New titles - September 2022

EXCITING NEWS: Starting today, September 19, all Casual Reading titles will be loaned out through December 9, 2022. Find a good book to curl up with this Fall!

We have a bunch of new titles in our Casual Reading collection. Check out the list below to see if anything piques your interest.

• Gallant / Victoria Schwab
• Stop telling women to smile : stories of street harassment and how we’re taking back our power / Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.
• A short history of Russia : how the world’s largest country invented itself, from the Pagans to Putin / Mark Galeotti.
• You’re the only one I’ve told : the stories behind abortion / Dr. Meera Shah.
• We were dreamers : an immigrant superhero origin story / Simu Liu.
• How civil wars start : and how to stop them / Barbara F. Walter.
• The first person singular : stories / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.
• The betrayal of Anne Frank : a cold case investigation / Rosemary Sullivan.
• Who gets in and why : a year inside college admissions / Jeffrey Selingo.
• Covid-19 : the pandemic that never should have happened and how to stop the next one / Debora MacKenzie.
• Climate change.
• Whereabouts / Jhumpa Lahiri ; written in Italian and translated by the author.
• Madhouse at the end of the Earth : the Belgica’s journey into the dark Antarctic night / Julian Sancton.
• Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest / Suzanne Simard.
• Ridgeline : a novel / Michael Punke.
• Rise : a pop history of Asian America from the nineties to now / Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, Philip Wang ; illustrated by Julia Kuo.
• Beautiful world, where are you / Sally Rooney.
• The Office bffs : tales of the Office from two best friends who were there / Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey.
• The island Adrian McKinty.
• No escape : the true story of China’s genocide of the Uyghurs / by Nury Turkel.
• His name is George Floyd : one man’s life and the struggle for racial justice / Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa.
• Alabama v. King : Martin Luther King Jr. and the criminal trial that launched the Civil Rights Movement / Dan Abrams and Fred D. Gray with David Fisher.
• Cloud cuckoo land : a novel / Anthony Doerr.
• My moment : 106 women on fighting for themselves / collected by Kristin Chenoweth [and four others]
• Never / Ken Follett.
• Rationality : what it is, why it seems scarce, why it matters / Steven Pinker.
• The 1619 Project : a new origin story / edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein.
• I dream of dinner (so you don’t have to) : low-effort, high-reward recipes / Ali Slagle ; photographs by Mark Weinberg.
• Loving Edie : how a dog afraid of everything taught me to be brave / Meredith May.
• The fighting soul : on the road with Bernie Sanders / Ari Rabin-Havt.
• Different : gender through the eyes of a primatologist / Frans de Waal with drawings & photographs by the author.
• Learning America : one woman’s fight for educational justice for refugee children / Luma Mufleh.
• Finding me / Viola Davis.
• Elektra / Jennifer Saint.
• The hacienda / Isabel Canas.
• Born to be hanged : the epic story of the gentlemen pirates who raided the South Seas, rescued a princess, and stole a fortune / Keith Thomson.
• The stardust thief / Chelsea Abdullah.
• Unequal : a story of America / Michael Eric Dyson, & Marc Favreau.
• My life : growing up Asian in America / edited by CAPE, the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment ; with an introduction by SuChin Pak.
• Piranesi / Susanna Clarke.
• Hamnet : a novel of the plague / Maggie O’Farrell.
• The invisible life of Addie Larue / V.E. Schwab.
• The four winds / Kristin Hannah.
• Under the whispering door / TJ Klune.
• Working from home : making the new normal work for you / Karen Mangia.
• Origin : a genetic history of the Americas / Jennifer Raff.

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