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New Books: February 2021

Business and Fashion Merchandising

Arguing with zombies : economics, politics, and the fight for a better future / Paul Krugman.

Criminal Justice

The end of policing / Alex S. Vitale.

Health, Human Performance and Recreation

The Appalachian Trail : backcountry shelters, lean-tos, and huts / Sarah Jones Decker, [Appalachian Trail Conservancy].

History

The impeachers : the trial of Andrew Johnson and the dream of a just nation / Brenda Wineapple.

The only plane in the sky : an oral history of 9/11 / Garrett M. Graff.

Overground railroad : the Green Book and the roots of Black travel in America / Candacy Taylor.

Patriot or traitor : the life and death of Sir Walter Ralegh / Anna Beer.

Slavery in the North : forgetting history and recovering memory / Marc Howard Ross.

When the world broke in two : the roaring twenties and the dawn of America's culture wars / Erica J. Ryan.

Wilmington's lie : the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy / David Zucchino.

Language and Literature

Because internet : understanding the new rules of language / Gretchen McCulloch.

Good things out of Nazareth : the uncollected letters of Flannery O'Connor and friends / Flannery O'Connor ; edited by Benjamin B. Alexander, PhD.

Magical negro : poems / Morgan Parker.

North Carolina literary review : NCLR. No. 29, 2020. Featuring North Carolina expatriate writers.

The selected letters of Ralph Ellison / edited by John F. Callahan and Marc C. Conner ; with introductory essays by John F. Callahan.

Math and Natural Sciences

A wilder time : notes from a geologist at the edge of the Greenland ice / William E. Glassley.

Tropical ecosystems in the 21st century / edited by Alex J. Dumbrell, Edgar C. Turner, Tom M. Fayle.

Nursing

The beautiful cure : the revolution in immunology and what it means for your health / Daniel M. Davis.

Culturally competent compassion : a guide for healthcare students and practitioners / Irena Papadopoulos.

The diabetic foot book : a guide for optimizing foot health / InStride Foot & Ankle Specialists.

Religion and Philosophy

Judith : a commentary on the book of Judith / by Lawrence M. Wills ; edited by Sidnie White Crawford.

Practicing Midrash : reading the Bible's arguments as an invitation to conversation / F. Timothy Moore.

Proverbs 1-15 : a commentary on the book of Proverbs 1:1-15:33 / by Bernd U. Schipper ; translated by Stephen Germany ; edited by Thomas Krüger.

Social Sciences

A duty to resist : when disobedience should be uncivil / Candice Delmas.

American conservatism : reclaiming an intellectual tradition / Andrew J. Bacevich, editor.

Caste : the origins of our discontents / Isabel Wilkerson.

Concise guide to APA style : the official APA style guide for students.

Congress and the Nation : a review of government and politics in the postwar years, 2013-2016.

Current biography yearbook, 2019.

Guest house for young widows : among the women of ISIS / Azadeh Moaveni.

Impeachment : a handbook / Charles L. Black, Jr., Philip Bobbitt.

Impeachment : what everyone needs to know / Michael J. Gerhardt.

On fire : the (burning) case for a green new deal / Naomi Klein.

Parkland : birth of a movement / Dave Cullen.

Pharma : greed, lies, and the poisoning of America / Gerald Posner.

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association : the official guide to APA style.

Sissy : a coming-of-gender story / Jacob Tobia.

Sleepyhead : the neuroscience of a good night's rest / Henry Nicholls.

Talking to strangers : what we should know about the people we don't know / Malcolm Gladwell.

The undocumented Americans / Karla Cornejo Villavicencio.

Curriculum

At the mountain's base / by Traci Sorell ; illustrated by Weshoyot Alvitre.

Burn baby burn / Meg Medina.

Fry bread : a Native American family story / written by Kevin Noble Maillard ; illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal.

The good hawk / Joseph Elliott ; [illustrations by Anna and Elena Balbusso].

New kid / Jerry Craft ; with colors by Jim Callahan.

The pencil / by Susan Avingaq and Maren Vsetula ; illustrated by Charlene Chua.

To Night Owl from Dogfish / Holly Goldberg Sloan & Meg Wolitzer.

Fiction

Aetherial worlds : stories / Tatyana Tolstaya ; translated from the Russian by Anya Migdal.

The air we breathe : a novel / Andrea Barrett.

The Ash family : a novel / Molly Dektar.

Bobcat & other stories / Rebecca Lee.

The cockroach / Ian McEwan.

Damascus Gate / Robert Stone.

Dark age / Pierce Brown.

Dark at the crossing / Elliot Ackerman.

Mister monkey : a novel / Francine Prose.

The story behind the story : 26 writers and how they work / edited by Peter Turchi and Andrea Barrett ; with an introduction by Richard Russo.