New Books: Odds and Ends 48

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New Books

From time to time, when we get a collection of related books into the library we like to share a list on a particular topic, but lately we’ve had some books  come in that are too good not to share, even if they don’t fit with a particular theme. These titles are housed in Cedar Rapids, but you can request them to be delivered to any of the other centers at any time.

Cabeza De Vaca’s Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America, Translated and Edited by Cyclone Covey, Call Number: 970.016 N972c

Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness by Stephen P. Hinshaw, Call Number: 616.89 H665a
NOTE: A young man realizes that his father has been hiding a mental illness – severe enough to warrant multiple hospitalizations from his own children. A powerful argument to de-stigmatize mental illness.

The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt by Robert I. Sutton, Call Number: 650.1 S967a

Building the American Republic: A Narrative History to 1877 (Volume 1) by Harry L. Watson, Call Number: 973 B932

Building the American Republic: A Narrative History from 1877 (Volume 2) by Jane Dailey, Call Number: 973 B932

Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang, Call Number: 306.4 C456c

The Complete Guide to Successful Event Planning by Shannon Kilkenny, Call Number: 394.2 K484c

Contemporary India: The Basics by Rekha Datta, Call Number: 954.05 D234c

Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria by Nikolaos Van Dam, Call Number: 320 D154d

Dirty South: Outkast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop by Ben Westhoff, Call Number: 782.421 W529d

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover, Call Number: 270.092 W536e
NOTE: The child of survivalist parents, at age 17 Tara had never seen a doctor or stepped into a classroom. Through hard work she got accepted and graduated from Brigham Young University and on through Harvard and Cambridge. Now she’s wondering if she can still connect with home too.

Egyptian Art by Bill Manley, Call Number: 709.32 M279e

Evaluation Media Bias by Adam J. Schiffer, Call Number: 302.23 S333e

A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America by T. Christian miller and Ken Armstrong, Call Number: 364.15 M651f

Giving 2.0 Transform Your Giving and Our World by Laura Arrillaga-Anderreessen, Call Number: 361.74 A776g

Gladiators: Fighting to the Death in Ancient Rome by M.C. Bishop, Call Number: 796.093 B622g

Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More by Morten T. Hansen, Call Number: 650.1 H249g

A History of the Amish (3rd ed.) by Steven M. Nolt, Call Number: 289.73 N798h 2015

Inside Congress: A Guide for Navigating the Politics of the House and Senate Floors by Trevor Corning, Reema Dodin, and Kyle Nevins, Call Number: 325.73 C818i

An Introduction to Popular Culture in the US: People, Politics, and Power by Jenn Brandt and Callie Clare, Call Number: 306.097 B821i

Introduction to Video Production: Studio, field, and Beyond (2nd ed.) by Ronald J. Compesi and Jaime S. Gomez, Call Number: 384.55 C737i

LGBTQ Social Movements by Lisa M. Stulberg, Call Number: 306.76 S934L

The Measure of My Days by Florida Scott-Maxwell, Call Number: 301.43 S428m
NOTE: “We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience….if it is a long defeat it is also a victory…”

The Midwestern Moment: The Forgotten World of Early-Twentieth-Century Midwestern, Regionalism, 1880-1940, Edited by Jon K. Lauck, Call Number: 977 L366m

My Amish Story: Breaking Generations of Silence by Rebecca Borntrager Graber, Call Number: 289.709 G728m

The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know by James L. Gelvin, Call Number: 956.05 G321n

The Oxford Guide to Library Research (4th ed.) by Thomas Mann, Call Number: 025.5 M282o

Pop Art and Design, Edited by Anne Massey and Alex Seago, Call Number: 709.04 P825

Urban Myths About Learning and Education by Pedro de Bruyckere, Paul A. Kirschner, and Casper D. Hulshof, Call Number: 370.1 D288u

Video Game Addiction by David A. Olle and Jean Riescher Westcott, Call Number: 616.858 O496v

Where Am I Wearing?: A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People that Make Our Clothes (Revised and Updated) by Kelsey Timmerman, Call Number: 338.4 T584w

Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media by Susan J. Douglas, Call Number: 302.208 D736w

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Amazon Best Books of 2017

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As we update sections and buy books for assignments sometimes we get a few books on a topic all at once. We have added a few books from the Amazon list of Best Books of 2017. Check out these books and let us know if there are any artists or mediums or schools that you’d like to see us add.

These titles are housed in Cedar Rapids, but you can request them to be delivered to any of the other centers at any time.

Beartown by Fredrik Backman, Call Number: PB BAC
NOTE: Beartown is a town on the edge of the forest pinning all its hopes for the future on their junior ice hockey league winning the nationals.

The Dry: A Novel by Jane Harper, Call Number: PB HAR
NOTE: Federal Agent Aaron Falk was run out of his hometown years ago. Now his childhood best friend has been murdered and his parents beg him to investigate. Will the worst drought in town history reveal secrets?

Exit West: A Novel by Mohsin Hamid, Call Number: 813.54 H216e
NOTE: A love story that unfolds across the rapidly changing face of a volatile world.

Ginny Moon: A Novel by Benjamin Ludwig, Call Number: 813.6 L948g
NOTE: Ginny Moon is an autistic girl who has been adopted into a good home in a good neighborhood by parents who love her. However, she doesn’t want a good home she wants to get back to her birth mother because she needs to take care of the doll she left there and when no one will listen to her she heads off on her own.

The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne, Call Number: PB BOY
NOTE: A story of 1940s Ireland, where one man’s adoptive parents tell him he will never really be part of their family and he sets out to find an identity for himself and where he fits in.

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorow by Yuval Noah Harari, Call Number: 303.49 H254h
NOTE: Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams, and nightmares that will shape the 21st century from overcoming death to creating artificial life.

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann, Call Number: PB GRA
NOTE: In the 1920s, the Osage found themselves in a unique position among Native Americans tribes. As other tribal lands were parceled out in an effort by the government to encourage dissolution and assimilation of both lands and culture, the Osage negotiated to maintain the mineral rights for their corner of Oklahoma, creating a kind of “underground reservation.” It proved a savvy move; soon countless oil rigs punctured the dusty landscape, making the Osage very rich. And that’s when they started dying.

Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders, Call Number PB SAU
NOTE: After the death of his son Willy, Abraham Lincoln finds himself swept into a supernatural world where there is a battle for Willy’s soul.

Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel by Celeste Ng, Call Number: PB NG
NOTE: In Shaker Heights, a development where everyone’s life follows the same placid course a single mother and the adoption of a Chinese baby fracture the peaceful world.

The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston, Call Number: PB PRE
NOTE: A true story of ancient curses, modern technology, a vanished culture….and a stunning medical mystery.

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A Novel by Arundhati Roy, Call Number: 823.914 R888m
NOTE: The story of a woman and the men in her life, kicked off by an old Persian carpet.

My Absolute Darling: A Novel by Gabriel Tallent, Call Number: PB TAL
NOTE: The daughter of a end of the world fanatic finally makes a friend at school and conceives a plan to escape into normal society.

Sourdough: A Novel by Robin Sloan, Call Number: PB SLO
NOTE: A computer programmer is given some sourdough starter and life may never be the same.

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6 Words To Tell Your Life Story

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Biography, New Books

Have you heard of this trend? Try and distill your life into 6 words. It can really make you think about what’s important to you and it’s a good summer project. What six words make up you?

Books

Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure, edited by SMITH Magazine, Call Number: 920.02 N899

One Life 6 Words: What’s Yours? edited by SMITH Magazine, Call Number: 920.02 O535

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If the book isn’t enough check out their website. And leave your 6 words in the comments.

Sarah Uthoff is a reference library at Kirkwood Community College. LIKE the Kirkwood Community College Library on Facebook and find links to Sarah all over the web at her About Me Profile.

New Books: Nature Guides

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Birds, Flowers, New Books, Plants

Thanks to the recent great weather, everyone has been wanting to go outside. Go take a walk or plan a trip. Thanks to a big book donation these nature guidebooks are available for check out so you’ll know what you see!

These titles are housed in Cedar Rapids, but you can request them to be delivered to any of the other centers at any time.

50 Common Birds of the Southwest by Richard L. Cummingham, Call Number: 598.297 C973f

70 Common Cacti of the Southwest by Pierre C. Fischer, Call Number: 583 F529s

100 Desert Wildflowers of the Southwest by Janice Emily Bowers, Call Number: 582.13 B786o

Arizona Wildflowers: A Year-Round Guide to Nature’s Blooms by Desert Botanical Garden Staff and Arizona Highways Staff, Call Number: 582.13 A719

Baja California Plant Field Guide by Norman C. Roberts, Call Number: 582.097 R646b

Birds of America, Edited by T. Gilbert Pearson, Call Number: 597.297 B618

Birds: Their Life – Their Ways – Their World, Call Number: 598.2 B618b

Cacti by Walter Kupper and Pia Roshardt, Call Number: 583.47 K967c

California Desert Wildflowers: 96 Color Photographs, 172 Line Drawings, 2 Maps by Philip A. Munz, Call Number: 582.13M971c

The Complete Book of Photographing Birds by Russ Kinne, Call Number: 778.932 K557c

A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers: From Northern Arizona and New Mexico to British Columbia by John J. Craighead, Frank C. Craighead, Jr. and Ray J. Davis, Call Number: 582.13 C886f

A Field Guide to Western Birds by Roger Tory Peterson, Call Number: 598.297 P485fi

The Flowering Cactus by Raymond Carlson, Call number: 583.471 F644f

A Guide to Field Identification Birds of North America (Expanded, Revised Ed.), Call Number: 598.297 R632b

The Hand Guide to the Birds of New Zealand (Revised ed.) by Hugh Robertson and Barrie Heather, Call Number; 598.099 R649h

Simon and Schuster’s Complete Guide to Plants and Flowers, Edited by Frances Perry, Call Number: 635.9 S594

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New Books: Memorial Day 2018

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Both branches of the Kirkwood Community College Library will be closed for Memorial Day.

Today we are sharing titles that have entered our collection this year that have to do with men and women of our armed forces in honor of Memorial Day, a national day of mourning to honor our war dead and salute our living heroes.

These titles are housed in Cedar Rapids, but you can request them to bedelivered to any of the other centers at any time.

Find previous posts:

• 2014
• 2015
• 2016
• 2017

Children’s Literature

Tuesday Takes Me There: The Healing Journey of a Veteran and his Service Dog by Capt. Luis Carlos Montalvan and Bret Witter, Call number: CL Easy Reading 362.4 M763t

Adult Non-Fiction

American Intelligence in the Age of Terror by Michael W. Hayden, Call Number: 327.127 H415p

The Art of Command: Military Leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell, Edited by Harry S. Laver and Jeffrey J. Matthews, Call Number: 355.3 A784

The Battle for Veterans’ Healthcare: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Policy Making and Patient Care by Suzanne Gordon, Call Number: 362.108 G665b

Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It by Larrie D. Ferreiro, Call Number: 973.3 F383b

Crossings: A Doctor-Soldier’s Story by Jon Kerstetter, Call Number 956.7 K418c

The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War by Peter Guardino, Call Number: 973.6 G914d

Dog Company: A True Story of American Soldiers Abandoned By Their High Command by Lynn Vincent and Capt. Roger Hill, Call number: 958.104 H647d

Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War by James Wright, Call Number: 959.704 W951e

The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 by James D. Hornfischer, Call Number: 940.54 H816f

iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age by Bill Gertz, Call Number 355.3 G384i

Integrating the U.S. Military: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation Since World War II, Edited by Douglas Walter Bristol, Jr. and Heather Marie Stur, Call Number: 355.008 I611

The Jersey Brothers: A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family’s Quest to Bring Him Home by Sally Mott Freeman, Call Number: 940.54 F855j
NOTE: The extraordinary, real-life adventure of three brothers at the center of the most dramatic turning points of World War II and their mad race to change history—and save one of their own.

The Last Stand of Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy’s Finest Hour by James D. Hornfischer, Call Number: 940.54 H816L

The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered by Laura Auricchio, Call Number: 944.04 L161a

The Messman Chronicles: African Americans in the U.S. Navy, 1932-1943, Call Number: 359 M649M

The Myths of Tet: The Most Misunderstood Events of the Vietnam War by Edwin E. Moise, Call Number: 959.704 M714m

The Ranger Force: Darby’s Rangers in World War II by Col. Robert W. Black, Call Number: 940.54 B627r

Ranger Games: a Story of Soldiers, Family, and an Inexplicable Crime by Ben Blum, Call Number: 364.15 B658r

The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War by J.L. Bell, Call Number: 973.311 B433r

Scars of Independence: America’s Violent Birth by Holger Hoock, Call Number: 973.3 H776s

The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, Call Number: 959.704 W258v

War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower, Call Number: 940.531 D746w

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New Books: Sport Biographies

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Basketball, Biographies, Football, New Books, Sports

This year we had a class assignment where students had to read a biography. We were asked for sports biographies and were surprised not to find very much. So here are the books we purchased in response to that assignment. If you know of a sports biography we don’t have (adult reading level) that you think we should, please drop us a line or add a comment.

These titles are housed in Cedar Rapids, but you can request them to be delivered to any of the other centers at any time.

A bonus title just about basketball without the biography!

Basketball (And Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated by Shea Serrano, Call Number: 796.323 S487b

Sports Biographies

Driven from Within: Michael Jordan edited by Mark Vancil, Call Number: 796.322 J824d

I Am Third: The Inspiration for Brian’s Song by Gale Sayers with Al Silverman, Call Number: 796.332 S274I

I May Be Wrong But I Doubt It by Charles Barkley with Michael Wilbon, Call Number: 796.323 B256i

Jeter Unfiltered by Derek Jeter, Call Number: 796.357 J587d

LeBron’s Dream Team: How Four Friends and I Brought A Championship Home by LeBron James, Call Number: 796.323 J279L
NOTE: Previously published as Shooting Stars.

Montana: The Biography of Football’s Joe Cool by Keith Dunnavant, Call Number: 796.332 M764d

Peyton Manning: The Last Rodeo by Mark Kiszla, Call Number: 796.332 M284k

Relentless: A Memoir by Julian Edelman with Tom E. Curran, Call Number: 796.332 E217r

QB: My Life Behind the Spiral by Steve Young with Jeff Benedict, Call Number: 796.332 Y76q

Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant by Roland Lazenby, Call Number: 796.323 L431s

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New Books: YALSA Best

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New Books, Popular Books, YA Books, YALSA

♪♫♪ Summer time and the living is easy.….♫♫♪

Summer semester has come to Kirkwood Community College and whether you are taking classes now or resting up for fall, here are some titles perfect for reading in the shade. These are popular books recommended by the young adult branch of the American Library Association.

These titles are housed in Cedar Rapids, but you can request them to be delivered to any of the other centers at any time.

 Alive by Chandler Baker, Call Number: PB Bak

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven, Call Number: PB Niv

Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone, Call Number: PB Sto

Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon, Call Number: PB Yoo

The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough, Call Number: PB Bro

Illuminae: The Illuminae Files by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, Call Number: PB Kau

 Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo, Call Number: PB Bar

When by Victoria Laurie, Call Number: PB Lau

Sarah Uthoff is a reference library at Kirkwood Community College. LIKE the Kirkwood Community College Library on Facebook and find links to Sarah all over the web at her About Me Profile.

 

New Books: Odds and Ends 47

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Kirkwood Community College Libraries, New Books

From time to time, when we get a collection of related books into the library we like to share a list on a particular topic, but lately we’ve had some books  come in that are too good not to share, even if they don’t fit with a particular theme. These titles are housed in Cedar Rapids, but you can request them to be delivered to any of the other centers at any time.

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson, Call Number: 170 P485t

The Adult Learner: Some Things We Know by Robin J. Fogarty and Brian M. Pete, Call Number: 374 F655a

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble, Call Number: 025.042 N752a

The Animals Among Us: How Pets Make Us Human by John Bradshaw, Call Number: 636.088 B812a

Bad Girls from History: Wicked or Misunderstood? by Dee Gordon, Call Number: 305.409 G662b

But I Love Him: Protecting Your Teen Daughter from Controlling, Abusive Dating Relationships by Dr. Jill Murray, Call Number 306.73 M982b

Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake, Call Number: 338.5 H349c

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, Call Number: 813.54 S583c

Caring for Autism: Practical Advice from a Parent and Physician by Michael A. Ellis, Call Number: 618.92 E475c

Comets: Nature and Culture by P. Andrew Karam, Call Number: 523.6 K181c

The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke Harris, Call Number: 618.92 B959d

Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry, Call Number: 952.05 P265g

High and Dry: Meeting the Challenges of the World’s Growing Dependence on Groundwater by William M. Alley and Rosemarie Alley, Call Number: 628.1 A435h

History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s by M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska, Call Number: 973 R995h

Inspiring and Creative Ideas for Working With Children: How to Build Relationships and Enable Change by Deborah M. Plummer, Call Number: 155.4 P735i

Introducing Japanese Popular Culture, Edited by Alisa Freedman and Toby Slade, Call Number: 306.095 I619

Introduction to Social Media Marketing: A Guide for Absolute Beginners by Todd Kelsey with Brandon Lyon, Call Number: 658.8 K299i

The Little Book of Black Holes by Steven S. Gubser and Frans Pretorius, Call Number: 523.8 G921L

Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy by Tressie McMillan Cottom, Call Number: 378.73 C851L

Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief by Jordan B. Peterson, Call Number: 150.1 P485m
NOTE: From the author of The Case Against Education: Why the Education System is a Waste of Money.

Oil (2nd ed) by Gavin Bridge and Philippe Le Billon, Call Number: 338.2 B851o

The Practice of Islam in America: An Introduction, Edited by Edward Curtis IV, Call Number: 297.097 P895

The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your PH.D. Into A Job by Karen Kelsky, Call Number: 378.12 K299p

Saving Beauty from the Beast: How to Protect Your Daughter From an Unhealthy Relationship by Vicki Crompton and Ellen Zelda Kessner, Call Number: 362.88 C945s

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo, Call Number: 305.8 O529s

Stars and Planets: The Complete Guide to the Stars, Constellations, and the Solar System by Ian Ridpath and Wil Tirion, Call Number: 523 R547s

Tears of Salt: A Doctor’s Story by Pietro Bartolo and Lidia Tilotta, Call Number: 610.92 B292t

Textbooks in Academic Libraries: Selection, Circulation, and Assessment, Edited by Chris Diaz, Call Number: 025.2 T355

Think Before You Like: Social Media’s Effect on the Brain and the Tools You Need to Navigate Your Newsfeed by Guy P. Harrison, Call Number: 302.302 H319t

What Smart Students Know: Maximum Grade, Optimum Learning, Minimum Time by Adam Robinson, Call Number: 378.17R658w

What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know by Joan C. Williams and Rachel Dempsey, Call Number: 650.1 W724w

Where Am I Eating? by Kelsey Timmerman, Call Number: 338.19 T584w

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New Books: Earth Day 2018

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Do you know everything you can recycle just by dropping them in the blue Kirkwood yardies distributed around campus? Check out the information about the program, including a list of what can go in those familiar containers:
http://www.kirkwood.edu/site/index.php?d=1229

Check out these books on ecology related titles that the library has added in the last year. We have them on our Earth Day display in the library. Stop by before the end of April to see it.

Environmental Wins

It seems like environmentalists never take a win, but here are two positive stories to kick off Earth Day.

Ecologists Take a Win:
https://www.britannica.com/spotlight/what-happened-to-acid-rain

More Good News Farmers Work on the Dead Zone:
https://www.iowafarmbureau.com/Article/Gulf-of-Mexico-Dead-Zone-What-Where-Why

Children’s Literature

Earth-Friendly Living by Miriam Coleman, Call Number: CL 640 C692e

One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia, Call Number: CL Easy Reading 363.728 P3240

Touch the Earth by Julian Lennon with Bart Davis, Call Number: CL 813.6 K567t

What a Waste! Where Does Garbage Go! by Claire Eamer, Call Number: CL 363.72 E121w

Adult Books

The Politics of Water Scarcity: Opposing Viewpoints, Call Number: Debate 333.91 P769
NOTE: You can’t check this one out, but it’s definitely worth a read anyway. Find it in our Debate section. Water scarcity is going to be one of the major issues for this century.

The Aliens Among Us: How Invasive Species Are Transforming The Planet — and Ourselves by Leslie Anthony, Call Number: 578.62 A628a

Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (Updated ed.) by Peter Singer, Call Number: 179.3 S617a

Are We Screwed?: How a New Generation is Fighting to Survive Climate Change by Geoff Dembicki, Call Number: 363.738 D374a

The Carbon Code: How You Can Become A Climate Change Hero by Brett Favaro, Call Number: 363.738 F272c

Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands Since 1945 by David D. Vail, Call Number: 363.17 V129c

Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know by Philip J. Landrigan and Mary M. Landrigan, Call Number: 616.9 L262c

Cooler Smarter: Practical Steps for Low-Carbon Living by Seth Shulman, Jeff Deyette, Brenda Ekwurzel, David Friedman, Margaret Mellon, John Rogers, and Suzanne Shaw, Call Number: 363.7 C774

Curbing Catastrophe: Natural Hazards and Risk Reduction in the Modern World by Timothy H. Dixon, Call Number: 363.34 D621c

Dawn of the Solar Age: An End to Global Warming and to Fear by Prem Shankar Jha, Call Number: 333.792 J599d
NOTE: All about how solar power can provide a bright new tomorrow for us and the planet.

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan, Call Number: 577.63 E282d

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming edited by Paul Hawken, Call Number: 363.738 D767

Drinking Water: A History (Revised and Updated) by James Salzman, Call Number: 363.6 S186d
NOTE: Water scarcity is going to be one of the major issues for this century.

Encyclopedia of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises by Erich Hoyt, Call Number: 599.503 H869

Enviromedics: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health by Jay Lemery and Paul Auerbach, Call Number: 613 L552e

Extreme Conditions: Big Oil and the Transformation of Alaska by John Strohmeyer, Call Number: 338.2 S921e

The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire by Kyle Harper, Call Number: 937 H294f

Frack This! The Untold Story About Earthquakes Caused by Humans by Christian D. Klose, Call Number: 551.22 K663f

Gasping for Air: How Breathing is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It by Kevin Glynn, Call Number: 616.2 G568g

The Ground Beneath Us: From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness What Dirt Tells Us About Who We Are by Paul Bogard, Call Number: 631.4 B674g

High and Dry: Meeting the Challenges of the World’s Growing Dependence on Groundwater by William M. Alley and Rosemarie Alley, Call Number: 628.1 A435h

Land on Fire: The New Reality of Wildfire in the West by Gary Ferguson, Call Number: 634.9 F352L

Making Local Food Work: The Challenges and Opportunities of Today’s Small Farmers by Brandi Janssen, Call Number: 338.209 J352m

The Marine World: A Natural History of Ocean Life by Frances Dipper, Call Number: 577.7 D596m

Monarchs and Milkweed: A Migrating Butterfly, A Poisonous Plant, and their Remarkable Story of Coevolution by Anurag Agrawal, Call Number: 595.78 A227m

National Geographic The Photo Ark: One Man’s Quest to Document the World’s Animals by Joel Sartore, Call Number: 779 S251p

Rainforest by Lewis Blackwell, Call Number: 333.75 B632r

Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things by M.R. O’Connor, Call Number: 591.68 O187r

A Sugar Creek Chronicle: Observing Climate Change from a Midwestern Wooland by Cornelia F. Mutel, Call Number: 577.3 M992s
NOTE: Ecologist Connie Mutel talks about what she sees of climate change in Iowa.

Thank You Fossil Fuels and Good Night: The Twenty-First Century’s Energy Transition by Gregory Meehan, Call Number: 621.042 M494t

Toxic Cocktail: How Chemical Pollution is Poisoning Our Brains by Barbara Demenex, Call Number: 612.4 D376t

Travels in Alaska by John Muir, Call Number: 508.798 M953t

Understanding Veganism: Biography and Identity by Nathan Stephens Griffin, Call Number: 641.3 G852u

Whales: Their Biology and Behavior by Philip Hammond, Sonja Heinrich, Sascha Hooker, and Peter Tyack, Call Number: 599.5 H227w

What’s So Controversial about Genetically Modified Food? by John T. Lang, Call Number: 664 L269w

When the Hills Are Gone: Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community by Thomas W. Pearson, Call Number: 622 P362w

Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and the Return of Wild American Wolves by Brenda Peterson, Call Number: 599.773 P485w

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New Books: Odds and Ends 46

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New Books, Odds and Ends

From time to time, when we get a collection of related books into the library we like to share a list on a particular topic, but lately we’ve had some books  come in that are too good not to share, even if they don’t fit with a particular theme. These titles are housed in Cedar Rapids, but you can request them to be delivered to any of the other centers at any time.

Children’s Book

Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine by Laurie Wallmark, Call Number: CL 510.92 W214a

Ada’s Ideas: The Story of Ada Lovelace, the World’s First Computer Programmer by Fiona Robinson, Call Number: CL 510.92 H798r

Conquering Lyme Disease: Science Bridges the Great Divide by Brian A. Fallon and Jennifer Sotsky, Call Number: 616.9 F196c

Goodnight, Numbers by Danica McKellar, Call Number: Easy Reading CL 813.6 M154g
NOTE: Designed to help give children a good feeling about numbers and math.

Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code by Laurie Wallmark, Call Number: CL 359.009 H798w
NOTE: A pioneering woman computer programmer who coined the term computer bug.

Adult Books

1177 B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline, Call Number: 930.1C641o
NOTE: Late Bronze Age civilizations went from booming to near extinction within a couple of decades. Here’s what happened.

After the Cradle Falls: What Child Abuse Is, How We Respond To It, And What You Can Do About It by Melissa Jonson-Reid and Brett Drake, Call Number: 364.15J81a

The Annotated African American Folktales, Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Maria Tatar, Call Number: 398.208 A615

Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Man by Jeffrey Kluger, Call Number: 629.45 K667a

The Art of Command: Military Leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell, Edited by Harry S. Laver and Jeffrey J. Matthews, Call Number: 355.3 A784

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse, Call Number: 523.01 T994a T994a

Australia: A Cultural History (3rd ed.) by John Rickard, Call Number: 994 R539au

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes by Adam Rutherford, Call Number 611 R975b

Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff by Chip Gaines, Call Number: 650.1 G142c

The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is A Waste of Time and Money by Bryan Caplan, Call Number: 371.01 C244c

The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute To His White Mother by James McBride, Call Number 974.7 M119c
NOTE: A man explores his mother’s story, how she was born in Poland, raised in the South, went north, married a black man, and worked to send 12 children to college.

Conquering Lyme Disease: Science Bridges the Great Divide by Brian A. Fallon and Jennifer Sotsky, Call Number: 616.9 F196c

Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism by Marc Arnonson and Marina Budhos, Call Number:770 A769e

The Gift of Failure: How to Step Back and Let Your Child Succeed by Jessica Lahey, Call Number: 649.7 L183g

He Call Me By Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty by S. Jonathan Bass, Call Number: 305.8 W317b

How Language Began: The History of Humanity’s Greatest Invention by Daniel L. Everett, Call Number: 401 E933h

Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson, Call Number: 709.2 L581w

Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice by Sidney Powell, Call Number: 353.465 P886L

The Man From the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery by Bill James, Call Number: 364.152 J273m

Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris, Call Number 791.45 H315n

Northern Ireland: The Reluctant Peace by Feargal Cochrane, Call Number: 941.608 C663n

Packin’Cats for the Arrr-Meee: Fun on the Farm in the ‘Forties by Geraldine Fromm Schwarz and John Robert Fromm, Call Number: 779.963 S411p

Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum, Call Number: 947.708 A648r

The Republic For Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 by Richard White, Call Number: 973.8 W587r

The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War by J.L. Bell, Call Number: 973.311 B433r

Running From the Mirror: A Memoir by Howard Shulman, Call Number: 362.1 S562r
NOTE: Just 3 days after he was born Howard Shulman contracted an infection that destroyed his face. His parents abandoned him at the hospital and this is his story has he made himself a success.

Running Science: Optimizing Training and Performance, Consultant Editor John Brewer, Call Number: 613.7 R943r

Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Early Modern World, 1494-1660 by Christopher Duffy, Call Number: 355.44 D858si

Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine by Joe Hagan, Call Number: 070.5 H141s

Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: A True Story of Bad Breaks and Small Miracles by Heather Lende, Call Number: 813.6 L564t
NOTE: A near-fatal bicycle accident has given Lende a few more reasons to consider matters both spiritual and temporal. Her idea of spirituality is rooted in community, and here she explores faith and forgiveness, loss and devotion-as well as raising totem poles, canning salmon, and other distinctly Alaskan adventures.

Tudor Fashion by Eleri Lynn, Call Number: 391 L989t

Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe by Bert S. Hall, Call Number: 355.02 H174w

Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen, Call Number: 320.51 D392w

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker, Call Number: 612.8 L563w
NOTE: Includes research about school start times.

The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found by Martin W. Sandler, Call Number: 910.453 S217w

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