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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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Corrections in ink : a memoir
by Keri Blakinger
The former figure skater shares her journey from the ice rink to a
life of addiction that led to a two-year prison sentence, getting sober
and becoming a reporter dedicated to exposing our flawed prison system.
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Overdue : Reckoning With the
Public Library
by Amanda Oliver
Drawing on first-hand experiences from six years of professional
work as a librarian in high-poverty neighborhoods of Washington,
DC, as well as interviews and research, the author highlights the
national problems that have existed in libraries since they were
founded—racism, segregation and class inequalities.
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The love prescription : seven days to
more intimacy, connection, and joy
by John Mordechai Gottman
Drawing on 40 years of studying love and sharing data from
more than 3,000 couples, two of the worlds leading relationship scientists present a formula from a good relationship, showing how
a few small changes can fundamentally transform your relationship
for the better.
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Between us : how cultures create emotions
by Batja Mesquita
A pioneer in the field of cultural psychology discusses how
emotions are not necessarily innate but are made as we live our
lives together in shared cultural contexts and how acknowledging
our differences can help humanize us.
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Laziness Does Not Exist : A Defense of the Exhausted, Exploited, and Overworked
by Devon Price
Laziness Does Not Exist explores the psychological underpinnings of
the “laziness lie,” including its origins from the Puritans and how it
has continued to proliferate as digital work tools have blurred the boundaries between work and life. Using in-depth research, Price explains that people today do far more work than nearly any other humans in history, yet most of us often still feel we are not doing enough.
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Ways of being : animals, plants,
machines : the search for a planetary intelligence
by James Bridle
Exploring different kinds of intelligence, this brilliant and thought-provoking book shows how plants, animals and natural systems
that surround us are slowly revealing their complexity, agency and knowledge, just as the technologies weve built to sustain ourselves
are threatening to cause their extinction, and ours.
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The Premonitions Bureau : A True Account of Death Foretold
by Sam Knight
In Sam Knight’s crystalline telling, this astonishing true story
comes to encompass the secrets of the world. We all know
premonitions are impossible—and yet they come true all the time.
Our lives are full of collisions and coincidence: the question is how
we perceive these implausible events and therefore make meaning
in our lives.
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How to Inhabit Time : Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
by James K. A. Smith
Many Christians are disconnected from the past or imagine they are "above" history, immune to it, as if self-starters from clean slates in every generation. They suffer from a lack of awareness of time and the effects of history—both personal and collective—and thus are naive about current issues and fixated on the end times.
Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith shows that awakening to the spiritual significance of time is crucial for orienting faith in the 21st century.
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Silencing white noise : six practices to overcome our inaction on race
by Willie Dwayne Francois
"A prominent Black church leader calls people of all races to engage six "rhythms of reparative intercession" to silence White Noise-the racist speech, ideas, and policies that lull us into inaction on racial injustice-and to develop lifelong Christian antiracist practices"
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The light we give : how Sikh wisdom can transform your life
by Simran Jeet Singh
A human rights activist shares a powerful approach to living a
purposeful and rewarding life that is drawn from Sikh teachings,
which show readers how to seek out the good in every situation
and find positive ways to direct their energy and embrace this
deeper form of living.
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The Path to Peace : Experiencing God's Comfort When You're Overwhelmed
by Ann Swindell
In this beautiful book that is part devotional and part Bible study,
Ann Swindell shares how the biblical stories of eight women and
men helped her realize that what she needed most in her own
journey wasn't a stable job or healthy kids or good friends--it was
God's peace. Through forty faith-stirring readings, Ann will help you.
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Pandora's Jar : Women in the Greek Myths
by Natalie Haynes
The national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns
with a fascinating, eye-opening take on the remarkable women
at the heart of classical stories Greek mythology, from Helen of
Troy to Pandora and the Amazons to Medea.
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My three dads : patriarchy on the
Great Plains
by Jessa Crispin
Jessa Crispin melds personal narrative with history and current events
to explore the dark side of Kansas, where she grew up. She meditates
on why the American Midwest still enjoys an esteemed position in the US's imagination about itself, why its foundational myths are the myths of what it means to be "American." And while we may romanticize aspects of Midwestern life-the nuclear family, the pioneering attitude,
the small town friendliness-the realities, she argues, are harsher.
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Diary of a misfit : a memoir and a mystery
by Casey Parks
Part memoir, part investigative reporting, this sweeping journalistic saga explores sexuality and gender, family trauma and the redemptive force of love.
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Mother brain : how neuroscience is rewriting the story of parenthood
by Chelsea Conaboy
In this powerful narrative, a journalist and mother delves into the major brain changes that come with being new parents. This book delves into the neuroscience to reveal unexpected upsides and how this science is mostly absent from the public conversation about parenthood.
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Buy this, not that : how to spend your way to wealth and freedom
by Sam Dogen
"Sam Dogen's Financial Samurai blog has helped over 70 million people achieve financial freedom. Now, he shares his no-nonsense playbook to build wealth and retire early through smarter spending. With hard numbers and his signature straight talk, Dogen reveals the spending dos and donts for the biggest, and the smallest, purchases of your life. In topics ranging from career, to education, to family and parenting, to lifestyle and real-estate-Dogen shows how to calculate your optimal calorie-per-dollar budget. You don't need to be a millionaire or a genius to achieve financial freedom. It's about making the most of your money, now, and forever-and it's never too late to get started"
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Status and culture : how our desire for higher social rank shapes identity, fosters creativity, and changes the world
by W. David Marx
In Status and Culture, W. David Marx weaves together history, psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, philosophy, linguistics, semiotics, cultural theory, literary theory, art history, media studies, and neuroscience to reveal for the first time the inner workings of status.
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Formidable : American women and the
fight for equality: 1920-2020
by Elisabeth Griffith
In this riveting narrative, an activist and academic, integrating the
fight by White and Black women to achieve quality, provides a
sweeping, century-long perspective and an expansive cast of
change agents, showing how the diversity of the women's
movement mirrors America.
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The fishermen and the dragon : fear,
greed, and a fight for justice on the
gulf coast
by Kirk W. Johnson
A gripping, twisting account of a small town set on fire by hatred, xenophobia, and ecological disaster. This is a story that weaves
together corporate malfeasance, a battle over shrinking natural resources, a turning point in the modern white supremacist
movement, and one woman's relentless battle for environmental
justice.
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To risk it all : nine conflicts and the
crucible of decision
by James Stavridis
Told through the thrilling and heroic stories of nine famous acts of leadership in battle from the U.S. Navy's nearly 250-year history,
one of the great naval leaders of our time draws from them a set of insights we can all put to use when confronted with fateful choices.
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Meet me by the fountain : an inside
history of the mall
by Alexandra Lange
This entertaining and evocative stroll through the rise, fall
and ongoing reinvention of malls, which proved to be a powerful
draw for creative thinkers, including Joan Didion, Ray Bradbury
and George Romero, chronicles how the design of these
marketplaces played an integral role in cultural ascent.
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Leadership : six studies in world strategy
by Henry Kissinger
Drawing on his deep study of history as well as his distinguished
career in government, the consummate diplomat and statesman
studies six impactful leaders in modern history, including Anwar
Sadat, Margaret Thatcher and Lee Kuan Yew, revealing the
masterful strategies and leadership of these great geopolitical minds.
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When Capone ruled the village
by Linda M. Malek
The little village of Stickney, Illinois is a peaceful, family-oriented community. However, sinister activities cast a shadow over the
suburb during the 1920s and 30s when organized crime infiltrated
the town. Al Capone and his brother Ralph were among the
gangsters that established operations in the village.
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Why we did it : a travelogue from the Republican road to Hell
by Tim Miller
Featuring astonishingly raw and candid interviews with former
colleagues and friends who jumped on the Trump Train, a former Republican political operative delivers the most honest insider assessment of the mindset of those who contributed to Trump's
rise to date.
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The colony : faith and blood in a
promised land
by Sally Denton
A best-selling investigative journalist, revisiting the 2019 killings
of women and children who were fundamentalist Mormons in
Northern Mexico, picks up where the initial, incomplete reporting
on the attacks ended, delving into the complex story of the
LeBaron clan and their recent alliance with the NXIVM sex cult.
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Trailed : one woman's quest to solve
the Shenandoah murders
by Kathryn Miles
On the 20th anniversary of the murder, a journalist starts looking
into the lives of Lollie Winans and Julie Williams, who were killed
while backpacking in Virginias Shenandoah National Park, revealing evidence of cover-ups and incompetence that possibly led to the apprehension of the wrong suspect.
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Rogues : true stories of grifters,
killers, rebels and crooks
by Patrick Radden Keefe
The prize-winning, New York Times best-selling author presents
twelve of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker that
form a deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well
as those who stand up against them.
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The world as we knew it : dispatches
from a changing climate
by Amy Brady
Including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Omar
El Akkad and others, this collection from literary writers around
the world offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how
climate change has altered their lives.
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How to raise an antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
This guide for parents, caregivers and teachers focuses on strategies
for talking to children about racism, how to avoid the mistakes of our past and help dismantle racist behaviors in ourselves and our world.
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The Fight to Save the Town : Reimagining Discarded America
by Michelle Wilde Anderson
An urban law expert, traveling to four blue-collar communities that
are poor, broke and progressing, reveals their wealth inequality and dismantling of local government, arguing that a new generation of
local leaders are figuring out how to turn poverty traps back into gateway cities.
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This will not pass : Trump, Biden, and
the battle for America's future
by Jonathan Martin
Drawing on interviews and never-before-seen documents and
recordings from the highest levels of government, two
New York Times reporters, in this shocking account of the
2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency,
ponder the question: "Can American democracy, as we know
it, ever work again?"
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The four ages of American foreign policy : weak power, great power, superpower, hyperpower
by Michael Mandelbaum
In both Afghanistan and Iraq American efforts to install stable, democratic, friendly governments encountered opposition, and
the United States found itself fighting against insurgencies in both places. In 2008 a severe financial crisis struck America, which led
to a prolonged global recession. By the end of this period, Russia,
China, and Iran had begun to mount serious challenges to American interests in Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East respectively. This brought an end to the fourth age of American foreign policy.
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The nation that never was :
reconstructing America's story
by Kermit Roosevelt
One standard story about America is rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Another story concerns
America's moment of reckoning after the Civil War, when it was
possible to believe that the country would transcend its racist roots. Kermit Roosevelt III argues here that today, with the country increasingly riven along violent divides, we can find a path forward
by shifting our benchmarks from the first story, which fostered the Confederacy, to the second. America doesn't need to find a new
usable past; it already has one: we don't live in the Founders'
America-we live in Lincoln's.
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Nolo's essential guide to divorce
by Emily Doskow
Updated to cover parenting and financial issues related to the
COVID pandemic, this expert and compassionate guide to divorce explains how to make it less painful and discusses legal rights and options for resolving tough divorce-related issues.
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Wastelands : the true story of farm
country on trial
by Corban Addison
Taking readers into the heart of a legal battle over the future of
Americas farmland, this riveting book stars a courageous group of
locals in the coastal plain of North Carolina who, tired of polluting practices, brought suit against one of the worlds most powerful companies and won.
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Unmasked : my life solving America's
cold cases
by Paul Holes
An icon in the true crime world, the cold case investigator who
finally caught the Golden State Killer provides an insider account
of some the most notorious cases in contemporary American history
and opens up to the most intimate scenes of his life.
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The listeners : a history of wiretapping
in the United States
by Brian Hochman
Electronic surveillance was once a specialized intelligence-gathering
tool that provoked fascination and protest. Now it is a mundane
fact of our consumer world. How did we get here? The Listeners
traces the spies and scandal mongers, police and presidents, businessmen and filmmakers who made wiretapping a defining technology of American history.
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Who can hold the sea : the U.S.
Navy in the Cold War, 1945-1960
by James D. Hornfischer
A close-up, action-filled narrative about the crucial role the U.S.
Navy played in the early years of the Cold War, from the New York
Times bestselling author of The Fleet at Flood Tide This landmark account of the U.S. Navy in the Cold War, Who Can Hold the Sea, combines narrative history with scenes of stirring adventure
on--and under--the high seas.
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A brief history of equality
by Thomas Piketty
A leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping
and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward
equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding.
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A Spy in Plain Sight : The Inside Story of
the FBI and Robert Hanssen - America's
Most Damaging Russian Spy
by Lis W. Wiehl
A legal analyst for NPR, NBC, and CNN, delves into the facts
surrounding what has been called the “worst intelligence disaster
in U.S. history”: the case of Robert Hanssen—a Russian spy who
was embedded in the FBI for two decades. As a federal prosecutor
and the daughter of an FBI agent, Wiehl has an inside perspective.
She brings her experience and the ingrained lessons of her upraising
to bear on her remarkable exploration of the case, interviewing numerous FBI and CIA agents both past and present as well as the individuals closest to Hanssen. She speaks with his brother-in-law,
his oldest and best friend, and even his psychiatrist.
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Learning America : One Woman's Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children
by Luma Mufleh
Learning America traces the story of how Mufleh grew a group
of kids into a soccer team and then into a nationally acclaimed
network of schools for refugee children. The journey is inspiring
and hard-won. Fugees schools accept only those most in need.
No student passes a grade without earning it. The failure of any
student is the responsibility of all.
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Killing the killers : the secret war
against terrorists
by Bill O'Reilly
This latest in the multimillion-selling killing series looks the 20-year global war on terror, following America’s pursuit of Al Qaeda, Isis
and the Iranian Revolution Guard through Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Syria and Libya.
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Chosen : a memoir of stolen boyhood
by Stephen Tukel Mills
At thirteen years old, Stephen Mills is chosen for special attention
by the director of his Jewish summer camp, a charismatic social
worker. Stephen, whose father had died when he was four, places
his trust in this authority figure, who then grooms and molests
him for two years. The boy tells no one, but the aftershocks rip
through his life.
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The Trayvon generation
by Elizabeth Alexander
Originally published in the New Yorker, one of the great literary
voices of our time shares her celebrated and moving reflection on
the challenges facing young Black America, illuminating our nation's unresolved problem with race.
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Constructing a nervous system
by Margo Jefferson
The award-winning critic and memoirist has lived in the thrall of
a cast of others; her parents and maternal grandmother, jazz
luminaries, writers, artists, athletes, and stars, and she brings
these figures to life in a new memoir.
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Recessional : the death of free speech
and the cost of the free lunch
by David Mamet
Exposing how oppressive cultural codes, encapsulated in
buzzwords such as inclusion, diversity, social justice, appropriation
are constricting the vibrant intellectual life of the world's freest
country. A renowned author and playwright examines how politics
and cultural attitudes about rebellion have shifted in the U.S.
throughout history.
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Red-handed : how American elites
get rich helping China win
by 1964- Schweizer, Peter
The #1 bestselling author of Profiles in Corruption and Secret
Empires, Peter Schweizer, is back with his next blockbuster.
This time, the six-time bestselling author will expose how
foreign governments influence Washington.
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The great experiment : why diverse democracies fall apart and how they can endure
by Yascha Mounk
Drawing on history, social psychology and comparative politics,
one of the most important political thinkers examines how diverse societies have long suffered from the ills of domination, fragmentation
or structured anarchy, and provides a profound understanding of an urgent problem and genuine hope for our human capacity to solve it.
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The age of the strongman : how the
cult of the leader threatens democracy around the world
by Gideon Rachman
The author of Easternization, an award-winning journalist, offers
an intimate look at the rise of strongman leaders around the globe, charting the most urgent political story of our era. We are in a new
era: authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Since 2000, self-styled strongmen have risen to power in
diverse capitals. While others have tried to understand the
emergence of these new leaders individually, Age of the Strongman provides the first truly global treatment of the new nationalism, underpinned by an exceptional level of access to key actors in
this drama: Gideon Rachman has been in the same room with
most of these strongmen and reported from their countries over
a long journalistic career.
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Foreverland: on the divine tedium of marriage
by Heather Havrilesky
The author of the popular "Ask Polly" advice column on Substack
takes an honest look at modern marriage and how it can be an
effort that is challenging, taxing and deeply satisfying all at the
same time.
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Rise : A Pop History of Asian America
from the Nineties to Now
by Jeff Yang
A love letter to and for Asian Americans offers a vivid scrapbook
of voices, emotions and memories from an era in which our culture
was forged and transformed, and a way to preserve both the
headlines and the intimate conversations that have shaped our community into who we are today.
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