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Added During the Current Academic Year

Machines Like Use: Toward AI with Common Sense by Ronald J Brachman and Hector J Levesque 006.3 B796m 

Body am I: the new science of self-consciousness by Moheb Costandi 153 C838b 

War Is Hell: Studies in the Right of Legitimate Violence by Charles Douglas Lummis 172.42 L958w

The Bible and Posthumanism edited by Jennifer L. Koosed 220.6 B582k

The Dictionary of Biblical Literacy edited by Cecil Murphey 220.3 D554m

Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation by Dale Martin 220.8 M379s

That We May Be Mutually Encouraged: Feminism and the New Perspective in Pauline Studies by Kathy Ehrensperger 225.9 E33t

Reinventing Paul by John G. Gager 225.92 G133r

Systematic Theology by Wolfhart Pannenberg  V1-3 230.044 P194s

Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion V1-2 Edited by John T. McNeil 230.42 C168m

Divine Enjoyment: A Theology of Passion and Exuberance by Elaine Padilla 231.4 P123d

Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh by Matthew Fox 233 F791s 

Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering and the Serach For What Saves Us by Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker 234.082 B864p

God's Beauty Parlor: and Other Queer Spaces in and Around the Bible by Stehpen Moore 261.8343 M821g

Praying with Our Eyes Open: Engendering Feminist Liturgical Prayer by Marjorie Procter-Smith 264.0082 P964p

Just Another Spiritual Book by Bo Lozoff 291.4 L925j 

It's a Meaningful Life: It just Takes Practice by Bo Lozoff 291.44 L925i

Your Leadership Edge: Lead Anytime, Anywhere by Ed O'Malley and Amanda Cebula 303.34 O54y

Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to present by Fareed Zakaria 303.64 Z21a

Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela 306.4613 P498f

Corruption and Illiberal Politics in the Trump Era edited by Donna M. Goldstein and Kristen Drybread 320.973 C825g

Parliamentary America: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy by Maxwell L. Stearns 320.973 S799p

When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America by Dara Z. Strolovitch 320.973 S921w

The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet 322.10973 S531u

Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America by Randal Maurice Jelks 323.119 J48l 

Human Migration and the Refugee Crisis: Origins and Global Impact by Eliot Dickinson 325.2 D553h 

Western Water A to Z: The History, Nature, and Culture of a Vanishing Resource by Robert R. Crifasi 333.910 C928w

Mendel's Ark: Biotechnology and the Future of Extinction by Amy Lynn Fletcher 333.9516 F612m 

You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent by Justin Brooks 345.730 B873y

The Great Displacement by Jake Bittle 362.870973 B624g

The Vocation of Lutheran Higher Education by Jason Mahn 370.1 V872m 

What We Value: Public Health, Social Justice, and Educating for Democracy by Lynn Pasquerella 370.112 P284w

Jim Crow's Pink Slip: The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership by Leslie T. Fenwick 371.829 F343j

Ethics in Higher Education: Promoting Equity and Inclusion Through Case-Based Inquiry edited by Rebecca M. Taylor and Ashley Floyd Kuntz 378.014 E84t

Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership by Sonya Y. Ramsey 378.12092 R183b

The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It by Fred Guterl 576.84 G983f

Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas by Terza Alic Silva Lima- Neves and Aminah N Pilgrim 605.48 L732c

Consulting the Genius of the Place; An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture by Wes Jackson 577.5 J12c

Music and mind: harnessing the arts for health and wellness by Renee Fleming 615.85154 M987f

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg 658.4 S213L

The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel 700.82 H587s

Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art by Sarah Phillips Casteel 700.89 C347b

The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers by Donald Friedman 704.0888 F911w

Scoring the screen: the secret language of film music by A.W. Hill 781.542 H645s

Thanks to life: a biography of Violeta Parra by Ericka Verba 782.42164 V477t

A cappella arranging 2.0: the next level by Deke Sharon & Dylan Bell 782.5 S531c

Eight symphonic masterworks of the nineteenth century: a study guide for conductors by Leonard Slatkin 784.2 S631e

To 2040 by Jorie Graham 811.54 G738t

[To] the last [be] human by Jorie Graham 811.54 G738to 

Water Look Away by Bob Hicok 811.54 H631w

Lightning Falls in Love by Laura Kasischke 811.54 K19l 

Now Do You Know Where You Are by Dana Levin 811.54 L665n 

Event Horizon by Cate Marvin 811.54 M391e

The Fears by Kevin Pruffer 811.54 P971f

West: A Translation by Paisley Rekdal 811.54 R381w

English as a Second Language and Other Poems by Jaswinder Bolina 811.6 B689e

Things I Didn't Do with This Body by Amanda Gunn 811.6 G976t

Deal: New and Selected Poems by Randall Mann 811.6 M281d

Diaries of a Terrorist by Christopher Soto 811.6 S718d

Swallowed Light: Poems by Michael Wasson 811.6 W323s

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner 813.52 S817a

James by Percival Everett 813.54 E93j

A Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century by Mary Beth Harris 820.9 H313g

Smoking the Bible: Poems by Chris Abani 821.914 A117s

Karitas untitled by Kristin Marja Baldursdottir 839.6934 B179k 

Names and Rivers: Selected Poems by Shuri Kido 895.61 K46n

Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 B.C.E TO 640 B.C.E by Seth Schwartz 933 S399i

Surviving Hitler, evading Stalin: one woman's remarkable escape from Nazi Germany by Mildred Schindler Janzen & Sherye S Green 940.531 J35s

Misconceptions about the Tuskegee Airmen: Refuting Myths About America's First Black Military by Daniel Haulman 940.544 H372m

Freedom: memoirs 1954-2021 by Angela Merkel 943.088 M563f

The Saints of Progress: A History of Coffee, Migration, and Costa Rican National Identity by Carmen Kordick 972.86 K84s

Letters from the promised land: Swedes in America, 1840-1914 by H. Arnold Barton 973.0439 L651b

Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passions, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson by S C Gwynne 973.7 G995r 

A Promised Land by Barack Obama 973.932 O12p

A Spell Created: A sesquicentennial History of Wichita and Sedgwick County 1870-2020 by Judith Heberling 978.1 H445s

Kansas archaeology Edited by Robert J. Hoard & William E. Banks 978.101 K16h

 Born in blood and fire: a concise history of Latin America by John Charles Chasteen 980 C489b

The Penguin history of Latin America by Edwin Williamson 980 W729p

The boy in the striped pajamas: a fable by John Boyne YA Boyn

Dear Medusa by Olivia A Cole YA Cole

Swede by Carol Duerksen and Maynard Knepp YA Duer 

Ground Zero : a novel of 9/11 by Alan Gratz YA Grat

Flush by Carl Hiaasen YA Hiaa

Stella by McCall Hoyle YA Hoyl

Shut up, this is serious by Carolina Ixta YA Ixta

Monday's not coming: a novel by Tiffany D Jackson YA Jack

The first state of being by Erin Entrada Kelly YA Kell

The secret life of the underwear champ by Betty Miles YA Mile 

A long walk to water: a novel by Linda Sue Park YA Park 

Twenty-four seconds from now ... : a love story by Jason Reynolds YA Reyn

Everything we never had by Randy Ribay YA Riba

The chalice of the gods by Rick Riodan YA Rio-S1

Brownstone by Samuel Teer & Mar Julia YA Teer 

Lola by Karla Valenti YA Vale

Psychology for kids: the science of the mind and behavior by Jacqueline Toner & Claire Freeland Child. Lib. 155.4 T6664p

Rising from the ashes: Los Angeles, 1992: Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a city on fire by Paula Yoo Child. Lib. 305.8 Y59r

They hold the line: wildfires, wildlands, and the firefighters who brave them by Dan Paley Child Lib. 363.37 P158t

My first book of planets: all about the solar system for kids by Bruce Betts Child. Lib 520 B565m

Life after whale: the amazing ecosystem of a whale fall by Lynn Brunelle Child Lib. 577.5 B894l

Ava: A Year in the Life of an American Avocet by Mandy Kern Child. Lib. 598.33 K39a

The book with no pictures by Julia Cook Child. Lib. 613.85 C771i

Hana's suitcase: the quest to solve a Holocaust mystery by Karen Levine Child. Lib. 940.53 L665h

Unspeakable: the Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford Child Lib. 976.6 W362u

A plate of hope: the inspiring story of Chef José Andrés and World Central Kitchen by Erin Frankel Child Lib. J-B A561f

Little Rosetta and the talking guitar: the musical story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the woman who invented rock and roll by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow Child Lib. J Barl 

The very hungry caterpillar by Eric Carle Child Lib. J Carl

My magical body by Becky Cummings Child. Lib. J Cumm

My magical choices by Becky Cummings Child. Lib. J Cumm

My magical dreams by Becky Cummings Child. Lib. J Cumm

My magical feelings by Becky Cummings Child. Lib. J Cumm

My magical foods by Becky Cummings Child. Lib. J Cumm

My magical gifts by Becky Cummings Child. Lib. J Cumm

My magical moods by Becky Cummings Child. Lib. J Cumm

My magical words by Becky Cummings Child Lib. J Cumm

Aloha everything by Kaylin Melia George Child Lib. J Geor

We don't eat our classmates! by Ryan T Higgins Child. Lib. J Higg

John the skeleton by Triinu Laan Child Lib. J Laan

Once upon a book by Grace Lin Child Lib.  J Lin

Music is in everything by Ziggy Marley Child Lib. J Marl

The book with no pictures by B.J. Novak Child. Lib. J Nova

If you give a mouse a cookie by Laura Numeroff Child Lib. J Nume

The kissing hand by Audrey Penn Child. Lib. J Penn

Dragons love tacos by Adam Rubin Child Lib. J Rubi

My daddy is a cowboy by Stephanie Seales Child. Lib. J Seal

Lily and the Lutfisk by Susan Swanson Swartz Child. Lib. J Swar

The dream catcher by Marcelo Verdad Child Lib. J Verd

Gibberish by Young Vo Child. Lib J Vo

The day you begin by Jacqueline Woodson Child Lib. J Wood

 

 

Added During the Previous Academic Year

Added During the Previous Academic Year

When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge by K. David Harrison 417.7 H318w

Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme-and Other Oddities of the English Language by Arika Okrent 421.52 O41h

African Paleoecology and Human Evolution 560.45 A258r

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Steve Brusatte 569 B912r

Life in Space: NASA Life Sciences Research During the Late Twentieth Century by Maura Phillips Mackowski 570.72 M159l

Can Microbial Communities Regenerate?: Uniting Ecology and Evolutionary Biology by S. Andrew Inkpen and W. Ford Doolittle 571.88 I56c

Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jennifer Raff 576.58 R136o

Biological Extinction: New Perspectives edited by Partha Dasgupta, Peter H. Raven and Anna L. McIvor 576.84 B615d

The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What's Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again by Richard Horton 614.59 H823c

COVID-19: The Pandemic That Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One by Debora Mackenzie 614.59 M156c

Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen 614.59 Q1b

Unprepared: America in the Time of Coronavirus by Jon Sternfeld 614.59 S839u

Vaccines in the Global Era: How to Deal Safely and Effectively with the Pandemics of Our Time by Rappuoli and Vozza 615.37 R221v

Stem Cell Therapy: A Rising Tide by Neil H. Riordan 616.02 R585s

Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body by Scott Hogan 616.04 H714b

Antidepressed: A Breakthrough Examination of Epidemic Antidepressant Harm and Dependence by Beverley Thomson 616.85 T482a

Women in Infrastructure edited by Peggy Layne and Jill S. Tietjen 620 W872l

Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger 629.454 L899l

The World Atlas of Trees and Forests: Exploring Earth's Forest Ecosystems by Shugart, White, Saatchi, & Chave 634.9 S562w

The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace: Know What Boosts Your Value, Kills Your Chances, & Will Make You Happier by Cy Wakeman 650.1 W149r

Deliberate Calm: How to Learn and Lead in a Volatile World by Brassey, De Smet, and Kruyt 658.4 B823d

Creative Conflict: A Practical Guide for Business Negotiators by Bill Sanders and Frank Mobus 658.4 S215c

No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Workplace Drama, End Entitlement, and Drive Big Results by Cy Wakeman 658.4 W149n

Reality-Based Leadership: Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace, and Turn Excuses into Results by Cy Wakeman 658.4 W149r

The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI by Paul Leonardi & Tsedal Neeley 658.51 L581d

The Cave of Altamira 709.011 C378b

What is Paleolithic Art? Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity by Jean Clottes 709.012 C646w

Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes by Walt Stanchfield 741.58 S784d

North American Indian Art by David W. Penney 745.089 P413n

Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter by James Gurney 752 G981c

Every Picture Hides a Story: The Secret Ways Artists Make Their Work More Seductive by William Cane and Anna Gabrielle 759 C221e

Great Women Painters 759 M874g

The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists by Gregory Curtis 759.012 C978c

Chauvet Cave: The Art of Earliest Times by Jean Clottes 759.011 C646c

Sargent & Spain 759.13 S245c

Digital Photography by Michael Wright 775 W947d

The Animator's Survival Kit by Richard Williams 777.774 W721a

The Letters of Oscar Hammerstein II edited by Mark Eden Horowitz 782.109 H816l

The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop by Clover Hope 782.421 H791m

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop by Danyel Smith 782.421 S642s

Camera Man Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by Dana Stevens 791.43 S844c

Gender and Early Television: Mapping Women's Role in Emerging US and British Media, 1850-1950 by Sarah Arnold 791.456 A752g

Finding Me by Viola Davis 792.028 D261f

Making Videogames: The Art of Creating Digital Worlds by Duncan Harris and Alex Wiltshire 794.8 H313m

Hoop Muses: An Insider's Guide to Pop Culture and the (Women's) Game by Kate Fagan 796.323 F151h

Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction: Narrative in an Era of Loss edited by Jonathan Elmore 809.393 F448e

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh 809.933 G427g

Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women's Travel by Tisha M. Brooks 810.832 B873s

Look at This Blue: A Poem by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke 811.54 H453l

Balladz by Sharon Olds 811.54 O44b

Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 by Carl Phillips 811.6 P558t

Best Barbarian: Poems by Roger Reeves 811.6 R332b

Blue Collar Saint by Brenda Leigh White 811.6 W582b

The Rupture Tense: Poems by Jenny Xie 811.6 X6r

The Fallen Man by Tony Hillerman 813.54 H652fa

The Birdcatcher by Gayl Jones 813.54 J76b

Demon Copperhead: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver 813.54 K55d

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy 813.54 M123n

The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard 813.6 B368a

The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel by Laura Dave 813.6 D246l

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 813.6 G233l

The Lake Wobegon Virus: A Novel by Garrison Keillor 813.6 K27l

The Haunting of Hajji Hotak: And Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai 813.6 K76h

All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews 813.6 M429a

The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar 813.6 M727s

The Deep by Rivers Solomon 813.6 S689d

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel 813.6 S774g

Last Night in Montreal: A Novel by Emily St. John Mandel 813.6 S774l

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 813.6 S774st

The Town of Babylon: A Novel by Alejandro Varela 813.6 V293t

The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir by Ingrid Rojas Contreras 818.603 R741m

Wrong Place Wrong Time: A Novel by Gillian McAllister 823.92 M114w

A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse 839.823 F752n

Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin 863.64 S412s

Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada 895.635 T234s

Altamira and Other Cantabrian Caves by Miguel Angel Garcia Guinea 936.6 G964a

Blood, Fire & Gold: The Story of Elizabeth I & Catherine de Medici by Estelle Paranque 940.21 P223b

Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945 by Richard Overy 940.53 O96b

Why?: Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes 940.531 H417w

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder 940.531 S675b

Wings of War: The World War II Fighter Plane That Saved the Allies and the Believers Who Made It Fly by David Fairbank White and Margaret Stanback White 940.544 W582w

Flamethrower: Iwo Jima Medal of Honor Recipient and U.S. Marine Woody Williams and His Controversial Award, Japan's Holocaust and the Pacific War by Bryan Mark Rigg 940.545 R569f

War in the Shadow of Auschwitz: Memoirs of a Polish Resistance Fighter and Survivor of the Death Camps by John Wiernicki 940.547 W648w

Queens of the Conquest by Allison Weir 942.02 W425q v. 1

Queens of the Crusades by Allison Weir 942.02 W425q v. 2

Queens of the Age of Chivalry by Allison Weir 942.02 W425q v. 3

Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500 by Peter H. Wilson 943.03 W746i

Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 by Harald Jahner 943.087 J25a

Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain by Margaret Willson 949.12 W742w

The Golden Brigade: The Untold Story of the 82nd Airborne in Vietnam and Beyond by Robert J. Dvorchak 959.704 D988g

The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal by Joan Flores-Villalobos 972.875 F634s

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn 973.049 M537l

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years by Carl Sandburg 973.7 C278g

Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War by Roger Lowenstein 973.71 L917w

The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America by Christopher C. Gorham 973.91 G668c

American Resistance: The Inside Story of How the Deep State Saved the Nation by David Rothkopf 973.933 R846a

Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival by Luke Harding 947.086 H263i

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff 973.309 S333r

Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton 974.7 S792h

A Strange Mixture: The Art and Politics of Painting Pueblo Indians by Sascha Scott 978.9 S425s

Isabel and Her Colores Go to School by Alexandra Alessandri Child. Lib. J Ales

Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual by Carole Boston Weatherford Child. Lib. J Bost

Cecile Guidote Alvarez: The Philippines Is a Stage by Rey E. de la Cruz Child. Lib. J Cruz

Where Wonder Grows by Xelena Gonzalez Child. Lib. J Gonz

Eyes that Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho Child. Lib. J Ho

Gigi and Ojiji by Melissa Iwai Child. Lib. J Iwai

Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson Child. Lib. J John 

Old Rock (Is Not Boring) by Deb Pilutti Child. Lib. J Pilu

Pedro: The Angel of Olvera Street by Leo Politi Child. Lib. J Poli

Hot Dog by Doug Salati Child. Lib. J Sala

Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion by Shannon Stocker Child. Lib. J-B G558s

King of Ragtime: The Story of Scott Joplin by Stephen Costanza Child. Lib. J-B J81c

Mimic Makers: Biomimicry Inventors Inspired by Nature by Kristen Nordstrom Child. Lib. 610 N832m

It Takes Guts: How Your Body Turns Food Into Fuel (and Poop) by Jennifer Gardy Child. Lib. 612.3 G228i

The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem by Colleen Paeff Child. Lib. 628 P126g

Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II by Lia Levi Child. Lib. 940.53 L664j

H is for Harlem by Dinah Johnson Child. Lib. 974.71 J66h

Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert YA Colb

Starfish by Lisa Fipps YA Fipp

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart YA Geme

Samira Surfs by Rukhsanna Guidroz YA Guid

A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome by Ariel Henley YA Henl

Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca YA LaRo

Freewater by Amina Lugman-Dawson YA Luqm

Wildfire: A Novel by W.R. Philbrick YA Phil

Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds YA Reyn

Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith and Derrick Barnes YA Smit

All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir YA Tahir

Both Sides Now by Peyton Thomas YA Thom