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New Adult 000 - 300s Nonfiction 000 - Computer Science, Knowledge, and Systems 100 - Philosophy and Psychology 200 - Religion 300- Social Science, Law, and Education |
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American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate
by Eric Lichtblau
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice from the
Pulitzer-winning author of the New York Times bestseller
The Nazis Next Door, this is a deeply reported exploration of the
violent resurgence of hatred and white supremacy through
the lens of Orange County, California--ground zero for racial
extremism. It is the story of one brutal murder there that
revealed the deep roots of violent bigotry as a bellwether
for the country. Revealing how Orange County has exported
racial hatred to the rest of the country and the world, American
Reich weaves this tragic tale together with stories from across
the nation. It shows what this haunted place and the colliding
paths of two of its residents reveal about America's fractured
soul and our hope for healing.
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The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism,
and the Lure of Belonging
by Noelle Cook
In this gripping investigation of conspiracy culture, researcher
Noelle Cook explores the ways women are radicalized. The
Conspiracists draws us into the lives of women who stormed the
Capitol and explores what brought them there in the first place.
What does the rise of women's conspiracism mean? And is it
possible to reach across the divide?
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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares
in Sam Altman's OpenAI
by Karen Hao
From a brilliant longtime AI Insider with intimate access to the
world of Sam Altman's OpenAI, an eye-opening account of arguably
the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshaping the planet in
real time, from the cockpit of the company that is driving the frenzy.
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How Great Ideas Happen: The Hidden Steps Behind Breakthrough Success
by George Newman
In How Great Ideas Happen, cognitive scientist George Newman
draws on cutting-edge research to show that creativity isn't magic, it's
method. With vivid examples from the arts, science, and
business, Newman shows how creativity often comes from discovering what was already there. By revealing the hidden steps behind breakthrough success, How Great Ideas Happen uncovers a repeatable method that anyone can follow, reframing creativity not as a rare gift, but as a universal capacity waiting to be unlocked through exploration.
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The Other Side of Change: Who We Become When Life Makes Other Plans
by Maya Shankar
Life has a way of thwarting our best-laid plans. Out of nowhere, we're confronting the end of a relationship, an unexpected diagnosis, the
loss of a job, or some other twist of fate. In these moments, it can
feel like we're free-falling into the unknown. As a cognitive scientist, Maya Shankar has spent decades studying the human mind. When
an unwanted change in her own life left her reeling, she sought out
people who had navigated major disruptions. In The Other Side of Change, Shankar tells their riveting, singular stories and weaves in scientific insights to illuminate universal lessons hidden within them.
The result is a rich portrait of our complex reactions to change and a deep well of wisdom we can draw from during these experiences.
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Why Do I Keep Doing This?: Unlearn the Habits Keeping You Stuck and Unhappy
by Kati Morton
We can feel like we are too much by just existing in the same
place as someone else, or that we are less deserving of their time
and care. This struggle with asserting ourselves, or taking what we require, can harm our development. We sometimes think the only
way to feel okay and get what we need is to please everyone else
first.
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Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal,
and the Lost Dream of Jonestown
by Candace Fleming
How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more
than 900 of his followers to commit revolutionary suicide by
drinking cyanide-laced punch? From a master of narrative
nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious
cults in American history. Using riveting first-person accounts,
award-winning author Candace Fleming reveals the makings of a monster
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Conversations on Faith
by Martin Scorsese
From the legendary film director Martin Scorsese, a book in which
he and Father Antonio Spadaro discuss the visionary filmmaker's relationship to faith throughout his life. From his Italian-American upbringing as a Catholic in New York to the meditations on religion, belief, and the divine found in his filmography, Martin Scorsese's relationship to his faith has touched every aspect of his life and
work.
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Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage
by Heather Ann Thompson
On December 22, 1984, in a graffiti-covered New York City subway car, passengers looked on in horror as a white loner named Bernhard Goetz shot four Black teens at point-blank range. The man the tabloid media dubbed the Death Wish Vigilante would become a celebrity and a hero
to countless ordinary Americans who had been frustrated with the economic fallout of the Reagan 80s. Overnight, Goetz's young victims would become villains. Out of this dramatic moment would emerge an angry nation, in which Rupert Murdoch's New York Post and later Fox News Network stoked the fear and the fury of a stunning number of Americans. Heather Ann Thompson narrates the Bernie Goetz subway shootings and their decades-long reverberations, while deftly covering the lives of the boys whom too many decided didn't matter.
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Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York's Explosive '80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial That Divided the Nation
by Elliot Williams
On a dirty New York subway car on December 22, 1984, Bernhard
Goetz shot Barry Allen, Darrell Cabey, Troy Canty, and James
Ramseur, four teenagers from the Bronx, at point blank range.
Goetz claimed they were going to mug him; the teens claim that one
of them had simply asked for five dollars. Crime was at an all-time
high. So was racial tension. Was Goetz, who was white, a hero who finally fought back? Or a bigot whose itchy trigger finger seriously wounded three unarmed black kids and condemned a fourth to irreversible brain damage? A shocking account of a pivotal moment in our history, Five Bullets demonstrates why, in order to understand today's debates about race, crime, safety, and the media, it's
imperative to reflect on what went down in the subway four decades ago. As Williams's powerful narrative reveals, it was not just Goetz on trial, but the conscience of a nation.
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Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention
by Clara E. Mattei
In this radical rethinking of economics, Clara Mattei argues that
enduring problems such as poverty, unemployment, and inflation are
not bugs in the economy but core features. They are justified with pseudoscientific models, fabrications built to support a capitalist economy that unfairly rewards people with the most resources. In this revelatory manifesto, Mattei sets out a revolutionary vision that may
one day allow us to achieve true economic freedom and finally escape from capitalism.
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J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2026: For Preparing Your 2025 Tax Return
by J K Lasser Institute
J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2026: For Preparing Your 2025 Tax Return delivers practical and hands-on guidance for everyday people preparing to file their taxes for the 2025 calendar year. You'll find timely and up-to-date info about the latest changes to the US tax code, as well as worksheets and forms you can use to make filing your taxes easier.
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Polar War: Submarines, Spies, and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic
by Kenneth R. Rosen
A gripping blend of travelogue and frontline reporting that reveals
how climate change, military ambition, and economic opportunity
are transforming the Arctic into the epicenter of a new cold war,
where a struggle for dominance between the planet's great powers heralds the next global conflict. Drawing on hundreds of interviews
and three years of reporting from the frontlines of climate change
and great power competition, Rosen's deeply researched and
personal accounts capture the diverse landscapes, people, and
conflicted interests that define this complex northern region. The
result is both an elegy for a vanishing landscape and an urgent
warning about how the race for Arctic dominance could spark the
next global conflict.
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Quick & Legal Will Book
by Denis Clifford
Quick & Legal Will Book is the easiest way to make your own will
using a book. Use it to create a simple will that distributes your
property, names your executor, and sets up guardianships for your children. If you die without an estate plan, state law--rather than
you--will determine what happens to your property, which is an
outcome few people want.
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Personal Finance in Plain English: Definitions. Examples. Uses.
by Michele Cagan
Managing your money is not an easy job, and it's made even
more complicated by the specific terminology used in personal
finance. Reading through a loan agreement, credit card terms and conditions, or a stock market report can leave even the most
financially responsible people wondering, 'What exactly does this
mean?' Now, this book has the answers.
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The Land Trap: A New History of the
World's Oldest Asset
by Mike Bird
How the world's oldest asset secretly shapes our modern economy
In The Land Trap, Mike Bird, Wall Street editor at The Economist,
reveals how this ancient asset still exerts outsize influence over
the modern world. From the speculative land grabs of colonial
America to China's real estate crisis today, Bird shows how
fortunes are built--and destroyed--on the bedrock of land.
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Borgata: Clash of Titans: A History of the American Mafia: Volume 2 of the Borgata Trilogy
by Louis Ferrante
This epic three-volume history of the mafia continues with Borgata:
Clash of Titans, covering 1960 to 1985, as the mob comes into
conflict with the American political elite--and confronts internal
wars that will shake the organization to its foundations. The first
serious external threat to the mafia's existence in America comes
from U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who repeatedly
expresses his desire to eradicate organized crime in America.
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The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
by David McWilliams
In this fresh, eye-opening global history, economist David
McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money,
from clay tablets in Mesopotamia to cryptocurrency in Silicon Valley.
The story of humanity is inextricable from that of money. No
innovation has defined our own evolution so thoroughly and
changed the direction of our planet's history so dramatically.
And yet despite money's primacy, most of us don't truly
understand it.
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Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department
by Carol Leonnig
Trump's war with the Justice Department will mark a turning
point from which it will be hard to recover these injustices. The
jaw-dropping account of partisans and enablers undoing democracy, heroes still battling to preserve a nation governed by laws, and a
call to action for those who believe in liberty and justice for all.
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Smartphone Nation: Building Digital Boundaries When Offline Isn't an Option
by Kaitlyn Regehr
Essential reading anyone who knows there's more to life than
staring at a screen--or who wants to raise children who believe
that, too--Smartphone Nation shows how to: - Navigate the
attention economy, which prioritizes engagement at all costs.
Improve your digital nutrition for better mental health-
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Retribution: Donald Trump and the
Campaign That Changed America
by Jonathan Karl
The must-read new book from Jonathan Karl, the author of
New York Times bestsellers Tired of Winning, and Front Row at
the Trump Show. In Retribution, Jonathan Karl's unparalleled
access brings us behind closed doors deep inside the White
House and presidential campaigns, revealing the extraordinary
moments that ended one man's presidency and brought another
back to power.
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Notes on Being a Man
by Scott Galloway
Bestselling author, NYU professor, and cohost of the Pivot podcast
Scott Galloway offers a path forward for men and parents of boys.
Boys and men are in crisis. Rarely has a cohort fallen further and
faster than young men living in Western democracies. Boys are
less likely to graduate from high school or college than girls. One in seven men reports having no friends, and men account for three of
every four deaths of despair in America.
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The Complete IEP Guide: How to
Advocate for Your Special Ed Child
by Lawrence M. Siegel
Get the educational services and support your child deserves
Federal law guarantees every child a free appropriate education,
and the goal of the Individualized Education Program (IEP) is to
assure that every child with special needs receives what the law promises.
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