New Adult Materials for December 2020

December

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Fiction

Leave the world behind / Rumaan Alam.
Anxious people : a novel / Fredrik Backman ; translated by Neil Smith.
The evening and the morning / Ken Follett.
The searcher / Tana French.
Beneficence : a novel / Meredith Hall.
NYPD Red 6 / James Patterson and Marshall Karp.
Violent peace : the war with China--aftermath of Armageddon / David Poyer.
Hush-hush / Stuart Woods.
White Ivy : a novel / Susie Yang.
The sentinel / Lee Child and Andrew Child.
Moonflower murders / Anthony Horowitz.
Ready player two : a novel / Ernest Cline.
D : a tale of two worlds : a novel / Michel Faber.
The invisible life of Addie LaRue / V.E. Schwab.
An inventory of losses / Judith Schalansky ; translated from the German by Jackie Smith.

Nonfiction

Wintering : the power of rest and retreat in difficult times / Katherine May.
Mutual aid : building solidarity during this crisis (and the next) / Dean Spade.
Mediocre : the dangerous legacy of white male America / Ijeoma Oluo.
Dispatches from the race war / Tim Wise.
Black futures / edited by Kimberly Drew + Jenna Wortham.
The tyranny of merit : what
In case you get hit by a bus : how to organize your life now for when you
It was all a lie : how the Republican Party became Donald Trump / Stuart Stevens.
Brave new home : our future in smarter, simpler, happier housing / Diana Lind.
Apollo
Wuhan diary : dispatches from a quarantined city / Fang Fang ; translated by Michael Berry.
Who gets in and why : a year inside college admissions / Jeffrey Selingo.
All is calm : a Maine Christmas reader / edited by Shannon Butler.
Metazoa : animal life and the birth of the mind / Peter Godfrey-Smith.
Our wild calling : how connecting with animals can transform our lives -- and save theirs / Richard Louv.
How to sleep : the new science-based rules for sleeping through the night / Rafael Pelayo, MD.
Good morning, Monster : a therapist shares five heroic stories of emotional recovery / Catherine Gildiner.
East : 120 vegan and vegetarian recipes from Bangalore to Beijing / Meera Sodha ; photography by David Loftus ; illustrations by Monika Forsberg.
The 99% invisible city : a field guide to the hidden world of everyday design / Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt.
A traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement / Ernest Freeberg.
These fevered days : ten pivotal moments in the making of Emily Dickinson / Martha Ackmann.
Crazy brave : a memoir / Joy Harjo.
Cross of snow : a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Nicholas A. Basbanes.
A promised land / Barack Obama.
Red comet : the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath / Heather Clark.
Eleanor / David Michaelis.

Poetry & Writing

Writing past dark : envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer
Before and after the book deal : a writer
The writer
Writing to persuade : how to bring people over to your side / Trish Hall.
First you write a sentence : the elements of reading, writing ... and life / Joe Moran
How poetry can change your heart / Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley.
Poems for a world gone to sh*t
How a poem moves : a field guide for readers of poetry / Adam Sol.
Measure for measure : an anthology of poetic meters / edited by Annie Finch and Alexandra Oliver.
The mind has cliffs of fall : poems at the extremes of feeling / edited by Robert Pinsky.
Resistencia : poems of protest and revolution / introduction by Julia Alvarez ; edited by Mark Eisner & Tina Escaja.
Light for the world to see / Kwame Alexander.
Selected poems, 1965-1975 / Margaret Atwood.
Dearly : new poems / Margaret Atwood.
The door / Margaret Atwood.
The tradition / Jericho Brown.
Whale day : and other poems / Billy Collins.
What is the grass : Walt Whitman in my life / Mark Doty.
An American sunrise : poems / Joy Harjo.
Ledger : poems / Jane Hirshfield.
The age of Phillis / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.
Home body / Rupi Kaur.
Love poems : (for anxious people) / John Kenney.
Dwellers in the house of the Lord : a poem / Wesley McNair.
Come closer and listen : new poems / Charles Simic.
Together in a sudden strangeness : America
What saves us : poems of empathy and outrage in the age of Trump / edited by Mart Espada.
When the light of the world was subdued, our songs came through : a Norton anthology of Native nations poetry / editors, Joy Harjo, executive editor, LeAnne Howe, executive associate editor, Jennifer Elise Foerster, associate editor.
Don
100 poems / Seamus Heaney.

Large Print

Saving freedom : Truman, the Cold War, and the fight for Western civilization / Joe Scarborough.
A promised land / Barack Obama.
The lying life of adults / Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.
A time for mercy / John Grisham.
The lost girls of Paris / Pam Jenoff.
Robert Ludlum
All the devils are here / Louise Penny.
The frozen hours : a novel of the Korean War / Jeff Shaara.
Near dark / Brad Thor.

Graphic Novels

Windows on the world / written by Robert Mailer Anderson and Zack Anderson ; illustrated by Jon Sack.
Dune : the graphic novel. Book 1 / adapted by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson ; illustrated by Raúl Allén and Patricia Martín.
Monstress. Volume five, Warchild / Marjorie Liu, writer ; Sana Takeda, artist ; Rus Wooton, lettering & design.
Sapiens : a graphic history. The birth of humankind. Volume one / Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen, Daniel Casanave.
Political suicide : the fight for the soul of the Democratic party / Ted Rall.
The Mueller report illustrated : the obstruction investigation / illustrations by Jan Feindt ; text and analysis by Rosalind S. Helderman.
Solutions and other problems / Allie Brosh.
Welcome to the new world : a graphic novel / by Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan.
Grass / Keum Suk Gendry-Kim ; translated by Janet Hong.
Big Black : Stand at Attica / written by Frank Big Black" Smith
Palimpsest : documents from a Korean adoption / Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom ; translated by Hanna Strömberg, Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, and Richey Wyver.
Gender : a graphic guide / Meg-John Barker, Jules Scheele.
The silence of our friends / written by Mark Long & Jim Demonakos ; art by Nate Powell.
Queer : a graphic history / [text] Meg-John Barker ; [art] Julia Scheele.
Excuse me : cartoons, complaints, and notes to self / Liana Finck.
When I came out / Anne Mette Kaerulf Lorentzen ; translated by Charlotte Barslund.
Drawing the vote : the illustrated guide to voting in America / written by Tommy Jenkins ; illustrated by Kati Lacker ; foreword by Martha S. Jones.
Everything is an emergency : an OCD story in words and pictures / Jason Adam Katzenstein.
Octavia E. Butler
Guantanamo voices : true accounts from the worlds most infamous prison / edited by Sarah Mirk ; introduction by Omar el Akkad ; illustrated by Gerardo Alba, Kasia Babis, Alex Beguez, Tracy Chahwan, Nomi Kane, Omar Khouri, Kane Lynch, Maki Naro, Hazel Newlevant, Jeremy Nguyen, Chelsea Saunders, Abu Zubaydah.
Oak Flat : a fight for sacred land in the American West / Lauren Redniss.
We saw scenery : the early diaries of Merrill Markoe / Merrill Markoe.
Poems to see by : a comic artist interprets great poetry / Julian Peters.
Dying is easy / created by Joe Hill and Martin Simmonds ; Written by Joe Hill ; Art by Martin Simmonds ; Corlor Assists by Dee Cunniffe ; Lettering/Design by Shawn Lee.
Giant / Mikaël ; translation by Matt Maden ; lettering by Calix Ltd.

Audiobooks

The Socrates express : in search of life lessons from dead philosophers / Eric Weiner.
The folly and the glory : America, Russia, and political warfare, 1945-2020 / Tim Weiner.
Is this anything? / Jerry Seinfeld.
The darkest evening / Ann Cleeves.
The law of innocence / Michael Connelly.
The new wilderness Diane Cook.
War Lord / Bernard Cornwell.
This mournable body : a novel / Tsitsi Dangarembga.
Troubled blood / Robert Galbraith.
Troubles in paradise / Elin Hilderbrand.
To hold up the sky / Cixin Liu.
The invisible life of Addie LaRue / V.E. Schwab.

DVDs

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The dog doc / Filmrise presents a Cedar Creek production ; in association with Maylo Films ; producer, Alice Henry ; director, Cindy Meehl.
Our time machine / directed by Yang Sun & S. Leo Chiang.
Los Reyes / Perut + Osnovikoff ; Dirk Manthey Film ; direction, Bettina Perut, Iván Osnovikoff ; production, Maite Alberdi, Bettina Perut, Iván Osnovikoff.
Nomad : in the footsteps of Bruce Chatwin / written & directed by Werner Herzog.
Babyteeth / IFC Films and Screen Australia present ; in association with Create NSW and Spectrum Films, Wieranderson.com & Jan Chapman Films ; a Whitefalk Films production; producer, Alex White ; writer, Rita Kalnejais ; director, Shannon Murphy.
The crown. The complete third season / series producer, Michael Casey ; producer, Andy Stebbing ; producer, Martin Harrison ; created by Peter Morgan ; Sony Pictures Television ; Left Bank Pictures.
Cut throat city / Well Go Entertainment, Patriot Pictures present ; in association with Rumble Riot pictures , XYZ Film ; a Patriot Pictures production ; produced by Robert F. Diggs & Michael Mendelsohn ; written by P.G. Cuschieri ; directed by RZA.
Ghost dog : the way of the samurai / directed by Jim Jarmusch.
The Great. Season one / a Civic Center Media & MRC Television production ; created by Tony McNamara.
Killing Eve. [Season one] / written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Luke Jennings, George Kay, Vicky Jones and Rob Williams ; directed by Jon East, Damon Thomas, Harry Bradbeer.
Killing Eve. Season two / A Sid Gentle FIlms LTD production for BBC America ; series producer, Elinor Day ; written by Emerald Fennell ; directed by Damon Thomas.
Killing Eve. Season 3 / Endeavor/Content ; Sid Gentle Films Ltd. ; BBC America original production.
Letterkenny. Seasons 5 & 6 / DHX Media presents a New Metric Media production ; in partnership with DHX Media, Play Fun Games Pictures and Four Peaks Media Group ; producer, Greg Copeland ; written by Jared Keeso, Jacob Tierney ; directed by Jacob Tierney.
Misbehaviour / Pathe BBC Films, Ingenious Media and BFI present a Left Bank Pictures Production ; producer, Suzanne Mackie, Sarah Jane Wheale ; story by Rebecca Frayn, Gaby Chiappe ; director, Philippa Lowthorpe.
The outpost / a Millennium Media and Perfection Hunter production in association with York Films ; produced by Paul Merryman, Paul Tamasy, Marc Frydman, Jeffrey Greenstein, Jonathan Yunger, Yariv Lerner, Les Weldon ; screenplay by Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson ; directed by Rod Lurie.
Star Trek. Picard. Season one.
Relic / Agbo Films and Screen Australia present ; in association with Film Victoria ; a Carver Films and Nine Stories production ; produced by Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw, Jake Gyllenhaal and Riva Marker ; written by Natalie Erika James and Christian White ; directed by Natalie Erika James.
Someone somewhere = Deux moi / Ce Qui Me Meut & Studio Canal présentent ; une coproduction Ce Qui Me Meut, Studio Canal, France 2 Cinéma avec Panache Productions, La Compagnie Cinématographique & Proximus ; scénario, Santiago Amigorena, Cédric Klapisch ; produit par Bruno Levy ; un film de Cédric Klapisch.
Summerland / Quickfire Films, BFI present ; in association with Embankment Films ; a Shoebox Films/Iota Films production ; written and directed by Jessica Swale ; produced by Guy Heeley and Adrian Sturges.
The trip to Greece / a Revolution Films/Baby Cow/Small Man production for Sky ; directed by Michael Winterbottom ; produced by Josh Hyams, Melissa Parmenter.
True history of the Kelly gang / director, Justin Kurzel.
Westworld. Season 3. New world.