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Seeking Fortune Elsewhere: Stories
by Sindya Bhanoo Traveling from Pittsburgh to Eastern Washington to Tamil Nadu, these stories about dislocation and dissonance see immigrants and their families confront the costs of leaving and staying, identifying sublime symmetries in lives growing apart.
Call Number: Fict Bha
ISBN: 9781646220878
Publication Date: 2022-03-08
Horse
by Geraldine Brooks Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South.
Call Number: Fict Bro
ISBN: 9780399562969
Publication Date: 2022-06-14
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Trust
by Hernán Díaz In glamorous 1920s New York City, two characters of sophisticated taste come together.
Call Number: Fict Dia
ISBN: 9780593420317
Publication Date: 2022-05-03
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
by Sidik Fofana Eight interconnected stories follow the tenants in the Banneker Homes, a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone's mind, as they weave in and out of each other's lives, endeavoring to escape from their pasts and forge new paths forward.
Call Number: Fict Fof
ISBN: 9781982145811
Publication Date: 2022-08-16
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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The Rabbit Hutch
by Tess Gunty A debut novel about an odd assortment of residents living in a crumbling apartment building in the post-industrial Midwest
Call Number: Fict Gun
ISBN: 9780593534663
Publication Date: 2022-08-02
What We Fed to the Manticore
by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri Through nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives, Talia Lakshmi Kolluri's debut collection explores themes of environmentalism, conservation, identity, belonging, loss, and family with resounding heart and deep tenderness.
Call Number: Fict Kol
ISBN: 9781953534415
Publication Date: 2022-09-06
Vagabonds!
by Eloghosa Osunde In Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the poor, the queer, the drivers and dancers, the abused and displaced and vulnerable.
Call Number: Fict Osu
ISBN: 9780593330029
Publication Date: 2022-03-15
The Swimmers
by Julie Otsuka A novel portraying a group of dedicated recreational swimmers and what happens when a crack appears at the bottom of their community pool
Call Number: Fict Ots
ISBN: 9780593321331
Publication Date: 2022-02-22
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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Elsewhere
by Alexis Schaitkin The profound story of a remote mountain village defined by the routine disappearances of mothers.
Call Number: Fict Sch
ISBN: 9781250219633
Publication Date: 2022-06-28
The Furrows: An Elegy
by Namwali Serpell Cassandra Williams is twelve, and her little brother Wayne is seven. One day, when they're alone together, an accident happens and Wayne is lost forever. Or so it seems.
Call Number: Fict Ser Mystery
ISBN: 9780593448915
Publication Date: 2022-09-27
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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The Wrong End of the Telescope
by Rabih Alameddine Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades.
Call Number: Fict Ala
ISBN: 9780802157805
Publication Date: 2021-09-21
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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Gordo: Stories
by Jaime Cortez A young boy named Gordo fights back tears underneath a wrestler's mask as he is forced to fight other boys and grow into his father's expectations of manhood.
Call Number: Fict Cor
ISBN: 9780802158086
Publication Date: 2021-08-17
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel
by Anthony Doerr In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport, Idaho, today, and on a spaceship bound for a distant exoplanet decades from now, an ancient text provides solace and the most profound human connection to characters in peril.
Call Number: Fict Doe
ISBN: 9781982168438
Publication Date: 2021-09-28
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Matrix
by Lauren Groff Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease.
Call Number: Fict Gro
ISBN: 9781594634499
Publication Date: 2021-09-07
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Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
Call Number: Fict Ish
ISBN: 9780593318171
Publication Date: 2021-03-02
ELECTRONIC FORMATS:
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. du Bois: A Novel
by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers This sweeping, brilliant and beautiful narrative is at once a love song to Black girlhood, family, history, joy, pain... and so much more.
Call Number: Fict Jef
ISBN: 9780062942937
Publication Date: 2021-08-24
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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Painting Time
by Maylis de Kerangal An aesthetic and existential coming-of-age novel exploring the apprenticeship of a young female painter
Call Number: Fict Ker
ISBN: 9780374211929
Publication Date: 2021-04-20
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
eBook
When We Cease to Understand the World
by Benjamin Labatut A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining.
Call Number: Fict Lab
ISBN: 9781681375663
Publication Date: 2021-09-28
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Hell of a Book: A Novel
by Jason Mott An astounding work of fiction, both incredibly funny and heartfelt, asking readers to embrace the fantastical in order to get to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon not only Black Americans, but America as a whole
Call Number: Fict Mot
ISBN: 9780593330968
Publication Date: 2021-06-29
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The Five Wounds: A Novel
by Kirstin Valdez Quade It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans.
Call Number: Fict Qua
ISBN: 9780393242836
Publication Date: 2021-03-30
ELECTRONIC FORMATS:
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Afterparties: Stories
by Anthony Veasna So A debut story collection about Cambodian-American life-immersive and comic, yet unsparing-that marks the arrival of an indisputable new talent in American fiction
Call Number: Fict So
ISBN: 9780063049901
Publication Date: 2021-08-03
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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Leave the World Behind: A Novel
by Rumaan Alam A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong.
Call Number: Fict Ala
ISBN: 9780062667632
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
ELECTRONIC FORMATS:
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The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities.
Call Number: Fict Ben
ISBN: 9780525536291
Publication Date: 2020-06-02
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Piranesi
by Susanna Clarke Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant.
Call Number: Fict Cla
ISBN: 9781635575637
Publication Date: 2020-09-15
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories
by Danielle Evans Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters' lives in a way that allows them to speak to larger issues of race, culture, and history.
Call Number: Fict Eva
ISBN: 9781594487330
Publication Date: 2020-11-10
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
eBook
Deacon King Kong: A Novel
by James McBride A wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting.
Call Number: Fict McB
ISBN: 9780735216730
Publication Date: 2020-03-03
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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Hamnet
by Maggie O'Farrell A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play.
Call Number: Fict OFa
ISBN: 9780525657606
Publication Date: 2020-07-21
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Shuggie Bain
by Douglas Stuart The unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in public housing in Glasgow, Scotland.
Call Number: Fict Stu
ISBN: 9780802148049
Publication Date: 2020-02-11
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
eBook
Run Me to Earth: A Novel
by Paul Yoon Alisak, Prany, and Noi--three orphans united by devastating loss--must do what is necessary to survive the perilous landscape of 1960s Laos.
Call Number: Fict Yoo
ISBN: 9781501154041
Publication Date: 2020-01-28
Breasts and Eggs
by Mieko Kawakami Paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own.
Call Number: [print copy may be available through ILL]
ISBN: 9781609455873
Publication Date: 2020-04-07
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
eBook, eAudiobook

Trust Exercise: A Novel
by Susan Choi David and Sarah fall innocently and powerfully into first love. [Outside pressures don’t have any effect…until suddenly they do].
Call Number: Fict Cho
ISBN: 9781250309884
Publication Date: 2019-04-09
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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The Water Dancer: A Novel
by Ta-Nehisi Coates Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand.
Call Number: Fict Coa
ISBN: 9780399590597
Publication Date: 2019-09-24
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Dominicana
by Angie Cruz Ana Canción never dreamed of moving to America…but when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes.
Call Number: Fict Cru
ISBN: 9781250205933
Publication Date: 2019-09-03
The Innocents
by Michael Crummey An orphaned brother and sister…must fend for themselves on a remote fishing outpost in the late 1800s.
Call Number: Fict Cru
ISBN: 9780385545426
Publication Date: 2019-11-12
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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Everything Inside
by Edwidge Danticat A gorgeous collection of stories about community, family and love; about the forces that pull us together or drive us apart.
Call Number: Fict Dan
ISBN: 9780525521273
Publication Date: 2019-08-27
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo Reminds us of everything that connects us to our neighbors, even in times when we are encouraged to be split apart.
Call Number: Fict Eva
ISBN: 9780802156983
Publication Date: 2019-11-05
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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The Topeka School
by Ben Lerner A tale of adolescence, transgression, and the conditions that have given rise to the trolls and tyrants of the New Right.
Call Number: Fict Ler
ISBN: 9780374277789
Publication Date: 2019-10-01
Lost Children Archive: A Novel
by Valeria Luiselli A fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America [that] probes the nature of justice and equality in America today.
Call Number: Fict Lui
ISBN: 9780525520610
Publication Date: 2019-02-12
Lanny: A Novel
by Max Porter Chimerical, audacious, strange and wonderful — a song to difference and imagination, to friendship, youth and love.
Call Number: Fict Por
ISBN: 9781555978402
Publication Date: 2019-05-14
Normal People
by Sally Rooney An exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life — a simple yet profound realization that unfolds beautifully.
Call Number: Fict Roo
ISBN: 9781984822178
Publication Date: 2019-04-16
ELECTRONIC FORMATS:
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel
by Ocean Vuong A sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling.
Call Number: Fict Vuo
ISBN: 9780525562023
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
ELECTRONIC FORMATS:
eBook, eAudiobook
The Nickel Boys: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead For a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future.
Call Number: Fict Whi
ISBN: 9780385537070
Publication Date: 2019-07-16
ELECTRONIC FORMATS:
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Waiting for Eden: A Novel
by Elliot Ackerman Eden Malcom lies in a bed, unable to move or to speak, imprisoned in his own mind. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his hospital room. He has never even met their young daughter. And he will never again see the friend and fellow soldier who didn't make it back home--and who narrates the novel. But on Christmas, the one day Mary is not at his bedside, Eden's re-ordered consciousness comes flickering alive.
Call Number: Fict Ack
ISBN: 9781101947395
Publication Date: 2018-09-25
Friday Black
by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah A piercingly raw debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive voice; a treacherously surreal, and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it's like to be young and black in America.
Call Number: Fict Adj
ISBN: 9781328911247
Publication Date: 2018-10-23
Washington Black: A Novel
by Esi Edugyan George Washington Black, or "Wash," an eleven-year-old field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is terrified to be chosen by his master's brother as his manservant. To his surprise, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist.
Call Number: Fict Edu
ISBN: 9780525521426
Publication Date: 2018-09-18
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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An American Marriage: A Novel
by Tayari Jones Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American dream and the New South. He is a young business executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are suddenly ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined when, while visiting Roy's parents in their small Louisiana town, Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years in prison for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit.
Call Number: Fict Jon
ISBN: 9781616201340
Publication Date: 2018-02-06
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The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive...
Call Number: Fict Kus
ISBN: 9781476756554
Publication Date: 2018-05-01
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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The Great Believers
by Rebecca Makkai In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him.
Call Number: Fict Mak
ISBN: 9780735223523
Publication Date: 2018-06-19
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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Warlight
by Michael Ondaatje Decades after World War II, Nathaniel Williams reflects on his experiences in 1945, when his parents left him and his sister in the care of a mysterious neighbor.
Call Number: Fict Ond
ISBN: 9780525521198
Publication Date: 2018-05-08
ELECTRONIC FORMATS:
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There There: A Novel
by Tommy Orange A multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery, hope and loss, identity and power, dislocation and communion, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people.
Call Number: Fict Ora
ISBN: 9780525520375
Publication Date: 2018-06-05
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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The Overstory: A Novel
by Richard Powers Strangers--each summoned in different ways by trees--are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent’s few remaining acres of virgin forest.
Call Number: Fict Pow
ISBN: 9780393635522
Publication Date: 2018-04-03
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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The House of Broken Angels
by Luis Alberto Urrea In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel De La Cruz, known affectionately as Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies herself, leading to a farewell doubleheader.
Call Number: Fict Urr
ISBN: 9780316154888
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
Don't Skip Out on Me: A Novel
by Willy Vlautin Determined to prove his worth, a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who was abandoned by his parents leaves his aging guardians to become a champion boxer before matches organized in Mexico and Las Vegas lead to his realization that he cannot change his identity or outrun his destiny.
Call Number: Fict Vla
ISBN: 9780062684455
Publication Date: 2018-02-13

NON-FICTION

Under The Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and the Health of Our Nation
by Linda Villarosa The first book to tell the full story of race and health in America today, showing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation
Call Number: 362.1089 Vil
ISBN: 9780385544887
Publication Date: 2022-06-14
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
by Siddhartha Mukherjee Presenting revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, the author draws on his own experience as a researcher, doctor, and prolific reader to explore how the discovery of cells created a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulation of cells.
Call Number: 571.6 Muk
ISBN: 9781982117351
Publication Date: 2022-10-25
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
by Ed Yong The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world.
Call Number: 591.5 Yon
ISBN: 9780593133231
Publication Date: 2022-06-21
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
eBook
Bitch: On The Female Of The Species
by Lucy Cooke A leading zoologist takes a fierce and often humorous look at the females of the animal kingdom and subverts the prevailing opinion among evolutionary biologists who have insisted that males are more interesting.
Call Number: 591.56 Coo
ISBN: 9781541674899
Publication Date: 2022-06-14
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out Of Auschwitz To Warn The World
by Jonathan Freedland In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became the first Jew to break out of Auschwitz—one of only four who ever pulled off that near-impossible feat. He did it to reveal the truth of the death camp to the world—and to warn the last Jews of Europe what fate awaited them at the end of the railway line.
Call Number: 909 Fre
ISBN: 9780063112339
Publication Date: 2022-10-18
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
eBook
The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, An Unspeakable War and Liberation
by Scott Carney and Jason Miklian This fast-paced, meticulously detailed book tells the story of the Great Bhola Cyclone, the deadliest storm in modern history, which killed 500,000 people in Pakistan, and its aftermath as told through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it.
Call Number: 954.904 Car
ISBN: 9780062985415
Publication Date: 2022-03-29
We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices From Turtle Island on the Changing Earth
by Dahr Jamail and Stan Rushworth (Eds.) A powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis and the Earth's future
Call Number: 970.0049 We
ISBN: 9781620976692
Publication Date: 2022-04-12
Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, And Me
by Ada Calhoun When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier.
Call Number: B Calhoun
ISBN: 9780802159786
Publication Date: 2022-06-14
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Easy Beauty: A Memoir
by Chloé Cooper Jones Jones learned early on to factor "pain calculations" into every plan, every situation. Born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis which affects both her stature and gait, her pain is physical. But there is also the pain of being judged and pitied for her appearance, of being dismissed as "less than." The way she has been seen--or not seen--has informed her lens on the world her entire life.
Call Number: B Cooper
ISBN: 9781982151997
Publication Date: 2022-04-05
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life And The Struggle For Racial Justice
by Robert Samuels The video recording of his death set off a series of protests in the United States and around the world, awakening millions to the dire need for reimagining this country's broken systems of policing.
Call Number: B Floyd
ISBN: 9780593490617
Publication Date: 2022-05-17

Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
by James Rebanks [The author] chronicles his family's farm in England's Lake District across three generations, revealing through this intimate lens the profound global transformation of agriculture and of the human relationship to the land
Call Number: 338.1763 Reb
ISBN: 9780063073272
Publication Date: 2021-08-03
The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
by Brian Alexander An intimate, heart wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America's health care crises.
Call Number: 362.1097 Ale
ISBN: 9781250237354
Publication Date: 2021-03-09
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
by Scott Weidensaul In the past two decades, our understanding of bird migration-the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans or fly above the highest mountains, to go weeks without sleep, or remain in unbroken flight for months at a stretch-has exploded.
Call Number: 598.1568 Wei
ISBN: 9780393608908
Publication Date: 2021-03-30
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
eAudiobook
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
by Stephen Walker A sixtieth-anniversary tribute to Russia's history-making first space mission documents the story of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the program's repurposing of a nuclear ballistic missile, and the Cold War challenges that shrouded the mission in secrecy.
Call Number: 629.45 Wal
ISBN: 9780062978158
Publication Date: 2021-04-13
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
by Hanif Abdurraqib Unravels all modes and methods of black performance, in this moment when black performers are coming to terms with their value, reception, and immense impact on America
Call Number: 791.0899 Abd
ISBN: 9781984801197
Publication Date: 2021-03-30
People Love Dead Jews: Reports From a Haunted Present
by Dara Horn Dara Horn challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, as emblematic of the worst of evils the world has to offer, and so little respect for Jewish lives, as they continue to unfold in the present.
Call Number: 909.0492 Hor
ISBN: 9780393531565
Publication Date: 2021-09-07
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by Clint Smith Examines the legacy of slavery by highlighting the continued preservation of monuments and landmarks that hold violent and racist symbolism.
Call Number: 973.049 Smi
ISBN: 9780316492935
Publication Date: 2021-06-01
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain (Eds.) A 'choral history' of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers
Call Number: 973.0496 Fou
ISBN: 9780593134047
Publication Date: 2021-02-02
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
eBook
Poet Warrior: A Memoir
by Joy Harjo Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life.
Call Number: B Harjo
ISBN: 9780393248524
Publication Date: 2021-09-07
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
by Winfred Rembert Winfred Rembert grew up as a field hand on a Georgia plantation. He embraced the Civil Rights Movement, endured political violence, survived a lynching, and spent seven years in prison on a chain gang. Years later, seeking a fresh start at the age of 52, he discovered his gift and vision as an artist, and using leather tooling skills he learned in prison, started etching and painting scenes from his youth.
Call Number: B Rembert
ISBN: 9781635576597
Publication Date: 2021-09-07
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
by Patrick Radden Keefe A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin
Call Number: [print copy may be available through ILL]
ISBN: 9780385545693
Publication Date: 2021-04-13
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
eBook

Just Us: An American Conversation
by Claudia Rankine At home and in government, contemporary America finds itself riven by a culture war in which aggression and defensiveness alike are on the rise. It is not alone. In such partisan conditions, how can humans best approach one another across our differences?
Call Number: 305.896 Ran
ISBN: 9781644450215
Publication Date: 2020-09-08
ELECTRONIC FORMAT:
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.
Call Number: 305.5122 Wil
ISBN: 9780593230251
Publication Date: 2020-08-04
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Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
by David Zucchino With a coordinated campaign of intimidation and violence, the Democrats sharply curtailed the black vote and stuffed ballot boxes to steal the 1898 mid-term election. Two days later, more than 2,000 heavily armed white nightriders known as Red Shirts swarmed through Wilmington, terrorizing women and children and shooting at least sixty black men dead in the streets.
Call Number: 305.8009 Zuc
ISBN: 9780802128386
Publication Date: 2020-01-07
A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
by Brittany K. Barnett Sharanda had been torn away from her young daughter and was serving a life sentence without parole--for a first-time drug offense. In Sharanda, Brittany saw haunting echoes of her own life, both as the daughter of a formerly incarcerated mother and as the once-girlfriend of an abusive drug dealer.
Call Number: 340.092 Bar
ISBN: 9781984825780
Publication Date: 2020-09-08
Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace
by Carl Safina Some people insist that culture is strictly a human feat. What are they afraid of? This book looks into three cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth's remaining wild places.
Call Number: 591.782 Saf
ISBN: 9781250173331
Publication Date: 2020-04-14
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
by Robert Kolker By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after the other, were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How could all this happen to one family? What took place inside the house on Hidden Valley Road was so extraordinary that the Galvins became one of the first families to be studied by the National Institutes of Mental Health?
Call Number: 616.898 Kol
ISBN: 9780385543767
Publication Date: 2020-04-07
ELECTRONIC FORMATS:
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Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
by Lauren Redniss Tells the story of a race-against-time struggle for a swath of American land, which pits one of the poorest communities in the United States against the federal government and two of the world's largest mining conglomerates.
Call Number: 979 Red
ISBN: 9780399589720
Publication Date: 2020-11-17
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
by Natasha Trethewey A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy.
Call Number: B Trethewey
ISBN: 9780062248572
Publication Date: 2020-07-28
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
by David Wallace-Wells Parts of the Earth could become close to uninhabitable…as soon as the end of this century.
Call Number: 304.28 Wal
ISBN: 9780525576709
Publication Date: 2019-02-19
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A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century
by Jason DeParle [A] portrait of an unforgettable family across three generations.
Call Number: 305.8992 DeP
ISBN: 9780670785926
Publication Date: 2019-08-20
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
by Louise Aronson [We’re] living longer than ever…[but] we've made old age into a disease…
Call Number: 362.6097 Aro
ISBN: 9781620405468
Publication Date: 2019-06-11
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster
by Adam Higginbotham Reveals how propaganda and secrets have created additional dangers.
Call Number: 363.1799 Hig
ISBN: 9781501134616
Publication Date: 2019-02-12
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
by Patrick Radden Keefe About a notorious killing…and its devastating repercussions.
Call Number: 364.1523 Kee
ISBN: 9780307279286
Publication Date: 2020-02-25
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
by Robert Macfarlane An epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.
Call Number: 551.447 Mac
ISBN: 9780393242140
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
by Frans de Waal [Emphasizes] the continuity between our species and other species.
Call Number: 599.8851 Waa
ISBN: 9780393635065
Publication Date: 2019-03-12
Yellow House
by Sarah M. Broom The stories of [New Orleans] natives…demonstrate how enduring drives of clan, pride, and familial love resist and defy erasure.
Call Number: 920 Bro
ISBN: 9780802125088
Publication Date: 2019-08-13
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The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
by Brenda Wineapple The last-ditch, patriotic effort to make the goals of the Civil War a reality.
Call Number: 973.8109 Win
ISBN: 9780812998368
Publication Date: 2019-05-21
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Thick: And Other Essays
by Tressie McMillan Cottom Sheds light on the trait of being ‘thick,’ both in form and in substance.
Call Number: B Cottom
ISBN: 9781620974360
Publication Date: 2019-01-08
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
by Margaret Renkl [The] captivating portrait of a family — and of the [human] cycles of joy and grief.
Call Number: B Renkl
ISBN: 9781571313782
Publication Date: 2019-07-09

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
by Beth Macy Chronicles America's more than twenty-year struggle with opioid addiction, from the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, through the spread of addiction in distressed communities in Central Appalachia, to the current national crisis.
Call Number: 362.2909 Mac
ISBN: 9780316551243
Publication Date: 2018-08-07
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
by Ben Austen Blends personal narrative, city politics, and national history in the story of Chicago's iconic public housing project to trace its evolution from a 1940s slum to a towering community only blocks from the Gold Coast, where crime and government failures impacted the lives of countless families.
Call Number: 363.585 Aus
ISBN: 9780062235060
Publication Date: 2018-02-13
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
by Kirk W. Johnson Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, Edwin grabbed hundreds of bird skins--some collected 150 years earlier--and escaped into the darkness.
Call Number: 364.15 Joh
ISBN: 9781101981634
Publication Date: 2019-04-23
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
by Gilbert King In December 1957, Blanche Bosanquet Knowles, the wealthy young wife of a citrus baron, is raped in her home while her husband is away. Journalist Mabel Norris Reese and an inexperienced young lawyer pursue the case, winning unlikely allies and chasing down leads until at long last they begin to unravel the unspeakable truths behind a racial conspiracy that shocked a community into silence.
Call Number: 364.1532 Kin
ISBN: 9780399183386
Publication Date: 2018-04-24
American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
by Shane Bauer A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history.
Call Number: 365.973 Bau
ISBN: 9780735223585
Publication Date: 2018-09-18
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
by Elizabeth Rush With every passing day, and every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change is neither imagined nor distant--and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In Rising, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic.
Call Number: 551.457 Rus
ISBN: 9781571313676
Publication Date: 2018-06-12
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
by David Quammen Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature.
Call Number: 591.38 Qua
ISBN: 9781476776620
Publication Date: 2018-08-14
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
by David W. Blight The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.
Call Number: B Douglass
ISBN: 9781416590316
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
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Call Me American: A Memoir
by Abdi Nor Iftin The incredible true story of a boy living in war-torn Somalia who escapes to America--first by way of the movies; years later, through a miraculous green card. Abdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar... Sporting American clothes and dance moves, he became known around Mogadishu as Abdi American, but when the radical Islamist group al-Shabaab rose to power in 2006, it suddenly became dangerous to celebrate Western culture.
Call Number: B Iftin
ISBN: 9781524732196
Publication Date: 2018-06-19
Heavy: An American Memoir
by Kiese Laymon Seeks to bring what has been hidden into the light and to reckon with all of its myriad sources, from the most intimate--a mother-child relationship--to the most universal--a society that has undervalued and abused black bodies for centuries.
Call Number: B Laymon
ISBN: 9781501125652
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
Rush: Revolution, Madness, and the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
by Stephen Fried The remarkable story of Benjamin Rush, medical pioneer and one of our nation's most provocative and unsung Founding Fathers.
Call Number: B Rush
ISBN: 9780804140065
Publication Date: 2018-09-04
Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent. As a way out, Tara began to educate herself, learning enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University.
Call Number: B Westover
ISBN: 9780399590504
Publication Date: 2018-02-20
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