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New Books: March 2024

Education

Campus misinformation : the real threat to free speech in American higher education / Bradford Vivian.

The essentials of special education advocacy / Andrew M. Markelz; Sarah A. Nagro; Kevin Monnin; David F. Bateman.

Trans children in today's schools / Aidan Key.

Fine Arts

Freedom moves : hip hop knowledges, pedagogies, and futures / H. Samy Alim; Jeff Chang; Casey Philip Wong.

Gothic : an illustrated history / Roger Luckhurst.

Gwen John : art and life in London and Paris / Alicia Foster.

History

Blood and ruins : the last imperial war, 1931-1945 / R. J. Overy.

The day that shook America : a concise history of 9/11 / J. Samuel Walker.

Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy / Larry Tye.

Desert rose : the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King / Edythe Scott Bagley; Joseph H. Hilley.

Gin, Jesus, & Jim Crow : Prohibition and the transformation of racial and religious politics in the South / Brendan J. J. Payne.

James Monroe : a life / Tim McGrath.

New women in the old West : from settlers to suffragists, an untold American story / Winifred Gallagher.

Red memory : the afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution / Tania Branigan.

The rediscovery of America : native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history / Ned Blackhawk.

Victoria the queen : an intimate biography of the woman who ruled an empire / Julia Baird.

Language and Literature

Charlotte Perkins Gilman : novels, stories & poems : The yellow wallpaper ; Herland ; With her in Ourland ; selected stories and poems / Charlotte Perkins Gilman; edited by Alfred Bendixen.

Chasing bright medusas : a life of Willa Cather / Benjamin Taylor.

Doubly erased : LGBTQ literature in Appalachia / Allison E. Carey.

Pushcart Prize XLVIII, 2024 : best of the small presses / edited by Bill Henderson with the Pushcart Prize editors.

Math and Natural Sciences

The complete insect : anatomy, physiology, evolution, and ecology / David A. Grimaldi; Steven R. Davis; Jessica L. Fox; Isabell M. Vea; Michael S. Engel.

Ever green : saving big forests to save the planet / John W. Reid; Thomas E. Lovejoy.

Origin Africa : a natural history / Jonathan Kingdon.

Our plastic problem and how to solve it / Sarah Morath.

Wild new world : the epic story of animals and people in America / Dan Flores.

Religion and Philosophy

Queens of the wild : pagan goddesses in Christian Europe : an investigation / Ronald Hutton.

Zen pathways : an introduction to the philosophy and practice of Zen Buddhism / Bret W. Davis.

Social Sciences

American whitelash : a changing nation and the cost of progress / Wesley Lowery.

Bloodbath nation / Paul Auster; photographs by Spencer Ostrander.

Deliberately divided : inside the controversial study of twins and triplets adopted apart / Nancy L. Segal.

Empire of resentment : populism's toxic embrace of nationalism / Lawrence Rosenthal.

Monsters : a fan's dilemma / Claire Dederer.

Natural causes : an epidemic of wellness, the certainty of dying, and killing ourselves to live longer / Barbara Ehrenreich.

Philosophy of psychedelics / Chris Letheby.

Poverty, by America / Matthew Desmond.

Raising Lazarus : hope, justice, and the future of America's overdose crisis / Beth Macy.

Weathering : the extraordinary stress of ordinary life in an unjust society / Arline T. Geronimus.

Curriculum

America redux : visual stories from our dynamic history / Ariel Aberg-Riger.

The year we learned to fly / Jacqueline Woodson; illustrated by Rafael López.

Fiction

America fantastica : a novel / Tim O'Brien.

Blackouts : a novel / Justin Torres.

Chain-gang all-stars / Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.

Let us descend : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.

The old drift : a novel / Namwali Serpell.

Prophet song / Paul Lynch.

This other Eden / Paul Harding.

White cat, black dog : stories / Kelly Link.

Check out our new Popular Fiction as well!