Adult New Materials for January 2021

January

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Fiction

The best American science fiction and fantasy 2020 / edited and with an introduction by Diana Gabaldon ; John Joseph Adams, series editor.
The short the long and the tall / Jeffrey Archer ; illustrated by Paul Cox.
Black buck / Mateo Askaripour.
Robert B. Parker
The push : a novel / Ashley Audrain.
The children
Out of hounds / Rita Mae Brown ; illustrated by Lee Gildea.
Everywhere you don
The dark archive / Genevieve Cogman.
Spin / Patricia Cornwell.
The chicken sisters / KJ Dell
The divines : a novel / Ellie Eaton.
The wrong family / Tarryn Fisher.
The evening and the morning / Ken Follett.
The bright lands / John Fram.
Big girl, small town : a novel / Michelle Gallen.
A time for mercy / John Grisham.
The midnight library / Matt Haig.
The midnight library / Matt Haig.
Beneficence : a novel / Meredith Hall.
Nights when nothing happened / Simon Han.
Pickard County atlas / Chris Harding Thornton.
The mercies : a novel / Kiran Millwood Hargrave.
Hollow empire / Sam Hawke.
The wife upstairs / Rachel Hawkins.
Shipped / Angie Hockman.
Layla / Colleen Hoover.
The gates of Athens / Conn Iggulden.
Better luck next time : a novel / Julia Claiborne Johnson.
The prophets : a novel / Robert Jones, Jr.
The henna artist / Alka Joshi.
Before the coffee gets cold / Toshikazu Kawaguchi ; translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot.
The last garden in England / Julia Kelly.
Things in jars / Jess Kidd.
All the colors of night / Jayne Ann Krentz.
The Arctic fury : a novel / Greer Macallister.
A crooked tree : a novel / Una Mannion.
Pianos and flowers : brief encounters of the romantic kind / Alexander McCall Smith.
Hurricane season / Fernanda Melchor ; translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes.
The blade between : a novel / Sam J. Miller.
Why I don
The forgers / Bradford Morrow.
The beauty of your face / Sahar Mustafah.
Beheld / TaraShea Nesbit.
Blue summer / Jim Nichols.
Hamnet : a novel of the plague / Maggie O
The Aosawa murders / Riku Onda ; translated from the Japanese by Alison Watts.
The glass kingdom : a novel / Lawrence Osborne.
The Russian / James Patterson and James O. Born.
Detransition, baby: a novel / Torrey Peters.
Picnic in the ruins : a novel / Todd Robert Petersen.
The breaker / Nick Petrie.
Under pressure / Robert Pobi.
The scorpion
The shadow box / Luanne Rice.
Our darkest night : a novel of Italy and the Second World War / Jennifer Robson.
The perfect guests / Emma Rous.
Portrait of peril / Laura Joh Rowland.
At the edge of the Haight / by Katherine Seligman.
The forever girl : a novel / Jill Shalvis.
Perestroika in Paris / Jane Smiley.
All that glitters / Danielle Steel.
Neighbors : a novel / Danielle Steel.
Dear Miss Kopp / Amy Stewart.
American traitor / Brad Taylor.
City of schemes / Victoria Thompson.
When the tiger came down the mountain / Nghi Vo.
Sharks in the time of saviors / Kawai Strong Washburn.
Valentine / Elizabeth Wetmore.
The liar
Hush-hush / Stuart Woods.
The tunnel / A. B. Yehoshua ; translated from Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman.
The distant dead / Heather Young.
The lost book of Adana Moreau : a novel / Michael Zapata.

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Nonfiction

Screening reality : how documentary filmmakers reimagined America / Jon Wilkman.
Keep sharp : build a better brain at any age / Sanjay Gupta, MD ; with Kristin Loberg.
Wintering : the power of rest and retreat in difficult times / Katherine May.
Laziness does not exist : a defense of the exhausted, exploited, and overworked / Dr. Devon Price.
Chatter : the voice in our head, why it matters, and how to harness it / Ethan Kross.
Transcend : the new science of self-actualization / Scott Barry Kaufman.
The night lake : a young priest maps the topography of grief / Liz Tichenor.
The next great migration : the beauty and terror of life on the move / Sonia Shah.
Hood feminism : notes from the women that a movement forgot / Mikki Kendall.
Long time coming : reckoning with race in America / Michael Eric Dyson.
Somewhere in the unknown world : a collective refugee memoir / Kao Kalia Yang.
Full dissidence : notes from an uneven playing field / Howard Bryant.
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First principles : what America
We have been harmonized: life in China
Kill switch : the rise of the modern Senate and the crippling of American democracy / Adam Jentleson.
Made in China : a prisoner, an SOS letter, and the hidden cost of America
The book of Rosy : a mother
Saving justice : truth, transparency, and trust / James Comey.
A furious sky : the five-hundred-year history of America
Snow : a history of the world
Great adaptations : star-nosed moles, electric eels, and other tales of evolution
The language of butterflies : how thieves, hoarders, scientists, and other obsessives unlocked the secrets of the world
Lightning flowers : my journey to uncover the cost of saving a life / Katherine E. Standefer.
Successful aging : a neuroscientist explores the power and potential of our lives / Daniel J. Levitin.
The well-gardened mind : the restorative power of nature / Sue Stuart-Smith.
The negative thoughts workbook : CBT skills to overcome the repetitive worry, shame, and rumination that drive anxiety and depression / David A. Clark.
The hilarious world of depression / John Moe.
Hidden Valley Road : inside the mind of an American family / Robert Kolker.;"Hidden Valley Road"
From fearful to fear free / Marty Becker, Lisa Radosta, Wailani Sung, Mikkel Becker.
Milk Street cookish : throw it together / Christopher Kimball ; with writing and editing by J.M. Hirsch and Michelle Locke ; recipes by Matthew Card, Diane Unger and the cooks at Milk Street ; art direction by Jennifer Baldino Cox and Brianna Coleman ; photography by Connie Miller of CB Creatives ; food styling by Christine Tobin.
Eating out loud : bold Middle Eastern flavors for all day, every day / Eden Grinshpan with Rachel Holtzman ; photographs by Aubrie Pick.
Rituals for virtual meetings : creative ways to engage people and strengthen relationships / Kürşat Özenç, Glenn Fajardo.
How to write one song / Jeff Tweedy.
How to host a game night : what to serve, who to invite, how to play-strategies for the perfect game night / Erik Arneson.
Pee wees : confessions of a hockey parent / Rich Cohen.
The best of me / David Sedaris.
A swim in a pond in the rain : in which four Russians give a master class on writing, reading, and life / George Saunders.
Accidentally Wes Anderson / Wally Koval with Amanda Kovel ; foreword by Wes Anderson with research and editing by Domenica Alioto.
Clanlands : whisky, warfare, and a Scottish adventure like no other / Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish, with Charlotte Reather.
Wounded knee : party politics and the road to an American massacre / Heather Cox Richardson.
Dangerous charisma : the political psychology of Donald Trump and his followers / Jerrold M. Post, MD ; with Stephanie R. Doucette.
Of bears and ballots : an Alaskan adventure in small-town politics / Heather Lende.
Greenlights / Matthew McConaughey.
Dancing in the mosque : an Afghan mother

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Poetry & Writing

The art of X-ray reading : how the secrets of 25 great works of literature will improve your writing / Roy Peter Clark.
How to write short : word craft for fast times / By Roy Peter Clark.
A fortune for your disaster : poems / by Hanif Abdurraqib.
Felon : poems / Reginald Dwayne Betts.
How to carry water : selected poems of Lucille Clifton / edited by Aracelis Girmay.
Guillotine : poems / Eduardo C. Corral.
Postcolonial love poem / Natalie Diaz.
The trouble ball : poems / Martín Espada.
Alabanza : new and selected poems, 1982-2002 / Martín Espada.
1919 / Eve L. Ewing
Make me rain : poems & prose / Nikki Giovanni.
Persephone in the late anthropocene : poems / Megan Grumbling.
How we became human : new and selected poems / Joy Harjo.
Jim Harrison : the essential poems / edited by Joseph Bednarik.
Every day we get more illegal / Juan Felipe Herrera.
How to fly (in ten thousand easy lessons) : poetry / Barbara Kingsolver.
Here all night / by Jill McDonough.
The death of Sitting Bear : new and selected poems / N. Scott Momaday.
Music for the dead and resurrected / Valzhyna Mort.
Pale colors in a tall field / Carl Phillips.
Feed / Tommy Pico.
Not go away is my name / Alberto Ríos.
Dunce / Mary Ruefle.
Homie : poems / Danez Smith.
The Tijuana book of the dead : poems / Luis Alberto Urrea.
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The best American poetry, 2019 / Major Jackson, editor ; David Lehman, series editor.
The BreakBeat poets : new American poetry in the age of hip-hop / Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, & Nate Marshall, editors.
Black girl magic / edited by Mahogany L. Browne, Idrissa Simmonds, and Jamila Woods ; [forewordy by Patricia Smith].
Cutting the wire : photographs and poetry from the US-Mexico border / photographs by Bruce Berman ; poetry by Ray Gonzalez and Lawrence Welsh ; edited by Lisa McNiel ; introduction by David Dorado Romo.
From the Fishouse : an anthology of poems that sing, rhyme, resound, syncopate, alliterate, and just plain sound great / edited by Camille T. Dungy, Matt O
Furious Flower : seeding the future of African American poetry / edited by Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne ; foreword by Rita Dove.
Healing the divide : poems of kindness and connection / preface by Ted Kooser ; edited by James Crews.
DMZ colony / Don Mee Choi.

Large Print

Growing old : notes on aging with something like grace / Elizabeth Marshall Thomas.
His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope / Jon Meacham ; afterword by John Lewis.
Deadly cross / James Patterson.
All that glitters / Danielle Steel.
Hush-hush / Stuart Woods.

Graphic Novels

The labyrinth : an existential odyssey with Jean-Paul Sartre / Ben Argon ; introduction by Gary Cox ; afterword by Christine Daigle.
Kent State : four dead in Ohio / Derf Backderf.
Happiness will follow : a graphic novel memoir / written & illustrated by Mike Hawthorne ; colored by Sam Bowen & Ari Pluchinsky ; lettered by Clem Robins.
Unrig : how to fix our broken democracy / written by Daniel G. Newman ; art by George O

Audiobooks

Saving freedom : Truman, the Cold War, and the fight for western civilization / Joe Scarborough.
Leave the world behind : a novel / Rumaan Alam.
Lot six : a memoir / David Adjmi.
The searcher / Tana French.
The color of air : a novel / Gail Tsukiyama.

DVDs

A thousand cuts / produced, written and directed by Ramona S. Diaz.
The 24th / produced by Trai Byers, Jordan Fudge, Alexandra Milchan, Kevin Willmott ; written by Kevin Willmott, Trai Byers ; directed by Kevin Willmott.
Capital in the twenty-first century / a film by Justin Pemberton ; directed by Justin Pemberton ; produced by Matthew Metcalfe ; adapted for the screen by Justin Pemberton, Matthew Metcalfe, Thomas Piketty ; a GFC Films and Upside production ; in association with The New Zealand Film Commission and Images&Sound ; co-produced by France 3 Cinema, HRCLS and Upside Films.
16 shots / Showtime Documentary Films with Topic Studios, Impact Partners and Chicago Media Project present a Midnight film ; written and directed by Richard Rowley ; producers, Jacqueline Soohen, Jamie Kalven, Karim Hajj.
Rudeboy : the story of Trojan Records / directed by Nicolas Jack Davies.
Amores perros = Love
Bad education / directed by Cory Finley ; screenplay by Mike Makowsky ; produced by Fred Berger, Eddie Vaisman ; produced by Julia Lebedev, Oren Moverman, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones ; produced by Mike Makowsky ; HBO Films presents ; an Automatik/Sight Unseen production ; a Slater Hall production.
End of sentence / Berserk Films presents ; in association with Sighvatsson Films, Samson Films & Rocket Science ; a Berserk Films production ; produced by Elfar Adalsteins, Sigurjoń Sighvatsson, David Collins ; written by Michael Armbruster ; directed by Elfar Adalsteins.
How to build a girl / Film4 and Tango Entertainment present ; a Monumental Pictures production ; produced by Alison Owen, Debra Hayward ; written by Caitlin Moran ; directed by Coky Giedroy.
In my room / written and directed by Ulrich Köhler.
Madre / produced by Malvalanda, Caballo Films, Arcadia Motion Pictures [and others] ; screenplay, Isabel Peña ; producers, Maria Del Puy Alvarado [and others] ; director, Rodrigo Sorogoyen.
Medicine for melancholy / IFC Films ; Strike Anywhere presents a Bandry Film ; produced by Justin Barber ; written & directed by Barry Jenkins ; a Strike Anywhere production.
Possessor / produced by Fraser Ash, Niv Fichman, Kevin Krikst, Andrew Starke ; written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg.
Scorsese shorts / filmmaker, Martin Scorsese.
She dies tomorrow / produced by Amy Seimetz, David Lawson Jr., Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson ; written and direted by Amy Seimetz.
Tenet / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; a Syncopy production ; a film by Christopher Nolan ; produced by Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan ; written and directed by Christopher Nolan.