LibraryAware August 2023 (1)

Fiction

The Book of Elsewhere: A Novel
by Keanu Reeves

A warrior who cannot be killed, known simply as “B,” wants to die and a U.S. black-ops group has promised they can help with that if he helps them in return, but when an all-too-mortal soldier comes back to life, the impossible event points to a force even more mysterious than B himself. Featured on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Promise: A Novel
by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

In 1957 Salt Point, Maine, the Kindred sisters—as parts of the country call for freedom, equality and justice for black Americas—are seen as threats along with the town's only other black family, and amid violence, prejudice and fear, they commit great acts of heroism and grace to survive. Featured on CBS Mornings.

Eagle Rock
by Ian K. Smith

After his wealthy real estate mogul father dies, Simon Cantor enlists private investigator Ashe Cayne to investigate rumors of his involvement in a sex trafficking ring in the fourth novel of the series following The Overnights. Featured on Good Morning America.

Eruption
by Michael Crichton

Two of the world's most popular and prolific modern authors team up for a thriller about a history-making eruption in Hawaii that threatens to reveal a huge secret the US military has been hiding for decades. Featured on The Kelly Clarkson Show.

Nonfiction

The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
by Hadley Vlahos

A hospice nurse shows that end-of-life care can teach us just as much about how to live as it does about how we die, sharing moving stories of joy, wisdom and redemption from her patients' final moments while offering wisdom and comfort for those dealing with loss. Featured on The Kelly Clarkson Show.

True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything In Between
by Gretchen Whitmer

From a Michigan governor and rising Democratic star comes a personal and humorous account of her life and career, full of insights that guided her through a global pandemic, showdowns with high-profile bullies and even a kidnapping and assassination plot. Featured on Book TV.

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
by Stacy Schiff

A Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns her attention to Samuel Adams, an intensely disciplined man–and arguably the most essential Founding Father– who supplied the moral backbone of the American Revolution, becoming the most wanted man in America. Featured on Book TV.

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
by John Ganz

Ranging from upheavals in Crown Heights and Los Angeles, the broadcasts of Rush Limbaugh and the bitter disputes between neoconservatives and the “paleo-con” right, an acclaimed political writer tells the story of our country's late-century discontents, narrating the fall of the Reagan order and the rise of a new and more turbulent America. Featured on Book TV.

Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World
by David L. Roll

The story of how Harry Truman overcame the shadow of Franklin Roosevelt to lead America through the tumultuous post-war period of 1944-1948, which saw the revival of Western Europe, the reform of Japan and the birth of Israel. Featured on Book TV.

The War of Words: How America's GI Journalists Battled Censorship and Propaganda to Help Win World War II
by Molly Guptill Manning

At a time when civilian periodicals faced strict censorship, US Army Chief of Staff George Marshall won the support of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to create an expansive troop-newspaper program. Both Marshall and FDR recognized that there was a second struggle taking place outside the battlefields of World War II--the war of words. While Hitler inundated the globe with propaganda, morale across the US Army dwindled. As the Axis blurred the lines between truth and fiction, the best defense was for American troops to bring the truth into focus by writing it down and disseminating it themselves. By war's end, over 4,600 unique GI publications had been printed around the world. In newsprint, troops made sense of their hardships, losses, and reasons for fighting. These newspapers--by and for the troops--became the heart and soul of a unit. From Normandy to the shores of Japan, American soldiers exercised a level of free speech the military had never known nor would again. It was an extraordinary chapter in American democracy and military history. In the war for "four freedoms," it was remarkably fitting that troops fought not only with guns but with their pens. Featured on Book TV.

American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—And Could Again
by Yuval Levin

A leading conversative scholar argues that the U.S. Constitution holds the power to reunite our fractured society and rescue our malfunctioning politics while offering solutions to reform a constitutional order that has gone awry. Featured on Book TV.

The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
by Nancy Pelosi

The first woman to ascend to the most powerful legislative role in our nation, passing laws that save lives and livelihoods, tells the story of her transformation from housewife to House Speaker, becoming a prophetic voice on the major moral issues of the day who's not afraid of a good fight. Featured on Good Morning America.

The New Whole30: The Definitive Plan to Transform Your Health, Habits, and Relationship with Food
by Melissa Urban

The co-founder and CEO of Whole30, which has helped millions of people lose weight and successfully transform their health in just 30 days, has revised the original program and created new recipes to help reduce inflammation, rebalance hormones, control cravings and break unhealthy eating patterns to find food freedom. Featured on Good Morning America.

Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West
by John J. Sullivan

An American ambassador who was on the diplomatic front lines when Putin invaded Ukraine presents this first-hand account of this climactic period—among the most dangerous since WWII, showing how our relationship with Russia has deteriorated, where it's headed and how it's ending will be shaped by us. Featured on CBS Mornings.

Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law
by Neil M. Gorsuch

Meticulously researched and brilliantly written, this exploration of the many laws in this nation reveals the human toll so much law can carry for ordinary Americans, in this must-read for every citizen concerned about the erosion of our constitutional system, and its insights for preserving our liberties for generations to come. Featured on CBS Mornings.

Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery
by Theodore H. Schwartz

One of the world's leading neurologists provides readers with an inside look into the world of brain surgery and delves into the many mysteries behind the three-pound organ that controls everything we do. Featured on Fresh Air.

The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World
by Sharon Brous

Based on one of her most impactful sermons, a leading American rabbi pairs anecdotes from building and pastoring a leading-edge faith community with ancient Jewish wisdom and contemporary science to offer a blueprint for a more meaningful life and a more connected, caring world. Featured on The Drew Barrymore Show.

Take Care of Them Like My Own: Faith, Fortitude, and a Surgeon's Fight for Health Justice
by Ala Stanford

In this empowering call to action, the founder of the Black Doctors Consortium, sharing an unflinching account of her story, offers urgent lessons about the power of communities working together to take of one another and the importance of fighting for a healthcare system that truly fulfills its promise to all Americans. Featured on Fresh Air.

Hip-Hop is History
by Questlove

The renowned drummer from The Roots and New York Timesbest-selling author chronicles fifty years of hip-hop and how it has affected every aspect of our culture, from fashion and film to TV. Featured on The View.

Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
by Arthur C. Brooks

Offering practical research-based practices, this blueprint for a better life equips you with the emotional self-management tools needed for taking control of your present and future rather than hoping and waiting for your circumstances to improve. Featured on The Drew Barrymore Show.