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Thomas Bender
Summary: A bold new vision of how the United States shed its colonial identity and became a distinctive nation.
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on order - publisher release date: June 1, 2022
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Simon Winchester
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Summary: This book examines in depth how we determine where the land lies, how we acquire it, how we steward it, how and why we fight over it, and, finally, how we can, and on occasion do, come to share it....
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Call #: 333.33 WIN
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Bob Drury
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on order - publisher release date: April 20, 2021
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David Leser
(231)
Summary: The author presents an essential and incisive investigation, unearthing the roots of misogyny, its inextricable links to the patriarchy, and how history brought the country to the #MeToo movement and...
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Sonia Faleiro
(27)
Summary: By the award-winning writer of Beautiful Thing, a masterly inquest into how the mysterious deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the darkest corners of a nation.
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on order - publisher release date: February 9, 2021
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Jeremy Dronfield
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Summary: In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, and his sixteen-year-old son are arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Germany. Imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp, they...
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Call #: 940.5318 DRO
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Peter Wood
(45)
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
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Daniel Lieberman
(226)
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
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Laila Lalami
(1,191)
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
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Lisa Davis
(137)
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
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
(1,316)
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
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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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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Esther Safran Foer
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Summary: Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust was...
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Call #: 940.5318 FOE
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Tom Philpott
(104)
Summary: Veteran journalist and former farmer Tom Philpott explores and exposes the small handful of seed and pesticide corporations, investment funds, and magnates who benefit from the trends that imperil...
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Call #: 630 PHI
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Claudio Saunt
(360)
Summary: On May 28, 1830, Congress authorized the expulsion of indigenous peoples from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Over the next decade, Native Americans saw their homelands and...
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Call #: 323.1197 SAU
Location: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals
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Lesley M. M. Blume
(835)
Summary: Just days after the United States decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. But the US government and military had begun a secret propaganda and...
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Call #: 940.5425 BLU
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Summary: From family farms to big agriculture, organic farming to hydroponics, this volume covers what life was and is like for American farmers & ranchers across the decades. Profiles cover the span of the...
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Call #: 305.5 WOR
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Mikki Kendall
(14,458)
Summary: Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues author Mikki Kendall, but...
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Call #: 305.42 KEN
Location: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals
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Kenya Hunt
(248)
Summary: A provocative and humorous collection of essays on what it means to be black, a woman, a mother and a global citizen in today's ever-changing world.
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Call #: 305.4 HUN
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Katherine Sharp Landdeck
(671)
Summary: The thrilling true story of the daring female aviators who helped the United States win World War II only to be forgotten by the country they served. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in...
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Call #: 940.5449 LAN
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat
(193)
Summary: What modern authoritarian leaders have in common (and how they can be stopped). Ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountability while robbing...
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Call #: 321.9 BEN
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Emily Nagoski
(10,733)
Summary: Burnout. Many women in America have experienced it. What's expected of women and what it's really like to be a woman in today's world are two very different things -- and women exhaust themselves...
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Call #: 155.9 NAG
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Rachel Maddow
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Summary: Is it possible for a sitting vice president to direct a vast criminal enterprise within the halls of the White House? To have one of the most brazen corruption scandals in American history play out...
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Call #: 973.924 MAD
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Christopher Caldwell
(658)
Summary: Conservative columnist Christopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its unforeseen consequences. Even the reforms that Americans love best have come with costs...
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Call #: 305.24 CAL
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Mark Hyman
(754)
Summary: Our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies is food. What we eat has tremendous implications not just for our...
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Call #: 363.82 HYM
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Darren McBurnett photographer
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Summary: This photo essay takes a unique look at the toughest training in the military from the vantage point of someone who lived through it. Retired Navy SEAL Darren McBurnett includes vivid descriptions of...
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Call #: 359.984 MCB
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Robert Lacey
(27)
Summary: The world has watched Prince William and Prince Harry since they were born. Raised by Princess Diana to be the closest of brothers, how have the boy princes grown into very different, now distanced...
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Call #: 941.085 LAC
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Paul Koudounaris
(98)
Summary: "A Cat's Tale is a history of feline kind: its origins, the evolution of the relationship with their human companions, and the surprising ways in which feline history parallels that of humanity. From...
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Kevin Maurer
(36)
Summary: In late December 1941, General Douglas MacArthur, caught off guard by the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, is forced to retreat to Corregidor, a jagged, rocky island fortress at the mouth of...
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Call #: 940.5425 MAU
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Joe Scarborough
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Summary: Author Joe Scarborough recounts the historic forces that moved Truman toward his country|s long twilight struggle against Soviet communism, and how this untested president acted decisively to build a...
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Call #: 973.918 SCA
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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David Giffels
(113)
Summary: This is an on-the-ground look at the diverse challenges facing Ohio, and its national significance as the state that has historically sided with the presidential election winner more than any other.
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Call #: 977.1 GIF
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Robert J. Mrazek
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Summary: When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and sacrifice were...
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Call #: 940.5472 MRA
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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