Staff Picks & New This Month
Native American History Month
In honor of Native American History Month, we recommend the following books from Indigenous voices
Bad Indians by Deborah Miranda
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry edited by Joy Harjo
Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present by Adrienne Keene, illustrated by Ciara Sana
Pretty-shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows by Frank B. Linderman
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
There There by Tommy Orange
We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff
Delegation by Wendy Red Star
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard, illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal
We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom, illustrated by Michaela Goade
Finding My Dance by Ria Thundercloud, illustrated by Kalila J. Fuller
Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids by Cynthia L. Smith
Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth
New in November
What to look for on our shelves this month
Number One is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversion by Steve Martin, illustrated by Harry Bliss
The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin
A Book of Days by Patti Smith
Musical Tables: Poems by Billy Collins
Galatea: A Short Story by Madeline Miller
Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Idol, Burning by Rin Usami
The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan
Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse
Gilded Mountain by Kate Manning
The Sorcerer of Pyongyang by Marcel Theroux
Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer
Toad by Katherine Dunn
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: A Memoir by Baek Sehee
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years by Joy Harjo
The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation by John Lancaster
Art is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night by Jerry Saltz
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby
Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge by Ted Conover
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskil
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
