New Adult Materials for November 2020

November

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Fiction

Nonfiction

The psychology of stupidity / edited by Jean-François Marmion ; translated from the French by Liesl Schillinger.
The purpose of power : how we come together when we fall apart / Alicia Garza.
Ten lessons for a post-pandemic world / Zakaria Fareed.
Wayward lives, beautiful experiments : intimate histories of riotous black girls, troublesome women, and queer radicals / Saidiya Hartman.
Uncomfortable conversations with a black man / Emmanuel Acho.
A peculiar indifference : the neglected toll of violence on Black America / Elliott Currie.
Culture warlords : my journey into the dark web of white supremacy / Talia Lavin.
Black fatigue : how racism erodes the mind, body, and spirit / Mary-Frances Winters.
What were we thinking : a brief intellectual history of the Trump era / Carlos Lozada.
How the South won the Civil War : oligarchy, democracy, and the continuing fight for the soul of America / Heather Cox Richardson.
Metropolis : a history of the city, humankind
Republic of wrath : how American politics turned tribal, from George Washington to Donald Trump / James A. Morone.
Unworthy republic : the dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian territory / Claudio Saunt.
The zealot and the emancipator : John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the struggle for American freedom / H.W. Brands.
War : how conflict shaped us / Margaret MacMillan.
Our malady : lessons in liberty from a hospital diary / Timothy Snyder.
The detective in the dooryard : reflections of a Maine cop / a Timothy Cotton.
Where law ends : inside the Mueller investigation / Andrew Weissmann.
We keep the dead close : a murder at Harvard and a half century of silence / Becky Cooper.
Afropessimism / Frank B. Wilderson III.
Until the end of time : mind, matter, and our search for meaning in an evolving universe / Brian Greene.
Tales from the ant world / Edward O. Wilson.
What we don
Group : how one therapist and a circle of strangers saved my life / Christie Tate.
Modern comfort food : a Barefoot Contessa cookbook / Ina Garten ; photographs by Quentin Bacon ; party photographs by Jean-Pierre Uys.
Dessert person : recipes and guidance for baking with confidence / Claire Saffitz.
The flavor equation : the science of great cooking explained in more than 100 essential recipes / Nik Sharma ; illustrations by Matteo Riva.
The rise : Black cooks and the soul of American food / Marcus Samuelsson with Osayi Endolyn ; recipes with Yewande Komolafe and Tamie Cook ; photographs by Angie Mosier.
Jubilee : recipes from two centuries of African-American cooking / Toni Tipton-Martin ; photographs by Jerrelle Guy.
In Bibi
Humans / Brandon Stanton.
She come by it natural : Dolly Parton and the women who lived her songs / Sarah Smarsh.
The way of imagination : essays / Scott Russell Sanders.
They can
The book collectors : a band of Syrian rebels and the stories that carried them through a war / Delphine Minoui ; translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud.
Killing Crazy Horse : the merciless Indian wars in America / Bill O
The national road : dispatches from a changing America / Tom Zoellner.
This land is their land : the Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the troubled history of Thanksgiving / David J. Silverman.
Joe Biden : the life, the run, and what matters now / Evan Osnos.
His very best : Jimmy Carter, a life / Jonathan Alter.
Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times / David S. Reynolds.
A promised land / Barack Obama.
One life / Megan Rapinoe with Emma Brockes.
Eleanor / David Michaelis.
Mad at the world : a life of John Steinbeck / William Souder.
This time next year we
The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X / Les Payne and Tamara Payne.

Poetry

Boy on a doorstep : new and selected poems / Richard Foerster.

Large Print

The smallest lights in the universe : a memoir / Sara Seager.
The best of me / David Sedaris.
The sentinel / Lee Child and Andrew Child.
The archer / Paulo Coelho ; illustrated by Christoph Niemann ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
The law of innocence / Michael Connelly.
Chance of a lifetime / Jude Deveraux and Tara Sheets.
The wonder boy of Whistle Stop : a novel / Fannie Flagg.
The searcher / Tana French.
Troubles in paradise / Elin Hilderbrand.
Moonflower murders : a novel / Anthony Horowitz.
Jingle all the way / Debbie Macomber.
A wild winter swan / Gregory Maguire.
The kingdom : a novel / Jo Nesbø ; translated from the Norwegian by Robert Ferguson.
The book of two ways / Jodi Picoult.

Audiobooks

The best of me / David Sedaris.
Galileo and the science deniers / Mario Livio.
The luckiest man : life with John McCain / Mark Salter.
A Promised Land / Barack Obama.
The wonder boy of Whistle Stop / Fannie Flagg.
Total power : a Mitch Rapp novel / by Kyle Mills.
The queen
Invisible girl / Lisa Jewell.
A song for the dark times / Ian Rankin.
The return / Nicholas Sparks.
Shakeup / Stuart Woods.

DVDs

Bill & Ted face the music / Orion Pictures/Tin-Rez/Dugan Entertainment present ; produced by Scott Kroopf [and 5 others] ; written by Chris Matheson & Ed Solomon ; directed by Dean Parisot.
Flesh and blood / produced by Silverprint Pictures for ITV ; written and created by Sarah Williams ; produced by Letitia Knight ; directed by Louise Hooper.
Mickey and the bear / produced by Anja Murmann, Sabine Schenk, Lizzie Shapiro, Taylor Shung ; written and directed by Annabelle Attanasio.
Quiz / director, Stephen Frears.
Spontaneous / director, Brian Duffield.
The Wild Goose Lake / He Li Chen Guang International Media Co. LTD. ; in co-production with Memento Films production Arte France Cinema ; a film by Diao Yinan.