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: Antifragile : things that gain from disorder
Author: Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, 1960-
“Antifragile “is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are “Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, “and “The Bed of Procrustes.”
Title: Can science fix climate change? : a case against climate engineering
Author: Hulme, Mike, 1960-
Climate change seems to be an insurmountable problem. Politicalsolutions have so far had little impact. Some scientists are nowadvocating the so-called Plan B , a more direct way ofreducing the rate of future warming by reflecting more sunlightback to space, creating a thermostat in the sky.
Title: Infamy : the shocking story of the Japanese American internment in World War II
Author: Reeves, Richard, 1936-
A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER o A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR”S CHOICE o Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War II Less than three months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and inflamed the nation…
Title: Showdown : Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court nomination that changed America
Author: Haygood, Wil,
Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to deny in the courts and in the streets. In this stunning new biography, award-winning author Wil Haygood surpasses the emotional impact of his inspiring best seller…
Title: The Nonsense Show
Author: Carle, Eric
Ducks growing out of bananas? A mouse catching a cat? What’s wrong with this book from the creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar ? Yes, there’s something strange, something funny and even downright preposterous on every page of this book. But it’s not a mistake – it’s nonsense! And it’s also surrealism.
Title: Plenty ladylike
Author: McCaskill, Claire
The female senator from Missouri shares her inspiring story of embracing her ambition, surviving sexist slings, making a family, losing a husband, outsmarting her enemies–and finding joy along the way. Claire McCaskill grew up in a political family, but not at a time that welcomed women with big plans.
Title: Once in a great city : a Detroit story
Author: Maraniss, David
“Elegiac and richly detailed…[Maraniss] succeeds with authoritative, adrenaline-laced flair…evocative.” –Michiko Kakutani for The New York Times As David Maraniss captures it with power and affection, Detroit summed up America’s path to music and prosperity that was already past history. It’s 1963 and Detroit is on top …
Title: Purity : a novel
Author: Franzen, Jonathan
A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom Young Pip Tyler doesn’t know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she’s saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she’s squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother–her only family–is hazardous.
Title: Running from office : why young Americans are turned off to politics
Author: Lawless, Jennifer L., 1975-
The past two decades of politics in Washington have seen increased partisanship, prolonged stalemates, and numerous scandals. For today’s teenagers and young adults, years of ineffective and inefficient political leadership have completely eroded any sense that politicians or government have the ability to do good or effect positive change.
Title: Young Eliot : from St. Louis to The Waste Land
Author: Crawford, Robert, 1959-
A groundbreaking new biography of one of the twentieth century’s most important poets On the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, the award-winning biographer Robert Crawford presents us with the first volume of a comprehensive account of this poetic genius. Young Eliot traces the life of the twentieth century’s most …