LibraryAware September 2024

New Titles

America's Deadliest Election : The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History
by Dana Bash

CNN's Chief Political Correspondent and the host of Sunday morning's State of the Union focuses on the often violent and turbulent early American elections and what they can tell us about our current political climate.

Category Five : Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed Them
by Porter Fox

An urgent and stunning story of chasing the world's most devastating storms looks at the fallout of global warming, including superstorms, hurricanes, typhoons and spiraling freak weather.

The Highest Calling : Conversations on the American Presidency
by David M. Rubenstein

The New York Times best-selling author of The American Story and How to Lead and host of PBS's History with David Rubenstein interviews living American presidents and top historians and journalists who reflect on the U.S. presidency, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Maggie Haberman, Ron Chernow and more.

The Life and Death of the American Worker : The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company
by Alice Driver

Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, an explosive exposé of the toxic labor practices at the largest meatpacking company in America features the immigrant workers who had the courage to fight back.

Lovely One : A Memoir
by Ketanji Brown Jackson

In this unflinching account, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court pulls back the curtain to marry the public record of her life with what is less known, chronicling her extraordinary path to become a jurist on America's highest court.

Nexus : A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
by Yuval N. Harari

From the Stone Age through the canonization of the Bible, Stalinism, Nazism and the resurgence of populism today, a historian and philosopher explores human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world, addressing the urgent choices we face as nonhuman intelligence threatens our very existence. Illustrations.

No Road Leading Back : An Improbable Escape from the Nazis and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust
by Chris Heath

This by turns shattering and hope-giving account tells the remarkable story of a dozen prisoners who, in 1941 during the Holocaust, made an improbable escape by digging a tunnel with bare hands and spoons, while also providing a complex, urgent analysis of why their story has rarely been told, and never accurately.

Punishing Putin : Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
by Stephanie Baker

A Russian expert and veteran journalist explains in fascinating detail how the West has cracked down on illicit Russian money and weaponized economic tools to counter an unprecedented Ukrainian land grab by Russia.

The Second Fifty : Answers to the 7 Big Questions of Midlife and Beyond
by Debra Whitman

Offers guidance for living a longer, healthier more meaningful second half of life.

Sexism & Sensibility : Raising Empowered, Resilient Girls in the Modern World
by Jo-Ann Finkelstein

In this urgently needed resource for proactive parenting, a Harvard-educated psychologist unpacks the universal experiences that girls live with and offers proven solutions for helping girls understand and confront sexism in all its shapes and forms.