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Central Piedmont Library - New Titles: May 2025

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 Retirement Plan by Sue Hincenbergs

After thirty years of friendship, Pam dreams of her perfect retirement with Nancy, Shalisa, Marlene, and their husbands—until their husbands pool their funds for an investment that goes terribly wrong. Suddenly, their golden years are looking as dreary as their marriages.

But when the women discover their husbands have seven-figure life insurance policies, a new dream forms. And this time, they need a hitman.

Meanwhile, their husbands are working on their own secret retirement scheme and when things begin to go sideways, they fear it’s backfired. The husbands scramble to stay alive…but soon realize they may not be quick enough to outmaneuver their wives.

 

An Ethical Guide to Murder by Jenny Morris

Thea has a secret. She can tell how long someone has left to live just by touching them. Not only that, but she can transfer life from one person to another—something she finds out the hard way when her best friend, Ruth, suffers a fatal head injury on a night out. Desperate to save her, Thea accidentally kills the man responsible and lets his life flow directly into Ruth.

Thea comes to understand that she has a godlike power, but how to use it quickly becomes a question of self-control. Is it really so wrong to take a little life from a bad person—say, a very annoying boss—and gift it to someone who's truly good? Realizing she needs to harness her newfound skills, Thea creates an Ethical Guide to Murder. But as she embarks on her mission to punish the wicked and give the deserving more time, she finds good and bad aren't as simple as she first thought.

How can she really know who deserves to live and die, and can she figure out her own rules before Ruth’s borrowed time runs out?

 

Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz

Editor Susan Ryeland has left her Greek island, her hotel and her Greek boyfriend, Andreas, in search of a new life back in England.

Freelancing for a London publisher, she's given the last job she wants: working on an Atticus Pünd continuation novel called Pünd’s Last Case. Worse still, she knows the new writer. Eliot Crace is the troubled grandson of legendary children’s author Miriam Crace who died twenty years ago. Eliot is convinced she was murdered—by poison.

To her surprise, Susan enjoys reading the manuscript which is set in the South of France and revolves around the mysterious death of Lady Margaret Chalfont, days before she was about to change her will. But when it is revealed that Lady Margaret was also poisoned, alarm bells begin to ring.

The more Susan reads, the clearer it becomes that Eliot has deliberately concealed clues about his grandmother’s death inside the book.

Desperately, Susan tries to prevent Eliot from putting himself in harm’s way—but his behaviour is becoming increasingly erratic. Another murder follows . . . and suddenly Susan finds herself to be the number one suspect.

Once again, the real and the fictional worlds have become dangerously entangled. And if Susan doesn't solve the mystery of Pünd’s Last Case, she could well be its next victim.

 

Death on the Island by Eliza Reid

A group of international players has gathered in a tiny village off the coast of Iceland for a diplomatic dinner. There's Kristján, the mayor reeling from a personal tragedy. Graeme, the ambassador with an agenda to push. Jane, his wife, along for the ride on another one of her husband's many business trips. And several others, from Iceland and from abroad, each with their own reason for being there, their own loyalties and grievances. By the end of the night, one of them will be dead. And it will be up to the ambassador's wife, Jane, to figure out how—and why.

What Jane soon comes to realize is that small communities can be the most dangerous of them all… and no one in their group is safe. With secrets around every corner and violent weather trapping the finite list of suspects together on the island, this locked-room mystery by internationally bestselling author Eliza Reid brings Agatha Christie and Nordic noir together in a brand-new twist.

 

The Cardinal by Alison Weir

Cardinal Thomas Wolsey enjoyed one of the most meteoric careers in history. His rise from humble beginnings coincided with young Henry VIII’s ascension to the throne in 1509. The two grew to be cherished friends, and by 1515 Wolsey, now a cardinal, had become the controlling figure in all matters of church and state.

Wolsey operated on an international stage and worked hard to broker universal peace. All was going dazzlingly well until Henry fell in love with Anne Boleyn—the woman whom Wolsey would one day call “the night crow”—and sought to end his marriage to his first wife, Katherine of Aragon. Swept up in the maelstrom of “the Divorce,” Wolsey, who had successfully given his master everything he wanted, found himself in an impossible situation. As he drew the ire of the future queen, the cardinal found his privileged life and his relationship with Henry crumbling around him.

Alison Weir’s poignant novel tells the story of Wolsey the man—his incredible rise to power and his tragic fall. She delves beyond the splendor and political machinations of the Tudor court to reveal the secrets of Wolsey’s private life, the mistress and children he was devoted to, and the tragedy that overtook them. It is a tale of two women, one who loved him and one who hated him—and also a tale of two men, king and commoner, the special, deep-rooted bonds that brought them together and the forces that drove them apart.

B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Ethics

BD331 .C4925 2022   Reality+ : virtual worlds and the problems of philosophy / David J. Chalmers

 

 

 

BF637.C47 T76 2014   Predatory thinking : a masterclass in out-thinking the competition / Dave Trott

 

 

 

BF637.R57 S545 2024   On the edge : the art of risking everything / Nate Silver

 

 

 

BF724.3.G73 L45 2024   It won't ever be the same : a teen's guide to grief and grieving / Korie Leigh, Ph.D.

 

 

 

BR115.C66 C47 2024   Exvangelical and beyond : how American Christianity went radical and the movement that's fighting back / Blake Chastain

D: World History

D421 .S6 2023   The age of interconnection : a global history of the second half of the twentieth century / Jonathan Sperber

 

 

 

D804.195 .B724 2024   Heavyweight : a family story of the Holocaust, empire, and memory / Solomon J. Brager

 

 

 

D810.S7 G68 2024   Book and dagger : how scholars and librarians became the unlikely spies of World War II / Elyse Graham

 

 

 

DA566.9.C5 R576 2018   Churchill : walking with destiny / Andrew Roberts

 

 

 

DS126.96.D47 R3913 2024   Loot : how Israel stole Palestinian property / Adam Raz

E & F: American History & Western Hemisphere

E176 .M35 2024   The small and the mighty : twelve unsung Americans who changed the course of history, from the founding to the civil rights movement / Sharon McMahon

 

 

E184.S75 R3668 2024   Defectors : the rise of the Latino far right and what it means for America / Paola Ramos

 

 

 

E184.S75 T62 2023   Our migrant souls : a meditation on race and the meanings and myths of "Latino" / Hector Tobar

 

 

 

E185.97.D23 T5813 2023   Ms. Davis : a graphic biography / writer Sybille Titeux de la Croix

 

 

 

E185.97.K5 F58 2008   Martin Luther King, Jr. : a dream of hope / Alice Fleming

 

 

 

E77 .B64 2023   The rediscovery of America : native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history / Ned Blackhawk

 

 

 

E78.S65 B38 2022   The other movement : Indian rights and civil rights in the deep South / Denise E. Bates   print & online

 

 

 

E840.8.C48 C87 2023   Shirley Chisholm : champion of Black feminist power politics / Anastasia C. Curwood

 

 

 

E840.8.P37 A3 2024   The art of power : my story as America's first woman Speaker of the House / Nancy Pelosi

 

 

 

E93 .N19 2024   By the fire we carry : the generations-long fight for justice on native land / Rebecca Nagle

 

 

 

E98.K48 K74 2022   Becoming kin : an Indigenous call to unforgetting the past and reimagining our future / Patty Krawec

 

 

 

E98.W8 R54 2022   Native American women leaders : fourteen profiles / Edward J. Rielly

 

 

 

F213 .N66 2024   Aggression and sufferings : settler violence, native resistance, and the coalescence of the Old South / F. Evan Nooe

 

 

March to Independence : The Revolutionary War in the Southern Colonies, 1775-1776   online

G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

G226.D47 A3 2024   If you can't take the heat : tales of food, feminism, and fury / Geraldine DeRuiter

 

 

 

GC21 .C36 2023   The underworld : journeys to the depths of the ocean / Susan Casey

 

 

 

GN282.5 .H48213 2016   Neanderthal : the strange saga of the Minnesota Iceman / Bernard Heuvelmans

 

 

 

GT518 .M36 2019   Killer style : how fashion has injured, maimed, & murdered through history / by Serah-Marie McMahon & Alison Matthews David

H: Social Sciences: Business, Economics, Sociology

HB95 .G9 2024   Common sense economics : what everyone should know about wealth and prosperity / James D. Gwartney, et al

 

 

 

HD9506.A2 S354 2024   The war below : lithium, copper, and the global battle to power our lives / Ernest Scheyder

 

 

 

HD9715.C32 R46 2022   The blue collar CEO : my gutsy journey from rookie contractor to multi-millionaire construction boss / Mandy Rennehan

 

 

HF1051 .C65 2023   Material world : the six raw materials that shape modern civilization / Ed Conway

 

 

 

HF5548.32 .M3765 2024   The everything war : Amazon's ruthless quest to own the world and remake corporate power / Dana Mattioli

 

 

HF5549.5.I6 C689 2022   Talent : how to identify energizers, creatives, and winners around the world / Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross

 

 

 

HG9396 .B74 2024   The transformation of American health insurance : on the path to medicare for all / Troyen A. Brennan

 

 

 

HM1096 .G87 2024   Breaking bias : where stereotypes and prejudices come from--and the science-backed method to unravel them / Anu Gupta

 

 

HQ1073 .M376 2024   Nothing to fear : demystifying death to live more fully / Julie McFadden, RN

 

 

 

HQ1170 .S355 2024   Superheroes in the streets : Muslim women activists and protest in the digital age / Kimberly Wedeven Segall

 

 

HQ73.3.U6 S53 2024   Making room : three decades of fighting for beds, belonging, and a safe place for LGBTQ youth / Carl Siciliano

 

 

HQ767.5.A74 C67813 2024   What happened to Belen : the unjust imprisonment that sparked a women's rights movement / Ana Elena Correa

 

 

HQ799.2.M35 N38 2024   Social media and adolescent health / National Academies, Sciences, Engineering, Medicine 

 

 

 

HT1521 .M23 2021b   Our skin : a first conversation about race / words by Megan Madison & Jessica Ralli

 

 

HV1559.S6 N36 2023   Sipping Dom Perignon through a straw : reimagining success as a disabled achiever / Eddie Ndopu

 

 

 

HV5132 .W35 2005   The glass castle : a memoir / Jeannette Walls

 

 

 

HV6465.M7 T54 2024   The barn : the secret history of a murder in Mississippi / Wright Thompson

 

 

 

HV7431 .E388 2024   The prevention of crime / Delbert Elliott, Abigail A Fagan

 

 

 

HV7436 .S668 2023   The gun dilemma : how history is against expanded gun rights / Robert J. Spitzer

 

 

 

HV7436 .S68 2024   The politics of gun control / Robert J. Spitzer

 

 

 

I never thought of it that way: how to have fearlessly curious conversations in dangerously divided times   online & print

 

 

 

Juvenile delinquency : a sociological approach / William E. Thompson   online

 

 

 

I am ace : advice on living your best asexual life / Cody Daigle-Orians   online

J: Political Science

JC481 .S736 2024   Erasing history : how fascists rewrite the past to control the future / Jason Stanley

 

 

 

Inside Congress : a guide for navigating the politics of the House and Senate floors / Trevor Corning, Reema Dodin, Kyle Nevins   online & print

M: Music

ML3920 .H274 2024   The handbook of music therapy / edited by Leslie Bunt, Sarah Hoskyns and Sangeeta Swamy

 

 

 

ML3920 .L465 2024   I heard there was a secret chord : music as medicine / Daniel J. Levitin

 

 

 

ML3929 .K37 2024   3 shades of blue : Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the lost empire of cool / James Kaplan

 

 

 

ML395 .T94 2024   The jazzmen : how Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie transformed America / Larry Tye

 

 

 

Greek and Latin music theory : principles and challenges / Edward Nowacki   online

N: Fine Arts

NA2541 .T46 2019   Designing for disaster : domestic architecture in the era of climate change / Boyce Thompson

 

 

NA2760 .C46 2023   Architecture : form, space, & order / Francis D.K. Ching

 

 

 

NA682.M63 G85 2009   The Taylorized beauty of the mechanical : scientific management and the rise of modernist architecture / Mauro F. Guillen

 

 

NA7117.5 .E94 2021   Evergreen architecture : overgrown buildings and greener living

 

 

 

NA7451 .P65 2023   The Japanese house since 1945 / Naomi Pollock 

P: Language, Literature

PC4112 .N58 2023   Intermediate Spanish grammar / Gilda Nissenberg, PhD

 

 

 

PC4117 .R33 2022   Read & think Spanish / the editors of Think Spanish magazine

 

 

PC4117 .T3 2021   Easy Spanish reader : a three-part text for beginning students / William T. Tardy

 

 

 

PC4128 .M35 1989   Madrigal's magic key to Spanish / Margarita Madrigal

 

 

 

PC4129.E5 B736 2020   Complete Spanish step-by-step : the fastest way to achieve Spanish mastery / Barbara Bregstein

 

 

PN2287.D322 J33 2023    Dancing down the barricades : Sammy Davis Jr. and the long civil rights era : a cultural history / Matthew Frye Jacobson

 

 

PN4874.C598 A3 2024   The message / Ta-Nehisi Coates

 

 

 

PN4874.F386575 A3 2024   Rage : on being queer, black, brilliant . . . and completely over it / Lester Fabian Brathwaite

 

 

 

PN6727.M6775 Y6 2024   Youth group / Jordan Morris, Bowen McCurdy

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

PN6790.J34 S532 2022   Attack on Titan omnibus. Vols. 4-5-6 / Hajime Isayama

 

 

 

PR6102.R3333 M56 2024   The ministry of time / Kaliane Bradley

 

 

 

PR6104.A83298 A83 2024   And so I roar : a novel / Abi Daré

 

 

 

PS3552.A45 N682 2024   Encounter on the Seine : essays / James Baldwin

 

 

 

PS3566.H479 N54 2023   Night watch / Jayne Anne Phillips

 

 

 

PS3601.A215 M87 2024   Murder on the page / Daryl Wood Gerber

 

 

 

PS3603.H774 B64 2024   The bog wife : a novel / Kay Chronister

 

 

 

PS3605.L4753 V47 2024   A very bad thing / J.T. Ellison

 

 

 

PS3611.I597 W53 2022   What moves the dead / T. Kingfisher

 

 

 

PS3611.U7386 C74 2024   Creation lake : a novel / Rachel Kushner

 

 

 

PZ7.1.K62675 Ol 2024   Old wounds / Logan-Ashley Kisner

 

 

 

PZ7.1.O634 Ou 2024   Our beautiful darkness / Ondjaki 

 

 

 

PZ7.7.C39 Up 2024   Uprooted : a memoir about what happens when your family moves back / Ruth Chan

 

 

 

PZ7.C21476 Vf 2021   The very hungry caterpillar eats breakfast : a counting book / Eric Carle

Q: Mathematics, Computer Science, Sciences

Q325.5 .A56 2024   Why machines learn : the elegant math behind modern AI / Anil Ananthaswamy

 

 

 

QA76.9.A25 .F59 2023   Fixing American cybersecurity : creating a strategic public-private partnership / Larry Clinton, editor

 

 

 

QD39.5 .M64 2023   Chemist / by Kate Moening

 

 

 

QL696.S8 A25 2023   What an owl knows : the new science of the world's most enigmatic birds / Jennifer Ackerman

 

 

 

QM251 .M3413 2023   Netter's Atlas of anatomy for speech, swallowing, and hearing / David H. McFarland

 

 

 

QR67 .B37 2022   Bailey & Scott's diagnostic microbiology / Patricia M. Tille

R: Medicine, Nursing

R729.8 .P38 2023   Patient safety : a case-based innovative playbook for safer care / Abha Agrawal, Jay Bhatt, editors

 

 

 

R733 .F47 2023   Family health encyclopedia : a comprehensive reference guide to home health / Dr. Peter Fermie, Dr. Stephen Shepherd

 

 

R858 .H56 2024   HIMSS dictionary of health information and technology terms, acronyms and organizations

 

 

 

RA412.2 .P47 2024   Beik's health insurance today / Julie Pepper

 

 

 

RA418.5.M4 S56 2023   Future care : sensors, artificial intelligence, and the reinvention of medicine / Jag Singh

 

 

 

RA425 .S5166 2024   Public health : an introduction to the science and practice of population health / James M. Shultz, e t al

 

 

 

RA781.63 .D53 2019   Stretching for beginners : improve flexibility and relieve aches and pains with 75 exercises and 24 simple routines / Natasha Diamond-Walker and Philip Striano

 

 

RA790 .R235 2024   You will get through this : a mental health first-aid kit : help for depression, anxiety, grief, and more / Julie Radico

 

 

RC262 .M377 2019   Understanding cancer : an introduction to the biology, medicine, and societal implications of this disease / J. Richard McIntosh

 

 

RC394.W6 L38 2024   Succeeding and adult dyslexia : personal perspectives, practical ideas, and theoretical directions / Carol Leather 

 

 

RC480 .L95 2025   Therapy : the basics / Sissy Lykou

 

 

 

RC480.8 .I47 2021   Improving communication in mental health settings : evidence-based recommendations from practitioner-led research / edited by Michelle O'Reilly and Jessica Nina Lester

 

 

RC553.A88 S434 2023   Understanding autistic relationships across the lifespan : family, friends, lovers and others / Felicity Sedgewick and Sarah Douglas

 

 

RC685.H8 S37 2023   Mayo Clinic on high blood pressure : your personal guide to preventing and managing hypertension / Gary L. Schwartz, M.D.

 

 

RC78.4 .R65 2023   Merrill's atlas of radiographic positioning & procedures / Jeannean Hall Rollins, Bruce W. Long, Tammy Curtis

 

 

RJ216 .P65 2024   Evidence-based care for breastfeeding mothers : a resource for midwives and allied healthcare professionals / Maria Pollard

 

 

RJ249 .R63 2023   Death, dying and palliative care in children and young people : perspectives from health psychology / Alison M. Rodriguez.

 

 

 

RM301.12 .V35 2025   Davis's drug guide for nurses / April Hazard Vallerand

 

 

 

RM666.C266 K64 2023   Medical marijuana : Dr. Kogan's evidence-based guide to the health benefits of cannabis and CBD / Mikhail Kogan, MD, and Joan Liebmann-Smith, PhD

 

 

RT51 .S66 2023   Davis's diseases and disorders : a nursing therapeutics manual / Marilyn Sawyer Sommers

Fundamentals of Sleep Medicine   online

 

 

 

Atlas of clinical sleep medicine / Meir H. Kryger, Alon Y. Avidan, Cathy Goldstein   online

T: Technology, Culinary

TA1653 .H55 2023   Your face belongs to us : a secretive startup's quest to end privacy as we know it / Kashmir Hill

 

 

 

TF600 .R34 2021   Railroad welding specification for cars and locomotives / prepared by the American Welding Society (AWS)

 

 

 

TG315 .B75 2020   Bridge welding code / prepared by the American Welding Society (AWS) 

 

 

 

TH4970 .C645 2022   The complete guide to decks : featuring the latest tools, skills, designs, materials + codes

 

 

 

TH4970 .W353 2023   Ultimate guide : walks, patios & walls

 

 

 

TH880 .C48 2021   Green building illustrated / Francis D. K. Ching, Ian M. Shapiro

 

 

 

TJ808 .M33 2024   The future is now : solving the climate crisis with today's technologies / Bob McDonald

 

 

 

TK4660 .G84 2021   Guide for components of robotic and automatic arc welding installations / prepared by the American Welding Society (AWS)

 

 

TK4660 .S74 2018   Specification for robot arc welding training and testing cell / prepared by the American Welding Society (AWS)

 

 

TK4660 .T73 2021   Training guide for robotic arc welding personnel / prepared by the American Welding Society (AWS)

 

 

 

TK7881.4 .H783 2024   Modern recording techniques : a practical guide to modern music production / David Miles Huber, Emiliano Caballero, Robert E. Runstein

 

 

TS183.25 .S64 2019   Specification for fabrication of metal components using additive manufacturing / prepared by the American Welding Society (AWS)

 

 

TS227.2 .A88 2020   ASTM standards for welding / editors, Sean J. Bailey [and eleven others]

 

 

 

TS227.2 .S87 2017   Structural welding code--sheet steel / prepared by the American Welding Society (AWS)

 

 

 

TS227.2 .S878 2017   Structural welding code--stainless steel / prepared by the American Welding Society (AWS)

 

 

 

TT180 .P3885 2021   Foundations of woodworking / Michael Pekovich

 

 

 

TX716.M4 M3746 2024   My Mexican mesa, y listo! : beautiful flavors, family style / Jenny Martinez

 

 

TX773 .A457 2024   Life's sweetest moments : simple, stunning recipes and their heartwarming stories / Dominique Ansel 

 

 

 

TX773 .J692 2022   Expressions : art in pastry : recipes and ideas for extraordinary pies and tarts / Julie Jones

Z: Publishing, Library Science, Information Resources

Z1019 .J66 2024b   That librarian : the fight against book banning in America / Amanda Jones

 

 

 

Z280 .F75 2024   The bookshop : a history of the American bookstore / Evan Friss