Looking for a good read? Check out our new books!
Take a look at some of our new books! Here’s a sampling — find these and others on the New Books shelf:
(Following each title is the call number which is the letter/number combination on the label on the spine of each book. The books are arranged on the shelves alphabetically by call number.)
The smartphone : anatomy of an industry by Elizabeth Woyke (HE9713 .W69 2014)
Misquoting Muhammad : the challenge and choices of interpreting the Prophet’s legacy by Jonathan A.C. Brown (BP161.3 .B765 2014)
Dead wake : the last crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson (D592.L8 L28 2015)
The half has never been told : slavery and the making of American capitalism by Edward E. Baptist (E441 .B337 2014)
The birth of the pill : how four crusaders reinvented sex and launched a revolution by Jonathan Eig (RG137.5 .E37 2014)
The human age : the world shaped by us by Diane Ackerman (GF13 .A35 2014)
Easiest if I had a gun : stories by Michael Gerhard Martin (PS3613.A78355 A6 2014)
The second machine age : work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee (HC79.I55 B796 2014)
The big pivot : radically practical strategies for a hotter, scarcer, and more open world by Andrew S. Winston (HD30.255 .W574 2014)
Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (D805.J3 Z364 2014)
Fewer, bigger, bolder : from mindless expansion to focused growth by Sanjay Khosla & Mohanbir Sawhney with Richard Babcock (HD2746 .K47 2014)
Unlikely fame : poor people who made history by David Wagner with Jenna Nunziato (HV4044 .W34 2014)
Living oil : petroleum culture in the American century by Stephanie LeMenager (PS169.E25 L36 2014)
How the poor can save capitalism : rebuilding the path to the middle class by John Hope Bryant (HT690.U6 B793 2014)