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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.

Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War by Elizabeth R. Varon, Call Number: 973.7 V323a

Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhil Plokhy, Call Number: 363.179P29c

A Concise History of Mexico (3rd ed) by Brian R. Hamnett, Call Number: 972 H227c 2019

Copyright: What Everyone Needs to Know by Neil Weinstock Netanel, Call Number: 346.04 N469c

Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us About the Future of Popular Culture by Joel Waldfogel, Call Number: 306 W163d

A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Claire Hartfield, Call Number: 305.896 H328f

Get Scrappy: Smarter Digital Marketing for Businesses Big and Small by Nick Westergaard, Call Number: 658.8 W526g

The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King, Call Number: 791.45 R725k

The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics by Salena Zito and Brad Todd, Call Number: 306.209 Z822g

Health and Fitness Professionals: A Practical Career Guide by Kezia Endsley, Call Number: 610.73 E566h 2019

A History of Women Photographers (3rd ed) by Naomi Rosenblum, Call Number: 770.82 R813h 2010

The Human Brain Book: An Illustrated Guide to its Structure, Function, and Disorders (New ed., Revised and Updated) by Rita Carter, Call Number: 612.8 C324h 2019

An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy (20th Anniversary Ed.) by Anthony Kenny, Call Number: 190 k367i

The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, The First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation by Colin G. Calloway, Call Number: 323.119 C163i

Laugh Out Loud Jokes for Kids by Rob Elliott, Call Number: CL 808.882 E468L

Law 101: Everything You Need to Know about American Law (5th ed) by Jay M. Feinman, Call Number: 349.73 F299L

Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler by Lynne Olson, Call Number: 940.54 F773o

Medical Office Professionals: A Practical Career Guide by Marcia Santore, Call Number: 610.73 S237m 2019

Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium by Lucy Inglis, Call Number: 362.293 I52m

More Than Medicine: The Broken Promise of American Health by Robert M. Kaplan, Call Number: 362.109 K175m

Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction by Judith Grisel, Call Number: 362.29 G869n

No One Tells You This by Glynnis Macnicol, Call Number: 306.7 M169n
NOTE: “If the story doesn’t end with marriage or a child, what then? This question plagued Glynnis MacNicol on the eve of her 40th birthday. Despite a successful career as a writer, and an exciting life in New York City, Glynnis was constantly reminded she had neither of the things the world expected of a woman her age: a partner or a baby. She knew she was supposed to feel bad about this. After all, single women and those without children are often seen as objects of pity, relegated to the sidelines, or indulgent spoiled creatures who think only of themselves. Glynnis refused to be cast into either of those roles and yet the question remained: What now?There was no good blueprint for how to be a woman alone in the world. She concluded it was time to create one.”

On Her Own Terms: Annie Montague Alexander and the Rise of Science in the American West by Barbara R. Stein, Call Number: 570.92 A374s

Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series, Vol. 3, Call Number: REF 423 O98ea
NOTE: We have the full set of OED in paper, now we have the update too!

Peak Plastic: The Rise or Fall of Our Synthetic World by Jack Buffington, Call Number: 363.738 B929p

The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre, Call Number: 155.28 E558p

Photography: A Cultural History (4th ed.) by Mary Warner Marien, Call Number: 770 M33rp

The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Anna Clark, Call Number: 363.6 C592p

The Racial Divide in American Medicine: Black Physicians and the Struggle for Justice in Health Care, Edited by Richard D. deShazo, Call Number: 362.108 M169r

Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future… and What We Can Do About It by Leonardo Trasande, Call Number362.196 T775s

The South vs The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War by William W. Freehling, Call Number: 973.71 F853s

Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper by Art Cullen, Call Number: 071.77 C967s

Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team by Steve Sheinkin, Call Number: 796.332 S543u

Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls by Lisa Damour, Call Number: 155.5 D164u

United in Autism: Finding Strength Inside the Spectrum by Julie Hornok, Call Number: 618.92 H816u 2018

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas, Call Number: 303.409 G525w

Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America by Joe William Trotter, Jr., Call Number: 331.6 T858w

You Need a Budget: The Proven System for Breaking the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle, Getting Out of Debt, and Living the Life You Want by Jesse Mecham, Call Number: 332.024 M486y

Your Baby’s Best Shot: Why Vaccines Are Safe and Save Lives by Stacy Mintzer Herlihy and E. Allison Hagood, Call Number: 614.4 H549y

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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.

African Americans and American Indians in the Revolutionary War by Jack Darrell Crowder, Call Number: 973.308 C953a

Against All Odds: My Story by Chuck Norris with Ken Abraham, Call Number: 796.809 N854a
NOTE: Norris was both a star of both movies and TV, but also one of the top martial artists of the 20th century in real life. (He’s still around but retired from both activities.)

Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos, Call Number: 951.06 O834a

American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis – And How to End It by Ryan Hampton, Call Number: 362.29 H232a

American Journalism and “Fake News”: Examining the Facts by Seth Ashley, Jessica Roberts, and Adam Maksl, Call Number: 071.3 A826a

American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts by Chris McGreal, Call Number: 362.29 M147a

Blazing the Trail: Essays by Leading Women in Science by Emma Ideal and Rhiannon Meharchand, Call Number: 509.2 B645

Call Me American: A Memoir by Abdi Nor Iftin, Call Number: 305.89 I239c
NOTE: “Abdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop and watching action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. When U.S. marines landed in Mogadishu to take on the warlords, Abdi cheered the arrival of these Americans, who seemed as heroic as those of the movies. Sporting American clothes and dance moves, he became known around Mogadishu as Abdi American, but when the radical Islamist group al-Shabaab rose to power in 2006, it became dangerous to celebrate Western culture. Desperate to make a living, Abdi used his language skills to post secret dispatches, which found an audience of worldwide listeners. Eventually, though, Abdi was forced to flee to Kenya.” And came to America.

Chrysalis by Maria Sibylla Merian by Kim Todd, Call Number: 508.092 T634c

A Concise History of Germany (3rd ed) by Mary Fulbrook, Call Number: 943 F962c

Cyberterrorism and Ransomware Attacks by Gary Weiner, Call Number: 363.325 C994

The Deadly Deep: The Definitive History of Submarine Warfare by Iain Ballantyne, Call Number: 359.93 B188d

Food Allergies and Sensitivities: Your Questions Answered by Alice C. Richer, Call Number: 616.975 R529f

The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Who Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling, Call Number: 560.92 E539f

Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter by Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler, Call Number: 332.024 A698d

Ethics in Science: Ethical Misconduct in Scientific Research (2nd ed.) by John G. D’Angelo, Call Number: 174.95 D182e

Fail Until You Don’t: Find, Grind, Repeat by Bobby Bones, Call Number: 791.44 B712f

The First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role by Jeanne E. Abrams, Call Number: 973.099 A161f

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education by Christopher Emdin, Call Number: 370.917 E533f

Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle by Sara Bullard, Call Number: 323.1 B935f

Generation Z: A Century in the Making by Corey Seemiller and Meghan Grace, Call Number: 305.209 S453g

Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information by Kurt W. Beyer, Call Number: 0004.092 H798b
NOTE: “A Hollywood biopic about the life of computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992) would go like this: a young professor abandons the ivy-covered walls of academia to serve her country in the Navy after Pearl Harbor and finds herself on the front lines of the computer revolution. She works hard to succeed in the all-male computer industry, is almost brought down by personal problems but survives them, and ends her career as a celebrated elder stateswoman of computing, a heroine to thousands, hailed as the inventor of computer programming…Hopper’s greatest technical achievement was to create the tools that would allow humans to communicate with computers in terms other than ones and zeroes. This advance influenced all future programming and software design and laid the foundation for the development of user-friendly personal computers.”

The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery by Noel Rae, Call Number: 306.362 R134g

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer, Call Number: 970.004

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon, Call Number: 305.896 L427h
NOTE: A man born poor and black wrestles with the weight not only of his body, but with the legacy of history.

Hezbollah: A Short History (Updated and Expanded 3rd Ed.) by Augustus Richard Norton, Call Number: 324.256 N882h

A History of America in Ten Strikes by Erik Loomis, Call Number: 331.892 L863h

How Bad Do You Want It?: Mastering the Psychology of Mind Over Muscle by Matt Fitzgerald, Call Number: 796.01 F554h

Human Trafficking: Trade for Sex, Labor, and Organs by Bandana Purkayastha and Farhan Navid Yousaf, Call Number: 364.155 P985h

In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers by Bernice Yeung, Call Number: 362.88 Y48i

Knowing What to Say: Finding Words to Fit Any Situation by Patti Kelley Criswell, Call Number: CL 302.224 C933k

The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish, Call Number: 792.7 H126L
NOTE: The story of a new comedian from foster child to TV star.

Latino Peoples in the New America: Radicalization and Resistance, Edited by Jose A. Cobas, Joe R. Feagin, Daniel J. Delgado and Maria Chavez, Call Number: 305.868 L357p

Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China by Leta Hong Fincher, Call Number: 305.409 H772L

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo, Call Number: 648 K821L

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land, Call Number: 331.4 L253m
NOTE: A promising writers plans are derailed by an unplanned pregnancy and her struggles to find her way back to her dreams and to support her daughter. It tells the story of some of the lowest paid people in society.

Marie Curie: A Life by Susan Quinn, Call Number: 540.92 C975q
NOTE: The noted scientist who overcame obstacles of country and gender to when multiple Nobel prizes and helped use her invention of X-Rays to the frontlines during World War I.

The Man Who Made the Movies: the Meteoric Rise and the Tragic Fall of William Fox by Vanda Krefft, Call Number: 791.43 F794k

The #MeToo Movement by Laurie Collier Hillstrom, Call Number: 362.88 H655m

Public Influence: A Guide to Op-Ed Writing and Social Media Engagement by Mira Sucharov, Call Number: 808.06 S942p

Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business (Revised and Updated 3rd ed.) by Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner, Call Number: 658.4 T851r

School Choice by David R. Garcia, Call Number: 379.1 G216s

Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise made Simple by Pete McCall, Call Number: 613.7 M122s

The Spender’s Guide to Debt-Free Living: How a Spending Fast Helped Me Get From Broke to Badass in Record Time by Anna Newell Jones, Call Number: 332.024 3763s

Waiting on Retirement: Aging and Economic Insecurity in Low-Wage Work by Mary Gatta, Call Number: 306.38 G262w

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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.

365 Ways to Live Cheap!: Your Everyday Guide to Saving Money by Trent Hamm, Call number: 332.024 H224t

Al’ America: Travels Through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots by Jonathan Curiel, Call Number: 909.097C975a
NOTE: Have you visited America’s Mother Mosque? It’s right here in Cedar Rapids.

Ask a Manager: How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of Your Life at Work by Alison Green, Call Number: 650.13 G795a

The Astonishing Power of Storytelling: Leading, Teaching, and Transforming in a New Way by Robert J. Garmston, Call Number: 372.67 G233a

Baseball: A History of America’s Game (4th ed.) by Benjamin G. Rader, Call Number: 796.357 R127b

The Best American Travel Writing by Bill Bryson, Call Number: 910.4 B561

Between Past and Future: Eight Exercise in Political Thought by Hannah Arendt, Call Number: 909.82 A681b

Demystifying Hospice: Inside the Stories of Patients and Caregivers by Karen J. Clayton, Call Number: 616.029 C622d

Digital Photography for Dummies (8th ed.) by Julie Adair King, Call Number: 778.3 K534d

Disrupt You! Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation by Jay Samit, Call Number: 650.1 S188d

Doing Harm: How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery, Call Number: 613.042 D972d

Evolution 2.0: Breaking the Deadlock Between Darwin and Design by Perry Marshall, Call Number: 231.765 m369e

Free Public Transit: And Why We don’t Pay to Ride Elevators, Editors by Judith Dellheim and Jason Prince, Call Number: 388.4 F853

From Broken Glass: My Story of Finding Hope in Hitler’s Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation by Steve Ross, Call Number: 940.53 R826f

From Somalia to Snow: How Central Minnesota Became Home to Somalis by Hudda ibrahim, Call Number: 977.6 I14f

Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties by Beth Kobliner, Call Number: 332.024 K758g 2017

The History of Great Britain (2nd ed – The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations) by Anne B. Rodrick, Call Number: 941 R696h

How to Be a Successful Student: 20 Study Habits Based on the Science of Learning by Richard E. Mayer, Call Number: 371.302 M468h

Leaders: Myth and Reality by General Stanley McChrystal, Jeff Eggers and Jason Mangone, Call Number: 303.34 M124L

Mascot Nation: The Controversy Over Native American Representations in Sports by Andrew C. Billings and jason Edward Black, Call Number: 305.897 B598m

Microsoft Office 2019 by Wallace Wang, Call number: 005.5 W246o

Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy by David Grewbow and Stephen J. Gill, Call Number: 658.3 G788m

Narrative History of the American Press by Gregory A. Borchard, Call Number: 071.3 B726n

National Geographic Guide to State Parks of the United States (5th ed.), Call Number: 917.3 N277n

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander, Call Number: 364.973 A377n

The Psychology of School Bullying by Peter K. Smith, Call Number: 371.58 S656p

The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Tell Your Family History, Fight Smarter, go Out and Play, and Much More! by Bruce Feiler, Call Number: 306.85 F298s

The Social Impact of Advertising: Confessions of an (Ex-)Advertising Man by Tony Kelso, Call Number: 659.1 K299s

Student Plagiarism in Higher Education: Reflections on Teaching Practice, Edited by Diane Pecorari and Philip Shaw, Call Number: 808.02 S933s

Technology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas (3rd ed.), Edited by Carroll Pursell), Call Number: 609.73 T255t

These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore, Call Number: 973 L598t

Understanding Animal Behavior by Rory Putman, Call Number: 591.5 P988u

Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism by ian Bremmer, Call number: 303.482 B836u

A Very Short, Fairly Interesting, and Reasonably Cheap Book about Globalization by Leo McCann, Call Number: 303.482 M122v

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.

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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.

1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy by James Horn, Call Number: 975.5 H813s

Are u ok?: A Guide to Caring for Your Mental Health – How to Know if You Need Help and Where to Find It by Kati Morton, Call Number: 616.89 M889a 2018

Are You Fully Charged?: The Three Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life by Tom Rath, Call Number: 158.1 R234a

Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car – And How it will Reshape Our World by Lawrence D. Burns with Christopher Shulgan, Call Number: 388.342 B967a

The Book With No Pictures by B.J. Novak, Call Number: CL Easy Reading 813.6 N935b
NOTE: A picturebook with no pictures, but a great read aloud.

Busy: How to Thrive in a World of Too Much by Tony Crabbe, Call Number: 155.24 C883b

Can You Outsmart an Economist?: 100+ Puzzles to Train Your Brain by Steven E. Landsburg, Call Number: 330 L263c

Capitalism in America: A History by Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge, Call Number: 330.973 G815c

Cover of Are U OK?

China in Ten Words (People, Leader, Reading, Writing, Lu Xun, Revolution, Disparity, Grassroots, Copycat, Bamboozle) by Yu Hua, Call Number: 951 Y94c 2012

The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution by Julius S. Scott, Call Number: 972.94 S427c

Contemporary Africa (Contemporary States and Societies) by Matthew Graham, Call Number: 960.3 G741c

Craig and Fred: A Marine, A Stray Dog, and How They Rescued Each Other by Craig Grossi, Call Number: 636.7 G878c
NOTE: A marine in remote Afghanistan made friends with a stray dog. He was able to sneak the dog onto base and then got him into the United States to his family in Virginia. When Craig came home a few months later he credits the dog for saving him to Post-Traumatic Stress.

Finding a New Midwestern History, Edited by Jon K. Lauck, Gleaves Whitney, and Joseph Hogan, Call Number: 977 F494f

Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World by Angela Aini, Call Number: 509.54 S132g

Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca Traister, Call Number: 305.42 T768g

Understanding Learning and Related Disabilities: Inconvenient Brains by Martha Bridge Denckla, Call Number: 618.92 D391u 2019

Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives: The First 1,000 Years by Chase F. Robinson, Call Number: 909.07R658i

Let the People See: The Story of Emmet Till by Elliott J. Gorn, Call Number: 364.134 T574g

LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media by P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking, Call Number: 302.231 S617L

Cover of Islamic Civilization in 30 Lives

Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky, Call Number: 650.11 K675m

Microsoft Office 2019: Step by Step by Joan Lambert and Curtis Frye, Call Number: 005.5 L222m

The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chugh, Call Number: 303.3 C559p

To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice by Michael K. Honey, Call Number: 323.092 H772t

Racing to the Finish: My Story by Dale Earnhardt, Jr. with Ryan McGee, Call Number: 796.72E127r
NOTE: One of the great NASCAR drivers, Earnhardt was also concerned about the effects of repeated race related concussions. He talks both about what the sport is like and his concerns to raise awareness about the issues behind concussions.

Small Fry: A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Call Number: 818.6 B838s
NOTE: This is the story of Lisa Brennan-Jobs, who is the daughter of artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs, growing up between her parents in California in the 70s and 80s.

Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television by Joy Press, Call Number: 791.45 P935s

The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah,Call Number: 302.5 A647L

To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice by Michael K. Honey, Call Number: 323.092 H772t

Walls:a History of Civilization in Blood and Brick by David Frye, Call Number 909 F948w

What You Need to Know About Autism by Christopher M. Cumo, Call Number: 616.85 C971w 2019

What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape by Sohaila Abdulali, Call Number: 364.153 A136w

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt by Kara Cooney, Call Number: 932 C775w
NOTE: The great female Pharaohs.

Why They CAN’T Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities by John Warner, Call Number: 808.042 W282w

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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.

Popular Books

Just One Day by Gayle Forman, Call Number: PB FOR

The Lost Queen of Crocker County: A Novel by Elizabeth Leiknes, Call Number: PB LEI

Nonfiction Books

The Addiction Solution: Treating Our Dependence On Opioids and Other Drugs by Lloyd I. Sederer, Call Number: 362.29 S447a

American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse, Call Number: 364.164 H587s

Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by Edith Sheffer, Call Number: 618.92 S542a

Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience by Allison Pataki, Call Number: PB PAT
NOTE: “Five months pregnant, on a flight to their “babymoon,” Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange and watched him suddenly lose consciousness. After an emergency landing, she discovered that Dave—a healthy thirty-year-old athlete and surgical resident—had suffered a rare and life-threatening stroke. Next thing Allison knew, she was sitting alone in the ER in Fargo, North Dakota, waiting to hear if her husband would survive the night. When Dave woke up, he could not carry memories from hour to hour, much less from one day to the next. Allison had lost the Dave she knew and loved when he lost consciousness on the plane. Within a few months, she found herself caring for both a newborn and a sick husband, struggling with the fear of what was to come.”

Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World by Joshua B. Freeman, Call Number: 338.6 F855b

Blind Justice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions by Mark Godsey, Call Number: 345.73 G589b

Blood and Ivy: The 1849 Murder that Scandalized Harvard by Paul Collins, Call Number: 364.152 C712B
NOTE: “On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city’s richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston’s West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting his alma mater, Harvard Medical School. Police scoured city tenements and the harbor, and offered hefty rewards as leads put the elusive Dr. Parkman at sea or hiding in Manhattan. But one Harvard janitor held a much darker suspicion: that their ruthless benefactor had never left the Medical School building alive….it became a landmark case in the use of medical forensics and the meaning of reasonable doubt.”

The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson, Call Number: 364.134 T994b

Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees by Thor Hansen, Call Number: 595.79 H251b

Careers in Media and Communication by Stephanie A. Smith, Call Number: 302.23 S661c

Corridor Rising: A Decade of Reinvestment Following the 2008 Floods, Call Number: 977.7 C825

Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee, Call Number: 808.08 P995d

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

Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman by Robert L. O’Connell, Call Number: 973.709 O182f

George Washington Carver: In His Own Words (2nd ed.), Edited by Gary R. Kremer, Call Number: 630.92 C331kr

Guide to Financial Markets: Why They Exist and How They Work by Marc Levinson, Call Number: 332.64 L665g

Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and Why by Dean Burnett, Call Number: 612.82 B964h

In the Field: Life and Work in Cultural Anthropology by George Gmelch and Sharon Bohn Gmelch, Call Number: 306.072 G569i

Inc.: Start a Successful Business – Expert Advice To Take Your Startup From Idea to Empire by Colleen DeBaise, Call Number: 658.1 D286s

The Internet Trap: Five Costs of Living Online by Ashesh Mukherjee, Call Number: 302.23 M953i
NOTE: “Whether we are checking emails, following friends on Facebook and Twitter, catching up on gossip from TMZ, planning holidays on TripAdvisor, arranging dates on Match.com, watching videos on Youtube, or simply browsing for deals on Amazon, the internet pervades our professional and personal environments. The internet has revolutionized our lives, but at what cost? Mukherjee uses the latest research in consumer psychology to highlight five hidden costs of living online: too many temptations, too much information, too much customization, too many comparisons, and too little privacy.”

Life on Mars: What To Know Before We Go by David A. Weintraub, Call Number: 523.43 W424L

Lock, Stock, and Barrel: The Origins of American Gun Culture by Clayton E. Cramer, Call Number: 683.4 C889L

Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World’s Greatest Art Heist by Stephen Kurkjian, Call Number: 364.16 K968m

Millennials and the Moments That Made Us: A Cultural History of the U.S. from 1982-Present by Shaun Scott, Call Number: 305.209 S429m

One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter (Essays) by Scaachi Koul, Call Number:813.6 K881o

Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World War by Jorn Leonhard, Call Number: 940.3 L584p

The Power of Framing: Creating the Language of Leadership by Gail T. Fairhurst, Call Number: 658.4 F171
NOTE: Defining the meaning of a situation to gain control of it.

Practical English Usage (Fully Revised 4th ed.) by Michael Swan, Call Number: ELA 428.2 S972p

Psychology in the Classroom: A Teacher’s Guide to What Works by Marc Smith and Jonathan Firth, Call Number: 370.15 S655p

Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It’s Doing to Us by Will Stohr, Call Number: 155.2 S886

Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures by Nick Pyenson, Call Number: 599.5 P995s

A Student Guide to Study Abroad by Stacie Nevadomski Berdan, Allan Goodman, and Sir Cyril Taylor, Call Number: 370.116 B486s

Superbugs: An Arms Race Against Bacteria by William Hall, Anthony McDonnell, and Jim O’Neill, Call Number: 616.9 H181s

Superhero Ethics: 10 Comic Book Heroes, 10 Ways to Save the World, Which One Do We Need Most Now? by Travis Smith, Call Number 741.509 S662s

Twenty Years of Life: Why the Poor Die Earlier and How to Challenge Inequality by Suzanne Bohan, Call Number: 362.5 B676t

Undocumented by John Moore, Call Number: 304.873 M822u

Using Picture Books to Enhance Children’s Social and Emotional Literacy: Creative Activities and Programs for Parents and Professionals by Susan Elswick, Call Number: 372.133 E499u

Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World by Andrea Barnet, Call Number: 305.409 B261v

Weather: A Concise Introduction by Gregory Hakim and Jerome Patoux, Call Number: 551.5 H155w

Why? Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes, Call Number: 940.53

You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, and Other Mixed Messages (Essays) by Carina Chocano, Call Number: 305.42 C545Y

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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.

Children’s Literature

Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz by Michael Bornstein and Debbie Bornstein Holinstat, Call Number: CL 940.53 B736s

 

Odds and Ends

The American Indian Integration of Baseball by Jeffrey Powers-Back, Call Number: 796.357 P888a

American Kingpin by Nick Bilton, Call Number: 364.16 B599a
NOTE: “In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything — drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons — free of the government’s watchful eye. It wasn’t long before the media got wind of the new Web site where anyone — not just teenagers and weed dealers but terrorists and black hat hackers — could buy and sell contraband detection-free.”

The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking by Saifedean Ammous, Call Number: 332.1 A521b

Brains on Fire: Igniting Powerful, Sustainable, Word of Mouth Movements by Robbin Phillips, Greg Cordell, Geno Church, and Spike Jones, Call Number: 659.13 B814b

Cedar Rapids: Downtown and Beyond by George T. Henry and Mark W. Hunter, Call Number: 977.762 H522c

Counting Down: A Memoir of Foster Parenting and Beyond by Deborah Gold, Call Number: 362.73 G618c

The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker, Call Number: 658 D794d

Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni, Call Number: 658.4 L563d

Don’t Bullsh*t Yourself! Crush the Excuses That Are Holding You Back by Jon Taffer, Call Number: 650.1 T124d
NOTE: The host of Bar Rescue explains how you need to step up to improve your life instead of making excuses about why you can’t.

For the Love of Cities: The Love Affair Between People and Their Places by Peter Kageyama, Call Number: 307.76 K119f

From Warm Center to Ragged Edge: The Erosion of Midwestern Literary and Historical Regionalism, 1920-1965 by Jon K. Lauck, Call Number: 810.9 L366f

The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil, Call Number: 967.571 W243g
NOTE: According to Alexis Okeowo of NYT Book Review this book: “describe Wamariya’s idyllic early childhood in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, and the madness that followed with an analytic eye and, at times, a lyrical honesty…. Wamariya is piercing about her alienation in America and her effort to combat the perception that she is an exotic figure, to be pitied or dismissed…. Wamariya tells her own story with feeling, in vivid prose. She has remade herself, as she explains was necessary to do, on her own terms.”

Growing a Sustainable City? The Question of Urban Agriculture by Christina D. Rosan and Hamil Pearsall, Call Number: 630.917 R788g

The Heritage: Black Athletes, A Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism by Howard Bryant, Call Number: 306.483 B915h

“I Could Write a Book…” by Roy Reiman, Call Number: 070.175 R363i

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara, Call Number: 364.15 M169i

Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Call Number: 612.8 B636i

Korea Reborn: A Grateful Nation – Honors War Veterans for More Than 60 Years of Growth, Call Number: 951.904 R386

A Land of Ghosts: The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far Western Amazonia by David G. Campbell, Call Number: 981 C187L

Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression — and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari, Call Number: 616.85 H281L

Magic Bean: The Rise of Soy in America by Matthew Roth, Call Number: 633.3 R845m

Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care by Charles Silver and David A. Hyman, Call Number: 368.38 S587o

PowerPhrases!: The Perfect Words to Say it Right and Get the Results You Want by Meryl Runion, Call Number: 658.452 R942p

Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refugee State by Dawn Chatty, Call Number: 956.91 C495s

White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America by Joan C. Williams, Call Number: 305.5 W724w

The World on Time: The 11 Management Principles That Made FedEx An Overnight Sensation by James C. Wetherbe, Call Number: 388.044 W539w

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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.

DVDs

Alain Resnais Night and Fog

Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America

Books

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson, Call Number: 616.89 G358h

Are Black Men Doomed? by Alford A. Young, Jr., Call Number: 305.38 Y682

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

Betty Crocker Cookbook: Everything You Need to Know to Cook from Scratch, Call Number: 641.5 C938b

Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald, Call Number: 155.9 B212b

Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified by Robert O. Friedel, Call Number: 616.85 F899b

Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina, Call Number PB MED

Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Robin Yassinn Kassab and Leila Al-Shami, Call Number: 823.912 M442p

Children of the Aging Self-Absorbed: A Guide to Coping with Difficult, Narcissistic Parents and Grandparents by Nina W. Brown, Call Number: 305.2 B879c
NOTE: Learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones.

Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses by L. Dee Fink, Call Number: 378.12 F499c

Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden, Call Number: 951.93 H259e

Exit, Pursued By a Bear by E.K. Johnston, Call Number 813.6 J724e

Gerontology: The Basics by Jennifer R. Sasser and Harry R. Moody, Call Number: 305.26 S252g

The Healing Power of Essential Oil: Soothe Inflammation, Boost Mood, Prevent Autoimmunity, and Feel Great in Every Way by Eric Zielinski, D.C., Call Number: 615.3 Z667h
NOTE: With More than 150 recipes and remedies.

The Importance of Being Funny: Why We Need More Jokes in Our Lives by Al Gini, Call Number: 152.4 G492i

India in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know by Mira Kamdar, Call Number: 954.05 K152i

Invisible Slaves: The Victims and Perpetrators of Modern-Day Slavery by W. Kurt Hauser, Call Number: 306.3 H376i

McKeachie’s Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers by Wilbert J. McKeachie, Call Number: 37801 M154m

Navigating Life with Migraines and Other Headaches by William B. Young and Stephen D. Silberstein, Call Number: 616.8 Y782n

Parrots of the World: Up Close with the World’s Cleverest Birds by Steve Brookes, Call Number: 598.71 B872p

Picture-Writing of the American Indians by Garrick Mallery, Call Number: 497 M252p
NOTE: With 54 Plates and 1290 Text Illustrations.

The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English by Lynne Murphy, Call Number: 427 M978p

The Psychology of Addiction by Jenny Svanberg, Call Number: 616.85 S968p

The Psychology of Grief by Richard Gross, Call Number: 155.9 K152p

The Psychology of Performance by Stewart T. Cotterill, Call Number: 152.4 C847p

A Single Blow: The Battles of Lexington and Concord and the Beginning of the American Revolution, April 19, 1775 by Phillip S. Greenwalt and Robert Orrison, Call Number: 973.3 G816s

The Stretching Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Improving Fitness and Flexibility by Lexie Williamson, Call Number: 613.7 W731s

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

Tumor by Anna Leahy, Call Number: 616.99 L434t

Twitter (2nd ed.) by Dhiraj Murthy, Call Number: 006.7 M984t

Universe in Creation: A New Understanding of the Big Bang and the Emergence of Life by Roy R. Gould, Call Number: 570.1 G697u

Weather: A Very Short Introduction by Storm Dunlop, Call Number: 551.6 D922w

We’ll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction (With a New Preface) by Susan Eisenberg, Call Number: 331.4 E362w

Will Robots Take Your Job?: A Plea for Consensus by Nigel M de S. Cameron, Call Number: 331.12 C182w

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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.

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

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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.

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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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 America’s Test Kitchen Cooking School Cookbook: Everything You Need to Know to Become a Great Cook by America’s Test Kitchen, Call Number: 641.3 S416

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips, Call Number: 305.8 P562b
NOTE: The unsolved murder of a white woman lead to lynching and the forcible expulsion of the entire African-American community from a county in Georgia. This is the story.

The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien and edited by his son Christopher Tolkien, Call Number: PB TOL

Cook’s Science: How to Unlock Flavor in 50 of Our Favorite Ingredients by Cook’s Illustrated, Call Number:641.5 C773

Dress Code: The Naked Truth about Fashion by Mari Grinde Arntzen, Call Number: 646.4 A767d

The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe CA. 1200 B.C. by Robert Drews, Call Number: 930 D776e

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

History of African Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots by Thomas J. Davis, Call Number: 973 D264h

Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in the Age of Distraction by Derek Thompson, Call Number: 306.3 T469h

Hot X: Algebra Exposed by Danica McKellar, Call Number: 512 M154h

Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times by Kenneth Whyte, Call Numbers: 973.916 H789w
NOTE: The story of the only President born in Iowa, so far.

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay, Call Number: 306.4 G285h
NOTE: Gay recounts a childhood sexual assault that led her to purposely gain weight in order to be unseen and therefore “safe.” Gay warns at the beginning of the book that if you’re looking for a triumphant weight loss memoir, this is not it.

I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons by Kevin Hart, Call Number: 792.702 H325i
NOTE: Born an accident in poverty, today Hart is the biggest comedian in the world.

I’m Fine…And Other Lies by Whitney Cummings, Call Number: 792.7 C971i
NOTE: The comedian and creator of 2 Broke Girls tells stories of her life.

In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer’s by Joseph Jebelli, Call Number: 616.8 J44i

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.

Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who’s Boss by Danica McKellar, Call Number:512 M154k

Latinos in the United States: What Everyone Needs to Know by Ilan Stavans, Call Number: 973.0046 S798L

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

Lou Reed: A Life by Anthony DeCurtis, Call Number: 782.421 R324d
NOTE: As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground and a renowned solo artist, Lou Reed invented alternative rock.

Math Doesn’t Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail by Danica McKellar, Call Number: 610 M154m

The Next America: Boomers, Millennials and the Looming Generational Showdown by Paul Taylor and the Pew Research Center, Call Number: 305.209 T245n 2017

Plants of the World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Vascular Plants by Maarten J. M. Christenhusz, Michael F. Fay, and Mark W. Chase, Call Number: 580.3 C554p

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

Sams Teach Yourself Beginning Programming in 24 Hours (3rd ed) by Greg Perry and Dean Miller, Call Number: 005.1 P463s

Student Dress Codes and the First Amendment: Legal Challenges and Policy Issues by Richard Fossey and Todd A. Demitchell, Call Number: 344.73 F752s

The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur by Scott S. Greenberger, Call Number: 973.84 G798u

Women and Elective Office: Past, Present, and Future (3rd ed.), Edited by Sue Thomas and Clyde Wilcox, Call Number: 320.082 W872

Word of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought, Edited by Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Call Number: 305.48 W924

You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a “Useless” Liberal Arts Education by George Anders, Call Number: 331.702 A544y

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