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Peter Wood
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Summary: When and where was America founded? Was it in Virginia in 1619, when a pirate ship landed a group of captive Africans at Jamestown? So asserted the New York Times in August 2019 when it announced its...
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Call #: 306.362 WOO
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Daniel Lieberman
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Summary: This book, a natural history of exercise, seeks to answer a fundamental question: were you born to run or rest? The first three parts roughly follow the evolutionary story of human physical activity...
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Call #: 612 LIE
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Ruth Coker Burks
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Summary: In 1986, twenty-six-year-old Ruth visits a friend at the hospital when she notices a door to one of the rooms is painted red. A patient is crying for his mother on the other side, but no one goes to...
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Call #: 616.9792 BUR
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Laila Lalami
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Summary: What does it mean to be American? Author Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of the rights, liberties,...
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Call #: 323.6 LAL
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James Nestor
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Summary: No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how resilient your genes are, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential...
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Call #: 613 NES
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Rachel Cruze
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Summary: "The basics of personal finance, like budgeting and saving, may be black and white, but there are deeper reasons you make the choices you do with money. That's why, in [this book], ... Rachel Cruze...
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Adeena Sussman
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Summary: In an Israeli cookbook as personal as it is global, Sussman celebrates the tableau of flavors the region has to offer, in all its staggering and delicious variety.
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Leslie Jordan
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Sanjay Gupta
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Summary: A globetrotting neurosurgeon offers insights from top scientists all over theworld whose cutting-edge research can help readers heighten and protect brainfunction and maintain cognitive health at any age.
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David Eagleman
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Summary: "The magic of the brain is not found in the parts it's made of but in the way those parts unceasingly reweave themselves in an electric living fabric. And there is no more accomplished and accessible...
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Ethan Kross
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Summary: An award-winning psychologist reveals the hidden power of the inner voice and shows how to harness it to live healthier, more satisfying, and productive lives.
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Jeremy Dronfield
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Summary: Originally published in Chicago in 2018 by Chicago Review Press under the title The stone crusher: the true story of a father and son's fight for survival in Auschwitz.
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Megan Phelps-Roper
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Summary: The activist and TED speaker Phelps-Roper reveals her life growing up in the most hated family in America. Rich with suspense and thoughtful reflection, her life story exposes the dangers of...
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Steve Leder
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Summary: The bestselling author of More Beautiful Than Before takes readers on ajourney through the experience of loss in this inspiring and comforting book, based on his most-popular sermon.
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Jennifer Reese
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Summary: Reese's "Make the Bread, Buy the Butter" is a lively, frugal-chic answer to the question, "Make or buy?" It includes about 120 different food staples.
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Maggie Scarf
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Summary: Relationship expert Maggie Scarf shares in-depth stories of seven remarried couples, revealing the unique challenges they face as they strive to achieve lasting intimacy and familial harmony. It's...
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Call #: 306.8747 SCA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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George S. Glass
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Summary: According to the National Center for Health Statistics, less than half of the people who get married in the United States remain with their first spouse, and less than 50 percent of children grow up...
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Call #: 306.8747 GLA
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Jon Roberts
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Summary: The featured drug smuggler from Cocaine Cowboys chronicles his life, providing coverage of such topics as his work in a Vietnam assassination squad, his creation of sophisticated smuggling...
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Call #: 364.13365 ROB
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Brittany Williams
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Summary: After a decade of yo-yo dieting and a lifelong battle with the scale, Brittany Williams knew she needed to make a lasting change. She shed 125 pounds in a year -- and has kept it off for 3 years --...
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Call #: 641.563 WIL
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Erin Jeanne McDowell
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Summary: McDowell starts with an in-depth tutorial, complete with troubleshooting tips for decorating pies, before delving into recipes for every kind of pie imaginable. Whether you're partial to fruit,...
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Call #: 641.8652 MCD
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Lisa Davis
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Summary: Lisa Davis explores the evolution of tomboyism from a Victorian ideal to a twenty-first century fashion statement, honoring the girls and women -- and those who identify otherwise -- who stomp all...
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Call #: 305.4 DAV
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Joe Yonan
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Summary: Beans are being embraced as a delicious, versatile, and environmentally friendly protein alternative. Yonan provides master base recipes for cooking any sort of bean in any sort as appliance -- as...
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Call #: 641.6565 YON
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Clive Aslet
Summary: This book is a sumptuously produced journey around 12 privately-owned country houses, asking what it is like to live in such places today. What role do they play in the 21st century? For many years...
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Call #: 728 ASL
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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Summary: From award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction -- a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us.
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Call #: 590 NEZ
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Summary: The wizard Tasha has gathers bits and bobs of precious lore during her illustrious career as an adventurer. Her enemies wouldn't want these treasured secrets scattered across the multiverse, so in...
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Call #: 793.93 DUN
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Elizabeth Holmes
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Summary: With their every fashion choice chronicled and celebrated, Kate and Meghan purposefully select clothes to send messages about their values, interests, and priorities. Their thoughtful sartorial...
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Call #: 941.085 HOL
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Craig Melvin
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Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
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Summary: With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his family's encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, simple lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when...
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Call #: 325.1 HER
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Tom Fitzgerald
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Summary: A definitive deep dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul's Drag Race as a touchstone. This book centers the idea that Drag Race is the queerest show in the history of...
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Call #: 791.45 FIT
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Halsey
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Summary: In this debut collection, Halsey bares her soul. Bringing the same artistry found in her lyrics, Halsey's poems delve into the highs and lows of doomed relationships, family ties, sexuality, and...
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Call #: 811.6 HAL
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Deborah Madison
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Summary: Thanks to her beloved cookbooks and groundbreaking work as the chef at Greens Restaurant in San Francisco, Deborah Madison, though not a vegetarian herself, has long been revered as this country's...
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Call #: 641.5636 MAD
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Lacy Crawford
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Summary: When the elite St. Paul's School came under state investigation after extensive reports of sexual abuse on campus, Lacy Crawford thought she'd put behind her the assault she'd suffered decades...
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Call #: 362.883 CRA
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Rania Abouzeid
Summary: Since the civil war in Syria began in 2011, over 500,000 civilians have been killed and more than 12 million Syrians have been displaced. Rania Abouzeid, one of the foremost journalists on the topic,...
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Call #: 956.91 ABO YA
Location: New YA Nonfiction
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