October 2017

New World

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New World: An Anthology of Sci-Fi and Fantasy (Paperback)

By C. Spike Trotman (Editor)
$30.00
ISBN: 9780970873170
Availability: Available at Warehouse
Published: Iron Circus Comics - April 18th, 2017

An exceptional sci-fi comics anthology about first contact, culture clash, and colonialism, from a small indie comics publisher, addressing issues of representation with uniquely fun anthologies. New Worlds is a standout, where new and established talents push the genre of science fiction to do what it does best: show us who we are and who we can aspire to be.

Alexander

The Worm and the Bird

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The Worm and the Bird (Hardcover)

By Coralie Bickford-Smith
$24.00
ISBN: 9780143132868
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Penguin Books - October 10th, 2017

If you buy the Penguin classics in hardcover just for the pretty covers then you'll like this: It's the same illustrator/designer! Coralie Bickford-Smith's new book is wonderfully illustrated and I think both adults and children will enjoy. It's darkly humorous, but also thoughtful and insightful.  

Heather

Alone

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Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory (Hardcover)

By Michael Korda
$29.95
ISBN: 9781631491320
Availability: Available at Warehouse
Published: Liveright - September 19th, 2017

If you’ve seen Christopher Nolan’s film, Dunkirk, and want to learn more, try Alone. Korda’s book is a compelling and detailed examination of the events leading up to the beginning of World War II through the evacuation of Allied troops at Dunkirk interspersed with Korda’s own memoir of his illustrious, movie-making, emigre family.

Dale

A $500 House in Detroit

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A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City (Hardcover)

By Drew Philp
$26.00
ISBN: 9781476797984
Availability: Available at Warehouse
Published: Scribner - April 11th, 2017

You'll be equal parts infuriated and inspired reading about the author's quest to rebuild a barely livable house in one of the poorest cities in the country despite threats of arson, lack of money and a municipal bankruptcy that somehow left $25 million for a new football stadium.  As the saying goes, if you can make it there, you can make in anywhere.

John

Infomocracy

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Infomocracy: Book One of the Centenal Cycle (Paperback)

By Malka Older
$16.99
ISBN: 9780765392367
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Published: Tor.com - August 8th, 2017

National borders have been eliminated in favor of centenals, geographical groupings of every 100,000 citizens who vote every ten years. The corporate party Heritage holds the majority, but the system may be upended by idealistic Policy1st--or warmongering Liberty, a party playing on old nationalist tensions. I have never been so fascinated by the innards of a fictional election. Complex and compelling.

Rebecca

Protestantism After 500 Years

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Protestantism After 500 Years (Paperback)

By Thomas Albert Howard (Editor), Mark A. Noll (Editor)
$39.95
ISBN: 9780190264796
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - August 1st, 2016

There is no overstating the significance of the Protestant Reformation, and so its 500th anniversary is an event deserving reflection. In Protestantism After 500 Years, two leading Reformation scholars compile essays devoted to how events of 1517 kick-started history's greatest revolution. A must-read for understanding religion's role in the development of modernity.

Matthew

Apollo 8

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Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon (Hardcover)

By Jeffrey Kluger
$30.00
ISBN: 9781627798327
Availability: Available at Warehouse
Published: Henry Holt and Co. - May 16th, 2017

Going to the moon is not a small undertaking. Imagine, it had never been done before, and the mission was planned & executed in sixteen weeks! Apollo 8 is the story of a “wild crapshoot” that will bring you back to that time or open the door to an accomplishment that included a TV broadcast from the moon on Christmas Eve 1968.  

Robert

Extreme Measures

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Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life (Hardcover)

By Dr. Jessica Nutik Zitter
$27.00
ISBN: 9781101982556
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Avery - February 21st, 2017

Increasingly Americans face unnecessarily painful or prolonged deaths in hospitals/ICUs. In the event, you may dearly wish you had a kind-hearted ICU/palliative specialist friend. Now you do: Jessica Nutik Zitter, MD. A deft storyteller, she advises from years of experience. An astonishingly revealing, soothing and empowering, must-read book.

Molly

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