New Books – January/February 2020

Business and AIM

• Fashionopolis : the price of fast fashion–and the future of clothes / Dana Thomas.

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Criminal Justice

• Solitary : unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement. My story of transformation and hope / Albert Woodfox ; with Leslie George.

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Fine Arts

• Songs of America : patriotism, protest, and the music that made a nation / Jon Meacham & Tim McGraw.
• The sound of a superpower : musical Americanism and the Cold War / Emily Abrams Ansari.

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Health, Human Performance and Recreation

• K : a history of baseball in ten pitches / Tyler Kepner.

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History

• After coal : stories of survival in Appalachia and Wales / Tom Hansell.
• American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer / by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.
• Fall and rise : the story of 9/11 / Mitchell Zuckoff.
• Gone home : race and roots through Appalachia / Karida L. Brown.
• Liberia, South Carolina : an African American Appalachian community / John M. Coggeshall.
• Robert Mugabe / Sue Onslow and Martin Plaut.
• The silk roads : a new history of the world / Peter Frankopan.
• Troubled refuge : struggling for freedom in the Civil War / Chandra Manning.
• You’ve got to tell them : a French girl’s experience of Auschwitz and after / Ida Grinspan and Bertrand Poirot-Delpech ; translated by Charles B. Potter.

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Language and Literature

• An American sunrise : poems / Joy Harjo.
• The changing light at Sandover : with the stage adaptation Voices from Sandover / James Merrill ; edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser.
• Contemporary Kazakh literature. Poetry.
• Contemporary Kazakh literature. Prose.
• Daring to write : contemporary narratives by Dominican women / edited by Erika M. Martínez.
• Like / A.E. Stallings.
• Little boy / Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
• New selected poems / Mark Strand.
• Pushcart prize XLIV, 2020 : best of the small presses / edited by Bill Henderson with the Pushcart Prize editors.
• Troubled memories : iconic Mexican women and the traps of representation / Oswaldo Estrada.

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Math and Natural Sciences

• The fight against doubt : how to bridge the gap between scientists and the public / Inmaculada de Melo-Martín and Kristen Intemann.
• The great animal orchestra : finding the origins of music in the world’s wild places / Bernie Krause.
• Inconspicuous consumption : the environmental impact you don’t know you have / Tatiana Schlossberg.
• We are the weather : saving the planet begins at breakfast / Jonathan Safran Foer.
• The wonderful Mr Willughby : the first true ornithologist / Tim Birkhead.

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Social Sciences

• A seat at the table : congresswomen’s perspectives on why their presence matters / Kelly Dittmar, Kira Sanbonmatsu, and Susan J. Carroll.
• Biased : uncovering the hidden prejudice that shapes what we see, think, and do / Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD.
• Call them by their true names : American crises (and essays) / Rebecca Solnit.
• The consciousness instinct : unraveling the mystery of how the brain makes the mind / Michael S. Gazzaniga.
• The harvest of American racism : the political meaning of violence in the summer of 1967 / edited by Robert Shellow ; with a foreword by Michael C. Dawson.
• The lions’ den : Zionism and the left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky / Susie Linfield.
• The outlaw ocean : journeys across the last untamed frontier / Ian Urbina.
• The politics of autism / Bryna Siegel.
• PTSD : a short history / Allan V. Horwitz.
• Real queer America : LGBT stories from red states / Samantha Allen.
• Rethinking racial justice / Andrew Valls.
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg : a life / Jane Sherron de Hart.
• The social foundations of emotion : developmental, cultural, and clinical dimensions / Stefan G. Hofmann and Stacey N. Doan.
• Unbound : transgender men and the remaking of identity / Arlene Stein.

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Social Work

• No visible bruises : what we don’t know about domestic violence can kill us / Rachel Louise Snyder.

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Curriculum

• Batman : Nightwalker / Marie Lu.
• Chrysalis / Brendan Reichs.
• Jackrabbit McCabe & the electric telegraph / written by Lucy Margaret Rozier and illustrated by Leo Espinosa.
• Pet / Akwaeke Emezi.

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Fiction

• Canada / Richard Ford.
• Confessions of a mask / by Yukio Mishima ; translated by Meredith Weatherby.
• The Crazy iris and other stories of the atomic aftermath / edited and with an introduction by Kenzaburō Ōe.
• Fair gentlemen of Belken County / Rolando Hinojosa.
• Iron gold / Pierce Brown.
• John Updike : novels 1968-1975 / edited by Christopher Carduff.
• The judges : a novel / by Elie Wiesel.
• Ladivine / Marie NDiaye ; translated from the French by Jordan Stump.
• Olive, again / Elizabeth Strout.
• Secret rendezvous / Kobo Abe ; translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter.
• The sportswriter / Richard Ford.
• The testaments / Margaret Atwood.
• The winter of the witch : a novel / Katherine Arden.

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