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New Arrivals at the Kingsborough Library

HIghlighting the exciting new books and databases in our collection

February 2024 Arrivals (sorted by collection, then LC Class)

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Juvenile Collection

  • Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll! : Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll / Tonya Bolden; Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
    • Author: Bolden, Tonya
    • Call number: JUV BIO Tharpe
    • Format: Print book
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  • Mary's Idea / Chris Raschka ; Illustrated by Chris Raschka
    • Author: Raschka, Chris
    • Call number: JUV BIO Williams
    • Format: Print book
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  • As Night Falls : Creatures That Go Wild After Dark / Written by Donna Jo Napoli and Illustrated by Felicita Sala
    • Author: Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948-
    • Call number: JUV FIC Napoli
    • Format: Print book
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  • Remind Me
    • Author: Shute, Linda
    • Call number: JUV FIC Shute
    • Format: Print book
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  • Do You Remember?
    • Author: Smith, Sydney
    • Call number: JUV FIC Smith
    • Format: Print book
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  • Remember Us
    • Author: Woodson, Jacqueline
    • Call number: JUV FIC Woodson
    • Format: Print book
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  • How to Write a Poem / Kwame Alexander, Deanna Nikaido ; Illustrated by Melissa Sweet
    • Author: Nikaido, Deanna
    • Call number: PS3601.L35388
    • Format: Print book
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Leisure Collection

  • The Future
    • Author: Alderman, Naomi
    • Call number: LEIS Alderman
    • Format: Print book
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  • The Magic Kingdom: A Novel
  • The Saint of Bright Doors
    • Author: Chandrasekera, Vajra
    • Call number: LEIS Chandrasekera
    • Format: Print book
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  • I Must Be Dreaming / Roz Chast
  • Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
  • First Lie Wins
    • Author: Elston, Ashley
    • Call number: LEIS Elston
    • Format: Print book
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  • Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
    • Author: Fitzgerald, Isaac
    • Call number: LEIS Fitzgerald
    • Format: Print book
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  • Wanderlust: Extraordinary People, Quirky Places, and Curious Cuisine / Karen Gershowitz
    • Author: Gershowitz, Karen
    • Call number: LEIS Gershowitz
    • Format: Print book
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  • Meant to Be: A Novel
  • Really Good, Actually: A Novel
    • Author: Heisey, Monica
    • Call number: LEIS Heisey
    • Format: Print book
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  • The World We Make: A Novel
    • Author: Jemisin, N. K.
    • Call number: LEIS Jemisin
    • Format: Print book
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  • Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party
  • Unnatural History: An Alex Delaware Novel
    • Author: Kellerman, Jonathan
    • Call number: LEIS Kellerman
    • Format: Print book
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  • Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
    • Author: Maddow, Rachel
    • Call number: LEIS Maddow
    • Format: Print book
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  • Pearl / Josh Malerman
    • Author: Malerman, Josh
    • Call number: LEIS Malerman
    • Format: Print book
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  • How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working With Your Brain (Not Against It)
    • Author: McCabe, Jessica
    • Call number: LEIS McCabe
    • Format: Print book
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  • The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring
    • Author: McCracken, Patti
    • Call number: LEIS McCracken
    • Format: Print book
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  • Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier
    • Author: Meltzer, Marisa
    • Call number: LEIS Meltzer
    • Format: Print book
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  • Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens / David Mitchell
    • Author: Mitchell, David
    • Call number: LEIS Mitchell
    • Format: Print book
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  • The Night House: A Novel
  • Bibi: My Story
    • Author: Netanyahu, Binyamin
    • Call number: LEIS Netanyahu
    • Format: Print book
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  • Wandering Stars: A Novel
  • Holmes, Marple & Poe: The Greatest Crime-Solving Team of the Twenty-First Century
    • Author: Patterson, James
    • Call number: LEIS Patterson
    • Format: Print book
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  • The Mystery Guest: A Maid Novel
  • After Annie: A Novel
    • Author: Quindlen, Anna
    • Call number: LEIS Quindlen
    • Format: Print book
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  • In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
    • Author: Schneider, Amy
    • Call number: LEIS Schneider
    • Format: Print book
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  • Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
  • The Square of Sevens: A Novel
    • Author: Shepherd-Robinson, Laura
    • Call number: LEIS Shepherd-Robinson
    • Format: Print book
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  • Life on Other Planets : A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe / Aomawa Shields
    • Author: Shields, Aomawa L.
    • Call number: LEIS Shields
    • Format: Print book
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  • Murder Crossed Her Mind: A Pentecost and Parker Mystery
    • Author: Spotswood, Stephen
    • Call number: LEIS Spotswood
    • Format: Print book
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  • Cahokia Jazz: A Novel
    • Author: Spufford, Francis
    • Call number: LEIS Spufford
    • Format: Print book
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  • The House of Doors
  • Rich AF: The Winning Money Mindset That Will Change Your Life

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A: General Works

  • Code: From Information Theory to French Theory / Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
    • Author: Geoghegan, Bernard Dionysius
    • Call number: AZ105
    • Format: Print book
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B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion

  • Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
  • Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods

C: Auxiliary Sciences of History

  • Lost Cities of the Ancient World / Philip Matyszak
  • Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Life of Frantz Fanon / Adam Shatz

D: History (General)

  • Bystander Society: Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust / Mary Fulbrook
  • Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
  • Putin's Exiles: Their Fight for a Better Russia / Paul Starobin
  • Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation
    • Author: Hrytsak, Yaroslav
    • Call number: DK508.51
    • Format: Print book
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  • China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

E-F: History (America)

  • I Saw Death Coming : A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction / Kidada E. Williams
    • Author: Williams, Kidada E.
    • Call number: E185.2
    • Format: Print book
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  • Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South / Elizabeth R. Varon
    • Author: Varon, Elizabeth R.
    • Call number: E467.1.L55
    • Format: Print book
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  • White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
    • Author: Kruse, Kevin Michael, 1972-
    • Call number: F294.A89
    • Format: Print book
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G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

  • Psychology of Travel / Andrew Stevenson
  • Beginning to End the Climate Crisis: A History of Our Future / Luisa Neubauer and Alexander Repenning ; Tranlsated by Sabine Von Mering
  • Environmentally Sustainable Growth : A Pragmatic Approach / Steven Cohen
  • Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature / Ludovic Slimak
  • So Much Stuff: How Humans Discovered Tools, Invented Meaning, and Made More of Everything / Chip Colwell
  • Your Turn!: The Guide to Great Tabletop Game Design / Scott A. Rogers
  • Grandest Stage : A History of the World Series
  • Magic: The Life of Earvin "Magic" Johnson / Roland Lazenby

H: Social Sciences

  • Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America / Daniel Schulman
  • Inexact and Separate Science of Economics / Daniel M. Hausman
  • Brexit Britain: The Consequences of the Vote to Leave the European Union / Paul Whiteley, Harold D. Clarke, Matthew Goodwin, Marianne C. Stewart
    • Author: Whiteley, Paul
    • Call number: HC240.25.G7
    • Format: Print book
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  • Power to the Middle: Why Managers Hold the Keys to the Future of Work / Emily Field
  • AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology / Juliette Powell and Art Kleiner
  • Hillbilly Highway : The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class / Max Fraser
  • Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away From the Democratic Party / Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol
  • Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
  • Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports From the Race to Save the Earth / John J. Berger ; Introduction by Senator Russ Feingold
    • Author: Berger, John J.
    • Call number: HD9502.5.C543
    • Format: Print book
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  • Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived: Tom Watson Jr. And the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age / Ralph Watson McElvenny and Marc Wortman
    • Author: McElvenny, Ralph Watson
    • Call number: HD9696.2.U64
    • Format: Print book
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  • Own This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet / R. Trebor Scholz
    • Author: Scholz, R. Trebor
    • Call number: HD9999.M782
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  • Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization / Ed Conway
  • Banking on Slavery : Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States / Sharon Ann Murphy
  • An Influencer's World: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Social Media Influencers and Creators / Edited by Caroline Baker and Don Baker.
  • Raving / McKenzie Wark
  • Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care / Lynne SEGAL
  • Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media Is Making Us Angry / Jeff Rice
  • Status Revolution
  • Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East : Deception, Disinformation and Social Media / Marc Owen Jones
  • Universal Access and Its Asymmetries : The Untold Story of the Last 200 Years / Harmeet Sawhney, Hamid R. Ekbia
    • Author: Sawhney, Harmeet Singh
    • Call number: HM851
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  • Rise of the Masses: Spontaneous Mobilization and Contentious Politics / Benjamin Abrams
  • How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity
  • Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation / Tiya Miles
  • Gayfriendly : Acceptance and Control of Homosexuality in New York and Paris / Sylvie Tissot ; Translated by Helen Morrison
  • Abortion Beyond the Law: Building a Global Feminist Movement for Self-Managed Abortion / Naomi Braine
  • More: A Memoir of Open Marriage / Molly Roden Winter
  • Race, Ethnicity, and the COVID-19 Pandemic / Edited by Melvin Thomas, Loren Henderson, Hayward Derrick Horton
  • Robots Won't Save Japan : An Ethnography of Eldercare Automation / James Wright
  • Understanding Animal Abuse and How to Intervene With Children and Young People: A Practical Guide for Professionals Working With People and Animals / Edited by Gilly Mendes Ferreira and Joanne M. Williams.
  • Opioid Epidemic: Origins, Current State and Potential Solutions / Ethan O. Bryson, Christine E. Boxhorn
    • Author: Bryson, Ethan O.
    • Call number: HV5822.O45
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  • Hereditary: The Persistence of Biological Theories of Crime / Julien Larregue ; Translated by Peter Keating
  • Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice / Elizabeth Flock
    • Author: Flock, Elizabeth
    • Call number: HV6250.25
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  • Disappeared : Remnants of a Dirty War
  • Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades / Rebecca Renner
  • Ambush at Central Park : When the IRA Came to New York / Mark Bulik
  • Working With Client Experiences of Domestic Abuse : A Handbook for Counsellors, Psychotherapists, and Other Mental Health Professionals / Edited by Jeannette Roddy
  • Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America / Andrew C. McKevitt
    • Author: Mckevitt, Andrew C.
    • Call number: HV7436
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  • Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change / Ben Austen
  • Inside Knowledge: Incarcerated People on the Failures of the American Prison / Doran Larson
  • Marx, Revolution, and Social Democracy / Philip J. Kain
  • Workers of All Colors Unite : Race and the Origins of American Socialism / Lorenzo Costaguta
  • Wild Democracy : Anarchy, Courage, and Ruling the Law / Anne Norton

J: Political Science

  • Citizens Under Compulsory Voting : A Three-Country Study / Ruth Dassonneville, Thiago Barbosa, André Blais, Ian McAllister, Mathieu Turgeon
    • Author: Dassonneville, Ruth
    • Call number: JF1031
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  • Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution / Ryan Grim
  • Campaigns and Elections American Style : The Changing Landscape of Political Campaigns / Edited by Edited by Candice J. Nelson, James A. Thurber, and David A. Dulio
  • Grand Strategies of the Left: The Foreign Policy of Progressive Worldmaking / Van Jackson
  • Bringing Home the White House: The Hidden History of Women Who Shaped the Presidency in the Twentieth Century / Melissa Estes Blair
    • Author: Blair, Melissa Estes
    • Call number: JK271.B525
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  • Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a New American Politics / Joshua Green
  • Colonialism : A Global History / Lorenzo Veracini
  • How Migration Really Works: The Facts About the Most Divisive Issue in Politics / Hein De Haas
  • Human Capital : A History of Putting Refugees to Work

K: Law

  • Justice at Trial: Courtroom Battles and Groundbreaking Cases / James J. Brosnahan ; Foreword by Erwin Chemerinsky
    • Author: Brosnahan, James J.
    • Call number: KF373.B73
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  • Supermajority : How the Supreme Court Divided America / Michael Waldman
  • Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems / Francine Banner
  • Law and Evidence : A Primer for Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Legal Studies / Charles P. Nemeth
  • Judgement at Tokyo

L: Education

  • Increasing Visual Literacy and Critical Thinking Skills Through Graphic Novels / Edited by Rebecca Maldonado, Jason DeHart
  • Great School Rethink / Frederick M. Hess.
    • Author: Hess, Frederick M., author.Hess
    • Call number: LB2806
    • Format: Print book
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M: Music

  • Transfigured New York: Interviews With Experimental Artists and Musicians, 1980-1990 / Brooke Wentz
  • Lou Reed: The King of New York / Will Hermes
  • Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters / Lynnée Denise
    • Author: Denise, Lynnée
    • Call number: ML420.T467
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  • Loaded: The Life (And Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground / Dylan Jones
  • Don't Sweat the Technique : A Performer's Guide to Hip-Hop and Rap / Melissa L. Foster

N: Art

  • Warhol After Warhol: Secrets, Lies, & Corruption in the Art World / Richard Dorment
    • Author: Dorment, Richard
    • Call number: N6537.W28
    • Format: Print book
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  • Power of Art: A Human History of Art: From Babylon to New York City / Caroline Campbell
  • Rediscovering Black Portraiture
    • Author: Brathwaite, Peter
    • Call number: N8217.B535
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  • Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World / Jennifer Higgie
  • Humanize: A Maker's Guide to Designing Our Cities / Thomas Heatherwick
    • Author: Heatherwick, Thomas
    • Call number: NA2543.S6
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  • Rosalba Carriera

P: Language and Literature

  • Stage Voices: Interviews With 28 Theater Directors Worldwide / Steve Capra
  • My Cousin Maria Schneider : A Memoir
    • Author: Schneider, Vanessa
    • Call number: PN2638.S38
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  • Buried Treasures : The Power of Political Fairy Tales / Jack Zipes
  • I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture / Annie Ernaux ; Translated by Alison L. Strayer
  • Eastbound
    • Author: Kerangal, Maylis De
    • Call number: PQ2671.E64
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  • A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World's Greatest Novelist / Juliette Wells
  • Life and Lies of Charles Dickens / Helena Kelly
  • Prophet Song : A Novel / Paul Lynch
  • Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather / Benjamin Taylor
    • Author: Taylor, Benjamin
    • Call number: PS3505.A87
    • Format: Print book
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  • August Wilson: A Life / Patti Hartigan
    • Author: Hartigan, Patti
    • Call number: PS3573.I45677
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  • Martyr! / Kaveh Akbar
  • Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder / David Bordwell

Q: Science and Mathematics

  • Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI / Fei-Fei Li
  • For the Love of Mars : A Human History of the Red Planet / Matthew Shindell
  • Supermassive Black Holes / King Andrew
  • Her Space, Her Time : How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe / Shohini Ghose
  • A Relatively Painless Guide to Special Relativity
  • Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section
  • Deadly Balance : Predators and People in a Crowded World / Adam Hart
  • Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins-From Spices to Vices / Noah Whiteman

R: Medical and Health Subjects

  • Twice as Hard : The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, From the Civil War to the 21st Century / Jasmine Brown
  • Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America
  • Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum / Antonia Hylton
  • Lupus Encyclopedia : A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Health Care Providers / Donald E. Thomas, Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
    • Author: Thomas, Donald E., Jr., M.D.
    • Call number: RC924.5.L85
    • Format: Print book
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  • Disquieting Death of Emma Gill: Abortion, Death, and Concealment in Victorian New England
  • Psychedelics: The Revolutionary Drugs That Could Change Your Life - A Guide From the Expert

T: Technology

  • Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care / Phaedra C. Pezzullo
    • Author: Pezzullo, Phaedra C.
    • Call number: TD798
    • Format: Print book
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  • Endangered Eating: America's Vanishing Foods

U: Military Science

  • Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals / Doug Melville