ONE-OF-A-KIND LIBRARY CATALOG
by Anne Applebaum
DEMOCRACY AWAKENING
OATH AND HONOR: A MEMOIR AND A WARNING
BESTSELLER: by
Heather Cox Richardson
NEW YORK TIMES
A vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians, with a new afterword by the author
15 COPIES AVAILABLE
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
by Colson Whitehead
A gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage slavery and a powerful meditation on the history we all share
7 COPIES
by Liz Cheney
INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER:
15 COPIES AVAILABLE
THE NICKEL BOYS
by Colson Whitehead
This follow-up to The Underground Railroad brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida
2 COPIES AVAILABLE
A gripping first-hand account of the January 6th, 2021, insurrection from inside the halls of Congress, from origins to aftermath, as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution by the House Republican leader who dared to stand up to it 4
MY BELOVED WORLD
by Sonia Sotomayor
The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself
THE JOY LUCK CLUB
by Amy Tan
In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club
by Sonia Sotomayor (FOR CHILDREN)
A fun and meaningful story about making the world--and your community--better, one action at a time, that asks the question: Who will you help today?
BONESETTER’S DAUGHTER
by Amy Tan
Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known.
HUMANS OF NEW YORK STORIES
by Brandon Stanton
With over 500 vibrant, full-color photos, Humans of New York: Stories is an insightful and inspiring collection of portraits of the lives of New Yorkers
1 COPY AVAILABLE
HOW TO WRITE ONE SONG
by Jeff Tweedy
How to Write One Song brings readers into the intimate process of writing one song lyrics, music, and putting it all together and accesses the deep sense of wonder that remains at the heart of this curious, yet incredibly fulfilling, artistic act. But it’s equally about the importance of making creativity part of your life every day, and of experiencing the hope, inspiration, and joy available to anyone who’s willing to get started
7 COPIES
WHERE THE DEER AND THE ANTELOPE PLAY
by Nick Offerman
A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outdoors, fueled by three journeys undertaken by actor, humorist, and New York Times bestselling author Nick Offerman
6 COPIES AVAILABLE
by Patti Smith
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation
2 COPIES AVAILABLE
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PRIYA’S KITCHEN ADVENTURES, A COOKBOOK FOR KIDS
by Priya Krishna (FOR CHILDREN)
An illustrated cookbook for kids and their parents that draws on Priya Krishna’s childhood experiences traveling the globe with her family With delicious recipes and laugh-out-loud stories, Priya’s Kitchen Adventures will get kids cooking and expand their curiosity about the world
2 COPIES AVAILABLE
THE APPRENTICE
by Jacques Pépin
In this captivating memoir the man whom Julia Child has called “the best chef in America” tells the story of his rise from a frightened apprentice in an exacting Old World kitchen to an Emmy Award–winning superstar who taught millions of Americans how to cook and shaped the nation’s tastes in the bargain
2 COPIES AVAILABLE
BUILD A HOUSE
by Rhiannon Giddens (FOR CHILDREN)
n as a song to memorate the anniversary of eenth which s originally med with famed Yo-Yo Ma and here with bold tions by painter a Mikai, Build a ells the moving f a people who not be moved he music that ained them
2 COPIES AVAILABLE
THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY
by Alexander McCall Smith
This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith’s widely acclaimed The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to “help people with problems in their lives.”
4 COPIES AVAILABLE
GOD IS NOT GREAT
by Christopher Hitchens
God Is Not Great is the ultimate case against religion In a series of acute readings of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens demonstrates the ways in which religion is manmade, dangerously sexually repressive and distorts the very origins of the cosmos.
4 COPIES AVAILABLE
THE CORRECTIONS
by Jonathan Franzen
The Corrections is a comic, tragic epic of worlds colliding: an oldfashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions, a new world of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, doit-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed National Book Award, Winner 2001
3 COPIES AVAILABLE
WHO OWNS THE FUTURE
by Jaron Lanier
Considered a founder of the field of virtual reality, in this book, Lanier charts a path toward a brighter future: an information economy that rewards ordinary people for what they do and share on the web.
2 COPIES AVAILABLE
by Jonathan Franzen
The idyllic lives of civicminded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and gogetter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged
5 COPIES AVAILABLE
MINOR FEELINGS:
AN ASIAN AMERICAN RECKONING
by Cathy Park Hong
NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLER • PULITZER
PRIZE FINALIST •
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS
CIRCLE AWARD WINNER •
ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America
4 COPIES AVAILABLE
CHINA WAKES:
THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF A RISING POWER DOWNSIZE
RANDOM THREATS FROM AN UNARMED AMERICAN
by Michael Moore
Moore gets under the skin of corporate giants, politicians, lobbyists, and the media-anyone who has made life tougher for the millions of Americans who are working longer hours for less pay.
2 COPIES AVAILABLE
by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn (SIGNED
BY WUDUNN)
The definitive book on China's uneasy transformation into an economic and political superpower, and an insightful and thought-provoking analysis of daily life in China from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists
2 COPIES AVAILABLE
by Julian Castro
From Julian Castro, 2020 Presidential candidate, keynote speaker at the 2012 DNC, and former San Antonio mayor and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, comes a candid and compelling memoir about race and poverty in America.
4 COPIES AVAILABLE
THE WORLD IS FLAT
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
by Thomas L. Friedman
Friedman translates complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the twentyfirst century; what it means to countries, companies, communities, and individuals; and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt.
2 COPIES AVAILABLE
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN:
AN AMERICAN LIFE
by Walter Isaacson
A sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to Philadelphia to London to Paris and back.
LONGITUDES AND ATTITUDES THE WORLD IN THE AGE OF TERRORISM
by Thomas L Friedman
Freidman received his third Pulitzer Prize in 2002 “for his clarity of vision, based on extensive reporting, in commenting on the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat ” In Longitudes and Attitudes, he gives us all of the columns he has published about the most momentous news story of our time, as well as a diary of his private experiences and reflections during his post–September 11 travels
3 COPIES AVAILABLE
ON PARADISE DRIVE
by David Brooks
3 COPIES
Americans are the inheritors of a sense of limitless possibilities, raised to think in the future tense and to strive toward the happiness we naturally accept On Paradise Drive, at once serious and comic, describes this distinct American futuremindedness that shapes our personalities and underlies our beliefs
3 COPIES AVAILABLE
THE WILDERNESS WARRIOR
by Douglas Brinkley
From New York Times
bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley comes a sweeping historical narrative and eye-opening look at the pioneering environmental policies of President Theodore Roosevelt, avid birdwatcher, naturalist, and the founding father of America’s conservation movement
2 COPIES AVAILABLE
THE GREAT DELUGE:
HURRICANE KATRINA, NEW ORLEANS, AND THE MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST
by Douglas Brinkley
Bestselling author Douglas Brinkley finds the true heroes of this unparalleled catastrophe, and lets the survivors tell their own stories, masterly allowing them to record the nightmare that was Katrina
3 COPIES AVAILABLE
THE MAGIC BUS: AN AMERICAN ODYSSEY
by Douglas Brinkley
From Julian Castro, 2020 Presidential candidate, keynote speaker at the 2012 DNC, and former San Antonio mayor and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, comes a candid and compelling memoir about race and poverty in America.
2 COPIES AVAILABLE
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THE BULLY PULPIT:
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF JOURNALISM
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Bully Pulpit describes a time in our history that enlightened and changed the country, ushered in the modern age, and produced some unforgettable men and women.
2 COPIES AVAILABLE
CATCH
by Ronan Farrow
This is the untold story of the exotic tactics of surveillance and intimidation deployed by wealthy and connected men to threaten journalists, evade accountability, and silence victims of abuse And it's the story of the women who risked everything to expose the truth and spark a global movement
4 COPIES AVAILABLE
NO GOD BUT GOD:
THE ORIGINS, EVOLUTION, AND FUTURE OF ISLAM
by Reza Aslan
No god but God is a persuasive and elegantly written account of the roots of this reformation and the future of Islamic faith
Thurgood Marshall was the twentieth century’s great architect of American race relations. His victory in the Brown v Board of Education decision, the landmark Supreme Court case outlawing school segregation in the United States, would have made him a historic figure even if he had never been appointed as the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court
m the Montgomery boycott to the Little Rock Nine to the elma-Montgomery arch, thousands of ordinary people articipated in the merican civil rights vement; their stories e told in Eyes on the Prize COPIES AVAILABLE EYES
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by Fareed Zakaria
With an easy command of history, philosophy, and current affairs, The Future of Freedom calls for a restoration of the balance between liberty and democracy and shows how politics and government can be made effective and relevant for our time.
2 COPIES AVAILABLE
THE POST-AMERICAN WORLD
by Fareed Zakaria
A look at the growth of countries such as China, India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa, Kenya, and many, many more This economic growth is generating a new global landscape where power is shifting and wealth and innovation are bubbling up in unexpected places It's also producing political confidence and national pride As these trends continue, the push of globalization will increasingly be joined by the pull of nationalism - a tension that is likely to define the next decades.
by Fareed Zakaria
Zakaria eloquently expounds on the virtues of a liberal arts education how to write clearly, how to express yourself convincingly, and how to think analytically He turns our leaders' vocational argument on its head
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