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Welcome to the University of Iowa Libraries’ virtual New Book Shelf. Here we will present new titles for you to browse and check out. Titles listed here will be monographs published in the current year. If you see a title you would like to borrow, please click the link below the item and sign in with your Hawk ID and Password to request a loan.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Deeper the Roots: A Memoir of Hope and Home<\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n
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The making of a visionary political leader\u2015and a blueprint for a more equitable country<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDon\u2019t tell nobody our business,\u201d Michael Tubbs\u2019s mother often told him growing up. For Michael, that meant a lot of things: don\u2019t tell anyone about the day-to-day struggle of being Black and broke in Stockton, CA. Don\u2019t tell anyone the pain of having a father incarcerated for 25 years to life. Don\u2019t tell anyone about living two lives, the brainy bookworm and the kid with the newest Jordans. And also don\u2019t tell anyone about the particular joys of growing up with three \u201cmoms\u201d\u2015a Nana who never let him miss church, an Auntie who\u2019d take him to the library any time, and a mother, \u201cShe-Daddy\u201d, who schooled him in the wisdom of hip-hop and taught him never to take no for an answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So for a long time Michael didn\u2019t tell anyone his story, but as he went on to a scholarship at Stanford and an internship in the Obama White House, he began to realize the power of his experience, the need for his perspective in the halls of power. By the time he returned to Stockton to become, in 2016 at age 26, its first Black mayor and the youngest-ever mayor of a major American city, he knew his story meant something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Deeper the Roots<\/span> is a memoir astonishing in its candor, voice, and clarity of vision. Tubbs shares with us the city that raised him, his family of badass women, his life-changing encounters with Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama, the challenges of governing in the 21st century and everything in between\u2015en route to unveiling his compelling vision for America rooted in his experiences in his hometown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What Are the Chances?: Why We Believe in Luck<\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n
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Most of us, no matter how rational we think we are, have a lucky charm, a good-luck ritual, or some other custom we follow in the hope that it will lead to a good result. Is the idea of luckiness just a way in which we try to impose order on chaos? Do we live in a world of flukes and coincidences, good and bad breaks, with outcomes as random as a roll of the dice\u2014or can our beliefs help change our luck?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Are the Chances? <\/span>reveals how psychology and neuroscience explain the significance of the idea of luck. Barbara Blatchley explores how people react to random events in a range of circumstances, examining the evidence that the belief in luck helps us cope with a lack of control. She tells the stories of lucky and unlucky people\u2014who won the lottery multiple times, survived seven brushes with death, or found an apparently cursed Neanderthal mummy\u2014as well as the accidental discoveries that fundamentally changed what we know about the brain. Blatchley considers our frequent misunderstanding of randomness, the history of luckiness in different cultures and religions, the surprising benefits of magical thinking, and many other topics. Offering a new view of how the brain handles the unexpected, What Are the Chances?<\/span> shows why an arguably irrational belief can\u2014fingers crossed\u2014help us as we struggle with an unpredictable world<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry That Radicalized<\/span> America<\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n
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A former firearms executive pulls back the curtain on America’s multibillion-dollar gun industry, exposing how it fostered extremism and racism, radicalizing the nation and bringing cultural division to a boiling point.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an avid hunter, outdoorsman, and conservationist – all things that the firearms industry was built on – Ryan Busse chased a childhood dream and built a successful career selling millions of firearms for one of America\u2019s most popular gun companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But blinded by the promise of massive profits, the gun industry abandoned its self-imposed decency in favor of hardline conservatism and McCarthyesque internal policing, sowing irreparable division in our politics and society. That drove Busse to do something few other gun executives have done: He’s ending his 30-year career in the industry to show us how and why we got here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gunfight<\/span> is an insider\u2019s call-out of a wild, secretive, and critically important industry. It shows us how America’s gun industry shifted from prioritizing safety and ethics to one that is addicted to fear, conspiracy, intolerance, and secrecy. It recounts Busse’s personal transformation and shows how authoritarianism spreads in the guise of freedom, how voicing one’s conscience becomes an act of treason in a culture that demands sameness and loyalty. Gunfight<\/span> offers a valuable perspective as the nation struggles to choose between armed violence or healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Nineties: A Book<\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n
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An instant <\/span>New York Times<\/span> best seller!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the <\/span>New York Times<\/span> best-selling author of <\/span>But What if We\u2019re Wrong<\/span>, a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker\/grunge irony about the sin of trying too hard, during the greatest shift in human consciousness of any decade in American history.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. In the beginning, almost every name and address was listed in a phone book, and everyone answered their landlines because you didn\u2019t know who it was. By the end, exposing someone\u2019s address was an act of emotional violence, and nobody picked up their new cell phone if they didn\u2019t know who it was. The ’90s brought about a revolution in the human condition we\u2019re still groping to understand. Happily, Chuck Klosterman is more than up to the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond epiphenomena like “Cop Killer” and Titanic<\/span> and Zima, there were wholesale shifts in how society was perceived: the rise of the internet, pre-9\/11 politics, and the paradoxical belief that nothing was more humiliating than trying too hard. Pop culture accelerated without the aid of a machine that remembered everything, generating an odd comfort in never being certain about anything. On a ’90s Thursday night, more people watched any random episode of Seinfeld<\/span> than the finale of Game of Thrones.<\/span> But nobody thought that was important; if you missed it, you simply missed it. It was the last era that held to the idea of a true, hegemonic mainstream before it all began to fracture, whether you found a home in it or defined yourself against it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In The Nineties<\/span>, Chuck Klosterman makes a home in all<\/span> of it: the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin\/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan. In perhaps no other book ever written would a sentence like, \u201cThe video for \u2018Smells Like Teen Spirit\u2019 was not more consequential than the reunification of Germany\u201d make complete sense. Chuck Klosterman has written a multi-dimensional masterpiece, a work of synthesis so smart and delightful that future historians might well refer to this entire period as Klostermanian<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women’s Football League<\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n
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The groundbreaking story of the National Women\u2019s Football League, and the players whose spirit, rivalries, and tenacity changed the legacy of women\u2019s sports forever.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1967, a Cleveland promoter recruited a group of women to compete as a traveling football troupe. It was conceived as a gimmick\u2014in the vein of the Harlem Globetrotters\u2014but the women who signed up really wanted to play. And they were determined to win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hail Mary<\/span> chronicles the highs and lows of the National Women\u2019s Football League, which took root in nineteen cities across the US over the course of two decades. Drawing on new interviews with former players from the Detroit Demons, the Toledo Troopers, the LA Dandelions, and more, Hail Mary<\/span> brings us into the stadiums where they broke records, the small-town lesbian bars where they were recruited, and the backrooms where the league was formed, championed, and eventually shuttered. In an era of vibrant second wave feminism and Title IX activism, the athletes of the National Women\u2019s Football League were boisterous pioneers on and off the field: you\u2019ll be rooting for them from start to finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Watergate: A New History<\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n
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NEW YORK TIMES <\/span>BESTSELLER * <\/span>\u201cDo we need still another Watergate book? The answer turns out to be yes\u2014this one.\u201d \u2014Len Downie, Jr., <\/span>The Washington Post <\/span>* \u201c<\/span>Dazzling.<\/span>\u201d<\/span> \u2014Douglas Brinkley, <\/span>The New York Times Book Review<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Garrett\u200b Graff, the <\/span>New York Times<\/span> bestselling author of <\/span>The Only Plane in the Sky<\/span>, comes the first definitive narrative history of Watergate\u2014\u201cthe best and fullest account of the crisis, one unlikely to be surpassed anytime soon\u201d (<\/span>Kirkus Reviews<\/span>, starred review)\u2014exploring the full scope of the scandal through the politicians, investigators, journalists, and informants who made it the most influential political event of the modern era.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Go Back to Where You Came From<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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\u201cGo back to where you came from, you terrorist!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where, exactly? Fremont, California, where he grew up, but is now an unaffordable place to live? Or Pakistan, the country his parents left behind a half-century ago?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growing up living the suburban American dream, young Wajahat devoured comic books (devoid of brown superheroes) and fielded well-intentioned advice from uncles and aunties. (\u201cBecome a doctor!\u201d) He had turmeric stains under his fingernails, was accident-prone, suffered from OCD, and wore Husky pants, but he was as American as his neighbors, with roots all over the world. Then, while Ali was studying at University of California, Berkeley, 9\/11 happened. Muslims replaced communists as America\u2019s enemy #1, and he became an accidental spokesman and ambassador of all ordinary, unthreatening things Muslim-y.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now a middle-aged dad, Ali has become one of the foremost and funniest public intellectuals in America. In Go Back to Where You Came From<\/span>, he tackles the dangers of Islamophobia, white supremacy, and chocolate hummus, peppering personal stories with astute insights into national security, immigration, and pop culture. In this refreshingly bold, hopeful, and uproarious memoir, Ali offers indispensable lessons for cultivating a more compassionate, inclusive, and delicious America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Take Up Space: The Unprecedented AOC<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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A stunning four-color biography of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the bestselling tradition of <\/span>Notorious RBG <\/span>and <\/span>Pelosi <\/span>that explores her explosive rise and impact on the future of American culture and politics.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The candidate was young\u2014twenty-eight years old, a child of Puerto Rico, the Bronx, and Yorktown Heights. She was working as a waitress and bartender. She was completely unknown, and taking on a ten-term incumbent in a city famous for protecting its political institutions. \u201cWomen like me aren\u2019t supposed to run for office,\u201d Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in a video launching her campaign, the camera following her as she hastily pulled her hair into a bun. But she did. And in perhaps the most stunning upset in recent memory, she won. At twenty-nine, she was sworn in as the youngest member of the 116th Congress and became the youngest woman to serve as a representative in United States history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before long, Ocasio-Cortez had earned her own shorthand title\u2014AOC\u2014and was one of the most talked-about public figures (loved and loathed) in the world. Her natural ability to connect with everyday people through the social media feeds grew her following into the multimillions. Every statement she made, every tweet and Instagram Live, went viral, and her term had barely begun before people were speculating that she could one day be president. The question seemed to be on everyone\u2019s mind: How did this woman come from nowhere to acquire such influence, and so fast?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, in Take Up Space<\/span>, that question is answered through a kaleidoscopic biography by the editors of New York <\/span>magazine that features the riveting account of her rise by Lisa Miller, an essay by Rebecca Traister that explains why she is an unprecedented figure in American politics, and multiform explorations (reportage, comic, history, analysis, photography) of AOC\u2019s outsize impact on American culture and politics. Throughout, AOC is revealed in all her power and vulnerability, and understood in the context of the fast-changing America that made her possible\u2014and perhaps even inevitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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“This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius.\u201d \u2015QUESTLOVE<\/span>

Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, <\/span>Dilla Time<\/span> chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty-first century.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He wasn\u2019t known to mainstream audiences, even though he worked with renowned acts like D\u2019Angelo and Erykah Badu and influenced the music of superstars like Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson. He died at the age of thirty-two, and in his lifetime he never had a pop hit. Yet since his death, J Dilla has become a demigod: revered by jazz musicians and rap icons from Robert Glasper to Kendrick Lamar; memorialized in symphonies and taught at universities. And at the core of this adulation is innovation: a new kind of musical time-feel that he created on a drum machine, but one that changed the way \u201ctraditional\u201d musicians play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Dilla Time<\/span>, Dan Charnas chronicles the life of James DeWitt Yancey, from his gifted childhood in Detroit, to his rise as a Grammy-nominated hip-hop producer, to the rare blood disease that caused his premature death; and follows the people who kept him and his ideas alive. He also rewinds the histories of American rhythms: from the birth of soul in Dilla\u2019s own \u201cMotown,\u201d to funk, techno, and disco. Here, music is a story of Black culture in America and of what happens when human and machine times are synthesized into something new. Dilla Time<\/span> is a different kind of book about music, a visual experience with graphics that build those concepts step by step for fans and novices alike, teaching us to \u201csee\u201d and feel rhythm in a unique and enjoyable way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dilla\u2019s beats, startling some people with their seeming \u201csloppiness,\u201d were actually the work of a perfectionist almost spiritually devoted to his music. This is the story of the man and his machines, his family, friends, partners, and celebrity collaborators. Culled from more than 150 interviews about one of the most important and influential musical figures of the past hundred years, Dilla Time <\/span>is a book as delightfully detail-oriented and unique as J Dilla\u2019s music itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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