How cold it is! Even the lights are cold;
They have put shawls of fog around them, see!
….What a silver night!
Welcome to November! This month’s titles range from thought-provoking reads to stories that offer a sense of warmth and reflection, perfect companions for shorter days and quieter evenings. We at the John W. Graham Library are delighted to share the newest additions to our collection.
Be sure to stop by the New Books cart near the library entrance to browse the latest arrivals before they make their way upstairs to the Stacks or downstairs to the Popular Reading Room. All titles are available to browse and request through our library catalogue.









General Collection
Sustainability:
Spotlight: Natural Connection: what Indigenous wisdom & marginalised people teach us about environmental action, by Joycelyn Longdon
(Stacks: GF50 .L66 2025)

- The Nature of Our Cities: Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet, by Nadina Galle
(Popular Reading: GE350 .G35 2024) - Healthy Landscapes: Theory and Design Approaches to Promote Health in Urban Communities, by Bin Jiang, Lan Luo, Xueming Liu
(Stacks: RA566.7 .J53 2025) - Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia, by Mardi Reardon-Smith
(Stacks: QH77 .A8 R44 2025) - Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition, by Nicholas Beuret
(Stacks: GE149 .B49 2025) - The Genius of Trees: How they Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World, by Harriet Rix
(Stacks: QK477 .R59 2025) - Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence, by Gregory Cajete
(Stacks: E59.S35 C35 2000)
History & International Relations:
Spotlight: The National Interest: Politics After Globalization, by Philip Cunliffe
(Stacks: E744 .C86 2025)

- Public Communication and Public Policy: Reviving Democracy by Recalibrating Public Communication, by Jim Macnamara
(Stacks: JA85 .M336 2026) - US Coercive Diplomacy and the Global Order: A Critical Analysis of Post-Cold War Strategies, by Richard Outzen
(Stacks: JZ1480 .O87 2025) - A New Cold War: US-China Relations in the 21st Century, by Zeno Leoni
(Stacks: E183.8 .C5 L46 2024) - Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys that Changed the World, by Simon Hall
(Stacks: JC491 .H35 2025) - Russia’s Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity, by Andrei Tsygankov
(Stacks: DK510.764 .T785 2025) - American Imperatives: American imperatives: The Cold War and Other Matters, by Anders Stephanson (Stacks: D843 .S79 2025)
- The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State, by Ned Richardson-Little
(Stacks: DD282 .R53 2025) - On the Ground: My Life as a Foreign Correspondent, by Brian Stewart
(Stacks: PN4913 .S758 A3 2025)The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival, by Anne Sebba (Popular Reading: ML82 .S4204 2025)
Health:

Spotlight: Healthy Landscapes: Theory and Design Approaches to Promote Health in Urban Communities, by Bin Jiang, et al.
(Stacks: RA566.7 .J53 2025)
- The Big One: How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics, by Michael T. Osterholm
(Stacks: RA643 .O78 2025) - Pandemics, Poverty, and Politics: Decoding the Social and Political Drivers of Pandemics from Plague to COVID-19, by Tyler B. Evans
(Stacks: RA652 .E93 2025) - The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives-Including Your Own, by Tom Frieden
(Stacks: RA425 .F77 2025)
Technology:

Spotlight: AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference, by Narayanan, Arvind
(Stacks: Q335 .N368 2024)
- Empire of AI : dreams and nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, by Karen Hao
(Stacks: Q334.7 .H36 2025) - Ransom war: How Cyber Crime became a Threat to National Security, by Max Smeets
(Stacks: HV6773.15 .C97 S64 2025) - State, Security, and Cyberwar: The Quest for Digital Peace, by Thangjam K. Singh & Sanjay K. Jha (Stacks: JC311 .S53354 2026)
Law, Race & Society:

Spotlight: Indigenous Rights in One Minute: What You Need to Know to Talk Reconciliation, by Bruce McIvor (Stacks: KE7709 .M35 2025)
- Race, Racism, and International Law, by Devon W. Carbado et al.
(Stacks: KZ1249 .R33 2025) - The Racial Contract, by Charles W. Mills
(Stacks: HT1523 .M56 2022)
Philosophy, Psychology & Ethics:
- Choose Wisely: Rationality, Ethics, and the Art of Decision-Making, by Barry Schwartz
(Stacks: BF448 .S394 2025) - Finding Focus: Own Your Attention in an Age of Distraction, by Dr. Zelana Montminy
(Popular Reading: BF323 .D5 M576 2025)
Literature:
Spotlight: Cannon, by Lee Lai
(Popular Reading: PN6733.L34 C36 2025)

- River Mumma, by Zalika Reid-Benta
(Popular Reading: PS8635 .E4355 R58 2023) - Endsickness, by Sofia Alarcon
(Popular Reading: PN6733 .A42 E53 2025) - What We Can Know, by Ian McEwan
(Popular Reading: PR6063 .C4 W43 2025) - You’ve Changed, by Ian Williams
(Popular Reading: PS8645 .I4448 Y686 2025) - The Sideways Life of Denny Voss, by Holly Kennedy
(Popular Reading: PS3611.E563 S53 2025) - Flashlight, by Susan Choi
(Popular Reading: PS3553 .H584 F54 2025) - The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, by Kiran Desai
(Popular Reading: PS3554 .E82 L66 2025

Spotlight: An Astonishment of Stars: Stories, by Kirti Bhadresa
(Popular Reading: PS8603 .H35 A92 2024)
- Other Worlds: Stories, by André Alexis
(Popular Reading: PR9199.3 .A365 O84 2025) - The Paris Express, by Emma Donoghue
(Popular Reading: PR6054 .O547 P37 2025) - The Road Between Us, by Bindu Suresh
(Popular Reading: PS8637 .U754 R63 2025) - The Book of Guilt, by Catherine Chidgey
(Popular Reading: PR9639.3 .C535 B66 2025) - Dark renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival, by Stephen Greenblatt
(Popular Reading: PR2673 .G74 2025) - Pick a Color, by Souvankham Thammavongsa
(Popular Reading: PS8589 .H3457 P53 2025) - Oxford Soju Club, by Jinwoo Park
(Popular Reading: PS8631 .A74796 O94 2025)
Theology
Systematics & Church History:
Spotlight: The Church of Ireland under the Stuarts, by Patrick Little
(Stacks: BX5500 .C48 2025)

- Twelve Churches: An Unlikely History of the Buildings that made Christianity, by Fergus Butler-Gallie
(Popular Reading: BR145.3 .B88 2025) - Retrieving Augustine’s Doctrine of Creation: Ancient Wisdom for Current Controversy, by Gavin Ortlund
(Stacks: BR65 .A9 O785 2020) - Polyphonic God: Exploring Intercultural Theology, Churches, Justice, by Israel Olofinjana et al.
(Stacks: BR115 .C8 P65 2025)
Religion & Ethics:
- Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever: A New Generation’s Search for Religion, by Lamorna Ash
(Stacks: BV4529.2 .A84 2025) - Facing Climate Collapse: Ecology, Theology and Capitalocene, by Luis Martínez Andrade & Seforosa Carroll
(Stacks: QC903 .F33 2025)