LFA Library: New Acquisitions (Oct- Nov 2016) Overdrive Ebooks
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LFA Library: New Acquisitions (Oct- Nov 2016) *Starred Items Relate to HOS Symposium Topic Overdrive eBooks (Red= Fiction; Black= Non-Fiction) Title Author American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst Jeffrey Toobin Breathing Lessons (Winner 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) Anne Tyler Dear Committee Members Julie Schumacher Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic (Winner 2016 National Book Critics Circle Sam Quinones Award) Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power Rachel Maddow Eva’s Story: A Survivor’s Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank Eva Schloss Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Finalist 2016 Kirkus Prize for Non-Fiction) Matthew Desmond The Exorcist William Peter Blatty From #Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis J. D. Vance How to Read Literature like a Professor (Revised) Thomas C. Foster Homegoing Yaa Gyasi LaRose Louise Erdrich The Long and Faraway Gone (Winner 2016 Edgar Award) Lou Berney News of the World (Finalist 2016 National Book Award for Fiction) Paulette Jiles The Noise of Time Julian Barnes The Round House (Winner 2012 National Book Award for Fiction) Louise Erdrich Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets Svetlana Alexievich (2015 Nobel Prize Winner) A Short History of Nearly Everything (Special Illustrated Edition) Bill Bryson Small Great Things Jodi Picoult Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength C. S. Lewis This Census-Taker China Mieville Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy Cathy O’Neil (Longlisted 2016 National Book Award) When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide Carol Anderson The Wise King: A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance Simon R. Doubleday Print Collection (Red= Fiction and Graphic Works; Black= Non Fiction) Title Author The Arab of the Future 2: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1984-1985 (Graphic Work) Raid Sattouf *Cannibal (Winner 2016 Whiting Award; Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry) Safiya Sinclair Eleanor Roosevelt: The War Years and After, 1939-1967 (Volume 3) Blanche Wiesen Cook Elsie De Wolfe’s Paris: Frivolity Before the Storm Charlie Scheips Fifteen Dogs (Winner Scotiabank Giller Prize and Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize) Andre Alexis Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” Retold Margaret Atwood Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir Maggie Thrash Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez: An Autobiography Richard Rodriguez My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry Fredrick Backman The Nightingale Kristin Hannah *The Pain Tree: Stories (Finalist 2012 Commonwealth Writers Prize) Olive Senior The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything Adrian Bejan Vinegar Girl: William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” Retold Anne Tyler The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 James Shapiro Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist Sunil Yapa DVDs (Red= Feature Films; Black = Documentary Films) Title 1916: The Irish Rebellion (PBS) Arts 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 8 (PBS ) Circle Unbroken: A Gullah Journey from Africa to America: How Slave History Shaped American Culture The Face: Jesus in Art (PBS) The Fantasy Sports Gamble: An Investigation into Daily Fantasy Sports and Online Betting (PBS) Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventure Collection (Raiders of the Lost Ark; Temple of Doom; Last Crusade; Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) The Mask You Live In Race Videogames Title Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (PS4) Fifa17 (XBOX 360) Just Dance 2017 (WiiU) Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst (PS4) NBA 2K16 (PS4) No Man’s Sky (PS4) .