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New Books: November 2019

Business and Fashion Merchandising

The future of tech is female : how to achieve gender diversity / Douglas M. Branson.

Criminal Justice

Charged : the new movement to transform American prosecution and end mass incarceration / Emily Bazelon.

Good kids, bad city : a story of race and wrongful conviction in America / Kyle Swenson.

The secret world : a history of intelligence / Christopher Andrew.

Suspect citizens : what 20 million traffic stops tell us about policing and race / Frank R. Baumgartner, Derek A. Epp, Kelsey Shoub.

Education

Building on resilience : models and frameworks of Black male success across the P-20 pipeline / edited by Fred A. Bonner II ; foreword by Tim King ; afterword by Robert T. Palmer.

Diverse millennial students in college : implications for faculty and student affairs / edited by Fred A. Bonner II, Aretha F. Marbley, and Mary F. Howard-Hamilton.

The new education : how to revolutionize the university to prepare students for a world in flux / Cathy N. Davidson.

Fine Arts

Born to run / Bruce Springsteen.

Key modern architects : 50 short histories of modern architecture / Andrew Higgott.

Mo' meta blues : the world according to Questlove / by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and Ben Greenman.

Health, Human Performance and Recreation

Youth sports in America : the most important issues in youth sports today / Skye G. Arthur-Banning, editor ; P. Brian Greenwood and Mary Sara Wells, associate editors.

History

Civil rights music : the soundtracks of the civil rights movement / Reiland Rabaka.

The dictator next door : the good neighbor policy and the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945 / Eric Paul Roorda.

El Norte : the epic and forgotten story of Hispanic North America / Carrie Gibson.

The heartbeat of Wounded Knee : native America from 1890 to the present / David Treuer.

The Popol Vuh : a new English version / translated from the K'iche' by Michael Bazzett.

Upon the altar of the nation : a moral history of the American Civil War / Harry S. Stout.

Why the cocks fight : Dominicans, Haitians, and the struggle for Hispaniola / Michele Wucker.

Language and Literature

Complete poems / Herman Melville ; Hershel Parker, editor ; [notes, Robert A. Sandberg].

Conversations with Dorothy Allison / edited by Mae Miller Claxton.

Cormac McCarthy's violent destinies : the poetics of determinism and fatalism / edited by Brad Bannon and John Vanderheide.

The dark fantastic : race and the imagination from Harry Potter to The hunger games / Ebony Elizabeth Thomas.

Dialogues across diasporas : women writers, scholars, and activists of Africana and Latina descent in conversation / edited by Marion Rohrleitner and Sarah E. Ryan.

Interviews from the edge : 50 years of conversations about writing and resistance / edited by Mark Yakich and John Biguenet.

Olives : poems / A.E. Stallings.

Reimagining the Middle Passage : Black resistance in literature, television, and song / Tara T. Green.

She had some horses / Joy Harjo.

White flights : race, fiction, and the American imagination / Jess Row.

Wordslut : a feminist guide to taking back the English language / Amanda Montell.

Math and Natural Sciences

Horizon / Barry Lopez.

Manual for survival : a Chernobyl guide to the future / Kate Brown.

Mechanisms underlying the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function / editor, Nico Eisenhauer.

Never home alone : from microbes to millipedes, camel crickets, and honeybees, the natural history of where we live / Rob Dunn.

Stream fish community dynamics : a critical synthesis / William J. Matthews, Edie Marsh-Matthews.

Turtles as hopeful monsters : origins and evolution / Olivier Rieppel.

Voices from the gathering storm : the web of ecological-societal crisis / Joseph C. Arcos, Mary F. Argus, Frederick J. DiCarlo, editors.

Social Sciences

A girl stands at the door : the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools / Rachel Devlin.

Self-portrait in black and white : unlearning race / Thomas Chatterton Williams.

The Stonewall reader / The New York Public Library ; foreword by Edmund White ; edited with an introduction by Jason Baumann.

The Stonewall Riots : a documentary history / Marc Stein.

Synesthesia / Richard E. Cytowic, M.D., M.F.A.

Upheaval : turning points for nations in crisis / Jared Diamond.

The Women's Liberation Movement : impacts and outcomes / edited by Kristina Schulz.

Social Work

About us : essays from the disability series of the New York times / edited and introduced by Peter Catapano and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson ; foreword by Andrew Solomon.

Curriculum

Crossing on time : steam engines, fast ships, and a journey to the New World / David Macaulay.

Dear Martin / Nic Stone.

I am not your perfect Mexican daughter / Erika L. Sánchez.

The secret garden ; A little princess ; Little lord Fauntleroy / Frances Hodgson Burnett ; edited by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina.

Sulwe / written by Lupita Nyong'o ; illustrated by Vashti Harrison.

Yard sale / Eve Bunting ; illustrated by Lauren Castillo.

Fiction

All that man is / David Szalay.

Atonement : a novel / Ian McEwan.

The best American short stories 2019 / selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Anthony Doerr with Heidi Pitlor ; with an introduction by Anthony Doerr.

Birds without wings / Louis de Bernières.

The Corrections / Jonathan Franzen.

Gold boy, emerald girl : stories / Yiyun Li.

Harvest / Jim Crace.

Look at me : a novel / Jennifer Egan.

Minutes of glory : and other stories / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

Servants of the map : stories / Andrea Barrett.

The southern woman : selected fiction / Elizabeth Spencer.

Then we came to the end : a novel / Joshua Ferris.

Trash : stories / by Dorothy Allison.