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New Titles List for the Week of August 21

BOOKS

FICTION
Michael Honig The senility of Vladimir P.
Claire Cameron The last Neanderthal

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
James Henry First Frost
Michael Pearce The night of the dog

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Michael Marshall Smith Hannah Green & her unfeasibly mundane existence

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
David Jackson Christen Købke: Danish master of light 759.89 K239
Tod Williams Wunderkammer 720.92 W721

Biography & Genealogy
Bryan Cranston A life in parts 92 C891

Business & Economics
Wade D. Pfau Reverse mortgages: how to use reverse mortgages to secure your retirement 332.72 P523
Caroline Oliver Getting started with policy governance: bringing purpose, integrity & efficiency to your board 658.422 O484

Chess
Eva Regina Magacs Paul Felix Schmidt: a winning formula 794.15 S349
Patrick Wolff Complete idiot's guide to chess 794.122 W855

Health & Medicine
Complementary & alternative medicine sourcebook 610 C737
Physicians' desk reference 2017 615.4 P578

History
John S. Littell French impressions: the adventures of an American family 944 L777
Phyllis L. Thompson (editor) Dear Alice: letters home from American teachers learning to live in China 951.059 D285
Reginald E. Zelnik (editor) Workers & intelligentsia in late Imperial Russia: realities, representations, reflections 947.08 W926

Performing Arts & Music
Don Sanders The American drive-in movie theatre 791.43 S215

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Sunni Brown The doodle revolution: unlock the power to think differently 153.42 B877
John A. Buehrens A chosen faith: an introduction to Unitarian Universalism 230 B928

Social Sciences & Current Events
Roland Barthes The language of fashion 391 B285
Martine Rothblatt Virtually human: the promise---and the peril---of digital immortality 303.4834 R845

Travel & Geography
Bradt Travel Bosnia & Herzegovina 914.9742 B81
Monocle Berlin 914.315 M751

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

DVDs
Ice age DVD Children's

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AUDIOBOOKS

Fiction
Carl Hiaasen Razor girl CD Fic Hiaasen

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DVDs

Comedy
To the manor born The complete collection

Drama
Flags of our fathers
Mildred Pierce
The Tudors The complete second season
The Tudors The complete third season
The Tudors The final season
Thirty two short films about Glenn Gould
Who's that knocking at my door

Foreign Language
101 Reykjavík DVD European
Going places = Les valseuses DVD French
Pierrot le fou DVD French
Un flic DVD French
Rocco & his brothers = Rocco e i suoi fratelli DVD Italian

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Inspector Morse Happy families
Oliver's travels
Sherlock Holmes & the case of the silk stocking

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
The films of Kenneth Anger: the complete magick lantern cycle

Nonfiction
Between the folds: a film about finding inspiration in unexpected places DVD 736.982 B565
Facing darkness: a true story of faith: saving Dr. Brantly from Ebola in Africa DVD 614.5 F141
Heavyweight yoga, yoga for the body you have today DVD 613.7 H442
I am the blues DVD 781.643 I111
Jack Kerouac, king of the beats DVD 813.54 J121
Kundalini yoga for beginners & beyond DVD 613.7 K964
Simply yoga DVD 613.7 S612
The glamour & the squalor DVD 781.66 G544
What happened to Kerouac? DVD 813.54 W555

Posted on Aug. 17, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of August 14

BOOKS

FICTION
Margaret Atwood Surfacing
J.G. Ballard High-rise
Alina Bronsky Baba Dunja's last love
Percival Everett God's country
Percival Everett Watershed
Lynn Freed The last laugh
Sonallah Ibrahim Stealth
Kristen Iskandrian Motherest
Ernest van der Kwast The ice-cream makers
Anne Ostby Pieces of happiness: a novel of friendship, hope & chocolate
Tom Perrotta Mrs. Fletcher
Laurent Binet The seventh function of language
Abdulrazak Gurnah Gravel heart
Sarah Schmidt See what I have done
Danzy Senna New people

Historical Fiction
Linnea Hartsuyker The half-drowned king
Fiona Davis The address

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Rhys Bowen On her majesty's frightfully secret service
Alison Bruce The promise
Andrea Camilleri A nest of vipers
Gary Inbinder The hanged man
Jonathan Kellerman Crime scene
Michelle Richmond The marriage pact

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
A.J. Hartley Steeplejack
Benjamin Percy The Dark Net
Natasha Pulley The Bedlam stacks
Fred Strydom The raft
Daniel H. Wilson The clockwork dynasty

Short Stories
Kate Bernheimer (editor) My mother she killed me, my father he ate me: forty new fairy tales SS B527
Martin Edwards (editor) Continental crimes SS C762
Joseph Nassise (editor) Urban enemies SS U724
William Schafer (editor) The best of Subterranean SS S941
Jenny Zhang Sour heart Fic Zhang

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Marie Kondo The life-changing manga of tidying up: a magical story 741.5 K821 comics
Jason Shiga Demon. Volume 3 741.5 S555 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Sarah Hyndman Why fonts matter 686.2 H997

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Lotta Jansdotter Everyday style: key pieces to sew + accessories, styling & inspiration 646.4 J351
Angelika Taschen (editor) Fantasy worlds 729 M232
Maggie Righetti Knitting in plain English 746.43 R571
Charles Russell Groundwaters: a century of art by self-taught & outsider artists 709.04 R961
Gijs van Hensbergen The Sagrada Família: Gaudi's heaven on earth 726.6 V255

Biography & Genealogy
Bruce Campbell Hail to the chin: further confessions of a B movie actor 92 C179h
Catharine Arnold Edward VII: the Prince of Wales & the women he loved 92 E257a
Laura Dassow Walls Henry David Thoreau: a life 92 T490wa

Business & Economics
Shanta Nimbark Sacharoff Other avenues are possible: legacy of the people's food system of the San Francisco Bay Area 338.19 S121
Richard M. Schroder From a good sales call to a great sales call: close more by doing what you do best 658.85 S381
George Anders You can do anything: the surprising power of a "useless" liberal arts education 331.7 A544
Steve Slavin The great American economy: how inefficiency broke it & what we can do to fix it 330.973 S631
David Thomson Warner Bros: the making of an American movie studio 384 T482

Food & Drink
Paola Bacchia Italian street food: recipes from Italy's bars & hidden laneways 641.5945 B116
Sally Fallon Morell Nourishing broth: an old-fashioned remedy for the modern world 641.813 F196
Food52 mighty salads: 60 new ways to turn salad into dinner-and make-ahead lunches, too 641.83 F686
Karyn Noble (editor) Food trails: plan 52 perfect weekends in the world's tastiest destinations 647.95 L847

Health & Medicine
Natasha Campbell-McBride Gut & psychology syndrome: natural treatment for autism, dyspraxia, A.D.D., dyslexia, A.D.H.D., depression, schizophrenia 613.2 C187
Joel Fuhrman, M.D. The end of heart disease: the eat to live plan to prevent & reverse heart disease 616.12 F959
Peter H. R. Green Celiac disease: a hidden epidemic 616.399 G795
The American Cancer Society Breast cancer clear & simple: all your questions answered 616.994 A512

History
Douglas Murray The strange death of Europe: immigration, identity, Islam 940.56 M981
Robert K. Sutton Stark mad abolitionists: Lawrence, Kansas & the battle over slavery in the Civil War era 978.1 S967
Andrei A. Kovalev Russia's dead end: an insider's testimony from Gorbachev to Putin 947 K884

Languages & Linguistics
Matthew Engel That's the way it crumbles: the American conquest of English 427 E571

Literature & Writing
Edwidge Danticat The art of death: writing the final story 809 D193
M.E. Hughes (editor) Letting go: an anthology of attempts 809.2 H893
Claire McKinney Do you know what a book publicist does?: a guide for creating your own campaigns 808.068 M158

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Margit Roos-Collins The flavors of home: a guide to wild edible plants of the San Francisco Bay Area 581.6 R781

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Sue Gerhardt Why love matters: how affection shapes a baby's brain 155.42 G368
Donna J. Haraway When species meet 179.3 H254
Annie Jacobsen Phenomena: the secret history of the U.S. government's investigations into extrasensory perception & psychokinesis 133.8 J175
Russell Rathbun The Great Wall of China & the Salton Sea: monuments, missteps & the audacity of ambition 270 R234
Michel Pastoureau Black: the history of a color 155.91 P293
Michel Pastoureau Green: the history of a color 155.91 P293g
Michel Pastoureau Red: The History of a Color 155.91 P293r
Fumio Sasaki Goodbye, things: the new Japanese minimalism 179.9 S252

Social Sciences & Current Events
Zygmunt Bauman A chronicle of crisis: 2011-2016 303.4 B347
Michael Bloomberg Climate of hope: how cities, businesses & citizens can save the planet 363.73 B655
Judith Butler Gender trouble: feminism & the subversion of identity 305.3 B985
Adam Price He's not lazy: empowering your son to believe in himself 305.235 P945
Anthony J. McMichael Climate change & the health of nations: famines, fevers & the fate of populations 304.25 M167

Travel & Geography
National Geographic Walking Venice: the best of the city 914.53 N277
World Heritage sites: a complete guide to 1,031 UNESCO World Heritage sites 910.2 W92

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Magazines
Time out: San Francisco

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

DVDs
From up on Poppy Hill DVD Children's
When Marnie was there DVD Children's

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DVDs

Comedy
A dog's purpose
Café society
Peter Bogdanovich's They all laughed
The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming
Their finest
Welcome to me

Drama
Carlos
Denial
Loving
The zookeeper's wife

Foreign Language
Dheepan DVD French
L'argent = Money DVD French
The innocents = Les innocentes DVD French
Stalker DVD Russian

Musicals
Beauty & the beast
With a song in my heart: the Jane Froman story

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Ghost in the shell
Rogue One
Get out

Nonfiction
America's national treasures: the complete 12 volume series DVD 973 A512
Hired gun DVD 782.421 H668
Merchants of doubt DVD 174.95 O66
Obit.: an inside look at life on the New York Times obituaries desk DVD 070.4 O127
Edward II DVD 822 M349

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Blurays

Nonfiction
Merchants of doubt BLU 174.95 O66

Posted on Aug. 17, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of August 7

BOOKS

FICTION
N.J. Campbell Found audio
Jennifer Down Our magic hour
Owen Egerton Hollow
Matthew Klam Who is Rich?
Armistead Maupin 28 Barbary Lane: a Tales of the city omnibus
Scott McClanahan The Sarah book
Jennie Melamed Gather the daughters
Bonnie Nadzam Lions
Marcel Proust The captive
Marcel Proust The fugitive ; time regained

Historical Fiction
Ami McKay The witches of New York

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
C.J. Box Paradise valley
Maurizio de Giovanni Glass souls
Nicci French Dark Saturday
Sheena Kamal The lost ones
Richard Lange The smack
Adrian McKinty In the morning I'll be gone
James Runcie Sidney Chambers & the persistence of love
William Shaw The birdwatcher
Ruth Ware The lying game

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Jim Butcher Blood rites
Kay Kenyon At the table of wolves
Tal M. Klein The punch escrow

Short Stories
Sarah Hall Madame Zero: 9 stories Fic Hall
Norman Antonio Zelaya Orlando & other stories Fic Zelaya
Tayari Jones (editor) Atlanta noir SS A881

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Michael Brian Schiffer Draw the lightning down: Benjamin Franklin & electrical technology in the Age of Enlightenment 621.3 S333

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Jean M. Burks Shaker design: out of this world 745.088 B959
Haike Falkenberg (editor) Pools 728.9 F192

Biography & Genealogy
Naoki Inose Persona: a biography of Yukio Mishima 92 M6787i
Laura Shapiro What she ate: six remarkable women & the food that tells their stories 920.72 S529

Business & Economics
Joshua Gans The disruption dilemma 658.4 G199
Sally Herigstad Help! I can't pay my bills: surviving a financial crisis 332.024 H546
Dan Roam Unfolding the napkin: the hands-on method for solving complex problems with simple pictures 658.4 R628u

Chess
Victor Bologan Bologan's King's Indian: a modern repertoire for Black 794.122 B693b
Lauren Goodkind 50 poison pieces: solve 50 puzzles where the unprotected piece is toxic 794.12 G652

Health & Medicine
Preston Estep The mindspan diet: reduce Alzheimer's risk, minimize memory loss & keep your brain young 616.8983 E796
Raphael Kellman The microbiome diet: the scientifically proven way to restore your gut health & achieve permanent weight loss 613.25 K294
Janet Lintala The un-prescription for Autism: a natural approach for a calmer, happier & more focused child 616.85 L761
Robert M. Sapolsky Behave: the biology of humans at our best & worst 612.8 S241

History
Steve Early Refinery town: big oil, big money & the remaking of an American city 979.463 E123
Stephanie Elizondo Griest All the agents & saints: dispatches from the U.S. borderlands 972.1 E434
Jeremiah Moss Vanishing New York: how a great city lost its soul 974.71 M913
Kristin Ross Communal luxury: the political imaginary of the Paris Commune 944.36 R823
James Suzman Affluence without abundance: the disappearing world of the bushmen 968 S968
Svetlana Alexievich The unwomanly face of war: an oral history of women in World War II 940.5347 A366
Guy de la Bédoyère Praetorian: the rise & fall of Rome's imperial bodyguard 937 D331

Home & Family Management
Marie Kondo Spark joy: an illustrated master class on the art of organizing & tidying up 648 K821s

Literature & Writing
Samantha Ellis How to be a heroine: or, What I've learned from reading too much 809.3 E471
John Pfordresher The secret history of Jane Eyre: how Charlotte Brontë wrote her masterpiece 823.8 P531
David Whyte Everything is waiting for you: poems 811.54 W629
David Whyte River flow: new & selected poems, 1984-2007 811.54 W629r

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Michael A.B. Deakin Hypatia of Alexandria: mathematician & martyr 510.92 D278

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
James Hollis Finding meaning in the second half of life 155.66 H742
William H. McRaven Make your bed: little things that can change your life...and maybe the world 179.6 M174
Steven Pressfield Do the work!: overcome resistance & get out of your own way 153.8 P935
Sharon Salzberg Real love: the art of mindful connection 152.41 S186
Frans de Waal The bonobo & the atheist: in search of humanism among the primates 205 W111

Politics & Government
Stephen Elliott Looking forward to it, or, How I learned to stop worrying & love the American electoral process 324.973 E463

Social Sciences & Current Events
Michael Klassen Hippie, Inc. 305.568 K634
Mitch Prinstein Popular: the power of likability in a status-obsessed world 302.1 P957
Geoffrey West Scale: the universal laws of growth, innovation, sustainability & the pace of life in organisms, cities, economies & companies 303.44 W516

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Anthony Horowitz Magpie murders Large Print Horowitz

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS

Nonfiction
Andrew Larsen The man who loved libraries: the story of Andrew Carnegie Child 92 C289

AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Will Englund March 1917: on the brink of war & revolution CD 940.31 E588
Bill O'Reilly Killing the rising sun: how America vanquished World War II Japan CD 940.542 O66
Thomas E. Ricks Churchill & Orwell: the fight for freedom CD 941.084 R539
Elizabeth Warren This fight is our fight: the battle to save America's middle class CD 305.55 W286

Posted on Aug. 3, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of August 1

BOOKS

FICTION
David Burr Gerrard The epiphany machine
Noley Reid Pretend we are lovely
Lawrence Osborne Beautiful animals

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Ace Atkins The fallen
Michael Connelly The late show
Vaseem Khan The strange disappearance of a Bollywood star
Alexander McCall Smith A distant view of everything
Marcus Sakey Afterlife

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Nicole J. Georges Fetch: how a bad dog brought me home 741.5 G351 comics

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NONFICTION
Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Karen Barbé Colour confident stitching: how to create beautiful colour palettes 746.4 B233
Jan Eaton 350+ crochet tips, techniques & trade secrets 746.43 E142
Justin McGuirk California designing freedom 745.4 M148

Biography & Genealogy
Sherman Alexie You don't have to say you love me: a memoir 92 A384

Business & Economics
Jason Calacanis Angel: how to invest in technology startups -- timeless advice from an angel investor who turned $100,000 into $100,000,000 332.6322 C141
Ryan Holiday Perennial seller: the art of making & marketing work that lasts 658.8 H732
Alexis Stenfors Barometer of fear: an insider's account of rogue trading & the greatest banking scandal in history 332.1 S825

Food & Drink
Jane Stern Roadfood: an eater's guide to more than 1,000 of the best local hot spots & hidden gems across America 647.9573 S839

History
Bruce Bernard (editor) Century: one hundred years of human progress, regression, suffering & hope 909.82 C397
Mark Bowden Hûé 1968: a turning point of the American war in Vietnam 959.7 B784
Eric Kurlander Hitler's monsters: a supernatural history of the Third Reich 943.086 K968
Richard Lourie Putin: his downfall & Russia's coming crash 947.086 L892
G.V. Scammell The world encompassed: the first European maritime empires, c. 800-1650 940.1 S283

Literature & Writing
Attar The conference of the birds 891.55 A883
Samantha Irby We are never meeting in real life 814.6 I653
Maggie Nelson Bluets 811.54 N424

Performing Arts & Music
Kenneth Womack The Beatles encyclopedia: everything Fab Four 782.421 W872

Politics & Government
Mark R. Levin Rediscovering Americanism: & the tyranny of progressivism 320.52 L665

Social Sciences & Current Events
Brooke Gladstone The trouble with reality: a rumination on moral panic in our time 306.2 G543
Donna J. Haraway Simians, cyborgs & women: the reinvention of nature 304.5 H254

Travel & Geography
Eyewitness Brussels, Bruges, Ghent & Antwerp. 914.93 E975
Eyewitness The Netherlands 914.92 E975
Lonely Planet California's best trips: 33 amazing road trips 917.94 L847c

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Michael Connelly The late show Large Print Connelly
Alexander McCall Smith A distant view of everything Large Print McCall Smith

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Anthony Horowitz Magpie murders CD Fic Horowitz

Nonfiction
David Fisher Bill O'Reilly's legends & lies: the Civil war CD 973.7 F533
Al Franken Giant of the Senate CD 328.73 F829
Mark R. Levin Rediscovering Americanism: & the tyranny of progressivism CD 320.52 L665
David McCullough The American spirit: who we are & what we stand for CD 973 M133
Ben Sasse The vanishing American adult: our coming-of-age crisis--and how to rebuild a culture of self-reliance CD 305.24 S252

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AUDIOBOOKS
Evan S. Connell Son of the morning star: Custer & the Little Bighorn

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EBOOKS
Michael Connelly The late show

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CDs
Classical
Cécile Chaminade Mots d'amour CD Classical Chaminade
Edward Elgar Cello concerto, op. 85 CD Classical Elgar
Yo-Yo Ma Paris, la belle époque: the music of Fauré, Franck, Massenet, Saint-Saëns CD Classical Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma Yo-Yo Ma: Kreisler-Paganini CD Classical Yo-Yo Ma

Musicals & Soundtracks
All that jazz: the best of Ute Lemper CD Musicals/Soundtracks Lemper
Kurt Weill Lost in the stars CD Musicals/Soundtracks Weill
Lotte Lenya sings Kurt Weill CD Musicals/Soundtracks Weill
September songs: the music of Kurt Weill CD Musicals/Soundtracks Weill
Ute Lemper sings Kurt Weill CD Musicals/Soundtracks Weill
Ute Lemper sings Kurt Weill. Vol. 2 CD Musicals/Soundtracks Weill

Opera
Bizet Carmen CD Opera Bizet
Giuseppe Verdi La traviata CD Opera Verdi

Posted on Jul. 27, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of July 24

BOOKS

FICTION
Ian Bassingthwaighte Live from Cairo
Jesús Carrasco Out in the open
Zinzi Clemmons What we lose
Joshua Cohen Moving kings
Laura Dave Hello, Sunshine
Sarah Healy The sisters chase
Joshilyn Jackson The almost sisters
Rachel Khong Goodbye, vitamin
Eileen Myles Inferno: a poet's novel
Dina Nayeri Refuge
Marie NDiaye My heart hemmed in
Francesco Pacifico Class
Gabby Rivera Juliet takes a breath
Donal Ryan All we shall know
SJ Sindu Marriage of a thousand lies
Lucy Sykes Fitness junkie
Paul Lynch Grace
Sally Rooney Conversations with friends

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Lois Austen-Leigh The incredible crime
Janelle Brown Watch me disappear
Linda Castillo Down a dark road
John Connolly A game of ghosts
Pol Koutsakis Athenian blues
Bill Loehfelm The devil's muse
Michael Robotham The secrets she keeps
Riley Sager Final girls
Susie Steiner Persons unknown
Brian Thiem Shallow grave
Julia Thomas Penhale wood
Fred Van Lente Ten dead comedians
Laura Wilson The riot

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Octavia E. Butler Wild seed
Samuel R. Delany Dhalgren
Neil Jordan Carnivalesque
Lilith Saintcrow Wasteland king
Anna Stephens Godblind
Karin Tidbeck Amatka
Carrie Vaughn Bannerless
David Williams When the English fall

Short Stories
Curtis Dawkins The Graybar Hotel
Chavisa Woods Things to do when you're goth in the country & other stories

Westerns
Ian Stansel The last cowboys of San Geronimo

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Chabouté Alone 741.5 C429 comics
Jen Lee Garbage night 741.5 L477 comics
Gengoroh Tagame My brother's husband 741.5 T125 comics

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Robert W. Cherny Victor Arnautoff & the politics of art 700.92 C521
Valérie Rousseau The hidden art: 20th- & 21st-century self-taught artists from the Audrey B. Heckler collection 700.411 R864

Biography & Genealogy
Deborah Beatriz Blum Coming of age: the sexual awakening of Margaret Mead 92 M479
Harvey Sachs Toscanini: musician of conscience 92 T713
Lucy Worsley Jane Austen at home 92 A933w
Elaine M. Hayes Queen of bebop: the musical lives of Sarah Vaughan 92 V364
Patrick N. Hunt Hannibal 92 H245h
Ben Caspit The Netanyahu years 92 N469

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Kyle Cassidy This is what a librarian looks like: a celebration of libraries, communities & access to information 020.92 C345
the Library of Congress The card catalog: books, cards & literary treasures 025.31 L697

Business & Economics
Robin Lewis The new rules of retail: competing in the world's toughest marketplace 658.872 L673

Chess
Zenón Franco Keres: move by move 794.159 K394

Food & Drink
America's Test Kitchen America's Test Kitchen The complete make-ahead cookbook: from appetizers to desserts 500 recipes you can make in advance 641.555 A512

Health & Medicine
Current medical diagnosis & treatment 2017 616.075 C976
Adam Schersten The Esquire guide to bodyweight training: calisthenics to look & feel your best from the boardroom to the bedroom 613.7 S326
Barry Yourgrau Mess: one man's struggle to clean up his house & his act 616.8522 Y819
Bottom Line's health breakthroughs, 2017 613 B751b

History
Anna Bikont The crime & the silence: confronting the massacre of Jews in wartime Jedwabne 940.53 B594
Elizabeth Cobbs The Hello Girls: America's first women soldiers 940.4 C654
Eleanor Brown (editor) A Paris all your own: bestselling women writers on the City of Light 944.36 B877

Literature & Writing
Elizabeth Alexander The black interior: essays 810.9 A374
Gloria E. Anzaldúa Light in the dark = Luz en lo oscuro: rewriting identity, spirituality, reality 818.54 A637
Gwendolyn Brooks Blacks 811.54 B873
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs Twerk 811.6 D573
Fredric Jameson Archaeologies of the future: the desire called utopia & other science fictions 809.38 J31
Toni Morrison Playing in the dark: whiteness & the literary imagination 810.9 M878
Darko Suvin Metamorphoses of science fiction: on the poetics & history of a literary genre 809.38 S967
Adam Zagajewski Slight exaggeration 891.85 Z18s
Christopher Fry Plays one 822.9 F946
Christopher Fry Plays three 822.9 F946pl
Christopher Fry Plays two 822.9 F946p

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Harry Collins Gravity's kiss: the detection of gravitational waves 539.7 C712
Ron Eglash African fractals: modern computing & indigenous design 514.7 E311

Performing Arts & Music
Becky Aikman Off the cliff: how the making of Thelma & Louise drove Hollywood to the edge 791.43 A292
Franya J. Berkman Monument eternal: the music of Alice Coltrane 780.92 C725a
Luis Fuerte Louie, take a look at this!: my time with Huell Howser 791.45 F954
Roger Steffens So much things to say: the oral history of Bob Marley 780.92 M347st
Greg Tate Flyboy in the buttermilk: essays on contemporary America 781.64 T216
Daniel Wolff Grown-up anger: the connected mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie & the Calumet massacre of 1913 782.421 W855

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
D.M. Dooling (editor) The sons of the wind: the sacred stories of the Lakota 299.72 D691
Laird Scranton The science of the Dogon: decoding the African mystery tradition 299.6 S433
Raoul Martinez Creating freedom: the lottery of birth, the illusion of consent & the fight for our future 123.5 M385

Politics & Government
Alexander Klimburg The darkening web: the war for cyberspace 327.02 K652
Lisa Lowe The intimacies of four continents 320.51 L913

Social Sciences & Current Events
Clara Bingham Witness to the revolution: radicals, resisters, vets, hippies & the year America lost its mind & found its soul 303.484 B613
Michael Cannell Incendiary: the psychiatrist, the mad bomber & the invention of criminal profiling 363.325 C224
Angela J. Davis (editor) Policing the Black man: arrest, prosecution & imprisonment 364.3 D261
Jesse Eisinger The chickenshit club: why the Justice Department fails to prosecute executives 364.168 E365
Caroline Kitchener Post grad: five women & their first year out of college 331.11 K623
Naomi Klein No is not enough: resisting Trump's shock politics & winning the world we need 303.6 K641
Lawrence W. Levine Black culture & Black consciousness: Afro-American folk thought from slavery to freedom 398.2 L665
Jocelyn Olcott International Women's Year: the greatest consciousness-raising event in history 305.42 O43

Travel & Geography
Lizzie Mulherin Amsterdam 914.923 T583
Bubba Suess Hiking northern California: a guide to the region's greatest hiking adventures 917.94 S944

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Don Winslow The force CD Fic Winslow

Nonfiction
Jonathan Allen Shattered: inside Hillary Clinton's doomed campaign CD 324.973 A425
Yuval Noah Hararai Sapiens: a brief history of humankind CD 909 H254

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DVDs

Nonfiction
Last stand of the 300 DVD 938.03 L349

Posted on Jul. 20, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of July 17

BOOKS

FICTION
Martyn Burke Music for love or war
L.J. Davis A meaningful life
Calder G. Lorenz One way down (or another)
Carl Frode Tiller Encircling
Jorge Velasco Mackenzie Drums for a Lost Song

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
David Carlson Enter by the narrow gate
Barbara Cleverly Diana's altar
Volker Kutscher Babylon Berlin
Karolina Ramqvist The white city
Robin Yocum A brilliant death

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Lidia Yuknavitch The book of Joan

Short Stories
Frederick Luis Aldama Long stories cut short: fictions from the borderlands
Debbie Graber Kevin Kramer starts on Monday

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Matthew Gilbert Off the leash: a year at the dog park 636.7 G464

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Steven Heller Lettering large: art & design of monumental typography 745.61 H477L
Ronald L. Hurst Southern furniture, 1680-1830: the Colonial Williamsburg collection 749.215 H966
Fred Moten In the break: the aesthetics of the Black radical tradition 700.89 M917
Walter Hopps The dream colony: a life in art 708.009 H798

Biography & Genealogy
Joseph Di Prisco The Pope of Brooklyn 92 D596
Wendy Lesser You say to brick: the life of Louis Kahn 92 K125
Jon Kukla Patrick Henry: champion of liberty 92 H523ku

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Alvin S. Felzenberg A man & his presidents: the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr. 070.92 B924

Business & Economics
Edward E. Lawler Reinventing talent management: principles & practices for the new world of work 658.32 L418
Joel Solomon The clean money revolution: reinventing power, purpose & capitalism 332.6 S689
Christy Wright Business boutique: a woman's guide for making money doing what she loves 658.421 W947

Chess
Dejan Antic The modern Bogo 1.d4 e6: a complete guide for black 794.122 A629m
Dejan Antic The modern French: a complete guide for black 794.122 A629

Computer Science
Daniel W. Drezner The ideas industry 001.1 D778

Food & Drink
Jamie Oliver Jamie's food revolution: rediscover how to cook simple, delicious, affordable meals 641.5 O48f
Mads Refslund Scraps, wilt + weeds: turning wasted food into plenty 641.552 R332
Joan Wilen Bottom Line's best-ever kitchen secrets 640.41 W676
Emily Kaiser Thelin Unforgettable: the bold flavor's of Paula Wolfert's renegade life 641.5918 W85u

Health & Medicine
Bottom Line's secret food cures & doctor-approved folk remedies 615.854 W676
Bottom Line's super healing unlimited: 1,739 remarkable secrets from the world's greatest health experts 613 B751
Bottom Line's The healing kitchen: prevent & reverse today's most common health conditions with delicious foods & meals--medically proven! 613.2 S615
Jonny Bowden The great cholesterol myth: why lowering your cholesterol won't prevent heart disease-- & the statin-free plan that will 616.12 B784
K. J. Landis Superior self: reaching superior health for a superior self 613.2 L257
Jerry Baker Top 25 homemade healers: 2,173 DIY health & beauty solutions featuring vinegar, honey, castor oil & 22 more! 613 B167
Bottom line year book 2016 640 B751 2016
Bottom Line's treasury of health secrets for seniors: 1,937 remarkable secrets from America's very best doctors & health experts 612.67 B751
Vicki A. Jackson Living with cancer: a step-by-step guide for coping medically & emotionally with a serious diagnosis 616.994 J124
Tieraona Low Dog, Fortify your life: your guide to vitamins, minerals & more 613.2 L912

History
Ian Crofton The little book of big history: the story of the universe, human civilization & everything in between 909 C941
A. Roger Ekirch American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom & National Identity In The Age of Revolution 973.4 E367
Charles Rearick Paris dreams, Paris memories: the city & its mystique 944.36 R288
Margaret Casterline Bowen Jersey gold: the Newark Overland Company's trek to California, 1849 978.02 B786
Newt Gingrich Understanding Trump 973.933 G492
Fred Kaplan Lincoln & the abolitionists: John Quincy Adams, slavery & the Civil War 973.711 K172
Elizabeth Norton The hidden lives of Tudor women: a social history 942.05 N882

Home & Family Management
Bottom Line's best-ever home secrets 640.41 W676h
Joey Green Joey Green's cleaning magic: 2,336 ingenious cleanups using brand-name products 648 G795

Law
Joseph L. Matthews Social Security, Medicare & government pensions: get the most out of your retirement & medical benefits 368.42 M438
David A. Morton Nolo's guide to social security disability: getting & keeping your benefits 368.42 M889

Literature & Writing
Durga Chew-Bose Too much & not the mood 814.6 C529
Cyrus Console Romanian notebook 818.603 C755
Audre Lorde Sister outsider: essays & speeches 814.54 L867
Yoko Ono Grapefruit: a book of instructions + drawings 818.5407 O589

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Paul E. Lehr Weather: air masses-clouds-rainfall storms-weather maps-climate 551.5 L524

Performing Arts & Music
Angela Y. Davis Blues legacies & Black feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith & Billie Holiday 781.643 D261
Steven Keslowitz Why you better call Saul: what our favorite TV lawyer says about life, love & scheming your way to acquittal & a large cash payout 791.45 K422

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Kate Cooper Band of angels: the forgotten world of early Christian women 270.1 C776
Sandra Lee Dennis Embrace of the daimon: sensuality & the integration of forbidden imagery in depth psychology 150.195 D411
Yoel Hoffman (editor) The sound of the one hand: 281 Zen koans with answers 294.39 H369
Amineh Amelia Pryor Psychology in Sufism 297.4 P973
Jordan B. Peterson Maps of meaning: the architecture of belief 150.19 P485

Politics & Government
David A. Fahrenthold Uncovering Trump: the truth behind Donald Trump's charitable giving 324.973 F158

Reference
Marie T. O'Toole (editor) Mosby's medical dictionary 610.3 M894

Social Sciences & Current Events
Rachel Dickinson The notorious Reno Gang: the wild story of the West's first brotherhood of thieves, assassins & train robbers 364.106 D553
Stefano Harney The undercommons: fugitive planning & black study 305.896 H289
Henry Mintzberg Managing the myths of health care: bridging the separations between care, cure, control & community 362.1 M667
David Suzuki Just cool it!: the climate crisis & what we can do: a post-Paris Agreement game plan 363.738 S968
Jack Weatherford Genghis Khan & the quest for God: how the world's greatest conqueror gave us religious freedom 323.442 K452

Travel & Geography
Tamara Sheward Montenegro 914.9745 L847
Lindsey Tramuta The new Paris: the people, places & ideas fueling a movement 914.436 T771

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Don Winslow The force Large Print Winslow

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Drew Daywalt The legend of rock paper scissors Child Daywalt

DVDs
Babe

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Alan Alda If I understood you, would I have this look on my face?: my adventures in the art & science of relating & communicating CD 153.6 A357
David Sedaris Theft by finding: diaries (1977-2002) CD 818 S447

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EAUDIOBOOKS
Corban Addison A harvest of thorns
Tim Akers The pagan night
Catherine Anderson Mulberry moon
Scott D. Anthony The first mile: a launch manual for getting great ideas into the market
Lucy Ashford The rake's bargain
Eve Babitz Slow days, fast company: the world, the flesh & l.a.
Dave Bara Defiant
Lawana Blackwell A haven on orchard lane
Barbara A. Brannon The paragraph ranch
Mary Christensen Be a network marketing leader: build a community to build your empire
Miguel de Cervantes & Edith Grossman Exemplary novels
Nadine Dorries The angels of Lovely Lane
David Essex Faded glory
Jennifer Faye The playboy of rome
Claudio Fernandez-Araoz It's not the how or the what but the who: succeed by surrounding yourself with the best
Elizabeth Gaskell North & south
Karan Girotra The risk-driven business model: four questions that will define your company
Mette Ivie Harrison For time & all eternities
Barb Hendee The dead seekers
Treasure Hernandez The end of the line
Brenda Jackson The secret affair
Matt Johnson Wicked game
Claire King Everything love is
Rudyard Kipling Plain tales from the hills
Francine Mathews Death in rough water
John McFetridge One or the other
Sara Orwig Pregnant by the texan
Amanda Quick Lie by moonlight
Francine Rivers The priest: aaron
Salman Rushdie East, west: stories
Luminita D. Saviuc 15 things you should give up to be happy: an inspiring guide to discovering effortless joy
Claire Seeber 24 hours
Randall Silvis Two days gone
Rory Stewart The marches: a borderland journey between England & scotland
Julian Stockwin The silk tree
Kiki Swinson Schemes
Carrie Vaughn Martians abroad
Ayelet Waldman A really good day: how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage & my life
Michelle Willingham To tempt a viking
Scarlet Wilson The prince she never forgot
Andrew S. Winston The big pivot: radically practical strategies for a hotter, scarcer & more open world

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EBOOKS
Hallie Ephron You'll never know, dear
Meg Gardiner Unsub
John Grisham Camino Island
Colin Harrison You belong to me
Elin Hilderbrand The identicals
Dean Koontz The silent corner
Mary Kubica Every last lie
Stuart MacBride A dark so deadly
Nora Roberts Come sundown
Matthew Sullivan Midnight at the Bright Ideas bookstore
Adriana Trigiani Kiss Carlo
Beatriz Williams Cocoa Beach

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Scarface

Comedy
A Serious Man
Spaceballs
Superbad

Drama
Buddenbrooks
Miracle

Foreign Language
Camille Claudel DVD French
Get out your handkerchiefs = Préparez vos mouchoirs DVD French
Capitães de abril = April captains DVD European
Evil = Ondskan DVD Swedish
L'innocente DVD Italian
The seduction of Mimi DVD Italian
Rosenstrasse DVD German
The debt = Ha-hov DVD Middle East

Musicals
A star is born

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Training day

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
An American werewolf in London

Nonfiction
Opera
Rise & fall of the city of Mahagonny = Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny: opera in three acts DVD 782.1 R595
The seven deadly sins: ballet with song in eight parts = Die sieben Todsünden DVD 792.8 S497

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BLURAYs
The uninvited

Posted on Jul. 13, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of July 10

BOOKS

FICTION
Diksha Basu The windfall
Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes from a dead house
Brian Doyle Chicago
Rebecca Entel Fingerprints of previous owners
Siobhan Fallon The confusion of languages
Alexandra Fuller Quiet until the thaw
Jane Green The sunshine sisters
Daryl Gregory Spoonbenders
Omar Robert Hamilton The city always wins
Jordan Harper She rides shotgun
Eduardo Rabasa A zero-sum game
Ann Kidd Taylor The shark club
Brian Doyle The adventures of John Carson in several quarters of the world

Historical Fiction
Mackenzi Lee The gentleman's guide to vice & virtue
Kate Quinn The Alice network
Francis Spufford Golden Hill

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Fiona Barton The child
Mark Billingham Love like blood
Giovanni Cocco Shadows on the lake
Alan Drew Shadow man
Janet Evanovich Dangerous minds
Meg Gardiner Unsub
Theodora Goss The strange case of the alchemist's daughter
Elly Griffiths Smoke & mirrors
Elly Griffiths The zig zag girl
Dean Koontz The silent corner
Barry Lancet The spy across the table
Margaret Maron Take out
Andrée A. Michaud Boundary: the last summer
Frank Smith Dead weight

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
J.R.R. Tolkien Beren & Lúthien
Tad Williams The witchwood crown

Short Stories
Walter Benjamin The storyteller: tales out of loneliness
N.A. Teffi Tolstoy, Rasputin, others & me: the best of Teffi

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
José-Louis Bocquet Josephine Baker 741.5 B665 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Nancy Conner Where on earth: a guide to specialty nurseries & gardens in California 635.9 C752

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Michael Bierut How to use graphic design to sell things, explain things, make things look better, make people laugh, make people cry & (every once in a while) change the world 741.6 B588
Teju Cole Blind spot 770 C689
Wim de Wit (editor) Design for the corporate world, 1950-1975 745.4 W819
Donna Seaman Identity unknown: rediscovering seven American women artists 709.22 S438
Simon Stålenhag Things from the flood 709.2 S782
Andrew Loomis Creative illustration 741.6 L863

Biography & Genealogy
Cate Lineberry Be free or die: the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero 92 S635

Business & Economics
Sam Zell Am I being too subtle?: straight talk from a business rebel 333.3 Z51
Shawn Smith The HR answer book: an indispensable guide for managers & human resources professionals 658.3 S642

Computer Science
Brian Merchant The one device: the secret history of the iPhone 004.1675 M554

Food & Drink
Rebecca Seal Lisbon: recipes from the heart of Portugal 641.5946 S438
Marlene Matar The Aleppo cookbook: celebrating the legendary cuisine of Syria 641.5956 M425

Health & Medicine
Renee Joy Dufault Unsafe at any meal: what the FDA does not want you to know about the foods you eat 613.2 D854
Jennifer Latson The boy who loved too much: a true story of pathological friendliness 618.92 L364
Mariano Sigman The secret life of the mind: how your brain thinks, feels & decides 612.82 S577

History
John Baxter Montmartre: Paris's village of art & sin 944.36 B355m
Justin Davidson Magnetic city: a walking companion to New York 974.7 D252
Jonathan Gawne Finding your father's war: a practical guide to researching & understanding service in the World War II US Army 940.54 G284
J.M.N. Jeffries Palestine: the reality: the inside story of the Balfour Declaration 1917-1938 956.94 J471
Naomi Oreskes The collapse of Western civilization: a view from the future 909.0982 O669
Andrés Reséndez The other slavery: the uncovered story of Indian enslavement in America 306.362 R433
Robert Ferguson Scandinavians: in search of the soul of the north 914.8 F352
Sofia Vutsaki (editor) Ancient monuments & modern identities: a critical history of archaeology in 19th & 20th century Greece 938 V973

Languages & Linguistics
David Crystal The story of be: a verb's-eye view of the English language 420 C95s

Law
Bruce Ackerman We the people. Volume 3, The civil rights revolution 342.73 A182
Stephen Martin Kohn The new whistleblower's handbook: a step-by-step guide to doing what's right & protecting yourself 342.73 K795

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Leslie Buck Cutting back: my apprenticeship in the gardens of Kyoto 635.095 B922

Performing Arts & Music
Jonathan Lethem (editor) Shake it up: great American writing on rock & pop from Elvis to Jay Z 782.421 L647

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Mandy Len Catron How to fall in love with anyone: a memoir in essays 152.41 C367
Jack Kornfield No time like the present: finding freedom, love & joy right where you are 204.4 K847

Social Sciences & Current Events
Kathryn Edin Doing the best I can: fatherhood in the inner city 362.82 E235
Eric Foner Battles for freedom: the use & abuse of American history 303.484 F673
Fred B. Glass From mission to microchip: a history of the California labor movement 331.88 G549
Garrett M. Graff Raven Rock: the story of the U.S. Government's secret plan to save itself-while the rest of us die 363.35 G736
Lee Daniel Kravetz Strange contagion: inside the surprising science of infectious behaviors & viral emotions & what they tell us about ourselves 302 K918
Ben Sasse The vanishing American adult: our coming-of-age crisis--and how to rebuild a culture of self-reliance 305.24 S252
Kevin Flynn (editor) The New York Times Book of crime: more than 166 years of covering the beat 364 F648
Christopher J. Lebron The making of Black lives matter: a brief history of an idea 305.896 L453
Tim Marshall A flag worth dying for: the power & politics of national symbols 306.2 M367

Sports & Games
Rock Positano Dinner with DiMaggio: memories of an American hero 796.357 P855

Travel & Geography
Rebecca Solnit Unfathomable city: a New Orleans atlas 912.763 S688

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EAUDIOBOOKS
Laurie R. King Lockdown: a novel of suspense

Posted on Jul. 6, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of July 3

BOOKS

FICTION
Gordon Ball On Tokyo's edge: Gaijin tales from postwar Japan
Percival Everett So much blue
Nina George The little French bistro
Julia Glass A house among the trees
Gail Godwin Grief cottage
Gabe Habash Stephen Florida
Howard Jacobson Shylock is my name: the merchant of Venice retold
Catherine Lacey The answers
Jardine Libaire White fur
Eugene Lim Dear cyborgs
Alain Mabanckou Black Moses
Maile Meloy Do not become alarmed
Sarah Perry The Essex Serpent
Arundhati Roy The ministry of utmost happiness
Igiaba Scego Adua
Lisa Wingate Before we were yours
Tim Farrington The California book of the dead

Historical Fiction
Jamie Harrison The widow Nash
Rachel Kadish The weight of ink
Norman Lock A fugitive in Walden Woods

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Benjamin Black Wolf on a string
Cara Black Murder in Saint-Germain
Roberto Costantini The memory of evil
Phillip DePoy The English agent
Joseph Finder The switch
Robert Goddard The ends of the earth
John Grisham Camino Island
Anne Holt Odd numbers
Joseph Kanon Defectors
Erin Kelly He said/she said
Laurie R. King Lockdown
Nicole Lundrigan The substitute
Eliot Pattison Skeleton God
Karen Robards The ultimatum
Plum Sykes Party girls die in pearls
Martin Walker The Templars' last secret
Don Winslow The force
Anthony Horowitz Magpie murders

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Victor LaValle The changeling
Seanan McGuire Down among the sticks & bones
John Scalzi The dispatcher
Neal Stephenson The rise & fall of D.O.D.O.

Short Stories
Lee Child (editor) MatchUp SS M425
Martin Edwards (editor) Miraculous mysteries: locked room mysteries & impossible crimes SS M671

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Gabrielle Bell Everything is flammable 741.5 B433e
Sarah Glidden Rolling blackouts: dispatches from Turkey, Syria & Iraq 741.5 G559 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Lawrence Goldstone Going deep: John Philip Holland & the invention of the attack submarine 623.825 G624

Biography & Genealogy
Peter Gajdics The inheritance of shame: a memoir 92 G145
Frank M. Robinson Not so good a gay man 92 R658
Joan Juliet Buck The price of illusion: a memoir 92 B922

Business & Economics
Cédric Durand Fictitious capital: how finance is appropriating our future 332 D948
Andrew Essex The end of advertising: why it had to die & the creative resurrection to come 659.1 E787
James Ledbetter One nation under gold: how one precious metal has dominated the American imagination for four centuries 332.422 L472
Anthony Lolli The heart of the deal: how to invest & negotiate like a real estate mogul 333.33 L837

Food & Drink
Derek Dellinger The fermented man: a year on the front lines of the food revolution 664 D357
Samin Nosrat Salt, fat, acid, heat: mastering the elements of good cooking 641.5 N897

Health & Medicine
Bottom Line Publications The ultimate 2015 women's guide to beating disease & living a happy, active life 613.0424 B751
James DiNicolantonio The salt fix: why the experts got it all wrong--and how eating more might save your life 613.2 D585
Michael McGirr Snooze: The Lost Art of Sleep 612.821 M145
Cathryn Jakobson Ramin Crooked: outwitting the back pain industry & getting on the road to recovery 617.56 R173
Nina Riggs The bright hour: a memoir of living & dying 362.196 R569

History
Hugh Bicheno Blood royal: the Wars of the Roses, 1462-1485 942.04 B583b
John R. Bohrer The revolution of Robert Kennedy: from power to protest after JFK 973.922 B677
Danny Goldberg In search of the lost chord: 1967 & the hippie idea 973.923 G618
Peter Hernon American heroes, an iconic ship & saving Europe during WWI 940.45947 H558
Anthony Kaldellis Streams of gold, rivers of blood: the rise & fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade 949.5 K142s
Philip Leigh Southern reconstruction 973.8 L528
Ernest R. May Strange victory: Hitler's conquest of France 940.54 M466
David McCullough The American spirit: who we are & what we stand for 973 M133
Samer The Raqqa diaries: escape from "Islamic State" 956.91 S187
Raja Shehadeh Where the line is drawn: a tale of crossings, friendships & fifty years of occupation in Israel-Palestine 956.94 S542
James Stavridis Sea power: the history & geopolitics of the world's oceans 359.03 S798
Michael Wallis The best land under heaven: the Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny 978.02 W214
Kim Zetter Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet & the launch of the world's first digital weapon 355.4 Z61

Languages & Linguistics
David Crystal Making sense: the glamorous story of English grammar 425 C957
Robert Hendrickson World English: from aloha to zed 423 H498

Law
Ryan Alford Permanent state of emergency: unchecked executive power & the demise of the rule of law 342.73 A389

Literature & Writing
Tyehimba Jess Olio 811 J581o

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Barret Baumgart China Lake: a journey into the contradicted heart of a global climate catastrophe 551.68 B348
Peter Brannen The ends of the world: volcanic apocalypses, lethal oceans & our quest to understand Earth's past mass extinctions 576.84 B821
Caleb Everett Numbers & the making of us: counting & the course of human cultures 513.2 E932

Performing Arts & Music
Anna Akana So much I want to tell you: letters to my little sister 792.092 A313
Andrew Blauner (editor) In their lives: great writers on great Beatles songs 782.421 B369
Lizzy Goodman Meet me in the bathroom: rebirth & rock & roll in New York City, 2001-2011 781.66 G653
Ann Hornaday Talking pictures: how to watch movies 791.43 H813
Phil Marcade Punk avenue: inside the New York City underground, 1972-1982 781.66 M313
Stephen Mulhall On film 791.43 M956

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Alan Alda If I understood you, would I have this look on my face?: my adventures in the art & science of relating & communicating 153.6 A357
G. W. Bowersock The crucible of Islam 297 B786
Joanne Cacciatore Bearing the unbearable: love, loss & the heartbreaking path of grief 155.93 C118
Tracey Cleantis An invitation to self-care: why learning to nurture yourself is the key to the life you've always wanted: 7 principles for abundant living 158.1 C623a
Anna Katharina Schaffner Exhaustion: a history 152.1 S296
Brad Stulberg Peak performance: elevate your game, avoid burnout & thrive with the new science of success 158.1 S934
Chade-Meng Tan Joy on demand: the art of discovering the happiness within 152.42 T161

Politics & Government
Edward Luce The retreat of western liberalism 320.51 L935
Nancy MacLean Democracy in chains: the deep history of the radical right's stealth plan for America 320.53 M163

Social Sciences & Current Events
Ronald Bailey Liberation biology: the scientific & moral case for the biotech revolution 303.483 B154
Bart Baker If an elephant sits on you, are you covered?: how to talk with your insurance agent to be properly insured 368.01 B167
Mark Emory Houser Getting your house in order: for people with homeowners insurance 368 H842
Helene Stapinski Murder in Matera: a true story of passion, family & forgiveness in Southern Italy 364.152 S793
Andrew Wallingford The claim game: a homeowner's guide to avoiding an insurance catastrophe 368 W212
T.P. Wiseman Remus: a Roman myth 398.2 W814

Sports & Games
Dennis Snelling Lefty O'Doul: baseball's forgotten ambassador 796.357 S671L

Travel & Geography
DK eyewitness travel guide: Switzerland 914.94 E975
Insight Guides India 915.4 I592
Insight Guides Portugal 914.69 I592
Jennifer Kramer Baja 917.22 M818
Dominique Lesbros Curiosities of Paris: an idiosyncratic guide to overlooked delights ... hidden in plain sight 914.436 L623
Janelle McCulloch London secrets: style, design, glamour, gardens 914.21 M133
David Owen Where the water goes: life & death along the Colorado River 917.91 O971

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
John Grisham Camino Island Large Print Grisham
Elizabeth Strout Anything is possible Large Print Strout

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Sarah Perry The Essex Serpent CD Fic Perry

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EAUDIOBOOKS
Paul Theroux Mother land

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EBOOKS
Jessica Bennett Feminist fight club: an office survival manual (for a sexist workplace)
Bill Burnett Designing your life: how to build a well-lived, joyful life
Jonathan Chait Audacity: how Barack Obama defied his critics & created a legacy that will prevail
Matthew Desmond Evicted: poverty & profit in the American city
David Fisher Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies. The patriots
Ruth Bader Ginsburg My own words
Stephan J. Guyenet The hungry brain: outsmarting the instincts that make us overeat
Arlie Russell Hochschild Strangers in their own land: anger & mourning on the American right
Walter Lord A night to remember
William J. Mann The wars of the Roosevelts: the ruthless rise of America's greatest political family
David McCullough The American spirit: who we are & what we stand for
Lisa Napoli Ray & Joan: the man who made the McDonald's fortune & the woman who gave it all away
Douglas Preston The lost city of the Monkey God: a true story
Mitch Prinstein Popular: the power of likability in a status-obsessed world
Elisabeth Rosenthal An American sickness: how healthcare became big business & how you can take it back
Ben Sasse The vanishing American adult: our coming-of-age crisis--and how to rebuild a culture of self-reliance
Michael Savage Trump's war: his battle for America
Sally Bedell Smith Prince Charles: the passions & paradoxes of an improbable life
Gary Taubes The case against sugar
Winchester, Simon The Professor & the Madman

Posted on Jun. 30, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of June 26

BOOKS

FICTION
Henry De Montherlant Chaos & night
Marcel Proust Sodom & Gomorrah

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Paolo Bacigalupi The doubt factory

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Jim Butcher Welcome to the jungle 741.5 B983 comics
Viktor Kalvachev Blue estate. Volume 2 741.5 K141 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Kristie Macrakis Prisoners, lovers, & spies: the story of invisible ink from Herodotus to al-Qaeda 652 M174

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Vivienne Bolton The big book of handmade cards & gift wrap: over 50 step-by-step projects 745.594 B694
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Revelations: art from the African American South 704.0396 R449
Sarah Kate Gillespie The early American daguerreotype: cross-currents in art & technology 772 G478
David Plowden The American barn 728.9 P732
Richard Sexton The cottage book 728.37 S518

Biography & Genealogy
Roxane Gay Hunger: a memoir of (my) body 92 G285
Deborah McDonald A very dangerous woman: the lives, loves & lies of Russia's most seductive spy 92 B927
Tony Robinson: the biography of a race mechanic|Ian Wagstaff 92 W136

Food & Drink
Alton Brown Good eats 2: the middle years 641.5 B878
Robin O'Sullivan American organic: a cultural history of farming, gardening, shopping & eating 641.3 O858
America's Test Kitchen Vegan for everybody: foolproof plant-based recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner & in-between 641.5636 A512

Health & Medicine
Andrea Petersen On edge: a journey through anxiety 616.8522 P484

History
Penrose Halson Marriages are made in Bond Street: true stories from a 1940s marriage bureau 306.73 H196
Lawrence James Empires in the sun: the struggle for the mastery of Africa 960.23 J272
Patrick K. O'Donnell First SEALs: the untold story of the forging of America's most elite unit 940.54 O261
Helen Thorpe Soldier girls: the battles of three women at home & at war 956.7 T518

Literature & Writing
Harold Evans Do I make myself clear?: why writing well matters 808.04 E924
Lynn Nottage Sweat 812 N918s
Jane Reichhold Writing & enjoying haiku: a hands-on guide 808.1 R351

Performing Arts & Music
Eddie Izzard Believe me: a memoir of love, death & jazz chickens 792.7 I99
Eric Frederick Jensen Debussy 780.92 D28j
Charlotte Rampling Who I am 792.092 R177
Charles Taylor Opening Wednesday at a theater or drive-in near you: the shadow cinema of the American '70s 791.43 T2381

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
A.N. WilsonJesus 232.9 W746

Politics & Government
Patrick J. Buchanan The greatest comeback: how Richard Nixon rose from defeat to create the new majority 324.973 B918

Social Sciences & Current Events
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett The sum of small things: a theory of the aspirational class 306.48 C976
Joan C. Williams White working class: overcoming class cluelessness in America 305.562 W721

Sports & Games
Tommy Caldwell The push: a climber's journey of endurance, risk & going beyond limits 796.52 C147

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Kent Haruf Our souls at night CD Fic Haruf

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CDs
Classical
Hugues Cuenod Socrate|Satie. French song cycles CD Classical Cuenod
Fritz Kreisler Original compositions & arrangements CD Classical Kreisler
Gustav Mahler Des knaben Wunderhorn: original piano versions CD Classical Mahler
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano concertos no. 17, K453 & no. 25, K503 CD Classical Mozart
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Songs & dances of death|Modest Mussorgsky. Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 CD Classical Mussorgsky
Lisa Batiashvili Tchaikovsky, Sibelius: violin concertos CD Classical Tchaikovsky
Valery Gergiev White nights: romantic Russian showpieces including 1812, Polovtsian dances CD Classical Gergiev

Musicals & Soundtracks
Dawn Upshaw I wish it so CD Musicals/Soundtracks Upshaw

Posted on Jun. 22, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of June 19

BOOKS
Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
William F. Buckley, Jr. The story of Henri Tod
Jean-Francois Parot The baker's blood
V.L. Towler Severed
Anne Zouroudi The lady of sorrows

Short Stories
Annamaria Alfieri (editor) Sunshine noir SS S958
T.D. Johnston (editor) Short story America: Volume V; 31 great contemporary short stories SS S5591
Stephen Jones (editor) Dark detectives: an anthology of supernatural mysteries SS D219

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Hoang Nguyen Carbon Grey. Volume 1, Sisters at war 741.5 C264 v.1 comics
Joann Sfar Dungeon. Twilight. Volume 1, Dragon cemetery 741.5 S522d v.1 comics
Marc Sobel (editor) The Love & Rockets Companion: 30 years (and counting) 741.5 L897 comics
Aaron Williams North 40 741.5 W721 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Helen Fouche Gaines Cryptanalysis; a study of ciphers & their solution 652.8 G142
Jeff Brooks The money-raising nonprofit brand: motivating donors to give, give happily & keep on giving 658.152 B873
Reynold Levy Yours for the asking: an indispensable guide to fundraising & management 658.152 L668
M. Kent Stroman Asking about asking: mastering the art of conversational fundraising 658.152 S921

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Alma Lavenson 779.092 L399
Therese Thau Heyman Celebrating a collection: the work of Dorothea Lange 770.92 L27ce
Deborah Willis Lorna Simpson 770.92 S613
David Levinthal The Wild West 779 L665w
Gaëlle Morel Berenice Abbott 770.92 A131

Business & Economics
Robert Genetski Rich nation poor nation: why some nations prosper while others fail 337 G328

History
Saul Rubin San Francisco curiosities: quirky characters, roadside oddities & other offbeat stuff 917.9461 R896
David Blomfield Kew past 942.2 B653

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Louise Penny A great reckoning Large Print Penny

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Malcolm Mitchell The magician's hat Child Mitchell

Nonfiction
Doris Rubenstein The journey of a dollar Child 332.4 R895

DVDs
The young black stallion

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Bill Bryson At home: a short history of private life CD 643.1 B916
Arlie Russell Hochschild Strangers in their own land anger & mourning on the American Right CD 320.52 H685

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EAUDIOBOOKS
Rita Mae Brown A hiss before dying
Kat Martin Beyond reason

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
The Book of Eli

Classics
Red River
The Broadway melody
The great Ziegfeld

Comedy
Marley & me

Drama
Ghost
The butterfly effect
What ever happened to baby Jane?
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Jack Reacher

Nonfiction
America's wine: the legacy of Prohibition DVD 338.4766
Frank Lloyd Wright DVD 720.92 W94
The early Middle Ages DVD 940.1 D133
Northern Africa DVD 916.04

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BLURAYs
Classics
Jesse James

Comedy
Raising Arizona

Drama
Fargo
Miller's Crossing

Mystery
Blood simple
The Third man

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
The water horse: legend of the deep

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CDs
Classical
Ian Bostridge Perspectives CD Classical Bostridge

Opera
Benjamin Britten The turn of the screw CD Opera Britten
Sergei Prokofiev War & peace: op. 91 CD Opera Prokofiev
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov Sadko CD Opera Rimsky-Korsakov
Igor Stravinsky The rake's progress CD Opera Stravinsky
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Iolanta CD Opera Tchaikovsky

World
Andrea Bocelli Romanza CD World Bocelli

Posted on Jun. 15, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang