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New Books: September 2024

Criminal Justice

Perpetrators : encountering humanity's dark side / Antonius C. G. M. Robben and Alexander Laban Hinton.

Police-related deaths in the United States / David Baker.

Education

The Black yearbook / Adraint Bereal.

Equality unfulfilled : how Title IX's policy design undermines change to college sports / James N. Druckman, Elizabeth A. Sharrow.

Fine Arts

Black art : a cultural history / Richard J. Powell.

Craft : an American history / Glenn Adamson.

Delirious : art at the limits of reason, 1950-1980 / Kelly Baum with Lucy Bradnock and Tina Rivers Ryan.

Handel in London : a genius and his craft / Jane Glover.

History

A fever in the heartland : the Ku Klux Klan's plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them / Timothy Egan.

After the miracle : the political crusades of Helen Keller / Max Wallace.

American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation / Holly Jackson.

Empireland : how imperialism has shaped modern Britain / Sathnam Sanghera.

Comrade sisters : women of the Black Panther party / Stephen Shames, Ericka Huggins.

Drunks : an American history / Christopher M. Finan.

Fight like hell : the untold history of American labor / Kim Kelly.

Hillbilly highway : the Transappalachian migration and the making of a white working class / Max Fraser.

The picnic : a dream of freedom and the collapse of the Iron Curtain / Matthew Longo.

Spies : the epic intelligence war between East and West / Calder Walton.

Language and Literature

Appalachian ecocriticism and the paradox of place / edited by Jessica Cory and Laura Wright.

August Wilson : a life / Patti Hartigan.

Magill's literary annual, 2024. 2 volumes / edited by Jennifer Sawtelle.

Orwell's roses / Rebecca Solnit.

Toni Morrison : imagining freedom / Katharine Lawrence Balfour.

Winter / Karl Ove Knausgård.

Math and Natural Sciences

Can fish count? : what animals reveal about our uniquely mathematical minds / Brian Butterworth.

Genesis : the deep origin of societies / Edward O. Wilson.

How birds live together : colonies and communities in the avian world / Marianne Taylor.

Social Sciences

The alignment problem : machine learning and human values / Brian Christian.

The anxious generation : how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness / Jonathan Haidt.

Birchers : how the John Birch Society radicalized the American right / Matthew Dallek.

Breaking the two-party doom loop : the case for multiparty democracy in America / Lee Drutman.

Bottoms up and the devil laughs : a journey through the deep state / Kerry Howley.

The declassification engine : what history reveals about America's top secrets / Matthew Connelly.

Filterworld : how algorithms flattened culture / Kyle Chayka.

On marriage / Devorah Baum.

Policing pregnant bodies : from ancient Greece to post-Roe America / Kathleen M. Crowther.

Wrong : how media, politics, and identity drive our appetite for misinformation / Dannagal Goldthwaite Young.

Curriculum

Eagle drums / Nasug̊raq Rainey Hopson.

Elf dog & owl head / M. T. Anderson; illustrated by Junyi Wu.

Once there was and was not : a modern day folktale from Armenia / Page McBrier; illustrated by Stefano Vitale.

Fiction

How it went : thirteen more stories of the Port William membership / Wendell Berry.

John Updike : novels 1996-2000 / John Updike.

Lark ascending : a novel / Silas House.

Old God's time / Sebastian Barry.

Roman stories / Jhumpa Lahiri.

Starling house / Alix E. Harrow.

Table for two : fictions / Amor Towles.

Temple folk / Aaliyah Bilal.

Check out our new Popular Fiction as well!