The library has purchased many new books so far this new year. You can view a handful here or click here to see the full listing. These books are on display in the lobby of the library’s lobby.
Title: Armada : a novel
Author: Cline, Ernest,
THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF READY PLAYER ONE It’s just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He’s daydreaming through another boring math class, with just one more month to go until graduation and freedom–if he can make it that long without getting suspended again.; Then he glances out his classroom window and spots…
Title: Early warning
Author: Smiley, Jane
From the Pulitzer Prize-winner: the second installment, following Some Luck, of her widely acclaimed, best-selling American trilogy, which brings the journey of a remarkable family with roots in the Iowa heartland into mid-century America Early Warning opens in 1953 with the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch, Walter, who …
Title: American carnage : Wounded Knee, 1890
Author: Greene, Jerome A.
As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation to join other Lakotas seeking peace. Fearing that Big Foot’s band was headed instead to join “hostile” Lakotas, U.S. troops surrounded the group on Wounded Knee Creek…
Title: Beethoven : anguish and triumph : a biography
Author: Swafford, Jan.
Jan Swafford’s biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being who composed some of the world’s most iconic music. S …
Title: Upside : the new science of post-traumatic growth
Author: Rendon, Jim.
In the tradition of Po Bronson and Paul Tough, journalist Jim Rendon delivers a deeply reported look at the life-changing implications of post-traumatic growth-an emerging field of psychological research that shows how the suffering caused by traumatic events can be harnessed as a force for self-improvement and success rather than destruction. …
Title: Forging the shield : the U.S. Army in Europe, 1951-1962
Author: Carter, Donald A., 1955-
This illustrated book that includes tables, charts, and maps primarily discusses the role of USAREUR acronym abbreviation for US Army Europe) in rearming and training the new German Army spans several years and is perhaps the Army s single greatest contribution toward maintaining security in Western Europe. Likewise, the relationship between A …
Title: Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America’s death penalty
Author: Sarat, Austin,
“How enviable a quiet death by lethal injection,” wrote Justice Scalia, in a concurring opinion that denied review of a Texas death penalty case. But is it quiet? Renewed and vigorous debate over the death penalty has erupted as DNA testing has proven that many on death row are in fact innocent. In this debate, however, the guilty have been fo …
Title: Lesser beasts : a snout-to-tail history of the humble pig
Author: Essig, Mark, 1969-
Unlike other barnyard animals, which pull plows, give eggs or milk, or grow wool, a pig produces only one thing: meat. Incredibly efficient at converting almost any organic matter into nourishing, delectable protein, swine are nothing short of a gastronomic godsend–yet their flesh is banned in many cultures, and the animals themselves are mal …
Title: Storyteller : the photographs of Duane Michals
Author: Benedict-Jones, Linda.
Accompanying a retrospective of the pioneering photographer, this volume of more than 75 original works will thrill Duane Michals aficionados, while introducing younger viewers to an innovative artist who redefined the role of the photograph in artistic expression. A self-taught photographer, Duane Michals broke away from established tradition …
Title: Vegetable literacy : cooking and gardening with twelve families from the edible plant kingdom, with over 300 deliciously simple recipes
Author: Madison, Deborah.
In her latest cookbook, Deborah Madison, America’s leading authority on vegetarian cooking and author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone , reveals the surprising relationships between vegetables, edible flowers, and herbs within the same botanical families, and how understanding these connections can help home cooks see everyday vegetables in …