Marie Blair Burgess Library October 2018

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Traffik

Chappaquiddick

Acrimony

Breaking In

Life of the Party

Avengers: Infinity War

Edgar A. Poe: Buried Alive [Documentary]

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise [Documentary]

Genius by Stephen Hawking [Documentary]

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Mondays — Thursdays: 8:00 a.m. — 11:00 p.m. Fridays: 8:00 a.m. — 3:00 p.m.

Saturdays: CLOSED

Sundays: 6 p.m. — 11 p.m.

The Moralist:

Woodrow Wilson

and the World

He Made,

Patricia O’Toole

The Price of Greatness:

Alexander Hamilton,

James Madison, and

the Creation of the

American Oligarchy,

Jay Cost

FALL BREAK LIBRARY HOURS

Sunday 10/14: Closed (Fall Break)

Monday 10/15: 8 a.m.—5 p.m. (Fall Break/No Classes)

Tuesday 10/16: Resume Normal Hours

A Higher Loyalty,

James Comey

My Country,

My Life: Fighting

for Israel, Search-

ing for Peace,

Ehud Barak

The Age

of Eisenhower:

America and the

World in the 1950s,

William Hitchcock

More Than

a Doctrine:

The Eisenhower Era

in the Middle East,

Randall Fowler

Making

the Arab World:

Nasser, Qutb,

and the clash

that shaped

the Middle East,

Fawaz A. Gerges

President Carter:

The White House

Years,

Stuart Eizenstat

The Library:

A Catalogue

of Wonders,

Stuart Kells

Diary of a Book

Seller,

Shaun Bythell

Autumn in Venice:

Ernest Hemingway

and His Last Muse,

Andrea di Robilant

Illustrated Myths

& Legends of China,

E.T.C. Werner

SMC’s own Jonathan Kirsch, Assistant Librarian for Reference & Research at the Marie Blair Burgess Library,

contributed a chapter (w/Olivia White) entitled

“Millennials Diverge: A Contrast of Newer Millennials and Veterans in Millennial Leadership" to Ashley K. Chase’s

new book Millennial Leadership in Libraries.

Check it out!

Congratulations, Jon! We are so proud of you!

Kill Creek,

Scott Thomas

[FICTION]

The Darkest Legacy,

Alexandra Bracken

[FICTION]

Autonomous,

Andy Marino

[FICTION]

Unearthed,

Amie Kaufman &

Meagan Spooner

[FICTION]

Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment

of Mental Illness,

Alisa Roth

Demystifying

the Big House,

Katherine Foss

Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism

in Nazi Vienna,

Edith Sheffer

Damnation Island:

Poor, Sick, Mad

& Criminal

in 19th-Century

New York,

Stacy Horn

Drug Policy

and the Criminal

Justice System,

Nancy E. Marion

The Recovering:

Intoxication and Its

Aftermath,

Leslie Jamison

Who We Are and

How We Got Here:

Ancient DNA

& the New Science

of the Human Past,

David Reich

To the Edges

of the Earth: 1909,

The Race for the

Three Poles, and the

Climax of the age

of Exploration ,

Edward Lawson

Artificial

Unintelligence:

How Computers

Misunderstand

the World,

Meredith Broussard

Superminds:

The Surprising Power

of People

and Computers

Thinking Together,

Thomas W. Malone

Skeletons:

The Frame of Life,

Jan Zalasiewiez &

Mark Williams

Luminous Creatures:

The History & Science

of Light Production in

Living Organisms,

Michel Anctil

Brotherhood

of Spies:

The U-2 and the

CIA’s Secret War, Monte Reel

Rocket Men:

The Daring

Odyssey

of Apollo 8,

Robert Kurson

Antisocial Media:

How Facebook

Disconnects Us

and Undermines

Democracy,

Siva Vaidhyanathan

Kill All Normies:

Online Culture

Wars From 4Chan

And Tumblr

to Trump

& The Alt-Right,

Angela Nagle

A Field Guide

to Eastern Trees:

Eastern United States

and Canada,

Including

the Midwest,

George A. Petrides

Blossoms

and the Genes

That Make Them,

Maxine F. Singer

American Default:

The Untold Story

of FDR, the Supreme

Court, and the Battle

Over Gold,

Sebastian Edwards

Alexander

Hamilton

on Finance, Credit,

and Debt,

Richard Sylla &

David J. Cowen

Bitter Pills:

The Global War on

Counterfeit Drugs,

Muhammad

H. Zaman

China Rx:

Exposing the Risks

of America’s Dependence on China

for Medicine,

Rosemary Gibson &

Janardan Singh

The One Device:

The Secret History

of the iPhone,

Brian Merchant

Bad Blood:

Secrets and Lies

in a Silicon Valley

Startup,

John Carreyrou

The Equations

of Life: How Physics

Shapes Evolution,

Charles S. Cockell

West Like

Lightning:

The Brief,

Legendary Ride of

the Pony Express,

Jim DeFelice

Chernobyl:

The History

of a Nuclear

Catastrophe,

Serhii Plokhy

The Source:

How Rivers Made

America &

America Remade

Its Rivers,

Martin Doyle

She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers,

Perversions,

and Potential

of Heredity,

Carl Zimmer

Think Tank:

Forty Neuroscientists

Explore the

Biological Roots of

Human Experience,

David Linden

Sapiens:

A Brief History

of Humankind,

Yuval Noah Harari

The Edge

of the Sea,

Rachel Carson

Sugar: The World

Corrupted: From

Slavery to Obesity,

James Walvin

Elastic: Flexible

Thinking in a Time

of Change,

Leonard Mlodinow

First in Line:

Presidents, Vice

Presidents,

and the Pursuit

of Power ,

Kate Andersen

Brower

Hard Times:

Economic

Depressions

in America,

Richard Striner

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