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Recent Arrivals - Book - Sat, 03/27/2021 - 2:37am

Author: Stokstad, Marilyn, 1929-2016 Collins, Bradford R., 1942- Addiss, Stephen, 1935-
Published: 1999
Call Number: 709 STOKSTAD 4TH EDITION
Format: Books

Great paintings

Recent Arrivals - Book - Sat, 03/27/2021 - 2:37am

Author: Pickersgill, Howard.
Published: 1979
Call Number: 759
Format: Books

Imperial Rome,

Recent Arrivals - Book - Sat, 03/27/2021 - 2:37am

Author: Hadas, Moses, 1900-1966.
Published: 1965
Call Number: 937 HADDAS
Format: Books

The Ultimate Baseball Book

Recent Arrivals - Book - Sat, 03/27/2021 - 2:37am

Call Number: 796.357 OKRENT
Format: Books

The Annapolis Book of Seamanship

Recent Arrivals - Book - Sat, 03/27/2021 - 2:37am

Call Number: 623.88 ROU
Format: Books

The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Recent Arrivals - Book - Sat, 03/27/2021 - 2:37am

Call Number: 759.13 GEORGIA
Format: Books

Designing a photograph

Recent Arrivals - Book - Sat, 03/27/2021 - 2:37am

Call Number: 771 SMITH
Format: Books

Shoot like a pro

Recent Arrivals - Book - Sat, 03/27/2021 - 2:37am

Call Number: 775 KING
Format: Books

The Artist's Illustrated Encyclopedia

Recent Arrivals - Book - Sat, 03/27/2021 - 2:37am

Call Number: 702.8 MET
Format: Books

Beverly Cleary Wrote About Real Life, and Her Readers Loved Her for It

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 03/26/2021 - 5:57pm

The creator of Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins constructed a world that children recognized — one that changed with the times.

Tillie Olsen and the Barriers to Creativity

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 03/26/2021 - 2:55pm

A. O. Scott discusses Olsen’s work, and Wendy Lower talks about “The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed.”

New in Paperback: ‘Deacon King Kong’ and ‘The Undocumented Americans’

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 03/26/2021 - 5:00am

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

To This Essayist and Cultural Critic, the Black Tradition Is Resistance

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 03/26/2021 - 5:00am

Jesse McCarthy’s debut collection, “Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?,” sees art as not a tool of political power, but a power itself.

Heroines, Witnessing Executions and Other Letters to the Editor

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 03/26/2021 - 5:00am

Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

12 New Books We Recommend This Week

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 11:59am

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

The (Way Too Many) Kids Whose Lives Have Been Upended by Gun Violence

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 11:30am

“Children Under Fire,” by the Washington Post reporter John Woodrow Cox, homes in on the often overlooked suffering of children who have witnessed a shooting or lost a loved one to it.

Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 10:35am

Through her rigorous depictions of working-class families, this mid-20th-century writer of fiction conveyed the costs of living for burdened mothers, wives and daughters.

'There's No Such Thing As An Easy Job' Takes Gentle Aim At Japan's Work Culture

NPR Book Reviews - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 7:00am

Kikuko Tsumura's new novel follows an unnamed protagonist who embarks on a series of odd temp jobs — and discovers that as the jobs get duller, the demands of her male supervisors get more intense.

(Image credit: Bloomsbury)

The Restless, Eclectic and Contradictory Passions of Edward Said

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 5:00am

“Places of Mind,” a new biography by Timothy Brennan, a former student, shows one of America’s most distinguished postwar intellectuals to have been a man of deep complexity.

The Book That Taught Tammy Duckworth How to Mummify Human Remains

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 5:00am

“I haven’t found a use for that yet, but you never know.”

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