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Central Piedmont Library - New Titles: May 2024

A list of new materials - books, DVDs, audiobooks, ebooks - added to the library collection each month. Click the title to see more information about it, to place a request, or begin using it.

Leisure Books

The Last Time She Saw Him by Kate White

As Kiki Reed heads out to a party at a friend’s house in the Connecticut countryside, she’s more than a little nervous. Her ex-fiancé Jamie, a great guy who just wasn’t “the one,” will be attending, and she hasn’t seen him since she broke his heart a few months earlier. But when they come face to face, their exchange is brief and pleasant, which is a huge relief.

Then, as the party is winding down, a noise pierces the night. The last few guests run outside to find Jamie inside his car, dead from a gunshot wound.

Shocked and grieving, Kiki learns that the police believe Jamie took his own life, but she knows he was moving on from the breakup and just doesn’t believe it. Determined to find the truth, she searches for any evidence that will get the police to take her seriously. But as she peels away the layers, she uncovers something far more sinister than she’d imagined—and it may be her life on the line next. . .

 

My Favorite Terrible Thing by Madeleine Henry

Detective Nina Travers is so good at her job that she blends in like a benevolent Tom Ripley. She can be anyone. She can be no one. Nina wants to be someone. Her new case will finally get her noticed.

Bestselling author Claire Ross has disappeared from the Hamptons on her wedding day. How tragic that the author of an epic romance that captured the heart, soul, and imagination of the world should suddenly vanish on the happiest day of her life. Claire’s distraught family and friends, her mystified fiancé, and her zealous online fans all have their theories—from the sinister to the hopeful. Nina’s job is to find the truth, and she’s pursuing an angle that no one else has explored. She’s looking for a trail of clues in Claire’s novel.

Reading between its haunting lines, Nina follows a spiraling path of secret love, obsession, and death. What Nina finds is so shocking even she never saw it coming.

 

One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware

Lyla is in a bit of a rut. Her post-doctoral research has fizzled out, she’s pretty sure they won’t extend her contract, and things with her boyfriend, Nico, an aspiring actor, aren’t going great. When the opportunity arises for Nico to join the cast of a new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, she decides to try out with him. A whirlwind audition process later, Lyla find herself whisked off to a tropical paradise with Nico, boating through the Indian Ocean towards Ever After Island, where the two of them will compete against four other couples—Bayer and Angel, Dan and Santana, Joel and Romi, and Conor and Zana—in order to win a cash prize.

But not long after they arrive on the deserted island, things start to go wrong. After the first challenge leaves everyone rattled and angry, an overnight storm takes matters from bad to worse. Cut off from the mainland by miles of ocean, deprived of their phones, and unable to contact the crew that brought them there, the group must band together for survival. As tensions run high and fresh water runs low, Lyla finds that this game show is all too real—and the stakes are life or death.

 

Butcher by Joyce Carol Oates

In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, “Father of Gyno-Psychiatry,” as he ascends from professional anonymity to national renown. Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics, where he reigns. There, he is allowed to continue his practice, unchecked for decades, making a name for himself by focusing on women who have been neglected by the state—women he subjects to the most grotesque modes of experimentation. As he begins to establish himself as a pioneer of nineteenth-century surgery, Weir’s ambition is fueled by his obsessive fascination with a young Irish indentured servant named Brigit, who becomes not only Weir’s primary experimental subject, but also the agent of his destruction.

Narrated by Silas Weir’s eldest son, who has repudiated his father’s brutal legacy, Butcher is a unique blend of fiction and fact, a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche conjoined, in its startling conclusion, with unexpected romance. Once again, Joyce Carol Oates has written a spellbinding novel confirming her position as one of our celebrated American visionaries of the imagination.

D: World History

D16.8 .G23 2002  The landscape of history : how historians map the past / John Lewis Gaddis

 

 

 

D743.2 .B35 2022  We survived the Holocaust : the Bluma & Felix Goldberg story / Frank W. Baker 

 

 

 

D804.48 .B88 2022  But I live : three stories of child survivors of the Holocaust / Miriam Libicki and David Schaffer, et al

 

 

 

DA676.9.P34 K53 2022  What is home, Mum? / Sabba Khan

 

 

 

DT450.437.C98 T3513 2022  Alice on the run : one child's journey through the Rwandan Civil War / Gaspard Talmasse

E & F: American History & Western Hemisphere

E178.1 .H546 2019  Exploring American histories : a survey with sources / Nancy A. Hewitt, Rutgers University ; Steven F. Lawson, Rutgers University

 

 

E178.1 .H5463 2017  Thinking through Sources for Exploring American Histories / Nancy A. Hewitt, Rutgers University ; Steven F. Lawson, Rutgers University

 

 

 

E178.1 .H5463 2019  Thinking through sources : exploring American histories / Nancy A. Hewitt, Rutgers University, Steven F. Lawson, Rutgers University

 

 

E185 .H37 2023  Black AF history : the un-whitewashed story of America / Michael Harriot

 

 

 

E302.6.H2 H456 2017  Alexander Hamilton : the graphic history of an American founding father / Jonathan Hennessey

 

 

 

E441 .R59 2020  River of blood : American slavery from the people who lived it : interviews & photographs of formerly enslaved African Americans / edited by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams

 

 

E840.8.L43 A3 2013  March. Book One / John Lewis

 

 

 

E840.8.L43 A3 2015  March. Book two / written by John Lewis & Andrew Aydin

 

 

 

E840.8.L43 A3 2016  March. Book three / written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin

 

 

 

E840.8.M544 W8 2022  Fierce and fearless : Patsy Takemoto Mink, first woman of color in Congress / Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink

 

 

E89 .D36 2023  Indigenous firsts : a history of Native American achievements and events / Yvonne Wakim Dennis, Arlene Hirschfelder, Paulette F. Molin

 

 

E98.F6 W66 2022  The woman in the woods and other North American stories / editors, Kel McDonald, Kate Ashwin & Alina Pete

 

 

E99.C5 M3384 2023  Wilma Mankiller : a life in American history / Tamrala Swafford Bliss

 

 

 

E99.C6 S659 2017  As we have always done : indigenous freedom through radical resistance / Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

GR72.3 .C86 2022  Story telling around the world : folktales, narrative rituals, and oral traditions / Jelena Cvorovic and Kathryn Coe

 

 

 

GV939.J455 J46 2023  What winners won't tell you : lessons from a legendary defender / Malcolm Jenkins

H: Social Sciences: Business, Economics, Sociology

HD66 .C675 2018  The culture code : the secrets of highly successful groups / Daniel Coyle

 

 

 

HE305 .A23 2023  Sustainable mass transit : challenges and opportunities in urban public transportation / Thomas Abdallah

 

 

 

HF5438.25 .S2543 2023  Sales essentials : the tools you need at every stage to close more deals and crush your quota / Rana Salman, MBA, PhD

 

 

HG1710.3 .O38 2023  Tokens : the future of money in the age of the platform / Rachel O'Dwyer

 

 

 

HM636 .B64 2022  Body language : writers on identity, physicality, and making space for ourselves / edited by Nicole Chung and Matt Ortile

 

 

HN59.2 .C675 2022  Keeping the march alive : how grassroots activism survived Trump's America / Catherine Corrigall-Brown

 

 

 

HQ1236 .K46 2019  Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights / Mikki Kendall

 

 

 

HQ755.8 .S5312313 2022  El cerebro del nino : 12 estrategias revolucionarias para cultivar la mente en desarrollo de tu hijo / Daniel J. Siegel y Tina Payne Bryson

 

 

HQ759 .G29 2022  Essential labor : mothering as social change / Angela Garbes

 

 

 

HQ76.26 .D39 2020  This book is gay / James Dawson

 

 

 

HQ76.27.Y68 Q447 2020  Queerstory : an infographic history of the fight for LGBTQ+ rights / foreword by Linda Riley

 

 

HQ773.8 .B43 2022  What works for autistic children / Dr Luke Beardon

 

 

 

HS2330.K63 E43 2023  A fever in the heartland : the Ku Klux Klan's plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them / Timothy Egan

 

 

HV2475 .T46 2020  The American Sign Language handshape dictionary / Richard A. Tennant, Marianne Gluszak Brown

 

 

 

HV6432.6 .T663 2023  Homegrown : Timothy McVeigh and the rise of right-wing extremism / Jeffrey Toobin

 

 

 

Taking down backpage : fighting the world's largest sex trafficker / Maggy Krell  online

L: Education

LB1044.87 .A384 2023  Advances in distance learning in times of pandemic / edited by Joanna Rosak-Szyrocka, et al

 

 

 

LB1140.35.P37 C474 2017  The importance of being little : what young children really need from grownups / Erika Christakis

 

 

 

LC111 .G64 2023  Religion in the classroom : exploring the issues / Jonathan M. Golden and Joseph J. McCallister

 

 

 

LC212.5 .R35 2023  Race and racism in education : an educational philosophy and theory reader. Volume XIII / edited by Liz Jackson and Michael A. Peters

M: Music

ML3918.R37 K75 2023  Fashion Killa : how hip-hop revolutionized high fashion / Sowmya Krishnamurthy

N: Fine Arts

N8217.H67 C36 2019  Queer X design : 50 years of signs, symbols, banners, logos, and graphic art of LGBTQ / Andy Campbell

 

 

NC998.5.A1 A17 2023  70s all-American ads / edited by Jim Heimann

 

 

 

NC999.4.G55 A4 2023  Milton Glaser : pop / Steven Heller

 

 

ND1015.3.V36 M3713 2022  Vann Nath : painting the Khmer Rouge / Matteo Mastragostino

P: Language, Literature

PE1095 .C79 2017  Making sense : the glamorous story of English grammar / David Crystal

 

 

 

PN1997.E95 S44 2023  The Exorcist legacy : 50 years of fear / Nat Segaloff

 

 

 

PN2287.P5718 A3 2021  Unprotected : a memoir / Billy Porter

 

 

 

PN4751 .K55 2023  Democracy's news : a primer on journalism for citizens who care about democracy / G. Michael Killenberg and Rob Anderson

 

 

PN6710 .G734 2022  Graphic novels core collection / edited by Kendal Spires

 

 

PN6710 .M335 1994  Understanding comics : the invisible art / [writing and art, Scott McCloud]

 

 

 

PN6725 .D47 2023  Desegregating comics : debating Blackness in the golden age of American comics / edited by Qiana Whitted

 

 

PN6727.A533 S53 2022  Side effects / writer, Ted Anderson ; artist & colorist, Tara O'Connor

 

 

 

PN6727.K89 A78 2023  Artificial : a love story / Amy Kurzweil

 

 

PN6727.M23428 Z46 2023  This country : searching for home in (very) rural America / Navied Mahdavian

 

 

 

PN6727.S7484 N56 2015  Nimona / Noelle Stevenson

 

 

 

PN6733.T34 T55 2014  This one summer / Mariko Tamaki 

 

 

 

PN6737.G3 S66 2019  Snow, glass, apples / story & words, Neil Gaiman

 

 

 

PN6737.M66 W38 2019  Watchmen / Alan Moore, writer

 

 

 

PN6747.W37 R335 2022  Radical : my year with a socialist senator / Sofia Warren

 

 

 

PN6790.B73 N4713 2021  1984 : the graphic novel / George Orwell

 

 

 

PN6790.I43 V27 2022  The many deaths of Laila Starr / written by Ram V

 

 

 

PN6790.K64 R47 2022  The restorer's home. 1 / Kim Sang Yeop

 

 

 

PQ8180.32.A797 V6513 2023  Retrospective / Juan Gabriel Vasquez

PR6060.E95 N66 2023   None of this is true : a novel / Lisa Jewell

 

 

 

PR6063.C37 P37 2023  Past lying / Val McDermid

 

 

 

PS3553.H3469 P47 2019  The perks of being a wallflower / Stephen Chbosky

 

 

 

PS3566.O92 B49 2021  Bewilderment : a novel / Richard Powers

 

 

 

PS3603.A8885 H38 2023  The haunting of Alejandra : a novel / by V. Castro

 

 

 

PS3607.R6344 V37 2023  The vaster wilds / Lauren Groff

 

 

 

PS3618.E5644 S86 2016  Sunday's on the phone to Monday / Christine Reilly

 

 

 

PS3618.I384 Q36 2023  Quantum radio / A.G. Riddle

 

 

 

PS648.S3 R636 2023  Robots through the ages : a science fiction anthology / edited by Robert Silverberg and Bryan Thomas Schmidt

 

 

 

PZ7.1.B877 Li 2023  The little boy who wouldn't talk / By Connie Giles Burriss

 

 

PZ7.1.O779 Las 2023  Last sunrise in Eterna / Amparo Ortiz

 

 

 

PZ7.H7745 Cra 2013  Crank / Ellen Hopkins

 

 

 

PZ7.K1565 Alm 2011  Almost perfect / Brian Katcher

 

 

 

PZ73.D665 H69  How are you? = ¿Como estas? / Angela Dominguez

Q: Mathematics, Computer Science, Sciences

QA166 .W557 2023  Graph theory in America : the first hundred years / Robin Wilson, John J. Watkins, David J. Parks

 

 

 

QA39.3 .D73 2022  Mathematical tools for real-world applications : a gentle introduction for students and practitioners / Alexandr Draganov

 

 

QA76.889 .K36 2023  Quantum supremacy : how the quantum computer revolution will change everything/ Dr. Michio Kaku

 

 

 

QB54 .G735 2023  The possibility of life : science, imagination, and our quest for kinship in the cosmos / Jaime Green

 

 

 

QH438.7 .H39 2021  The genetic lottery : why DNA matters for social equality / Kathryn Paige Harden

 

 

 

QM25 .N46 2023  Netter atlas of human anatomy : classic regional approach / Frank H. Netter

 

 

 

QP251 .G84 2023  Birth : three mothers, nine months, and pregnancy in America / Rebecca Grant

 

 

 

QR171.G29 C48 2022  The anti-viral gut : tackling pathogens from the inside out / Robynne Chutkan, MD

R: Medicine, Nursing

RA1250 .H37 2021  The slightly greener method : detoxifying your home is easier, faster, and less expensive than you think / Tonya Harris, MSHN BCHN

 

 

RA410.53 .G48 2023  Money and medicine : the evolution of national health expenditures / Thomas E. Getzen

 

 

 

RA484 .F86 2023  Fundamentals for public health practice / [edited by] Amanda Holland, Kate Phillips, Michelle Moseley and Lorraine Joomun

 

 

RA971 .K67 2023  Quality improvement in healthcare : a guide for students and practitioners / Maria Kordowicz, A. Niroshan Siriwardena

 

 

RB111 .N45 2023  Human diseases / Marianne Neighbors, EdD, RN, Ruth Tannehill-Jones, MS, RN

 

 

 

RC280.B8 E57 2006  Cancer made me a shallower person : a memoir in comics / Miriam Engelberg

 

 

RC280.B8 M343 2006  Cancer vixen : a true story / Marisa Acocella Marchetto

 

 

RC280.B8 T63 2020  Kimiko does cancer : a graphic memoir / Kimiko Tobimatsu

 

 

 

RC464.A1 K56 2021  And now I spill the family secrets : an illustrated memoir / Margaret Kimball

 

 

 

RC552.T7 T74 2022  Look again : a memoir / Elizabeth A. Trembley

 

 

 

RC553.A88 D3313 2020  Invisible differences : a story of Asperger's

 

 

 

RC553.A88 P43 2023  Autistic masking : understanding identity management and the role of stigma / Amy Pearson and Kieran Rose

 

 

RC554 .D87 2023  What you need to know about personality disorders / Kimberly S. Duris and Katherine M. Helm

 

 

 

RC643 .P675 2021  Standing at water's edge : a cancer nurse, her four-year-old son and the shifting tides of leukemia / Janice Post-White

 

 

RC86.7 .D36 2022  Medical emergencies guide for dental auxiliaries / Melissa Damatta, Vaishali Singhal, Debra Jennings

 

 

 

RG186 .M346 2021  Menopause : a comic treatment / edited by MK Czerwiec

 

 

 

RJ506.H9 P34 2022  Button pusher / Tyler Page

 

 

 

RK60.5 .T67 2024  Modern dental assisting / Debbie S. Robinson

 

 

RK60.5 .T6722 2024  Student workbook for modern dental assisting / Debbie S. Robinson

 

 

 

RM222.2 .G5374 2023  Food, we need to talk : the science-based, humor-laced last word on eating, diet, and making peace with your body / Juna Gjata and Edward M. Phillips, MD

 

 

RT87.T45 W45 2022  Palliative care nursing as mindfulness : embodying a relational ethic through strong emotion, uncertainty and death / Lacie White

Population-based public health clinical manual : the Henry Street model for nurses / Patricia M. Schoon, Carolyn M. Porta  online

 

 

Pediatric CCRN certification review /  Maryann Godshall ; Emily Warren  online

 

 

 

Scope & standards of practice for professional ambulatory care nursing / American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing  online

 

 

Neonatal intensive care nursing exam prep study guide  online

 

 

 

Occupational therapy groups for addressing mental health challenges in school-aged populations : a tier 2 resource / editors Brad E. Egan, Cindy Sears, Allen Keener  online

Primary care occupational therapy : a quick reference guide / edited by Sue Dahl-Popolizio, Katie Smith, Mackenzie Day, Sherry Muir, William Manard  online

 

 

Medicare RBRVS 2023: The Physicians' Guide / American Medical Association  online

 

 

 

Ackley & Ladwig's guide to nursing diagnosis / Marina Reyna Martinez-Kratz, Mary Beth Flynn Makic  online

 

 

 

 

Coaching for diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging in early childhood : a step-by-step guide for programs and schools

 

 

CDT 2023 : current dental terminology / American Dental Association  online

 

 

Nursing : health education and improving patient self-management : intervention mapping for healthy lifestyles / Barbara Sassen  online

 

 

Fundamentals of health care improvement : a guide to improving your patients' care / Gregory S. Ogrinc MD, MS, Linda A. Headrick, MD, et al  online

 

 

Developing anti-racist practices in the helping professions : inclusive theory, pedagogy, and application / Kaprea Johnson, Narketta M. Sparkman-Key, Alan Meca, Shuntay Z. Tarver, editors  online

 

 

Wilkins' clinical practice of the dental hygienist / Linda D. Boyd, Lisa F. Mallonee  online

 

 

 

Davis's drug guide for nurses / April Hazard Vallerand, Cynthia A. Sanoski  online

 

 

 

Digital eye care and teleophthalmology : a practical guide to applications / Kanagasingam Yogesan, Leonard Goldschmidt, Jorge Cuadros, Giselle Ricur, editors  online

 

 

Color atlas of human gross pathology / Gamal Dawood  online

 

 

S: Agriculture

T: Technology, Culinary

TA417.2 .E98 2019  Introduction to NDT / written for ASNT by Curtis Evans

 

 

 

TK5105.887 .M45 2019  So you want to start a podcast : finding your voice, telling your story, and building a community that will listen / Kristen Meinzer

 

 

TT957 .S46 2006  Encyclopedia of hair : a cultural history / Victoria Sherrow

 

 

 

TX652 .O745 2022  The Poorcraft cookbook / written & drawn by Nero Villagallos O'Reilly