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New Titles List for the Week of September 3

BOOKS

FICTION
Máirtín Ó Cadhain Graveyard clay = Cré na cille: a narrative in ten interludes
Todd Rykaczewski Master of revels
Anna Yen Sophia of Silicon Valley

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Lawrence Block Everybody dies
Stav Sherez The intrusions

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Martyn Walker The development of the mechanics' institute movement in Britain & beyond: supporting further education for the adult working classes 606 W151

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
John Archer Architecture & suburbia: from English villa to American dream house, 1690--2000 728.09 A23
Gateway to New Orleans: Bayou St. John, 1708-2018 720.976 L930

Biography & Genealogy
Penny Starns Odette: World War Two's darling spy 92 B731

Business & Economics
Kevin J. Davey Building winning algorithmic trading systems: a trader's journey from data mining to Monte Carlo simulation to live trading 332.64 D279
Steven Davis In defense of public lands: the case against privatization & transfer 338.925 D290
Ashoka Mody Eurotragedy: a drama in nine acts 332.494 M721
Greg Satell Mapping innovation: a playbook for navigating a disruptive age 658.4 S12
Tom Y. Sawyer Financial modeling for business owners & entrepreneurs: developing Excel models to raise capital, increase cash flow, improve operations, plan projects & make decisions 658.15 S971
Adam Zaremba Price-based investment strategies: how research discoveries reinvented technical analysis 332.63 Z187
Tom Ahern Keep your donors: the guide to better communications & stronger relationships 658.152 A34
Diana S. Newman Nonprofit essentials: endowment building 658.152 N462
Thomas J. Stanley Stop acting rich: --and start living like a real millionaire 332.024 S789s
Larry Stelter How to raise planned gifts by mail 658.152 S39
Douglas E. White The art of planned giving: understanding donors & the culture of giving 658.152 W582

Computer Science
Jamshid Gharajedaghi Systems thinking: managing chaos & complexity: a platform for designing business architecture 003 G341
Michael J. Hernandez Database design for mere mortals: a hands-on guide to relational database design 005.74 H430

Health & Medicine
Catharine Arnold Pandemic 1918: eyewitness accounts from the greatest medical holocaust in modern history 614.518 A752p
Kim E. Nielsen A disability history of the United States 362.4 N554

History
Bruno Cabanes August 1914: France, the Great War & a month that changed the world forever 940.344 C111
David Carle Putting California on the map: von Schmidt's lines 979.4 V897
Lynn Hunt History: why it matters 901 H911
In the depths of darkness: days of remembrance: commemoration planning guide 940.5318 H741
Michael Johns San Francisco: instant city, promised land 979.461 J62
Iris Origo A chill in the air: an Italian war diary, 1939-1940 940.5345 O69c
Dave Weinstein It came from Berkeley: how Berkeley changed the world 979.467 W424i
Rick Wilson Everything Trump touches dies: a Republican strategist gets real about the worst president ever 973.933 W691

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Paul Feyerabend Against method 501 F434a
Philip Ball Invisible: the dangerous allure of the unseen 535.1 B187

Performing Arts & Music
Ryan Leas LCD Soundsystem's Sound of Silver 780.2 L48
T.J. Morris (editor) Atom Egoyan: interviews 791.4 E77
John Niven Music from Big Pink 780.2 N644

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Alain Corbin A history of silence: from the Renaissance to the present day 204.47 C811
Meg Selig Changepower!: 37 secrets to habit change success 158.1 S487

Politics & Government
Jasmin Mujanović Hunger & fury: the crisis of democracy in the Balkans 320.9 M892

Social Sciences & Current Events
Bob Harris Who hates whom: well-armed fanatics, intractable conflicts & various things blowing up: a woefully incomplete guide 303.6 H240
Neville Morley Classics: why it matters 370.11 M827
Peter D. Norton Fighting traffic: the dawn of the motor age in the American city 388.32 N821
Peter Sahlins 1668: the year of the animal in France 304.27 S197

Travel & Geography
American South: Wildsam field guides 917.504 W674a
The Original guide to barbecue in the South 917.504 W674
The rough guide to the Lake District 914.2 R856

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
The kingdom

Classics
High Sierra

Comedy
I love you, man
Noises off
Tenacious D in the Pick of destiny

Drama
Tristan + Isolde
Who's that knocking at my door

Musicals
Brigadoon

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Secret window
Murder in suburbia. Series 2

Posted on Sep. 6, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of August 27

BOOKS

FICTION
Manzoor Ahtesham The tale of the missing man
Patrick deWitt French exit
Jessie Greengrass Sight
Seth Greenland The hazards of good fortune
Randy Kennedy Presidio
Norah Lange People in the room
Katharine Weber Still life with monkey

Historical Fiction
Frances de Pontes Peebles The air you breathe
Daniel Anselme On leave

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Gabriela Alemán Poso Wells
Lea Carpenter Red, white, blue
LK Chapman Anything for him
Sofka Zinovieff Putney

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Matt Ruff Fool on the hill

Short Stories
Nona Caspers The fifth woman Fic Caspers
Lamar Giles (editor) Fresh ink SS F892
J.M. Holmes How are you going to save yourself Fic Holmes

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Lisa Hanawalt Coyote Doggirl 741.5 H233c comics
Bill Morrison The Beatles yellow submarine 741.5 M834 comics
Jacques Tardi I, Rene Tardi, prisoner of war in Stalag IIB 940.5472 T173 comics
Martin Rowson The communist manifesto 335.422 R799 comics

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Neil Gaiman The make good art speech 701.15 G141m
Mazie M. Harris Paper promises: early American photography 770.973 H240

Biography & Genealogy
Lisa Brennan-Jobs Small fry 92 B750
Rosa Prince Theresa May: the enigmatic prime minister 92 M451
Allie Rowbottom Jell-O girls: a family history 929.2097 R783

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Donald A. Barclay Fake news, propaganda & plain old lies: how to find trustworthy information in the digital age 070.4 B235

Business & Economics
Rutger Bregman Utopia for realists: how we can build the ideal world 330 B746
Lucie Greene Silicon states: the power & politics of big tech & what it means for our future 338.47 G830
Douglas W. Hubbard How to measure anything: finding the value of intangibles in business 657.7 H861
Louis Hyman Temp: how American work, American business & the American dream became temporary 331.25 H996t

Food & Drink
Food52 ice cream & friends: 60 recipes & riffs for sorbets, sandwiches, no-churn ice creams & more 641.86 F686i

Health & Medicine
Dave Asprey Head strong: the bulletproof plan to activate untapped brain energy to work smarter & think faster-in just two weeks 612.8 A843h

History
Ronen Bergman Rise & kill first: the secret history of Israel's targeted assassinations 956.94 B499r
Shelley Alden Brooks Big Sur: the making of a prized California landscape 979.47 B791
Julian Jackson De Gaulle 944.083 J13d
Gregg Jarrett The Russia hoax: the illicit scheme to clear Hillary Clinton & frame Donald Trump 973.932 J293
Simon Levis Sullam The Italian executioners: the genocide of the Jews of Italy 940.5318 S531
Andrés Manuel López Obrador A new hope for Mexico: saying no to corruption, violence & Trump's wall 972.084 L881
Bart van Es The cut out girl: a story of war & family, lost & found 940.5318 V289
Lilia M. Schwarcz Brazil: a biography 981 S951

Home & Family Management
Gayle Pirie The Foreign Cinema cookbook: recipes & stories under the stars 641.5973 P666

Performing Arts & Music
Matthew Cutter Closer you are: the story of Robert Pollard & Guided by Voices 780.92 P761
Beth Genné Dance me a song: Astaire, Balanchine & Kelly & the American Film Musical 792.8 G287
Jorma Kaukonen Been so long: my life & music 780.92 K163
Paul Kildea Chopin's piano: in search of the instrument that transformed music 786.2 K552
Parker Posey You're on an airplane: a self-mythologizing memoir 792.092 P842
Steve Tribe Doctor Who: a brief history of Time Lords 791.45 T731

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Brian Dunning Conspiracies declassified: the Skeptoid guide to the truth behind the theories 001.9 D922
Joe Navarro The dictionary of body language: a field guide to human behavior 153.69 N228

Politics & Government
League of Women Voters of California Guide to California government 320.9794 L486

Social Sciences & Current Events
Julia Freeland Fisher Who you know: unlocking innovations that expand students' networks 371.102 F531
Joanne Lipman That's what she said: what men need to know (and women need to tell them) 306.3615 L664
Anthony Salvanto Where did you get this number?: a pollster's guide to making sense of the world 303.38 S386
Hana Schank The ambition decisions: what women know about work, family & the path to building a life 305.244 S163
Mark R. Warren (editor) Lift us up, don't push us out!: voices from the front lines of the educational justice movement 379.26 W251

Travel & Geography
Georgeanne Brennan Windows on Provence 914.49 B838w
Charleston: Wildsam field guides 917.579 W674
Denver: Wildsam field guides 917.888 W674
Desert Southwest: Wildsam field guides 917.9 W674
Los Angeles: Wildsam field guides 917.9494 W674
New England: Wildsam field guides 917.4 W674
San Antonio: Wildsam field guides 917.643 W674

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Joseph Goldstein Mindfulness: six guided practices for awakening CD 294.3 G578

Posted on Aug. 30, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles Lists for the Week of August 20

BOOKS

FICTION
David Chariandy Brother
Virginie Despentes Pretty things
Yuri Herrera Signs preceding the end of the world
Vanessa Hua A river of stars
Mochtar Lubis Twilight in Djakarta
Ling Ma Severance
Anna Moschovakis Eleanor, or, the rejection of the progress of love
S. K. Perry Let me be like water

Historical Fiction
Linnea Hartsuyker The sea queen

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Rhys Bowen Four funerals & maybe a wedding
Philip Youngman Carter Mr. Campion's farthing
Colin Cotterill Don't eat me
J. Jefferson Farjeon Thirteen guests
Caz Frear Sweet little lies
Lee Hollis Poppy Harmon investigates
Jonathan Kellerman A measure of darkness
Jon McGregor The reservoir tapes
Abir Mukherjee Smoke & ashes
Simone St. James The broken girls

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Neal Asher The soldier
Sarah Hennin Sea witch
Cixin Liu Ball lightning

Short Stories
Kevin Wilson Baby, you're gonna be mine: stories

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Matteo Pizzolo Calexit. Vol. 1 741.5 P689 comics
Jules Feiffer The ghost script 741.5 F297g comics
Nate Powell Come again 741.5 P871 comics
Riad Sattouf The Arab of the future 3: a graphic memoir: a childhood in the Middle East (1985-1987) 741.5 S253 comics

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Cathi Nelson Photo organizing made easy: going from overwhelmed to overjoyed 771.46 N331
Stanley Plumly Elegy landscapes: Constable & Turner & the intimate sublime 759.2 P735

Biography & Genealogy
Blaine T. Bettinger The family tree guide to DNA testing & genetic genealogy 929.1 B466
Drew Smith Organize your genealogy: strategies & solutions for every researcher 929.1 S511

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Marcy Burstiner Investigative reporting: from premise to publication 070.43 B949
Nancy Hendrickson Unofficial guide to Ancestry.com: how to find your family history on the #1 genealogy website 025.0692 H384
Susan Shapiro The byline bible: get published in five weeks 070.5 S52b

Business & Economics
James Freeman Borrowed time: two centuries of booms, busts & bailouts at Citi 332.1 F877
Sheila Moran The board of directors & audit committee guide to fiduciary responsibilities: ten critical steps to protecting yourself & your organization 657.45 M793
Jerold Panas Born to raise 658.152 P191

Chess
Emmanuel Neiman The Fianchetto solution: a complete, solid & flexible chess opening repertoire 794.122 N414f

Health & Medicine
Timothy Caulfield Is Gwyneth Paltrow wrong about everything?: how the famous sell us elixirs of health, beauty & happiness 613.2 C311

History
C.J. Chivers The fighters: Americans in combat in Afghanistan & Iraq 956.7 C543f
Anne de Courcy The husband hunters: American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy 974.71 D359
Tom Engelhardt A nation unmade by war: a TomDispatch book 973.933 E574n
Philip Morgan Hitler's collaborators: choosing between bad & worse in Nazi-occupied Western Europe 940.5316 M821
Omarosa Manigault Newman Unhinged: an insider's account of the Trump White House 973.933 O18
Deborah Baker The last Englishmen: love, war & the end of empire 954 B171

Literature & Writing
Fatimah Asghar If they come for us 811.6 A29
Ada Limón The carrying 811.6 L734c
Bill Roorbach Writing life stories: how to make memories into memoirs, ideas into essays & life into literature 808.066 R779
Wallace Shawn Night thoughts 814.54 S537n
Daniel Smith The Sherlock Holmes companion: an elementary guide 823 S511

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Joel Berger Extreme conservation: life at the edges of the world 551.6 B453
Carlo Rovelli The order of time 530.11 R769

Performing Arts & Music
Nate Chinen Playing changes: jazz for the new century 781.65 C441
Kenneth Womack Sound pictures: the life of Beatles producer George Martin: the later years, 1966-2016 781.66 W872s

Politics & Government
D.J. Mulloy Enemies of the state: the radical right in America from FDR to Trump 320.53 M959e

Social Sciences & Current Events
Phyllis Chesler A politically incorrect feminist: creating a movement with bitches, lunatics, dykes, prodigies, warriors & wonder women 305.42 C524p
Blake Ellis A deal with the devil: the dark & twisted true story of one of the biggest cons in history 364.163 E591
Chris Hedges America: the farewell tour 305.562 H45a
Matthew Horace The black & the blue: a cop reveals the crimes, racism & injustice in America's law enforcement 363.2 H78
Morgan Jerkins This will be my undoing: living at the intersection of black, female & feminist in (white) America 305.42 J477
Ronald Johnson 13 days in Ferguson 363.2 J630
Kate Moore The radium girls: the dark story of America's shining women 363.1799 M781
Paul Ortiz An African American & Latinx history of the United States 305.8 O85
Zoé Samudzi As black as resistance: finding the conditions for liberation 305.8 S494

Sports & Games
Michael Bennett Things that make white people uncomfortable 796.33 B439

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Alissa Quart Squeezed: why our families can't afford America CD 305.55 Q19
Karen Auvinen Rough beauty: forty seasons of mountain living CD 978.8 A88

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DVDs

Drama
Law & order: Trial by jury - the complete series
The Borgias: the complete series

Nonfiction
Tina Turner: wildest dreams: live from Amsterdam Arena DVD 780.92 T851
Jeanette Norden Understanding the brain DVD 612.82 N754

Posted on Aug. 23, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of August 13

BOOKS

FICTION
Beatriz Bracher I didn't talk
Georgia Clark The bucket list
Chanel Cleeton Next year in Havana
Tsitsi Dangarembga This mournable body
Anat Deracine Driving by starlight
Leah Franqui America for beginners
T. Greenwood Rust & stardust
Zachary Mason Metamorphica
Katherine Pancol The yellow eyes of crocodiles
Ingrid Rojas Contreras Fruit of the drunken tree
Laura van den Berg The third hotel

Historical Fiction
Crystal Hana Kim If you leave me
Nuala O'Connor Becoming Belle
M.J. Rose Tiffany blues
Minette Walters The last hours
Kent Wascom The new inheritors

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Jussi Adler-Olsen The Washington decree
Dathan Auerbach Bad man
Linwood Barclay A noise downstairs
Mark Billingham The killing habit
Edgar Cantero This body's not big enough for both of us
Alex Dahl The boy at the door
Fiona Davis The masterpiece
JP Delaney Believe me
Mary Ellis Hiding in plain sight
Minna Lindgren Death in Sunset Grove
Alan Melville Weekend at Thrackley
Claire O'Dell A study in honor
Lawrence Osborne Only to sleep
Heather Redmond A tale of two murders
Olen Steinhauer The middleman
Victoria Helen Stone Jane Doe
Elizabeth Wilson She died young

Short Stories
Catherine Lacey Certain American states
Ben Marcus Notes from the fog

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
A companion to Greek art 709.38 C738

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Fred S. Siebert Four theories of the press: the authoritarian, libertarian, social responsibility & Soviet communist concepts of what the press should be & do 070.1 F825

Business & Economics
Michele Cagan Accounting 101: from calculating revenues & profits to determining assets & liabilities, an essential guide to accounting basics 657 C117
Adam Tooze Crashed: how a decade of financial crises changed the world 332.042 T672c

Health & Medicine
Dave Asprey The bulletproof diet: lose up to a pound a day, reclaim your energy & focus & upgrade your life 613.25 A843b
Lani Simpson Dr. Lani's no-nonsense bone health guide: the truth about density testing, osteoporosis drugs & building bone quality at any age 616.716 S581

History
Julia Boyd Travelers in the Third Reich: the rise of fascism: 1919-1945 943.086 B692
James Conaway Napa at last light: America's Eden in an age of calamity 979.419 C74n
Max Adams The Viking wars: war & peace in King Alfred's Britain, 789-955 942.01 A211v

Social Sciences & Current Events
Michael Bronski A queer history of the United States 306.76 B789
Austin Channing Brown I'm still here: black dignity in a world made for whiteness 305.896 B812
William R. Catton, Jr. Bottleneck: humanity's impending impasse 304.2 C297
Jason Kander Outside the wire : ten lessons I've learned in everyday courage 328.73 K131o
Priya Parker The art of gathering: how we meet & why it matters 302.1 P223
Ann Travers The trans generation: how trans kids (and their parents) are creating a gender revolution 306.76 T697

Sports & Games
Rob Ruck Tropic of football: the long & perilous journey of Samoans to the NFL 796.33 R828

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Margaret Atwood Alias Grace CD Fic Atwood
Georgia Clark The bucket list CD Fic Clark
Michael Koryta How it happened CD Fic Koryta

Nonfiction
Madeleine Albright Fascism: a warning CD 320.533 A342
Thomas R. Ittelson Financial statements: a step-by-step guide to understanding & creating financial reports CD 657.32 I73
Helen Rappaport The race to save the Romanovs: the truth behind the secret plans to rescue the Russian imperial family CD 947.08 R182
Carlo Rovelli The order of time CD 530.11 R769

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DVDs

Classics
Hard to get
They drive by night

Drama
Romper stomper

Foreign Language
Taxi DVD Middle East

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Blade runner 2049
It

Posted on Aug. 16, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of August 6

BOOKS

FICTION
Jonas Jonasson Hitman Anders & the meaning of it all
Chico Buarque My German brother
Wolfgang Hilbig The tidings of the trees

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Nicholas Irving Reaper: ghost target

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Muriel Barbery The life of elves
Kristen Simmons Pacifica

Short Stories
Jamel Brinkley A lucky man
Akil Kumarasamy Half gods

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Amy Shira Teitel Breaking the chains of gravity: the story of spaceflight before NASA 629.409 T235

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Gustav Klimt: the complete paintings 709.2 K648na
Robert J. Lang Origami design secrets: mathematical methods for an ancient art 736.982 L271or
Charles O'Brien Houses: an architectural guide 720 O62
Alex Potts Experiments in modern realism: world-making, politics & the everyday in postwar European & American art 759.06 P857
Arlene Sanderson (editor) Wright sites: a guide to Frank Lloyd Wright public places 720.92 W94sa

Business & Economics
Dawn Fotopulos Accounting for the numberphobic: a survival guide for small business owners 657.9042 F82
Richard Striner Hard times: economic depressions in America 338.54 S862
Henry A. Rosso Hank Rosso's Achieving excellence in fund raising 658.152 R737

Chess
Don Schultz Chessdon: forty years of my most interesting chess experiences 794.1092 S3871
Adorjan Andras Black is back! 794.1 A24b
Leonid Verkhovsky Draw!: the art of the half-point in chess 794.15 V589

Computer Science
Rob Miller Text processing with Ruby: extract value from the data that surrounds you 005.1 R89m

Food & Drink
Deirdre Greene The half-pint guide to craft breweries: Northern California 663.42 G799

Health & Medicine
Mark Green The Tai chi healing Bible: a step-by-step guide to achieving physical & mental balance 613.71 G820
Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre Yoga 613.7 Y546

History
Herrick Chapman France's long reconstruction: in search of the modern republic 944.082 C366
A.H.M. Jones Constantine & the conversion of Europe 937.08 J710
Pieter M. Judson The Habsburg empire: a new history 943.6 J921

Home & Family Management
Jane Jacobs The death & life of great American cities 711.4 J175 2011
Vital little plans: the short works of Jane Jacobs 711.4 J175v

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Matthew J. James Collecting evolution: the Galapagos expedition that vindicated Darwin 508.866 J231
Omar W. Nasim Observing by hand: sketching the nebulae in the nineteenth century 523.1135 N178

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Chang Po-tuan Understanding reality: a Taoist alchemical classic 299.51 Z632
Andrew Newberg Words can change your brain: 12 conversation strategies to build trust, resolve conflict & increase intimacy 153.6 N534

Politics & Government
Stephanie Feldman (editor) Who will speak for America? 320.973 F312
Dmitri Trenin Should we fear Russia? 327.47 T723

Social Sciences & Current Events
Alice Bolin Dead girls: essays on surviving American obsession 305.4097 B638
Nikki Jones The chosen ones: Black men & the politics of redemption 305.388 J710
Tania Romanov Mother tongue: a saga of three generations of Balkan women 306.8743 R662
Arlene Stein Unbound: transgender men & the remaking of identity 306.76 S8191

Travel & Geography
Hermann Hesse Singapore dream & other adventures: travel writings from an Asian journey 915.904 H463

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Ellen Oh (editor) Flying lessons & other stories Child Oh

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Emily Giffin All we ever wanted CD Fic Giffin

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DVDs
Animation
Isle of dogs

Comedy
Love, Simon

Drama
God's own country
I, Daniel Blake
Night & the city
W./E.

Foreign Language
Thérèse DVD French

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
A quiet place
A wrinkle in time

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BluRays

It Comes at Night

Posted on Aug. 9, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of August 1

BOOKS

FICTION
Natalie Baszile Queen Sugar
Joanna Cannon Three things about Elsie
Edwidge Danticat Untwine
Raphaëlle Giordano Your second life begins when you realize you only have one
Malcolm Hansen They come in all colors
Colleen Hoover All your perfects
Amitava Kumar Immigrant, Montana
Carola Lovering Tell me lies
Hanan al-Shaykh The occasional virgin
Lauren Weisberger When life gives you Lululemons

Historical Fiction
C.W. Gortner The Romanov empress

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Melanie Finn The underneath
Emma Healey Whistle in the dark
Elizabeth Klehfoth All these beautiful strangers
Alice LaPlante Half Moon Bay
Lori Roy The disappearing
Jennifer Wolfe Watch the girls

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Ambelin Kwaymullina The disappearance of Ember Crow
Ambelin Kwaymullina The interrogation of Ashala Wolf

Short Stories
Alexia Arthurs How to love a Jamaican
Sara Gallardo Land of smoke
Alison Moore The pre-war house
Simon Rich Hits & misses

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Steve Ditko Strange suspense: the Steve Ditko archives. Vol. 1 741.5 D615s comics

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Simon Bradley Churches: an architectural guide 720 B728
Melissa E. Buron Truth & beauty: the Pre-Raphaelites & the old masters 709.034 T777
Loris Dilena Venezia: il legno 720.9453 D571
Paul Goldberger Why architecture matters 720.1 G618
Zoë Lescaze Paleoart: visions of the prehistoric past 701 L563
Paul Lewis Manual of section 724.6 L585
Joan Marter (editor) Women of abstract expressionism 759.1308 W842
Richard A. Rogers Petroglyphs, pictographs & projections: Native American rock art in the contemporary cultural landscape 709.01 R631

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Stephen R. Barnard Citizens at the gates: Twitter, networked publics & the transformation of American journalism 071.3 B253
Claire Cock-Starkey A library miscellany 028.9 C644

Business & Economics
Josh Noel Barrel-aged stout & selling out: Goose Island, Anheuser-Busch & how craft beer became big business 338.766 N682
Brian Portnoy The geometry of wealth: how to shape a life of money & meaning 332.024 P853g
Hemant Taneja Unscaled: how AI & a new generation of upstarts are creating the economy of the future 338.064 T155

Computer Science
David M. Ewalt Defying reality: the inside story of the virtual reality revolution 006.8 E942
Foster Provost Data science for business: [what you need to know about data mining & data-analytic thinking] 006.312 P949

Food & Drink
Richard Hosking A dictionary of Japanese food: ingredients & culture 641.5952 H826

Health & Medicine
Jackson MacKenzie Psychopath free: recovering from emotionally abusive relationships with narcissists, sociopaths & other toxic people 362.82 M199
Randi Hutter Epstein Aroused: the history of hormones & how they control just about everything 612.405 E851

History
Paul Thomas Chamberlin The Cold War's killing fields: rethinking the long peace 909.825 C443
Julio Crespo MacLennan Europa: how Europe shaped the modern world 940 C921
Kate Santon Archaeology: unearthing the mysteries of the past 930.1 S596
Steven Ujifusa Barons of the sea: & their race to build the world's fastest clipper ship 623.822 U33
Benjamin Woolley The king's assassin: the secret plot to murder King James I 941.061 W913
Marilyn Livingstone The Black Prince & the capture of a king, Poitiers 1356 944.02 L763

Home & Family Management
Alexandra Lange The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids 711.558 L260

Languages & Linguistics
Sonia Taneja Basic Hindi 491.43 T155

Law
Helen Sedwick Self-publisher's legal handbook: updated guide to protecting your rights & wallet 343.0998 S29
Martin Skladany Big copyright versus the people: how major content providers are destroying creativity & how to stop them 346.048 S628
Lee Wilson The trademark guide: how you can protect & profit from trademarks 346.048 W746

Literature & Writing
William E. Blundell The art & craft of feature writing: based on the Wall Street Journal guide 808.02 B658
Joanna Penn Successful self-publishing: how to self-publish & market your book 070.5 P412

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Kimberly Arcand Magnitude: picturing the scale of the universe 523.1 A21
Horatio Clare Orison for a curlew 598.33 C541
Richard Dawkins Science in the soul: selected writings of a passionate rationalist 500 D271s
Ben Goldfarb Eager: the surprising, secret life of beavers & why they matter 333.95 G618
Nicky Jenner 4th rock from the Sun: the story of Mars 523.43 J541
Richard O. Prum The evolution of beauty: how Darwin's forgotten theory of mate choice shapes the animal world-- & us 591.56 P971
Carl Zimmer She has her mother's laugh: the powers, perversions & potential of heredity 576.5 Z72s

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Brendon Burchard High performance habits: how extraordinary people become that way 158 B892
Daniel Coyle The little book of talent: 52 tips for improving skills 153.9 C839
Yosef Garfinkel In the footsteps of King David: revelations from an ancient biblical city 220.93 G18d
Heidi Grant Halvorson Reinforcements: how to get people to help you 153.8 G767
John Neafsey A sacred voice is calling: personal vocation & social conscience 248.4 N249
Brian Stanley Christianity in the twentieth century: a world history 270.82 S251

Politics & Government
Michiko Kakutani The death of truth: notes on falsehood in the age of Trump 306.2 K139
Joshua Keating Invisible countries: journeys to the edge of nationhood 320.15 K221

Social Sciences & Current Events
Evelyn Dahlke Butterfly Song: a battered woman's journey back into life 362.82 D138
Jeffrey Melnick Creepy crawling: Charles Manson & the many lives of America's most infamous family 364.152 M289
Michael Scott Moore The desert & the sea: 977 days captive on the Somali pirate coast 364.154 M781
Joshua Cooper Ramo The seventh sense: power, fortune & survival in the age of networks 303.4833 R175s

Travel & Geography
William Atkins The immeasurable world: journeys in desert places 910.9 A52
Lonely Planet Moscow 914.73 L847 2018
Lonely Planet Rome 914.56 L847 2018
Lonely Planet St Petersburg 914.721 L847 2018
The rough guide to London 914.21 R856 2018
The rough guide to New York City 917.471 R856 2018
The rough guide to Paris 914.436 R856 2018
Sarah Tuttle-Singer Jerusalem drawn & quartered: one woman's year in the heart of the Christian, Muslim, Armenian & Jewish quarters of old Jerusalem 956.94 T967

Posted on Aug. 2, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of July 23

BOOKS

FICTION
Courtney Cole Saving Beck
Mark Di Ionno Gods of wood & stone
Eric Gansworth Give me some truth: a novel with paintings
Keith Gessen A terrible country
Peter Handke The Moravian night: a story
Rachel Heng Suicide club
Caoilinn Hughes Orchid & the wasp
Dewi Lestari Supernova: the knight, the princess & the falling star
Thea Lim An ocean of minutes
Melissa Lucashenko Mullumbimby
Grace Dane Mazur The garden party
Beatriz Williams The summer wives
Katharine Kilalea Ok, Mr. Field

Historical Fiction
Andrea Camilleri The Sacco Gang

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Megan Abbott Give me your hand
Linda Castillo A gathering of secrets
Morrison, Arthur Martin Hewitt, investigator
James Patterson The black book
David Rosenfelt Rescued
Andrew Shaffer Hope never dies
Daniel Silva The other woman
Zoje Stage Baby teeth

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Delilah S. Dawson Kill the farm boy
Maria Dahvana Headley The mere wife
Naomi Novik Spinning silver
Rebecca Roanhorse Trail of lightning

Short Stories
Amy Bonnaffons The wrong heaven

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Roberto Recchioni Orphans. Vol. 1, The beginning 741.5 R243 v.1 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Rosamund Young The secret life of cows 636.2 Y681

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Leonard Maltin Hooked on Hollywood: discoveries from a lifetime of film fandom 791.43 M261h
Modern masters from Latin America: the Pérez Simón collection 709.8 M720
Promote, tolerate, ban: art & culture in Cold War Hungary 709.43 P944

Biography & Genealogy
Michèle Mendelssohn Making Oscar Wilde 92 W671m

Business & Economics
George Gilder Life after Google: the fall of big data & the rise of the blockchain economy 338.47 G387

Computer Science
Naomi Ceder The quick Python book 005.1 P99c

Health & Medicine
Dean Buonomano Your brain is a time machine: the neuroscience & physics of time 612.82 B889
Paul Greenberg The omega principle: seafood & the quest for a long life & a healthier planet 613.2 G829
Kathy Harrison Prepping 101: 40 steps you can take to be prepared 613.69 H245
Alan Jasanoff The biological mind: how brain, body & environment collaborate to make us who we are 612.8233 J31
Charles Silver Overcharged: why Americans pay too much for health care 362.1 S587

History
Charlie English The storied city: the quest for Timbuktu & the fantastic mission to save its past 966.23 E361

Home & Family Management
Erin Rooney Doland Never too busy to cure clutter: simplify your life one minute at a time 648.8 D685
Fay Weller Changemakers: embracing hope, taking action & transforming the world 640.28 W458

Law
David Pressman Nolo's patents for beginners 346.048 P93
Joseph Tartakovsky The lives of the constitution: ten exceptional minds that shaped America's supreme law 342.73 T178

Literature & Writing
Brian Fawcett Cambodia: a book for people who find television too slow 813 F281

Performing Arts & Music
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Sex & the city & us: how four single women changed the way we think, live & love 791.45 A735x
Tina Frühauf Experiencing Jewish music in America: a listener's companion 780.89 F942
Dai Griffiths OK computer 782.2 G855
Joe Harvard The Velvet Underground & Nico 782.421 V548
Douglas Wolk Live at the Apollo 780.2 B812

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Justin J. Lehmiller Tell me what you want: the science of sexual desire & how it can help you improve your sex life 155.3 L528
Daniel J. Levitin Weaponized lies: how to think critically in the post-truth era 153.42 L666w
Brooke McAlary Slow: simple living for a frantic world 158.1 M459
Jaroslav Pelikán Whose Bible is it?: a short history of the Scriptures 220 P363
Francine Toder The vintage years: finding your inner artist (writer, musician, visual artist) after sixty 153.35 T566

Politics & Government
Walter Laqueur The future of terrorism: ISIS, Al-Qaeda & the alt-right 363.325 L317

Social Sciences & Current Events
Jeff Biggers Resistance: reclaiming an American tradition 303.484 B592
Andrea Gabor After the education wars: how smart schools upend the business of reform 370.973 G113
Kristin Lawless Formerly known as food: how the industrial food system is changing our minds, bodies & culture 363.8 L427
Larissa MacFarquhar Strangers drowning: impossible idealism, drastic choices & the urge to help 170.44 M143
Richard A. Walker Pictures of a gone city: tech & the dark side of prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area 303.483 W151
Christopher White The last lobster: boom or bust for Maine's greatest fishery? 304.25 W582

Sports & Games
Grant Wahl Masters of modern soccer: how the world's best play the twenty-first-century game 796.334 W125

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Andrew Sean Greer Less Large Print Greer

Posted on Jul. 26, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of July 16

BOOKS

FICTION
Eric Gansworth If I ever get out of here
Roque Larraquy Comemadre
Caitlin Moran How to be famous
Ottessa Moshfegh My year of rest & relaxation
Neel Patel If You See Me, Don't Say Hi
Anne Tyler Clock Dance
Fred Van Lente The con artist

Historical Fiction
Tracy Borman The King's witch

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Lucy Atkins The night visitor
Jo Bannister Other countries
James Brydon The moment before drowning
Paul Doiron Stay hidden
Dan Fesperman Safe houses
Sheena Kamal It all falls down
Robert Karjel After the monsoon
David Krugler Rip the angels from heaven
Carole Lawrence Edinburgh twilight
Rebecca Lim The astrologer's daughter
Dervla McTiernan The ruin
Chris Nickson The tin god
Brad Thor Spymaster
Antti Tuomainen The man who died
John Verdon White River burning

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Theodora Goss European travel for the monstrous gentlewoman

Short Stories
Maxine Beneba Clarke Foreign soil & other stories

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Kevin Begos Tasting the past: the science of flavor & the search for the original wine grapes 634.83 B394
Adam Fleischman Flavor bombs: the umami ingredients that make taste explode 664.58 F628
Shelley Levis Countertop gardens: easily grow kitchen edibles indoors for year-round enjoyment 635 L579
Greg Rubin The drought-defying California garden: 230 native plants for a lush, low-water landscape 635.952 R824

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Nancy Deihl (editor) The hidden history of American fashion: rediscovering twentieth-century women designers 746.9 D368
Designed in the USSR, 1950-1989: from the collection of the Moscow Design Museum 745.4 M459
Maria & Peter Hoey Coin-Op Comics Anthology: 1997-2017 741.5 H672
Lauren Kroiz Cultivating citizens: the regional work of art in the New Deal era 709.77 K916
Reid Pslatis Kingdom/order 741.5973 P958
Kathleen Taylor The big book of socks: the ultimate beyond-the-basics guide to knitting socks 746.43 T212
Wim Wenders The pixels of Paul Cézanne & reflections on other artists 709.2 W482

Biography & Genealogy
Marta McDowell The world of Laura Ingalls Wilder: the frontier landscapes that inspired the Little House books 92 W645
The prison letters of Nelson Mandela 92 M270pr

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Francine Prose What to read & why 028.9 P945

Business & Economics
Karen Berman Financial intelligence for entrepreneurs: what you really need to know about the numbers 658.1511 B456
James Crabtree The billionaire raj: a journey through India's new gilded age 330.9 C84
Adam Fisher Valley of genius: the uncensored history of Silicon Valley, as told by the hackers, founders & freaks who made it boom 338.4 F531
Jerry Z. Muller The tyranny of metrics 658.4013 M912

Health & Medicine
Mark Hyman Food: what the heck should I eat? 613.2 H997
Helen Thomson Unthinkable: an extraordinary journey through the world's strangest brains 612.82 T382

History
Brian Abrams Obama: an oral history 2009-2017 973.932 A834
Jeremy Dronfield The stone crusher: the true story of a father & son's fight for survival in Auschwitz 940.5318 D836
Porter Fox Northland: a 4,000-mile journey along America's forgotten border 974 F830
Kristen Ghodsee Red hangover: legacies of twentieth-century communism 947.0009 G345
John F. Ross Promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell's perilous journey & his vision for the American West 978.02 R733
Roy Scranton We're doomed, now what?: essays on war & climate change 909.82 S15
Lynn Vincent Indianapolis: the true story of the worst sea disaster in U.S. naval history & the fifty-year fight to exonerate an innocent man 940.545 V743
Richard Vinen 1968: radical protest & its enemies 909.826 V75

Law
Carl W. Battle The patent guide: how you can protect & profit from patents 346.048 B322
Richard Stim Patent, copyright & trademark: an intellectual property desk reference 346.048 S549
Adam Winkler We the corporations: how American businesses won their civil rights 346.7306 W729

Literature & Writing
John Freedman (editor) Real & phantom pains: an anthology of new Russian drama 891.72 F875

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
David M. Levine Even you can learn statistics & analytics: an easy to understand guide to statistics & analytics 519.5 L578

Performing Arts & Music
Saul Austerlitz Just a shot away: peace, love & tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont 782.421 R651
Gillian G. Gaar Hendrix: the illustrated story 780.92 H385
John Suchet Verdi: the man revealed 780.92 V584

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Chip Heath Decisive: how to make better choices in life & work 153.83 H351
Daniel H. Pink Drive: the surprising truth about what motivates us 153.1534 P655

Politics & Government
Loka Ashwood For-profit democracy: why the government is losing the trust of rural America 320.973 A396
Dan Kaufman The fall of Wisconsin: the conservative conquest of a progressive bastion & the future of American politics 320.9775 K162
Jeff Pegues Kompromat: how Russia undermined American democracy 324.973 P349
Onnesha Roychoudhuri The marginalized majority: claiming our power in a post-truth America 323.04 R813

Social Sciences & Current Events
Benjamin R. Barber Cool cities: urban sovereignty & the fix for global warming 307.76 B233
Robin DiAngelo White fragility: why it's so hard for White people to talk about racism 305.8 D542
Stéphane Hénaut A bite-sized history of France: gastronomic tales of revolution, war & enlightenment 394.1 H381
Charlie LeDuff Sh*tshow!: the country's collapsing-- & the ratings are great 306.0973 L499
Andrea Pitzer One long night: a global history of concentration camps 365.45 P687
David E. Sanger The perfect weapon: war, sabotage & fear in the cyber age 363.325 S581

Sports & Games
Marcus Thompson Golden: the miraculous rise of Steph Curry 796.3 T371

Travel & Geography
Mark Greenside (Not quite) Mastering the art of French living 944.1 G853

Posted on Jul. 19, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of July 9

BOOKS

FICTION
Terence Clarke New York
Arthur Morrison The adventures of Martin Hewitt
Jeff Oliver The two-plate solution: a novel of culinary mayhem in the Middle East
Joanna Trollope Sense & sensibility
Daniel Gerard Welch Race for the mind
Greg Egan Teranesia
Pierre-François Mourier The spore
Terence Clarke Little Bridget & the flames of Hell

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Graham Reed The chairman's toys
P.D. James Cover her face
Keith McCafferty A death in Eden
John Straley Baby's first felony
Patricia Dusenbury A house of her own
Patricia Dusenbury Secrets, lies & homicide

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Ben Aaronovitch Moon over Soho
Francesco Dimitri The book of hidden things

Short Stories
Susie Bright (editor) Santa Cruz noir SS S2311 a Fiction-short stories
Martin Edwards (editor) Blood on the tracks SS B655

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Vannak Anan Prum The dead eye & the deep blue sea: a graphic memoir of modern slavery 306.362 V264 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
M. Amos Clifford Your guide to forest bathing: experience the healing power of nature 615.851 C637

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Adolf Dehn drawings 741.9 D322
Berenice Abbott, Eugene Atget 770.92 A131b

Biography & Genealogy
Jamie Bernstein Famous father girl: a memoir of growing up Bernstein 92 B458
John McCourt James Joyce: a passionate exile 92 J88m

Business & Economics
Lee Cockerell Time management magic: how to get more done every day, move from surviving to thriving 650.11 C666
Dawn Graham Switchers: how smart professionals change careers-- & seize success 650.14 G760
John Henry Weiss Moving forward in mid-career: a guide to rebuilding your career after being fired or laid off 650.14 W429
Richard D. Wyckoff How I trade & invest in stocks & bonds: being some methods evolved & adopted during my thirty-three years experience in Wall Street 332.645 W971

Computer Science
Ryan Mitchell Web scraping with Python: collecting more data from the modern web 005.1 P99mi

History
Ivo Herzer (editor) The Italian refuge: rescue of Jews during the Holocaust 945 I883
Peter Mayle My twenty-five years in Provence: reflections on then & now 944.9 M453
Samuel P. Oliner Restless memories: recollections of the Holocaust years 940.5318 O46
Maurice Rajsfus The Vél d'Hiv raid: the French police at the service of the Gestapo 940.5318 R161
Helen Rappaport The race to save the Romanovs: the truth behind the secret plans to rescue the Russian imperial family 947.08 R182
Susan Zuccotti The Italians & the Holocaust: persecution, rescue & survival 940.5318 Z94i
Stig Abell How Britain really works: understanding the ideas & institutions of a nation 941 A141

Home & Family Management
Leo Buijs Living or retiring in Mexico: all you need to know before you go 646.79 B932

Languages & Linguistics
A dictionary of American idioms 423.1 D554
Frederick Bodmer The loom of language 400 B632
E. Einhorn Old French: a concise handbook 447.01 Ei66

Literature & Writing
Richard Higgins Thoreau & the language of trees 818 H535
Alexander Larman Byron's women 821.7 L326
Sharon Olds Satan Says 811 O44sa
Edmund White The unpunished vice: a life of reading 813.54 W582
Wild geese sorrow: the Chinese wall inscriptions at Angel Island 895.11 W668

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Nicholas P. Money Mushrooms: a natural & cultural history 579.6 M742m
Titian Ramsay Peale The butterflies of North America: Titian Peale's lost manuscript 595.78 P358
Nick Pyenson Spying on whales: the past, present & future of earth's most awesome creatures 599.5 P992

Performing Arts & Music
Margret Elson The piano & the couch: music & psyche 781.11 E497

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
C.S. Lewis The great divorce: a dream 236.2 L673
Gershom Scholem Major trends in Jewish mysticism 296 S368
Amineh Amelia Pryor Sufism: self, path & guide 297.4 P956

Politics & Government
Malcolm Nance The plot to destroy democracy: how Putin & his spies are undermining America & dismantling the West 324.973 N153

Social Sciences & Current Events
Mona Charen Sex matters: how modern feminism lost touch with science, love & common sense 306.7 C376
Anthony M. DeStefano Top hoodlum: Frank Costello, Prime Minister of the Mafia 364.1 D476
Per Grankvist The big bubble: how technology makes it harder to understand the world 302.23 G766
Kimberly Harrington Amateur hour: motherhood in essays & swear words 306.8743 H237

Travel & Geography
Time out Madrid 914.641 T583

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Bill Martin Jr. Polar bear, polar bear, what do you hear? Child Martin
Igor Turkusic The world through my eyes: follow the hummingbird on its magical journey through the wonderful sights of San Francisco Child Turkusic

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Joe Dispenza Meditations for Breaking the habit of being yourself CD 158.12 D612

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EAUDIOBOOKS
Rochelle Alers Breakfast in bed
Catherine Anderson Spring forward
Nicole Baart Little broken things
Susan Wise Bauer Rethinking school: how to take charge of your child's education
Max Boot The road not taken: Edward Lansdale & the American tragedy in Vietnam
Marion Zimmer Bradley The world wreckers
Scott Brinker Hacking marketing: agile practices to make marketing smarter, faster & more innovative
Joe Calloway Magnetic: the art of attracting business
Italo Calvino The cloven viscount
Peter S. Cohan You can't order change: lessons from Jim McNerney's turnaround at Boeing
H. James Dallas Mastering the challenges of leading change: inspire the people & succeed where others fail
Rebecca Drake Just between us
Bart Egnal Leading through language: choosing words that influence & inspire
Friederike Fabritius The leading brain: powerful science-based strategies for achieving peak performance
Laura Gallier The delusion: we all have our demons
Leonard C. Green The entrepreneur's playbook: more than 100 proven strategies, tips & techniques to build a radically successful business
Mick Herron This is what happened
Zeb Hogan National geographic kids chapters: monster fish!
Dara Horn Eternal life
Karl Ove Knausgaard Winter
Stephanie Laurens The taste of innocence
Stephanie Laurens Where the heart leads
Ursula K. Le Guin No time to spare
Thomas Locke Merchant of Alyss
Sujata Massey The widows of Malabar Hill
Lisa Earle McLeod Leading with noble purpose: how to create a tribe of true believers
Vince Molinaro The leadership contract: the fine print to becoming an accountable leader
Shoba Narayan The milk lady of Bangalore: an unexpected adventure
Tracie Peterson Out of the ashes
DBC Pierre Lights out in Wonderland
Colin Price Accelerating performance: how organizations can mobilize, execute & transform with agility
Julia Quinn How to marry a Marquis
Julia Quinn When he was wicked
Dusty Richards Dead aim
Randall Silvis Walking the bones
Ali Smith Winter
Walter Stahr John Jay: founding father
Mary Lou Sullivan Everything's bigger in Texas: the life & times of Kinky Friedman
Molly Tanzer Creatures of will & temper
Karissa Thacker The art of authenticity: tools to become an authentic leader & your best self
Tracy Townsend The nine
Helene Tursten Protected by the shadows
Jason Vitug You only live once: the roadmap to financial wellness & a purposeful life
Alex Worley Judge Anderson: year one
Steve Yarbrough The unmade world

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CDs
Classical
1948: Russian works for cello & piano CD Classical Prokofiev
Fauré Works for cello CD Classical Fauré
Louis Spohr String quartets (complete). Vol. 11 CD Classical Spohr

Posted on Jul. 12, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of July 2

BOOKS

FICTION
Emily Giffin All we ever wanted
Jordy Rosenberg Confessions of the fox
Thrity Umrigar The secrets between us
Daniel Gerard Welch Race for the mind

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Jeremy Finley The darkest time of night
Dianne Freeman A lady's guide to etiquette & murder
Mari Hannah The silent room
Elin Hilderbrand The perfect couple
Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg The little old lady behaving badly
Rosalie Knecht Who is Vera Kelly?
B.A. Paris Bring me back
William Shaw Salt lane

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Paul Tremblay The cabin at the end of the world

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
M. Amos Clifford Your guide to forest bathing: experience the healing power of nature 615.851 C637

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Kiana Underwood Color me floral: stunning monochromatic arrangements for every season 745.92 Un25

Business & Economics
Norm Brodsky Street smarts: an all-purpose tool kit for entrepreneurs 658.022 B785
Dawn Graham Switchers: how smart professionals change careers-- & seize success 650.14 G760

Chess
ChessBase GmbH Openings #04: Indian defences 794.122 C524

Computer Science
Martin Fowler Patterns of enterprise application architecture 005.1 F829

History
Michael David Cohen Reconstructing the campus: higher education & the American Civil War 973.7 C660
Konrad H. Jarausch Broken lives: how ordinary Germans experienced the twentieth century 943.087 J28
Garry Kasparov Winter is coming: why Vladimir Putin & the enemies of the free world must be stopped 947.086 K192
Peter Mayle My twenty-five years in Provence: reflections on then & now 944.9 M453
Maurice Rajsfus The Vél d'Hiv raid: the French police at the service of the Gestapo 940.5318 R161
Helen Rappaport The race to save the Romanovs: the truth behind the secret plans to rescue the Russian imperial family 947.08 R182
Ben Rhodes The world as it is: a memoir of the Obama White House 973.932 R476

Languages & Linguistics
E. Einhorn Old French: a concise handbook 447.01 Ei66

Law
Michael Chertoff Exploding data: reclaiming our cyber security in the digital age 343.73 C424

Literature & Writing
Alexander Larman Byron's women 821.7 L326
Edmund White The unpunished vice: a life of reading 813.54 W582

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Adam Frank Light of the stars: alien worlds & the fate of the Earth 523.1 F82L
Errol Morris The ashtray: (or the man who denied reality) 501 M875
Nick Pyenson Spying on whales: the past, present & future of earth's most awesome creatures 599.5 P992

Performing Arts & Music
Mick LaSalle The beauty of the real: what Hollywood can learn from contemporary French actresses 791.43 L33b
Seymour Stein Siren song: my life in music 781.64 S819

Politics & Government
Linda Gordon The second coming of the KKK: the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s & the American political tradition 322.42 G653
Malcolm Nance The plot to destroy democracy: how Putin & his spies are undermining America & dismantling the West 324.973 N153

Social Sciences & Current Events
Mona Charen Sex matters: how modern feminism lost touch with science, love & common sense 306.7 C376
Margalit Fox Conan Doyle for the defense: the true story of a sensational British murder, a quest for justice & the world's most famous detective writer 364.152 F791
Kimberly Harrington Amateur hour: motherhood in essays & swear words 306.8743 H237
Kirk Wallace Johnson The feather thief: beauty, obsession & the natural history heist of the century 364.1628 J661
Alissa Quart Squeezed: why our families can't afford America 305.55 Q19

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Stephen Brusatte The rise & fall of the dinosaurs: a new history of a lost world CD 567.9 B912
Robert Hilburn Paul Simon: the life CD 92 S594
John McCain The restless wave: good times, just causes, great fights & other appreciations CD 328.73 M121r
Jon Meacham The soul of America: the battle for our better angels CD 973 M479

Posted on Jul. 5, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang