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All eAudiobooks New Titles List for the Week of May 25

EAUDIOBOOKS

FICTION
Anne Enright Actress
Emma Straub All adults here
Ovidia Yu Aunty lee's delights
Susan Howatch Cashelmara
Thornton Wilder Heaven's my destination
Alka Joshi The henna artist
Luke Jennings Killing eve: die for me
Kathleen Rockwell Lawrence The last room in Manhattan
Patricia Harman The midwife of Hope River
PatriciaHarman Once a midwife
Jessica Ruben Reckoning
Cassandra Clark Murder at whitby abbey

NONFICTION
Barry Sonnenfeld Barry Sonnenfeld, call your mother : memoirs of a neurotic filmmaker
Jennifer Worth Call the midwife: farewell to the east end
Jennifer Worth Call the midwife: shadows of the workhouse
Jennifer Worth The midwife: a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace

Posted on May. 28, 2020 by Cherilyn Chang

All eAudiobooks New Titles List for the Week of May 11

EAUDIOBOOKS

FICTION
Ruth Rendell Death notes
Patrick W Carr The end of the magi
Elizabeth Musser The sweetest thing
Sarah Loudin Thomas When silence sings

Posted on May. 12, 2020 by Cherilyn Chang

All eBooks New Titles List for the Week of May 4

EBOOKS

FICTION
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Pale Fire
Christopher Hampton Embers

NONFICTION
David Dean Barrett 140 days to Hiroshima : the story of Japan's last chance to avert Armageddon
Frank B Wilderson Afropessimism
Sharon Moalem The better half : on the genetic superiority of women
The card catalog : books, cards, and literary treasures
Madison Smartt Bell Child of light : a biography of Robert Stone
Shaun Bythell Confessions of a Bookseller
Michael Lewrick The design thinking playbook : mindful digital transformation of teams, products, services, businesses and ecosystems
Götz Aly Europe against the Jews : 1880-1945
Colton Underwood The first time : finding myself and looking for love on reality TV
Janice Kaplan The genius of women : from overlooked to changing the world
Bart D Ehrman Heaven and hell : a history of the afterlife
Patrick Alexander Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time : A Reader's Guide to the Remembrance of Things Past
Julie L Hall The Narcissist in Your Life : Recognizing the Patterns and Learning to Break Free
Martha Stout Outsmarting the sociopath next door : how to protect yourself against a ruthless manipulator
Bradley J Edwards Relentless pursuit : my fight for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein
Jon Mooallem This is Chance! : the shaking of an all-American city, a voice that held it together
Claudio Saunt Unworthy republic : the dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian territory
Blake Gopnik Warhol
Sonia Purnell A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win WWII
Valerie Hansen The year 1000 : when globalization began
Neal D Barnard Your body in balance : the new science of food, hormones, and health

Posted on May. 8, 2020 by Cherilyn Chang

All eBooks New Titles List for the Week of April 27

EBOOKS

FICTION
Lisa Wingate The book of lost friends
Sarah Pinborough Dead to her
Chris Hauty Deep State
Celeste Ng Everything I never told you
Kathleen Barber Follow me
Erica Spindler The look-alike
Heather Chavez No bad deed
Mary Kubica The other Mrs.
Sophie Hannah Perfect Little Children
Anne Tyler Redhead by the side of the road
James Patterson Revenge
Donna Leon Trace elements
Jussi Adler-Olsen Victim 2117

NONFICTION
Randy Shaw Generation Priced Out : Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America
Chris (Christopher) McDonnell Steven Universe : art & origins
Maria Alexandra Vettese A year between friends : 3191 miles apart : crafts, recipes, letters, and stories

Posted on Apr. 30, 2020 by Cherilyn Chang

All eAudiobooks New Titles List for the Week of April 13

EBOOKS

FICTION
Lisa Wingate Before we were yours
Elizabeth Gilbert City of girls
Kathy Reichs A conspiracy of bones
Ann Patchett The Dutch House
Jojo Moyes The giver of stars
Emily St John Mandel The glass hotel
John Grisham The guardians
Celeste Ng Little fires everywhere
Isabel Allende A long petal of the sea
David Baldacci A minute to midnight
Michael Connelly The night fire Michael Connelly
Liane Moriarty Nine perfect strangers
Elizabeth Strout Olive, again
Tara Laskowski One night gone
Mary Kubica The other Mrs.
Alex Michaelides The silent patient
Heather Morris The tattooist of Auschwitz
Margaret Atwood The testaments
Janet Evanovich Twisted twenty-six
Delia Owens Where the Crawdads sing

NONFICTION
Michelle Obama Becoming

Posted on Apr. 17, 2020 by Cherilyn Chang

All eAudiobooks New Titles List for the Week of April 6

eAudioBooks

FICTION
Eric L Harry Contagion
Terry Goodkind Crazy Wanda
Wallace Stegner Crossing to safety
P C Hodgell Dark of the moon
Donna Grant Everkin
David Drake In the heart of darkness

NONFICTION
Barbara W Tuchman A distant mirror the calamitous 14th century part 1

Posted on Apr. 13, 2020 by Cherilyn Chang

All eBooks New Titles List for the Week of April 6

EBOOKS

FICTION
Sulari Gentill After She Wrote Him
Deb Olin Unferth Barn 8
Charles Finch A Beautiful Blue Death
Lisa Wingate Before we were yours : a novel
Martin Walker The Body in the Castle Well : A Mystery of the French Countryside
Len Deighton Bomber
Harlan Coben The boy from the woods
Stephanie Wrobel Darling rose gold
Clive Cussler Final option
Emily St John Mandel The glass hotel
J D Robb Golden in death
Therese Fowler A good neighborhood
Michael Christie Greenwood : a novel
Margery Allingham Hide My Eyes
Stuart Woods Hit list
Sarah J Maas House of earth and blood
Rebecca Serle In five years : a novel
Amanda Eyre Ward The jetsetters : a novel
James Rollins The last odyssey : a thriller
Lee Durkee The Last Taxi Driver
C J Box Long range
Hilary Mantel The mirror & the light
Nathanael West Miss Lonelyhearts : "Numbers Constitute the Only Universal Language."
Edwin Hill The Missing Ones
Jonathan Kellerman The museum of desire
Danielle Steel The numbers game : a novel
Adam Sisman The Professor and the Parson : A Story of Desire, Deceit, and Defrocking
Susan Minot Rapture
Gish Jen The Resisters
Peter Heller The river : a novel
Alexis Schaitkin Saint X
Laura Zigman Separation anxiety : a novel
Erin Morgenstern The starless sea
James Patterson Texas Outlaw
Donna Leon Unto us a son is given

NONFICTION
Daniel Tudor Ask a North Korean : Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation
Christoph Wolff Bach's Musical Universe : The Composer and His Work
Courtney Maum Before and After the Book Deal : A Writer"s Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book
Sam Wasson The big goodbye : Chinatown and the last years Hollywood
Kim Ghattas Black Wave : Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
Richard White California Exposures : Envisioning Myth and History
Thomas Piketty Capital and ideology
Anne De Courcy Chanel's Riviera : Glamour, Decadence and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944
David Carr Final draft : the collected work of David Carr
Sinclair McKay The Fire and the Darkness : The Bombing of Dresden, 1945
Barbara Ehrenreich Had I Known : Collected Essays
Elsa Morante History
Peter Fritzsche Hitler's First Hundred Days : When Germans Embraced the Third Reich
David Reynolds Island Stories : An Unconventional History of Britain
Bjorn Vassness Kingdom of Frost : How the Cryosphere Shapes Life on Earth
Douglas Adams Last Chance to See
Carol Garrard The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman
Adam Nicolson The Making of Poetry : Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels
Jeffrey Kluger The narcissist next door : understanding the monster in your family, in your office, in your bed-in your world
Mark A Altman Nobody does it better : the complete, uncensored, unauthorized oral history of the James Bond films
John Boessenecker Ride the Devil's Herd : Wyatt Earp's Epic Battle Against the West's Biggest Outlaw Gang
Andrew Whitby The Sum of the People : How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age
Robert B Reich The system : who rigged it, how we fix it
Lynne Olson Troublesome Young Men : The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
Deborah Feldman Unorthodox the scandalous rejection of my Hasidic roots

Posted on Apr. 9, 2020 by Cherilyn Chang

All eBooks New Titles List for the Week of March 23

EBOOKS

FICTION
Clare Beams The Illness Lesson
Tom Bouman The Bramble and the Rose
Lynn Brittney A Death in Chelsea
Tim Garvin A Dredging in Swann
Joe Ide Hi Five
Christian Kiefer Phantoms
Larry Kramer The American People : The Brutality of Fact
John Lanchester The Wall
SL McInnis Framed
Stewart O'Nan Henry, Himself
Douglas Preston Crooked River
Short Stories Nebula Awards Showcase 2018
Peter Swanson Eight Perfect Murders
Anne Enright Actress
Vanessa Hua Deceit and Other Possibilities : Stories
Marcial Gala The Black Cathedral
Laura Childs Lavender blue murder
Jeff Abbott The three Beths
Ian Rankin In a house of lies
Jeanine Cummins American dirt

NONFICTION
Erik Larson The splendid and the vile
Martha Ackmann These Fevered Days : Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
Anita Diamant Choosing a Jewish Life : A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for Their Family and Friends
David Grann The White Darkness
Carolyn Burke Foursome : Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury
Jennifer Ashton The Self-Care Solution
Jan Timman The Longest Game : The Five Kasparov - Karpov Matches for the World Chess Championship
Vivian Gornick Unfinished Business
John Loughery Dorothy Day : Dissenting Voice of the American Century
Robert Harms Land of Tears : The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa
David G Marwell Mengele : Unmasking the Angel of Death
John Connelly From Peoples into Nations : A History of Eastern Europe
Rebecca Solnit Recollections of My Nonexistence : A Memoir
Florian Huber Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself : The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in 1945
Kathryn Harkup Death by Shakespeare : Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts
Alexander Norman The Dalai Lama : an extraordinary life
Iain MacGregor Checkpoint Charlie : the Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the most dangerous place on earth
Nicole Marie Aschoff The smartphone society : technology, power, and resistance in the new gilded age
Diane Rehm When my time comes : talks with twenty-three men and women about whether those who are dying should have the right to determine when life should end
Martha Stewart Martha Stewart's organizing : the manual for bringing order to your life, home & routines
Jim Mann The great rift : Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, and the broken friendship that defined an era
Christiana Figueres The future we choose : surviving the climate crisis
Dan Bongino Exonerated : the failed takedown of President Donald Trump by the Swamp
Daniel Mallory Ortberg Something That May Shock and Discredit You

Posted on Mar. 26, 2020 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of February 17

BOOKS

FICTION
Gish Jen The resisters
Ben Okri The Freedom artist
Amy Bonnaffons The regrets

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Deepa Anappara Djinn patrol on the purple line
Robert Dugoni A cold trail
Sophie Hannah Perfect little children
Grant Matthew Jenkins Ivory tower
S.L. McInnis Framed
Luanne Rice Last day
Jean-Luc Bannalec The killing tide
Jess Kidd Things in jars
Charles Todd A divided loyalty
Paul Vidich The coldest warrior

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
William Gibson Agency

Short Stories
Martin Edwards (editor) The measure of malice: scientific detection stories SS M463
Peter Orner Maggie Brown & others Fic Orner

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Sophie Cras The artist as economist: art & capitalism in the 1960s 706.8 C853
Carolyn Burke Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury 770.92 B917

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Vivian Gornick Unfinished business: notes of a chronic re-reader 070.92 G671

Business & Economics
Kimberly Davis Brave leadership: unleash your most confident, powerful & authentic self to get the results you need 658.4 D290
Andrew McAfee More from less: the surprising story of how we learned to prosper using fewer resources--and what happens next 339.47 M113
Joseph E. Stiglitz Rewriting the rules of the European economy: an agenda for growth & shared prosperity 330.94 S85r

Food & Drink
Iliana Regan Burn the place 641.5092 R261
Bricia Lopez Oaxaca: home cooking from the heart of Mexico 641.5972 L881

Health & Medicine
Donna Jackson Nakazawa The angel & the assassin: the tiny brain cell that changed the course of medicine 612.8 N163

History
David Grann The white darkness 919.89 W898g
Steven Keslowitz From Poland to Brooklyn: the lives of my grandparents, two Holocaust survivors 940.5318 K422
Laurel Leff Well worth saving: American universities' life-and-death decisions on refugees from Nazi Europe 973.0492 L521
Sinclair McKay The fire & the darkness: the bombing of Dresden, 1945 940.542 M153f
Diana Preston Eight days at Yalta: how Churchill, Roosevelt & Stalin shaped the post-war world 940.53 P937
Astrid Karlesn Scott The 12th man 940.53 S832

Law
Stephen Fishman Every Airbnb host's tax guide 343.7306 F537e

Literature & Writing
Heather Christle The crying book 811.6 C463

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Geoffrey Hammerson The Pacific flyway: waterbird migration from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego 598.4115 H183

Performing Arts & Music
Christina Lane Phantom lady: Hollywood producer Joan Harrison, the forgotten woman behind Hitchcock 791.4 H245L
Paula Mejia Psychocandy 780.2 J499m
Prince The beautiful ones 780.92 P954b
David Dann Guitar king: Michael Bloomfield's life in the blues 780.92 B623

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Anita Diamant Choosing a Jewish life: a handbook for people converting to Judaism & for their family & friends 296.7 D537c
Wayne Dosick Living Judaism: the complete guide to Jewish belief, tradition & practice 296 D72
Abraham Joshua Heschel The sabbath: its meaning for modern man 296.41 H58
George Robinson Essential Judaism: a complete guide to beliefs, customs & rituals 296 R658
Danya Ruttenberg Nurture the wow: finding spirituality in the frustration, boredom, tears, poop, desperation, wonder & radical amazement of parenting 296.7 R938
Danya Ruttenberg Surprised by God: how I learned to stop worrying & love religion 296.7 R938s

Reference
J.K. Lasser's your income tax 2020 Ref 336.24 J11
J.K. Lasser's small business taxes 2020: your complete guide to a better bottom line Ref 343.7306 J11

Social Sciences & Current Events
Bruce Goldfarb 18 tiny deaths: the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee & the invention of modern forensics 363.25 G566
Naomi McDougall Jones The wrong kind of woman: dismantling the Gods of Hollywood 384.8 J710
Steve Suitts Overturning Brown: the segregationist legacy of the modern school choice movement 379.26 S39
Daina Ramey Berry A black women's history of the United States 305.48 B534

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Delia Owens Where the crawdads sing CD Fic Owens
Ann Patchett The Dutch house CD Fic Patchett
Colson Whitehead The Nickel boys CD Fic Whitehead

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EAUDIOBOOKS
Kate London Gallowstree lane

Posted on Feb. 21, 2020 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of February 10

BOOKS

FICTION
Meng Jin Little gods

Historical Fiction
Verne R. Albright Playing chess with God

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Jeff Abbott The three Beths
Tim Garvin A dredging in Swann
Caro Ramsay Mosaic
Joe Ide Hi five
Liam McIlvanney The Quaker
Ian Rankin In a house of lies

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Jane Rawson From the wreck

Short Stories
Silvia Moreno-Garcia (editor) Nebula Awards showcase 2019: the very best of science fiction & fantasy SS N36

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NONFICTION

Biography & Genealogy
David G. Marwell Mengele: unmasking the "Angel of Death" 940.5318 M544ma
Diana Elder Research like a pro: a genealogist's guide 929.1 E221

Business & Economics
Sylvia Ann Hewlett #METOO in the corporate world: power, privilege & the path forward 658.3 H498
Paul Krugman Arguing with zombies: economics, politics & the fight for a better future 330.973 K94a
Rosabeth Moss Kanter Think outside the building: how advanced leaders can change the world one smart innovation at a time 658.4 K168t
Melvin I. Urofsky The affirmative action puzzle: a living history from reconstruction to today 331.133 U781
Philip Mirowski Science-mart: privatizing American science 338.973 M679

Chess
Jan Timman The longest game: the five Kasparov--Karpov matches for the world chess championship 794.15 T58L

Computer Science
Peter Schryvers Bad data: why we measure the wrong things & often miss the metrics that matter 001.42 S769

Health & Medicine
Pietro Bartolo Tears of salt: a doctor's story of the refugee crisis 610.92 B285
Christy Harrison Anti-diet: reclaim your time, money, well-being & happiness through intuitive eating 613.2 H245
David Talbot Between heaven & hell: the story of my stroke 616.8 T138

History
Alison Carlson The man within: Winston Churchill, an intimate portrait 941.084 C5632ca
John Connelly From peoples into nations: a history of Eastern Europe 947 C762
Brian McGinty Archy Lee's struggle for freedom: the true story of California gold, the nation's tragic march toward Civil War & a young black man's fight for liberty 973.711 M175
William M. Becker Vatican flags: keys & crowns since 1800: the flags of the Papal States & today's Vatican 929.9 B388v
Cristiano Bianchi Model city Pyongyang 951.93 B470
Kim Ghattas Black wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran & the forty-year rivalry that unraveled culture, religion & collective memory in the Middle East 956.05 G341
Fred Kaplan The bomb: presidents, generals & the secret history of nuclear war 355.8 K17b
Iain MacGregor Checkpoint Charlie: the Cold War, the Berlin Wall & the most dangerous place on earth 943.155 M178
Philip Wilkinson Irreplaceable: a history of England in 100 places 942 W687

Law
Jessica Stern My war criminal: personal encounters with an architect of genocide 341.69 S839m

Literature & Writing
Sid Holt (editor) The best American magazine writing 2019 814 B561
Luis Rodriguez From our land to our land: essays, journeys & imaginings from a native Xicanx writer 814 R696f
Rebecca Solnit (editor) The best American essays 2019 814.8 B56
W.S. Di Piero The complaints 811 D589co
Mo Moulton The Mutual Admiration Society: how Dorothy L. Sayers & her Oxford circle remade the world for women 823 S27m

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
J.W. Mohnhaupt The zookeepers' war: an incredible true story from the Cold War 590.73 M725

Performing Arts & Music
David W. Bernstein (editor) The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s counterculture & the avant-garde 786.7 S579

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Robin R. Meyers Saving God from religion: a minister's search for faith in a skeptical age 248.4 M576
Diane Rehm When my time comes: talks with twenty-three men & women about whether those who are dying should have the right to determine when life should end 179.7 R269

Politics & Government
Richard L. Hasen Election meltdown: dirty tricks, distrust & the threat to American democracy 324.973 H272
Michael Lewis The fifth risk 320.973 L675fx

Social Sciences & Current Events
Kate Winkler Dawson American Sherlock: murder, forensics & the birth of American CSI 363.25 D272a
Rose Ellen Dix Overshare: love, laughs, sexuality & secrets 306.76 D642
Angelique V. Nixon Resisting paradise: tourism, diaspora & sexuality in Caribbean culture 306.4819 N654
Steven Levingston Little demon in the city of light: a true story of murder & mesmerism in Belle Époque Paris 364.152 L578
Megan Rohrer (editor) Vanguard revisited: the queer faith, sex & politics of the youth of San Francisco's tenderloin 305.906 V299

Travel & Geography
Moon Costa Rica 917.286 M818
Lonely Planet Chicago 917.731 L847
Moon Anchorage, Denali & the Kenai Peninsula 917.983 M818
Moon Coastal Maine 917.41 M818
Moon Croatia & Slovenia 914.97 M818
Moon Denver, Boulder & Colorado Springs 917.888 M818
Moon Seattle 917.977 M818

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EAUDIOBOOKS
A'zayler In love with my enemy
J.D. Barker The sixth wicked child
Elizabeth Bear The red-stained wings
John Birmingham The cruel stars
Caleb Breakey The string
Jamel Brinkley A lucky man stories
Catherine Bruns Penne dreadful
Kalisha Buckhanon Speaking of summer
Ray Celestin The mobster's lament
Connilyn Cossette Until the mountains fall
Colin Cotterill The second biggest nothing
Edwidge Danticat Everything inside stories
Angie Dicken The yellow lantern true colors
Nadine Dorries Ruby Flynn
Tom Falkenstein The highly sensitive man finding strength in sensitivity
Christopher Fowler The lonely hour
Alexandra Fuller Travel light, move fast
Terry Goodkind The sky people
Terry Goodkind Trouble's child
Brooke Harris When you're gone
Lisa Harris Deadly intentions
Kristan Higgins Life & other inconveniences
Erica James Swallowtail summer
William W. Johnstone Where there's fire, there's smoke
Elmer Kelton Cloudy in the west
K'wan Wrath
Pat Longo The gifts beneath your anxiety simple spiritual tools to find peace, awaken the power within & heal your life
Alexander McCall Smith At the reunion buffet
T.C. McCarthy Tyger burning
Lucinda Riley The butterfly room
David Robson The intelligence trap why smart people make dumb mistakes
Shantae Back to life again love after heartbreak
S.M. Stirling The forge
Marion Turner Chaucer a European life
Ryan Wieser Dawn of the hunters

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Blu-Rays

Action & Adventure
Watchmen

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CDs

Popular
The world of Harry Partch CD Pop Partch

Posted on Feb. 13, 2020 by Cherilyn Chang