A list of great recent titles selected by our librarians.
January - March 2018 Issue
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Abdurraqib, Hanif. They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays.
Aldous, Richard. Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian.
Allen, Danielle. Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.
Andersen, Kurt. Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History.
Anton, Ted. Planet of Microbes: The Perils and Potential of Earth’s Essential Life Forms.
Applebaum, Anne. Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine.
Basu, Shrabani. Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen’s Closest Confidant.
Bullock, Darryl W. David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music.
Cadbury, Deborah. Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe.
Chernow, Ron. Grant.
Chu, Lenora. Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy.
Dallek, Robert. Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life.
de Hamel, Christopher. Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World.
Décharné, Max. Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of English Slang.
Doughty, Caitlin. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death.
Echols, Alice. Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking.
Eig, Jonathan. Ali: A Life.
Ellsberg, Daniel. The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner.
Fadiman, Anne. The Wine Lover’s Daughter.
Feinstein, John. The First Major: The Inside Story of the 2016 Ryder Cup.
Foer, Franklin. World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech.
Fraser, Caroline. Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Galeano, Eduardo. Hunter of Stories.
Gessen, Masha. The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia.
Gibler, John. I Couldn’t Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us: An Oral History of the Attacks Against the Students of Ayotzinapa.
Gisleson, Anne. The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading.
Gopnik, Adam. At the Strangers’ Gate: Arrivals in New York.
Gordon, Meryl. Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend.
Hagan, Joe. Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine.
Hardwick, Elizabeth. The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick.
Hathaway, Oona A. The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World.
Henriques, Diana B. A First-Class Catastrophe: The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History.
Isaacson, Walter. Leonardo da Vinci.
Khan-Cullors, Patrisse. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir.
Kotkin, Stephen. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941.
Koul, Scaachi. One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None Of This Will Matter.
Kramer, Jane. The Reporter’s Kitchen.
Kyncl, Robert. Streampunks: YouTube and the Rebels Remaking Media.
Lovell, Mary. The Riviera Set: Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society.
Lucey, Donna M. Sargent’s Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas.
Manseau, Peter. The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln’s Ghost.
McPhee, John. Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process.
Mendelsohn, Daniel. An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic.
Metaxas, Eric. Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World.
Miles, Tiya. The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits.
Montillo, Roseanne. Fire on the Track: Betty Robinson and the Triumph of the Early Olympic Women.
Moore, Thomas. Ageless Soul: The Lifelong Journey Toward Meaning and Joy.
Moss, Candida R. Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby.
Mundy, Liza. Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II.
Peirce, Leslie. Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire.
Penny, Laurie. Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults.
Perry, Michael. Montaigne in Barn Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy.
Perry, Sarah. After the Eclipse: A Mother’s Murder, a Daughter’s Search.
Rachlin, Benjamin. The Ghost of the Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption.
Reyes, Barbara Jane. Invocations to Daughters. (poetry)
Rosen, Michael. The Disappearance of Émile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case.
Scalia, Antonin. Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived.
Shange, Ntozake. Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems. (poetry)
Shapiro, Laura. What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food that Tells Their Stories.
Shorto, Russell. Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom.
Spring, Justin. The Gourmands’ Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy.
Stern, Ken. Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right.
Suri, Jeremi. The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office.
Taibbi, Matt. I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street.
Union, Gabrielle. We’re Going to Need More Wine: Stories that are Funny, Complicated, and True.
Verzemnieks, Inara. Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe.
Walker, Matthew. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams.
Wallace, Mike. Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919.
Wasson, Sam. Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art.
Weinersmith, Kelly. Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything.
Wesson, Rob. Darwin’s First Theory: Exploring Darwin’s Quest for a Theory of Earth.
Williams, Nathan. The Kinfolk Entrepreneur: Ideas for Meaningful Work.
Wood, Gordon S. Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
Young, Kevin. Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News.
Zimmerman, Paul. Dr. Z: The Lost Memoirs of an Irreverent Football Writer.