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New Books March 2025

Criminal Justice

Correction : parole, prison, and the possibility of change / Ben Austen.

The power of the badge : sheriffs and inequality in the United States / Emily M. Farris and Mirya Holman.

Radical acts of justice : how ordinary people are dismantling mass incarceration / Jocelyn Simonson.

Education

Understanding and reducing anxiety in the primary school : theory and practice for building a compassionate culture for all educators and children / Shirley Clarke, Angela Evans, and Kate Moss.

Fine Arts

Anton Bruckner : the man and the work / Constantin Floros.

Leonard Bernstein / Paul R. Laird.

Nonconformers : a new history of self-taught artists / Lisa Slominski.

Tchaikovsky's empire : a new life of Russia's greatest composer / Simon Alexander Morrison.

History

American civil wars : a continental history, 1850-1873 / Alan Taylor.

The apothecary's wife : the hidden history of medicine and how it became a commodity / Karen Bloom Gevirtz.

The dark path : the structure of war and the rise of the West / Williamson Murray.

Interference : the inside story of Trump, Russia, and the Mueller investigation / Aaron Zebley, James L. Quarles, and Andrew D. Goldstein.

John Lewis : in search of the beloved community / Raymond Arsenault.

Normal women : 900 years of making history / Philippa Gregory.

Playing with reality : how games have shaped our world / Kelly Clancy.

Language and Literature

The Black box : writing the race / Henry Louis Gates.

Carson McCullers : a life / Mary V. Dearborn.

The language puzzle : piecing together the six-million-year story of how words evolved / Steven Mithen.

The rhythm method, razzmatazz, and memory : how to make your poetry swing / Keith Flynn.

The troubadours / Linda M. Paterson.

Math and Natural Sciences

Foreign bodies : pandemics, vaccines, and the health of nations / Simon Schama.

The impossible man : Roger Penrose and the cost of genius / Patchen Barss.

The light eaters : how the unseen world of plant intelligence offers a new understanding of life on Earth / Zoë Schlanger.

The three ages of water : prehistoric past, imperiled present, and a hope for the future / Peter Gleick.

Social Sciences

Abortion : our bodies, their lies, and the truths we use to win / Jessica Valenti.

The canceling of the American mind : cancel culture undermines trust and threatens us all--but there is a solution / Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott.

The fall of Roe : the rise of a new America / Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer.

I heard there was a secret chord : music as medicine / Daniel J. Levitin.

Metaracism : how systemic racism devastates Black lives--and how we break free / Author: Tricia Rose.

Seeing red : Russian propaganda and American news / Sarah Oates and Gordon Neil Ramsay.

Soldiers and kings : survival and hope in the world of human smuggling / Jason De León.

Something in these hills : the culture of family land in Southern Appalachia / John M. Coggeshall.

Underground empire : how America weaponized the world economy / Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman.

Unmasking autism : discovering the new faces of neurodiversity / Devon Price.

Social Work

Undue burden : life-and-death decisions in post-Roe America / Shefali Luthra.

We were once a family : a story of love, death, and child removal in America / Roxanna Asgarian.

Curriculum

Gather / Kenneth M. Cadow.

There was a party for Langston / Jason Reynolds, with art by Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey.

Fiction

The berry pickers : a novel / Amanda Peters.

The city and its uncertain walls / Haruki Murakami.

The fellowship of the ring : being the first part of the Lord of the Rings / J. R. R. Tolkien.

Orbital : a novel / Samantha Harvey.

The return of the king : being the third part of the Lord of the Rings / J. R. R. Tolkien.

The saint of bright doors / Vajra Chandrasekera.

Solenoid / Mircea Cărtărescu.

The two towers : being the second part of the Lord of the rings / J. R. R. Tolkien.