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October-December 2021 Issue
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Adayfi, Mansoor. Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantánamo.
Akbar, Kaveh. Pilgrim Bell: Poems.
Anders, Charlie Jane. Never Say You Can’t Survive: How to Get Through the Hard Times by Making Up Stories.
Balcombe, Jonathan. Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World’s Most Successful Insects.
Bergen, Peter. The Rise and Fall of Osama Bin Laden.
Borchert, Scott. Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America.
Chemerinsky, Erwin. Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights.
Chow, Kat. Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir.
Cliff, Harry. How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe, from the Origins of Atoms to the Big Bang.
Coel, Michaela. Misfits: A Personal Manifesto.
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. Not a “Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion.
English, Charlie. The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler’s War on Art. eBook
Ferrer, Ada. Cuba: An American History.
Flavell, Julie. The Howe Dynasty: The Untold Story of a Military Family and the Women Behind Britain’s Wars for America.
Frankel, Rebecca. Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love.
Garcia, Rodrigo. A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son’s Memoir of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mercedes Barcha.
Gauthier, Mary. Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting.
Gilbert, Sandra M. Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination.
Goldstone, Nancy. In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, the Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters.
Griffin, Farah Jasmine. Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature.
Grue, Jan. I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir.
Harjo, Joy. Poet Warrior: A Memoir.
Henderson, Eleanor. Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage.
Higgins, Tim. Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century.
Hopper, Jessica. The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic: Revised and Expanded Edition.
Horn, Dara. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present.
Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Brand. (Ed. by Halimah Marcus)
Jobb, Dean. The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer.
Johnson, Lizzie. Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire.
Johnson, Steven. Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer. eBook
Kapur, Akash. Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville.
Kavanagh, Julie. The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge, and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England.
Kean, Sam. The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science.
Kolbert, Kathryn. Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now To Save Reproductive Freedom.
Lapine, James. Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created Sunday in the Park with George. eBook, eAudio
Larson, Kate Clifford. Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer.
Levine, Robert S. The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
Lowman, Meg. The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us.
Manaugh, Geoff. Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine.
Markel, Howard. The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA’s Double Helix.
Marya, Rupa. Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice.
McCrum, Robert. Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption.
Miller, Kei. Things I Have Withheld: Essays.
Mitchell, Josh. The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe.
Montville, Leigh. Tall Men, Short Shorts: The 1969 NBA Finals: Wilt, Russ, Lakers, Celtics, and a Very Young Sports Reporter.
Nelson, Maggie. On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint.
Nolan, Savala. Don’t Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body.
Pazcoguin, Georgina. Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina. eBook, eAudio
Perkins, Nichole. Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be: Essays.
Philbrick, Nathaniel. Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy. eBook
Philipps, David. Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs. eBook
Press, Eyal. Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America.
Qu, Anna. Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor.
Rahmani, Niloofar. Open Skies: My Life as Afghanistan’s First Female Pilot.
Rembert, Winfred. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South.
Reséndez, Andrés. Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery.
Sampson, Fiona. Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Sayman, Michael. App Kid: How a Child of Immigrants Grabbed a Piece of the American Dream.
Scales, Helen. The Brilliant Abyss: Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It.
Schmidle, Nicholas. Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of Modern Astronaut.
Schwarzlose, Rebecca. Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain--and How They Guide You.
Sherrell, Daniel. Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World.
Siegel, Matt. The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories about the Origins of Everything We Eat. eBook
Sohn, Amy. The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age.
Srinivasan, Amia. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century.
Standage, Tom. A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next.
Stern, Adam. Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training.
Tatar, Maria. The Heroine with 1001 Faces.
Turner, Dawn. Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood.
Wells, Lisa. Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World.
Whiteside, James. Center Center: A Funny, Sexy, Sad Almost-Memoir of a Boy in Ballet.
Whitlock, Craig. The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War.
Widder, Edith. Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea.
Zakaria, Rafia. Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption.
Zirin, Dave. The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World.