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New books featured each quarter in the Newport Center

Each quarter, a temporary display of about 25 new books is available for check-out at the Newport library.

Interested in a book which is located elsewhere? Ask an SCC librarian.

Books can be sent to an SCC Center for you to borrow. Also, if the library doesn't have a book you want, librarians may add it to the collection, or it may be available in a partner library as a print or ebook.

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Spring-Summer 2023 - New books featured in the SCC Newport Library

Much Like Us: What Science Reveals about the Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviour of Animals by Norbert Sachser
Call Number: 591.5 SACHSER 2022
The Complete Book of Ground Covers: 4000 Plants that Reduce Maintenance, Control Erosion, and Beautify the Landscape by Gary Lewis
Call Number: 635.964 LEWIS 2022
Timber Press
Fairy Tale by Stephen King
Call Number: 813.54 KING 2022
The Angel of Rome by Jess Walter
Call Number: 813.54 WALTER 2022
A collection about those moments when everything changes--for the better, for the worse, for the outrageous--as a diverse cast of characters bounces from Italy to Idaho, questioning their roles in life and finding inspiration in the unlikeliest places.
The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly by Kate Lebo
Call Number: 814.6 LEBO 2021
The Hurting Kind by Ada Limon
Call Number: 811.6 LIMON 2022
Ada Limon is 2023, US Poet Laureate
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Call Number: 808.02 GOLDBER 2010
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall et al.
Call Number: 305.42 KENDALL 2019
Pirates: A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders by Peter Lehr
Call Number: 910.45 LEHR 2019
[eBook & print]
Rome: Strategy of Empire by James Lacey
Call Number: 355.0094 LACEY 2022
Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis
Call Number: 322.4209 DAVIS 2021
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions by Temple Grandin
Call Number: 152.14 GRANDIN 2022
Code Talker by Chester Nez; Judith Schiess Avila
Call Number: 940.5459 NEZ 2011
Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors: Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions by Charlotte Coté et al.
Call Number: 305.8979 COTE 2010
Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood by bell hooks
Call Number: 305.4889 HOOKS 1996
Fannie Lou Hamer: America's Freedom Fighting Woman by Maegan Parker Brooks
Call Number: 323.092 BROOKS 2020
Macrolichens of the Pacific Northwest by Bruce McCune
Call Number: 579.70979 MCCUNE 2009
Publication Date: Oregon State U, 2nd ed.
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Call Number: 305.8 DIANGEL 2018
Welcome to Dragon Talk: Inspiring Conversations about Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Love to Play It by Shelly Mazzanoble & Greg Tito
Call Number: 793.93 MAZZANO 2022
Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz
Call Number: 121.6 SCHULZ 2010
To err is human. Yet most of us go through life assuming (and sometimes insisting) that we are right about nearly everything. Journalist Kathryn Schulz explores why we find it so gratifying to be right and so maddening to be wrong.
Conspiracy Theories: A Primer by Joseph E. Uscinski
Call Number: 001.9 USCINSK 2020
Cascadia Field Guide: Art / Ecology / Poetry by CMarie Fuhrman, Elizabeth Bradfield, Derek Sheffield (Eds)
Call Number: 508.795 BRADFIE 2023
"A literary field guide of art, poetry, and natural history for 128 of the Beings that live in the thirteen biogregions that make up Cascadia, a region that ranges from southeast Alaska to northern California and from the Pacific coast to the Continental Divide"-- Provided by publisher.
Building Construction Illustrated by Francis D. K. Ching
Call Number: 690 CHING 2019
Publication Date: 6th ed.
How to Enjoy Art: A Guide for Everyone by Ben Street
Call Number: 701.18 STREET 2021