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Celebrating Member Writers, 2020

Monday, December 14, 2020

We're delighted to celebrate Library members who published books in 2020!


  • Corie Adjmi, Life and Other Shortcomings: Stories (She Writes Press, August)
  • Susan Shapiro Barash (writing as Susannah Marren), A Palm Beach Scandal: A Novel (St. Martins Griffin, September)
  • Rebecca Behrens, Alone in the Woods (Sourcebooks Young Readers, October)
  • Terena Bell (writing as Lizzie Sisk), Pride and Prejudice: A Writer’s Edition (Writing Your Way Through the Classics, November)
  • Amanda Brickell Bellows, American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination (University of North Carolina Press, June)

  • Kristina Andersson Bicher, She-Giant in the Land of Here-We-Go-Again (MadHat Press, March)
  • Kristina Andersson Bicher, (translating from the Swedish of Marie Lundquist), I Walk Around Gathering Up My Garden for the Night (Oleander Press, September)
  • Sallie Bingham, The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, April)
  • Sallie Bingham, Treason: A Sallie Bingham Reader: Stories, a Novella, and a Play (Sarabande Books, August)
  • Charlotte Bismuth, Bad Medicine: Catching New York's Deadliest Pill Pusher (Atria/One Signal Publishers, January)

  • Richard J. Boles, Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North (New York University Press, December)
  • Christin Brecher, 15 Minutes of Flame: A Nantucket Candle Maker Mystery (Kensington Books, August)
  • Ada Calhoun, Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis (Grove Press, January)
  • Michael Cannell, A Brotherhood Betrayed: The Man Behind the Rise of and Fall Murder, Inc. (Minotaur Books, October)
  • Mark Cannizzaro, Seven Days in Augusta: Behind the Scenes at the Masters (Triumph Books, March)
  • Angela Carr, Without Ceremony: Poems (Book*hug Press, October)

  • Betsy Carter, Lost Souls at the Neptune Inn: A Novel (Grand Central Publishing, August)
  • Alida Durham Clemans, Until the Ocean Freezes (February)
  • Joshua I. Cohen, The "Black Art" Renaissance: African Sculpture and Modernism Across Continents (University of California Press, August)
  • C.S.E. Cooney, The Twice-Drowned Saint (published in anthology A Sinister Quartet, Mythic Delirium Books, June)
  • JC de Swaan, Seeking Virtue in Finance: Contributing to Society in a Conflicted Industry (Cambridge University Press, September)
  • Joe Drape, The Saint Makers: Inside the Catholic Church and How a War Hero Inspired a Journey of Faith (Hachette, December)

  • Ellen Feldman, Paris Never Leaves You: A Novel (St. Martins Griffin, August)
  • Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers Lost and Found (HMH Books for Young Readers, September)
  • Edward Goldberg, Why Globalization Works for America: How Nationalist Trade Policies are Destroying Our Country (University of Nebraska Press Potomac Books, July)
  • Carlos Hernandez, Sal & Gabi Fix the Universe (Rick Riordan Presents, May)
  • Alexandra Horowitz, Our Dogs, Ourselves, Young Readers Edition: How We Live with Dogs (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, August)
  • Paul M. Kaplan, Essentials of Thought Leadership & Content Marketing: Boost Your Brand, Increase Your Market Share, and Generate Qualified Leads (Quill Driver Books, March)

  • Claudia Keenan, Waking Dreamers: Unexpected American Lives, 1880-1980 (Bowker Identifier Services, April)
  • Christine Kendall, The True Definition of Neva Beane (Scholastic Inc., September)
  • Adam Kirsch, The Blessing & the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century (W.W. Norton & Company, October)
  • Ann Lewinson, Still Life with Meredith (Outpost19, April)
  • Maryann Macdonald, Iggy Iguanodon: Bath Time & Bedtime (Albert Whitman & Company, October)
  • Maryann Macdonald, Iggy Iguanodon: Playtime & Mealtime (Albert Whitman & Company, October)

  • Jim Mackin, Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan’s Upper West Side: Bloomingdale-Morningside Heights (Empire State Editions, November)
  • Erin McGill, If You Want a Friend in Washington: Wacky, Wild & Wonderful Presidential Pets (Schwartz & Wade, July)
  • Clare McHugh, A Most English Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Daughter (William Morrow, September)
  • Daphne Merkin, 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love: A Novel (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, July)
  • Carol Orange, A Discerning Eye (Cavan Bridge Press, October)

  • Emma Otheguy (with Adam Gidwitz), The Unicorn Rescue Society: The Madre de Aguas of Cuba (Dutton Books for Young Readers, May)
  • Emma Otheguy, Secrets of the Silver Lion: A Carmen Sandiego Novel (HMH Books for Young Readers, September)
  • Robert Quackenbush, Henry's Important Date (newly reissued/illustrated, Aladdin, November)
  • Robert Quackenbush, Henry Babysits (newly reissued/illustrated, Aladdin, May)
  • Robert Quackenbush, Sherlock Chick and the Peekaboo Mystery (newly reissued/illustrated, Aladdin, January)
  • Robert Quackenbush, Stage Door to Terror: A Miss Mallard Mystery (newly reissued/illustrated, Aladdin, January)

  • Chris Raschka, The Blue Table (Greenwillow Books, October)
  • Chris Raschka, In the City (Athenaeum/Richard Jackson Books, September)
  • Chris Raschka, Mama Baby (Candlewick, March)
  • Ron Singer, Gravy: Life After 70 (Unsolicited Press, July)
  • Ron Singer, Weld Tales, Short, Long and Tall (Akorin Books)

  • Sidney S. Stark, The Gilded Cage (Momentum Ink Press, December)
  • Strobe Talbott, Our Founders' Warning: The Age of Reason Meets the Age of Trump (Brookings Institution Press, August)
  • Lily Tuck, Heathcliff Redux: A Novella and Stories (Atlantic Monthly Press, February)
  • Geraldine Woods, 25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way (W.W. Norton, August)

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