Showing posts with label new_items. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new_items. Show all posts

Friday, July 9, 2021

New Items At Hewes Library

 New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included: 


  • Tangled up in Blue: Policing the American City by Rosa Brooks
  • Greek and Roman Mosaics by Umberto Pappalardo & Rosaria Ciardiello
  • Prison Truth: The Story of the San Quentin News by William J. Drummond
  • Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret by Catherine Coleman Flowers
  • On Canvas: Preserving the Structure of Paintings by Stephen Hackney
  • On Becoming Neighbors: The Communication Ethics of Fred Rogers by Alexandrea C. Klaren
  • Superheroes and Masculinity: Unmasking the Gender Performance of Heroism edited by Sean Parson & J.L. Schatz
  • Radio: Making Waves in Sound by Alasdair Pinkerton
  • Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
  • Women and Other Monsters: Building New Mythology by Jess Zimmerman

Friday, June 11, 2021

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included: 

  • Biomimicry: Resource Handbook: A Seed Bank of Best Practices by Dayna Baumeister
  • Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
  • From Sin to Amazing Grace: Discovering the Queer Christ by Patrick Cheng
  • Boneheads and Brainiacs: Heroes & Scoundrels of the Nobel Prize in Medicine by Moira Dolan
  • Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel by Bernardine Evaristo
  • Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Save the America City by A.K. Sandoval-Strausz
  • Ultimate Punishment by Scott Turow
  • When the Nazis Came to Skokie: Freedom For Speech We Hate by Philippa Strum
  • I didn't do it for you: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation by Michela Wrong
  • Life's Edge: The Search for What it Means to be Alive by Carl Zimmer

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included: 

  • Xenophon and the Graces of Power: A Greek Guide to Political Manipulation  by Vincent Azoulay
  • Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr
  • Environmental Ethics: The Central Issues by Gregory Bassham
  • Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance by Mia Bay
  • This is my Body: Hearing the Theology of Transgender Christians edited by Christina Beardsley & Michelle O'Brien
  • A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel by Marlon James
  • Relationship Maintenance: Theory, Process, and Context edited by Brian G. Ogolsky & J. Kali Monk
  • Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice  by David Pilgrim
  • The Fight for Free Speech: Ten Cases that Define our First Amendment Freedoms by Ian Rosenberg
  • Plant Partners: Science Based Companion Planting Strategies for the Vegetable Garden by Jessica Walliser

Friday, April 16, 2021

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included: 

  • Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, From Sustainable to Suicidal by Mark Bittman
  • Lost and Found: Young Fathers in the Age of Unwed Parenthood by Paul Florsheim and David Moore
  • Policing in 2020 by Grey House Publishing
  • Fruit Trees for Every Garden: An Organic Approach to Growing Apples, Pears, Peaches, Plums, Citrus and more by Orin Martin
  • Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration by Reuben Jonathan Miller
  • LGBTQ Mental Health: International Perspectives and Experiences edited by  Nadine Nakamura and Carmen H. Logie
  • Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race by Rebecca Peabody
  • Tragic Heroines in Ancient Greek Drama by Hanna M. Roisman
  • Other People's English: Code-Meshing, Code Switching, and African American Literacy by Vershawn Ashanti Young
  • Art for People's Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965-75 by Rebecca Zorach

Friday, March 19, 2021

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included: 

  • Water Dancer: A Novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Inventing Latinos: A New Strategy of American Racism by Laura E. Gomez
  • Captain Kidd's Lost Ship: The Wreck of the Qurdagh Merchant by Frederick H. Hanselmann
  • How to be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
  • Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr
  • Mountain Sings: A Novel by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
  • Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge by Richard Ovenden
  • Gender Typing of Children's Toys edited by Erica S. Weisgram and Lisa M. Dinella
  • Contagious: Cultures, Carriers and the Outbreak Narrative by Priscilla Ward
  • A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Friday, February 19, 2021

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:


  • W.E.B. DuBois: The Lost and the Found by Elvira Basevich
  • The Political Influences of Churches by Paul A. Djupe & Christopher Gilbert
  • Ethics in the Digital Domain by Robert S. Fortner
  • Ink by James Graham
  • Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America by Juan Gonzalez
  • Endurance Sport and the American Philosophical Tradition edited by Douglas Hochstetler
  • Watercolor: A History by Marie-Pierre Sale
  • Health Care and Human Dignity by Frank M. McClellan
  • Japan's Imperial House in the Post War Era 1945-2019 by Kenneth J. Rouoft
  • 100 Posters That Changed the World by Colin Salter

Friday, October 30, 2020

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:

  • Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origin of a Discipline by Christopher Moore
  • Evolution of Moral Progress: A Biocultural Theory by Allen Buchanan & Russell Powell
  • Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote by Ellen Carol Dubois
  • Globalization and Health by Jeremy Youde
  • Afterlife: A novel by Julia Alvarez
  • English Teaching Survival Guide by Mary Lou Brandvik & Katherine S. McKnight
  • From Conflict Resolution to Peacebuilding by Charles Haus
  • Habits of Racism: A Phenomenology of Racism and Radicalized Embodiment by Helen Ngo
  • Seeking Rights From the Left: Gender, Sexuality and the Latina American Pink Tide edited by Elisabeth Jay Friedman
  • Dinner Party: A commemorative Volume Celebrating a major Monument of Twentieth Century Art by Judy Chicago

Monday, October 5, 2020

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:

  • Going Down Home with Daddy by Kelly Starling Lyons
  • The Pioneers by David McCullough
  • Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Race and Performance edited by Ayanna Thompson
  • Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race and Sexuality in America by Miriam J. Abelson
  • Nonviolent Struggle: Theories, Strategies, and Dynamics by Sharon Erickson Nepstand
  • Saving American Cities by Lizabeth Cohen
  • The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History by Benjamin Francis-Fallon
  • Violence Against Women of African Descent: Global Perspectives edited by Anita Kalunta-Crumpton
  • Women in the American Revolution edited by Barbara B. Oberg
  • The Historian's Huck Finn: Reading Mark Twain's Masterpiece as Social and Economic History annotated by Ranjit S Dighe

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Recreational Reading Titles

New ScotsRead titles are available for your recreational reading pleasure!

This collection, found on the main floor of Hewes Library, contains best sellers and intriguing just-published titles spanning autobiography, non-fiction, mystery and fantasy - even cookbooks!  Check them out for two weeks and renew up to three times.

The newest ScotsReads include:

The Black Jersey, by Jorge Zepeda Patterson
The Bodies in the Library, by Marty Wingate
Definitely Hispanic, by LeJuan James
This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto, by Suketu Mehta
What Happened That Night, by Deanna Cameron
Deep State: Trump, The FBI,  and the Rule of Law, by James B. Stewart
Death and Other Happy Endings, by Melanie Cantor
Jet Girl, by Caroline Johnson
A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee, by Danny Fingeroth
Edison, by Edmund Morris
Blue Moon:  A Jack Reacher Novel, by Lee Child 
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers, by  Andy Greenberg
Let Justice Descend, by Lisa Black
Coached To Death, by Victoria Laurie



Wednesday, January 29, 2020

New Items At Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:
  • Ethical Veganism, Virtue Ethics, and the Great Soul by Carlo Alvaro
  • Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts
  • Identity Politics in the United States by Khalilah L. Brown-Dean
  • Pan's Labyrinth by Mar Diestro-Dopido
  • Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy
  • Comic Books Incorporated by Shawna Kidman
  • Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn
  • Writing for Psychology by Mark Mitchell and Janina M. Jolley and Robert P. O'Shea
  • Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Lea Penniman
  • Obesity: Your Questions Answered by Christine L.B. Selby

Monday, December 9, 2019

New Recreational Reading


New titles are now available in our Scots Read recreational reading collection.


These titles, and many more, can be found on the main floor of Hewes Library.  Materials circulate for two weeks and may have three renewals - so feel free to take a few home over winter break!


New this month:



Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
Sam Kean
Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on The Navajo Nation
Michael Powell
Joy of Cooking 2019 Edition: Fully Revised and Updated
Irma S. Rombauer…. et el
After the Flood: A Novel
Kassandra Montag
Dapper Dan Made in Harlem: A Memoir
Daniel R. Day
The Farm
Joanne Ramos
The Girl In the Photograph: The True Story of a Native American Child, Lost and Found in America
Sen. Byron L. Dorgan
Mother Tongue
Julie Mayhew





Tuesday, November 19, 2019

New Recreational Reading!


New titles are now available in our ScotsRead recreational reading collection.  


These titles, and many more, can be found on the main floor of Hewes Library. Materials circulate for two weeks and may have three renewals. Enjoy!

New this month:

  • The Testaments: The Sequel to the Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Let Love Have the Last Word by Common
  • Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan
  • Unsolved  James Patterson and David Ellis
  • Vendetta in Death by J.D. Robb
  • Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age by Robert Stone and Alan Andres











Friday, November 1, 2019

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:

  • Hans Coper by Tony Birks
  • Walled States, Waning Sovereignty by Wendy Brown
  • Madre Mia by Florencia del Campo
  • Vaccine Debate by Tish Davidson
  • Art Critiques: A Guide by James Elkins
  • Absolutely Remarkable Thing: A Novel by Hank Green
  • Statistics for the Terrified by John H. Kranzler
  • Analyzing Baseball Data with R by Max Marchi & Jim Albert
  • Hollywood's Ancient Worlds by Jeffery Richards
  • Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses by Jesse Schell

Friday, October 4, 2019

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:

  • Running With The Firm by James Bannon
  • Story of the Stone: A Chinese Novel in Five Volumes by Cao Xueqin
  • Caro by Anthony Caro; edited by Amanda Renshaw
  • On Interpretive Conflict by John Frow
  • Gods of the Upper Air by Charles King
  • Failures of Feeling: Insensibility and the Novel by Wendy Anne Lee
  • Graphs and Geometry by Laszlo Lovasz
  • Politics of the Human by Anne Phillips
  • Diarios de Emilio Renzi by Ricardo Piglia
  • Drawing Architecture by Helen Thomas

Monday, September 9, 2019

New Titles @ ScotsRead

New titles are now available in our #ScotsRead recreational reading collection.  

These titles, and many more, can be found on the main floor of Hewes Library. Materials circulate for two weeks and may have three renewals. Enjoy!

New this month:

Tidelands by Philippa Gregory
No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir by Ani Difranco
White by Bret Easton Ellis
Time After Time: A Novel by Lisa Grunwald
Swipe Right for Murder by Derek Milman
A Serial Killer’s Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming by Kerri Rawson
Syria’s Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege by Mike Thomson
The Silhouette Girl by V.C. Andrews



Friday, September 6, 2019

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:

  • Global History of Organic Farming by Gregory A. Barton
  • Story of the Stone by  Cao Xuegin
  • Better With Age: Psychology of Successful Aging by Alan D. Castel
  • Should We Control World Population? by Diane Coole
  • Tale of Murasaki: A Novel by Liza Dalby
  • Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
  • 1919 by Eve L. Ewing
  • Introduction to Computing and Programming in Python by Mark Guzdial
  • Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943 by Nigel Hamilton
  • Men's Rights, Gender and Social Media by Christina Hodapp

Friday, August 16, 2019

Recreational Reading


New titles are now available in our #ScotsRead recreational reading collection.  


These titles, and many more, can be found on the main floor of Hewes Library. Materials circulate for two weeks and may have three renewals. Enjoy!


New this month:


Turning Point: A Novel by Danielle Steel
The Road to Dawn by Jared A. Brock
The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth by Michio Kaku
President Carter: The White House Years by Stuart E. Eizenstat
Bunny: A Novel by Mona Awad
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks



Friday, August 9, 2019

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:

  • Polio: The Odyssey of Eradication by Thomas Abraham
  • Mujeres Que Matan by Alberto Barrera Tyszka
  • Nevada by Imogene Binnie
  • Science for Potters by Linda Bloomfield
  • Peter Darling by Austin Chant
  • Should We Control World Population? by Diane Coole
  • Pen & Ink Drawing: A Simple Guide by Alphonso Dunn
  • Brexit and British Politics by Geoff Evans
  • Listening to Killers by James Garbarino
  • Tibetan Rituals of Death: Buddhist Funerary Practices by Margaret Gouin

Monday, July 15, 2019

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:

  • Occupying the Stage: The Theater of May '68 by Kate Bredeson
  • Sustainable City by Stephen Cohen
  • Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
  • Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewig
  • Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture by Racquel J. Gates
  • Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion by Tansy E. Hoskins
  • Syria: by David W. Lesch
  • Baseball Goes West by Lincoln A. Mitchell
  • Citizen Illegal: Poems by Jose Olivarez
  • Psychology Graduate School: A Users Manual by Steven R. Smith

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Best Sellers!

New titles are now available in our #ScotsRead recreational reading collection.  

These titles, and many more, can be found on the main floor of Hewes Library. Materials circulate for two weeks and may have three renewals. Enjoy!

New this month:
Impeachment: An American History, by Jeffrey A. Engle
Maid, by Stephanie Land
My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh
Frederick Douglas: Prophet of Freedom, by David Blight
Disappearing Earth: A Novel, by Julia Phillips