2019 Acquisitions

BIOGRAPHY
All the Wild Hunger: A Season of Cooking and Cancer by Karen Babine*
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves:  One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle
Grinnell: America’s Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West by John Taliaferro
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love by Margaret Renkl*
Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age by Darrel J. McLeod*
The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell’s 1984 by Dorian Lynskey
Precious and Adored:  The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890-1918, Lizzie Ehrenhalt and Tilly Laskey, editors
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
 
CHILDREN & TEENS
Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

ESSAYS
James Baldwin:  Collected Essays by James Baldwin

FICTION
A Better Next by Maren Cooper
At Dusk by Hwang Sok-yong
Circe: A Novel by Madeline Miller
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese*
The Lager Queen of Minnesota: A Novel by J. Ryan Stradal
Laurentian Divide: A Novel by Sarah Stonich
The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead 
Ruby and Roland:  A Novel by Faith Sullivan
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
This Tender Land:  A Novel by William Kent Krueger
A Thread So Fine:  A Novel by Susan Welch
The Tuscan Child: A Novel by Rhys Bowen
The Wedding: A Novel by Dorothy West
 
HISTORY – EUROPE
The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern by Robert Morrison.
 
LARGE PRINT
Campfire Tales of the Great Northwoods by David Hawkins
Wolf Pack by C.J. Box
 
MYSTERY/SPY/ADVENTURE
A Better Man by Louise Penny
Ice Cold Heart: A Monkeewrench Novel by P.J.Tracy
The Ravens by Vidar Sundstol 
The Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
 
POETRY COLLECTIONS
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems by Joy Harjo
Day Unto Day by Martha Collins*
Four Reincarnations by Max Ritvo*
Night Unto Night by Martha Collins*
Petals of the Moon: A Poetry Collection by Jo Churchill
Tula by Chris Santiago* 
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY/MATH
Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything by Robert M. Hazen. 
 
U.S. HISTORY
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 by Mitchell Zuchkoff
Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad by Gordon H. Chang
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush*
 
WORLD POLITICS/GOVERNMENT
The Enemy of the People:  A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America by Jim Acosta
This Is Not Propaganda:  Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev

* Published by local, independent press Milkweed Editions and donated by Milkweed board member and 1666 resident, Veena Deo.
 
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