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New Books: September 2021

Criminal Justice

A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom / Brittany K. Barnett.

Our bodies, their battlefields : war through the lives of women / Christina Lamb.

Policing the Second Amendment : guns, law enforcement, and the politics of race / Jennifer Carlson.

The second chance club : hardship and hope after prison / Jason Hardy.

She said : breaking the sexual harassment story that helped ignite a movement / Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey.

Fine Arts

Glitter up the dark : how pop music broke the binary / Sasha Geffen.

Janis : her life and music / Holly George-Warren.

Making music American : 1917 and the transformation of culture / E. Douglas Bomberger.

The psychology of music : a very short introduction / Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis.

History

A Black women's history of the United States / Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross.

Current biography yearbook, 2020.

The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X / Les Payne and Tamara Payne.

Fallout : the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world / Lesley M.M. Blume.

The free world : art and thought in the Cold War / Louis Menand.

His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope / Jon Meacham ; afterword by John Lewis.

His very best : Jimmy Carter, a life / Jonathan Alter.

Hitler : downfall, 1939-1945 / Volker Ullrich ; translated from the German by Jefferson Chase.

Last mission to Tokyo : the extraordinary story of the Doolittle Raiders and their final fight for justice / Michel Paradis.

Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory / David W. Blight.

Reaganland : America's right turn, 1976-1980 / Rick Perlstein.

Silver, sword, and stone : three crucibles in the Latin American story / Marie Arana.

The Stalinist era / David L. Hoffmann.

Twilight of the Gods : War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 / Ian W. Toll.

Unconditional : the Japanese surrender in World War II / Marc Gallicchio.

World geography : regions, physical geography, biogeography and natural resources, human geography, economic geography, gazetteer, 6 vols. / editor Joseph M. Castagno.

Language and Literature

Asheville poetry review. Vol. 26-27, no.1 = issue 29 (2019-2020) / managing editor, Keith Flynn.

Critical survey of graphic novels : independents & underground classics, 3 vols. / editors, Bart H. Beaty, University of Calgary ; Stephen Weiner, Maynard Massachusetts.

The gift : poems by the great Sufi master / Hafiz ; translated by Daniel James Ladinsky.

North Carolina literary review : NCLR. No. 30, 2021. Writing toward healing.

Notable African American writers, 3 vols. / edited by Robert C. Evans.

The poetry of Pablo Neruda / edited and with an introduction by Ilan Stavans.

Pushcart prize XLV : best of the small presses 2021 / edited by Bill Henderson, with the Pushcart Prize editors.

Shapes of Native nonfiction : collected essays by contemporary writers / edited by Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton.

The tiny journalist : poems / Naomi Shihab Nye.

Math and Natural Sciences

The end of everything (astrophysically speaking) / Katie Mack.

The future of agricultural landscapes. Part 1 / edited by Adam J. Vanbergen.

The future of agricultural landscapes. Part 2 / edited by David A. Bohan, Adam J. Vanbergen.

The grand biocentric design : how life creates reality / Robert Lanza, MD and Matej Pavsic with Bob Berman.

Learning about your genes : a primer for non-biologists / Errol C. Friedberg, M.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA.

Peak plastic : the rise or fall of our synthetic world / Jack Buffington.

Presentation skills for scientists : a practical guide / Edward Zanders, Lindsay MacLeod.

The worm farmer's handbook : mid-to large-scale vermicomposting for farms, businesses, municipalities, schools, and Institutions / Rhonda Sherman.

Religion and Philosophy

The lost art of Scripture : rescuing the sacred texts / Karen Armstrong.

Tao te Ching : power for the peaceful / Lao Tzu ; a new translation by Marc S. Mullinax.

White too long : the legacy of white supremacy in American Christianity / Robert P. Jones.

Social Sciences

A peculiar indifference : the neglected toll of violence on black America / Elliott Currie.

African American culture : an encyclopedia of people, traditions, and customs, 3 vols. / Omari L. Dyson, Judson L. Jeffries, and Kevin L. Brooks, editors.

Culture warlords : my journey into the dark web of white supremacy / Talia Lavin.

Identity crisis : the 2016 presidential campaign and the battle for the meaning of America / John Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavreck.

Political handbook of the world, 2020-2021, 2 vol. / edited by Tom Lansford.

Sisters in hate : American women on the front lines of white nationalism / Seyward Darby.

Soul full of coal dust : a fight for breath and justice in Appalachia / Chris Hamby.

Supreme ambition : Brett Kavanaugh and the conservative takeover / Ruth Marcus.

Twisted : the tangled history of black hair culture / Emma Dabiri.

Unwhite : Appalachia, race, and film / Meredith McCarroll.

Why we're polarized / Ezra Klein.

Social Work

Child and adolescent psychology for social work and allied professions : applied perspectives / Gabriela Misca and Peter Unwin.

Wounds of war : how the VA delivers health, healing, and hope to the nation's veterans / Suzanne Gordon.

Curriculum

Chickadee / Louise Erdrich.

The game of silence / Louise Erdrich.

P is for pterodactyl : the worst alphabet book ever ; all the letters that misbehave and make words nearly impossible to pronounce / Raj Haldar & Chris Carpenter ; pictures by Maria Beddia.

The porcupine year / Louise Erdrich.

Prairie lotus / Linda Sue Park.

The undefeated / by Kwame Alexander ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson.

Fiction

Afterlife / a novel by Julia Alvarez.

The best American short stories 2020 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines / by Curtis Sittenfeld with Heidi Pitlor.

Big sky / Kate Atkinson.

Even as we breathe : a novel / Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle.

Everything inside : stories / Edwidge Danticat.

Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : stories from the Harlem Renaissance / Zora Neale Hurston ; foreword by Tayari Jones ; introduction by Genevieve West.

In the valley : stories and a novella based on Serena / Ron Rash.

Juliet the maniac : a novel / Juliet Escoria.

The mirror & the light / Hilary Mantel.

The refugees / Viet Thanh Nguyen.