May 2023 - Central Piedmont Library - New Titles - InfoGuides at Central Piedmont Community College

Classification

Leisure Books

Social Engagement by Avery Carpenter Forrey

In an opulent honeymoon suite in Watch Hill, Rhode Island’s most desirable wedding venue, 29-year-old Callie Holt is spending her wedding night lying in a bathtub shoveling down a pizza; her expensive white dress now splattered with sauce and her groom passed out in the next room. With her seven-hour-old marriage already imploded, Callie turns to the place of record – her phone – sifting through the photographic evidence of the past year to pinpoint where it all went wrong.

Could it have started when Callie moved in with her best friend, Virginia Murphy, in the swanky Upper East Side pied-à-terre for which Virginia’s parents foot the bill? Or when Virginia’s irritatingly attractive cousin (and Callie’s secret ex) Ollie returned from pursuing his photography career abroad, throwing a wrench in Callie’s relationship with her kind (if a bit dim) finance bro boyfriend, Whit? Or was the true turning point when Callie stumbled upon a dark secret lurking in the Murphys’ well-heeled past, one with the potential to upend everything Callie knows about the people she considers her second family?

Over the course of one wedding-filled year, all these long-simmering secrets and resentments will come bubbling to the surface, leading to a reckoning that will strip Callie and everyone around her down to their most gruesomely real, filter-free selves. As Callie attends wedding after wedding, getting tagged in post after post, she begins to contemplate—and actualize through her own art—the gulf between the true selves of the people around her and the selves they present on their screens.

The Guest by Emma Cline

“Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It seemed suddenly very tenuous to believe that anything would stay hidden, that she could successfully pass from one world to another.”

Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome.

A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she’s been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city.

With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted dunes of a rarefied world that is, at first, closed to her. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.

The Ferryman by Justin Cronin

Founded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera’s lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure their physical health and psychological well-being, fall below 10 percent. Then they retire themselves, embarking on a ferry ride to the island known as the Nursery, where their failing bodies are renewed, their memories are wiped clean, and they are readied to restart life afresh.

Proctor Bennett, of the Department of Social Contracts, has a satisfying career as a ferryman, gently shepherding people through the retirement process—and, when necessary, enforcing it. But all is not well with Proctor. For one thing, he’s been dreaming—which is supposed to be impossible in Prospera. For another, his monitor percentage has begun to drop alarmingly fast. And then comes the day he is summoned to retire his own father, who gives him a disturbing and cryptic message before being wrestled onto the ferry.

Meanwhile, something is stirring. The Support Staff, ordinary men and women who provide the labor to keep Prospera running, have begun to question their place in the social order. Unrest is building, and there are rumors spreading of a resistance group—known as “Arrivalists”—who may be fomenting revolution.

Soon Proctor finds himself questioning everything he once believed, entangled with a much bigger cause than he realized—and on a desperate mission to uncover the truth.

The Nightingale Affair by Timothy Mason

Who is stalking Florence Nightingale and her nurses? Is it the legendary Beast of the Crimean, or someone closer to home? In 1855, Britain and France are fighting to keep the Russians from snatching the Crimean Peninsula from the Ottoman Empire, and Nightingale, a wealthy young society woman, has made it her mission to improve the wretched conditions in the British military hospitals in Turkey—despite fierce objections from the male doctors around her. When young women start turning up dead, their mouths sewn shut with embroidered fabric roses, Inspector Charles Field (the real-life inspiration for Charles Dickens’s Inspector Bucket in Bleak House) is sent from England to find the killer among the doctors, military men, journalists, and others swarming Turkey’s famous Barrack Hospital. Here Field meets both the famous Nightingale as well as Nurse Jane Rolly, the woman who will become his wife, and as he races to protect them, the prime suspect takes his own life.

Case closed. Or is it?

Twelve years later, back in London, amid the turmoil surrounding the expansion of voting rights, women again start turning up dead, their mouths covered by that telltale embroidered rose. Did Field suspect the wrong man before, or is he dealing with a deviant copycat? Either way, he must race against time to stop the killer before more bodies are discovered, and before his own family gets pulled into danger. Populated by real figures of the day, from Benjamin Disraeli to novelist Wilkie Collins to, of course, Florence Nightingale herself, and steeped in historical details of 1860s London, The Nightingale Affair plays out against a backdrop of a rapidly changing society. Most of all, it is a pure reading delight, offering shocks, unforgettably vivid scenes, and surprising twists.

Mastering the Art of French Murder by Colleen Cambridge

As Paris rediscovers its joie de vivre, Tabitha Knight, recently arrived from Detroit for an extended stay with her French grandfather, is on her own journey of discovery. Paris isn’t just the City of Light; it’s the city of history, romance, stunning architecture . . . and food. Thanks to her neighbor and friend Julia Child, another ex-pat who’s fallen head over heels for Paris, Tabitha is learning how to cook for her Grandpère and Oncle Rafe.

Between tutoring Americans in French, visiting the market, and eagerly sampling the results of Julia’s studies at Le Cordon Bleu cooking school, Tabitha’s sojourn is proving thoroughly delightful. That is, until the cold December day they return to Julia’s building and learn that a body has been found in the cellar. Tabitha recognizes the victim as a woman she’d met only the night before, at a party given by Julia’s sister, Dort. The murder weapon found nearby is recognizable too—a knife from Julia’s kitchen.

Tabitha is eager to help the investigation, but is shocked when Inspector Merveille reveals that a note, in Tabitha’s handwriting, was found in the dead woman’s pocket. Is this murder a case of international intrigue, or something far more personal? From the shadows of the Tour Eiffel at midnight, to the tiny third-floor Child kitchen, to the grungy streets of Montmartre, Tabitha navigates through the city hoping to find the real killer before she or one of her friends ends up in prison . . . or worse.

B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Ethics

B3279.H48 S43 2008 Being and time / Martin Heidegger

B358 .R69 2010 The last days of Socrates

B616.D452 E5 2018 On the shortness of life / by Seneca

BD236 .B3813 1994 Simulacra and simulation / by Jean Baudrillard

BF109.A1 S66 2022 What the children told us : the untold story of the famous doll test and the Black psychologists who changed the world / Tim Spofford

Free speech : a history from Socrates to social media / Jacob Mchangama online

D: World History

DS559.5 .K68 2016 Born on the Fourth of July / Ron Kovic print and online

Harlem nights : the secret history of Australia's Jazz Age / Deirdre O'Connell online

African Europeans : An Untold History / Olivette Otele online

E & F: American History & Western Hemisphere

E184.S75 G63 2022 Inventing Latinos : a new story of American racism / Laura E. Gomez

E185.86 .G494 2010 Beauty shop politics : African American women's activism in the beauty industry / Tiffany M. Gill

E909.O24 A3 2022c The light we carry : overcoming in uncertain times / Michelle Obama

I've been here all the while : black freedom on native land / Alaina E. Roberts online

The Harlan Renaissance : Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns / William H. Turner online

The young crusaders : the untold story of the children and teenagers who galvanized the civil rights movement / V. P. Franklin online

William Still : the Underground Railroad and the angel at Philadelphia / William C. Kashatus online

Black ghost of empire : the long death of slavery and the failure of emancipation / Kris Manjapra online

Dream books and gamblers : Black women's work in Chicago's policy game / Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach online

G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

GE195.5 .B87 2020 Sustainable living : going green to protect the planet / Juliana Burkhart

GV1749.5 .T83 2021 And the category is... : inside New York's vogue, house, and ballroom community / Ricky Tucker

H: Social Sciences: Business, Economics, Sociology

HQ1075 .R948 2022 She/he/they/me : an interactive guide to the gender binary / Robyn Ryle

HQ1161 .O97 2019 Voices of powerful women : words of wisdom from 40 of the world's most inspiring women / [compiled by] Zoe Sallis

HQ1421 .B69 2021 Bad fat Black girl : notes from a trap feminist / Sesali Bowen

HQ23 .Y686 2023 Ace voices : what it means to be asexual, aromantic, demi or grey-ace / Eris Young

HQ796 .D44 2022 So what comes next? a teen's guide to life planning made easy: live your life by choice not by chance / Michael A. Deffina

HV1421 .F67 2015 Liberated threads : Black women, style, and the global politics of soul / Tanisha C. Ford

HV8073 .G583 2020 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of the woman who invented modern forensics / Bruce Goldfarb

K: Law

KF8965 .B757 2022 Testifying in court : guidelines and maxims for the expert witness / Stanley L. Brodsky

KZ7155 .U38 2022 Sex trafficking of children online : modern slavery in cyberspace / Beatriz Susana Uitts

L: Education

LB1139.23 .E73 2020 Trauma & young children : teaching strategies to support & empower / Sarah Erdman & Laura J. Colker with Elizabeth C. Winter

LB1139.5.L35 W74 2022 Literacy learning for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers : key practices for educators / Tanya S. Wright, Sonia Q. Cabell, Nell K. Duke, Mariana Souto-Manning

LC1099.3 .D46 2020 Anti-bias education for young children and ourselves / Louise Derman-Sparks & Julie Olsen Edwards

M: Music

ML3524 .G64 2022 Queer country / Shana Goldin-Perschbacher

ML82 .S615 2021 Shine bright : a very personal history of black women in pop / Danyel Smith

The N-word in music : an American history / Todd M. Mealy online

N: Fine Arts

N7380 .B66 2022 African art now : 50 pioneers defining African art for the twenty-first century / Osei Bonsu

NA2542.36 .T46 2022 Towards an architecture of responsibility / Marc Thorpe

NA2543.S6 H685 2022 Architects of an American landscape : Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the reimagining of America's public and private spaces / Hugh Howard

NA9345 .B48 2022 Monumental lies : culture wars and the truth about the past / Robert Bevan

NK2004.2 .D43 2022 The women who professionalized interior design / Peter B. Dedek

NK2004.3.G35 A4 2019 Magical rooms : elements of interior design / Fawn Galli, Molly Fitzsimons

Footnotes : the Black artists who rewrote the rules of the Great White Way / Caseen Gaines online

The Black experience in design : identity, expression & reflection / Anne H. Berry, Kareem Collie, Penina Acayo Laker, Lesley-Ann Noel, Jennifer Rittner, Kelly Walters online