Need something new to read?
Check out our list of new books for January, 2014. To search for the call number and location, type the book title into the Search@UW box on the library homepage.
Divine fury : a history of genius / Darrin M. McMahon.
Empty mansions : the mysterious life of Huguette Clark and the spending of a great American fortune / Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr.
Discovery of Middle Earth : mapping the lost world of the Celts / Graham Robb.
Frozen in time : an epic story of survival, and a modern quest for lost heroes of World War II / Mitchell Zuckoff.
Hitler’s furies : German women in the Nazi killing fields / Wendy Lower.
Heir apparent : a life of Edward VII, the playboy prince / Jane Ridley.
Empress Dowager Cixi : the concubine who launched modern China / Jung Chang.
Dreadful deceit : the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama’s America / Jacqueline Jones.
Ecstatic nation : confidence, crisis, and compromise, 1848-1877 / Brenda Wineapple.
Bully pulpit : Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of journalism / Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Heart of everything that is : the untold story of Red Cloud, an American legend / Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.
Eighty days : Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s history-making race around the world / Matthew Goodman.
History of the world in 100 objects / Neil Macgregor.
Fosse / Sam Wasson.
Boys in the boat : nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics / Daniel James Brown.
Fires on the border : the passionate politics of labor organizing on the Mexican frontera / Rosemary Hennessy.
Race : a philosophical introduction / Paul C. Taylor.
Japan’s new middle class / Ezra F. Vogel ; with a chapter by Suzanne Hall Vogel ; foreword by William W. Kelly.
Meth mania : a history of methamphetamine / Nicholas L. Parsons.
Linking disorders to delinquency : treating high-risk youth in the juvenile justice system / Christopher A. Mallett.
For a song and a hundred songs : a poet’s journey through a Chinese prison / Liao Yiwu ; translated from the Chinese by Wenguang Huang.
Family jewels : the CIA, secrecy, and presidential power / by John Prados.
South Africa’s suspended revolution : hopes and prospects / Adam Habib.
Renegade cities, public policy, and the dilemmas of federalism / Lori Riverstone-Newell.
Classical liberal constitution : the uncertain quest for limited government / Richard A. Epstein.
Testing wars in the public schools : a forgotten history / William J. Reese.
Duke : a life of Duke Ellington / Terry Teachout.
Riddle of the labyrinth : the quest to crack an ancient code / Margalit Fox.
Jim Henson : the biography / Brian Jay Jones.
Forty-one false starts : essays on artists and writers / Janet Malcolm.
Native American renaissance : literary imagination and achievement / edited by Alan R. Velie and A. Robert Lee.
When sex changed : birth control politics and literature between the world wars / Layne Parish Craig.
Flamethrowers : a novel / Rachel Kushner.
Book of barely imagined beings : a 21st century bestiary / Caspar Henderson.
Healing gods : complementary and alternative medicine in Christian America / Candy Gunther Brown.
Why photography matters / Jerry L. Thompson.