Saturday, October 24, 2009

Brenna's Quick List of New Books

Thin places (this is a new book of poetry by our own John C. Morgan)
The photographer: into war-torn Afghanistan with Doctors without Borders
The West Point atlas of war: World War I
Arabic for reading and speaking
Internet research, illustrated
Bi America: myths, truths, and struggles of an invisible community
Essential SufismThe garden of truth: the vision and promise of Sufism, Islam’s mystical tradition
Beads of faith: pathways to meditation and spirituality using rosaries, prayer beads and sacred words
The social and the real: political art of the 1930s in the Western hemisphere
Michael Jackson: for the record
Who’s who in gay and lesbian history: from antiquity to World War II
The radical reformission
He’s a stud, she’s a slut and 49 other double standards every woman should know
A search for what is real: finding faith
Julia Child: a life
Homocons: the rise of the gay right
English as a second f*cking language: how to swear effectively, explained in detail with numerous examples taken from everyday life
Julia’s kitchen wisdom: essential techniques and recipes from a lifetime of cooking
Torture team: Rumsfeld’s memo and the betrayal of American values
500 things to eat before it’s too late and the very best places to eat them
Julie and Julia: my year of cooking dangerously
Velvet Elvis: repainting the Christian faith
Iggy: open up and bleed
Jesus for the non-religious: recovering the divine at the heart of the human
Kiss the girls
The book of Irish weirdness: a treasury of classic tales of the supernatural, spooky, and strange
Ultimate journey
Hip hop matters: politics, pop culture, and the struggle for the soul of a movement
Rescuing the bible from the fundamentalists: a bishop rethinks the meaning of scripture
The Watkins dictionary of magic: 3000 entries on the magical traditions
Full frontal feminism: a young woman’s guide to why feminism matters
Free for all: oddballs, geeks, and gangsters in the public library
The big sort: why the clustering of like-minded America is tearing us apart
Cosmos
The great American detox diet
Journeys out of the body: the classic work on out-of-body experience
Of mule and man
100 % Information literacy success
Vegan soul kitchen: fresh, healthy, and creative African-American cuisine
Versatile vegetarian: 150 easy recipes for every day
Gluten-free every day: more than 100 easy and delicious recipes from the gluten-free chef
The hip hop wars: what we talk about when we talk about hip hop and why it matters
Música Norteña; Mexican migrants creating a nation between nations