tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74782487573859543652024-03-19T03:47:30.977-05:00NEW BOOKSUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14690125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-65470297351274189692024-03-19T01:05:00.001-05:002024-03-19T01:05:00.266-05:00"The Residential Is Racial"New from Stanford University Press: The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership by Adrienne Brown.
About the book, from the publisher:
Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creation of mass homeownership. This book insistently tracks the inverse: the role of mass homeownership in changing the definition, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-54000144704060932342024-03-18T14:05:00.001-05:002024-03-18T14:05:00.248-05:00"The Sicilian Inheritance"New from Dutton: The Sicilian Inheritance: A Novel by Jo Piazza.
About the book, from the publisher:
From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes a transporting novel rooted in the author’s own family history about a long-awaited trip to Sicily, a disputed inheritance, and a family secret that some will kill to protect...
Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-4122402546688095782024-03-18T12:05:00.001-05:002024-03-18T12:05:00.255-05:00"Materializing the Middle Passage"New from Oxford University Press: Materializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Slave Shipping, 1680-1807 by Jane Webster.
About the book, from the publisher:
An estimated 2.7 million Africans made an enforced crossing of the Atlantic on British slave ships between c.1680 and 1807--a journey that has become known as the 'Middle Passage'. This book focuses on the slave Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-25950159653407299482024-03-18T08:05:00.001-05:002024-03-18T08:05:00.240-05:00"The Monstrous Misses Mai"New from 47North: The Monstrous Misses Mai: A Novel by Van Hoang.
About the book, from the publisher:
A determined young woman in 1950s Los Angeles walks a darker city than she ever imagined in a spellbinding novel about the power to make dreams come true―whatever the sacrifice.
Los Angeles brims with opportunity in 1959―though not for aspiring fashion designer Cordelia Mai Yin, the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-582686076271076452024-03-18T01:05:00.001-05:002024-03-18T01:05:00.128-05:00"The Apathy of Empire"New from the University of Minnesota Press: The Apathy of Empire: Cambodia in American Geopolitics by James A. Tyner.
About the book, from the publisher:
What America’s intervention in Cambodia during the Vietnam War reveals about Cold War–era U.S. national security strategy
The Apathy of Empire reveals just how significant Cambodia was to U.S. policy in Indochina during the Vietnam War, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-19534588029946659512024-03-17T16:05:00.001-05:002024-03-17T16:05:00.250-05:00"All We Were Promised"New from Ballantine Books: All We Were Promised: A Novel by Ashton Lattimore.
About the book, from the publisher:
A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an enslaved girl escape, in volatile pre-Civil War Philadelphia.
The rebel . . . the socialite . . . and the fugitive. Together, they will risk everything for one another in this “Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-15641067650442552002024-03-17T14:05:00.001-05:002024-03-17T14:05:00.235-05:00"Exurbia Now"New from Melville House: Exurbia Now: The Battleground of American Democracy by David Masciotra.
About the book, from the publisher:
The suburbs have become too liberal and diverse for many white American conservatives, so “exurbia”—areas outside the cities and their suburbs—are becoming the staging ground for the radical right extremist insurgency...
Beyond a fanatical devotion to former Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-84435423968271815022024-03-17T12:05:00.001-05:002024-03-17T12:05:00.241-05:00"Habitations"New from Simon & Schuster: Habitations: A Novel by Sheila Sundar.
About the book, from the publisher:
A young academic moves from India to the United States, where she navigates first love, a green card marriage, single motherhood, and more in this “delightful novel, written with immediacy, warmth, and wry humor” (Ha Jin, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting).
Vega Gopalan is Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-87674567463516178132024-03-17T10:05:00.001-05:002024-03-17T10:05:00.238-05:00"A Nation Fermented"New from Oxford University Press: A Nation Fermented: Beer, Bavaria, and the Making of Modern Germany by Robert Shea Terrell.
About the book, from the publisher:
How did beer become one of the central commodities associated with the German nation? How did a little-known provincial production standard – the Reinheitsgebot, or Beer Purity Law – become a pillar of national consumer sentiments? HowUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-19694378561476987852024-03-17T08:05:00.001-05:002024-03-17T08:05:00.238-05:00"Dear Edna Sloane"Coming April 30 from Red Hen Press: Dear Edna Sloane by Amy Shearn.
About the book, from the publisher:
Dear Edna Sloane is a funny, fast-paced epistolary novel about fame, writers, ambition, and the ups and downs of a creative life.
Edna Sloane was a promising author at the top of her game. Her debut novel was an instant classic and commercial success, vaulting her into the heady echelons Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-52360338794857087882024-03-17T01:05:00.001-05:002024-03-17T01:05:00.130-05:00"Urban Refugees and Digital Technology"New from McGill-Queens University Press: Urban Refugees and Digital Technology: Reshaping Social, Political, and Economic Networks by Charles Martin-Shields.
About the book, from the publisher:
Refugees and displaced people are increasingly moving to cities around the world, seeking out the social, economic, and political opportunity that urban areas provide. Against this backdrop digital Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-77399626062797852502024-03-16T16:05:00.002-05:002024-03-16T16:05:00.138-05:00"Atta Boy"Coming soon from the University of Iowa Press: Atta Boy by Cally Fiedorek.
About the book, from the publisher:
In December 2018, we meet Rudy Coyle, a bar owner’s son from Flushing, Queens, in the throes of a major quarter-life crisis. Cut out of the family business, he gets a Hail Mary job as a night doorman in a storied Park Avenue apartment building, where he comes under the wing of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-73518619065708032152024-03-16T14:05:00.002-05:002024-03-16T14:05:00.126-05:00"Long Live Queer Nightlife"New from Princeton University Press: Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution by Amin Ghaziani.
About the book, from the publisher:
It’s closing time for an alarming number of gay bars in cities around the globe—but it’s definitely not the last dance
In this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-61333093622342906112024-03-16T12:05:00.002-05:002024-03-16T12:55:02.919-05:00"The Tigers of Lents"New from the University of Iowa Press: The Tigers of Lents by Mark Pomeroy.
About the book, from the publisher:
This is the story of the Garrison family, who live in Lents, an outer neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. At the heart of it all, there are the three Garrison sisters: Sara, the eldest, a fiery soccer star on the precipice of pulling herself out of the life of poverty she’s always knownUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-62931138167153476912024-03-16T10:05:00.001-05:002024-03-16T10:05:00.128-05:00"Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez"New from Yale University Press: Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV by Amanda Wunder.
About the book, from the publisher:
Bringing to life the world of Spanish royal tailor Mateo Aguado and his colleagues during the reign of Philip IV, and exploring the distinctive look of the court in seventeenth-century Madrid
Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-22961961390153744242024-03-16T08:05:00.007-05:002024-03-16T08:05:00.153-05:00"Someone You Can Build a Nest In"New from DAW: Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell.
About the book, from the publisher:
Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—by Nebula Award-winning debut author John Wiswell
Shesheshen has made a mistake fatal to all monsters: she's fallen in love.
Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-54490677345352547762024-03-16T01:05:00.001-05:002024-03-16T01:05:00.127-05:00"The Examined Run"New from Oxford University Press: The Examined Run by Sabrina B. Little.
About the book, from the publisher:
Can running make me a more moral person? Can striving to be a better person make me a better runner?
In The Examined Run, philosopher and ultramarathon runner Sabrina B. Little asks whether running can be a laboratory for developing our character. She looks at the key ideas in virtue Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-20525489520528625222024-03-15T16:05:00.001-05:002024-03-15T16:05:00.165-05:00"Bless Your Heart"Coming April 9 from Minotaur Books: Bless Your Heart by Lindy Ryan.
About the book, from the publisher:
A crackling mystery-horror novel with big-hearted characters and Southern charm with a bite, Bless Your Heart is a gasp-worthy delight from start to finish from debut author Lindy Ryan.
Rise and shine. The Evans women have some undead to kill.
It’s 1999 in Southeast Texas and the Evans Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-35707803222757196452024-03-15T14:05:00.001-05:002024-03-15T15:13:03.531-05:00"Seeding Empire"New from the University of California Press: Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa by Aaron Eddens.
About the book, from the publisher:
In Seeding Empire, Aaron Eddens rewrites an enduring story about the past—and future—of global agriculture. Eddens connects today's efforts to cultivate a "Green Revolution in Africa" to a history of AmericanUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-42263352187085667552024-03-15T12:05:00.001-05:002024-03-15T12:05:00.135-05:00"Island Rule"New from Gallery/Scout Press: Island Rule: Stories by Katie M. Flynn.
About the book, from the publisher:
From the author of the “urgent and heartfelt” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel The Companions, a genre-bending collection of interconnected short stories in the tradition of Jennifer Egan and Karen Russell.
An angry mother turns into a literal monster. A company in San Francisco can scrub Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-74470101699767249132024-03-15T10:05:00.001-05:002024-03-15T10:05:00.132-05:00"Race and the American Story"New from Oxford University Press: Race and the American Story by Stephanie Shonekan and Adam Seagrave.
About the book, from the publisher:
In Race and the American Story, Stephanie Shonekan and Adam Seagrave provide a unique window into race relations in contemporary America. Shonekan, a Black woman who grew up in Nigeria and Trinidad before emigrating to the US and Seagrave, a white man who Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-89820505848542237362024-03-15T08:05:00.001-05:002024-03-15T08:05:00.135-05:00"Chronically Dolores"New from Dutton Books for Young Readers: Chronically Dolores by Maya Van Wagenen.
About the book, from the publisher:
Maya Van Wagenen, bestselling author of Popular, tells Dolores’s story with humor, heartache, and an occasional bit of telenovela flair.
Dolores Mendoza is not thriving. She was recently diagnosed with a chronic bladder condition called interstitial cystitis. The painful Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-45791965327457173712024-03-15T01:05:00.001-05:002024-03-15T01:05:00.141-05:00"Camera Geologica"New from Duke University Press: Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography by Siobhan Angus.
About the book, from the publisher:
In Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on immateriality in discourses on photography, Angus focuses on the inextricable links between image-making and Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-5270161915657600312024-03-14T08:05:00.001-05:002024-03-14T08:05:00.140-05:00"Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny"New from Pantheon: Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny: A Novel by Mark Cecil.
About the book, from the publisher:
A large-hearted reimagining of beloved all-American legends, this epic debut novel brings men of myth Paul Bunyan and John Henry alive like never before, teaming up for an adventure quest with deeper interrogations of race, class, and industrialization.
Paul Bunyan—Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-47135320339210954372024-03-14T01:05:00.001-05:002024-03-14T01:05:00.133-05:00"Splinters of Infinity"New from The MIT Press: Splinters of Infinity: Cosmic Rays and the Clash of Two Nobel Prize-Winning Scientists over the Secrets of Creation by Mark Wolverton.
About the book, from the publisher:
The riveting story of a modern age scientific feud between two Nobel Prize-winning scientists over the nature of cosmic rays and the universe.
Set in a revolutionary era of physics and science when a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com