November New Acquisitions Booklist

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Looking for your next read?

We are excited to present the following selection of books added to our collection this month.

To check out the books, you will need a library card. These books are available through SCLENDS, a consortium of libraries throughout the state that share a single catalog allowing patrons to search for items in all of the libraries as easily as you search for items in your home library. Requesting items is as simple as clicking a button. Within a few days, any available circulating item can be delivered from any SCLENDS library across the state.

Check out the booklist below featuring new titles to the South Carolina State Library.

New Acquisitions - November 2024

Cover of Should We Go Extinct

Should We Go Extinct?: A Philosophical Dilemma for Our Unbearable Times
Author: May, Todd
Publication Year: 2024
Call Number: 128 TODD

Cover of Hell Put to Shame

Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery
Author: Swift, Earl
Publication Year: 2024
Call Number: 364.15 SWIF

Cover of Native American Women and the Burdens of Southern History

Native American Women and the Burdens of Southern History
Author: Usner, Daniel H.
Publication Year: 2023
Call Number: 975.004 USNE

Cover of Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
Author: Justice, Daniel Heath
Publication Year: 2018
Call Number: 810.9 JUST

Cover of American Surrealist

American Surrealist: the art of Richard Hagerty
Author: Hagerty, Richard
Publication Year: 2015
Call Number: S.C. 759.15 HAGE

Cover of Grounded in Flight

Grounded in Flight
Author: Rivers, Cacky
Publication Year: 2022
Call Number: S.C. 598.09757 RIVE

Cover of Mormon Missionaries Among the Catawba Indians

Mormon Missionaries Among the Catawba Indians, 1881 to 1938
Author: Martin, Judy Canty
Publication Year: 2019
Call Number: S.C. 975.743 MART

Cover of Landscape Paintings

Rodney McMillian: Landscape Paintings
Author: McMillian, Rodney
Publication Year: 2015
Call Number: S.C. 700.411 MCMI

Cover of More than a Likeness

More than a Likeness: The Enduring Art of Mary Whyte
Author: Severens, Martha R.
Publication Year: 2013
Call Number: S.C. 759.13 SEVE

Cover of Undertones

Undertones: Gifts of a Southern Tide
Author: Carey, Nan Young
Publication Year: 2021
Call Number: S.C. 778.93 CARE

Cover of Total Commitment

Total Commitment: A memoir of God and Politics when South Carolina Elected a Republican Governor
Author: Poe, Harry Lee
Publication Year: 2016
Call Number: B P7434P

Cover of The Moment

The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning that Wasn't and How We All can Move Forward Now
Author: Sellers, Bakari
Publication Year: 2024
Call Number: S.C. 305.89 SELL

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