F BEL (sf)  -  YA

Belleza, Rhoda. Empress of a Thousand Skies. New York, N.Y.: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House, c2017.

When their paths cross after a brutal attack Aly is falsely accused of making on Rhee, they are forced to work together to save their own lives and the universe.

F DOC

Docx, Edward. Let Go My Hand. London, UK: Picador, 2018, c2017.

A darkly funny and deeply moving novel about a dysfunctional family and their final chance to fix things.

F EDU

Edugyan, Esi. Washington Black. New York, N.Y.: Knopf, c2018.

A dazzling adventure story about a boy who rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world.

F EZE - YA

Ezell, Heather. Nothing Left to Burn. New York, N.Y.: Razorbill, c2018.

Taking place over 16 intense hours, this novel tells the story of sixteen-year-old Audrey who is navigating her tumultuous and all-consuming relationship while also juggling her family's evacuation from the path of a deadly wildfire sweeping through Orange County, California.

F GAR  - YA

Garner, Paula. Relative Strangers. Somerville, Mass.: Candlewick, c2018.

A teen's discovery that she spent 19 months in foster care as an infant sends her searching for answers.

F HAN 

Hannah, Kristin. The Great Alone. London,UK: Macmillan, c2018.

Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America's last true frontier.

F LYG - YA

Lyga, Barry. Bang : a novel. New York: Little, Brown and Co., c2017.

A new friend and their YouTube cooking channel help fourteen-year-old Sebastian move on from accidentally shooting his infant sister ten years earlier.

F MAS (sf)

Mastai, Elan. All Our Wrong Todays: A Novel. New York, N.Y.: Dutton, c2017.

A man returns to an alternate reality, desperate to fix his time-travel mistake.

F MOL

Molloy, Aimee. The Perfect Mother: A Novel. 1st ed. New York, N.Y.: Harper, c2018.

An addictive psychological thriller about a group of women whose lives become unexpectedly connected when one of their newborns goes missing.

F POW

Powers, Richard, 1957-. The Overstory. London, UK: William Heinemann, c2018.

A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.

F TAL

Tallent, Gabriel. My Absolute Darling. New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, c2017.

A remarkable California teen comes to a realisation about her predatory father. 

F ZEN - YA

Zentner, Jeff. The Serpent King: A Novel. 1st ed. New York, N.Y.: Crown, c2016.

The son of a Pentecostal preacher faces his personal demons as he and his two outcast friends try to make it through their senior year of high school in rural Forrestville, Tennessee without letting the small-town culture destroy their creative spirits and sense of self.

121 MCI

McIntire, Lee C. Post-truth. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, c2018.

Traces the development of the post-truth era, when "alternative facts" replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence, from science denial through the rise of "fake news," from our psychological blind spots to the public's retreat into "information silos.".

306.874 MENDELSOHN

Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-. An Odyssey: a Father, a Son, and an Epic. London, UK: William Collins, c2017.

Presents the story of a father and son's transformative shared journey in reading in the wake of the father's late-in-life enrollment in his son's undergraduate seminar, where the two engaged in debates over how to interpret Homer's classic masterpiece.

320 EMM

Emmott, Bill. The Fate of the West: The Battle to Save the World's Most Successful Political Idea. Revised ed. London, UK: Profile Books, 2018, c2017.

Explores the the challenges and changing times in Western Europe, including science, social change, culture, and affluence.

341.23 DIL

Dille, Brian. Engaging the United Nations: A Brief Introduction to the UN. Engagement Learning, c2017.

An accessible introduction to the UN and a guide to prepare for a Model UN simulation. Each chapter is introduced by a comic that relates the parallel stories of two young women, one a refugee on the receiving end of international institutions, and the other a recent college graduate whose work shows the bureaucratic side of the UN.

364.15 CUR

Currie-McGhee, L. K. (Leanne K.). Human Rights in Focus: Human Trafficking. San Diego, CA : ReferencePoint Press, c2018.

Globally, millions of people live in modern day slavery. Men, women, and children across the world are subject to forced labor and sexual exploitation at the hands of human traffickers. The challenges human trafficking victims face, the efforts to eradicate this crime, and how to assist victims are discussed in this book.

791.4301 SHI

Psychocinematics: Exploring Cognition at the Movies. Edited by Arthur P. Shimamura. New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, c2013.

How do movies engage us so thoroughly, capturing our sensations, thoughts, and emotions? This edited volume introduces psychocinematics, which brings together film theorists, philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists to consider the viability of a scientific approach to our movie experience.

973.04924 MEN

Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-. The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. Updated ed. London, UK: William Collins, 2013, c2006.

In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic—part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work—that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history.

DVD 792.7 NGI

Thomas Ngijol 2. French ed. Issy-les-Moulineaux, France: StudioCanal, c2015. Directed by Karole Rocher & Clément Chabault.

After his success in film and television, comedian Thomas Ngijol returns to his roots with this one-man show full of hilarious observations on life.

DVD F JE

Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas. French ed. Issy-les-Moulineaux, France: StudioCanal, 2007, c2006. Directed by Philippe Lioret.

The unexpected disappearance of her troubled brother causes a nineteen year-old girl intense emotional distress.

DVD F LE

Le corniaud. French ed. Issy-les-Moulineaux, France: StudioCanal, 2009, c1965. Directed by Gérard Oury.

After the luxury car of Mr. Saroyan, an import-export businessman, crashes into his, Antoine Marechal is offered, as compensation, an all-expenses-paid trip to Naples in a Cadillac. Marechal accepts eagerly, never dreaming what he is transporting.