LFA Library: New Materials (April - May 2018)
Overdrive eBooks (Red= Fiction or Graphic Works; Black= Non-Fiction) Title Author
Augustown Kei Miller (Winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature; Finalist for a PEN Open Book Award)
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II Liza Mundy
Bellevue Square Michael Redhill (Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize)
Built: The Hidden Story Behind Our Structures Roma Agrawal
Daily Life in the Mongol Empire George Lane
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Daniel Ellsberg (Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction)
Fascism: A Warning Madeleine Albright
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth Michio Kaku
Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America Michael Ruhlman
The Hole Hye-young Pyun (Nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award)
A Horse Walks into a Bar: A Novel David Grossman (Winner of the Man Booker International Prize)
How Democracies Die Steven Levitsky
The Idiot Elif Batuman (Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction)
If I Die Tonight Alison Gaylin
The Incas Terence N. D’Altroy
Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle Over Civil Rights Steven Levingston
The Power Naomi Alderman (Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction)
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women Kate Moore (Nominated for a Lincoln Award from the Illinois School Library Media Association)
Refuge Dina Nayeri
The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao Ian Johnson
Young Radicals: In the War for American Ideals Jeremy McCarter
Print Collection
(Red= Fiction or Graphic Works; Black= Non-Fiction) Title Author
Apartheid in South Africa: A Brief History with Documents David M. Gordon
The Changeling: A Novel Victor LaValle (Nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award)
Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Colonialism Mahmood Mamdani
Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World James E. Lindsay
Daily Life of the Aztecs: People of the Sun and Earth David Carrasco with Scott Sessions The Fisherman: A Novel John Langan (Winner of the Bram Stoker Award)
The House of Broken Angels Luis Alberto Urrea
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates Wes Moore
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World Christopher de Hamel (Winner of the Wolfson History Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize)
The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror Mallory Ortberg
Ready Player One Ernest Cline (Booklist Editors Choice Award: Adult Books for Young Adults)
The Sudden Appearance of Hope Claire North (Winner of the World Fantasy Award)
Strategic Choices and U.S. Foreign Policy (Headline Series: Foreign Policy Association) Jonathan Chans
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II Svetlana Alexievich (English Translation of book first published in 1985 by Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize Winner in Literature)
DVDs
(Red= Feature Films; Black = Documentary Films) Title
Eva (Spanish language film- no subtitles)
Darkest Hour (Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture)
Faces Places (Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature)
Lady Bird (Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture)
Last Men in Aleppo (Nominated for Academy Award for best Documentary Feature)
The Long Road Home (National Geographic TV Miniseries)
Murder on the Orient Express (Directed by Kenneth Branagh, 2017)
The Post (Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Videogames
Title
Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings (PS4)
Dragonball FighterZ (Xbox One)
Shadow of the Colossus (PS4)