New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:
- Liner Notes for the Revolution by Daphne A Brooks
- Romance and Reason edited by Roberta Casagrande-Kim
- La Ternera by Aurora Freijo Corbeira
- Experiencing Race, Class and Gender in the United States by Roberta Fiske-Rusciano
- Troy: Myth, City, Icon by Naoise Mac Sweeney
- Empire of the Black Sea by Duane W. Roller
- Shanghai Gone: Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Mega City by Qin Shao
- Alice Walker's Metaphysics by Nagueyalti Warren
- Cultural Anthropology by Robert L. Welsch & Luis A Vivanco
- Years of Red Dust: Stories of Shanghai by Qiu Xiaolong