New Books: Oct 2021

"In the right hands, this book will be a catalyst. It is a must-read for any human working in the design field. With honesty and humor, interviews and infographics, history and future-forward advice, this “field guide” is a timely resource for navigating and leading a career in design today. Eye-opening, empowering, and, at times, laugh-out-loud funny (especially the 'Emotional Labor Invoice')." - Creative Pro
"A practical guide for career designers - or those just obsessed with type - Extra Bold is "part zine, part text, part manifesto". It presents interviews, typefaces and projects by a diverse arraof designers, while the playful illustrations by Jennifer Tobias bring the book to life." - Financial Times

"Eeckhout documents an astonishing rise of market power across all sorts of industries since 1980. We're not just talking about the usual suspects here; Amazon, Google, Facebook, and so on. We're talking about everything from the makers of cat food to the sellers of caskets."---Greg Rosalsky, NPR Planet Money
"A serious and significant effort to explain rising market power and its implications to decades of stagnant wages to a wider audience."---Simcha Barkai, ProMarket
"A very good read… Hooray for an economist who can write so engagingly."---Diane Coyle, The Enlightened Economist

Jon N. Hale is a professor of educational history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an advocate for quality public education. Hale’s research in education has been published in The Atlantic, CNN.com, Education Week, the American Scholar, and the African American Intellectual History Series. His books include The Freedom Schools and To Write in the Light of Freedom.

“Profound and thought-provoking, this work is recommended for anyone who wants to understand the structural inequities of the U.S. educational system.” -- Library Journal

An AARP Hot New Novel for Summer * A CrimeRead Novel You Should Read This August * An Alta Best Book of August * A Veranda Magazine Best Book of Summer * A USA Today Book Not to Miss * A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2021
“The Guide is a literary work and a paean to fishing, as inspiring as A River Runs Through It… Poetic… Engaging… The Guide is a beautifully written book, a tribute to Colorado, its bounty and its ability to heal the soul.” —Sandra Dallas, Denver Post
"Riveting... A chilling reminder of the dangers that might lie in wait for us all." —Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Heller is building a reputation as a modern master of the wilderness thriller... Heller manages to perfectly balance meditations on nature, memory, and loss while also unspooling a gripping thriller."—CrimeReads

New York Times Bestseller
“Colson Whitehead has a couple of Pulitzers under his belt, along with several other awards celebrating his outstanding novels. Harlem Shuffle is a suspenseful crime thriller that's sure to add to the tally — it's a fabulous novel you must read.” -NPR.org
“A warm, involving novel” -The Wall Street Journal
“Another triumph from Pulitzer winner Whitehead” -People Magazine
“Fast-paced, keen-eyed and very funny, “Harlem Shuffle” is a novel about race, power and the history of Harlem all disguised as a thrill-ride crime novel.” -San Francisco Chronicle
“Enthralling, cinematic…Whitehead's evocation of early 1960s Harlem — strewn with double-crosses and double standards, broken glass and broken dreams — is irresistible…a valentine to a time and place.” -Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“A cool, funny, slyly elegant genre outing that deftly weaves in weightier themes around the edges of a story about crooks and schemers in mid-20th-century New York.” -Laura Miller, Slate
“Dazzling…exciting and wise.” -Walton Muyumba, The Boston Globe

A New York Times Notable Book | One of the Wall Street Journal Ten Best Books of the Year
“A sweeping, interconnected novel of ideas in the tradition of Joseph Conrad and Norman Mailer . . . By taking a long view of the ‘rational insanity’ of global warfare, Missionaries brilliantly fills one of the largest gaps in contemporary literature.” —The Wall Street Journal
“[This] astounding novel . . . does not shy away from the thorny moral questions and psychological impacts of conflict, and the result is at once terrifying and thought-provoking.” —The New York Times
“Wrenching and insightful.” —The New Yorker
“Frequently gripping and powerfully written.” —The Washington Post

“A Psalm for the Wild-Built begins a series that looks optimistic and hopeful, pursuing stories that arise from abundance instead of scarcity, kindness instead of cruelty, and I look forward to seeing where it goes from here.” ―NPR
"A joyful experience and, as with all of Chambers’s books, I was left with a warm, fuzzy feeling inside." ―New Scientist
“Hugo Award–winning author Becky Chambers begins a new series with this delightful and quietly philosophical novella that presents a hopeful glimpse into a future where humanity actually does the right thing.” ―Buzzfeed

"...Immersive and textured: full of smoke from the fires, and sand whipped up by the wind that's keeping the Greek army pinned to the shore."—NPR
"[Barker’s] insight and compassion are on full display. As is her outrage."—The New York Times Book Review
"Barker’s prose has a plain force more powerful than fancy wordsmithing; she makes these long-ago events immediate … More work from one of contemporary literature’s most thoughtful and compelling writers is always welcome."—The Washington Post

"Fast-paced and vivid... chock-full of telling quotes" — The New York Times Book Review
"The excellent new book... Bombshell revelations... [and] damning evidence of things we already intuited.” — The Washington Post
“Craig Whitlock's new book The Afghanistan Papers is essential reading on this topic." — Newt Gingrich, Newsweek

"In Braiding Sweetgrass, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer tackles everything from sustainable agriculture to pond scum as a reflection of her Potawatomi heritage, which carries a stewardship 'which could not be taken by history: the knowing that we belonged to the land.' . . . It's a book absorbed with the unfolding of the world to observant eyes―that sense of discovery that draws us in." ―NPR
"Kimmerer eloquently makes the case that by observing and celebrating our reciprocal relationship with the natural world, one can gain greater ecological consciousness." ―Sierra Magazine

One of Newsweek's Best Books By Veterans

A Non-Fiction Book You Should Read this Summer at LitHub; A CNN's "Reliable Sources" Book to Read this Summer; A Most Anticipated Book of June at Alma Magazine
"Rothschild... argues that contempt and mockery for QAnon beliefs have led people to radically underestimate the movement, and, even now, keep us from engaging seriously with its threat." —The New Yorker
"[T]imely and chilling ... Rothschild is brilliant at outlining the process by which people who were not previously drawn to political extremism come to see themselves as 'patriotic researchers', able to see patterns in the information that is fed to them." —Financial Times
"Rothschild’s book is a sobering look at how the QAnon phenomenon began, and how it spread online to become a sort of all-encompassing conspiracy movement." —Vice
"Reads like a thriller, with cliffhangers that leave you eager for the next episode . . . The Storm Is Upon Us is an impressive piece of research and a gripping read." —The Sunday Times (London)

"Solid scholarship, clear writing, and a deep bibliography help this book stand out from others on this subject. Hausman's work is spot on and deserves a wide readership." ― Choice

New York Times Bestseller
“As usual, Mark Levin pulls no punches. . . . American Marxism is, without question, a very important and valuable book. It is exactly the right book at the right time.” —The American Spectator
“In American Marxism, Mark Levin paints a bleak picture of an America under siege, but he offers hope that we can turn this around and inspires us to unite around the noble cause of liberty and the salvation of the greatest nation the world has ever known.” —David Limbaugh, Townhall

"'All my life when I’ve tried to talk to men about sexism,' Woods writes, 'my main obstacle has been trying to convince them, quite simply, that it exists.' Incident by incident, this memoir makes the case in stark personal terms." —The New York Times Book Review
"This text is not only a vital read for those who have experienced gender violence, but also for those looking to enact real allyship and create real change in the world. I suspect this text will become a vital tool for teaching, reclaiming, and collectively mourning for years to come." —Lambda Literary

“A refreshingly skeptical outsider’s view of Silicon Valley and its titans.” - Wall Street Journal