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New Books: November 2024

Criminal Justice

An inconvenient cop : my fight to change policing in America / Edwin Raymond with Jon Sternfeld.

The end of family court : how abolishing the court brings justice to children and families / Jane M. Spinak.

Junk science and the American criminal justice system / M. Chris Fabricant.

Rabbit heart : a mother's murder, a daughter's story / Kristine S. Ervin.

Education

Reading, writing, and racism : disrupting whiteness in teacher education and in the classroom / Bree Picower.

Why don't students like school? : a cognitive scientist answers questions about how the mind works and what it means for the classroom / Daniel T. Willingham.

Fine Arts

An illustrated dictionary for the modern trombone, tuba, and euphonium player / Yeo Douglas.

Early jazz : a concise introduction, from its beginnings through 1929 / Fumi Tomita.

Jasper Johns : mind/mirror / Carlos Basualdo; Scott Rothkopf.

The spirit of Indian painting : close encounters with 101 great works, 1100-1900 / B. N. Goswamy.

History

50 years of Ms. : the best of the pathfinding magazine that ignited a revolution / Katherine Spillar and the editors of Ms.

An ordinary man : the surprising life and historic presidency of Gerald R. Ford / Richard Norton Smith.

The Chinese question : the gold rushes and global politics / Mae M. Ngai.

The decline and fall of republican Afghanistan / Ahmad Shuja Jamal and William Maley.

The Earth transformed : an untold history / Peter Frankopan.

Empress : the astonishing reign of Nur Jahan / Ruby Lal.

Goodbye, Eastern Europe : an intimate history of a divided land / Jacob Mikanowski.

Land : how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world / Simon Winchester.

Putin's people : how the KGB took back Russia and then took on the West / Catherine Belton.

Smashing the liquor machine : a global history of prohibition / Mark Lawrence Schrad.

Language and Literature

The Cambridge companion to contemporary African American literature / Yogita Goyal.

North Carolina literary review : NCLR. No. 33, 2024. North Carolina disability literature.

Orwell : the new life / D. J. Taylor.

Paul Laurence Dunbar : the life and times of a caged bird / Gene Andrew Jarrett.

Summer / Karl Ove Knausgård.

Math and Natural Sciences

Evolving tomorrow : genetic engineering and the evolutionary future of the Anthropocene / Asher D. Cutter.

Religion and Philosophy

Christianity and critical race theory : a faithful and constructive conversation / Robert Chao Romero; Jeff M. Liou.

The new Westminster dictionary of church history, volume 1 / editor, Robert Benedetto.

Social Sciences

Confessions of the flesh : the history of sexuality, volume 4 / Michel Foucault.

Dogwhistles and figleaves : how manipulative language spreads racism and falsehood / Jennifer Mather Saul.

The good life : lessons from the world's longest scientific study of happiness / Robert J. Waldinger and Marc S. Schulz.

The invented state : policy misperceptions in the American public / Emily A. Thorson.

Memento mori : the dead among us / Paul Koudounaris.

The new Leviathans : thoughts after liberalism / John Gray.

Places of mind : a life of Edward Said / Timothy Brennan.

Roe v. Dobbs : the past, present, and future of a constitutional right to abortion / Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone.

Shackled : 92 refugees imprisoned on ICE Air / Rebecca A. Sharpless.

Transformative negotiation : strategies for everyday change and equitable futures / Sarah Federman.

Curriculum

Angela's Christmas / Frank McCourt; illustrated by Raúl Colón.

Big tree / Brian Selznick.

Into the light / Mark Oshiro.

Fiction

The adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi : a novel / S. A. Chakraborty.

The best short stories 2024 : the O. Henry Prize winners / edited by Amor Towles.

The first man : based on the novel by Albert Camus / Jacques Ferrandez; translated by Ryan Bloom.

The god of the woods / Liz Moore.

Holler, child : stories / LaToya Watkins.

James : a novel / Percival Everett.

Silver alert : a novel / Lee Smith.

Tom Lake : a novel / Ann Patchett.

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