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New Books: April 2022

Criminal Justice

Becoming abolitionists : police, protests, and the pursuit of freedom / by Derecka Purnell.

I got a monster : the rise and fall of America's most corrupt police squad / Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg.

Presumed guilty : how the Supreme Court empowered the police and subverted civil rights / Erwin Chemerinsky.

Prison by any other name : the harmful consequences of popular reforms / Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law ; with a foreword by Michelle Alexander.

Rise of the warrior cop : the militarization of America's police forces / Radley Balko.

Education

Slaying Goliath : the passionate resistance to privatization and the fight to save America's public schools / Diane Ravitch.

Fine Arts

The meaning of soul : Black music and resilience since the 1960s / Emily J. Lordi.

On photographs / David Campany.

The poster : a visual history / edited by Gill Saunders and Margaret Timmers.

History

America's revolutionary mind : a moral history of the American Revolution and the Declaration that defined it / C. Bradley Thompson.

The Caravan : Abdallah Azzam and the rise of global jihad / Thomas Hegghammer.

Conquistadores : a new history of Spanish discovery and conquest / Fernando Cervantes.

Disruption : inside the largest counterterrorism investigation in history / Aki J. Peritz.

Economy Hall : the hidden history of a free Black brotherhood / Fatima Shaik.

Hostile heartland : racism, repression, and resistance in the Midwest / Brent M.S. Campney.

How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America / Clint Smith.

In the midst of civilized Europe : the pogroms of 1918-1921 and the onset of the Holocaust / Jeffrey Veidlinger.

Land of tears : the exploration and exploitation of equatorial Africa / Robert Harms.

Tecumseh and the prophet : the Shawnee brothers who defied a nation / Peter Cozzens.

Language and Literature

Asheville poetry review. Vol. 28, no.1 = issue 30 (2021) / managing editor, Keith Flynn.

Not even past : the stories we keep telling about the Civil War / Cody Marrs.

The power of Adrienne Rich : a biography / Hilary Holladay.

When the light of the world was subdued, our songs came through : a Norton anthology of Native nations poetry / editors, Joy Harjo, LeAnne Howe, Jennifer Elise Foerster.

The young H.G. Wells : changing the world / Claire Tomalin.

Math and Natural Sciences

A field guide to climate anxiety : how to keep your cool on a warming planet / Sarah Jaquette Ray.

A lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science / Rita Colwell, PhD, and Sharon Bertsch McGrayne.

The contamination of the earth : a history of pollutions in the industrial age / François Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux ; translated by Janice Egan and Michael Egan.

The disordered cosmos : a journey into dark matter, spacetime, and dreams deferred / Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.

Journey to the edge of reason : the life of Kurt Gödel / Stephen Budiansky.

The selfish ape : human nature and our path to extinction / Nicholas P. Money.

The sound of the sea : seashells and the fate of the oceans / Cynthia Barnett.

This is your mind on plants / Michael Pollan.

Toxic legacy : how the weedkiller glyphosate is destroying our health and the environment / Stephanie Seneff, PhD.

What is life? : five great ideas in biology / from Nobel Prize winner, Paul Nurse.

Nursing

The kissing bug : a true story of a family, an insect, and a nation's neglect of a deadly disease / Daisy Hernández.

Religion and Philosophy

The Beatitudes through the ages / Rebekah Eklund.

Social Sciences

A human history of emotion : how the way we feel built the world we know / Richard Firth-Godbehere.

Corruptible : who gets power and how it changes us / Brian Klaas.

Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty / Patrick Radden Keefe.

Entertaining race : performing Blackness in America / Michael Eric Dyson.

The family Roe : an American story / Joshua Prager.

Let the record show : a political history of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 / Sarah Schulman.

No option but north : the migrant world and the perilous path across the border / Kelsey Freeman ; photographs by Tess Freeman.

Not born yesterday : the science of who we trust and what we believe / Hugo Mercier.

Punch me up to the gods / Brian Broome.

There is nothing for you here : finding opportunity in the twenty-first century / Fiona Hill.

Curriculum

The art of stone skipping and other fun old-time games : stoopball, jacks, string games, coin flipping, line baseball, jump rope, and more / by J.J. Ferrer ; illustrated by Todd Dakins.

The ballad of songbirds and snakes / Suzanne Collins.

The big toe : an Appalachian ghost story / retold and illustrated by Ellie Kirby.

Too bright to see / Kyle Lukoff.

Fiction

A history of the present illness : stories / Louise Aronson.

Chronicles from the land of the happiest people on earth / Wole Soyinka.

Intimacies / Katie Kitamura.

The last days of Ptolemy Grey / Walter Mosley.

The Lincoln highway / Amor Towles.

The love songs of W.E.B. Du Bois : a novel / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.

The morning star / Karl Ove Knausgaard ; translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken.

No one is talking about this / Patricia Lockwood.

Pachinko / Min Jin Lee.

The water dancer : a novel / Ta-Nehisi Coates.