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NEW NON-FICTION
Apples of North America: A Celebration of Exceptional Varieties by Tom Burford
Beyond the predictable grocery store displays is a world of apples few have ever explored. In Apples of North America, fifth generation apple grower Tom Burford shares portraits of little-known but delicious varieties-from American Beauty to Yellow Bellflower, in flavors sweet to spicy to tart. You’ll learn how best to grow apples at home including planting and pruning– plus ways to preserve harvests through pressing, fermenting, cooking, and drying. Whether as a snack, an ingredient, or a garden addition, the apple is a national treasure.
Anti-racist Leadership: How to Transform Corporate Culture in a Race-conscious World by James D. White with Krista White
Building anti-racist companies creates great places to work for all.This book provides a comprehensive plan for leaders who are ready to get serious about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and to create an anti-racist company culture. As a Black man at the highest levels of corporate America for over thirty years, James D. White has built a deep understanding of how to integrate DEI agendas. White writes with his daughter, Krista White, who brings to this book the heart and sensibilities of a younger generation intent on justice.
Detroit’s Hidden Channels: The Power of French-Indigenous Families in the Eighteenth Century by Karen L. Marrero
Detroit’s Hidden Channels examines the role of French-Indigenous kinship networks in Detroit’s development as one of the most politically and economically pivotal locations in the continental interior. Situated where Anishinaabe, Myaamia, Wendat and later French communities were established and where waterways linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico narrowed, Detroit’s location was its primary resource. Women furthered commerce by navigating a multitude of gender norms of their nations, allowing them to defy the state which sought to control them.
Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa by Marilyn Chase
This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and transformed everything she touched into art. Born in California in 1926, Asawa grew from a farmer’s daughter to a celebrated sculptor. She survived an adolescence in the internment camps during World War II and attended the groundbreaking art school at Black Mountain College. Her beloved fountains are now San Francisco icons, and her signature hanging-wire sculptures grace the MoMA, de Young, Getty, Whitney, and many more museums and galleries.
Having Their Say: Athletes and Entertainers and the Ethics of Speaking Out by Kristie Bunton
This book examines the ethical issues when famous people speak out on issues and analyzes several celebrity speakers: singers Taylor Swift and the Chicks; satirist Jon Stewart; actor Tom Hanks; and athletes Serena Williams, Stephen Curry, Colin Kaepernick, and Naomi Osaka. Celebrity speakers must exercise ethical care in a digital world where audiences equate celebrity status with authority and expertise about public issues. Having Their Say also considers how people who are not famous can understand their ethical responsibilities for speaking out about public issues in their own spheres of influence.
NEW FICTION
Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
From the New York Times bestselling author of Garden Spells comes an enchanting tale filled with magical realism and moments of pure love that won’t let you go. Off the coast of South Carolina, on Mallow Island, sits a stunning cobblestone building named after the tiny turquoise birds who inhabit an air of magical secrecy. When Zoey comes to claim her deceased mother’s apartment on Mallow Island, she meets her quirky and secretive neighbors, including a girl on the run, two estranged middle-aged sisters, a lonely chef, a legendary writer, and three ghosts. Each with their own story. Each with their own longings. Each whose ending isn’t written yet.
The Winners: A Novel by Fredrik Backman
A new novel from the author of Anxious People and A Man Called Ove, The Winners returns to the close-knit, resilient community of Beartown for a story about first loves, second chances, and last goodbyes. Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and reunite with their closest childhood friends. As it beautifully captures all the complexities of daily life and explores questions of friendship, loyalty, loss, and identity, this emotion-packed novel asks us to reconsider what it means to win, what it means to lose, and what it means to forgive.
Our Missing Hearts: A Novel by Celeste Ng
From the bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. For a decade, laws to preserve “American culture” allow the relocation of the children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic. Our Missing Hearts is a story about the power and limitations of art to create change, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact.
Stories From the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana
Sidik Fofana’s electrifying collection of eight interconnected stories showcases the strengths, struggles, and hopes of one residential community in a powerful storytelling experience. Each short story follows a tenant in the Banneker Homes, a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone’s mind. We root for these characters and more as they weave in and out of each other’s lives, endeavoring to escape from their pasts and blaze new paths forward for themselves and the people they love. Stories from the Tenants Downstairs brilliantly captures the joy and pain of the human experience and heralds the arrival of a uniquely talented writer.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
In December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Spanning thirty years, the novel examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.
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