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New Books: October 2019

Criminal Justice

Doing justice : a prosecutor's thoughts on crime, punishment, and the rule of law / Preet Bharara.

The sun does shine : how I found life, freedom, and justice / Anthony Ray Hinton, with Lara Love Hardin ; and a foreword by Bryan Stevenson.

Fine Arts

Chamber music : Wu-Tang and America (in 36 pieces) / Will Ashon.

The vinyl frontier : the story of the Voyager Golden Record / Jonathan Scott.

Where we find ourselves : the photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1922 / edited by Margaret Sartor and Alex Harris ; foreword by Deborah Willis ; introduction by Michael Lesy.

Why you like it : the science and culture of musical taste / Nolan Gasser.

History

Appealing for liberty : freedom suits in the South / Loren Schweninger.

The Cuba reader : history, culture, politics / Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, Alfredo Prieto, and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff, editors.

Eisenhower : becoming the leader of the free world / Louis Galambos.

Fault lines : a history of the United States since 1974 / Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer.

Indians on the move : Native American mobility and urbanization in the twentieth century / Douglas K. Miller.

Kosovo, a documentary history : from the Balkan wars to World War II / edited by Robert Elsie and Bejtullah Destani.

The Landmark Julius Caesar : the complete works : Gallic War, Civil War, Alexandrian War, African War, and Spanish War : in one volume, with maps, annotations, appendices, and encyclopedic index / edited and translated by Kurt A. Raaflaub ; series editor, Robert B. Strassler.

Last witnesses : an oral history of the children of World War II / Svetlana Alexievich ; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

The longest day ; A bridge too far : other World War II writings / Cornelius Ryan ; Rick Atkinson, editor.

Making black history : the color line, culture, and race in the age of Jim Crow / Jeffrey Aaron Snyder.

Secret token : myth, obsession, and the search for the lost colony of Roanoke / Andrew Lawler.

Sisters and rebels : a struggle for the soul of America / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall.

Stony the road : Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Surviving genocide : native nations and the United States from the American Revolution to bleeding Kansas / Jeffrey Ostler.

They were her property : white women as slave owners in the American South / Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers.

Vietnam's American war : a history / Pierre Asselin.

Language and Literature

A cruelty special to our species : poems / Emily Jungmin Yoon.

Be with / Forrest Gander ; with photographs by Michael Flomen.

Crazy brave : a memoir / Joy Harjo.

How we became human : new and selected poems / Joy Harjo.

LGBTQ fiction and poetry from Appalachia / edited by Jeff Mann & Julia Watts.

Outsiders : five women writers who changed the world / Lyndall Gordon.

Soul talk, song language : conversations with Joy Harjo / Joy Harjo and Tanaya Winder ; photographs by Joy Harjo.

Trawling the silences / Kathryn Stripling Byer.

Wendell Berry : essays, 1969-1990 / Wendell Berry ; Jack Shoemaker, editor.

Wendell Berry : essays, 1993-2017 / Wendell Berry ; Jack Shoemaker, editor.

The writer's map : an atlas of imaginary lands / edited by Huw Lewis-Jones.

Writing to persuade : how to bring people over to your side / Trish Hall.

Math and Natural Sciences

Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are? / Frans de Waal ; with drawings by the author.

Clean meat : how growing meat without animals will revolutionize dinner and the world / Paul Shapiro ; with a foreword by Yuval Noah Harari.

Mama's last hug : animal emotions and what they tell us about ourselves / Frans de Waal ; with photographs and drawings by the author.

The man who caught the storm : the life of legendary tornado chaser Tim Samaras / Brantley Hargrove.

Mountains : the origins of the earth's mountain systems / Graham Park.

Rising : dispatches from the new American shore / Elizabeth Rush.

The wizard and the prophet : two remarkable scientists and their dueling visions to shape tomorrow's world / Charles C. Mann.

Nursing

Bodies of truth : personal narratives on illness, disability, and medicine / edited by Dinty W. Moore, Erin Murphy, Renée K. Nicholson ; foreword by Jacek L. Mostwin.

Patient zero and the making of the AIDS epidemic / Richard A. McKay.

Religion and Philosophy

Embracing the darkness : a cultural history of witchcraft / John Callow.

Godless citizens in a godly republic : atheists in American public life / R. Laurence Moore and Isaac Kramnick.

W.E.B. Du Bois and the sociology of the Black church and religion, 1897-1914 / edited by Robert A. Wortham.

Social Sciences

Appalachian reckoning : a region responds to Hillbilly Elegy / edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll.

Breaking white supremacy : Martin Luther King Jr. and the black social gospel / Gary Dorrien.

The class of '74 : Congress after Watergate and the roots of partisanship / John A. Lawrence.

Dear America : notes of an undocumented citizen / Jose Antonio Vargas.

Headcase : LGBTQ writers & artists on mental health and wellness / edited by Stephanie Schroeder and Teresa Theophano.

I've been meaning to tell you : a letter to my daughter / David Chariandy.

The monarchy of fear : a philosopher looks at our political crisis / Martha C. Nussbaum.

Range : why generalists triumph in a specialized world / David Epstein.

Thick : and other essays / Tressie McMillan Cottom.

We want to negotiate : the secret world of kidnapping, hostages and ransom / Joel Simon.

Fiction

Allah is not obliged / by Ahmadou Kourouma ; translated by Frank Wynne.

Appointment in Samarra : a novel / John O'Hara.

The changeling / Kenzaburo Oe ; translated from the Japanese by Deborah Boliver Boehm.

Collected stories / Ellen Gilchrist.

The good lord bird / James McBride.

Little / by Edward Carey ; illustrated by Edward Carey.

The O. Henry Prize stories 2019 / chosen and with an introduction by Laura Furman ; with essays by jurors Lynn Freed, Elizabeth Strout, Lara Vapnyar on the stories they admire most.

Revolutionary road / Richard Yates.

The tiger's wife : a novel / Téa Obreht.

The yellow birds : a novel / Kevin Powers.

Your face in mine / Jess Row.