New Books at the Library- November highlights

A luminous collection of essays from one of our most original and influential poets. Five decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn , Louise Gluck is a towering figure in American letters. Written with the same probing, analytic control that has long distinguished her poetry…

“A delightful tour through the businesses and industries that turned America into the biggest economy in the world. . . . An excellent book.”– The Economist. From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life….

Title: Being the change : live well and spark a climate revolution
Author: Kalmus, Peter,

We all want to be happy. Yet as we consume ever more in a frantic bid for happiness, global warming worsens. Alarmed by drastic changes now occurring in the Earth’s climate systems, the author, a climate scientist and suburban father of two, embarked on a journey to change his life and the world. He began by bicycling, growing food, meditating ….

Title: Body of water First edition.
Author: Dombrowski, Chris, 1976-

Chris Dombrowski was playing a numbers game: two passions–poetry and fly-fishing; two children, one of them in utero; and an income hovering perilously close to zero. Enter, at this particularly challenging moment, a miraculous email: can’t go, it’s all paid for, just book a flight to Miami . Thus began a journey that would lead to….

Title: Crash override : how Gamergate (nearly) destroyed my life, and how we can win the fight against online hate First edition.
Author: Quinn, Zoë, 1987-

You’ve heard the stories about the dark side of the internet–hackers, #gamergate, anonymous mobs attacking an unlucky victim, and revenge porn–but they remain just that: stories. Surely these things would never happen to you. Zoe Quinn used to feel the same way. She is a video game developer whose ex-boyfriend published a crazed….

Title: Hallelujah anyway : rediscovering mercy
Author: Lamott, Anne,

Instant New York Times Bestseller “Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” –Chicago Tribune. The new bestseller from the author of Help, Thanks, Wow and Bird by Bird , a powerful exploration of mercy, its limitless (if sometimes hidden) presence, why we ignore it, and how we can embrace it….

Title: His Final Battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt First edition.
Author: Lelyveld, Joseph,
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book. “By far the most enigmatic leading figure” of World War II. That’s how the British military historian John Keegan described Franklin D. Roosevelt, who frequently left his contemporaries guessing, never more so than at the end of his life. Here, in a hugely insightful account, a prizewinning author….

Title: The invention of Russia : from Gorbachev’s freedom to Putin’s war
Author: Ostrovsky, Arkady, 1971-
Winner of the Orwell Prize, winner of the Cornelius Ryan Award, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize, Financial Times Book Of The Year. “Fast-paced and excellently written….much needed, dispassionate and eminently readable.” — New York Times “Filled with sparkling prose and deep analysis.” – The Wall Street Journal ….

Title: It : a novel Scribner trade paperback edition.
Author: King, Stephen, 1947-

Now a major motion picture. Stephen King’s terrifying, classic #1 New York Times bestseller, “a landmark in American literature” ( Chicago Sun-Times )–about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled on as teenagers….an evil without a name: It….

Title: Locked in : the true causes of mass incarceration–and how to achieve real reform
Author: Pfaff, John F.,
“Pfaff, let there be no doubt, is a reformer….Nonetheless, he believes that the standard story–popularized in particular by Michelle Alexander, in her influential book, The New Jim Crow –is false. We are desperately in need of reform, he insists, but we must reform the right things, and address the true problem.” — Adam Gopnik….