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New Non-Fiction Arrivals at MPL
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Here are our new arrivals, click the title to view in our catalog:
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The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change
by Debra Hendrickson
"A captivating, critical book that describes, with haunting details, how the tiniest humans are suffering the biggest from the climate crisis. Dr. Hendrickson makes a profound case that caring for the Earth is just as important to our children's lives as carseats and vaccines."
also available in audio
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Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
by Paul Cooper
Based on the podcast with over one hundred million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse.
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Food to Die for: Recipes and Stories from America's Most Legendary Haunted Places
by Amy Bruni
Discover tantalizing recipes, spine-tingling stories, and historic photos from the most notoriously haunted locations across America in this fun and fascinating cookbook. Paranormal investigator and Kindred Spirits co-host Amy Bruni leads you through eerie hotels, haunted homes, hellish hospitals, and spooky ghost towns, giving you stories and a recipe from each place.
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The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity
by Timothy C. Winegard
This riveting narrative of the horse's enduring reign across human history—and our everyday lives— shows how this noble animal revolutionized the way we hunted, traded, traveled, farmed, fought, worshipped and interacted, from the thundering cavalry charges of Alexander the Great to the Great Manure Crisis of 1894 and beyond.
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Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
by Michael Taylor
Chronicling the development of paleontology and evolutionary biology that challenged the Scriptures, this page-turning narrative reveals the central role of dinosaurs and their discovery in toppling traditional religious authority and changing perceptions about the Bible, history and humankind's place in the world.
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Just Add Water: My Swimming Life
by Katie Ledecky
A candid and inspiring memoir charts a record-breaking and Olympic-medal-winning athlete's life in swimming.
also available in audio
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Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future
by Jeremy Kahn
A Fortune magazine journalist draws on his expertise and extensive contacts among the companies and scientists at the forefront of artificial intelligence to offer dramatic predictions of AI's impact over the next decade, from reshaping our economy and the way we work, learn, and create to unknitting our social fabric, jeopardizing our democracy, and fundamentally altering the way we think.
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The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973
by Clara Bingham
A comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes--from former Newsweek reporter and author of the "powerful and moving" (New York Times) Witness to the Revolution.
also available in audio
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Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
by Parmy Olson
Olson (We Are Anonymous), a tech writer at Bloomberg, details the battle between the world's two leading AI firms and cautions readers about the threat of AI that's being ignored by its top creators--the profit-driven spread of flawed and biased technology into industries, education, media, and more.
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This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South
by Alan Pell Crawford
Weaving throughout the stories of heroic men and women, unsung patriots, during America's Revolutionary War, this groundbreaking, important recovery of history excavates the three missing years between Monmouth and Yorktown, long ignored by historians, which recounts the fierce battles fought in the South.
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This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder by Alan R. TownsendAfter dealing with two unthinkable, catastrophic diagnoses: his 4-year-old daughter and his brilliant scientist wife developed life-threatening forms of brain cancer, and its aftermath, the author offers a moving perspective on the common ground between science and religion through the spiritual fulfillment he found in his work.
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The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession
by Amy Stewart
Profiling 50 extraordinary people whose lives have been transformed by their obsessive passion for trees, this lively compendium, along with side trips to investigate more about trees, reveals what drives one to collect something as enormous, majestic and deeply rooted as a tree.
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