LFA Library

New Materials (Dec 2020 - Jan 2021)

eBooks (Overdrive—Sora app) (Red= Fiction, Poetry, Graphic Works; Blue= Non-Fiction)

Title Author

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black Edited by Ibi Zoboi (A selection of stories from the Black Liberation Reading List from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)

A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution Jennifer A. Doudna & Samuel H. (Author Jennifer A. Doudna won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Sternberg Book Prize)

Death of Comrade President: A Novel Alain Mabanckou (Winner of the French Voices Grand Prize; Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize)

Down Along With That Devil’s Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of Connor Towne O’Neill White Supremacy (A Best Social Science Book of 2020 by Library Journal; A Best Southern Book of 2020 by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Author is producer of the NPR Podcast White Lies, which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting)

Elementary, She Read (A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery) Vicki Delany

Leave the World Behind Rumaan Alam (Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction; A Best Book of the Year by , Time Magazine, LA Times, NPR, Library Journal, New Yorker, Boston Globe…)

A Little History of Economics Naill Kishtainy

Punching the Air Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam (A Best Book of the Year by Time Magazine, School Library Journal, and the NY Public Library)

Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life Avinash K. Dixit & Barry J. Nalebuff What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism Dan Rather & Elliot Krischner

A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence & Evolution of Life Stuart A. Kauffman (A Top Ten Book by New Scientist Magazine)

Audiobooks (Overdrive—Sora app) (Red= Fiction, Poetry, Graphic Works; Blue= Non-Fiction)

Title Author

Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Jennifer Berry Hawes Forgiveness (Winner of the 2020 Audie Award for Best Non-Fiction; A Notable Book of the Year and Editor’s Choice by the New York Times; Author is Pulitzer Prize winning journalist)

The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World’s Tracy Walder & Jessica Anya Blau Most Notorious Terrorists

Who Put This Song On? Morgan Parker Print Collection

(Red= Fiction, Poetry, Graphic Works; Blue= Non-Fiction)

Title Author

Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir (Graphic Works) Robin Ha (Harvey Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Book)

Growing Things: And Other Stories Paul Tremblay (Winner of the Bram Stoker Award)

The Institute Stephen King

Interior Chinatown: A Novel (Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction)

Midnight Sun (Book 5 of the Twilight Saga) Stephanie Meyer

Olive, Again (Book 2 of Olive Kitteridge) Elizabeth Strout (Author is previous winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; A Best Book of the Year by NPR, Time, Guardian, Washington Post, New York Public Library…)

Origin: A Novel (Book 5 of the Robert Langdon Series) Dan Brown

A Promised Land Barack Obama (A Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, NPR, Guardian, Washington Post…)

Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World Maryanne Wolf

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland Patrick Radden Keefe (Winner of the Orwell Prize; Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction, Best Nonfiction Book of the Year by Time Magazine)

Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime Sean Carroll (A Science News Favorite Science Book of 2019)

Print Books-- Alumni Donation Books Donated by LFA Alum Phil Willkie ’72, Grandson of Wendell Willkie

Title Author

1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler—the Election Amid the Storm Susan Dunn

The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His David Levering Lewis Country, and Conceived a New World Order (Author is two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography)

One World Wendell Willkie

Roosevelt’s Second Act: The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War Richard Moe (Winner of the PROSE Award, U.S. History Category)

DVDs

(Red= Feature Films; Blue = Documentary Films) Title

Apollo 11 (Nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Documentary; Winner of the Hollywood Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Film; Winner of the Critics Choice Documentary Award)

The Secret Garden (2020 production starring Colin Firth, Julie Walters and Dixie Egericky)

Videogames

Title

Madden NFL21 (XBOX)

No Man’s Sky Beyond (PS4) (2020 Game Award for Best Ongoing Game)