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New Books: October 2021

Business and Fashion Merchandising

Creative construction : the DNA of sustained innovation / Gary P. Pisano.

Franchise : the golden arches in Black America / Marcia Chatelain.

Get a financial life : personal finance in your twenties and thirties / Beth Kobliner.

Kochland : the secret history of Koch Industries and corporate power in America / Christopher Leonard.

Why nations fail : the origins of power, prosperity, and poverty / Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson.

Criminal Justice

The feminist war on crime : the unexpected role of women's liberation in mass incarceration / Aya Gruber.

Getting wrecked : women, incarceration, and the American opioid crisis / Kimberly Sue.

Halfway home : race, punishment, and the afterlife of mass incarceration / Reuben Jonathan Miller.

Jesus saved an ex-con : political activism and redemption after incarceration / Edward Orozco Flores.

Know my name : a memoir / Chanel Miller.

Until we reckon : violence, mass incarceration, and a road to repair / Danielle Sered.

Fine Arts

Classic black : the basalt sculpture of Wedgwood and his contemporaries / Brian D. Gallagher ; with contributions by Gaye Blake-Roberts, Robin Emmerson, Nancy H. Ramage, M.G. Sullivan.

Protest! : a history of social and political protest graphics / Liz McQuiston.

Wagnerism : art and politics in the shadow of music / Alex Ross.

History

A promised land / Barack Obama.

The American South and the Great War, 1914-1924 / edited by Matthew L. Downs and M. Ryan Floyd.

Assad or we burn the country : how one family's lust for power destroyed Syria / Sam Dagher.

Black wave : Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the forty-year rivalry that unraveled culture, religion, and collective memory in the Middle East / Kim Ghattas.

Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019 / edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain.

Ghost flames : life and death in a hidden war, Korea 1950-1953 / Charles J. Hanley.

JFK : coming of age in the American century, 1917-1956 / Fredrik Logevall.

Monuments to the lost cause : women, art, and the landscapes of southern memory / edited by Cynthia Mills and Pamela H. Simpson ; foreword by Karen L. Cox.

The second founding : how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the Constitution / Eric Foner.

True crimes and misdemeanors : the investigation of Donald Trump / Jeffrey Toobin.

Language and Literature

Eden's endemics : narratives of biodiversity on Earth and beyond / Elizabeth Callaway.

Make me rain : poems & prose / Nikki Giovanni.

Postcolonial love poem / Natalie Diaz.

Short-form creative writing : a writer's guide and anthology / by H.K. Hummel and Stephanie Lenox.

Math and Natural Sciences

Altered inheritance : CRISPR and the ethics of human genome editing / Franc̦oise Baylis.

American hemp farmer : adventures and misadventures in the cannabis trade / Doug Fine.

Coves of departure : field notes from the Sea of Cortez / John Seibert Farnsworth.

Edison / Edmund Morris.

Wading right in : discovering the nature of wetlands / Catherine Owen Koning and Sharon M. Ashworth ; with illustrations by Catherine Owen Koning.

Social Sciences

The address book : what street addresses reveal about identity, race, wealth, and power / Deirdre Mask.

The color of law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America / Richard Rothstein.

The cow with ear tag #1389 / Kathryn Gillespie.

How to be an antiracist / Ibram X. Kendi.

Life of a Klansman : a family history in white supremacy / Edward Ball.

The meat question : animals, humans, and the deep history of food / Josh Berson.

Mind fixers : psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness / Anne Harrington.

The narrow corridor : states, societies, and the fate of liberty / Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson.

This is the voice / John Colapinto.

This view of life : completing the Darwinian revolution / David Sloan Wilson.

Social Work

Queer social work : cases for LGBTQ+ affirmative practice / edited by Tyler M. Argüello.

The turnaway study : ten years, a thousand women, and the consequences of having--or being denied--an abortion / Diana Greene Foster, PhD.

The undying : pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care / Anne Boyer.

Curriculum

Before the ever after / Jacqueline Woodson.

Everything sad is untrue : (a true story) / Daniel Nayeri.

Evvy's Civil War / Miriam Brenaman.

Guts / Raina Telgemeier ; with color by Braden Lamb.

The talk : conversations about race, love & truth / edited by Wade Hudson & Cheryl Willis Hudson.

Fiction

The Dutch House : a novel / Ann Patchett.

Jack / Marilynne Robinson.

The lying life of adults / Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.

The nickel boys : a novel / Colson Whitehead.

The night watchman : a novel / Louise Erdrich.

The obelisk gate / N.K. Jemisin.

The story of a new name / Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.

Frankissstein : a love story / Jeanette Winterson.