman Melville ; Hershel Parker, editor ; [notes, Robert A. Sandberg].

• Conversations with Dorothy Allison / edited by Mae Miller Claxton.

• Cormac McCarthy’s violent destinies : the poetics of determinism and fatalism / edited by Brad Bannon and John Vanderheide.

• The dark fantastic : race and the imagination from Harry Potter to The hunger games / Ebony Elizabeth Thomas.

• Dialogues across diasporas : women writers, scholars, and activists of Africana and Latina descent in conversation / edited by Marion Rohrleitner and Sarah E. Ryan.

• Interviews from the edge : 50 years of conversations about writing and resistance / edited by Mark Yakich and John Biguenet.

• Olives : poems / A.E. Stallings.

• Reimagining the Middle Passage : Black resistance in literature, television, and song / Tara T. Green.

• She had some horses / Joy Harjo.

• White flights : race, fiction, and the American imagination / Jess Row.

• Wordslut : a feminist guide to taking back the English language / Amanda Montell.

Math and Natural Sciences

• Horizon / Barry Lopez.

• Manual for survival : a Chernobyl guide to the future / Kate Brown.

• Mechanisms underlying the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function / editor, Nico Eisenhauer.

• Never home alone : from microbes to millipedes, camel crickets, and honeybees, the natural history of where we live / Rob Dunn.

• Stream fish community dynamics : a critical synthesis / William J. Matthews, Edie Marsh-Matthews.

• Turtles as hopeful monsters : origins and evolution / Olivier Rieppel.

• Voices from the gathering storm : the web of ecological-societal crisis / Joseph C. Arcos, Mary F. Argus, Frederick J. DiCarlo, editors.

Social Sciences

• A girl stands at the door : the generation of young women who desegregated America’s schools / Rachel Devlin.

• Self-portrait in black and white : unlearning race / Thomas Chatterton Williams.

• The Stonewall reader / The New York Public Library ; foreword by Edmund White ; edited with an introduction by Jason Baumann.

• The Stonewall Riots : a documentary history / Marc Stein.

• Synesthesia / Richard E. Cytowic, M.D., M.F.A.

• Upheaval : turning points for nations in crisis / Jared Diamond.

• The Women’s Liberation Movement : impacts and outcomes / edited by Kristina Schulz.

Social Work

• About us : essays from the disability series of the New York times / edited and introduced by Peter Catapano and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson ; foreword by Andrew Solomon.

Curriculum

• Crossing on time : steam engines, fast ships, and a journey to the New World / David Macaulay.

• Dear Martin / Nic Stone.

• I am not your perfect Mexican daughter / Erika L. Sánchez.

• The secret garden ; A little princess ; Little lord Fauntleroy / Frances Hodgson Burnett ; edited by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina.

• Sulwe / written by Lupita Nyong’o ; illustrated by Vashti Harrison.

• Yard sale / Eve Bunting ; illustrated by Lauren Castillo.

Fiction

• All that man is / David Szalay.

• Atonement : a novel / Ian McEwan.

• The best American short stories 2019 / selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Anthony Doerr with Heidi Pitlor ; with an introduction by Anthony Doerr.

• Birds without wings / Louis de Bernières.

• The Corrections / Jonathan Franzen.

• Gold boy, emerald girl : stories / Yiyun Li.

• Harvest / Jim Crace.

• Look at me : a novel / Jennifer Egan.

• Minutes of glory : and other stories / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.

• Servants of the map : stories / Andrea Barrett.

• The southern woman : selected fiction / Elizabeth Spencer.

• Then we came to the end : a novel / Joshua Ferris.

• Trash : stories / by Dorothy Allison.