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Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir
A candid account of marriage and motherhood, and an excellent choice for book groups.
Combined with the author’s gripping style, his sources make this an informative, deeply engaging take on an ever-shifting region. With Eastern Europe’s traditional nations regrouping into Scandinavia, Central Europe, and Eastern Adriatic, this timely book will appeal to readers seeking a fresh take on European history.
This is an important and moving analysis of the development of a formal Populism movement in the United States, also important for understanding lowercase-p populism in today’s politics.
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Staging Emily Dickinson: The History and Enduring Influence of William Luce’s The Belle of Amherst
Bursting with anecdotes, personal stories, and careful research, this is an important contribution to American theater history. Readers who cannot imagine a life without stage performances will thoroughly enjoy this book.
Readers looking for a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the world of television production, as well as those searching for inspiration and motivation to pursue their own dreams, will enjoy this memoir. It’s a great addition to a collection looking to round out its entertainment section.
Blake’s message of empathetic compassion and coming together as a community is a balm for a divided country that leans on sensationalism, hate, and scare tactics. An essential purchase for all libraries, especially those with DEI collections. It will likely appeal to readers who enjoyed How To Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi and White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo.
Campbell merges memoir and hardboiled mystery to create a fascinating and revealing portrait of how world events impact an individual’s sense of self and creative drive.
This fine collection of Indigenous stories from Southeastern U.S. tribes adds a cultural depth to folklore collections, fitting for both scholarly anthropology as well as for use in classrooms.
An engaging read that’s filled with meticulous descriptions about how and why the wreck and mutiny unfolded. Readers who have a strong interest in high crimes on the sea and military history will want to dive in.
Exhaustively researched but written for a general audience, this book urges readers to consider the consequences of enslavement, racism, and the reality that manumission was less about people and more about money and power.
Calling all vegetarians and veggie lovers; the inspiration you have been looking for might be found in these new cookbooks out in May.
Of interest for libraries that cover city planning, landscape architecture, or urban design. This book would also be at home in libraries where readers are curious about economics, geography, political science, or the environment.
Great for libraries with lots of movie buffs, especially fans of silent films and classics, and for institutions with film studies programs.
With research and trial transcripts, the authors masterfully narrate this true account that reads like a novel that cannot be put down. A must for all libraries.
This book ranks as a powerful reminder of the resilience it takes for women to rise professionally in spaces traditionally reserved for men.
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Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire
Suitable for career collections and all that support fire science, environmental programs, and women’s studies.
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In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took on the US Army
This story about determined amateurs will likely be of interest to collections supporting entrepreneurship and personal development.
No need to be intimated by wine tasting, Petrosky delivers a fun and easy introduction that will have friends clamoring to start a wine club in this updated edition of her 2005 book.
This excellent work is chock-full of helpful and fascinating facts about a popular knitting technique. Ideal for intermediate and advanced knitters, and an essential purchase for crafts collections.
A quick-start intro guide to the craft of embroidery. Best suited for right-handed beginners who want to dive right into projects. Left-handed readers and those who have already mastered the basics but are interested in improving their skills are advised to look elsewhere.
Ideal for libraries with military or political collections. Valuable for libraries with journalism titles.
Peppered with fascinating tidbits such as Eleanor Roosevelt’s efforts to spearhead a distaff version of the CCC for young women, this book is a tasty treat for anyone interested in how food fueled the United States’ Depression recovery.
A beautifully designed book with fantastic photographs and a mouth-watering array of recipes that serve as a great introduction to Japanese cooking.
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100 Morning Treats: With Muffins, Rolls, Biscuits, Sweet and Savory Breakfast Breads, and More
Kieffer’s last two cookbooks (100 Cookies and Baking for the Holidays) earned critical acclaim and best-seller status, so expect high demand for this title. Although it isn’t as accessible for beginners as those previous titles, experienced baking enthusiasts will find a lot to love.
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Butcher on the Block: Everyday Recipes, Stories, and Inspirations from Your Local Butcher and Beyond
Recommended for carnivores looking for a great read, instruction on butchery, and a diversity of recipes that go beyond grilling.
This is a useful addition for consumer health collections that need an accessible, current book about perimenopause and menopause.
Equal parts meat-processing indictment, travelogue, hot dog history, and odd facts, this book is irreverent, hilarious, entertaining, honest, and, at times, gross. Will fascinate readers interested in hot dogs, road trips, and regional recipes.
While the information in this book isn’t particularly new or groundbreaking, its straightforward language and expressive illustrations of many different cat species make it a helpful read for families with children who are getting their first pet cat or for new cat owners looking for an easy manual to help guide their understanding of their new feline family member.
Mota successfully delivers cuisine and flavors that will evoke nostalgia in many while bringing a distinctive cookbook to library shelves.
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Seed to Table: A Seasonal Guide to Organically Growing, Cooking, and Preserving Food at Home
For his first print book, Ghafari, who created the Urban Farm and Kitchen blog, has written an approachable, deeply useful work for beginner gardeners that is enlivened with recipes and great images.
One part advocacy, one part travelogue, and one part instruction come together to create a distinctive seafood cookbook that will satisfy palates and readers alike. Recommended for libraries looking to add a robust title with broad appeal to their seafood cookery shelves.
Food lovers will enjoy Segnit’s meander through food memories, recipes, and advice, along with all the practical uses for this flavor reference guide.
A foreword by Jane Goodall and quirky dog drawings enhance this title. For comprehensive collections of materials on dog studies, animal cognition, and psychology and for general readers who love their pet dogs.
An intriguing combination of memoir and true crime. Perfect for readers who enjoyed Mary Roach’s Stiff and Caitlin Doughty’s Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.
This gripping tale of an attempted societal shift will entrance readers. Well-researched and accessible, its broad appeal makes it a necessary part of sociology and psychology collections.
Kahn covers history up to the present and considers the role of social media for young women engaging with today’s challenges. Best suited for school and large libraries.
Witty, thorough, and thoughtful, this informal history explains the political machinations and misinformation that led to Seven Oaks.
This thoughtful and enlightening book will likely appeal to history and cartography lovers of all levels.
A convincing argument that a company’s success requires leaders to have specific industry expertise.
Vrecek’s passion for her ride goes far toward offering a fresh take on traveling the difficult road to self-actualization.
Finkel will have art history and true crime lovers obsessively turning the pages of this suspenseful, smartly written work until its shocking conclusion.
In an era where many people in the U.S are protesting racism, this book is important reading for audiences of all levels to gain an understanding of past symbols of freedom and resistance and a way of looking forward.
History buffs and novices will appreciate this extensive, accessible, highly recommended work; it may inspire them to dig into lesser-known areas of global history.
Ehret provides a vital new perspective on Africa’s significant role in the ancient world. This is an essential book on early African history that uses several types of evidence to demonstrate how different groups in Africa impacted each other and eventually the world.
Astute, informative, and skillfully researched, Witham’s thought-provoking analysis will appeal to historians (and aspiring historians) who want a better grasp on the challenges and opportunities of history as a profession and the business of popular-history books.
This is an impassioned nonfiction narrative that interweaves the author’s personal and professional lives to relate the hostile environment of a global migration crisis.
This book about an unsolved murder that continues to haunt an affluent suburb of Cleveland is an optional purchase for libraries in the region.
Reading this book is a joyous exploration of the world through food and is an essential addition to cookbook collections nationwide.
A light and inviting cookbook of simple sweets for the French at heart. Recommended for those who follow the Great British Bake Off and to novice to intermediate bakers interested in making elegant desserts at home.
From a baking point of view, this adds some new things, and from a circulation standpoint, this will be a big winner.
Despite its engaging flowery prose, perhaps inspired by the literary aspects of Garfield’s diaries, this book’s length might attract only serious scholars. General readers may want to consider Benjamin Arrington’s The Last Lincoln Republican.
The book would’ve benefitted from a more inclusive study sampling. Nonetheless, it is jam-packed with practical and important information for women within the scope of its realm.
Informative and comprehensive, this book ranks as a must for readers in need of more resources on this topic.
There are limitations to this study, and the scholarly nature of the text may not be accessible to all readers. Nonetheless, Inhorn provides a provocative inquiry into a contemporary subject of interest to many.
This is a feel-better guide, more than a how-to book. Many parents will relate to its low-key voice and tone of acceptance.
Written in the tone of a best friend offering recommendations, this book is a quick and easy read. New and aspiring parents and Trainor’s many fans will likely devour this comprehensive guide.
This concise and helpful guide fills a gap in literature available for parents looking for safety data.
Overall, this book shines in its look at policy and historical views of this topic. Parents concerned about their child’s weight and body image will appreciate it.
A valuable tool for both parents and educators centered on Grandin’s personal experiences and her many years in the fields of autism and behavior science. This is essential for parents with an autistic child.
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Emily Dickinson Face to Face
With charming anecdotes and moments vividly recalled, Bianchi’s thoughtful account offers the rarest of first-hand glimpses behind Dickinson’s swiftly drawn curtain, conveyed in searching and graceful prose worthy of its subject.
Will interest high school and college students studying health care, the effects of climate on plants, animals, and people, or the intersection of multiple sciences.
An exceptional first-step resource for the inquisitive reader or scholar seeking substantiated information about the history and status of current parapsychology research.
An excellent, sobering accounting of seven decades of government instability and conflict. For readers interested in international relations, politics, and global issues.
An appealing read for anyone interested in moviemaking, and an essential for aspiring costumers. Carter’s contributions to Black cinema make this a worthy inclusion in any library collection.
An interesting addition to a long-running series; perhaps of use in U.S. high schools, but it would be better off without the aforementioned 150+ extraneous pages.
This is still a reliably sensible publication to include in any business library. Recommended for readers needing quick access to concentrated industry information.
An excellent examination of the current state of on-screen trans representation and its real-life effects. Anderson also offers some insight into the ways gender, sexuality, and race are handled in different media.
While exploring a life in music, this book also outlines trying to fit in, finding and retaining a job, and adjusting to fellow workers, all experiences that many readers may find to be universally relatable.
Offered more for information than extensive sociological analysis, this is an entertaining treat for nostalgia and trivia lovers.
Deliberately designed for fun instead of scholarship, this book offers much to enhance studies and stir the imaginations of pop culture fans.
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Don’t Call Me Home: A Memoir
With humor, love, and some giddiness, Auder tells her singular survival story.
Will have wide appeal for general audiences, particularly those who enjoyed memoirs such as Tara Westover’s Educated and Deborah Feldman’s Unorthodox.
This fast and breezy diary reveals a man who is happiest not on camera but when he’s curled up in bed reading picture books to his children.
Payne’s oral history does a remarkable job of defining and showing the meteoric boom of emo that music fans will find fascinating.
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Orwell: The New Life
A useful introduction for readers new to Orwell and also illuminating for those who thought they knew everything about him.
General readers might best savor this anthology of articles, a tribute to the resilience of maturing music performers, by perusing them one by one.
After this substantive look at Abbey Road beyond the famous zebra-stripe crossing album cover, music mavens might also consider Alistair Lawrence’s Abbey Road and Kenneth Womack’s Solid State.
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