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image Compendium Animalium: Notre Dame Librarians Create Facsimile Rare Book for Students To Handle
By Lisa Peet
Notre Dame Library curators and conservators have collaborated on Compendium Animalium, a facsimile of an early modern book combining images from several volumes featured in a recent exhibition, complete with engravings, wooden boards, and leather bindings, that students can hold and investigate.
IMLS-Funded Reading Nation IMLS-Funded Reading Nation Waterfall Project To Bring Curated Little Free Libraries To Native American Children
By Kelli Brooks
Could librarian-curated Little Free Libraries be the next great outreach tool to help improve youth reading scores and strengthen community connections to libraries? University of North Carolina (UNC)–Greensboro Library and Information Science Associate Professor Anthony Chow thinks so. 
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image Provocations: 10 More Poetry Collections for Fall
By Barbara Hoffert  
A continuing look at key works by authors both veteran and new. 
What Can I Do? Three Books on Climate Concerns | Science Reviews
By LJ Reviews 
Jane Fonda writes an urgent call for environmental action and the Dalai Lama shares a climate appeal to the world. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson gather feminist voices in the climate movement. 
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image Debut Authors Shine on Booker Prize Short List | Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt  
The Booker Prize shortlist is announced. It is a diverse and notably new gathering of authors. The Justice Department has opened a criminal inquiry into John Bolton and has subpoenaed his publisher and literary agent. The National Book Festival takes place online and on TV this year.  
"Conservation really struggles in a lot of ways with trying to get out there and get people to know what we do, and why it's important. To actually recreate an object that people can handle and touch…that really conveys why these things are so interesting.”
 I Don’t Like the Blues Scholars Foster and Gussow Unpack Race and the Blues | Music Reviews
By LJ Reviews 
Foster’s thoughtful and well-researched look at race and the blues will be useful to music and sociology academics; extremely knowledgeable but a bit overly academic, Gussow ably details the African American core of the blues and the shifting racial dynamics that have made the music so compelling.
From LJ Reviews:
POLITICAL SCIENCE 
The Price of Justice: The Myths of Lawyer Ethics
By Ronald Goldfarb  
Referring to everything from classic literature to recent court cases, this work by Goldfarb makes for compelling reading. It should be required text for law students, as well as general readers interested in the law and justice. 
As the World Burns: The New Generation of Activists and the Landmark Legal Fight Against Climate Change
By Lee Van Der Voo 
Recommended for those interested in environmental justice and youth advocacy. 
HISTORY  
I Marched with Patton: A Firsthand Account of World War II Alongside One of the U.S. Army’s Greatest Generals
By Frank Sisson & Robert L. Wise 
Of modest value as a war memoir.
American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Failed Its People
By Jared Yates Sexton
Readers looking for consolation and a plan for a more just and equitable future will not find it here. Recommended primarily for those concerned by the tone and direction of American politics and seeking a better understanding of the question on which the book is framed: “How did we get here?” 
SOCIAL SCIENCES 
America’s Racial Karma: An Invitation To Heal
By Larry Ward
Ward’s teachings focus on trauma informed resilience to liberate self and others. For readers who enjoyed Resmaa Menakem’s My Grandmother’s Hands and other works addressing how to recognize and heal racialized trauma.
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Second Chances Help and Inspiration: Nonfiction Previews, Mar. 2021, Pt. 3 | Prepub Alert
By Barbara Hoffert 
From the dangers posed by the strong Black woman image and how imprisoned veterans are regaining confidence by training dogs to immune malfunction as the cause of exhaustion and the best way to do laundry. 
NEA Tracking School Coronavirus Cases NEA Tracking School Coronavirus Cases
By Kara Yorio 
The federal government is not releasing information on positive coronavirus cases in schools, but the National Education Association has a new database of reported cases across the country. 
Ricky Riccardi LJ Talks to Ricky Riccardi, Author of Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong
By David P. Szatmary 
Author Ricky Riccardi spoke with LJ about his work at Louis Armstrong House Museum and why Armstrong’s music and life still resonate all these years later. 
image ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: Environmental Sciences
By LJ Reviews 

August 2020 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

1. On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal.
Klein, Naomi
Simon & Schuster. 2019. ISBN 9781982129910. $27.00

2. Rainforest: Dispatches From Earth's Most Vital Frontlines.
Juniper, Tony
Island Press. 2019. ISBN 9781642830729. $22.00

3. Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth.
Maddow, Rachel
Crown. 2019. ISBN 9780525575474. $30.00 
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