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New Books: January/February 2020

Business and Fashion Merchandising

Fashionopolis : the price of fast fashion--and the future of clothes / Dana Thomas.

Criminal Justice

Solitary : unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement. My story of transformation and hope / Albert Woodfox ; with Leslie George.

Fine Arts

Songs of America : patriotism, protest, and the music that made a nation / Jon Meacham & Tim McGraw.

The sound of a superpower : musical Americanism and the Cold War / Emily Abrams Ansari.

Health, Human Performance and Recreation

K : a history of baseball in ten pitches / Tyler Kepner.

History

After coal : stories of survival in Appalachia and Wales / Tom Hansell.

American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer / by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.

Fall and rise : the story of 9/11 / Mitchell Zuckoff.

Gone home : race and roots through Appalachia / Karida L. Brown.

Liberia, South Carolina : an African American Appalachian community / John M. Coggeshall.

Robert Mugabe / Sue Onslow and Martin Plaut.

The silk roads : a new history of the world / Peter Frankopan.

Troubled refuge : struggling for freedom in the Civil War / Chandra Manning.

You've got to tell them : a French girl's experience of Auschwitz and after / Ida Grinspan and Bertrand Poirot-Delpech ; translated by Charles B. Potter.

Language and Literature

An American sunrise : poems / Joy Harjo.

The changing light at Sandover : with the stage adaptation Voices from Sandover / James Merrill ; edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser.

Contemporary Kazakh literature. Poetry.

Contemporary Kazakh literature. Prose.

Daring to write : contemporary narratives by Dominican women / edited by Erika M. Martínez.

Like / A.E. Stallings.

Little boy / Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

New selected poems / Mark Strand.

Pushcart prize XLIV, 2020 : best of the small presses / edited by Bill Henderson with the Pushcart Prize editors.

Troubled memories : iconic Mexican women and the traps of representation / Oswaldo Estrada.

Math and Natural Sciences

The fight against doubt : how to bridge the gap between scientists and the public / Inmaculada de Melo-Martín and Kristen Intemann.

The great animal orchestra : finding the origins of music in the world's wild places / Bernie Krause.

Inconspicuous consumption : the environmental impact you don't know you have / Tatiana Schlossberg.

We are the weather : saving the planet begins at breakfast / Jonathan Safran Foer.

The wonderful Mr Willughby : the first true ornithologist / Tim Birkhead.

Social Sciences

A seat at the table : congresswomen's perspectives on why their presence matters / Kelly Dittmar, Kira Sanbonmatsu, and Susan J. Carroll.

Biased : uncovering the hidden prejudice that shapes what we see, think, and do / Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD.

Call them by their true names : American crises (and essays) / Rebecca Solnit.

The consciousness instinct : unraveling the mystery of how the brain makes the mind / Michael S. Gazzaniga.

The harvest of American racism : the political meaning of violence in the summer of 1967 / edited by Robert Shellow ; with a foreword by Michael C. Dawson.

The lions' den : Zionism and the left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky / Susie Linfield.

The outlaw ocean : journeys across the last untamed frontier / Ian Urbina.

The politics of autism / Bryna Siegel.

PTSD : a short history / Allan V. Horwitz.

Real queer America : LGBT stories from red states / Samantha Allen.

Rethinking racial justice / Andrew Valls.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg : a life / Jane Sherron de Hart.

The social foundations of emotion : developmental, cultural, and clinical dimensions / Stefan G. Hofmann and Stacey N. Doan.

Unbound : transgender men and the remaking of identity / Arlene Stein.

Social Work

No visible bruises : what we don't know about domestic violence can kill us / Rachel Louise Snyder.

Curriculum

Batman : Nightwalker / Marie Lu.

Chrysalis / Brendan Reichs.

Jackrabbit McCabe & the electric telegraph / written by Lucy Margaret Rozier and illustrated by Leo Espinosa.

Pet / Akwaeke Emezi.

Fiction

Canada / Richard Ford.

Confessions of a mask / by Yukio Mishima ; translated by Meredith Weatherby.

The Crazy iris and other stories of the atomic aftermath / edited and with an introduction by Kenzaburō Ōe.

Fair gentlemen of Belken County / Rolando Hinojosa.

Iron gold / Pierce Brown.

John Updike : novels 1968-1975 / edited by Christopher Carduff.

The judges : a novel / by Elie Wiesel.

Ladivine / Marie NDiaye ; translated from the French by Jordan Stump.

Olive, again / Elizabeth Strout.

Secret rendezvous / Kobo Abe ; translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter.

The sportswriter / Richard Ford.

The testaments / Margaret Atwood.

The winter of the witch : a novel / Katherine Arden.