{"id":15329,"date":"2020-10-02T10:38:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T15:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/?p=15329"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:35:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:35:47","slug":"the-front-shelf-october-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2020\/10\/02\/the-front-shelf-october-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The Front Shelf: October 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Friday, October 2nd<\/sup>, 2020<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each month, we will post a selection of recently-acquired books, from new releases to old classics, which have been added to our catalog and are available for use by the Loyola community. This series is inspired by The Seminary Co-op\u2019s \u201cThe Front Table\u201d publication: https:\/\/www.semcoop.com\/<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This month\u2019s edition\nincludes ebooks only. Links are included in the descriptions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, et al. My Own Words<\/em>. Simon & Schuster, 2016.<\/strong> EBSCOhost: search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1979302&site=ehost-live<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this collection Justice Ginsburg discusses gender equality, the\nworkings of the Supreme Court, being Jewish, law and lawyers in opera, and the\nvalue of looking beyond US shores when interpreting the US Constitution.\nThroughout her life Justice Ginsburg has been (and continues to be) a prolific\nwriter and public speaker. This book’s sampling is selected by Justice Ginsburg\nand her authorized biographers Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams, who\nintroduce each chapter and provide biographical context and quotes gleaned from\nhundreds of interviews they have conducted. Witty, engaging, serious, and\nplayful, My Own Words is a fascinating glimpse into the life of one of\nAmerica’s most influential women and \u201ca tonic to the current national\ndiscourse\u201d (The Washington Post).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Susanna<\/strong> Clarke. Piranesi<\/em>, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2020. <\/strong>ProQuest Ebook Central: https:\/\/ebookcentral.proquest.com\/lib\/luc\/detail.action?docID=6284560<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange\n& Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike\nalternative reality. Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are\ninfinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon\nthousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the\nlabyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms\nare flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides\nas he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the\nhouse. There is one other person in the house-a man called The Other, who\nvisits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and\nSecret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person,\nand a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one\nPiranesi has always known. For readers of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of\nthe Lane and fans of Madeline Miller’s Circe, Piranesi introduces an astonishing\nnew world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty,\nhaunted by the tides and the clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Allison<\/strong> Surtees and Jennifer Dyer, eds. Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World<\/em>. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. <\/strong>JSTOR: https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.3366\/j.ctv10kmczg<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gender identity and expression in ancient cultures are questioned in these 15 essays in light of our new understandings of sex and gender. Using contemporary theory and methodologies this book opens up a new history of gender diversity from the ancient world to our own, encouraging us to reconsider those very understandings of sex and gender identity. New analyses of ancient Greek and Roman culture that reveal a history of gender diverse individuals that has not been recognized until recently. Taking an interdisciplinary approach these essays will appeal to classicists, ancient historians, archaeologists as well as those working in gender studies, transgender studies, LGBTQ+ studies, anthropology and women\u2019s studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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David Chang and Gabe Ulla. Eat a Peach: A Memoir<\/em>. New York: Clarkson Potter, 2020. <\/strong>EBSCOhost: https:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2212278&site=ehost-live&custid=s8448101<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \u2022 From the chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix’s Ugly Delicious\u2014an intimate account of the making of a chef, the story of the modern restaurant world that he helped shape, and how he discovered that success can be much harder to understand than failure. In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in a tiny, stark space in Manhattan’s East Village. Its young chef-owner, David Chang, worked the line, serving ramen and pork buns to a mix of fellow restaurant cooks and confused diners whose idea of ramen was instant noodles in Styrofoam cups. Graduating college aimless and depressed, he fled the States for Japan, hoping to find some sense of belonging. While teaching English in a backwater town, he experienced the highs of his first full-blown manic episode, and began to think that the cooking and sharing of food could give him both purpose and agency in his life. Full of grace, candor, grit, and humor, Eat a Peach chronicles Chang’s switchback path. He lays bare his mistakes and wonders about his extraordinary luck as he recounts the improbable series of events that led him to the top of his profession. He wrestles with his lifelong feelings of otherness and inadequacy, explores the mental illness that almost killed him, and finds hope in the shared value of deliciousness. Along the way, Chang gives us a penetrating look at restaurant life, in which he balances his deep love for the kitchen with unflinching honesty about the industry’s history of brutishness and its uncertain future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anne Helen<\/strong> Petersen. Can’t Even : How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation<\/em>, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2020. <\/strong>ProQuest Ebook Central, https:\/\/ebookcentral.proquest.com\/lib\/luc\/detail.action?docID=6331496<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An incendiary examination of burnout in millennials–the cultural\nshifts that got us here, the pressures that sustain it, and the need for\ndrastic change Do you feel like your life is an endless to-do list? Do you find\nyourself mindlessly scrolling through Instagram because you’re too exhausted to\npick up a book? Are you mired in debt, or feel like you work all the time, or\nfeel pressure to take whatever gives you joy and turn it into a monetizable\nhustle? Welcome to burnout culture. While burnout may seem like the default\nsetting for the modern era, in Can’t Even, BuzzFeed culture writer and former\nacademic Anne Helen Petersen argues that burnout is a definitional condition\nfor the millennial generation, born out of distrust in the institutions that\nhave failed us, the unrealistic expectations of the modern workplace, and a\nsharp uptick in anxiety and hopelessness exacerbated by the constant pressure\nto “perform” our lives online. The genesis for the book is Petersen’s\nviral BuzzFeed article on the topic, which has amassed over seven million reads\nsince its publication in January 2019. Can’t Even goes beyond the original\narticle, as Petersen examines how millennials have arrived at this point of\nburnout (think: unchecked capitalism and changing labor laws) and examines the\nphenomenon through a variety of lenses–including how burnout affects the way\nwe work, parent, and socialize–describing its resonance in alarming\nfamiliarity. Utilizing a combination of sociohistorical framework, original\ninterviews, and detailed analysis, Can’t Even offers a galvanizing, intimate,\nand ultimately redemptive look at the lives of this much-maligned generation,\nand will be required reading for both millennials and the parents and employers\ntrying to understand them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Candacy<\/strong> Taylor. Overground Railroad : The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America<\/em>, Abrams, Inc., 2020. <\/strong>ProQuest Ebook Central: https:\/\/ebookcentral.proquest.com\/lib\/luc\/detail.action?docID=6021087<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact\nof the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists Published from 1936 to\n1966, the Green Book was hailed as the “black travel guide to\nAmerica.” At that time, it was very dangerous and difficult for\nAfrican-Americans to travel because black travelers couldn’t eat, sleep, or buy\ngas at most white-owned businesses. The Green Book listed hotels, restaurants,\ngas stations, and other businesses that were safe for black travelers. It was a\nresourceful and innovative solution to a horrific problem. It took courage to\nbe listed in the Green Book, and Overground Railroad celebrates the stories of\nthose who put their names in the book and stood up against segregation. It\nshows the history of the Green Book, how we arrived at our present historical\nmoment, and how far we still have to go when it comes to race relations in\nAmerica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yaa Gyasi. Transcendent Kingdom\u202f: A Novel<\/em>. Vol. First edition, Knopf, 2020. <\/strong>EBSCOhost: search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2275918&site=ehost-live<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yaa Gyasi’s stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best\nseller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a\nGhanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience\nat the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior\nin mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana,\nwas a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle\ninjury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed.\nGifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees\nall around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the\nmystery of her family’s loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood\nfaith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose\npromise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Transcendent\nKingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged\nby depression and addiction and grief–a novel about faith, science, religion,\nlove. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally\npowerful follow-up to Gyasi’s phenomenal debut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elena Ferrante. The Lying Life of Adults<\/em>, Europa Editions, 2020.<\/strong> ProQuest Ebook Central: https:\/\/ebookcentral.proquest.com\/lib\/luc\/detail.action?docID=5967737<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giovanna\u2019s pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her\nfather thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day.\nBut can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt\nVittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly\ndespise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she\ntruly is. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that\nfear and detest one another: Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of\nrefinement, and Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity. She\nmoves from one to the other in search of the truth, but neither city seems to\noffer answers or escape. Named one of 2016\u2019s most influential people by TIME\nMagazine and frequently touted as a future Nobel Prize-winner, Elena Ferrante\nhas become one of the world\u2019s most read and beloved writers. With this new\nnovel about the transition from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, Ferrante\nproves once again that she deserves her many accolades. In The Lying Life of\nAdults, readers will discover another gripping, highly addictive, and totally\nunforgettable Neapolitan story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kathryn A. Young and Ashley Howdeshell. Loyola University Chicago<\/em>, Arcadia Publishing Inc., 2020.<\/strong> ProQuest Ebook Central: https:\/\/ebookcentral.proquest.com\/lib\/luc\/detail.action?docID=6322119<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the past 150 years, since its founding in 1870 as St. Ignatius\nCollege, Loyola University Chicago has served and educated both the immigrant\nand established residents of Chicago, excelling in providing a comprehensive\nliberal arts education. One of the largest Jesuit universities in the United\nStates, Loyola Chicago offers over 80 undergraduate and 170 graduate and\nprofessional programs in the humanities, sciences, medicine, nursing, social\nwork, law, business, and communications on four campuses–three in Chicago and\none in Rome, Italy. Now in its second century of service, and with an\nenrollment of over 17,000 students and 150,000 alumni, half of whom live in\nChicago, Loyola continues its mission of preparing people to lead extraordinary\nlives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert<\/strong> Bartlett. Blood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe<\/em>. Cambridge University Press, 2020. <\/strong>Cambridge University Press: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/9781108854559<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout medieval Europe, for hundreds of years, monarchy was\nthe way that politics worked in most countries. This meant power was in the\nhands of a family – a dynasty; that politics was family politics; and political\nlife was shaped by the births, marriages and deaths of the ruling family. How\ndid the dynastic system cope with female rule, or pretenders to the throne? How\ndid dynasties use names, the numbering of rulers and the visual display of\nheraldry to express their identity? And why did some royal families survive and\nthrive, while others did not? Drawing on a rich and memorable body of sources, this\nengaging and original history of dynastic power in Latin Christendom and\nByzantium explores the role played by family dynamics and family consciousness\nin the politics of the royal and imperial dynasties of Europe. From royal\nmarriages and the birth of sons, to female sovereigns, mistresses and wicked\nuncles, Robert Bartlett makes enthralling sense of the complex web of internal\nrivalries and loyalties of the ruling dynasties and casts fresh light on an\nessential feature of the medieval world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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