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New Books: September 2025

Business

The alternative : how to build a just economy / Nick Romeo.

More than pretty boxes : how the rise of professional organizing shows us the way we work isn't working / Carrie M. Lane.

Education

Neurodevelopment in the post-pandemic world : the altered trajectory of children's education, mental health, and brain development / Molly Colvin, Jennifer Linton Reesman, and Tannahill Glen.

The privateers : how billionaires created a culture war and sold school vouchers / Josh Cowen.

Fine Arts

60 songs that explain the '90s / Rob Harvilla.

Dreaming in ensemble : how Black artists transformed American opera / Lucy Caplan.

The revolution is dead - long live the revolution! : from Malevich to Judd, from Deineka to Bartana / edited by Michael Baumgartner, Kathleen Bühler, Nina Zimmer.

Suzuki : the man and his dream to teach the children of the world / Eri Hotta.

History

A passionate mind in relentless pursuit : the vision of Mary McLeod Bethune / Noliwe Rooks.

Anansi's gold : the man who looted the West, outfoxed Washington, and swindled the world / Yepoka Yeebo.

Building the worlds that kill us : disease, death, and inequality in American history / David Rosner and Gerald E. Markowitz.

The Cherokees : in war and at peace, 1670-1840 / David E. Narrett.

Hubris : the American origins of Russia's war against Ukraine / Jonathan Haslam.

Madhouse at the end of the Earth : the Belgica's journey into the dark Antarctic night / Julian Sancton.

Our enemies will vanish : the Russian invasion and Ukraine's war of independence / Yaroslav Trofimov.

Promised land : how the rise of the middle class transformed America, 1929-1968 / David Stebenne.

The shortest history of India / John Zubrzycki.

Women's war : fighting and surviving the American Civil War / Stephanie McCurry.

Math and Natural Sciences

André Michaux in North America : journals & letters, 1785-1797 / André Michaux; translated from the French, edited, and annotated by Charlie Williams, E. M. Norman, and Walter Kingsley Taylor.

The end of Eden : wild nature in the age of climate breakdown / Adam Welz.

Stream research in Glacier Bay, Alaska from 1977-2024. Part 1 / edited by Alex J. Dumbrell and A. M. Milner.

Stream research in Glacier Bay, Alaska from 1977-2024. Part 2 / edited by Alex J. Dumbrell and A. M. Milner.

Viruses : a natural history / Marilyn J. Roossinck.

Wild by design : the rise of ecological restoration / Laura J. Martin.

Nursing

The anatomy of deception : conspiracy theories, distrust, and public health in America / Sara E. Gorman.

Religion and Philosophy

Civility : cultivating public virtues / Philip Sheldrake.

Ethics in the real world : 90 essays on things that matter : a fully expanded and updated edition / Peter Singer.

Social Sciences

A monetary and fiscal history of the United States, 1961-2021 / Alan S. Blinder.

American afterlives : reinventing death in the twenty-first century / Shannon Lee Dawdy.

Career & family : women's century-long journey toward equity / Claudia Dale Goldin.

The hollow parties : the many pasts and disordered present of American party politics / Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld.

How to interpret the constitution / Cass R. Sunstein.

Power and progress : our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity / Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson.

Shock values : prices and inflation in American democracy / Carola Conces Binder.

The significance impulse : on the unimportance of our cosmic unimportance / Joshua Glasgow.

The way to hell : Machiavelli for catastrophic times / Nathan Crick.

When the hood comes off : racism and resistance in the digital age / Rob Eschmann.

Social Work

American eldercide : how it happened, how to prevent it / Margaret Morganroth Gullette.

Curriculum

Kareem between / Shifa Saltagi Safadi.

Moon tree : the story of one extraordinary tree / Carolyn Bennett Fraiser; illustrated by Simona Mulazzani.

Fiction

Banal nightmare : a novel / Halle Butler.

The book of love : a novel / Kelly Link.

The lost journals of Sacajewea : a novel / Debra Magpie Earling.

Martyr! / Kaveh Akbar.

My struggle, book five / Karl Ove Knausgård; translated by Don Bartlett.

The order of the day / Éric Vuillard; translated by Mark Polizzotti.

Three novels of the 1980s : The names, White noise, Libra / Don DeLillo.

You dreamed of empires / Alvaro Enrigue; translated by Natasha Wimmer.