Have you ever thought about who programmed the first modern computer? Kathy Kleiman would like to introduce us to the six women who programmed the ENIAC, the first modern computer, at the end of World War II, in her book, Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer. Check out our other scientific works in our Popular Reading collection. Titles range from commentary, fiction, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, non-fiction, current affairs, science, social issues, and politics. Happy Autumn!

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Title	Author	Status
Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer	Kleiman, Kathy
The It Girl	Ware, Ruth
Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote-a History, a Crisis, a Plan	Holder, Eric & Koppelman, Sam
Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith	Christopher, Adam
How to Raise an Antiracist	Kendi, Ibram X.
Miss Aldridge Regrets	Hare, Louise
Other Names for Love	Soomro, Taymour
Upgrade	Crouch, Blake
The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America	Sweet, John Wood
Gangland	Hogan, Chuck
The Awoken	Howes, Katelyn Monroe
Do No Harm	Pobi, Robert
I’m Glad My Mom Died	McCurdy, Jennette
Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe	Maraniss, David
Stay Awake	Goldin, Megan
Diana, William & Harry	Patterson, James & Mooney, Chris
Elizabeth Finch	Barnes, Julian
Mindreader: Find Out What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are	Lieberman, David J.
Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis	Macy, Beth

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Ever wonder what happened before the Big Bang? Laura Mersini-Houghton, an expert on the multiverse and the origins of the universe offers a new account of the events before the Big Bang in Before the Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe and What Lies Beyond. Check out our other scientific works in our Popular Reading collection. Titles range from commentary, fiction, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, non-fiction, current affairs, science, social issues, and politics.

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Title	Author	Status
Before the Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe and What Lies Beyond	Mersini-Houghton, Laura
Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: a 10,000-year History	Morris, Ian
The Hop: A Novel	Clarke, Diana
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us	Yong, Ed
Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World’s Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away With Anything	Bullough, Oliver
The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier	White, April
Life Ceremony	Murata, Sayaka. Trans by Ginny Tapley Takemori.
Portrait of an Unknown Woman	Silva, Daniel
Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now	Tur, Katy
Ashton Hall	Belfer, Lauren
Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them	Bainbridge, John, Jr.
The Locked Room	Griffiths, Elly
The Poet’s House	Thompson, Jean
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us	Brusatte, Steve
A Way Out of No Way: A Memoir of Truth, Transformation, and the New American Story	Warnock, Raphael G.
The Self-Healing Mind: An Essential Five-step Practice for Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and Revitalizing Your Life	Brown, Gregory Scott.
Sisters in Resistance: How a German Spy, a Banker’s Wife, and Mussolini’s Daughter Outwitted the Nazis	Mazzeo, Tilar J.
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation	Villarosa, Linda
The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People	Mead, Walter Russell
Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America	Pfeiffer, Dan
Funny Business: The Legendary Life and Political Satire of Art Buchwald	Hill, Michael. Foreword by Christopher Buckley.

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Ever wonder what it’s like to be wealthy? Laura Thompson knows. Her new book, Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies, uncovers the lives of such heiresses as Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American “Dollar Heiress,” Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress and Patty Hearst, the notorious heiress to a newspaper fortune turned terrorist. Check out our other historical works in our Popular Reading collection. Titles range from commentary, fiction, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, non-fiction, to current affairs, social issues, and politics.

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Title	Author	Status
Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies	Thompson, Laura
Fake	Katz, Erica
Illogical: Saying Yes to a Life Without Limits	Acho, Emmanuel
Life Without Children: Stories	Doyle, Roddy
Margaret Truman’s Murder at the CDC	Truman, Margaret & Land, Jon
Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior	Prado, Ric
I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir	Fierstein, Harvey
The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure	Werb, Daniel
Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now	Yang, Jeff; Yu, Phil; & Wang, Philip
Race to the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education	Rosiak, Luke
The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953	Frank, Jeffrey
French Braid	Tyler, Anne
Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power	Bluestein, Greg
Drop Acid: The Surprising New Science of Uric Acid—the Key to Losing Weight, Controlling Blood Sugar, and Achieving Extraordinary Health	Perlmutter, David
The End of Getting Lost	Kirman, Robin
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age	Duncan, Dennis
The Naked Don’t Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees	Aikins, Matthieu
Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything	Weill, Kelly
Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It	Abramson, John
The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird	Davis, Jack E.
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire	Elkins, Caroline
Scorpica	Macallister, G. R.
Shadowman: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling	Franscell, Ron
The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty	Thompson, Neal
The Midnight Ride: A Thriller	Mezrich, Ben
Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free	Weinman, Sarah

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If you have seen the Netflix series, The Good Place, you may appreciate the ethical dilemmas that the main characters face while reaching, well, the good place. Michael Schur, creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, gives us a funny guide to living an ethical life in How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question. Check out our other thought provoking works in our Popular Reading collection. Titles range from commentary, fiction, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, non-fiction, to current affairs, social issues, and politics.

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Title	Author	Status
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question	Schur, Michael
It Could Happen Here: Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable—and How We Can Stop It	Greenblatt, Jonathan
Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again	Hari, Johann
Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking	Mlodinow, Leonard
Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America	Sharpton, Al
Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?	Smith, Julie
God: An Anatomy	Stavrakopoulou, Francesca
Worn: A People’s History of Clothing	Thanhauser, Sofi
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them	Walter, Barbara F.
Money Magic: An Economist’s Secrets to More Money, Less Risk, and a Better Life	Allende, Isabel
The Last House on the Street	Chamberlain, Diane
Fuccboi	Conroe, Sean Thor
Devil House	Darnielle, John
Strangers I Know	Durastanti, Claudia
Greenwich Park	Faulkner, Katherine
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections	Jurczyk, Eva
Wahala	May, Nikki
A Previous Life	White, Edmund
Fear of Black Consciousness	Gordon, Lewis R.
The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy	Leonard, Christopher
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas	Raff, Jennifer
Baby Steps Millionaires: How Ordinary People Built Extraordinary Wealth, and How You Can Too	Ramsey, Dave
Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World	Reid, Eliza
Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments	Thompson, Erin L.
The Arc	Hoen, Tory Henwood
Cleopatra and Frankenstein	Mellors, Coco
Nightshift	Ladner, Kiare

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Seriously? Three of my favorite interests in one book! Gregory Benford’s Shadows of Eternity involves a SETI librarian–on the moon–deciphering and interpreting alien messages; need I go on? Check out our other interesting selections to occupy your time over spring break. Titles range from fiction, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, non-fiction, to current affairs, social issues, and politics.

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Title	Author	Status
Shadows of Eternity	Benford, Gregory
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern	Beard, Mary
A History of the Index: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age	Duncan, Dennis
Orwell’s Roses	Solnit, Rebecca
Everyone You Hate Is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life	Sloss, Daniel
The Book of Mother	Huisman, Violaine
Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World	Goodman, Peter S.
Longshot: The Inside Story of the Race for a Covid-19 Vaccine	Heath, David
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays	Hurston, Zora Neale; Gates, Henry Louis; & West, Genevieve
Money Magic: An Economist’s Secrets to More Money, Less Risk, and a Better Life	Kotlikoff, Laurence
The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship’s Battle Against the Slave Trade	Rooks, A. E.
The Echo Chamber	Boyne, John
The School for Good Mothers	Chan, Jessamine
Seasonal Work: Stories	Lippman, Laura
Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind a Raisin in the Sun	Shields, Charles J.
The Good Son	Mitchard, Jacquelyn
Influence Is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things Happen	Chance, Zoe
When a Killer Calls: A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town (Cases of the FBI’s Original Mindhunter)	Douglas, John E. & Olshaker, Mark
Brown Girls	Andreades, Daphne Palasi
The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss	O’Connor, Mary-Frances
The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System	Opoku-Agyeman, Anna Gifty. Intro by Tressie Mcmillan Cottom
Recitatif: A Story	Morrison, Toni. Intro by Zadie Smith
Taste for Poison, A: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them	Bradbury, Neil

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Whoops! Wrong Seneca! Anyway, you can pick up Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living from our Popular Reading shelves. For other interesting selections to occupy your time, see our books below ranging from fiction, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, non-fiction, to current affairs, social issues, and politics.

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Title	Author	Status
Breakfast With Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living	Fideler, David
King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King	De Vise, Daniel
The Black History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained	Olusoga, David
In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes With Anthony Bourdain	Vitale, Tom
Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine	Subin, Anna Della
Fixed: How to Perfect the Fine Art of Problem Solving	Herman, Amy E.
American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World’s Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History	Michel, Casey
Boy Underground	Hyde, Catherine Ryan
Bright Burning Things	Harding, Lisa
Call Us What We Carry: Poems	Gorman, Amanda
Harsh Times	Vargas Llosa, Mario
A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind	Burgess, Ann Wolbert
Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home	Warzel, Charlie & Petersen, Anne Helen
The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better	Wine, Thatcher
Fight Night	Toews, Miriam
I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness	Watkins, Claire Vaye
My Monticello	Johnson, Jocelyn Nicole
The Survivors	Schulman, Alex
The American Art Tapes: Voices of American Pop Art	Jones, Nicolette & Jones, John
Cokie: A Life Well Lived	Roberts, Steven V.
The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III	Roberts, Andrew
Observations by Gaslight: Stories from the World of Sherlock Holmes	Faye, Lyndsay

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Before you leave for the Christmas break, check out our Popular Reading shelves for some interesting selections listed below. Categories include fiction, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, non-fiction, current affairs, social issues, and politics. Something for everyone.

Our collection is on the first floor of Mullen Library in the Reference Reading Room. Have a restful, peaceful Merry Christmas. See you in the New Year!

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Title	Author	Status
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis De Lafayette in the Age of Revolution	Duncan, Mike
Immediate Family	Levy, Ashley Nelson
Where Did the Universe Come From? and Other Cosmic Questions: Our Universe, from the Quantum to the Cosmos	Ferrie, Chris & Lewis, Geraint F.
Robert E. Lee: A Life	Guelzo, Allen C.
The Wish	Sparks, Nicholas
Voices from the Pandemic: Americans Tell Their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience	Saslow, Eli
In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters	Goldstone, Nancy
Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living	Jensen, Robert A.
The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine	Borrell, Brendan
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages	Jones, Dan
Rizzio	Mina, Denise
Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age	Applegate, Debby
Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America	Dyson, Michael Eric
Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court	Greenhouse, Linda
New York, My Village	Akpan, Uwem
The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America’s Soul	Kilmeade, Brian
Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City	Lawler, Andrew
Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved	Naifeh, Steven
The Sentence	Erdrich, Louise
The Stranger in the Lifeboat	Albom, Mitch
My Body	Ratajkowski, Emily
The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America	Feldman, Noah
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times	Ignatieff, Michael
Will	Smith, Will, with Mark Manson
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows	Weiwei, Ai
The Unknown Woman of the Seine	Hansen, Brooks
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World	Marshall, Tim
Pity the Beast	McLean, Robin

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“You are getting very, very, sleepy. You want to peruse our Popular Reading section and take out some books for the Thanksgiving holiday. Our new acquisitions are listed below. Select something you like. Fiction, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, non-fiction, current affairs, and politics–just for you. You will awaken once you have left Mullen Library.”

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Title	Author	Status
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois	Jeffers, Honoree Fanonne
Poison for Breakfast	Snicket, Lemony
A Slow Fire Burning	Hawkins, Paula
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories	Wolitzer, Hilma
The Nature of Middle-Earth	Tolkien, J. R. R./ Hostetter, Carl F.
The End of Trauma: How the New Science of Resilience Is Changing How We Think About PTSD	Bonanno, George A.
The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA	Contreras, Jorge L.
David Copperfield’s History of Magic	Copperfield, David; Wiseman, Richard; & Britland, David
The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and Their Clash over America’s Future	Lanctot, Neil
Flesh & Blood: Reflections on Infertility, Family, and Creating a Bountiful Life: A Memoir	Moss, N. West
100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet	Paul, Pamela
The Lie About the Truck: Survivor, Reality TV, and the Endless Gaze	Tisdale, Sallie
Forgiving Paris	Kingsbury, Karen
Trashlands	Stine, Alison
Crossroads	Franzen, Jonathan
The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women	Hossain, Anushay
12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next	Winterson, Jeanette
The Morning Star	Knausgaard, Karl Ove
The Auschwitz Photographer: The Forgotten Story of the WWII Prisoner Who Documented Thousands of Lost Souls	Crippa, Luca & Onnis, Maurizio
Forever Young: A Memoir	Mills, Hayley
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World	Hayhoe, Katharine
Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion	Suzuki, Wendy
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy	Tooze, Adam
Friends Like These	McCreight, Kimberly
Beautiful World, Where Are You	Rooney, Sally
The Magician	Toibin, Colm
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife	Winstead, Ashley
Expect the Unexpected: Ten Lessons on Truth, Service, and the Way Forward	Fauci, Anthony
Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of the Sopranos	Imperioli, Michael & Schirripa, Steve
The Age of A.I.: And Our Human Future	Kissinger, Henry; Schmidt, Eric; & Huttenlocher, Daniel
Filled With Fire and Light: Portraits and Legends from the Bible, Talmud, and Hasidic World	Wiesel, Elie. Edited by Alan Rosen

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Browse some of our new acquisitions in the Popular Reading Collection listed below. Fiction, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, non-fiction, current affairs, politics–you name it–are some of the subjects represented. Our collection is on the first floor of Mullen Library in the Reference Reading Room.

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Title	Author	Status
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America	Smith, Clint
How to Tell Stories to Children	West, Silke Rose / Sarosy, Joseph
The Girl Who Died	Jonasson, Ragnar
Who They Was	Krauze, Gabriel
When the Sparrow Falls	Sharpson, Neil
Filthy Animals	Taylor, Brandon
What a Dog Knows	Wilson, Susan
Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away	Hagedorn, Ann
The Reckoning: Our Nation’s Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal	Trump, Mary L.
Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump	Ackerman, Spencer
Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption	Zakaria, Rafia
Blind Tiger	Stone, Brad
The Eternal Audience of One	Ngamije, Rémy
Agent You: Show Up, Do the Work, and Succeed on Your Own Terms	Lynn, Nicole
The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence	Kurczy, Stephen
Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage	Henderson, Eleanor
I Left My Homework in the Hamptons: What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent	Grossberg, Blythe
A Wild Idea: The True Story of Douglas Tompkins – the Greatest Conservationist You’ve Never Heard of	Franklin, Jonathan
The State Must Provide: Why America’s Colleges Have Always Been Unequal – and How to Set Them Right	Harris, Adam
Every Minute Is a Day: A Doctor, an Emergency Room, and a City Under Siege	Meyer, Robert & Koeppel, Dan
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina	Pazcoguin, Georgina
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South	Rembert, Winfred & Kelly, Erin I.
Piglet: The Unexpected Story of a Deaf, Blind, Pink Puppy and His Family	Shapiro, Melissa/ Eichler Rivas, Mim
Everyday Vitality: Turning Stress into Strength	Boardman, Samantha
Misfits: A Personal Manifesto	Coel, Michaela
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America	Press, Eyal
Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography	Woolever, Laurie
Inseparable: A Never-Before-Published Novel	Beauvoir, Simone de
Cloud Cuckoo Land	Doerr, Anthony
The War for Gloria	Lish, Atticus

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