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New Books: October 2025

Criminal Justice

Books through bars : stories from the prison books movement / edited by Moira Marquis and Dave "Mac" Marquis.

When the night comes falling : a requiem for the Idaho student murders / Howard Blum.

Fine Arts

Anatomy of 55 more songs : the oral history of top hits that changed rock, pop and soul / Marc Myers.

Revolutions in American music : three decades that changed a country and its sounds / Michael Broyles.

Room to dream / David Lynch and Kristine McKenna.

She come by it natural : Dolly Parton and the women who lived her songs / Sarah Smarsh.

History

A great disorder : national myth and the battle for America / Richard Slotkin.

Bloody Tuesday : the untold story of the struggle for civil rights in Tuscaloosa / John M. Giggie.

Forgotten warriors : the long history of women in combat / Sarah Percy.

Germany 1923 : hyperinflation, Hitler's putsch, and democracy in crisis / Volker Ullrich; translated by Jefferson S. Chase.

Human rights in world history, second edition / Peter N. Stearns.

Nat Turner, black prophet : a visionary history / Anthony E. Kaye with Gregory P. Downs.

Plantation goods : a material history of American slavery / Seth Rockman.

Reds : the tragedy of American communism / Maurice Isserman.

'Tis not our war : avoiding military service in the Civil War North / Paul Taylor.

To the success of our hopeless cause : The many lives of the Soviet dissident movement / Benjamin Nathans.

Kinesiology and Health Sciences

Futbolera : a history of women and sports in Latin America / Brenda Elsey and Joshua H. Nadel.

Mind and matter : a life in math and football / John Urschel and Louisa Thomas.

Language and Literature

Christopher Isherwood inside out / Katherine Bucknell.

Glad to the brink of fear : a portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson / James Marcus.

Ruin and resilience : Southern literature and the environment / Daniel Spoth.

The sisterhood : how a network of Black women writers changed American culture / Courtney Thorsson.

Math and Natural Sciences

A gardener's guide to botany : the biology behind the plants you love, how they grow, and what they need / Scott Zona.

Night magic : adventures among glowworms, moon gardens, and other marvels of the dark / Leigh Ann Henion.

The plants of the Appalachian Trail : a hikers guide to 398 species / Kristen Wickert.

Southern rivers : restoring America's freshwater biodiversity / R. Scot Duncan.

Social Sciences

The accidental equalizer : how luck determines pay after college / Jessi Streib.

Candy Darling : dreamer, icon, superstar / Cynthia Carr.

Detained : a boy's journal of survival and resilience / D. Esperanza and Gerardo Iván Morales.

Free the land : how we can fight poverty and climate chaos / Audrea Lim.

Leaderfluence : secrets of leadership essential to effectively leading yourself and positively influencing others / Mike Kelly.

The lies of the land : seeing rural America for what it is--and isn't / Steven Conn.

Madness : race and insanity in a Jim Crow asylum / Antonia Hylton.

Moving up without losing your way : the ethical costs of upward mobility / Jennifer M. Morton.

The purpose gap : empowering communities of color to find meaning and thrive / Patrick B. Reyes.

Supreme bias : gender and race in U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings / Christina L. Boyd, Paul M. Collins, and Lori A. Ringhand.

Curriculum

Chooch helped / Andrea L. Rogers; illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz.

Makoons / Louise Erdrich.

Fiction

Audition / Katie Kitamura.

The dream hotel : a novel / Laila Lalami.

The empusium : a health resort horror story / Olga Tokarczuk; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.

Make sure you die screaming : a novel / Zee Carlstrom.

My struggle : book six / Karl Ove Knausgård; translated by Don Bartlett.

O. Henry : 101 stories / O. Henry.

Stone yard devotional / Charlotte Wood.

Twist : a novel / Colum McCann.

Check out our new Popular Fiction as well!