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New Books: April 2025

Business and Fashion Merchandising

Careless people : a cautionary tale of power, greed, and lost idealism / Sarah Wynn-Williams.

Easy money : cryptocurrency, casino capitalism, and the golden age of fraud / Benjamin McKenzie with Jacob Silverman.

Fine Arts

Ai Weiwei / edited by Susanne Gaensheimer; Doris Krystof; Falk Wolf.

Goodbye Russia : Rachmaninoff in exile / Fiona Maddocks.

How do we look : the body, the divine, and the question of civilisation / Mary Beard.

Painting below zero : notes on a life in art / James Rosenquist with David Dalton.

Princess Noire : the tumultuous reign of Nina Simone / Nadine Cohodas.

Health, Human Performance, and Recreation

The New York game : baseball and the rise of a new city / Kevin Baker.

History

The Achilles trap : Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the origins of America's invasion of Iraq / Steve Coll.

Ancient Africa : a global history, to 300 CE / Christopher Ehret.

The globe : how the Earth became round / James Hannam.

Need to know : World War II and the rise of American intelligence / Nicholas Reynolds.

Plymouth colony : narratives of English settlement and Native resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip's war / edited by Lisa Tanya Brooks and Kelly Wisecup.

The portable Anna Julia Cooper / Anna J. Cooper; edited by Shirley Moody-Turner.

The struggle for Taiwan : a history of America, China, and the island caught between / Sulmaan Wasif Khan.

The United States governed by six hundred thousand despots : a true story of slavery : a rediscovered narrative, with a full biography / John S. Jacobs.

Language and Literature

Left-handed : poems / Jonathan Galassi.

Orwell's ghosts : wisdoms and warnings for the twenty-first century / Laura Beers.

Why I wake early : new poems / Mary Oliver.

Math and Natural Sciences

Material world : the six raw materials that shape modern civilization / Ed Conway.

Nursing

From whispers to shouts : the ways we talk about cancer / Elaine Schattner.

Policing patients : treatment and surveillance on the frontlines of the opioid crisis / Elizabeth Chiarello.

Wuhan : how the COVID-19 outbreak in China spiraled out of control / Dali L. Yang.

Religion and Philosophy

AI morality / David Edmonds.

Faith : a very short introduction / Roger Trigg.

Social Sciences

Autocracy, Inc. : the dictators who want to run the world / Anne Applebaum.

The darkened light of faith : race, democracy, and freedom in African American political thought / Melvin L. Rogers.

Empty pedestals : countering Confederate narratives through public design / edited by Kofi Boone and M. Elen Deming.

Fierce desires : a new history of sex and sexuality in America / Rebecca L. Davis.

The forgotten girls : a memoir of friendship and lost promise in rural America / Monica Potts.

The most powerful court in the world : a history of the Supreme Court of the United States / Stuart Banner.

Selfless : the social creation of "you" / Brian Lowery.

Trouble in paradise : from the end of history to the end of capitalism / Slavoj Žižek.

Valley so low : one lawyer's fight for justice in the wake of America's great coal catastrophe / Jared Sullivan.

Why nothing works : who killed progress--and how to bring it back / Marc J. Dunkelman.

Social Work

Broken : transforming child protective services : notes of a former caseworker / Jessica Pryce.

Curriculum

The first state of being / Erin Entrada Kelly.

Mountain Valor / Gloria Houston.

Sunrise on the reaping / Suzanne Collins.

Fiction

The antidote / Karen Russell.

Big Jim and the white boy : an American classic reimagined / David Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson.

Black woods, blue sky : a novel / Eowyn Ivey.

Dream count : a novel / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

O sinners! : a novel / Nicole Cuffy.

Stag dance : a novel & stories / Torrey Peters.

Three days in June / Anne Tyler.

Wil Usdi : thoughts from the asylum, a Cherokee novella / Robert J. Conley.