The library has purchased many new books so far this new year.  You can view a handful here along with partial descriptions or go here to see the full listing.  These books are on display in the library’s lobby.

Title: The bees in your backyard : a guide to North America’s bees

Author: Wilson, Joseph S.

The Bees in Your Backyard provides an engaging introduction to the roughly 4,000 different bee species found in the United States and Canada, dispelling common myths about bees while offering essential tips for telling them apart in the field. The book features more than 900 stunning color photos of the bees living all around us …

Title: Balanced and barefoot : how unrestricted outdoor play makes for strong, confident, and capable children

Author: Hanscom, Angela J.

“Angela Hanscom is a powerful voice for balance.” –Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods In this important book, a pediatric occupational therapist and founder of TimberNook shows how outdoor play and unstructured freedom of movement are vital for children’s cognitive development and growth, and offers tons of fun … 

Title: The Beetlebung Farm cookbook : a year of cooking on Martha’s Vineyard

Author: Fischer, Chris

Winner of the 2016 James Beard Award for American Cooking One of Bon Appétit ‘s best books of the year A year of fresh, simple, seasonal cooking from a rising-star chef running his grandfather’s five-acre farm on Martha’s Vineyard. This is the heartfelt declaration of a new American way of food, celebrating a year of cooking…. 

Title: Beyond the band of brothers : the US military and the myth that women can’t fight / Megan Mackenzie

Author: MacKenzie, Megan H. (Megan Hazel),

Women can’t fight. This assumption lies at the heart of the combat exclusion, a policy that was fiercely defended as essential to national security, despite evidence that women have been contributing to hostile operations now and throughout history. This book examines the role of women in the US military and the key arguments used to justify the combat exclusion …

Title: Blaming the Poor : The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images about Poverty

Author: Greenbaum, Susan D.

In 1965, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan–then a high-ranking official in the Department of Labor–sparked a firestorm when he released his report “The Negro Family,” which came to be regarded by both supporters and detractors as an indictment of African American culture. Blaming the Poor examines the regrettably durable impact of the Moynihan Report for race relations and social policy in America … 

Title: Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon

Author: Tye, Larry

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of Satchel comes an in-depth, vibrant, and measured biography about the most complex and controversial member of the Kennedy family. History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last progressive knight of a bygone era of American politics …

Title: Breakthrough! : 100 astronomical images that changed the world

Author: Gendler, Robert

This unique volume by two renowned astrophotographers unveils the science and history behind 100 of the most significant astronomical images of all time. The authors have carefully selected their list of images from across time and technology to bring to the reader the most relevant photographic images spanning all eras of modern astronomical history …

Title: Complete crime scene investigation handbook

Author: Baxter, Everett

Crime scene investigators are the foundation for every criminal investigation. The admissibility and persuasiveness of evidence in court, and in turn, the success of a case, is largely dependent upon the evidence being properly collected, recorded, and handled for future analysis by investigators and forensic analysts in the lab …

Title: Controlling the message : new media in American political campaigns

Author: Farrar-Myers, Victoria A.

From the presidential race to the battle for the office of New York City mayor, American political candidates’ approach to new media strategy is increasingly what makes or breaks their campaign. Targeted outreach on Facebook and Twitter, placement of a well-timed viral ad, and the ability to roll with the memes …

Title: Deported : immigrant policing, disposable labor, and global capitalism

Author: Golash-Boza, Tanya Maria

Winner, American Sociological Association Latino/a Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award The United States currently is deporting more people than ever before: 4 million people have been deported since 1997 -twice as many as all people deported prior to 1996. There is a disturbing pattern in the population deported …