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NEW NON-FICTION
Pain and Prejudice: How the Medical System Ignores Women—and What We Can Do About It by Gabrielle Jackson
One in ten women worldwide have endometriosis, yet it is funded at 5% of the rate of diabetes; women are half as likely to be treated for a heart attack as men and twice as likely to die six months after discharge; over half of women who are eventually diagnosed with an autoimmune disease will be told they are hypochondriacs or have a mental illness. In a potent blend of polemic and memoir, Jackson confronts the concerns and questions women face regarding their health and medical treatment and where we need to go next.
Judy Chicago: New Views
As the first major monograph on the feminist artist Judy Chicago in nineteen years, this fully illustrated volume provides fresh perspectives by leading scholars. This fascinating, elegantly designed book offers a new examination of Chicago’s wide-ranging artistic expression and powerful voice. The book is published on the occasion of the artist’s eightieth birthday and an exhibition of new work at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, as well as the announcement of the Judy Chicago online archival portal.
We All Know How This Ends: Lessons About Life and Living from Working with Death and Dying by Anna Lyons & Louise Winter
This book explores lessons learned about life, death, love and loss. It is a practical guide to rethinking death. It discusses life and living, as much as death and dying. It’s a reflection on the beauties, blessings and tragedies of life, the exquisite agony and ecstasy of being alive, and the fragility of everything we hold dear. It’s as simple and as complicated as that.
Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order by Kathryn E. Stoner
This book refutes the idea that Russia plays a ‘weak hand well’ in international politics. It includes fresh empirical data on the Russian economy, demography and human capital, and conventional military and nuclear weaponry capacities in Russia relative to other great powers like China and the United States. The book argues that realpolitik alone does not explain Russian foreign policy choices under Putin. Rather, Putin’s patronal autocratic regime and the need for social stability plays an important role in understanding when and why Russian power is projected in the 21st century.
Digital for Good: Raising Kids to Thrive in an Online World by Richard Culatta
When it comes to raising children in a digital world, every parent feels underprepared and overwhelmed. How can we raise healthy kids who know how to take advantage of the good technology can bring to their lives, while avoiding the bad? Digital for Good offers a refreshingly positive framework for preparing kids to be successful in a digital world – one that shifts the focus away from what kids shouldn’t do and instead encourages them to use technology proactively and productively. Parents and children alike will discover the path to becoming effective digital citizens, all while making our online world a better place.
NEW FICTION
Trust by Hernan Diaz
An award-winning writer of absorbing, sophisticated fiction delivers a stylish and propulsive novel about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth and perception. In glamorous 1920s New York City, two characters of sophisticated taste come together. One is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; the other, the brilliant daughter of penniless aristocrats. Steeped in affluence and grandeur, their marriage excites gossip and allows a continued ascent — all at a moment when the country is undergoing a great transformation. TRUST is an overarching novel that becomes more exhilarating and profound with each new layer and revelation, engaging the reader in a treasure hunt for the truth that confronts the reality-warping gravitational pull of money, and how power often manipulates facts.
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
A novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de’ Medici. When her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding, the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father just as quick to accept on her behalf. Lucrezia must now make her way in a troubled court whose customs are opaque and where her arrival is not universally welcomed. As Lucrezia sits in constricting finery for a painting intended to preserve her image for centuries to come, one thing becomes worryingly clear. In the court’s eyes, she has one duty: to provide the heir who will shore up the future of the dynasty. Until then, for all of her rank and nobility, the new duchess’s future hangs entirely in the balance.
Fairy Tale by Stephen King
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, but he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house with a shed. When Mr. Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie the house and a responsibility far too massive for a boy to shoulder. Because within the shed is a portal to another world–one whose denizens are in peril and whose monstrous leaders may destroy their own world, and ours. And in this parallel universe, there is a magic sundial that can turn back time.
The Foundling by Ann Leary
It’s 1927 and eighteen-year-old Mary Engle is hired to work as a secretary at a remote but scenic institution for mentally disabled women. She’s immediately in awe of her employer–brilliant, genteel Dr. Agnes Vogel. Mary deeply admires how dedicated the doctor is to the poor and vulnerable women under her care. Soon after she’s hired, Mary learns that a girl from her childhood orphanage is one of the inmates. Mary remembers Lillian as a beautiful free spirit with a sometimes-tempestuous side. When Lillian begs Mary to help her escape, alleging the asylum is not what it seems, Mary is faced with a terrible choice. Should she trust her troubled friend? Mary’s decision triggers a hair-raising sequence of events with life-altering consequences for all.
Zorrie by Laird Hunt
After losing both her parents and her aunt, Zorrie is cast into the perilous realities of rural Depression-era Indiana. Drifting west, surviving on odd jobs, Zorrie finds a position at a radium processing plant. When Indiana calls Zorrie home, she finds the love and community that has always eluded her in and around the small town of Hillisburg, but discovers that her trials have only begun.
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