LibraryAware March 2025

New & Upcoming Releases

Code Name: Pale Horse: How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis
by Scott Payne

A retired FBI Special Agent who spent twenty-eight years in law enforcement recounts how he was able infiltrate the most dangerous neo-Nazi group in the United States and expose their members and rituals of hate.

Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand
by Jeff Chu

In his late thirties, Jeff Chu left his job as a magazine writer and found himself at Princeton Theological Seminary's "Farminary"-a twenty-one-acre working farm where students learn to cultivate the earth while examining life's biggest questions. Now, he unpacks what he learned about creating "good soil," both literally and figuratively, drawing lessons from the rhythms of growth, decay, and regeneration that define life on the land. In gorgeous, transporting reflections, Chu introduces us to the cast of characters, human and not, who became his teachers. While observing the egrets that visit the pond, the worms that turn waste into fertile soil, and the Chinese long beans that get passed over in the farm's CSA, Chu considers our desire to belong, the story behind the food on our plate, and the significance of his own roots. What is the earth trying to tell us, if we'll only stop and listen? Good Soil helps readers connect to the land and to one another at a time when we seem drawn most to the phones in our hands. For nature lovers, foodies, and anyone who has daydreamed about a more fulfilling life, this book is a tribute to friendship, to the sacredness of our bond with the natural world, and to how love can grow from the unlikeliest of places.

Hate Won't Win: Find Your Power and Leave This Place Better Than We Found It
by Mallory McMorrow

Drawing from her political journey, a viral speech and firsthand experience with today's divisive landscape, the Michigan state senator empowers readers with practical steps to build community, combat hate and create meaningful, lasting change in American democracy.

If You Were My Daughter: A Memoir of Healing an Unmothered Heart
by Marianne Richmond

A compelling and poignant memoir about how growing up with misdiagnosed epilepsy and an emotionally unavailable mother caused her to question her sanity and self-worth before finding forgiveness as her greatest path to healing.

Kinda Korean: Stories from an American Life
by Joan Sung

In this courageous memoir of parental love, intergenerational trauma, and perseverance, Joan Sung breaks the generational silence that curses her family. By intentionally overcoming the stereotype that all Asians are quiet, Sung tells her stories of coming-of-age with a Tiger Mom who did not understand American society. Torn between her two identities as a Korean woman and a first generation American, Sung bares her struggles in an honest and bare confessional. Sifting through her experiences with microaggressions to the over fetishization of Asian women, Sung connects the COVID pandemic with the decades of violence and racism experienced by Asian American communities.

King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South
by Jeanne Theoharis

In this myth-shattering book, an award-winning and New York Times bestselling historian argues that King's time in Boston, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago—outside Dixie—was at the heart of his campaign for racial justice.

Memorial Days
by Geraldine Brooks

Having no time to grieve when her husband suddenly died, the author after three years flew to a remote Australian island and stayed in a shack on a pristine coast, going days without seeing another person, and pondered the ways cultures grieve and what rituals might help her rebuild her life.

Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope
by Amanda Nguyen

This brave and imaginative memoir from a Nobel Peace Prize nominee details her healing journey and groundbreaking activism in the aftermath of her rape at Harvard.

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