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)