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LJ Nonfiction Reviews: January 2017
Pickett's energy, creativity, and genius shine; this Rad Dad collective is a gem of inspired thought; 50 titles for Black History Month; this excellent book cuts through media hype and bias; the theories of emotion and the human brain set forth here are revolutionary
Below is a list of Nonfiction titles to be reviewed in the January 2017 issue of Library Journal. These lists include pertinent publisher and bibliographic information for your convenience. Starred reviews are indicated with **. Publishers: Please remember to send us one finished copy of each book that is scheduled for review (i.e., all of the forthcoming titles listed below) if you initially submitted a galley or bound manuscript. Our reviewers are not paid, and we like to send a finished copy of the reviewed book as a thank you. Materials should be mailed to: Library Journal, 123 William Street, Suite 802, New York, NY 10038. CALL FOR REVIEWERS: LJ editors are looking for reviewers for the following subject areas: e-original romance; video (Blu-ray capable); audiobooks; fine arts and performing arts; health & medicine; political science (United States and international); literature (short story and essay collections); science (animals, technology, space, and ecology/conservation); fiction (historical fiction, Westerns, technothrillers, and #ownvoices African American fiction); and reference (science, history, social issues). To apply, please visit ow.ly/liuy307csc1.
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ART INSTRUCTION Parramón Eds. Draw Like the Masters: An Excellent Way To Learn from Those Who Have Much To Teach. Barron’s. Nov. 2016. 144p. tr. from Spanish by Michael Brunelle & Beatriz Cortabarria. illus. ISBN 9781438009377. pap. $24.99. ART INSTRUCTION
Sumner, Rachel. Stitched Textiles: Birds. Search. (Stitched Textiles). Sept. 2016. 128p. illus. index. ISBN 9781844489886. pap. $29.95. ART INSTRUCTION CRAFTS Kirkendall, Gabri Joy & Jaclyn Escalera. The Joy of Lettering: A Creative Exploration of Contemporary Hand Lettering, Typography & Illustrated Typeface. Walter Foster: Quarto. Oct. 2016. 144p. illus. ISBN 9781633221369. pap. $21.95; ebk. ISBN 9781633223264. CRAFTS Sweet-McNamara, Amee K. Elegant Soutache. Lark: Sterling. Oct. 2016. 272p. illus. index. ISBN 9781454709176. $29.95. CRAFTS Vettese, Maria Alexandra & Stephanie Congdon Barnes. A Year Between Friends: 3191 Miles Apart; Crafts, Recipes, Letters, and Stories. STC Craft: Abrams. Nov. 2016. 208p. illus. index. ISBN 9781419722462. pap. $24.95; ebk. ISBN 9781613129951. CRAFTS DIY Box Making. Guild of Master Craftsman. Nov. 2016. 160p. illus. index. ISBN 9781784942465. pap. $14.95. DIY Schlee, Jemima. Take a Seat: 16 Beautiful Projects for Your home. Guild of Master Craftsman. (Take A...). Nov. 2016. 160p. illus. index. ISBN 9781784941116. pap. $19.95. DIY FIBER CRAFTS Barker, Bonnie. Celtic Cable Crochet: 18 Crochet Patterns for Modern Cabled Garments & Accessories. Interweave. Oct. 2016. 128p. illus. ISBN 9781632503534. pap. $24.99; ebk. ISBN 9781632503862. FIBER CRAFTS Gaughan, Norah. Norah Gaughan’s Knitted Cable Sourcebook: A Breakthrough Guide to Knitting with Cables and Designing Your Own. Abrams. Oct. 2016. 276p. illus. photos by Jared Flood. ISBN 9781419722394. $29.95; ebk. ISBN 9781613122914. FIBER CRAFTS 
McKeefry, Aisling. 200 Skills Every Fashion Designer Must Have: The Indispensable Guide to Building Skills and Turning Ideas into Reality. Barron’s. Oct. 2016. 272p. illus. index. ISBN 9781438008967. pap. $24.99. FIBER CRAFTS Matsuyama, Atsuko. Happy Flower Quilts: 30 Colorful Quilts, Charming Bags & Cheerful Gifts. Zakka Workshop. Dec. 2016. 144p. tr. from Japanese. illus. ISBN 9781940552255. pap. $24.99. FIBER CRAFTS Pumphrey, Linda. Mountain Mist Historical Quilts: 14 Mid-Century Quilts Made New. Fons & Porter. Oct. 2016. 144p. illus. index. ISBN 9781440245596. pap. $24.99. w/CD. FIBER CRAFTS FINE ARTS Alexander, Johnathan J.G. The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy: 1450–1600. Yale Univ. Aug. 2016. 400p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780300203981. $75. FINE ARTS Farhad, Massumeh & others. The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts. Smithsonian. Nov. 2016. 384p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781588345783. $50. FINE ARTS Frehner, Matthias & others. Modern Masters: “Degenerate” Art at the Kunstmuseum Bern. Prestel. Sept. 2016. 376p. illus. notes. bibliog. ISBN 9783791355368. $70. FINE ARTS **Lochnan, Katharine & others. Mystical Landscapes: From Vincent van Gogh to Emily Carr. DelMonico: Prestel. Dec. 2016. 356p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9783791356006. $60. FINE ARTS Plummer, Henry. The Experience of Architecture. Thames & Hudson. Nov. 2016. 288p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780500343210. $50; ebk. ISBN 9780500773659. ARCH The Rama Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe. Asian Art Museum. Oct. 2016. 288p. ed. by Forrest McGill. illus. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780939117765. $50. FINE ARTS **Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art. Duke Univ. Dec. 2016. 276p. ed. by Miranda Lash & Trevor Schoonmaker. illus. notes. ISBN 9780938989387. pap. $49.95. FINE ARTS Zaphiropoulou, Photini N. Classic Greek Masterpieces of Sculpture. Abrams. Sept. 2016. 256p. illus. bibliog. ISBN 9781419722295. $35. FINE ARTS DECO MANIA
Duncan, Alastair. Art Deco Sculpture. Thames & Hudson. 408p. illus. bibliog. ISBN 9780500239483. $120. Miller, Judith. Miller’s Art Deco: Living with the Art Deco Style. Octopus. 240p. photos. ISBN 9781784721060. $39.99. ea. vol: Nov. 2016. index. FINE ARTS
LITERATURE Loving, Jerome. Jack and Norman: A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer’s “The Executioner’s Song.” Thomas Dunne: St. Martin’s. Feb. 2017. 256p. photos. notes. index. ISBN 9781250106995. $25.99; ebk. ISBN 9781250107008. LIT Marshall, Megan. Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast. Houghton Harcourt. Feb. 2017. 368p. photos. notes. index. ISBN 9780544617308. $30; ebk. ISBN 9780544618428. LIT Massey, Alana. All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen To Be Famous Strangers. Grand Central. Feb. 2017. 256p. notes. ISBN 9781455565887. $25; ebk. ISBN 9781455565870. LIT **Moran, Caitlin. Moranifesto. Harper Perennial. Nov. 2016. 352p. ISBN 9780062433756. pap. $15.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062433763. HUMOR Duncan, Alastair. Art Deco Sculpture. Thames & Hudson. 408p. illus. bibliog. ISBN 9780500239483. $120. Miller, Judith. Miller’s Art Deco: Living with the Art Deco Style. Octopus. 240p. photos. ISBN 9781784721060. $39.99. ea. vol: Nov. 2016. index. FINE ARTS 
Mort, Terry. Hemingway at War: Ernest Hemingway’s Adventures as a World War II Correspondent. Pegasus. Dec. 2016. 304p. photos. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781681772479. $27.95; ebk. ISBN 9781681772905. LIT **Orr, David. You, Too, Could Write a Poem. Penguin. Feb. 2017. 400p. ISBN 9780143128199. pap. $18; ebk. ISBN 9780698403338. LIT Schwalbe, Will. Books for Living. Knopf. Dec. 2016. 288p. ISBN 9780385353540. $25.95; ebk. ISBN 9780385353557. LIT Sims, Michael. Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes. Bloomsbury USA. Jan. 2017. 256p. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781632860392. $27. LIT Stubbs, John. Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel. Norton. Feb. 2017. 752p. photos. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780393239423. $39.95. LIT PERFORMING ARTS Fletcher, Tony. In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett. Oxford Univ. Jan. 2017. 328p. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780190252946. $27.95; ebk. ISBN 9780190252960. MUSIC Frankel, Glenn. High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic. Bloomsbury Pr. Feb. 2017. 384p. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781620409480. $28; ebk. ISBN 9781620409503. FILM Isacoff, Stuart. When the World Stopped To Listen: Van Cliburn’s Cold War Triumph, and Its Aftermath. Knopf. Apr. 2017. 304p. photos. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780385352185. $26.95; ebk. ISBN 9780385352192. MUSIC Reesman, Bryan. Bon Jovi: The Story. Sterling. Nov. 2016. 208p. illus. discog. index. ISBN 9781454921042. $27.95. MUSIC Smith, Chris. The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests. Grand Central. Nov. 2016. 480p. index. ISBN 9781455565382. $30; ebk. ISBN 9781455565351. TV Ward, Ed. The History of Rock & Roll. Vol. 1: 1920–1963. Flatiron: Macmillan. Nov. 2016. 416p. bibliog. ISBN 9781250071163. $35; ebk. ISBN 9781250071170. MUSIC 
FILM MASTERS Haskell, Molly. Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films. Yale Univ. (Jewish Lives). Jan. 2017. 248p. photos. notes. index. ISBN 9780300186932. $25. FILM Sterba, Wendy. J.J. Abrams vs. Joss Whedon: Duel for Media Master of the Universe. Rowman & Littlefield. Dec. 2016. 304p. photos. notes. bibliog. ISBN 9781442269903. $36; ebk. ISBN 9781442269910. PERFORMING ARTS PARENTING
Faber, Joanna & Julie King. How To Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2–7. Scribner. Jan. 2017. 448p. ISBN 9781501131639. pap. $17; ebk. ISBN 9781501131660. CHILD REARING Green, Jarrod. I’m OK! Building Resilience Through Physical Play. Redleaf. Nov. 2016. 160p. ISBN 9781605544519. pap. $24.95; ebk. ISBN 9781605544526. CHILD REARING
Josephs, Sheila Achar. Helping Your Anxious Teen: Positive Parenting Strategies To Help Your Teen Beat Anxiety, Stress, and Worry. New Harbinger. Jan. 2017. 224p. ISBN 9781626254657. pap. $16.95. CHILD REARING Kobliner, Beth. Make Your Kid a Money Genius (Even If You’re Not): A Parent’s Guide for Kids 3 to 23. S. & S. Feb. 2017. 352p. ISBN 9781476766812. pap. $19.99; ebk. ISBN 9781476766829. CHILD REARING **Maclagan, Margaret & Anne Buckley. Talking Baby: Helping Your Child Discover Language. Finch. Nov. 2016. 192p. ISBN 9781925048605. pap. $18.95. CHILD REARING **Ogden, Paul W. & David H. Smith. The Silent Garden: Raising Your Deaf Child. 3d ed. Gallaudet Univ. Nov. 2016. 344p. index. ISBN 9781563686764. pap. $34.95; ebk. ISBN 9781563686771. CHILD REARING Pegula, Chris with Frank Meyer. Diaper Dude: The Ultimate Dad’s Guide to Surviving the First Two Years. TarcherPerigee. May 2017. 224p. notes. index. ISBN 9780143110262. pap. $15; ebk. ISBN 9781101992616. CHILD REARING Rad Families: A Celebration. PM. Feb. 2017. 272p. ed. by Tomas Moniz. ISBN 9781629632308. pap. $19.95; ebk. ISBN 9781629633152. CHILD REARING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
AGRICULTURE Cearns, Alex. Zen Dogs. Harper. Oct. 2016. 128p. ISBN 9780062459374. $19.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062459381. PETS Volk, Josh. Compact Farms: 15 Proven Plans for Market Farms on 5 Acres or Less; Includes Detailed Farm Layouts for Productivity and Efficiency. Storey. Feb. 2017. 240p. illus. maps. ISBN 9781612125947. pap. $19.95. AGRI COOKING Arokiasamy, Christina. The Malaysian Kitchen: 150 Recipes for Simple Home Cooking. Houghton Harcourt. Mar. 2017. 352p. photos. index. ISBN 9780544809994. $35. COOKING Austin, Maggie. Maggie Austin Cake: Artistry and Technique. Houghton Harcourt. Apr. 2017. 304p. photos. index. ISBN 9780544765351. $35. COOKING Batali, Mario & Jim Webster. Mario Batali—Big American Cookbook: 250 Favorite Recipes from Across the USA. Grand Central. Oct. 2016. 512p. photos. index. ISBN 9781455584710. $40; ebk. ISBN 9781455584703. COOKING 
Britton, Sarah. Naturally Nourished: Healthy, Delicious Meals Made with Everyday Ingredients. Clarkson Potter: Crown. Feb. 2017. 240p. photos. index. ISBN 9780804185400. $29.99; ebk. ISBN 9780804185417. COOKING Clark, Melissa. Dinner: Changing the Game. Clarkson Potter: Crown. Mar. 2017. 400p. photos. index. ISBN 9780553448238. $35; ebk. ISBN 9780553448245. COOKING **Curl, Jami. Candy Is Magic: Real Ingredients, Modern Recipes. Ten Speed: Crown. Apr. 2017. 312p. illus. index. ISBN 9780399578397. $35; ebk. ISBN 9780399578403. COOKING Madison, Deborah. In My Kitchen: A Collection of New and Favorite Vegetarian Recipes. Ten Speed: Crown. Mar. 2017. 296p. photos. index. ISBN 9780399578885. $32.50; ebk. ISBN 9780399578892. COOKING Mowry, Tia. Whole New You: How Real Food Transforms Your Life, for a Healthier, More Gorgeous You. Ballantine. Mar. 2017. 320p. photos. index. ISBN 9781101967355. $20; ebk. ISBN 9781101967379. COOKING Psilakis, Michael. Live To Eat: Cooking the Mediterranean Way. Little, Brown. Jan. 2017. 240p. photos. index. ISBN 9780316380133. $30; ebk. ISBN 9780316308205. COOKING
HEALTH & MEDICINE **Fersko-Weiss, Henry. Caring for the Dying: The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death. Conari. Mar. 2017. 240p. ISBN 9781573246965. $24.95. MED Hamblin, James. If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body. Doubleday. Dec. 2016. 416p. illus. notes. bibliog. ISBN 9780385540971. $26.95; ebk. ISBN 9780385540988. HEALTH HOME ECONOMICS Goop Clean Beauty. Grand Central Life & Style. Dec. 2016. 288p. ed. by GOOP Eds. photos. index. ISBN 9781455541553. $30; ebk. ISBN 9781455541560. PERSONAL GROOMING Miller, Adrian. The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas. Univ. of North Carolina. Feb. 2017. 296p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781469632537. $30. COOKING One-Pan Wonders: Fuss-Free Meals for Your Sheet Pan, Dutch Oven, Skillet, Roasting Pan, Casserole, and Slow Cooker. America’s Test Kitchen. Jan. 2017. 336p. ed. by America’s Test Kitchen Eds. photos. index. ISBN 9781940352848. pap. $27.95; ebk. ISBN 9781940352855. COOKING SCIENCES **Barrett, Lisa Feldman. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain. Houghton Harcourt. Mar. 2017. 448p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780544133310. $29; ebk. ISBN 9780544129962. SCI Britton, Sarah. Naturally Nourished: Healthy, Delicious Meals Made with Everyday Ingredients. Clarkson Potter: Crown. Feb. 2017. 240p. photos. index. ISBN 9780804185400. $29.99; ebk. ISBN 9780804185417. COOKING Clark, Melissa. Dinner: Changing the Game. Clarkson Potter: Crown. Mar. 2017. 400p. photos. index. ISBN 9780553448238. $35; ebk. ISBN 9780553448245. COOKING **Curl, Jami. Candy Is Magic: Real Ingredients, Modern Recipes. Ten Speed: Crown. Apr. 2017. 312p. illus. index. ISBN 9780399578397. $35; ebk. ISBN 9780399578403. COOKING Madison, Deborah. In My Kitchen: A Collection of New and Favorite Vegetarian Recipes. Ten Speed: Crown. Mar. 2017. 296p. photos. index. ISBN 9780399578885. $32.50; ebk. ISBN 9780399578892. COOKING Mowry, Tia. Whole New You: How Real Food Transforms Your Life, for a Healthier, More Gorgeous You. Ballantine. Mar. 2017. 320p. photos. index. ISBN 9781101967355. $20; ebk. ISBN 9781101967379. COOKING Psilakis, Michael. Live To Eat: Cooking the Mediterranean Way. Little, Brown. Jan. 2017. 240p. photos. index. ISBN 9780316380133. $30; ebk. ISBN 9780316308205. COOKING 
**Davis, Jack E. The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea. Liveright: Norton. Mar. 2017. 448p. photos. index. ISBN 9780871408662. $28.95; ebk. ISBN 9780871408679. SCI **Fuller, Randall. The Book That Changed America: How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation. Viking. Jan. 2017. 304p. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780525428336. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780698186675. SCI Harari, Yuval Noah. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. Harper. Feb. 2017. 448p. photos. notes. index. ISBN 9780062464316. $35; ebk. ISBN 9780062464354. SCI Piore, Adam. The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human. Ecco: HarperCollins. Feb. 2017. 384p. notes. ISBN 9780062347145. $26.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062347169. SCI Quirk, Joe with Patri Friedman. Seasteading: How Ocean Cities Will Change the World. Free Pr. Mar. 2017. 384p. notes. ISBN 9781451699265. $27; ebk. ISBN 9781451699289. SCI Wadman, Meredith. The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Cost of Defeating Disease. Viking. Feb. 2017. 448p. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780525427537. $28; ebk. ISBN 9780698177789. SCI SOCIAL SCIENCES
BIOGRAPHY Bunnell, David Hugh. Good Friday on the Rez: A Pine Ridge Odyssey. St. Martin’s. Apr. 2017. 288p. maps. notes. bibliog. ISBN 9781250112538. $26.99; ebk. ISBN 9781250112545. MEMOIR
**Cooper, Helene. Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. S. & S. Mar. 2017. 352p. notes. ISBN 9781451697353. $27; ebk. ISBN 9781451697377. BIOG **Hegar, Mary Jennings. Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman’s Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front. NAL. Mar. 2017. 304p. ISBN 9781101988435. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781101988459. MEMOIR Malek, Alia. The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria. Nation: Perseus. Feb. 2017. 352p. maps. notes. ISBN 9781568585321. $26.99. BIOG Maran, Meredith. The New Old Me: My Late-Life Reinvention. Blue Rider. Mar. 2017. 304p. ISBN 9780399574139. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780399574146. MEMOIR ECONOMICS O’Loughlin, Sheryl. Killing It: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Head Without Losing Your Heart. Harper Business. Dec. 2016. 304p. index. ISBN 9780062475343. $27.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062475350. BUS **Smick, David M. The Great Equalizer: How Main Street Capitalism Can Create an Economy for Everyone. PublicAffairs. Jan. 2017. 256p. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781610397841. $27.99; ebk. ISBN 9781610397858. ECON Thorp, Edward O. A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market. Random. Jan. 2017. 416p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781400067961. $30; ebk. ISBN 9780812998740. BUS Wolfe, Alexandra. Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Story. S. & S. Jan. 2017. 272p. ISBN 9781476778945. $27; ebk. ISBN 9781476778969. BUS EDUCATION Hoey, J. Kelly. Build Your Dream Network: Forging Powerful Relationships in a Hyper-Connected World. TarcherPerigee. Jan. 2017. 256p. illus. notes. ISBN 9780143111481. $23; ebk. ISBN 9781101992791. CAREERS HISTORY Barron, James. The One-Cent Magenta: Inside the Quest To Own the Most Valuable Stamp in the World. Algonquin. Mar. 2017. 224p. notes. ISBN 9781616205188. $23.95; ebk. ISBN 9781616207175. HIST Colwell, Chip. Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight To Reclaim Native America’s Culture. Univ. of Chicago. Mar. 2017. 336p. illus. notes. index. ISBN 9780226298993. $30. HIST **Englund, Will. March 1917: On the Brink of War and Revolution. Norton. Mar. 2017. 416p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780393292084. $27.95; ebk. ISBN 9780393292091. HIST Kiernan, Ben. Viet Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present. Oxford Univ. Mar. 2017. 648p. illus. maps. notes. index. ISBN 9780195160765. $34.95. HIST O’Connell, Aaron B. Our Latest Longest War: Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan. Univ. of Chicago. Apr. 2017. 400p. maps. notes. ISBN 9780226265650. $30. HIST Pryor, Elizabeth Brown. Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons. Viking. Feb. 2017. 496p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780670025909. $30; ebk. ISBN 9780735222793. HIST Reiss, Benjamin. Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World. Basic. Mar. 2017. 320p. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780465061952. $28. HIST 
Rydell, Anders. The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race To Return a Literary Inheritance. Viking. Feb. 2017. 368p. tr. from Swedish by Henning Koch. illus. notes. index. ISBN 9780735221222. $28; ebk. ISBN 9780735221246. HIST Spruill, Marjorie J. Divided We Stand: The Battle over Women’s Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics. Bloomsbury USA. Feb. 2017. 448p. notes. index. ISBN 9781632863140. $33; ebk. ISBN 9781632863157. HIST **Wright, James. Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War. Thomas Dunne: St. Martin’s. Apr. 2017. 464p. maps. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781250092489. $29.99; ebk. ISBN 9781250092496. HIST LAW & CRIME Davis, Kevin. The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America’s Courtrooms. Penguin Pr. Feb. 2017. 384p. notes. index. ISBN 9781594206337. $28; ebk. ISBN 9780698183353. LAW Friedman, Barry. Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission. Farrar. Jan. 2017. 448p. notes. index. ISBN 9780374280451. $28; ebk. ISBN 9780374710903. LAW **Kolhatkar, Shellah. Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest To Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street. Random. Feb. 2017. 384p. notes. index. ISBN 9780812995800. $28; ebk. ISBN 9780812995817. CRIME Rowe, Claudia. The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder. Dey St: HarperCollins. Jan. 2017. 288p. ISBN 9780062416124. $26.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062416148. CRIME POLITICAL SCIENCE Haass, Richard. A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order. Penguin Pr. Jan. 2017. 352p. notes. index. ISBN 9780399562365. $28; ebk. ISBN 9780399562372. POL SCI **Hughes-Wilson, John. The Secret State: A History of Intelligence and Espionage. Pegasus. Jan. 2017. 528p. illus. maps. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781681773025. $29.95; ebk. ISBN 9781681773698. POL SCI The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own. St. Martin’s. Jan. 2017. 240p. ed. by Veronica Chambers. notes. ISBN 9781250114969. $24.99; ebk. ISBN 9781250114976. POL SCI Pleshakov, Constantine. The Crimean Nexus: Putin’s War and the Clash of Civilizations. Yale Univ. Jan. 2017. 216p. notes. index. ISBN 9780300214888. $28. POL SCI PROFESSIONAL MEDIA Burger, Robert H. Financial Management of Libraries and Information Centers. ABC-CLIO. Aug. 2016. 370p. illus. index. ISBN 9781440850134. pap. $85; ebk. ISBN 9781440850141. PRO MEDIA The Librarian’s Introduction to Programming Languages. Rowman & Littlefield. Jun. 2016. 200p. ed. by Beth Thomsett-Scott. illus. index. ISBN 9781442263321. $95; ebk. ISBN 9781442263345. PRO MEDIA Stuart, David. Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals. ALA. Aug. 2016. 224p. index. ISBN 9780838915110. $88. PRO MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY Aiken, Chris & James Phelps. Bipolar, Not So Much: Understanding Your Mood Swings and Depression. Norton. Jan. 2017. 368p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780393711745. $22.95; ebk. ISBN 9780393711752. PSYCH SOCIAL SCIENCE Ahmed, Sara. Living a Feminist Life. Duke Univ. Feb. 2017. 312p. notes. bibliog. ISBN 9780822363194. pap. $25.95. SOC SCI 
Allers, Kimberly Seals. The Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding. St. Martin’s. Jan. 2017. 304p. notes. index. ISBN 9781250026965. $25.99; ebk. ISBN 9781250026972. SOC SCI Burak, Asi & Laura Parker. Power Play: How Video Games Can Save the World. St. Martin’s. Jan. 2017. 272p. notes. index. ISBN 9781250089335. $27.99; ebk. ISBN 9781250089342. SOC SCI Marche, Stephen with Sarah Fulford. The Unmade Bed: The Messy Truth About Men and Women in the 21st Century. S. & S. Mar. 2017. 256p. bibliog. ISBN 9781476780153. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781476780177. SOC SCI Pfaff, John. Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration—and How To Achieve Real Reform. Basic. Feb. 2017. 320p. illus. notes. index. ISBN 9780465096916. $26.99; ebk. ISBN 9780465096923. SOC SCI NEVER MORE RELEVANT: 50 BOOKS FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH AND BEYOND HISTORY Bass, S. Jonathan. He Calls Me by Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty. Liveright: Norton. May 2017. 320p. ISBN 9781631492372. $26.95; ebk. ISBN 9781631492389. HIST Berry, Daina Ramey. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation. Beacon. Jan. 2017. 256p. ISBN 9780807047620. $27.95; ebk. ISBN 9780807047637. HIST Davies, Tom Adam. Mainstreaming Black Power. Univ. of California. Apr. 2017. 296p. ISBN 9780520292116. pap. $29.95. HIST 
Else, Jon. True South: Henry Hampton and Eyes on the Prize, the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement. Viking. Jan. 2017. 416p. ISBN 9781101980934. $30; ebk. ISBN 9781101980958. HIST George, Denise & Robert Child. The Lost Eleven: The Forgotten Story of Black American Soldiers Brutally Massacred in World War II. NAL. Jan. 2017. 416p. ISBN 9781101987391. $28; ebk. ISBN 9781101987407. HIST Malamud, Margaret. African Americans and the Classics: Antiquity, Abolition and Activism. I.B. Tauris. Jan. 2017. 240p. ISBN 9781784534950. $99. HIST Marqusee, Mike. Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties. Verso. Feb. 2017. 352p. ISBN 9781786632425. $19.95; ebk. ISBN 9781786632067. HIST Nathans, Sydney. A Mind To Stay: White Plantation, Black Homeland. Harvard Univ. Jan. 2017. 344p. ISBN 9780674972148. $29.95. HIST Tyson, Timothy B. The Blood of Emmett Till. S. & S. Jan. 2017. 304p. ISBN 9781476714844. $27; ebk. ISBN 9781476714868. HIST BIOGRAPHY Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. Atria. Feb. 2017. 272p. ISBN 9781501126390. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781501126437. BIOG Jackson, Lawrence P. Chester B. Himes: A Biography. Norton. Jul. 2017. 448p.ISBN 9780393063899. $35. BIOG King, Coretta Scott & Barbara Reynolds. My Life, My Love, My Legacy. Holt. Jan. 2017. 368p. ISBN 9781627795982. $30; ebk. ISBN 9781627795999. AUTOBIOG King, Martin Luther, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview and Other Conversations. Melville House. Jan. 2017. 96p. ISBN 9781612196169. pap. $15.99. BIOG Wideman, John Edgar. Writing To Save a Life: The Louis Till File. Scribner. 2016. 208p. ISBN 9781501147289. $25; ebk. ISBN 9781501147302. BIOG MEMOIR Branch, Miko & Titi Branch. Miss Jessie’s: Creating a Successful Business from Scratch—Naturally. Amistad: HarperCollins. Jan. 2017. 336p. ISBN 9780062329196. pap. $15.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062329202. MEMOIR Charlamagne Tha God. Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It. Touchstone. Apr. 2017. ISBN 9781501145308. $25.99; ebk. ISBN 9781501145322. MEMOIR 
Harris, Jessica B. My Soul Looks Back. Scribner. May 2017. 288p. ISBN 9781501125904. $25; ebk. ISBN 9781501127007. MEMOIR Johnson, Yvette. The Song and the Silence: A Story About Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright. Atria. May 2017. 304p. ISBN 9781476754949. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781476754963. MEMOIR Ndibe, Okey. Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American. Soho. 2016. 224p. ISBN 9781616957605. $25; ebk. ISBN 9781616957612. MEMOIR Price, Hugh B. This African-American Life. John F. Blair. May 2017. 288p. ISBN 9780895876911. $28.95. MEMOIR Robinson, Phoebe. You Can’t Touch My Hair. Plume. 2016. 320p. ISBN 9780143129202. pap. $16; ebk. ISBN 9780735216556. HUMOR Sidibe, Gabourey. This Is Just My Face: Try Not To Stare. Houghton Harcourt. May 2017. 240p. ISBN 9780544786769. $25; ebk. ISBN 9780544786905. MEMOIR GRAPHIC NOVELS Jacobson, Sid & Ernie Colón. Three-Fifths a Man: A Graphic History of the African American Experience. Hill & Wang: Farrar. Sept. 2017. 192p. ISBN 9780809093687. $35; pap. ISBN 9780809093694. $17. GRAPHIC NOVELS Wimberly, Ron. Black History in Its Own Words. Image. Feb. 2017. 80p. ISBN 9781534301535. $16.99. GRAPHIC NOVELS POLITICAL SCIENCE Lowery, Wesley. They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement. Little, Brown. 2016. 256p. ISBN 9780316312479. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780316312509. POLI SCI SOCIAL SCIENCE Boyd, Herb. Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination. Amistad: HarperCollins. May 2017. 352p. ISBN 9780062346629. $27.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062346643. SOC SCI Dyson, Michael Eric. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America. St. Martin’s. Jan. 2017. 240p. ISBN 9781250135995. $24.99; ebk. ISBN 9781250136008. SOC SCI Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling. The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era. Amistad: HarperCollins. Jan. 2017. 496p. ISBN 9780062346094. $27.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062346117. SOC SCI FOOD Miller, Adrian. The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas. Univ. of North Carolina. Feb. 2017. 296p. ISBN 9781469632537. $30. COOKING Opie, Frederick Douglass. Southern Food and Civil Rights: Feeding the Revolution. Arcadia. Jan. 2017. 192p.ISBN 9781467137386. pap. $21.99; ebk. ISBN 9781439659212. COOKING Samuelsson, Marcus. The Red Rooster Cookbook: The Story of Food and Hustle in Harlem. Rux Martin: Houghton Harcourt. 2016. 384p. ISBN 9780544639775. $37.50; ebk. ISBN 9780544639812. COOKING FICTION Collins, Kathleen. Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Ecco: HarperCollins. Jan. 2017. 192p. ISBN 9780062484154. $15.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062484161. F 
Dickey, Eric Jerome. Finding Gideon. Dutton. Apr. 2017. 448p. ISBN 9781101985496. $27; ebk. ISBN 9781101985502. f Everett, Percival. So Much Blue. Graywolf. Jun. 2017. 236p. ISBN 9781555977825. pap. $16; ebk. ISBN 9781555979744. F Gay, Roxane. Difficult Women. Grove. Jan. 2017. 272p. ISBN 9780802125392. $25; ebk. ISBN 9780802189646. short stories Hill, Lawrence. The Illegal. Norton. Jan. 2017. 416p. ISBN 9780393353686. pap. $16.95; ebk. ISBN 9780393285468. F McKay, Claude. Amiable with Big Teeth. Penguin Classics. Feb. 2017. 352p. ISBN 9780143107316. $28; ebk. ISBN 9781101628195. F Mackey, Nathaniel. Late Arcade. New Directions. Feb. 2017. 224p. ISBN 9780811226608. pap. $16.95. F Murray, Victoria Christopher. Lust: A Seven Deadly Sins Novel. Touchstone. Feb. 2017. 368p. ISBN 9781501134104. $15; ebk. ISBN 9781501134111. F Nunez, Elizabeth. Even in Paradise. Akashic. 2016. 320p. ISBN 9781617754398. $27.95; pap. ISBN 9781617754401. $15.95; ebk. ISBN 9781617754562. F The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers. Penguin Classics. Feb. 2017. 480p. ed. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Hollis Robbins. ISBN 9780143105992. pap. $22; ebk. ISBN 9780143130673. LIT Walker, Margaret. Jubilee: 50th Anniversary Edition. Mariner: Houghton Harcourt. 2016. 528p. ISBN 9780544812123. pap. $12.95; ebk. ISBN 9780544812192. F POETRY Jones, Ashley M. Magic City Gospel. Hub City. Jan. 2017. 72p. ISBN 9781938235269. pap. $14.95. POETRY Kelly, Donika. Bestiary. Graywolf. 2016. 80p. ISBN 9781555977580. pap. $16; ebk. ISBN 9781555979539. POETRY Martin, Dawn Lundy. Good Stock Strange Blood. Coffee House. Aug. 2017. 144p. ISBN 9781566894715. pap. $16.95. POETRY Parker, Morgan. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé. Tin House. Feb. 2017. 80p. ISBN 9781941040539. pap. $14.95; ebk. ISBN 9781941040546. POETRY Trimble, Jacqueline. American Happiness. NewSouth. 2016. 80p. ISBN 9781588383273. $21.95. POETRY THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE Dream a World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America. Smithsonian. 2016. 288p. ed. by Kinshasha Holman Conwill. ISBN 9781588345684. $40. fine arts Kendrick, Kathleen. Official Guide to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Smithsonian. Apr. 2017. 160p. photos.ISBN 9781588345936. pap. $14.95. fine arts Wilson, Mabel O. Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Smithsonian. 2016. 144p. ISBN 9781588345691. $29.95. ARCH
Else, Jon. True South: Henry Hampton and Eyes on the Prize, the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement. Viking. Jan. 2017. 416p. ISBN 9781101980934. $30; ebk. ISBN 9781101980958. HIST George, Denise & Robert Child. The Lost Eleven: The Forgotten Story of Black American Soldiers Brutally Massacred in World War II. NAL. Jan. 2017. 416p. ISBN 9781101987391. $28; ebk. ISBN 9781101987407. HIST Malamud, Margaret. African Americans and the Classics: Antiquity, Abolition and Activism. I.B. Tauris. Jan. 2017. 240p. ISBN 9781784534950. $99. HIST Marqusee, Mike. Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties. Verso. Feb. 2017. 352p. ISBN 9781786632425. $19.95; ebk. ISBN 9781786632067. HIST Nathans, Sydney. A Mind To Stay: White Plantation, Black Homeland. Harvard Univ. Jan. 2017. 344p. ISBN 9780674972148. $29.95. HIST Tyson, Timothy B. The Blood of Emmett Till. S. & S. Jan. 2017. 304p. ISBN 9781476714844. $27; ebk. ISBN 9781476714868. HIST BIOGRAPHY Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. Atria. Feb. 2017. 272p. ISBN 9781501126390. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781501126437. BIOG Jackson, Lawrence P. Chester B. Himes: A Biography. Norton. Jul. 2017. 448p.ISBN 9780393063899. $35. BIOG King, Coretta Scott & Barbara Reynolds. My Life, My Love, My Legacy. Holt. Jan. 2017. 368p. ISBN 9781627795982. $30; ebk. ISBN 9781627795999. AUTOBIOG King, Martin Luther, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview and Other Conversations. Melville House. Jan. 2017. 96p. ISBN 9781612196169. pap. $15.99. BIOG Wideman, John Edgar. Writing To Save a Life: The Louis Till File. Scribner. 2016. 208p. ISBN 9781501147289. $25; ebk. ISBN 9781501147302. BIOG MEMOIR Branch, Miko & Titi Branch. Miss Jessie’s: Creating a Successful Business from Scratch—Naturally. Amistad: HarperCollins. Jan. 2017. 336p. ISBN 9780062329196. pap. $15.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062329202. MEMOIR Charlamagne Tha God. Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It. Touchstone. Apr. 2017. ISBN 9781501145308. $25.99; ebk. ISBN 9781501145322. MEMOIR Harris, Jessica B. My Soul Looks Back. Scribner. May 2017. 288p. ISBN 9781501125904. $25; ebk. ISBN 9781501127007. MEMOIR Johnson, Yvette. The Song and the Silence: A Story About Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright. Atria. May 2017. 304p. ISBN 9781476754949. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781476754963. MEMOIR Ndibe, Okey. Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American. Soho. 2016. 224p. ISBN 9781616957605. $25; ebk. ISBN 9781616957612. MEMOIR Price, Hugh B. This African-American Life. John F. Blair. May 2017. 288p. ISBN 9780895876911. $28.95. MEMOIR Robinson, Phoebe. You Can’t Touch My Hair. Plume. 2016. 320p. ISBN 9780143129202. pap. $16; ebk. ISBN 9780735216556. HUMOR Sidibe, Gabourey. This Is Just My Face: Try Not To Stare. Houghton Harcourt. May 2017. 240p. ISBN 9780544786769. $25; ebk. ISBN 9780544786905. MEMOIR GRAPHIC NOVELS Jacobson, Sid & Ernie Colón. Three-Fifths a Man: A Graphic History of the African American Experience. Hill & Wang: Farrar. Sept. 2017. 192p. ISBN 9780809093687. $35; pap. ISBN 9780809093694. $17. GRAPHIC NOVELS Wimberly, Ron. Black History in Its Own Words. Image. Feb. 2017. 80p. ISBN 9781534301535. $16.99. GRAPHIC NOVELS POLITICAL SCIENCE Lowery, Wesley. They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement. Little, Brown. 2016. 256p. ISBN 9780316312479. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780316312509. POLI SCI SOCIAL SCIENCE Boyd, Herb. Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination. Amistad: HarperCollins. May 2017. 352p. ISBN 9780062346629. $27.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062346643. SOC SCI Dyson, Michael Eric. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America. St. Martin’s. Jan. 2017. 240p. ISBN 9781250135995. $24.99; ebk. ISBN 9781250136008. SOC SCI Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling. The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era. Amistad: HarperCollins. Jan. 2017. 496p. ISBN 9780062346094. $27.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062346117. SOC SCI FOOD Miller, Adrian. The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas. Univ. of North Carolina. Feb. 2017. 296p. ISBN 9781469632537. $30. COOKING Opie, Frederick Douglass. Southern Food and Civil Rights: Feeding the Revolution. Arcadia. Jan. 2017. 192p.ISBN 9781467137386. pap. $21.99; ebk. ISBN 9781439659212. COOKING Samuelsson, Marcus. The Red Rooster Cookbook: The Story of Food and Hustle in Harlem. Rux Martin: Houghton Harcourt. 2016. 384p. ISBN 9780544639775. $37.50; ebk. ISBN 9780544639812. COOKING FICTION Collins, Kathleen. Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Ecco: HarperCollins. Jan. 2017. 192p. ISBN 9780062484154. $15.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062484161. F Dickey, Eric Jerome. Finding Gideon. Dutton. Apr. 2017. 448p. ISBN 9781101985496. $27; ebk. ISBN 9781101985502. f Everett, Percival. So Much Blue. Graywolf. Jun. 2017. 236p. ISBN 9781555977825. pap. $16; ebk. ISBN 9781555979744. F Gay, Roxane. Difficult Women. Grove. Jan. 2017. 272p. ISBN 9780802125392. $25; ebk. ISBN 9780802189646. short stories Hill, Lawrence. The Illegal. Norton. Jan. 2017. 416p. ISBN 9780393353686. pap. $16.95; ebk. ISBN 9780393285468. F McKay, Claude. Amiable with Big Teeth. Penguin Classics. Feb. 2017. 352p. ISBN 9780143107316. $28; ebk. ISBN 9781101628195. F Mackey, Nathaniel. Late Arcade. New Directions. Feb. 2017. 224p. ISBN 9780811226608. pap. $16.95. F Murray, Victoria Christopher. Lust: A Seven Deadly Sins Novel. Touchstone. Feb. 2017. 368p. ISBN 9781501134104. $15; ebk. ISBN 9781501134111. F Nunez, Elizabeth. Even in Paradise. Akashic. 2016. 320p. ISBN 9781617754398. $27.95; pap. ISBN 9781617754401. $15.95; ebk. ISBN 9781617754562. F The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers. Penguin Classics. Feb. 2017. 480p. ed. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Hollis Robbins. ISBN 9780143105992. pap. $22; ebk. ISBN 9780143130673. LIT Walker, Margaret. Jubilee: 50th Anniversary Edition. Mariner: Houghton Harcourt. 2016. 528p. ISBN 9780544812123. pap. $12.95; ebk. ISBN 9780544812192. F POETRY Jones, Ashley M. Magic City Gospel. Hub City. Jan. 2017. 72p. ISBN 9781938235269. pap. $14.95. POETRY Kelly, Donika. Bestiary. Graywolf. 2016. 80p. ISBN 9781555977580. pap. $16; ebk. ISBN 9781555979539. POETRY Martin, Dawn Lundy. Good Stock Strange Blood. Coffee House. Aug. 2017. 144p. ISBN 9781566894715. pap. $16.95. POETRY Parker, Morgan. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé. Tin House. Feb. 2017. 80p. ISBN 9781941040539. pap. $14.95; ebk. ISBN 9781941040546. POETRY Trimble, Jacqueline. American Happiness. NewSouth. 2016. 80p. ISBN 9781588383273. $21.95. POETRY THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE Dream a World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America. Smithsonian. 2016. 288p. ed. by Kinshasha Holman Conwill. ISBN 9781588345684. $40. fine arts Kendrick, Kathleen. Official Guide to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Smithsonian. Apr. 2017. 160p. photos.ISBN 9781588345936. pap. $14.95. fine arts Wilson, Mabel O. Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Smithsonian. 2016. 144p. ISBN 9781588345691. $29.95. ARCH Add Comment :-
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