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
Caldecott Winner – Wolf in the Snow by Matthew Cordell, Call Number: CL Easy Reading 813.6 C794w
Paul Bunyan by Esther Shephard, Call Number: CL 398.21 S548p
Main Collection
Am I Safe Here?: LGBTQ Teens and Bullying in Schools by Donn Short, Call Number: 371.826 S559a
Arizona Highways Photography Guide: How and Where to Make Great Photographs, Call Number: 778.9 A719a
Armed in America: The History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry by Patrick J. Charles, Call Number: 344.73 C476a
The Amish Cook: Recollections and Recipes from an Old Order Amish Family by Elizabeth Coblentz with Kevin Williams, Call Number: 641.5 C656a
Arithmetic by Paul Lockhart, Call Number: 513.L816a
NOTE: We think in terms of 10, but would it be better to think in terms of 8 or 12? Explore the world with mathematics.
Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do by John Bargh, Call Number: 154.2 B251b
The Big Little Book of Irish Wit and Wisdom, Call Number: 820.8 B592b
Bonnie Iowa Farm Folk: An Authentic Story of Life on an Iowa Farm in the Eighteen Eighties by Janette Stevenson Murray and Janet Murray Fiske, Call Number: 977.702 M982b
Buggies, Blizzards, and Babies by Cora Frear Hawkins, Call Number: 610.92 H393b
Buxton: Work and Racial Equality in a Coal Mining Community by Dorothy Schwieder, Joseph Hraba, and Elmer Schwieder, Call Number: 305.962 S415ba
The Collector’s Dictionary of Glass by E.M. Elville, Call Number: 748.203 E518c
A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi’is by John McHugo, Call Number: 297.8 E361c
NOTE: An in-depth history of split that helps define the Islamic world.
Confessions of an Event Planner: Case Studies from the Real World of Events — How to Handle the Unexpected and How to Be a Master of Discretion by Judy Allen, Call Number: 394.2 A427c
The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered: The First Complete Translation and Interpretation of 50 Key Documents Withheld for Over 35 Years by Robert Eisenman and Michael Wise, Call Number: 296.155 D278d
Dear Ijeawele, Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Call Number: 305.42 A235d
Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus by Robert D. Kaplan, Call Number: 956 K175e
Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto and the Contest for the Center of the World by Roger Crowley, Call Number: 940.2 C953e
Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do by Jeremy Bailenson, Call Number: 303.48 B154e
A Field Guide to Western Birds by Roger Tory Peterson, Call Number: 598.297 P485
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google by Scott Galloway, Call Number: 338.7 G174f
The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution by Daniel Raimi, Call Number: 363.11 R153f
NOTE: Here’s a review quote from the back cover, “‘Fracking’ signifies a blessing or a curse depending on who’s saying it. In truth, it’s both. Raimi methodically explores the risks and rewards of a technical revolution that has made the United States the largest producer of oil and gas in the world again.” Mark S. Brownstein, Enviromental Defense Fund
The Freedom Writers Diary: How Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them by The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell, Call Number: 305.235 F853f 1999
Freud: The Making of an Illusion by Frederick Crews, Call number: 150.19 F889c
NOTE: Here’s a review quote from the back cover, “…the final nail in the coffin of Sigmund Freud’s misguided career by meticulously documenting his willful descent into psuedoscience. Altogether a fascinating read!” – Frank J. Sulloway
The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West by Dee Brown, Call Number: 978 B877g
Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia by Michael Shermer, Call Number: 202 S5553h
Hippocrene USA Guide to America’s Heartland: A Travel Guide to the Backroads of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri (Rev. ed.) by Tom Weil, Call Number: 977 W422h
A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judasism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong, Call Number: 291.2 A736h
Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women’s Diaries, Edited by Suzanne L. Bunkers and Cynthia A. Huff, Call Number: 808.84 I591i
The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age by David N. Schwartz, Call Number: 530.092 S399L
NOTE: The father of modern physics, Schwartz knew all people knew about Physics and exploded into a whole new world with so much information and so many theories no one could ever know it all again.
Lords of the Stone: An Anthology of Eskimo Sculpture by Alistair Macduff and George M. Galpin, Call Number: 730 M139L
Making Sense of Weather and Climate: The Science Behind the Forecasts by Mark Denny, Call Number: 551.63 D412m
The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America by Rebecca Fraser, Call Number: 974.4 F842m
My Life by Earvin “Magic” Johnson with William Novak, Call Number: 796.323 J668m
New Recipes from Quilt Country: More Food and Folkways from the Amish and Mennonites by Marcia Adams, Call Number: 641.5 A215n
Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua, Call Number: 327 C559p
Reinventing America’s Schools: Creating a 21st Century Education System by David Osborne, Call Number: 371.01 O815r
Rock Drawing so the Coso Range by Campbell Grant, James W. Baird, and J. Kenneth Pringle, Call Number: 732 G761r
Shakespeare: The Globe & the World by S. Schoenbaum, Call Number: 822.3 S365s
Slave Songs of the United States, Compiled by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison, Call Number: 781.729 S631s
Spaceport Earth: The Reinvention of Spaceflight by Joe Pappalardo, Call Number: 629.4 P218s
Supernormal: The Untold Story of Adversity and Resilience by Meg Jay, Call Number: 155.2 J423s
That’s What She Said: What Men Need to Know (And Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together by Joanne Lipman, Call Number: 305.309 L764t
This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm by Ted Genoways, Call Number: 630.978 G335t
We Have Not a Government: The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution by George William Van Cleve, Call Number: 342.73 V222w
The Widow of the South: A Novel by Robert Hicks, Call Number: 813.6 H631w
Woman of the Prairie by Barbara Oaks, Call Number 978.3 O118w
NOTE: A novel based on her experience in rural South Dakota.
Zapped: From Infrared to X-Rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light by Bob Berman, Call Number: 535.09 B516z
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.
Find summaries on the official list.
Scythe by Neal Shusterman, Call Number: PB SHU
An Introduction to Popular Culture in the US: People, Politics, and Power by Jenn Brandt and Callie Clare, Call Number: 306.097 B821i
Beartown by Fredrik Backman, Call Number: PB BAC
A bonus title just about basketball without the biography!