LFA Library: New Acquisitions (April- May 2016)
Overdrive eBooks (Red= Fiction; Black= Non-Fiction)
Title Author
AIDS: Between Science and Politics Peter Piot
Archipelago (WINNER 2013 OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR CARIBBEAN LITERATURE) Monique Roffey
Arms: The Culture and Credo of the Gun Andrew Somerset
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (WINNER 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY) William Finnegan
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning Timothy Snyder
Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Marcia Bartusiak Became Loved
Bone Gap (WINNER 2016 PRINTZ AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE; FINALIST Laura Ruby 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD)
A Brief History of Seven Killings (WINNER 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE; WINNER 2015 AMERICAN BOOK Marlon James AWARD; FINALIST 2015 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD)
City on Fire: A Novel Garth Risk Hallberg
The Country of Ice Cream Star: A Novel Sandra Newman
Crooked River: A Novel Valerie Geary
Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America (WINNER 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORY) T.J. Stiles
The Darkest Part of the Forest (WINNER 2015 ABA INDIES CHOICE FOR YA BOOK OF THE YEAR) Holly Black
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated Dean Jobb the Nation
Finding Jake: A Novel Bryan Reardon
A General Theory of Oblivion (SHORTLISTED 2016 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE) Jose Eduardo Agualusa; translated from the Portuguese by David Haas Get in Trouble (FINALIST 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION) Kelly Link
The Grind: Inside Baseball’s Endless Season (FINALIST 2016 PEN LITERARY AWARD FOR SPORTS Barry Svrluga WRITING)
The Haters Jesse Andrews
Lab Girl Hope Jahren
The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish Linda Przybyszewski
Maud’s Line (FINALIST 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION) Margaret Verble
Michelle Obama: A Life (FINALIST 2016 PEN LITERARY AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY) Peter Slevin
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System Jon Krakauer
The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Annie Jacobsen Agency (FINALIST 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORY)
Prayers for the Stolen: A Novel Jennifer Clement
Refund: Stories (FINALIST 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD) Karen E. Bender
The Regional Office is under Attack! Manuel Gonzales
The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball’s Lost Triumph Scott Ellsworth
Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Linda Hirshman Changed the World
The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults Frances E. Jensen
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape (FINALIST 2016 PEN OPEN BOOK Lauret Savoy AWARD)
The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories (FINALIST 2015 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD) Anthony Marra
The War on Drugs: A Failed Experiment Paula Mallea
Wonders of the Invisible World (WINNER STONEWALL HONOR BOOK AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT Christopher Barzak LGBT LITERATURE)
The Year of the Runaways: A Novel (SHORTLISTED 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE) Sunjeev Sahota
Print Collection
(Red= Fiction and Graphic Works; Black= Non Fiction)
Title Author
The Blizzard (FINALIST 2016 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE) Vladimir Sorokin; translated from Russia by Jamey Gambrell Childhood and Other Neighborhoods Stuart Dybek
Comics and Conflict: Patriotism and Propaganda from WWII through Operation Iraqi Freedom Cord A. Scott
Days on the Family Farm: From the Golden Age through the Great Depression Carrie A. Meyer
The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America Ethan Michaeli
Delicious Foods: A Novel (WINNER 2015 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION; FINALIST LOS James Hannaham ANGELES TIMES PRIZE FOR FICTION)
Did You Ever Have a Family: A Novel (LONGLISTED 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD & MAN BOOKER Bill Clegg PRIZE)
Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2. The Defining Years (1933-1938) Blanche Wiesen Cook
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens Steve Olson
Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution Ada Ferrer
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle (WINNER 2016 STONEWALL BOOK AWARD FOR LGBT Lillian Faderman NON-FICTION)
If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran (FINALIST Carla Power 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD)
The Incarnations: A Novel (FINALIST 2015 KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION; WINNER 2015 JERWOOD Susan Barker FICTION UNCOVERED PRIZE)
Infamy: The Shocking Story of Japanese Internment in World War II Richard Reeves
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan Rick Perlstein
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps (FINALIST 2015 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD) Nikolaus Wachsmann
The Making of Asian America: A History (WINNER 2015 ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR Erika Lee LITERATURE)
Marching Home: Union Veterans and their Unending Civil War (FINALIST 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR Brian Matthew Jordan HISTORY)
The Mexican Revolution: A Brief History with Documents Mark Wasserman
The Other Slavery: The uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America Andres Resendez
Ozone Journal (WINNER 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY) Peter Balakian
Preparation for the Next Life: A Novel (WINNER 2015 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION) Atticus Lish
Rachel’s Blue Zakes Mda
Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682 Robert Goodwin
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (FINALIST 2015 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD; FINALIST Mary Beard 2015 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE)
South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid (2nd Edition) Nancy L. Clark and William H. Worger
A Strangeness in My Mind (NOMINEE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE) Orhan Pamuk
Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor (FINALIST 2016 PULITZER James M. Scott PRIZE FOR HISTORY)
The Three Body Problem (WINNER 2015 HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL; WINNER 2014 NEBULA Cixin Liu; translated by Ken Liu AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL)
Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future Lauren Redniss
The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death Under Soviet Rule (A Graphic Work) Igort
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution Nathaniel Philbrick
DVDs
(Red= Feature Films; Black = Documentary Films)
Title
Avalon
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (PBS Video)
Brooklyn (2016 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST PICTURE)
Cartel Land (2016 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY)
Concussion
Downton Abbey: Season 6; The Final Season
Gallipoli
Jackie Robinson (A Ken Burns Film; PBS Video)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
Macbeth (A Film by Justin Kurzel, starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard)
The Mine Wars (PBS Video)
Son of Saul (2016 ACADEMY AWARD WINNER BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM; GOLDEN GLOBE WINNER BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Take Me To the River Videogames
Title
Halo 5: Guardians (XBOX )
Just Dance 2016 (PS4)
Mario & Sonic and the Olympic Games (WII)
Tom Clancy’s “The Division” (PS4)