New Books Graphic Design

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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 and today’s is graphic design. Graphic design – or the lack there of – can really make a difference in how any project comes out. Anybody can learn a little more. These titles are housed in Cedar Rapids, but you can request them to be delivered to any of the other centers at any time.

Aspire: 200 Project to Strengthen Your Art Skills for Aspiring Art Students by Valerie Colston, Call Number: 702.8 C723a

Essential Type: An Illustrated Guide to Understanding and Using Fonts by Tony Seddon, Call Number: 686.224 S447e

Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students by Ellen Lupton, Call Number: 686.2 L966t

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 Tech Titles

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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. This time we’ve got three on technology. These titles are housed in Cedar Rapids, but you can request them to be delivered to any of the other centers at any time.

The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity by Amy Webb, Call Number: 006.301 G646b
NOTE: Artificial Intelligence is poised to change the course of human history forever, and the big nine companies who will determine its future – Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Facebook, Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent – serve masters whose needs are increasingly out of whack with humanity’s interests. Amy Webb’s sobering and prescient forecast into the present and future of AI provides the wake-up call we need when there is still time to change course… before the big nine lead humanity to disaster. (Of the big 9 list, the last 3 that you probably don’t know are Chinese companies.)

Cracking the Digital Ceiling: Women in Computing Around the World, Edited by Carol Frieze and Jeria L. Quesenberry, Call Number: 004.082 C883
NOTE: Is computing just for men? Are men and women suited to different careers? This collection of global perspectives challenges these commonly held western views, perpetuated as explanations for women’s low participation in computing. By providing an insider look at how different cultures worldwide impact the experiences of women in computing, the book introduces readers to theories and evidence that support the need to turn to environmental factors, rather than innate potential, to understand what determines women’s participation in this growing field. This wakeup call to examine the obstacles and catalysts within various cultures and environments will help those interested in improving the situation understand where they might look to make changes that could impact women’s participation in their classrooms, companies, and administrations.

Why Hackers Win: Power and Disruption in the Network Society by Patrick Burkart and Tom McCourt, Call Number: 364.168 B959w
NOTE: When people think of hackers, they usually think of a lone wolf acting with the intent to garner personal data for identity theft and fraud. But what about the corporations and government entities that use hacking as a strategy for managing risk? Why Hackers Win asks the pivotal question of how and why the instrumental uses of invasive software by corporations and government agencies contribute to social change. Through a critical communication and media studies lens, the book focuses on the struggles of breaking and defending the “trusted systems” underlying our everyday use of technology. It compares the United States and the European Union, exploring how cybersecurity and hacking accelerate each other in digital capitalism, and how the competitive advantage that hackers can provide corporations and governments may actually afford new venues for commodity development and exchange. Presenting prominent case studies of communication law and policy, corporate hacks, and key players in the global cybersecurity market, the book proposes a political economic model of new markets for software vulnerabilities and exploits, and clearly illustrates the social functions of hacking.

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: Personal Finance 2021

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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 and this time they are on Personal Finance. Sarah Young, Library Services Department Assistant, updated this session as part of a class assignment. Who doesn’t need money advice? Be sure to check this out. These titles are housed in Cedar Rapids, but you can request them to be delivered to any of the other centers at any time.

The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich (Expanded and Updated) by David Bach, Call Number: 332.024 B118a 2016

Budgeting 101: From Getting Out of Debt and Tracking Expenses to Setting Financial Goals and Building Your Savings, Your Essential Guide to Budgeting by Michelle Cagan, Call Number: 332.024 C131b

Clever Girl Finance: Learn How Investing Works, Grow Your Money by Bola Sokunbi, Call Number: 332.024 S683c

Dump Debt and Build Bank: The Everyday Chick’s Guide to Money by Faneisha D.R. Alexander, Call Number: 332.024 A375d

Get Good with Money: 10 Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole by Tiffany Aliche, Call Number: 332.024 A398g

A Latina’s Guide to Money by Eva Macias, Call Number: 332.024 M152L

The Latte Factor: Why You Don’t Have to Be Rich to Live Rich by David Bach and John David Mann, Call Number: 332.024 B118L

Millennial Money Makeover: Escape Debt, Save for Your Future, and Live the Rich Life Now by Conor Richardson, Call Number: 332.024 R521m

The Money Manual: A Practical Money Guide to Help Succeed on Your Financial Journey by Tonya B. Rapley, Call Number: 332.024 R218m

Our Money Stories: A Six Week No B.S. Holistic Financial Wellness Plan by Eugenie George, Call Number: 332.024 E87o

Personal Finance for Dummies (9th ed.) by Eric Tyson, Call Number: 332.024 T994pe

Personal Finance for Teens by Carol H. Cox, Call Number: 332.024 C877p

The Secrets of Successful Financial Planning: Inside Tips From an Expert by Dan Gallagher, Call Number: 332.024 G162s

Smart Couples Finish Rich: 9 Steps to Creating a Rich Future for You and Your Partner (Revised and Updated) by David Bach, Call Number: 332.024 B118sc

Smart Women Finish Rich (20th Anniversary Edition – Expanded and Updated) by David Bach, Call Number: 332.024 B118sm

The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness by Dave Ramsey, Call Number: 332.024 R183t 2013

What to Do With Your Money When Crisis Hits: A Survival Guide by Michelle Singletary, Call Number: 332.024 S617w

Why Didn’t They Teach Me This in School?: 99 Personal Money management Principes to Live By by Cary Siegel, Call Number: 332.024 S571w 2018

Women and Money: Be Strong, Be Smart, Be Secure by Suze Orman, Call Number: 332.024 O73wm 2018

You Can Stay Home With Your Kids!: 100 Tips, Tricks, and Ways to Make It Work on a Budget by Erin Odom, Call Number: 332.024 O25y

Your Business, Your Family, Their Future: How to Ensure Your Family Enterprise Thrives for Generations by Emily Griffiths-Hamilton, Call Number: 658.152 G855y

New Books: Odds and Ends 78

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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.

Adolescent Health Sourcebook (5th Edition), Call Number: 616.89 A239 2021

The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought For Abolition and Women’s Rights by Dorothy Wickenden, Call Number: 973.711 W636a
NOTE: A riveting, provocative, and revelatory history of abolition and women’s rights, told through the story of three women—Harriet Tubman, Frances Seward, and Martha Wright—in the years before, during and after the Civil War.

Alcohol Information for Teens: Health Tips About Alcohol Use, Abuse, and Dependence (5th ed.), Call Number: 613.81 A354 2021

Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America by Kate Washington, Call Number: 649.8 W318a

Anti-System Politics: The Crisis of Market Liberalism in Rich Democracies by Jonathan Hopkin, Call Number: 320.513 H793a

Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther (Updated ed.) by Jeffrey Haas, Call Number: 322.42 H232h

Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence by Tanya Selvaratnam, Call Number: 362.829 S469a

A Beginner’s Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious by Roya Hakakian, Call Number: 323.623 H155b

Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction by Michelle Nijhuis, Call Number: 591.68 N691b

Children Under Fire: An American Crisis by Woodrow Cox, Call Number: 371.782 C877c

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson, Call Number: 576.5 D728i

The Columnist: Leaks, Lies, and Libel in Drew Pearson’s Washington by Donald A. Ritchie, Call Number: 070.092 P361c
NOTE: “Long before Wikileaks and social media, the journalist Drew Pearson exposed to public view information that public officials tried to keep hidden. A self-professed “keyhole peeper”, Pearson devoted himself to revealing what politicians were doing behind closed doors. From 1932 to 1969, his
daily “Washington Merry-Go-Round” column and weekly radio and TV commentary broke secrets, revealed classified information, and passed along rumors based on sources high and low in the federal government, while intelligence agents searched fruitlessly for his sources.”

The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History by Margalit Fox, Call Number: 940.472 F793c
NOTE: “Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around, and one day an Ottoman official approaches Jones with a query: Could Jones contact the spirit world to find a vast treasure rumored to be buried nearby? Jones, a trained lawyer, and Hill, a brilliant magician, use the Ouija board—and their keen understanding of the psychology of deception—to build a trap for their captors that will ultimately lead them to freedom.”

Consent: A Memoir by Vanessa Springora, Call Number; 362.882 S769c
NOTE: “Thirty years ago, Vanessa Springora was the teenage muse of one of the country’s most celebrated writers, a footnote in the narrative of a very influential man in the French literary world. At the end of 2019, as women around the world began to speak out, Vanessa, now in her forties and the director of one of France’s leading publishing houses, decided to reclaim her own story, offering her perspective of those events sharply known. Consent is the story of one precocious young girl’s stolen adolescence. Devastating in its honesty, Vanessa’s painstakingly memoir lays bare the cultural attitudes and circumstances that made it possible for a thirteen-year-old girl to become involved with a fifty-year-old man who happened to be a notable writer. As she recalls the events of her childhood and her seduction by one of her country’s most notable writers, Vanessa reflects on the ways in which this disturbing relationship changed and affected her as she grew older.”

Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History by Richard Thompson Ford, Call Number: 391.009 F711d

Editing Humanities: The Crispr Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing by Kevin Davies, Call Number: 576.5 D256e

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake, Call Number: 579.5 S544e

Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer by Steven Johnson, Call Number: 362.1 J695e

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Ronnlund, Call Number: 155.904 R821f
NOTE: “In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective―from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse).”

Fathoms: The World of the Whale by Rebecca Giggs, Call Number: 599.5 G459f

A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum by Jessica McCrory Calarco, Call Number: 378.155 C142f

For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality by Dorthy Sue Cobble, Call Number: 320.082 C654f

Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality by Frank Wilczek, Call Number: 530.01 W667f
NOTE: “One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world.”

Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany by Andrew Maraniss, Call Number: CL 796.48 M311g

Girls Who Run the World: 31 CEOs Who Mean Business by Diana Kapp, Call Number: CL 338.092 M311g

The Guide to Assisting Students With Disabilities: Equal Access in Health Science and Professional Education by Lisa M. Meeks and Neera R. Jain, Call Number: Librarian371.9 G946

Fullfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America by Alec MacGillis, Call Number: 381.142 M145f

Gladius: The World of the Roman Soldier by Guy De La Bedoyere, Call Number: 355.009 D331g

Hatched: Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement by Gina G. Warren, Call Number: 636.5 W288h

How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith, Call Number: 306.362 S644h

Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire by Tom Zoellner, Call Number: 362.8 Z85i

MLA Handbook – Ninth Edition, Call Number: 808.02 M685 2021
NOTE: MLA has come up with an updated system. There aren’t many differences with the system itself, but they have put back a lot of stuff that was cut out of the 8th edition and backed off a bit on the idea that there are multiple correct ways to cite something correctly based on person citing it, purpose of citing it, and circumstance of citing it.

Nolo’s Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home by IIona Bray, Alayna Schroeder, and Marcia Stewart, Call Number: 643.12 B827n 2017

Not Yo’ Butterfly: My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution by Nobuko Miyamoto, Call Number: 792.802 M685n
NOTE: “Miyamoto vividly describes her early life in the racialized atmosphere of Hollywood musicals and then her turn toward activism as an Asian American troubadour with the release of A Grain of Sand—considered to be the first Asian American folk album. Her narrative intersects with the stories of Yuri Kochiyama and Grace Lee Boggs, influential in both Asian and Black liberation movements. She tells how her experience of motherhood with an Afro-Asian son, as well as a marriage that intertwined Black and Japanese families and communities, placed her at the nexus of the 1992 Rodney King riots—and how she used art to create interracial solidarity and conciliation.”

A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What It Means for Justice by David Alan Sklansky, Call Number: 345.73 S628p

The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson, Call Number: 323.119 A545s

The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency 2003-2014 (2nd ed.) by Malcolm W. Nance, Call Number: 956.704 N176t

This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan, Call Number: 581.6 P771t

Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn, Call Number: 613.042 C624u 2021

Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature by Angus Fletcher, Call Number: 809 F612w

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 77

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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.

The Affirmative Action Puzzle: A Living History from Reconstruction to Today by Melvin I. Urofsky, Call Number: 331.133 U78a

Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture by Badia Ahad-Legardy, Call Number: 810.98 A285a

Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing by Francoise Baylis, Call Number: 576.5 B358a

All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat, Call Number: CL 613.69 S711a

Anti-Vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement by Jonathan M. Berman, Call Number: 614.47 B516a 2020

The AOC Generation: How Millennials Are Seizing Power and Rewriting the Rules of American Politics by David Freedlander, Call Number: 305.209 O152f

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Call Number: 277.3 G259b

Blindfold: A Memoir of Capture, Torture, and Enlightenment by Theo Padnos, Call Number: 956.91 P123b

Contemporary Photography and Theory: Concepts and Debates by Sally Miller, Call Number: 770.1 M651c

A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays by Marc Bookman, Call Number: 345.73 B724d

Diet and Nutrition Sourcebook (6th ed.), Call Number: 613.2 D565 2021

Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency by Finn Brunton, Call Number: 332.4 B911d

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michaela Wrong, Call Number: 967.571 W957d

The Economic Case for LGBT Equality: Why Fair and Equal Treatment Benefits Us All by M.V. Lee Badgett, Call Number: 306.766 B135e

Family Planning and Reproductive Health Sourcebook, Call Number: 363.96 F198

The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World by Amanda Little, Call Number: 363.8 L778f

Feminist Cross-Stich by Stephanie Rohr, Call Number: 746.443 R739f

Girlhood by Melissa Febos, Call Number: 814.6 F289g

The Gun, The Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World by Linda Colley, Call Number: 342 C698g

Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity by Jamie Metzel, Call Number; 576.5 M596h

The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau, Call Number: 950.2 F273h

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, Essays by Alexander Chee, Call Number; 814.6 C515h

Improving College Reading (6th ed.) by Lee A. Jacobus, Call Number: 428.6 I348

In Her Footsteps: Where Trailblazing Women Changed the World by Lonely Planet, Call Number: 305.409 I352

The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness by Katie Booth, Call Number: 362.428 B725i

Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight by Julia Sweig, Call Number: 973.923 J678s

Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change by Stacey Abrams, Call Number: 328.73 A161L

Life’s Edge: The Search for What it Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer, Call Number: 570 Z721L

Lifting As We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne, Call Number: 323.34 D592L

Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee, Call Number: 973.04 L477m

Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth by Jodi Magness, Call Number 933.49 M196m

The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of Popular Imagination by Philip Ball, Call Number: 809.915 B187m

Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, Call Number: 741.5 F421m

MS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang by Steven Dudley, Call Number: 364.106 D849m

Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School by Jessica McCrory Calarco, Call Number: 305.55 C142n

On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed, Call Number: 394.263 G664o

On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How it Drives America Insane by Emily Guendelsberger, Call Number: 331 G926o

Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting by Sianne Ngai, Call Number: 111.85 N576o

The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism by Thomas Frank, Call Number: 320.566 F828p

Persist by Elizabeth Warren, Call Number: 303.4 W287p

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis, Call Number: 614.592 L675p 2021

Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court by Matthew K. Clair, Call Number: 364.974 C585p

Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era by Jerry Mitchell, Call Number: 364.152 M681r

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Call Number: 363.51 T243r

The Ravine: A Family, A Photograph, A Holocaust Massacre Revealed by Wendy Lower, Call Number: 940.531 L917r

Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context by Grace Lees-Maffei and Nicolas P. Maffei, Call Number: 741.6 L487r

The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live by Danielle Dreilinger, Call Number: 640.92 D771s

The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel, Call Number: PB BEC
NOTE: “Comics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel delivers a deeply layered story of her fascination, from childhood to adulthood, with every fitness craze to come down the pike: from Jack LaLanne in the 60s (“Outlandish jumpsuit! Cantaloupe-sized guns!”) to the existential oddness of present-day spin class.”

Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us by Ruth Kassinger, Call Number: 579.8 K193s

Spite: The Upside of Your Dark Side by Simon McCarthy-Jones, Call Number: 152.4 M123s

The Sum of Us: What Racism Cost Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee, Call Number: 305.8 M145s

Susan, Linda, Nina, and Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR by Lisa Napoli, Call Number: 791.44 N216s

This is the Voice by John Colapinto, Call Number: 302.224 C683t
NOTE: “Along the way, Colapinto shows us why the voice is the most efficient, effective means of communication ever devised: it works in all directions, in all weathers, even in the dark, and it can be calibrated to reach one other person or thousands. He reveals why speech is the single most complex and intricate activity humans can perform. He travels up the Amazon to meet the Piraha, a reclusive tribe whose singular language, more musical than any other, can help us hear how melodic principles underpin every word we utter. He heads up to Harvard to see how professional voices are helped and healed, and he ventures out on the campaign trail to see how demagogues wield their voices as weapons.”

This Is Why I Resist by Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, Call Number: 361.2 M894t

Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance by Mia Bay, Call Number: 305.896 B356t

The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Call Number: 364.137 C813u

Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur, Call Number: 323.119 M424u

Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We’ve Left Behind by Grace Olmstead, Call Number: 306.09 O514u
NOTE: In the tiny farm town of Emmett, Idaho, there are two kinds of people: those who leave and those who stay. Those who leave go in search of greener pastures, better jobs, and college. Those who stay are left to contend with thinning communities, punishing government farm policy, and environmental decay. Grace Olmstead, now a journalist in Washington, DC, is one who left, and in Uprooted, she examines the heartbreaking consequences of uprooting—for Emmett, and for the greater heartland America. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Uprooted wrestles with the questions of what we owe the places we come from and what we are willing to sacrifice for profit and progress.

Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret by Catherine Coleman Flowers, Call Number: 363.728 F644w
NOTE: “It’s a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets, and, as a consequence, live amid filth. Flowers calls this America’s dirty secret. In this powerful book she tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions, not just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on Native American reservations in the West.”

What is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic by Shahab Ahmed, Call Number: 306.697 A286w

Who Will Pay Reparations on my Soul?: Essays by Jesse McCarthy, Call Number: 305.8 M123w

Why Trust Science? by Naomi Oreskes, Call Number: 305.8 M123w

Women in Dark Times by Jacqueline Rose, Call Number: 305.42 R796w
NOTE: The stories of Rosa Luxemburg, Charlotte Salomon, Marilyn Monroe and a new look at feminism.

A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul, Call Number: 598.156 W417w

You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape by Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner, Call Number: 302.231 P546y

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.

Books Recommended by Bill Gates

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Are you looking for some suggestions of what to read this summer? Bill Gates suggests these books the library owns.

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker, Call Number: 303.609 P655b
NOTE: “Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species’s existence.”

Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil, Call Number: 333.79 S641en
NOTE: “This is a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today’s fossil fuel–driven civilization.”

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker, Call Number: 303.44 P655e
NOTE: “Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing.”

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Ronnlund, Call Number: 155.904 R821f
NOTE: “In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective―from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse).”

The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah, Call Number: 614.532 S525f
NOTE: “In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have lent their names – and opened their pocketbooks – in hopes of curing the disease. Still, in a time when every emergent disease inspires waves of panic, why aren’t we doing more to eradicate one of our oldest foes? And how does a parasitic disease that we’ve known how to prevent for more than a century still infect 500 million people every year, killing nearly 1 million of them?”

The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee, Call Number: 572.86 M953g
NOTE: “Siddhartha Mukherjee has written a biography of the gene as deft, brilliant, and illuminating as his extraordinarily successful biography of cancer. Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.”

The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Anna Bakke, Call Number: 333.793 I545g
NOTE: “The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with, a jerry-built structure now so rickety and near collapse that a strong wind or a hot day can bring it to a grinding halt. The grid is now under threat from a new source: renewable and variable energy, which puts stress on its logics as much as its components.”

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval N Harari, Call Number: 303.49 H254h
NOTE: “Over the past century, humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but as Harari explains in his trademark style – thorough yet riveting – famine, plague, and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists, and criminals put together. The average American is 1,000 times more likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al Qaeda.”

House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox by William H Foege, Ebook link
NOTE: “This is the story of how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular triumph of medicine and public health.”

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval N Harari, Call Number: 599.9 H254s
NOTE: “From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution – a number one international best seller – that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be ‘human’.”

Seveneves: A Novel by Neal Stephenson, Call Number: PB Ste
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A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain….”

Sustainable Materials Without the Hot Air: Making Buildings, Vehicles and Products Efficiently and With Less New Material by Julian M. Allwood and Jonathan M. Cullen, Call Number: 620.11 S553s
NOTE: “Materials, transformed from natural resources into the buildings, equipment, vehicles and goods that underpin our remarkable lifestyle, are made with amazing efficiency. But our growing demand is not sustainable. This optimistic and richly-informed book evaluates all the options and explains how we can greatly reduce the amount of material demanded and used in manufacturing, while still meeting everyone’s needs.”

Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe, Call Number: CL 500 M968t
NOTE: “Have you ever tried to learn more about some incredible thing, only to be frustrated by incomprehensible jargon? Randall Munroe is here to help. In Thing Explainer, he uses line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, “ten hundred”) most common words to provide simple explanations for some of the most interesting stuff there is, including:

• food-heating radio boxes (microwaves)
• tall roads (bridges)
• computer buildings (datacenters)
• the shared space house (the International Space Station)
• the other worlds around the sun (the solar system)
• the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates)
• the pieces everything is made of (the periodic table)
• planes with turning wings (helicopters)
• boxes that make clothes smell better (washers and dryers)
• the bags of stuff inside you (cells)”

The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane, Call Number: 576.83 L266v
NOTE: “For two and a half billion years, from the very origins of life, single-celled organisms such as bacteria evolved without changing their basic forms. Then, on just one occasion in four billion years, they made the jump to complexity. All complex life, from mushrooms to man, shares puzzling features, such as sex, which are unknown in bacteria. How and why did this radical transformation happen? The answer, Lane argues, lies in energy: All life on Earth lives off a voltage with the strength of a lightning bolt.”

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The 2 Books Bill Gates Says You Absolutely Must Read

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Best YA Books of 2020

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Once a year YALSA (the teenager/young adult part of the American Library Association) asks teens from all over the country to pick the best 10 books of the year. Here’s their list. We own them all and have listed the call numbers.

Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, Call Number: PB KAU

Broken Throne by Victoria Aveyard, Call Number: PB AVE

Lovely War by Julie Berry, Call Number: PB BER

The Memory Thief by Lauren Mansey, Call Number: CL 813.6 M289m

#MurderFunding by Gretchen McNeil, Call Number: PB MCN

Pumpkinheads: A Graphic Novel by Rainbow Rowell, Call Number: PB ROW

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell, Call Number: PB ROW

We Hunt The Flame by by Hafsah Faizal, Call Number: PB FAI

Wilder Girls by Rory Power, Call Number: PB POW

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo, Call Number: PB ACE

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New Books Nile Kinnick

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Even though Nile Kinnick was killed in action during World War II, he is still considered one of Iowa’s all time top athletes. His legend has continued and recently Kirkwood added two books about him to our collection. They are available at the Cedar Rapids branch, but can be sent to any Kirkwood location.

Kinnick: The Man and the Legend by D.W. Stump, Call Number 796.33 K559s

The Way of Nile C. Kinnick, Jr.: Insights, Images, and Stories of Iowa’s 1939 Heisman Trophy Winner by Mark D. Wilson, Call Number: 796.332 K559w

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New Books Strong Women Leads

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Booklist sent out an e-mail lists 4 books with strong women leads. Here are all 4.

Kiss Me in Paris by Catherine Rider, Call Number: PB RID
“Serena Fuentes won’t waste one moment of her whirlwind trip to Paris. She has it all mapped out, right down to the photos she will take, and the last thing she wants is a change in plans. Yet suddenly she’s touring the city with Jean-Luc, a French friend of her sister’s boyfriend. He has to take pictures of his own if he ever hopes to pass his photography class, and his project totally slows Serena down. One minute they’re bickering, the next minute they’re bonding … and soon they’re exploring corners of Paris together that Serena never imagined. Could they also be falling in love?”

The Last Wish of Sasha Cade by Cheyanne Young, Call Number: PB YOU
“The day Raquel has been dreading for months has finally arrived. Sasha, her best friend in the whole world, has died of cancer. Overwhelmed and brokenhearted, Raquel can’t even imagine life without her. And then a letter from Sasha arrives. Has she somehow found a way to communicate from beyond the grave? In fact, Sasha spent her final weeks planning an elaborate scavenger hunt for the friend she would have to leave behind. When Raquel follows the instructions to return to Sasha’s grave, a mysterious stranger with striking eyes is waiting for her. There’s a secret attached to this boy that only Sasha — and now Raquel — knows.This boy, Elijah, might be just who Raquel needs to help her move on from her terrible loss. But can Raquel remain true to herself while also honoring her friend’s final wish?”

The Leading Edge of Now by Marci Lyn Curtis, Call Number: PB CUR
“Grace once spent the best summers of her life in New Harbor. Now that she’s returned, though, the place just reminds her of all she’s lost: her father, her best friend, her boyfriend and any memory of the night that changed her forever. People say the truth will set you free, but Grace isn’t sure about that. Once she starts looking for it, the truth about that night is hard to find — and what happens when her healing hurts the people she cares about the most? Sexual assault does not define this story, however, just as it does not define Grace. Wry humor and true love emerge as Grace, like many in the #MeToo era, seeks to find her truth, face her truth and speak her truth.”

Me and Me by Alice Kuipers, Call Number: PB KUI
“It’s a perfect day for Lark’s dream date with Alec from school. Blue skies, clear water, a canoe on the lake. Alec even brought flowers for Lark’s birthday. Everything is just right … until they hear screams from the edge of the water. Annabelle, a little girl Lark used to babysit, is struggling in the reeds. When Lark and Alec dive in to help her, Alec hits his head on a rock. Now Annabelle and Alec are both in trouble, and Lark can only save one of them. With that split-second decision, Lark’s world is torn in two, leaving her to cope with the consequences of both choices. She lives two lives, two selves. But which is the right life, and which is the real Lark?”

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Summer Reading – More New Books

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We’ve recently added more new books to our Popular Reading section. Mostly novels but there are a couple of memoirs and one book of connected short stories. I know I want to add most of these to my “To Be Read” list that keeps growing, and growing, and growing…

             Posted by Julie – one of your Kirkwood Librarians!

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The Whispering House: A Novel by Elizabeth Brooks, Call Number: Popular Books BRO Freya Lyell is struggling to move on from her sister Stella’s suicide five years ago. Visiting the bewitching Byrne Hall, only a few miles from the scene of the tragedy, she discovers a portrait of Stella – a portrait she had no idea existed, in a house Stella never set foot in. Or so she thought.

Of Women and Salt: A Novel by Gabriela Garcia, Call Number: Popular Books GAR A daughter’s fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born

Libertie: A Novel by Kaitlyn Greenidge, Call Number: Popular Books GRE Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson was all too aware that her purposeful mother, a practicing physician, had a vision for their future together: Libertie would go to medical school and practice alongside her. But Libertie, drawn more to music than science, feels stifled by her mother’s choices and is hungry for something else. Inspired by the life of one of the first Black female doctors in the United States and rich with historical detail, Kaitlyn Greenidge’s new novel resonates in our times and is perfect for readers of Brit Bennett, Min Jin Lee, and Yaa Gyasi. 

Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir by Nikki Grimes, Call Number: Popular Books GRI In her own voice, author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a memoir in verse. Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night—and discovered the magic and impact of writing.

Klara and the Sun: A Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, Call Number: Popular Books ISH Klara and the Sun tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. The book offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: What does it mean to love?

Outlawed: A Novel by Anna North, Call Number: Popular Books NOR The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West.

Gold Diggers: A Novel by Sanjena Sathian, Call Number: Popular Books SAT An Indian-American magical realist coming of age story, spanning two continents, two coasts, and four epochs, in razor sharp and deeply funny prose, Sathian captures what it is to grow up as a member of a family, of a diaspora, and of the American meritocracy.

Inheritors by Asako Serizawa, Call Number: Popular Books SER Connected Short Stories Spanning more than 150 years, and set in multiple locations in colonial and postcolonial Asia and the United States, Inheritors paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of its characters as they grapple with the legacies of loss, imperialism, and war.

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, Call Number: Popular Books TAM The day they got together was the best one of Freddy’s life, but nothing’s made sense since. Laura Dean is popular, funny, and SO CUTE … but she can be really thoughtless, even mean. Their on-again, off-again relationship has Freddy’s head spinning — and Freddy’s friends can’t understand why she keeps going back.

The Performance: A Novel by Claire Thomas, Call Number: Popular Books THO One night, three women go to the theater to see a play. Wildfires are burning in the hills outside, but inside the theater it is time for the performance to take over. While the performance unfolds on stage, so does the compelling trajectory that will bring these three women together, changing them all. Deliciously intimate and yet emotionally wide-ranging, The Performance is a novel that both explores the inner lives of women as it underscores the power of art and memory to transform us.

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner, Call Number: Popular Books ZAU In this story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother’s particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother’s tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food.