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Here are our new arrivals, click the title to view in our catalog:
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Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community it Created
by Nick Tabor
An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants, a community which often thrived despite persistent racism and environmental pollution."
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B.F.F.: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found
by Christie Tate
From the author of Group, a New York Times bestseller and Reese's Book Club Pick, comes a moving, heartwarming, and powerful memoir about Christie Tate's lifelong struggle to sustain female friendship, and the friend who helps her find the human connection she seeks.
also available in audio
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Bad Mormon: A Memoir
by Heather Gay
Drinking and Tweeting meets Unorthodox in this vulnerable memoir about The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star's departure from the Mormon Church, and her unforeseen success in business, television, and single motherhood.
also available in audio
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Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet Almost Destroyed Civilization
by Richard J. Goodrich
In Comet Madness, author and historian Richard J. Goodrich examines the 1910 appearance of Halley's Comet and the ensuing frenzy sparked by media manipulation, bogus science, and outright deception. The result is a fascinating and illuminating narrative history that underscores how we behave in the face of potential calamity - then and now.
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The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America
by Christopher C. Gorham
The first-ever biography of Anna Marie Rosenberg, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant with only a high school education who went on to be dubbed by Life Magazine "the most important woman in the American government." Her life ran parallel to the front lines of history yet her influence on 20th century America, from the New Deal to the Cold War and beyond, has never before been told. For readers of Hidden Figures, A Woman of No Importance, and Eleanor: A Life, the previously unrecognized life of Anna Rosenberg is extraordinary, inspiring, and uniquely American.
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Family Time: Simple Ways to Speak the 5 Love Languages to Your Kids
by Gary D. Chapman
"Based on Chapman's best-selling The Five Love Languages®-an intentional resource for adding love, meaning, and adventure to your family days! Family Time, borne out of the authors own experiences and desires to love their children well, is an invaluableresource of activities incorporating each of the five love languages."
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Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia
by Carolyn Woods Eisenberg
This gripping account interweaves Nixon and Kissinger's pursuit of the war in Southeast Asia and their diplomacy with the Soviet Union and China with on-the-ground military events and US domestic reactions to the war conducted in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
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The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph
by Oksana Masters
Oksana Masters, the United States' most decorated winter Paralympic or Olympic athlete, tells her jaw-dropping story of triumphing over extraordinary Chernobyl disaster-caused physical challenges to create a life that, by example, challenges everyone to push through what is holding them back.
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I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever
by Barbara Rae-Venter
The amateur DNA sleuth who solved one of the most infamous cold cases in American history-the Golden State Killer crime spree-tells the incredible true story of how she did it, and explains how her methods have forever changed criminal investigations. In the span of just a few years, Barbara Rae-Venter went from researching her family history as a retiree to finding a serial killer who had baffled law enforcement for decades.
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Muhammad Ali: A Humanitarian Life
by Margueritte Shelton
"Muhammad Ali: A Humanitarian Life is the first biography of this iconic champion to chronicle his rise as a great humanitarian alongside his rise as a fighter, revealing the profound influence Ali had both in and out of the ring and that will endure forages to come"
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Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
by Michael Schulman
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama.
also available in audio
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Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
by Paul Bloom
A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science of psychology, based on one of Yale's most popular courses of all time.
also available in audio
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Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson
by Ashley Brown
A compelling narrative of the trials and triumphs of tennis champion Althea Gibson, a key figure in the integration of American sports and, for a time, one of the most famous women in the world.
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Walk Through Fire: The Train Disaster That Changed America
by Yasmine Ali
The first book to examine the rarely-acknowledged Waverly Train Disaster of 1978 - the catastrophic accident that changed America forever and led to the formation of FEMA. Coinciding with the 45th anniversary of the event, WALK THROUGH FIRE is a tribute to the first responders, as well as an examination of the strengths and vulnerabilities in rural America.
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The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie Ten Boom
by Larry Loftis
New York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during WWII--at the cost of losing her family and being sent to a concentration camp, only to survive, forgive her captors, and live the rest of her life as a Christian missionary.
also available in audio
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The World Itself: Consciousness and the Everything of Physics
by Ulf H. Danielsson
"Can we ever truly comprehend the universe before we fully understand consciousness and the wonders, and limits, of the mind? Ulf Danielsson, an acclaimed theoretical physicist who has dedicated his career to probing the deepest mysteries of nature, thinks not. As he dismantles the arguments of esteemed mathematicians and scientists, who would substitute their mathematical models for reality and equate the mind to a computer, he makes a lucid and passionate case that it is nature, full of beauty and meaning, which must compel us. In challenging established worldviews, he also takes a fresh look at major philosophical debates, including the notion of free will. Fearless, provocative, and witty, The World Itself is essential reading for anyone curious about the profound questions surrounding life, the universe, and everything."
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