New this week at the MA Library…
Comics
M.F.K. vol 1 by Nilah Magruder
Abbie wants to get to the mountain range called the Potter’s Spine and scatter her mother’s ashes. But the way is filled with sandstorms, wild beasts, and rogues that wield inhuman powers and prey on poor desert dwellers. When one of these rogues threatens the town where Abbie takes refuge, she must choose between running, or unleashing her own hidden power to meet danger head-on. With the help of a local boy named Jaime she’ll stand up against evil and save humanity.
Velvet vol. 1 “Before the Living End” by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting
When the world’s greatest secret agent is killed, all evidence points to Velvet Templeton, the personal secretary to the Director of the Agency. But Velvet’s got a dark secret buried in her past – she’s also the most dangerous woman alive.
Fiction
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Running into a long-ago friend triggers August’s memories from the 1970s. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant—a part of a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful veneer was a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, ghosts haunted the night, and mothers disappeared. A world where madness was just a sunset away and fathers found hope in religion.
Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Ethan Wate used to think of his hometown of Gatlin as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met the mysterious Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. After suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts keeping secrets that test their relationship. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town’s tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems.
The Epiphany Machine by David Burr Gerrard
Adam Lyon creates the Epiphany Machine, a device that tattoos important, personal revelations on a person’s arm. He tattoos Venter Lowood’s mother, and then his father, and then Venter himself. Venter is a bright but lost young man who becomes Adam’s protégé. Venter runs into trouble when the government begins asking questions about a very specific tattoo that marks the arm of his best friend.
Malice of Crows by Lila Bowen
The Ranger known as Rhett has shut down a terrible enterprise running on the blood of magical folk, but failed to catch the dark alchemist behind it. And now the Shadow refuses to let him rest. Rhett must make the ultimate transformation if he has any hope of stopping the alchemist or fulfilling his destiny; he must become the leader of a new Rangers outpost. To save his friends, and the lives of countless others, he’ll first have to lead them on a mission more dangerous than anything they’ve ever faced.
Non-Fiction
The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present by John Pomfret
Discusses the relationship between the U.S. and China from the Revolutionary War to the present day. Includes information on anti-Americanism, anti-Communism, Beijing, Great Britain, Burma, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Ching-kuo, immigration, Chongqing, civil war, Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Cold War, Communist Party, Deng Xiaoping, education, France, Guangzhou, Hu Shih, Japan, Korean War, Korea, Manchuria, Mao Zedong, military aid, missionaries, Nationalist Party, Qing Dynasty, science and technology, Soviet Union, trade and economic development, women’s rights, World War I, World War II, and Zhou Enlai.
Becoming a Supple Leopard: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury and Optimizing Athletic Performance by Kelly Starrett
Presents advice about how to move properly to prevent athletic and everyday injuries. Includes information on joints, mobility, torque, body archetypes, muscles, weightlifting, stretching, pain, and more.
Black Boy by Richard Wright
The autobiography of Richard Wright, who survived poverty and oppression as a child. Chronicles Wright’s experiences in the Chicago Black cultural renaissance during the 1930s, in the Communist Party during the Depression and the McCarthy era, and in Paris during the 1950s.
The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 4, AD 1804 – AD 2016
Offers a history of slavery in the modern age, focusing on slavery in and enslaved people from the New World, Africa, and Asia.
Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta by Clyde Woods
Reinterprets the two-centuries-old conflict between the African Americans and planters in the Mississippi Delta by tracing the decline and resurrection of plantation ideology in national public policy debates, showing the ways in which African Americans in the Delta have continued to push forward their agenda for social and economic justice, and surveying a musical tradition that embraced a radical vision of social change. Includes information on agriculture, Bill Clinton, Delta Council, Department of Agriculture, Ku Klux Klan, Lower Mississippi Delta Development Commission, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, New South, and Nat Turner.
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Presents an analysis of internet search behavior, showing the discrepancies between what people say they believe or do and what their online lives actually reveal.
Expressionism by Norbert Wolf
Presents an introduction to Expressionism in painting, the early 20th century movement that rejected Impressionism and emphasized bold colors and sharp lines to emphasize emotion over objective reality.
Fauvism by Sarah Whitfield
Presents a study of Fauvism, an Expressionist group of French painters who were led by Henri Matisse in the early 20th century and were inspired by primitive art.
Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand: The Maori Portraits
Presents the catalog of the 2017 exhibition at the De Young Museum about the portraits of 19th century Bohemian artist Gottfried Lindauer, who sought to document notable 19th century Maori men and women. Also includes essays about the artist and the works.
Green Innovation in China: China’s Wind Power Industry and the Global Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy by Joanna I. Lewis
Presents a detailed study of wind power projects in the People’s Republic of China in the early 21st century.
Islamic Art in Detail by Sheila R. Canby
Discusses the key elements of Islamic art through short essays and captioned illustrations.
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
Presents a detailed, illustrated biography of Leonardo da Vinci.
Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots by John Markoff
Presents a history of the evolution of artificial intelligence and seeks to define what the ideal relationship between humans and machines should be.
Migrations: Humanity in Transition by Sebastiao Salgado
Presents hundreds of black-and-white photographs of migrants from more than thirty-five countries, taken by internationally renowned photographer Sebastio Salgado in the mid-1990s.
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment edited by Angela J. Davis
Collects essays that explore and critique the ways the criminal justice system impacts the lives of African American boys and men at every stage of the criminal process, from arrest through sentencing.
Resisting Abstraction: Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism by Gordon Hughes
Presents the work of the French painter Robert Delaunay, who developed Orphism–a division of Cubism that emphasized color.
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation by Natalie Y. Moore
Describes the various ways in which the racial segregation has defined Chicago’s neighborhoods, and that institutional racism has made it difficult for African Americans to advance. Includes information on the Beverly Area Planning Association, the Black middle class, Chatham, Jim Crow, Chicago Public Schools, the criminal justice system, food access, gentrification, housing, Barack Obama, public housing, racism, politics, and the University of Chicago.
Symbolism by Norbert Wolf
Presents an introduction to the painting movement known as Symbolism and profiles individuals paintings of key artists.
Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire Matthew H. Ross
Presents the catalog of the 2017 exhibition at the De Young Museum that showed the results of new archeological excavations from the Teotihuacan site outside of Mexico City.
Twentieth Century China: A History in Documents edited by R. Keith Schoppa
Presents a collection of documents that trace the history of China in the 20th century.
Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think by John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed
Compiles an extensive worldwide survey conducted by Gallup on Muslim perspectives on topics such as Islam, women’s rights, extremism, terrorism, and politics.
World War I Trench Warfare, 1914-1916 by Stephen Bull
Describes the origins trench warfare on the Western Front during World War I and the new military strategies used for this new type of war.
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