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New Books on People and Places

Michael Chiago: O'Odham lifeways through art by Michael Chiago; Michael Chiago; Amadeo M. Rea
Call Number: 979.1004 C450
ISBN: 9780816544752
Publication Date: 2022-08-30
This book offers an artistic depiction of O'odham lifeways through the paintings of internationally acclaimed O'odham artist Michael Chiago Sr.
The Greater San Rafael Swell by Stephen E. Strom; Jonathan Bailey
Call Number: 979.2 S921
ISBN: 9780816543922
Publication Date: 2022-04-05
A landscape of great natural beauty, Utah's red rock country is a place where the passage from deep time to the present is revealed in stunningly sculpted and colorful geological strata that span 350 million years of Earth's history. At the heart of this dramatic landscape is the Greater San Rafael Swell--a land of both geologic and human tumult.
Fear Falls Away & Other Essays from Hard and Rocky Places by Janice Emily Bowers
Call Number: 917.91 B786
ISBN: 0816517177
Publication Date: 1997-07-01
A book of essay-length memoirs on living in the desert mountains of Arizona. Crunching through winter snow or sweating under summer sun, we know we're in the hands of an experienced guide. And we know we couldn't ask for a better companion.
Deciphering Sun Tzu: How to Read The Art of War by Derek M. C. Yuen
Call Number: 355.0209 Y908
ISBN: 9780199373512
Publication Date: 2014-11-01
As the People's Republic's seemingly inexorable rise to economic and military power continues, never has the need for a better grasp of Chinese strategic thought by the West been more acute.
The Ogre: Biography of a mountain and the dramatic story of the first ascent by Doug Scott
Call Number: 796.522 S096
ISBN: 9781912560929
Publication Date: 2017
'Without looking I stepped on to a veneer of water ice that had formed from melting snow in the evening cold. In that moment I lost control...'

New Fiction and Literature

Rouge: a novel by Mona Awad
Call Number: FICT A964
ISBN: 9781982169695
Publication Date: 2023-09-12
Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry--as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Tom Sweterlitsch
Call Number: FICT S975
ISBN: 9780425275412
Publication Date: 2015-05-05
In this "wild mash-up of Raymond Chandler, Philip K. Dick, and William S. Burroughs"*, a man who uses virtual reality to escape the horror of his dystopian world becomes obsessed with a mystery that could drive him mad.
A Net for Small Fishes by Lucy Jago
Call Number: FICT J24
ISBN: 9781250261953
Publication Date: 2021-11-16
Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in Lucy Jago's A Net For Small Fishes, a gripping dark novel based on the true scandal of two women determined to create their own fates in the Jacobean court.
Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton
Call Number: FICT L974
ISBN: 9780241374498
Publication Date: 2020
In rural Somerset in the middle of a blizzard, the unthinkable happens: a school is under siege.
Earthly Joys by Philippa Gregory
Call Number: FICT G821
ISBN: 0743272528
Publication Date: 2005-06-07
Philippa Gregory brings to life the passionate, turbulent times of seventeenth-century England as seen through the eyes of the country's most famous royal gardener.
Virgin Earth by Philippa Gregory
Call Number: FICT G821V
ISBN: 9780743272537
Publication Date: 2006-04-05
In this enthralling, freestanding sequel to Earthly Joys, New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory combines a wealth of gardening knowledge with a haunting love story that spans two continents and two cultures, making Virgin Earth a tour de force of revolutionary politics and passionate characters.
The Whispering Muse by Laura Purcell
Call Number: FICT P98
ISBN: 9781526627186
Publication Date: 2023
A Gothic novel about the Victorian stage.
Dacre's War by Rosemary Goring
Call Number: FICT G597
ISBN: 9781846973413
Publication Date: 2016
It is ten years after the fateful Battle of Flodden, and Scotland's wounds still have not healed.
Hokuloa Road by Elizabeth Hand
Call Number: FICT H236HO
ISBN: 9780316542043
Publication Date: 2022-07-19
A chilling and illuminating new novel about a place unlike any other--and the deadly cost of keeping it so.
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
Call Number: FICT G186t
ISBN: 9780008477806
Publication Date: 2021
A fusion of myth, magic, and the stories we make for ourselves, Treacle Walker is an extraordinary novel from one of our greatest living writers.
Westmark by Lloyd Alexander
Call Number: PBK A3762
ISBN: 9780141310688
Publication Date: 2002-01-14
Winner of the American Book Award (now known as the National Book Award) for Young Adults
The Beggar Queen by Lloyd Alexander
Call Number: PBK A3762B
ISBN: 0141310707
Publication Date: 2002-06-10
Mickle, once a common street urchin, is now the queen of Westmark. The kingdom is thriving-yet, at the same time, it is strangely restless.

New in the Sciences

Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution by Elsa Panciroli
Call Number: 569 P188
ISBN: 9781472983824
Publication Date: 2021-09-07
For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, but over the last 20 years scientists have uncovered new fossils and used new technologies that have upended this story.
The Broken Land: Adventures in Great Basin Geology by Frank DeCourten
Call Number: 557.9 D297
ISBN: 9780874807516
Publication Date: 2003-05-07
The Broken Land surveys the geological phenomena of the magnificent Great Basin landscape of western Utah, Nevada, eastern California, and adjacent regions.
The Walking Whales by J. G. M. Hans Thewissen
Call Number: 569 T149
ISBN: 9780520305601
Publication Date: 2019-04-29
Hans Thewissen, a leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales.
A Desert Illuminated: Cactus Flowers of the Sonoran Desert by John Schaeffer (Photographer); Terry Moody (Designed by)
Call Number: 583.56097 S294
ISBN: 9781886679016
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
Spacefarers: how humans will settle the Moon, Mars, and beyond by Christopher Wanjek
Call Number: 629.45 W247
ISBN: 9780674984486
Publication Date: 2020-04-14
A wry and compelling take on the who, how, and why of near-future colonies in space.
The Changing Range of Light, Portraits of the High Sierra by Elizabeth Carmel (Photographer)
Call Number: 917.94 C287 Oversized
ISBN: 9780977687718
Publication Date: 2009-11-01
In her second book of photography, The Changing Range of Light, Elizabeth Carmel honors the legacies of John Muir and Ansel Adams by highlighting current environmental threats to the region.
Astronomy: the Human Quest for Understanding by Dale A. Ostlie
Call Number: 520 O77
ISBN: 9780198825838
Publication Date: 2022-10-30
Since humans first looked up at the stars, astronomy has had a particular ability to stir the imagination and challenge the thinking of scientists and non-scientists alike.

New in Social Sciences

Chocolate: Pathway to the Gods by Meredith L. Dreiss; Sharon Edgar Greenhill
Call Number: 641.6374 D740
ISBN: 9780816524648
Publication Date: 2008-10-15
Chocolate: Pathway to the Gods takes readers on a journey through 3,000 years of the history of chocolate. It is a trip filled with surprises.
The Twentieth Century by R. Keith Schoppa
Call Number: 909.82 S337
ISBN: 9780190497354
Publication Date: 2021-08-18
Never before had any century in history known the continually accelerating rate and scope of change experienced in the twentieth century - with its revolutionary discoveries, technological inventions, political upheaval, and scientific advances, radical transformation touched virtually every arena of life.
Of the People: A History of the United States by Jan Ellen Lewis; Michael McGerr; Camilla Townsend; Karen M. Dunak; Mark Summers
Call Number: 973 M455
ISBN: 9780197585955
Publication Date: 2021-09-24
Of the People: A History of the United States does more than tell the history of America - of its people and places, of its dealings and ideals. It unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how this country's evolution has been anything but certain, from its complex beginnings to its modern challenges.
The Oxford Handbook of the Incas by Sonia Alconini (Editor); R. Alan Covey (Editor)
Call Number: 985.019 A188
ISBN: 9780190219352
Publication Date: 2018-05-01
When Spaniards invaded their realm in 1532, the Incas ruled the largest empire of the pre-Columbian Americas.
World in the Making: Volume 1, to 1500 by Bonnie G. Smith; Marc Van De Mieroop; Richard von Glahn; Kris Lane
Call Number: 909 S6436
ISBN: 9780197608289
Publication Date: 2022-10-28
Featuring a renowned author team and the best recent scholarship, World in the Making: A Global History explores both the global and local dimensions of world history.
California: An American History by John Mack Faragher
Call Number: 979.4 F2211
ISBN: 9780300225792
Publication Date: 2022-05-10
A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation.
Tudor England: A History by Lucy Wooding
Call Number: 942.05 W858
ISBN: 9780300162721
Publication Date: 2023-01-03
A compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England.
Immigration: An American HIstory by Carl J. Bon Tempo; Hasia R. Diner
Call Number: 304.873 B660
ISBN: 9780300226867
Publication Date: 2022-05-31
A sweeping narrative history of American immigration from the colonial period to the present
Hard Road to Freedom Volume One by Lois E. Horton; James Oliver Horton
Call Number: 973.0496 H644
ISBN: 9780197564806
Publication Date: 2021-07-01
Hard Road to Freedom tells the story of Black Americans from its roots in Africa to the social and political upheavals of today.
North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution by Jeffers Lennox
Call Number: 973.3 L460
ISBN: 9780300226126
Publication Date: 2022-08-30
The story of the Thirteen Colonies' struggle for independence from Britain is well known to every American schoolchild. But at the start of the Revolutionary War, there were more than thirteen British colonies in North America.
The Pandemic Divide: How Covid Increased Inequality in America by Gwendolyn L. Wright (Editor)
Call Number: 362.196 W9301
ISBN: 9781478018537
Publication Date: 2022-11-15
As COVID-19 made inroads in the United States in spring 2020, a common refrain rose above the din: "We're all in this together." However, the full picture was far more complicated--and far less equitable.
Heathen: Religion and Race in American History by Kathryn Gin Lum
Call Number: 241.675 G560
ISBN: 9780674976771
Publication Date: 2022-05-17
An innovative history that shows how the religious idea of the heathen in need of salvation undergirds American conceptions of race.
The Castle: A History by John Goodall
Call Number: 728.81 G61
ISBN: 9780300251906
Publication Date: 2022-05-17
A vibrant history of the castle in Britain, from the early Middle Ages to the present day.
Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance by Nikki M. Taylor
Call Number: 306.362 T2121
ISBN: 9781009276849
Publication Date: 2023-07-13
From the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance.
A Question of Standing: The History of the CIA by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
Call Number: 327.1273 J454
ISBN: 9780192847966
Publication Date: 2022-08-25
A Question of Standing deals with recognizable events that have shaped the history of the first 75 years of the CIA.
Slavery and Serfdom in the Middle Ages by Marc Bloch; William R. Beer (Translator)
Call Number: 306.365 B620
ISBN: 9780520307278
Publication Date: 2022-04-29
The present collection of essays explores the dimensions of servitude in medieval Europe.
Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed by David Farber
Call Number: 362.29 F2216
ISBN: 9781108425278
Publication Date: 2019-10-10
A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber, Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock' cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the often-merciless authorities who incarcerated legions of African Americans caught in the crack cocaine underworld.
Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism by Erwin Chemerinsky
Call Number: 340.12 C441
ISBN: 9780300273984
Publication Date: 2023-06-06
Why originalism is a flawed, incoherent, and dangerously ideological method of constitutional interpretation.
This Is Who We Were: in The 1920s by David Garoogian (Editor)
Call Number: 973.91 T4485
ISBN: 9781619252844
Publication Date: 2014-06-30
This is Who We Were: In the 1920s explores American life in the 1920s. This new series is sure to be of value as both a serious research tool for students of American history as well as an intriguing climb up America's family tree. The richly-illustrated text provides an interesting way to study a truly unique time in American history.

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New in the Humanities

Kaibyo: the Supernatural Cats of Japan by Zack Davisson
Call Number: 398.2095 D2999
ISBN: 9781634059183
Publication Date: 2022-01-04
An in-depth exploration of the sometimes charming, sometimes gruesome feline creatures and ghosts of Japan.
What Was Shakespeare Really Like? by Stanley Wells; Stephen Fry (Foreword by)
Call Number: 822.33 W450
ISBN: 9781009340373
Publication Date: 2023-09-14
Sir Stanley Wells is one of the world's greatest authorities on William Shakespeare. Here he brings a lifetime of learning and reflection to bear on some of the most tantalising questions about the poet and dramatist that there are.
Latinx Art by Arlene Dávila
Call Number: 700.98 D2897
ISBN: 9781478009450
Publication Date: 2020-08-14
In Latinx Art Arlene Dávila draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and artists. Providing an inside and critical look of the global contemporary art market, Dávila's book is at once an introduction to contemporary Latinx art and a call to decolonize the art worlds and practices that erase and whitewash Latinx artists.
Why the Beach Boys Matter by Tom Smucker
Call Number: 782.42 M4297
ISBN: 9781477318720
Publication Date: 2018-10-02
Of all the white American pop music groups that hit the charts before the Beatles, only the Beach Boys continued to thrive throughout the British Invasion to survive into the 1970s and beyond.
The New Testament: a Guide by Donald Senior
Call Number: 225.6 S571
ISBN: 9780197530849
Publication Date: 2021-12-03
his book in Oxford University Press's series Guide to Sacred Texts addresses the question of why the New Testament is considered sacred text by Christians.

New How-To and Guides

Essay Do's and Don'ts: A Practical Guide to Essay Writing by Lucia Engkent; Garry Engkent
Call Number: 808.02 E483
ISBN: 9780190164300
Publication Date: 2022-11-25
Essay Do's and Don'ts is a concise, practical guide on the fundamentals of essay writing.
How to Sew Clothes by Amelia Greenhall; Amy Bornman
Call Number: 304.873 B660
ISBN: 9781419762024
Publication Date: 2023-02-28
Learn to sew simple, stylish, wear-everywhere garments with How to Sew Clothes.
Rewired: Protecting Your Brain in the Digital Age by Carl D. Marci
Call Number: 616.85 M3328
ISBN: 9780674983663
Publication Date: 2022-05-17
Living in an age of digital distraction has wreaked havoc on our brains-but there's much we can do to restore our tech-life balance.
Betting Thoroughbreds for the 21st Century, Third Edition by Steve Davidowitz
Call Number: 798.401 D280
ISBN: 9781932910704
Publication Date: 2009-09-16
Betting Thoroughbreds for the 21st Century is a revised and updated third edition to the classic Betting Thoroughbreds, first released over 30 years ago. The book's popularity and cult following is contagious for both new racing fans and seasoned players, and has been the standard in the industry for handicapping excellence for decades.

Professional Development Books

Introducing Scholarly Research: Ready-to-use lesson plans and activities for undergraduates by Toni Carter
Call Number: 028.707 C370
ISBN: 9780838937822
Publication Date: 2021-09-13
The world of scholarly research is uncharted territory for undergrads, but with the right approach you can quickly get them up to speed.
Practical Academic Library Instruction: Learner-Centered Techniques by Jo Angela Oehrli
Call Number: 025.56 O5
ISBN: 9780838936429
Publication Date: 2022-03-21
When you stand alone in front of the class, being in command of your content is only the first step. Knowing how to engage students' participation in ways that foster "ownership" ensures that learning is both active and lasting.
Library Marketing and Communications: Strategies to Increase Relevance and Results by Cordelia Anderson
Call Number: 021.7 A2311
ISBN: 9780838947999
Publication Date: 2020-09-01
Effectively marketing libraries by persuasively communicating their relevance is key to ensuring their future.

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