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New Titles List for the Week of June 25

BOOKS

FICTION
Mary Kay Andrews The High Tide Club
Nick Arvin Mad boy: an account of Henry Phipps in the War of 1812
Nicolas Barreau Paris is always a good idea
Evgenia Citkowitz The shades
Jim Crace The melody
Charles A. Fracchia Palimpsest: a man's life in San Francisco
Roxane Gay Ayiti
Lillian Li Number one Chinese restaurant
Ann Mah The lost vintage
Rebecca Makkai The great believers
Anna Maria Ortese Neapolitan chronicles
Joe Mungo Reed We begin our ascent
Katie Williams Tell the machine goodnight
Tim Winton The shepherd's hut
William Luvaas Welcome to Saint Angel

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Cara Black Murder on the Left Bank
Bill Clinton The president is missing
Eva Dolan After you die
Matt Goldman Broken ice
Jennifer Hillier Jar of hearts
Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg The little old lady strikes again
Masako Togawa The master key
Fred Vargas The accordionist

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Todd McAulty The robots of Gotham
Peter Watts The freeze-frame revolution
Jonathan French The grey bastards

Short Stories
Lydia Millet Fight no more
Joseph O'Neill Good trouble

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Nick Drnaso Sabrina 741.5 D782 comics
Carole Maurel Luisa now & then 741.5 M453 comics

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Courtney Graham Donnell Ivan Albright 709.2 A342

Biography & Genealogy
David Lynch Room to dream 92 L987
Gregory Crouch The bonanza king: John Mackay & the battle over the greatest riches in the American West 92 M153c

Business & Economics
Sam Horn Got your attention?: how to create intrigue & connect with anyone 650.13 H813
R "Ray" Wang Disrupting digital business: create an authentic experience in the peer-to-peer economy 658.872 W246

Chess
Tibor Karolyi The invincible 794.15 T13ka
Mihail Marin The Pirc defence 794.122 M33p
Simon Williams Play like Tal 794.1092 T13
GM Sam Shankland The Shankland method 794.1 S528

Computer Science
Erik Klimczak Design for software: a playbook for developers 005.12 K652
David Pogue iPhone: the missing manual 004.1675 I647p

Health & Medicine
Seth H. Evans The sinus solution: the ultimate guide to getting permanent relief from chronic sinusitis 616.2 E924
Amanda Stern Little panic: dispatches from an anxious life 616.8522 S839

History
Eric T. Jennings Free French Africa in World War II: the African resistance 940.5367 J541
Primo Levi Survival in Auschwitz: the Nazi assault on humanity 940.5318 L66s
Mark Roseman The Wannsee Conference & the final solution: a reconsideration 940.5318 R812
Kenneth S. Stern Holocaust denial 940.5318 S839
Claudia Renton Those wild Wyndhams: three sisters at the heart of power 941.081 R422

Literature & Writing
Tom Santopietro Why To kill a mockingbird matters: what Harper Lee's book & the iconic American film mean to us today 813.54 S237
The Paris Review interviews. I 823.9 P23
The Paris Review interviews. II 823.9 P23
The Paris Review interviews. IV 823.9 P23

Performing Arts & Music
Mark Polizzotti Highway 61 revisited 780.2 D99
Joel Selvin Fare thee well: the final chapter of the Grateful Dead's long, strange trip 780.92 G771s

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Ed Husain The house of Islam: a global history 297 H968

Social Sciences & Current Events
Alan I. Abramowitz The great alignment: race, party transformation & the rise of Donald Trump 324.273 A161
Thomas Frank Rendezvous with oblivion: reports from a sinking society 306.2 F828
Liam Halligan Clean Brexit: why leaving the EU still makes sense: building a post-Brexit economy for all 341.24 H189
Beth Lew-Williams The Chinese must go: violence, exclusion & the making of the alien in America 305.895 L669
Alan Mallach The divided city: poverty & prosperity in urban America 307.76 M252
Jay W. Richards The human advantage: the future of American work in an age of smart machines 331.0973 R514

Travel & Geography
Fodor's Utah: with Zion, Bryce Canyon, Arches, Capitol Reef & Canyonlands national parks 917.92 F653
Rick Steves' Scandinavia 914.8 S848
Stephanie Rosenbloom Alone time: four seasons, four cities & the pleasures of solitude 910.4 R813

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Magazines
Philosophy today

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Andrew Sean Greer Less CD Fic Greer

Nonfiction
Zora Neale Hurston Barracoon: the story of the last "black cargo" CD 306.362 H966
Dave Itzkoff Robin CD 92 W722
Jon Meacham Franklin & Winston: an intimate portrait of an epic friendship CD 940.53 M47
Steven Pinker Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism & progress CD 303.44 P655
David Sedaris Calypso CD 814 S447c
J. Randy Taraborrelli Jackie, Janet & Lee: the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss & her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis & Lee Radziwill CD 92 K354ta
Kelly Weinersmith. Soonish: [ten emerging technologies that'll improve and/or ruin everything] CD 601 W423
Carol Burnett In such good company: eleven years of laughter, mayhem & fun in the sandbox CD 792.092 B965i

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DVDs

Foreign Language
The mafia kills only in the summer = La mafia uccide solo d'estate DVD Italian

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CDs
Classical
Rued Langgaard Complete works for violin & piano. Vol. 1 CD Classical Langgaard

Folk
Adam Nussbaum The Lead Belly project CD Folk Nussbaum

Posted on Jun. 28, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of June 18

BOOKS

FICTION
Jon Cohen Harry's trees
Rachel Cusk Kudos
Nick Dybek The Verdun affair
Caleb Johnson Treeborne
James A. McLaughlin Bearskin
Fatima Farheen Mirza A place for us
Sayaka Murata Convenience store woman
Dorthe Nors Mirror, shoulder, signal
Tommy Orange There there
Katy Regan Little big love
Maxine Rosaler Queen for a day
James Wood Upstate
Katie Arnoldi Point Dume
Diane Frank Yoga of the impossible
Kaitlyn Greenidge We love you, Charlie Freeman

Historical Fiction
Norman Lock The wreckage of Eden

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
John Connolly The woman in the woods
Ashley Dyer Splinter in the blood
Vaseem Khan Murder at the Grand Raj Palace
Laurie R. King Island of the mad
E.C.R. Lorac Fire in the thatch
Liz Nugent Lying in wait
Joyce Carol Oates Night-gaunts & other tales of suspense
Bryan Reardon The real Michael Swann
D.B. Thorne Troll
Martin Walker A taste for vengeance
Christobel Kent The day she disappeared

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Jacqueline Carey Starless
K.D. Edwards The last sun
Douglas Preston The pharaoh key

Short Stories
Gunnhild Øyehaug Wait, blink: a perfect picture of inner life

Westerns
Borden Chase Blazing guns on the Chisholm Trail

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
500 freshwater aquarium fish: a visual reference to the most popular species 639.34 F565
Anthony Burton Railway empire: how the British gave railways to the world 625.1 B974
Caroline Foley Of cabbages & kings: the history of allotments 635 F663
Lauren Slater Blue dreams: the science & the story of the drugs that changed our minds 615.78 S631

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Olivier Beer Lucien Hervé: building images 779.4 H577
John Boardman Persia & the West: an archaeological investigation of the genesis of Achaemenid art 722.52 B662
Jeff Brouws Some vernacular railroad photographs 779.9 B876
Seymour Chwast The left-handed designer 741.6 C564
Cary Cordova The heart of the Mission: Latino art & politics in San Francisco 704.036 C796
Andrew Higgott Key modern architects: 50 short histories of modern architecture 720.922 H637
William Lidwell Universal principles of design: 125 ways to enhance usability, influence perception, increase appeal, make better design decisions & teach through design 745.4 L715
Valerie K. Verzuh Woven identities: basketry art of western North America: the collection of the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Santa Fe 746.41 V574
Thomas Durant Visser Porches of North America 721.84 V834
John Zukowsky Architecture inside-out: understanding how buildings work 720 Z946
Martin Gayford Modernists & mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney & the London painters 759.2 G286

Biography & Genealogy
Bernadette Murphy Van Gogh's ear: the true story 92 V253

Business & Economics
Allen Gannett The creative curve: how to develop the right idea, at the right time 658.4 G198
Rebecca L. Spang Stuff & money in the time of the French Revolution 332.49 S735

Chess
Sam Shankland Small steps to giant improvement 794.14 S528

Food & Drink
America's Test Kitchen America's Test Kitchen Just add sauce: a revolutionary guide to boosting the flavor of everything you cook 641.814 J961
Wesley Avila Guerrilla Tacos: recipes from the streets of L.A. 641.84 A958
Ron Cooper Finding mezcal: a journey into the liquid soul of Mexico with 35 cocktails: you don't find mezcal, mezcal finds you 641.874 C776
Maori Murota Tokyo cult recipes 641.5952 M977

Health & Medicine
Maya Dusenbery Doing harm: the truth about how bad medicine & lazy science leave women dismissed, misdiagnosed & sick 613.0424 D972
Erle Montaigue Tai chi 613.71 M761
Brady Nelson Hacking Sleep Apnea 616.209 N424

History
Chris Feliciano Arnold The third bank of the river: power & survival in the twenty-first-century Amazon 981 A752
Sara Tuvel Bernstein The seamstress: a memoir of survival 940.5318 B531
John Mack Faragher Eternity Street: violence & justice in frontier Los Angeles 979.494 F219
Amy K. DeFalco Lippert Consuming identities: visual culture in nineteenth-century San Francisco 979.461 L765
Graham Robb The debatable land: the lost world between Scotland & England 941.37 R631
The good old days: the Holocaust as seen by its perpetrators & bystanders 940.5318 G646
James A. Warren God, war & providence: the epic struggle of Roger Williams & the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England 974.502 W286
Richard A. Billows Before & after Alexander: the legend & legacy of Alexander the Great 938.07 B599

Home & Family Management
Andy Couturier The abundance of less: lessons in simple living from rural Japan 640.28 C872

Law
Sam Sugar Guardianships & the elderly: the perfect crime 346.7301 S947

Literature & Writing
Jonathan Bracker Concerning poetry: poems about poetry 811 B797c
Douglas E. Cowan America's dark theologian: the religious imagination of Stephen King 813.54 C874
Jane Kramer The reporter's kitchen 808.06 K894
Joseph Kent Blue images in sunshine 811 K371
Gore Vidal At home: essays, 1982-1988 814.54 V648

Performing Arts & Music
Henry Alford And then we danced: a voyage into the groove 792.8 A389
Jason Heller Strange stars: David Bowie, pop music & the decade sci-fi exploded 781.66 H477

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Jakusho Kwong No beginning, no end: the intimate heart of Zen 294.34 K989

Politics & Government
James R. Clapper Facts & fears: hard truths from a life in intelligence 327.12 C589
James Loeffler Rooted cosmopolitans: Jews & human rights in the twentieth century 323 L825
Diane Atkinson Rise up, women!: the remarkable lives of the suffragettes 324.6 A875

Reference
Asthma sourcebook: basic consumer health information 616.238 A853

Social Sciences & Current Events
Bruce Katz The metropolitan revolution: how cities & metros are fixing our broken politics & fragile economy 307.76 K197
Sarah Kessler Gigged: the end of the job & the future of work 331.0973 K425
Peter McNeil Luxury: a rich history 330.16 M169

Sports & Games
Eric Chaline Strokes of genius: a history of swimming 797.2 C436

Travel & Geography
Ian Anderson Pacific Coast Highway road trip: California, Oregon & Washington 917.94 M818
Fodor's essential Switzerland 914.94 F653
Leslie Santarina The 500 hidden secrets of San Francisco 917.9461 S233
Ernest Beyl Stops along the royal road: adventures from a lifetime of travel 910.4 B573

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Anthony Horowitz The word is murder Large Print Horowitz

Nonfiction
Michael Pollan How to change your mind: what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression & transcendence Large Print 615.78 P771

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Emily Winfield Martin Snow & Rose Child Martin

DVDs
Coco

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EBOOKS
Nick Dybek The Verdun Affair
Amy Meyerson The bookshop of yesterdays
Sarah Pekkanen The ever after

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
Black Panther
Deadpool
Jumanji. Welcome to the jungle

Classics
Red River

Comedy
Pitch perfect 3

Drama
A monster calls
Call me by your name
Phantom thread
The Post
The shape of water

Foreign Language
Winter sleep = Kiş uykusu DVD Middle East

Musicals
The greatest showman

Nonfiction
Blast! DVD 781.552 B644
Cameraperson DVD 777 C182
Robert Greenberg The symphony DVD 784.184 G798

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CDs

Folk
John Prine The tree of forgiveness CD Folk Prine

Jazz & Blues
Bill Frisell Music is CD Jazz Frisell

Opera
Benjamin Britten Billy Budd CD Opera Britten
Benjamin Britten Death in Venice CD Opera Britten
Benjamin Britten Peter Grimes CD Opera Britten
Thomas Ambroise Hamlet CD Opera Thomas

Posted on Jun. 21, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of June 11

BOOKS

FICTION
Jess Arndt Large animals
Fredrik Backman Us against you
Jenna Blum The lost family
Adrienne Celt Invitation to a bonfire
Gaël Faye Small country
Carla Guelfenbein In the distance with you
Helen Hoang The kiss quotient
Silas House Southernmost
Allison Pearson How hard can it be?
Sarah Pekkanen The ever after
Zachary Schomburg Mammother
Kristin Kaye Tree dreams

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Tara Isabella Burton Social creature
You-Jeong Jeong The good son
Rae DelBianco Rough animals
Eduardo Halfon Mourning
Mick Herron London rules
Paddy Hirsch The devil's half mile
Stephen Holgate Madagascar
Anthony Horowitz The word is murder
Adam LeBor District VIII
Leif G.W. Persson The sword of justice
Catherine Steadman Something in the water
Carsten Stroud The shimmer
Stuart Woods Turbulence

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Jim Butcher Brief cases: more stories from the Dresden files
Ian McDonald Time was

Short Stories
Lauren Groff Florida Fic Groff
Nick White Sweet & low Fic White

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Tomm Coker Undying love. Vol. 1 741.5 C682 comics
Babs Tarr Motor crush. Vol. 2 741.5 F612 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Julian Guthrie How to make a spaceship: a band of renegades, an epic race & the birth of private space flight 629.47 G984

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Michael Walsh The fiery angel: art, culture, sex, politics & the struggle for the soul of the West 709 W223

Biography & Genealogy
Seymour M. Hersh Reporter 92 H572
Ken Langone I love capitalism!: an American story 92 L284
Fiona Sampson In search of Mary Shelley 92 S5445
Tony Scherman Backbeat: Earl Palmer's story 92 P173
Richard Schwartz The man who lit Lady Liberty: the extraordinary rise & fall of actor M.B. Curtis 92 C978
RJ Smith American witness: the art & life of Robert Frank 92 F82
Jeff Sparrow No way but this: in search of Paul Robeson 92 R653sp

Business & Economics
Ken Auletta Frenemies: the epic disruption of the ad business (and everything else) 659.1 A924
Teresa Ghilarducci Rescuing retirement 332.024 G424r
Jonathan Haskel Capitalism without capital: the rise of the intangible economy 338.5 H349
Yanis Varoufakis Talking to my daughter about the economy, or, how capitalism works-- & how it fails 330 V324
Linda Yueh What would the great economists do?: how twelve brilliant minds would solve today's biggest problems 330.9 Y947

Chess
Sergey Kasparov The exchange sacrifice 794.123 K192
Robert Huebner World champion Capablanca 794.124 C23w
Peter Heine Nielsen The Sicilian Dragon for the tournament player. Vol. 1, Main Line with 9. Bc4 794.122 N66s
Peter Heine Nielsen The Sicilian Dragon for the tournament player. Vol. 2, All Lines except 9. Bc4 794.122 N66s
Simon Williams Killer French Defence. Part 1, Advanced & Tarrasch Variations 794.122 K485
Simon Williams Killer French Defence. Part 2, Winawer, exchange, KIA & other possibilities 794.122 K485

Health & Medicine
Leonard Leinow CBD: a patient's guide to health with medicinal cannabis 615.78 L531
Laura Spinney Pale rider: the Spanish Flu of 1918 & how it changed the world 614.518 S757
Mary Pilon The Kevin show: an Olympic athlete's battle with mental illness 616.8982 H174

History
Max Boot The road not taken: Edward Lansdale & the American tragedy in Vietnam 959.7 B725
Jay Cost The price of greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & the creation of American oligarchy 973.4 C837
J. D. Dickey Rising in flames: Sherman's March & the fight for a new nation 973.737 D551
Michael Haag The Durrells of Corfu 949.507 H111
Eva Hoffman After such knowledge: memory, history & the legacy of the Holocaust 940.5318 H699
Steven J. Zipperstein Pogrom: Kishinev & the tilt of history 947.6 Z79

Literature & Writing
Jacob M. Braude Complete speaker's & toastmaster's library 808.51 B825
Eleanor Fitzsimons Wilde's women: how Oscar Wilde was shaped by the women he knew 828.8 W671
Diane Frank Canon for bears & Ponderosa pines 811.6 F828
Tony Hoagland Priest turned therapist treats fear of God 811 H6787p
Michael Robertson The last utopians: four late nineteenth-century visionaries & their legacy 809.93 R649
David Sedaris Calypso 814 S447c
Michel Houellebecq Unreconciled: poems, 1991-2013: a bilingual edition 841.9 H837

Performing Arts & Music
Jim Fusilli Pet sounds 780.2 B365
Robert E. Price The Bakersfield sound: how a generation of displaced Okies revolutionized American music 781.642 P945
Daniel Warner Live wires: a history of electronic music 789.48 W279
Hugo Wilcken Low 780.2 B786

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Stephen T. Asma Why we need religion 200.1 A836
Seth Godin The dip: a little book that teaches you when to quit (and when to stick) 158.1 G58
Lesley Hazleton Agnostic: a spirited manifesto 211.7 H431

Politics & Government
Thomas B. Reston Soul of a Democrat: the seven core ideals that made our party--and our country--great 324.273 R436
David Runciman How democracy ends 321.8 R939
Andrew Selee\ Vanishing frontiers: the forces driving Mexico & the United States together 337.73 S464
Quentin Skinner The foundations of modern political thought 320.5 S628

Social Sciences & Current Events
Richard C. Blum An accident of geography: compassion, innovation & the fight against poverty 339.46 B658
Pamela Druckerman There are no grown-ups: a midlife coming-of-age story 305.244 D794
Karen M. Dunak As long as we both shall love: the white wedding in postwar America 392.5 D897
Robert W. Fieseler Tinderbox: the untold story of the Up Stairs Lounge fire & the rise of gay liberation 364.152 F467
Kali Nicole Gross Hannah Mary Tabbs & the disembodied torso: a tale of race, sex & violence in America 364.152 G878
Alex Perry The good mothers: the true story of the women who took on the world's most powerful mafia 364.106 P462
Joan Wallach Scott Gender & the politics of history 305.4 S425

Travel & Geography
Stephen Ausherman Walking Albuquerque: "30 Tours of the Duke City's Historic Neighborhoods, Ditch Trails, Urban Nature & Public Art" 917.896 A932
Fodor's Brooklyn 917.4723 F653
Frommer's Easyguide to Rome, Florence & Venice 914.5 F93e
A walk across Africa: J.A. Grant's account of the Nile expedition of 1860-1863 916.76 G761

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LARGE PRINT

Nonfiction
Al Franken Al Franken: giant of the Senate Large Print 328.73 F829

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Sophie Blackall Hello lighthouse Child Blackall
Marlon Bundo A day in the life of Marlon Bundo Child Bundo

Nonfiction
Brittany Canasi San Francisco Child 917.946 C213
Maya Gonzalez When a bully is president: truth & creativity for oppressive times Child 302.343 G643
Rob Sanders Pride: the story of Harvey Milk & the Rainbow Flag Child 92 M644

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EAUDIOBOOKS
Rochelle Alers The perfect present
Scott D. Anthony Dual transformation: how to reposition today's business while creating the future
Mary Balogh Someone to wed
S.M. Beiko Scion of the fox
Tyrone Bentley Pearl tongue
Bridging infinity
John Seely Brown The social life of information
Davis Bunn Firefly cove
Italo Calvino The road to san giovanni
Mary Connealy Too far down
James S.A. Corey Persepolis rising
B.J. Daniels Cowboy's legacy
B.J. Daniels Hero's return
Jane Fallon My sweet revenge
Fearsome magics: the new solaris book of fantasy 2
Jon Gordon Life word: discover your one word to leave a legacy
Nicholas Guild The Macedonian
Claire Hajaj Ishmael's oranges
Amy Cooper Hakim Working with difficult people: handling the ten types of problem people without losing your mind
Lisa Harris Vanishing point
Jonathan Haskel Capitalism without capital: the rise of the intangible economy
Ronald A. Heifetz Leadership on the line: staying alive through the dangers of change
David Hewson The house of dolls
Kristan Higgins Now that you mention it
J. Kelly Hoey Build your dream network: forging powerful relationships in a hyper-connected world
Mitch Horowitz Awakened mind: how thoughts become reality
Dave Hutchinson Europe in Autumn
K.M. Jackson The betting vow
Leanne Jacobs Beautiful money: the 4-week total wealth makeover
Howard Jacobson The dog's last walk
John Jantsch Seo for growth: the ultimate guide for marketers, web designers & entrepreneurs
William W. Johnstone A Texas hill country Christmas
William W. Johnstone A time for vultures
William W. Johnstone Bad men die
William W. Johnstone Kill or die
Elmer Kelton Joe Pepper
Ronie Kendig Conspiracy of silence
Cassandra Khaw Food of the gods
Jane Kirkpatrick All she left behind
Jeremie Kubicek 5 voices: how to communicate effectively with everyone you lead
Peter Laws Purged
Ashton Lee Book club babies
Paul Leinwand Strategy that works: how winning companies close the strategy-to-execution gap
Peter Lovesey Beau death
Deirdre N. McCloskey The bourgeois virtues: ethics for an age of commerce
Annie McKee How to be happy at work: the power of purpose, hope & friendship
Gloria Origgi Reputation: what is it & why it matters
Ada Palmer The will to battle
George Patton War as I knew it
Kate Pearce The bad boy cowboy
Malene Rydahl Happy as a dane: 10 secrets of the happiest people in the world
Samuel Smiles Self help
Matt Smith Judge Dredd: year one
Sarah Stovell Exquisite
Irene Yuan Sun The next factory of the world: how Chinese investment is reshaping Africa
Kiki Swinson Dirty tricks
Robert Verganti Overcrowded: designing meaningful products in a world awash with ideas
Joe Vitale The prosperity factor: how to achieve unlimited wealth in every area of your life
Dan Wakefield Expect a miracle: the miraculous things that happen to ordinary people
Martha Wells All systems red
Chuck Wendig Unclean spirits

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DVDs

Drama
I, Tonya

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Winchester

Nonfiction
Latcho drom = Bonne route = Safe journey DVD 780.9 L351
The pervert's guide to ideology DVD 140 P471
The Wrecking Crew! DVD 782.421 W944

Posted on Jun. 14, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of June 4

BOOKS

FICTION
Jean-Paul Clebert Paris vagabond
Michelle Gable The summer I met Jack
Charles Soule The oracle year
Elizabeth Tan Rubik

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Tracy Clark Broken places
Karen Cleveland Need to know
Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell The gray ghost
Lynda La Plante Tennison
Matthew Pearl The Dante chamber
John Sandford Twisted prey
Ruth Ware The death of Mrs. Westaway

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Catherynne M. Valente Space opera

Short Stories
Helen DeWitt Some trick: 13 stories Fic DeWitt
edited by John Joseph Adams (editor) Dead man's hand: an anthology of the weird west SS D278

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Flying too close to the sun: myths in art from classical to contemporary 704.947 F648
Growing up with the impressionists: the diary of Julie Manet 759.4 M275
Stephanie Porras Art of the Northern Renaissance: courts, commerce & devotion 709.024 P838
Ruth Asawa 730.92 A798r

Biography & Genealogy
Andrew Carnegie The autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ; and, the gospel of wealth 92 C289c
Andrzej Franaszek Milosz 92 M661
Diarmaid MacCulloch Thomas Cranmer: a Life 92 C8911ma
Alexandra M. Nickliss Phoebe Apperson Hearst: a life of power & politics 92 H436
Maria Perry Sisters to the king: the tumultuous lives of Henry VIII's sisters -- Margaret of Scotland & Mary of France 929.2 H522
Matthew Polly Bruce Lee: a life 92 L4771
Jean Renoir Renoir: my father 92 R418

Business & Economics
Gary Burnison Lose the resume: land the job 650.14 B966
Timothy Falcon Crack Heard on the street: quantitative questions from Wall Street job interviews 650.14 C883
David Cusic California real estate license express: all-in-one review & testing to pass California's real estate exam 333.33 C986
Nancy Duarte Slide:ology: the art & science of creating great presentations 658.452 D812
Brian Johnson Option strategy hedging & risk management: an in-depth article introducing an interactive analytical framework for hedging option strategy risk 332.645 J661
Perry Marshall Ultimate guide to Facebook advertising 659.144 M367
Kevin Martin California real estate exam prep: the complete guide to passing the California Real Estate salesperson license exam the first time! 333.33 M379

Computer Science
Philip Japikse Building web applications with Visual Studio 2017: using .NET Core & modern JavaScript frameworks 006.78 V834

Food & Drink
Joanna Gaines Magnolia Table: a collection of recipes for gathering 641.5975 G142
Fany Gerson Paletas: authentic recipes for Mexican ice pops, shaved ice & aguas frescas 641.86 G382
Diane Lapis Cocktails across America: a postcard view of cocktail culture in the 1930s, '40s & '50s 641.874 L313
Erika Rappaport A thirst for empire: how tea shaped the modern world 641.3372 R221

Health & Medicine
Jeff Bercovici Play on: the new science of elite performance at any age 613.7 B486

History
Colin F. Baxter The secret history of RDX: the super-explosive that helped win World War II 662 B355
John L. Campbell American discontent: the rise of Donald Trump & decline of the golden age 973.933 C187
Jerome R. Corsi Killing the Deep State: the fight to save President Trump 973.933 C826
John Ferling Apostles of revolution: Jefferson, Paine, Monroe & the struggle against the old order in America & Europe 973.3 F357a
Travis Jeppesen See you again in Pyongyang: a journey into Kim Jong Un's North Korea 951.93 J549
Denise Kiernan The last castle: the epic story of love, loss & American royalty in the nation's largest home 975.6 K475
Wim Klooster Realm between empires: the second Dutch Atlantic, 1680-1815 909.097 K662
Andrew Lawler The secret token: myth, obsession & the search for the lost colony of Roanoke 975.6 L418
Olivier Magny WTF?!: What The French 944 M199
Jon Meacham The soul of America: the battle for our better angels 973 M479
Nancy Simons Peterson Raking the ashes: genealogical strategies for pre-1906 San Francisco research 929.1 P485
Jeff Weaver How Bernie won: inside the revolution that's taking back our country-- & where we go from here 973.932 W363
Rodney Castleden The making of Stonehenge 936.2 C353
Mick Sinclair The Thames: a cultural history 942.2 S616

Home & Family Management
Jessica Lahey The gift of failure: how the best parents learn to let go so their children can succeed 649.7 L183
The smart approach to design bathrooms 690 C912

Literature & Writing
Eric Sandberg (editor) 100 greatest literary detectives 809.38 O584

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
David Reich Who we are & how we got here: ancient DNA & the new science of the human past 572.86 R347

Politics & Government
Amy Goodman Democracy now!: twenty years covering the movements changing America 320.973 G653
John McCain The restless wave: good times, just causes, great fights & other appreciations 328.73 M121r
B. J. Mendelson Privacy & how to get it back 323.448 M537

Reference
Jeffrey A. Knight (editor) Genetics & inherited conditions 616.042 G328

Social Sciences & Current Events
Steven Brill Tailspin: the people & forces behind America's fifty-year fall--and those fighting to reverse it 306.0973 B857
Marcus Tullius Cicero How to grow old: ancient wisdom for the second half of life 305.26 C568
John Couch Rewiring education: how technology can unlock every student's potential 371.33 C853
Jo Ann Jenkins Disrupt aging: a bold new path to living your best life at every age 305.26 J521
L.A. Kauffman Direct action: protest & the reinvention of American radicalism 303.484 K211
Bill Kilday Never lost again: the Google mapping revolution that sparked new industries & augmented our reality 338.761 K482
Jaron Lanier Ten arguments for deleting all your social media accounts right now 302.23 L287
Michelle McNamara I'll be gone in the dark: one woman's obsessive search for the Golden State Killer 364.153 M169

Travel & Geography
Bradt Albania 914.965 B812
Fodor's 2018 London 914.21 F653
Fodor's the complete guide to African safaris 916 F65
Fodor's Vienna & the best of Austria 914.361 F653
Frommer's Costa Rica 917.286 F93
Frommer's Italy 914.5 F93
TimeOut Rome 914.56 T583

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Jocko Willink Marc's mission Child Willink
Andrew Clements The Losers Club Child Clements

Nonfiction
Nate Cohn San Francisco 49ers Child 796.33 C678
Tricia Martineau Wagner 50 wacky things animals do: weird & amazing animal facts Child 591.5 W132

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EAUDIOBOOKS
Daniel G. Amen Memory rescue: supercharge your brain, reverse memory loss & remember what matters most
The adventures of an it leader: updated edition/ Robert D. Austin
Julian Barnes The only story
Neal Bascomb Higher: a historical race to the sky & the making of a city
Neal Bascomb Hunting Eichmann: how a band of survivors & a young spy agency chased down the world's most notorious Nazi
Neal Bascomb Red mutiny: eleven fateful days on the battleship Potemkin
Neal Bascomb The perfect mile: three athletes, one goal & less than four minutes to achieve it
L. Frank Baum Life & adventures of Santa Claus
Marion Zimmer Bradley Planet savers/sword of aldones
Marion Zimmer Bradley Star of danger
Marion Zimmer Bradley The bloody sun
Gerald Brandt The rebel
Anne Canadeo Knit to kill
Myke Cole Siege line
MaryJanice Davidson Deja new
Jessica Ellicott Murder in an English village
Diana Gabaldon Lord John & the plague of zombies
Vijay Govindarajan The three-box solution: a strategy for leading innovation
Kyle Harper The fate of Rome: climate, disease & the end of an empire
Mick Herron The usual Santas: a collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers
Robert S. Kaplan What you really need to lead: the power of thinking & acting like an owner
Dean Koontz The whispering room
Alan B. Kreuger What makes a terrorist?
Anne LaBastille Woodswoman
Ken Liu Drowned worlds
Roger L. Martin Getting beyond better: how social entrepreneurship works
Alexander McCall Smith The good pilot Peter Woodhouse
Meeting infinity
Stephen Mitchell Beowulf
Yves Morieux Six simple rules: how to manage complexity without getting complicated
Salman Rushdie Shame
Salman Rushdie The moor's last sigh
Robert J. Sawyer The terminal experiment
Richard Norton Smith Patriarch: George Washington & the new American nation
R.E. Stearns Barbary Station
Victoria Thompson City of lies
Reavis Z. Wortham Hawke's prey
Todd Zenger Beyond competitive advantage: how to solve the puzzle of sustaining growth while creating value

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EBOOKS
Aimee Agresti Campaign widows
Rumaan Alam That kind of mother
Arif Anwar The storm
Dan Ariely Dollars & Sense: How We Misthink Money & How To Spend Smarter
John Avlon Washington's farewell: the founding father's warning to future generations
Jen Beagin Pretend I'm dead
Ted Bell Overkill
Matthew Betley Field of valor
Christopher Buckley The judge hunter
Jez Burrows Dictionary stories: short fictions & other findings
Craig Childs Atlas of a lost world: travels in ice age America
Christine Dimmick Detox your home: a guide to removing toxins from your life & bringing health into your home
Will Doig High-Speed Empire: Chinese Expansion & the Future of Southeast Asia
Cyrus Farivar Habeas data: privacy vs. the rise of surveillance tech
Raymond E. Feist King of ashes
Dorothea Benton Frank By invitation only
Sarah Haywood The cactus
Frances E. Jensen The teenage brain: a neuroscientist's survival guide to raising adolescents & young adults
Charles Johnson Night hawks
Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar The map of salt & stars
Jess Kidd Mr. Flood's last resort
Stephen King The outsider
Sally Koslow Another side of paradise
R.F. Kuang The poppy war
Rachel Kushner The mars room
Mackeni Lee Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World
Tim Marshall Prisoners of geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
Aimee Molloy The perfect mother
Derek Molyneux Those of us who must die: execution, exile & revival after the Easter Rising
Mary Alice Monroe Beach house reunion
Christopher J. Olson 100 greatest cult films
Jennifer Palmieri Dear Madam President: an open letter to the women -- who will -- run the world
Charlton Pettus Exit strategy
Amy Poeppel Limelight
Leonard Sax Why gender matters: what parents & teachers need to know about the emerging science of sex differences
Edith Sheffer Asperger's children: the origins of autism in Nazi Vienna
Dwight Spivey iPhone for seniors for dummies
Danielle Teller All the ever afters: the untold story of Cinderella's stepmother
Edward Tenner The efficiency paradox: what big data can't do
Frans de Waal The bonobo & the atheist: in search of humanism among the primates
Ruth Ware The death of Mrs. Westaway
Randi Zuckerberg Pick three: you can have it all (just not every day)

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CDs

Folk
Bela Fleck Echo in the valley CD Folk Fleck

Jazz & Blues
Blue Note All-Stars Our point of view CD Jazz Blue Note

Popular
Foo Fighters Concrete & gold CD Pop Foo Fighters

Posted on Jun. 11, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of May 28

BOOKS

FICTION
Judy Blundell The high season
Kenneth Bonert The Mandela plot
Elisabeth Cohen The glitch
Ceridwen Dovey In the garden of the fugitives
Mary Alice Monroe Beach house reunion

Historical Fiction
Elisabeth Payne Rosen Hallam's war

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Holly Brown How far she's come
Nir Hezroni Last instructions
D.B. John Star of the North
Fuminori Nakamura Cult X

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Stephen King The outsider

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Gipi Land of the sons 741.5 G514L comics
Hartley Lin Young Frances 741.5 L735 comics
Max de Radiguès WEEGEE: serial photographer 779.2 R129 comics
Rick Remender Tokyo ghost 741.5 T646 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
David H. Dudley Aquaponic design plans: everything you need to know from backyard to profitable business 635.048 D847
Meg Stout The complete idiot's guide to aquaponic gardening 635.048 S889

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Emily Katz Modern macramé: 33 stylish projects for your handmade home 746.42 K197
Monet's Impression sunrise: the biography of a painting 759.4 M742i

Biography & Genealogy
Joyce Bulifant My four Hollywood husbands 92 B934
James Hatch Touching the dragon: & other techniques for surviving life's wars 92 H361
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers Saving Central Park: a history & a memoir 92 R724

Business & Economics
Tobias E. Carlisle The acquirer's multiple: how the billionaire contrarians of deep value beat the market 332.6 C283
John Carreyrou Bad blood: secrets & lies in a Silicon Valley startup 338.768 C315
Philippe Silberzahn A manager's guide to disruptive innovation: why great companies fail in the face of disruption & how to make sure your company doesn't 658.4 S582

Computer Science
Wes McKinney Python for data analysis: data wrangling with pandas, NumPy & IPython 005.13 M158
Stuart J. Russell Artificial intelligence: a modern approach 006.3 R961

Food & Drink
Gina Homolka The skinnytaste cookbook: light on calories, big on flavor 641.563 H768s

Health & Medicine
Ann Weiser Cornell The radical acceptance of everything: living a focusing life 616.89 C814
Michael S. Gazzaniga The consciousness instinct: unraveling the mystery of how the brain makes the mind 612.82 G291

History
Richard Overy RAF: the birth of the world's first air force 940.44 O968
Professional genealogy: preparation, practice & standards 929.1 P964
Ingrid Rossellini Know Thyself: Western identity from classical Greece to the Renaissance 909.0982 R828
Kurt C. Schlichting Waterfront Manhattan: from Henry Hudson to the high line 387.1 S344
Peter Turchin Ultrasociety: how 10,000 years of war made humans the greatest cooperators on Earth 909 T932
Matthew Kneale Rome: a history in seven sackings 945.6 K681

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Richard Orlando Weeds in the urban landscape: where they come from, why they're here & how to live with them 632.5 O712

Performing Arts & Music
Steven Hyden Twilight of the gods: a journey to the end of classic rock 781.66 H995
Damon Wood Working for the man, playing in the band 782.421 W873

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Wayne W. Dyer The shift: taking your life from ambition to meaning 204.4 D996
Paula Fredriksen Paul: the pagans' apostle 225.92 F852
Thomas W. Malone Superminds: the surprising power of people & computers thinking together 006.3 M257
Dennis Prager The rational Bible. Exodus: God, slavery & freedom 222.12 P898
The mythology book 201.3 M999

Politics & Government
Frederick D. Barton Peace works: America's peacebuilding role in a turbulent world 327.17 B293
Taylor Downing 1983: Reagan, Andropov & a world on the brink 327.73 D751
Bill Schneider Standoff: how America became ungovernable 320.973 S358

Social Sciences & Current Events
David Graeber Bullshit jobs 306.36 G734
Thomas J. Osborne Coastal sage: Peter Douglas & the fight to save California's shore 333.72 O814
Salena Zito The great revolt: inside the populist coalition reshaping American politics 306.2 Z821

Travel & Geography
Alice Stevenson Ways to see Great Britain: curious places & surprising perspectives 914.1 S847

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Simon Winchester The perfectionists: how precision engineers created the modern world CD 620 W759

Posted on Jun. 11, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of May 21

BOOKS

FICTION
Arif Anwar The storm
Jen Beagin Pretend I'm dead
Jana Casale The girl who never read Noam Chomsky
Katherine Center How to walk away
Aja Gabel The ensemble
Jessica Knoll The favorite sister
Sergio De La Pava Lost empress: (a protest)
Kevin Powers A shout in the ruins
Muhsin Al-Ramli The president's gardens
Roma Tearne Brixton Beach
Richard Wagamese Indian horse

Historical Fiction
Fiona Buckley The reluctant assassin
Conn Iggulden The abbot's tale
Alison Weir Jane Seymour, the haunted queen

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Víctor del Árbol A million drops
David Baldacci The fallen
D.W. Buffa Necessity
Steve Burrows A shimmer of hummingbirds
Barbara Cleverly Fall of angels
Judith Flanders A howl of wolves
Elly Griffiths The dark angel
Julia Heaberlin Paper ghosts
Michael Koryta How it happened
Larry D. Sweazy See also proof

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Robyn Bennis By fire above
Lara Elena Donnelly Armistice
Joanne M. Harris The gospel of Loki
Connie Willis I met a traveller in an antique land

Short Stories
William Trevor Last stories

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Ellen Forney Rock steady: brilliant advice from my bipolar life 741.5 F727 comics
Michael Kupperman All the answers 741.5 K968 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Shawn Jadrnicek The bio-integrated farm: a revolutionary permaculture-based system using greenhouses, ponds, compost piles, aquaponics, chickens & more 631.58 J21

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Richard Avedon Nothing personal 779.092 A948
Ashforth Coppola One-track mind: drawing the New York subway 741.943 C785
Mark Duplass Like brothers 791.43 D935
Historians on Hamilton: how a blockbuster musical is restaging America's past 782.14 R759

Biography & Genealogy
John Nathan Sōseki: modern Japan's greatest novelist 92 S715
R. Gregory Nokes The troubled life of Peter Burnett: Oregon pioneer & first Governor of California 92 B964

Business & Economics
John Doerr Measure what matters: how Google, Bono & the Gates Foundation rock the world with OKRs 658.4 D652

Food & Drink
James Briscione The flavor matrix: the art & science of pairing common ingredients to create extraordinary dishes 641.5 B859
Steven Raichlen Project fire: cutting-edge techniques & sizzling recipes from the caveman porterhouse to salt slab brownie s'mores 641.76 R149

Health & Medicine
Jill Weisenberger Prediabetes: a complete guide: your lifestyle reset to stop prediabetes & other chronic illnesses 616.462 W427

History
Mitchell Abidor May made me: an oral history of the 1968 uprising in France 944.083 A148
Gary Krist The mirage factory: illusion, imagination & the invention of Los Angeles 979.494 K928
My opposition: the diary of Friedrich Kellner - a German against the Third Reich 943.086 K294
Rules for resistance: advice from around the globe for the age of Trump 973.933 R935
Rachel Slade Into the raging sea: thirty-three mariners, one megastorm & the sinking of El Faro 910.916 S631

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Alison Gopnik The gardener & the carpenter: what the new science of child development tells us about the relationship between parents & children 155.4 G659
Kevin Simler The elephant in the brain: hidden motives in everyday life 153.8 S591

Politics & Government
Jonah Goldberg Suicide of the west: how the rebirth of tribalism, populism, nationalism & identity politics is destroying American democracy 320.52 G618
Michael McFaul From Cold War to hot peace: an American ambassador in Putin's Russia 327.73 M143

Social Sciences & Current Events
Stacy Horn Damnation Island: poor, sick, mad & criminal in 19th-century New York 362.21 H813
William Stadiem Madame Claude: her secret world of pleasure, privilege & power 306.74 S776
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Skin in the game: hidden asymmetries in daily life 302.12 T143

Sports & Games
Sean Deveney Greed & glory: the rise & fall of Doc Gooden, Lawrence Taylor, E Koch, Rudy Guiliani, Donald Trump & the Mafia in 1980s New York 796.0974 D489

Travel & Geography
Mark Adams Tip of the iceberg: my 3,000-mile journey around wild Alaska, the last great American frontier 917.98 A211

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Jacqueline Winspear To die but once Large Print Winspear

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Sheela Chari Finding Mighty Child Chari

Posted on May. 24, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of May 14

BOOKS

FICTION
Rumaan Alam That kind of mother
Blanche McCrary Boyd Tomb of the unknown racist
Stephen McCauley My ex-life
Jen Neale Land mammals & sea creatures
Christie Nelson Beautiful illusion, Treasure island, 1939
Michael Ondaatje Warlight
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto Shadow child
Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop The mercy seat

Historical Fiction
Charles Frazier Varina

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Michel Bussi Time is a killer
Andrew Cartmel The vinyl detective: victory disc
Owen Laukkanen Gale force
E.C.R. Lorac Bats in the belfry
David Mark Dead pretty
Stephen Weeks Sins of the Father

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Leo Carew The wolf
Johanna Drucker Downdrift: an eco-fiction
Joe Hart Obscura
Kelly Robson Gods, monsters & the lucky peach
Steve Toutonghi Side life

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Chii The bride was a boy 741.5 C534 comics
Jim Ottaviani Bone sharps, cowboys & thunder lizards: a tale of Edwin Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh & the gilded age of paleontology 741.5 O893b comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Scott Aaronson Quantum computing since Democritus 621.39 A113
Maureen Gilmer The colorful dry garden: over 100 flowers & vibrant plants for drought, desert & dry times 635.952 G487
Simon Winchester The perfectionists: how precision engineers created the modern world 620 W759

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
William Middleton Double vision: the unerring eye of art world avatars Dominique & John de Menil 707.5 M628

Biography & Genealogy
Lillian Faderman Harvey Milk: his lives & death 92 M644f
Robert Hilburn Paul Simon: the life 92 S594
Karl Ove Knausgaard Spring 92 K679
Richard Munson Tesla: inventor of the modern 92 T337

Business & Economics
Condoleezza Rice Political risk: how businesses & organizations can anticipate global insecurity 658.155 R495

Computer Science
Caleb Doxsey Introducing Go: build reliable, scalable programs 005.13 D752
Simon St. Laurent Introducing Elixir: getting started in functional programming 005.13 S862

History
Allen C. Guelzo Reconstruction: a concise history 973.8 G925
Stephen R. Platt Imperial twilight: the opium war & the end of China's last golden age 951.03 P719
Craig L. Symonds World War II at sea: a global history 940.545 S988w

Literature & Writing
Joseph Crespino Atticus Finch: the biography: Harper Lee, her father & the making of an American icon 813.54 C921
Keira Lynn Dodd Into the chaos: a book of poems 811.6 D639
Alberto Manguel Packing my library: an elegy & ten digressions 818.54 M277
Ross Raisin Read this if you want to be a great writer 808.02 R159
Paul Theroux Figures in a landscape: people & places: essays: 2001-2016 814.54 T412

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Alan Burdick Why time flies: a mostly scientific investigation 529 B951
Isobel Charman The zoo: the wild & wonderful tale of the founding of the London Zoo, 1826-1851 590.73 C482
Craig Childs Atlas of a lost world: travels in ice age America 551.7 C537

Performing Arts & Music
Charlie Harmon On the road & off the record with Leonard Bernstein: my years with the exasperating genius 780.92 B53h
Christopher J. Olson 100 greatest cult films 791.43 O524

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
David I. Kertzer The pope who would be king: the exile of Pius IX & the emergence of modern Europe 282.092 K419
Leah Weiss How we work: live your purpose, reclaim your sanity & embrace the daily grind 158.7 W429
Eric Zuesse Christ's ventriloquists: the event that created Christianity 270 Z944

Social Sciences & Current Events
Peter Ackroyd Queer city: gay London from the Romans to the present day 306.76 A182
Howard G. Buffett Our 50-state border crisis: how the Mexican border fuels the drug epidemic across America 363.45 B929
Jim DeFelice West like lightning: the brief, legendary ride of the Pony Express 383.143 D313
Will Doig High-speed empire: Chinese expansion & the future of Southeast Asia 330.959 D657
James Fallows Our towns: a 100,000-mile journey into the heart of America 306.0973 F196
Lara Feigel Free woman: life, liberation & Doris Lessing 305.42 F297
C. Donald Johnson The wealth of a nation: a history of trade politics in America 382 J661
Seamus McGraw A thirsty land: the making of an American water crisis 333.91 M147

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Carrie Fisher The princess diarist CD 791.45 F533

Posted on May. 17, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of May 7

BOOKS

FICTION
Heather Abel The optimistic decade
Melissa Broder The pisces
Christopher Buckley The judge hunter
John Connolly He
Genevieve Sly Crane Sorority
Sheila Heti Motherhood
Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar The map of salt & stars
Rachel Kushner The mars room
Paula McLain Love & ruin
Chibundu Onuzo Welcome to Lagos
Chuck Palahniuk Adjustment day

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Simon Conway A loyal spy
Brian Freeman Alter ego
Anne Holt In dust & ashes
Jess Kidd Mr. Flood's last resort
John Lawton The unfortunate Englishman
Aimee Molloy The perfect mother
Chris Nickson Gods of gold
Gerard O'Donovan The long silence
Charlton Pettus Exit strategy

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Emily Devenport Medusa uploaded
R.F. Kuang The poppy war
Billy O'Callaghan The dead house
L. Penelope Song of blood & stone

Short Stories
Charles Johnson Night hawks

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Julia Kaye Super late bloomer: my early days in transition: an up & out collection 306.76 K234 comics
Niki Smith Crossplay 741.5 S642 comics

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Nigel Merrick Selling fine art photography 702.3 M568

Biography & Genealogy
Dave Itzkoff Robin 92 W722
Roland Philipps A spy named Orphan: the enigma of Donald Maclean 92 M164

Business & Economics
David Burkus Friend of a friend ...: understanding the hidden networks that can transform your life & your career 650.13 B959

Chess
Valentin Kirillov Team Tal: an inside story 794.1092 K589
Lajos Portisch My secrets in the Ruy Lopez 794.122 P852

Computer Science
R. Scott Alvord Locking the cookie jar 005.8 A476
Jim Blandy Programming Rust: fast, safe systems development 005.13 B642

Food & Drink
Nancy Singleton Hachisu Japan: the cookbook 641.5952 H117j

Health & Medicine
Christine Dimmick Detox your home: a guide to removing toxins from your life & bringing health into your home 615.9 D582
Edith Sheffer Asperger's children: the origins of autism in Nazi Vienna 618.92 S542

History
Martin S. Bergmann (editor) Generations of the Holocaust 940.5315 B499
Inga Clendinnen Reading the Holocaust 940.5318 C627
Deborah Dwork Holocaust: a history 940.53 D993
Val D. Greenwood The researcher's guide to American genealogy 929.1 G816
Quintard Taylor In search of the racial frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990 978 T238
Max Wallace In the name of humanity: the secret deal to end the Holocaust 940.53 W187
Jane Wehrey (editor) Voices from this long brown land: oral recollections of Owens Valley lives & Manzanar pasts 979.44 W414

Literature & Writing
Natalie Diaz When my brother was an Aztec 811.6 D542

Performing Arts & Music
Laura Jacobs Celestial bodies: how to look at ballet 792.8 J171
John Pring Visualizing the Beatles: a complete graphic history of the world's favorite band 782.421 P957
Jason Waguespack Rise & fall of the 80's toon empire: a behind the scenes look at when He-Man, G.I. Joe & Transformers ruled the airwaves 791.45 W135

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Hugh Gregory Gallagher By trust betrayed: patients, physicians & the license to kill in the Third Reich 174.24 G162
Ronan Farrow War on peace: the end of diplomacy & the decline of American influence 327.73 F246
Mike Wendling Alt-Right: from 4chan to the White House 320.52 W471

Social Sciences & Current Events
Ted Dintersmith What school could be: insights & inspiration from teachers across America 371.2 D587

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
George Selden The cricket in Times Square Child Selden

Posted on May. 10, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of May 1

BOOKS

FICTION
Elaine Castillo America is not the heart
Carys Davies West
Nicola Lagioia Ferocity
Patrick Modiano Sundays in August
Audrey Schulman Theory of bastards
Lionel Shriver Property
Yoko Tawada The emissary
September Williams Chasing mercury

Historical Fiction
Stephanie Dray My dear Hamilton
Margaret George The confessions of young Nero

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Donis Casey The return of the Raven Mocker
Mary Higgins Clark I've got my eyes on you
Ann Cleeves The glass room
Alfred Döblin Berlin Alexanderplatz
Mette Ivie Harrison For time & all eternities
G.M. Malliet Weycombe: a novel of suspense
Melina Marchetta Tell the truth, shame the devil
B.A. Paris Behind closed doors
Sherri Smith Follow me down

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Tomi Adeyemi Children of blood & bone
Danile José Older Star wars. Last shot
Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London

Short Stories
Curtis Sittenfeld You think it, I'll say it

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Gavin Ambrose Layout for graphic designers 686.2 A496
Rob Dobi How to survive anything: a visual guide to laughing in the face of adversity 613.69 L847
Leonardo da Vinci, engineer & architect 620 L581

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Danielle Miller Tropical minimal 729 M647
Piero Ribelli 50 Main Street: the face of America 779.092 R484

Biography & Genealogy
Patricia O'Toole The moralist: Woodrow Wilson & the world he made 92 W754o
Nadja Spiegelman I'm supposed to protect you from all this 92 S756
Chris Skidmore Richard III: England's most controversial king 92 R5113sk

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Damon Young The art of reading 028.9 Y681

Business & Economics
Lawrence G. McMillan Options as a strategic investment 332.63 M167
Dambisa Moyo Edge of chaos: why democracy is failing to deliver economic growth--and how to fix it 338.9 M938
Matt Tenney Serve to be great: leadership lessons from a prison, a monastery & a boardroom 658.4 T298
Gabriel Weinberg Traction: how any startup can achieve explosive customer growth 658.11 W423

Chess
Isaak Linder Alexander Alekhine: fourth world chess champion 794.1092 A366
Dorian Rogozenco Bobby Fischer 794.159 F52b
Dorian Rogozenco Mihail Tal 794.15 T13

Food & Drink
Nuno Mendes My Lisbon: a cookbook from Portugal's city of light 641.5946 M538
Dan Toombs The curry guy: recreate 100 of the best Indian restaurant recipes at home 641.5954 T672

Health & Medicine
Katharina Brinkmann Sciatica & piriformis syndrome: simple & effective exercises for buttock, leg & back pain 617.56 B858
Jonathan Kozol The theft of memory: losing my father, one day at a time 616.831 K889
Daphne Merkin This close to happy: a reckoning with depression 616.8527 M563

History
Alan Abrams Special treatment: the untold story of Hitler's third race 943 A161
Elizabeth Catte What you are getting wrong about Appalachia 975 C368
Amy Chozick Chasing Hillary: ten years, two presidential campaigns & one intact glass ceiling 973.932 C552
Alex Kershaw The envoy: the epic rescue of the last Jews of Europe in the desperate closing months of World War II 940.53 K416
Paul Kix The saboteur: the aristocrat who became France's most daring anti-Nazi commando 940.53 K628
Erik Mathisen The loyal republic: traitors, slaves & the remaking of citizenship in Civil War America 973.71 M431
John S. Whitehead Completing the union: Alaska, Hawai'i & the battle for statehood 979.8 W592
E. Thomas Wood Karski: how one man tried to stop the Holocaust 940.53 W873
John Blair Building Anglo-Saxon England 942.01 B635
Michael Jones The Black Prince: England's greatest medieval warrior 92 E254

Law
Michael Boyer Every landlord's guide to managing property: best practices, from move-in to move-out 333.5 B791

Literature & Writing
Steven James Troubleshooting your novel: essential techniques for identifying & solving manuscript problems 808.02 J272
R.B. Kitaj Confessions of an old Jewish painter: autobiography 830 K621
Marina Tsvetaeva Earthly signs: Moscow diaries, 1917-1922 891.74 T882
Magdalena J. Zaborowska Me & my house: James Baldwin's last decade in France 818.54 Z12
Virgil The Aeneid 871 V81fe

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Stephen Brusatte The rise & fall of the dinosaurs: a new history of a lost world 567.9 B912
Mark C. Serreze Brave new Arctic: the untold story of the melting North 577.27 S488

Performing Arts & Music
Annette Insdorf Cinematic overtures: how to read opening scenes 791.43 I591
Ryan H. Walsh Astral weeks: a secret history of 1968 782.421 W223

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Hans Rosling Factfulness: ten reasons we're wrong about the world - & why things are better than you think 155.9 R821
Jorg Rupke Pantheon: a new history of Roman religion 292.07 R945

Social Sciences & Current Events
Ian Bremmer Us vs. them: the failure of globalism 303.482 B836
James Comey A higher loyalty: truth, lies & leadership 363.25 C732
Michael Eric Dyson Tears we cannot stop: a sermon to white America 305.8 D998
Bruce W. Jentleson The peacemakers: leadership lessons from twentieth-century statesmanship 327.17 J549
Jennifer Palmieri Dear Madam President: an open letter to the women who will run the world 305.42 P179
Corey Pein Live work work work die: a journey into the savage heart of Silicon Valley 338.47 P377
Helmut Walser Smith The butcher's tale: murder & anti-semitism in a German town 305.892 S642
Heather Ann Thompson Blood in the water: the Attica prison uprising of 1971 & its legacy 365 T468

Travel & Geography
Alastair Bonnett Beyond the map: unruly enclaves, ghostly places, emerging lands & our search for new utopias 910 B717b
Lynn A. Jacobson Kwajalein, an Island like no other 919.68 J176
Michelin Canada 917.1 M623
Steve Marshall Exploring Avebury 914.23 M367

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Anne Perry Twenty-one days Large Print Perry

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DVDs

Nonfiction
Foodmatters DVD 613.2 F686

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CDs

Opera
Maria Callas Maria Callas in Mexico CD Opera Callas
Maria Callas Maria Callas, live in Hamburg, 1959 CD Opera Callas
Gioacchino Rossini Le Comte Ory CD Opera Rossini
Gioacchino Rossini Matilde di Shabran CD Opera Rossini

Posted on May. 3, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of April 23

BOOKS

FICTION
Julian Barnes The only story
Iris Martin Cohen The little clan
Négar Djavadi Disoriental
Rebekah Frumkin The comedown
Steve Israel Big guns
Christopher Moore Noir
Dan Sheehan Restless souls
Dubravka Ugresic Fox
Chris White The life list of Adrian Mandrick
José Eduardo Agualusa A general theory of oblivion
Ricardo Piglia The diaries of Emilio Renzi: formative years

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Steve Burrows A cast of falcons
Steve Burrows A pitying of doves
Becky Clark Fiction can be murder
Lisa Jewell Then she was gone
Spencer Kope Whispers of the dead
Roz Nay Our little secret
Zachary Lazar Vengeance
Sara Shepard The Elizas
Robin Yocum A perfect shot

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Aliette de Bodard The tea master & the detective
Bryan Camp The city of lost fortunes
John Marrs The One
Sam J. Miller Blackfish City
John Scalzi Head on

Short Stories
McSweeney's 52: in their faces a landmark: stories of movement & displacement SS M175
Nick Rennison (editor) Supernatural Sherlocks: stories from the golden age of the occult detective SS S959
Nafissa Thompson-Spires Heads of the colored people Fic Thompson-Spires
Michael Andreasen The sea beast takes a lover Fic Andreasen

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Eric Haven Compulsive comics 741.5 H385c comics
Hazel Newlevant (editor) Comics for choice: illustrated abortion stories, history & politics 362.198 C545 comics
Ben Passmore Your Black Friend & Other Strangers 305.896 P288 comics
Pamela Ribon My boyfriend is a bear 741.5 R486 comics
Noël Simsolo Doctor Radar 741.5 S614 comics
Stefan Wul Niourk 741.5 V346 comics

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Frederick N. Bohrer (editor) Sevruguin & the Persian image: photographs of Iran, 1870-1930 779.99 S511
Alison Branagan The essential guide to business for artists & designers 702.3 B816
Richard Brereton Cut & paste: 21st-century collage 702.81 B841
Frederick Ilchman (editor) Casanova: the seduction of Europe 745 C335

Biography & Genealogy
Eileen McNamara Eunice: the Kennedy who changed the world 92 S563

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Stuart Kells The library: a catalogue of wonders 027 K295

Business & Economics
Dan Ariely Dollars & sense: how we misthink money & how to spend smarter 332.024 A698
Michael C. Bush A great place to work for all: better for business, better for people, better for the world 658.312 B978
Stephen G. Moyer Distressed debt analysis: strategies for speculative investors 332.63 M938
Lisa D. Spiller Direct digital & data-driven marketing 658.872 S756
Edward Tenner The efficiency paradox: what big data can't do 658.5 T297

Chess
Samuel Reshevsky The art of positional play 794.1 R433
Jan Timman Timman's titans: my world chess champions 794.1 T584t
Reinhold Ripperger How to play the Nimzo-Indian? 794.122 R593

Computer Science
Jeremy Bailenson Experience on demand: what virtual reality is, how it works & what it can do 006.8 B154
Amir Husain The sentient machine: the coming age of artificial intelligence 006.3 H968

Food & Drink
Peter Brears Cooking & dining in Tudor & early Stuart England 641.5942 B828
Shehzad Husain India's 500 best recipes 641.5954 H968
Igor Klekh Adventures in the Slavic kitchen: a book of essays with recipes 641.5947 K647

Health & Medicine
Jeffrey Anshel What you must know about age-related macular degeneration: how to prevent, stop, or reverse AMD 617.73 A618
David Rakel The compassionate connection: the healing power of empathy & mindful listening 610.1 R162

History
Joseph A. Esposito Dinner in Camelot: the night America's greatest scientists, writers & scholars partied at the Kennedy White House 973.922 E777
Sarah Kendzior The view from flyover country: dispatches from the forgotten America 973.932 K337
Casey Sherman Above & beyond: John F. Kennedy & America's most dangerous Cold War spy mission 973.922 S553
Lyuba Vinogradova Defending the Motherland: the Soviet women who fought Hitler's aces 940.5449 V788
Alexandra Zapruder (editor) Salvaged pages: young writers' diaries of the Holocaust 940.5318 S182
Fran Leadon Broadway: a history of New York City in thirteen miles 974.71 L434

Languages & Linguistics
Lynne Murphy The prodigal tongue: the love-hate relationship between American & British English 427.9 M978

Literature & Writing
Alexander Chee How to write an autobiographical novel 814.6 C515
Brian Evenson Raymond Carver's What we talk about when we talk about love: bookmarked 810.9 E932
Jenny Xie Eye level 811.6 X6

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Rachel Levin Look big: & other tips for surviving animal encounters of all kinds 591.53 L665

Performing Arts & Music
Thomas Doherty Show trial: Hollywood, HUAC & the birth of the blacklist 791.43 D655s
Don Graham Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber & the making of a legendary American film 791.437 G434
Nell Scovell Just the funny parts: ... & a few hard truths about sneaking into the Hollywood boys' club 791.45 S432

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Anees Akhtar Neuroscience of mind empowerment: epigenetics, neuroplasticity, meditation & music therapy 131 A315
Kenneth R. Miller The human instinct: how we evolved to have reason, consciousness & free will 155.7 M648
Catherine Nixey The darkening age: the Christian destruction of the classical world 270.2 N736

Reference
The Merck manual of diagnosis & therapy 616.075 M555

Social Sciences & Current Events
Theo Deutinger Handbook of tyranny 306.2 D486
Laura Kipnis Unwanted advances: sexual paranoia comes to campus 371.786 K57
Jonathan C. Lewis The unfinished social entrepreneur 361.8 L673
Raj Patel A history of the world in seven cheap things: a guide to capitalism, nature & the future of the planet 303.44 P295
Leonard Sax Why gender matters: what parents & teachers need to know about the emerging science of sex differences 305.3 S272
Rick Sliter Cracking the CBEST 370.76 S633
Keith E. Whittington Speak freely: why universities must defend free speech 378.12 W626

Travel & Geography
Fodor's essential Croatia 914.972 F653
Andrea Schulte-Peevers Los Angeles, San Diego & Southern California 917.949 L847

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Magazine
Humanities

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS

Nonfiction
Markus Motum Curiosity: the story of a Mars rover Child 629.295 M922

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Jacqueline Winspear To die but once CD Fic Winspear

Nonfiction
James Comey A higher loyalty: truth, lies & leadership CD 363.25 C732
Jennifer Palmieri Dear madam president: an open letter to the women who will run the world CD 305.42 P179

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CDs
Classical
Leonid Desyatnikov Sketches to Sunset: Russian seasons CD Classical Desyatnikov

Folk
Smithsonian Folkways American roots collection CD Folk American

Jazz & Blues
Diana Krall Turn up the quiet CD Jazz Krall

Popular
Bjork Utopia CD Pop Bjork

Posted on May. 2, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang