Looking for something to read? Here’s our list of new books for February:
Search our library catalog where you can get the call number and location of the book.
Executive function and child development / Marcie Yeager, Daniel Yeager.
Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis : Castro, Mikoyan, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the missiles of November / Sergo Mikoyan ; edited by Svetlana Savranskaya.
Israel : a history / Anita Shapira ; translated from the Hebrew by Anthony Berris.
That every man be armed : the evolution of a constitutional right / Stephen P. Halbrook.
End of exceptionalism in American education : the changing politics of school reform / Jeffrey R. Henig.
This we know : a chronology of the shootings at Kent State, May 1970 / Carole A. Barbato, Laura L. Davis, and Mark F. Seeman.
Toads on toast / Linda Bailey ; [illustrated by] Colin Jack.
Lemonade in winter : a book about two kids counting money / written by Emily Jenkins and illustrated by G. Brian Karas.
Twelve kinds of ice / by Ellen Bryan Obed ; illustrated by Barbara McClintock.
Cold snap / by Eileen Spinelli ; illustrated by Marjorie Priceman.
Few bites / Cybèle Young.
Little bird / Germano Zullo ; [illustrated by] Albertine.
Bomb : the race to build and steal the world’s most dangerous weapon / Steve Sheinkin.
Infinity and me / written by Kate Hosford ; illustrations by Gabi Swiatkowska.
One Times Square : a century of change at the crossroads of the world / written & illustrated by Joe McKendry.
Impossible rescue / Martin Sandler.
Extraordinary music of Mr. Ives / written and illustrated by Joanne Stanbridge.
Noah Webster and his words / by Jeri Chase Ferris ; illustrated by Vincent X. Kirsch.
I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; paintings by Kadir Nelson.
Electric Ben : the amazing life and times of Benjamin Franklin / Robert Byrd.
Brontë sisters : the brief lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne / Catherine Reef.
Perfect day / Carin Berger.
This moose belongs to me / Oliver Jeffers.
Return to the willows / Jacqueline Kelly ; illustrations by Clint Young.
Stephen and the beetle / Jorge Luján ; [illustrations by] Chiara Carrer ; translated by Elisa Amado.
Boxcar children beginning : the Aldens of Fair Meadow Farm / Patricia MacLachlan ; [interior illustrations by Robert Dunn].
Toads on toast / Linda Bailey ; [illustrated by] Colin Jack.
Lemonade in winter : a book about two kids counting money / written by Emily Jenkins and illustrated by G. Brian Karas.
Twelve kinds of ice / by Ellen Bryan Obed ; illustrated by Barbara McClintock.
Cold snap / by Eileen Spinelli ; illustrated by Marjorie Priceman.
Few bites / Cybèle Young.
Little bird / Germano Zullo ; [illustrated by] Albertine.
Bomb : the race to build and steal the world’s most dangerous weapon / Steve Sheinkin.
Ramayana : divine loophole / written & illustrated by Sanjay Patel.
Beyond courage : the untold story of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust / Doreen Rappaport.
Hand in hand : ten Black men who changed America / by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; paintings by Brian Pinkney.
Coyote and the sky : how the sun, moon, and stars began / story by Emmett “Shkeme” Garcia ; illustrated by Victoria Pringle.
Spirit seeker : John Coltrane’s musical journey / by Gary Golio ; paintings by Rudy Gutierrez.
Harlem’s little blackbird / Renée Watson ; illustrated by Christian Robinson.
Little book of Hindu deities : from the Goddess of Wealth to the Sacred Cow / by Sanjay Patel.
Little White Duck : a childhood in China / by Na Liu and Andrés Vera Martínez; illustrated by Andrés Vera Martínez.
Bear despair / Gaëtan Dorémus.
Ben’s flying flowers / by Inger Maier ; illustrated by Maria Bogade.
Abe Lincoln’s dream / Lane Smith.
Juan the bear and the water of life = La acequia de Juan del oso / retold and translated by Enrique R. Lamadrid & Juan Estevan Arellano ; illustrations by Amy Córdova.
Infinity and me / written by Kate Hosford ; illustrations by Gabi Swiatkowska.
Oxford handbook of Aristotle / edited by Christopher Shields.
Rainy brain, sunny brain : how to retrain your brain to overcome pessimism and achieve a more positive outlook / Elaine Fox.
India : a sacred geography / by Diana L. Eck.
Islamism and Islam / Bassam Tibi.
Robespierre : a revolutionary life / Peter McPhee.
Iron curtain : the crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 / Anne Applebaum.
Patriarch : the remarkable life and turbulent times of Joseph P. Kennedy / David Nasaw.
From the hands of a weaver : Olympic Peninsula basketry through time / edited by Jacilee Wray ; foreword by Jonathan B. Jarvis.
Masters of the planet : the search for our human origins / Ian Tattersall.
People’s pension : the struggle to defend Social Security since Reagan / Eric Laursen.
Transformation of the Republican Party, 1912-1936 : from reform to resistance / Clyde P. Weed.
Social neuroscience of education : optimizing attachment and learning in the classroom / Louis Cozolino ; foreword by Daniel J. Siegel.
Handel / Donald Burrows.
Always looking : essays on art / John Updike ; edited by Christopher Carduff.
Art of modern China / Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen.
Hollywood 1938 : motion pictures’ greatest year / Catherine Jurca.
Writing death and absence in the Victorian novel : engraved narratives / Jolene Zigarovich.
Jazz griots : music as history in the 1960s African American poem / Jean-Philippe Marcoux.
Difficult woman : the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman / Alice Kessler-Harris.
My dear governess : the letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann / edited by Irene Goldman-Price.
Home / Toni Morrison.
Legacy of David Foster Wallace / edited by Samuel Cohen and Lee Konstantinou.
Future of the world’s climate / Ann Henderson-Sellers, Kendal McGuffie.
Darwin’s ghosts : the secret history of evolution / Rebecca Stott.
Observation and ecology : broadening the scope of science to understand a complex world / Rafe Sagarin and Aníbal Pauchard.
Wild hope : on the front lines of conservation success / Andrew Balmford.
Earth before the dinosaurs / Sébastien Steyer ; illustrated by Alain Bénéteau ; translated by Chris Spence ; foreword by Carl Zimmer.
Cindy Sherman : the early works 1975-1977 : catalogue raisonné / by Gabriele Schor ; Sammlung Verbund ; [translations: Elizabeth Tucker, Fiona Elliott, Catherine Schelbert].
Ethics and war : an introduction / Steven P. Lee.
Most human human : what artificial intelligence teaches us about being alive / Brian Christian.
Trusting what you’re told : how children learn from others / Paul L. Harris.
Times of troubles : Britain’s war in Northern Ireland / Andrew Sanders and Ian S. Wood.
1967 Arab-Israeli war : origins and consequences / edited by Wm. Roger Louis and Avi Shlaim.
Man who saved the union : Ulysses Grant in war and peace / H. W. Brands.
Living in a dangerous climate : climate change and human evolution / Renée Hetherington.
From parents to children : the intergenerational transmission of advantage / John Ermisch, Markus Jäntti, and Timothy Smeeding, editors.
Dictator’s learning curve : inside the global battle for democracy / William J. Dobson.
Saul Steinberg : a biography / Deirdre Bair.
American Indians and the mass media / edited by Meta G. Carstarphen and John P. Sanchez.
Stella Adler on America’s master playwrights : Eugene O’Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee / edited and with commentary by Barry Paris.
State of peril : race and rape in South African literature / Lucy Valerie Graham.
Underwater Eden : saving the last coral wilderness on earth / edited by Gregory S. Stone & David Obura.
Fostering nurse-led care : professional practice for the bedside leader from Massachusetts General Hospital / [edited by] Jeanette Ives Erickson, Dorothy A. Jones, Marianne Ditomassi.
On Saudi Arabia : its people, past, religion, fault lines–and future / Karen Elliott House.
Dust Bowl : an illustrated history / by Dayton Duncan ; with a preface by Ken Burns ; picture research by Aileen Silverstone and Susan Shumaker.
Reading classes : on culture and classism in America / Barbara Jensen.
Nature all around us : a guide to urban ecology / edited by Beatrix Beisner, Christian Messier, and Luc-Alain Giraldeau ; translated by Beatrix Beisner.
Assessment of young children : a collaborative approach / Lisa B. Fiore.
Words at work and play : three decades in family and community life / Shirley Brice Heath.
Dear life : stories / Alice Munro.
Paleontology in ecology and conservation / Julien Louys, editor.
On a farther shore : the life and legacy of Rachel Carson / William Souder.
Other side of normal : how biology is providing the clues to unlock the secrets of normal and abnormal behavior / Jordan Smoller.
Microbes and evolution : the world that Darwin never saw / edited by Roberto Kolter and Stanley Maloy.
Roy Lichtenstein : a retrospective / James Rondeau and Sheena Wagstaff ; with contributions by Clare Bell, Yve-Alain Bois, Iria Candela, Harry Cooper, Sara Doris, Chrissie Iles, James Lawrence, and Stephen Little.
Controversy in the psychology classroom : using hot topics to foster critical thinking / edited by Dana S. Dunn … [et al.].
