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New Titles List for the Week of June 12

BOOKS

FICTION
Barbara Browning The gift
Halle Butler Jillian
Alexandre Dumas The man in the iron mask
Alexandre Dumas Twenty years after
Val Emmich The reminders
Katherine Heiny Standard deviation
Luke Kennard The transition
Courtney Maum Touch
Patrick Modiano Dora Bruder
Patrick Modiano Little jewel
Ann Patchett Commonwealth
Marcel Proust Swann's way
Marcel Proust The Guermantes way
Marcel Proust Within a budding grove
Daniel Wallace Extraordinary adventures

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Clive Cussler Nighthawk: a novel from the NUMA Files
Philippe Georget Crimes of winter: variations on adultery & venial sins
Elly Griffiths The chalk pit
Heather Gudenkauf Not a sound
Con Lehane Murder at the 42nd Street library
Denise Mina The long drop
Gil North Sergeant Cluff stands firm
Gil North The methods of Sergeant Cluff

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Sarah Gailey River of teeth
Stephen King Gwendy's button box

Short Stories
Mathieu Cailler Loss Angeles
Tessa Hadley Bad dreams & other stories
Richard Hawle The other world
T.D. Johnston Friday afternoon & other stories

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Carl Barks Walt Disney's Uncle $crooge: "Only a poor old man" 741.5 B256 comics
Kurtis J. Wiebe Rat queens. Volume one, Sass & sorcery 741.5 R232 v.1 comics
Kurtis J. Wiebe Rat queens. Volume three, Demons 741.5 R232 v.3 comics
Kurtis J. Wiebe Rat queens. Volume two, The far reaching tentacles of N'rygoth 741.5 R232 v.2 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Marc Raboy Marconi: the man who networked the world 621.384 R116

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Julie Jackson Subversive cross stitch: 50 f*cking clever designs for your sassy side 746.44 J124
Bridget Quinn Broad strokes: 15 women who made art & made history (in that order) 709.2 Q73
Adrian Searle Look up London 720.9421 S439
Anthony Bannon Steve McCurry 779.2 M133

Biography & Genealogy
David S. Brown Paradise lost: a life of F. Scott Fitzgerald 92 F554br
Gifford Pinchot Breaking new ground 92 P647
Natalie Robins The untold journey: the life of Diana Trilling 92 T8291
David J. Garrow Rising star: the making of Barack Obama 92 O12g
Thomas S Kidd Benjamin Franklin: the religious life of a founding father 92 F831k
Lyndal Roper Martin Luther: renegade & prophet 92 L973r

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Patricia Bosworth The men in my life: a memoir of love & art in 1950s Manhattan 070.92 B747
Jorge Carrión Bookshops 381 C318

Business & Economics
Heather Cabot Geek girl rising: inside the sisterhood shaking up tech 338.7 C116
David S. Evans Matchmakers: the new economics of multisided platforms 338.7 E924
Alex Moazed Modern monopolies: what it takes to dominate the 21st-century economy 338.82 M687

Chess
Maxim Dlugy Grandmaster insides 794.1 D626
Alexey Dreev Bf4 in the Queen's gambit & the Exchange slav 794.122 D771
Alexander Kalinin Chess Training for Candidate Masters: Accelerate Your Progress by Thinking for Yourself 794.15 K144
Cyrus Lakdawala ...c6: playing the Caro-Kann & Slav as black 794.122 L192ca
Konstantin Sakaev The complete manual of positional chess: the Russian chess school 2.0: opening & middlegame 794.12 S158
Ivan Sokolov Chess middlegame strategies 794.1 S683
Adrian Mikhalchishin Fighting chess with Magnus Carlsen 794.15 C284m

Food & Drink
America's Test Kitchen The complete Mediterranean cookbook: 500 vibrant, kitchen-tested recipes for living & eating well every day 641.5918 C737
John T. Edge The potlikker papers: a food history of the modern South 641.5975 E232
Barbara Keck Wineries of the Sierra Foothills: risk-takers & rule-breakers 641.22 K257
Joy Wilson Joy the baker over easy: sweet & savory recipes for leisurely days 641.52 W746

Health & Medicine
Jessica Matthews Stretching to stay young: simple workouts to keep you flexible, energized & pain-free 613.71 M438
Norman Ohler Blitzed: drugs in the Third Reich 362.299 O379
Elisabeth Rosenthal An American sickness: how healthcare became big business & how you can take it back 362.1 R815

History
Scott Anderson Fractured lands: how the Arab world came apart 909.097 A545
Christopher Knowlton Cattle kingdom: the hidden history of the cowboy West 978 K738
Sean McMeekin The Russian Revolution: a new history 947.084 M167
J.M. Opal Avenging the people: Andrew Jackson, the rule of law & the American nation 973.56 J12o
Laird Scranton The mystery of Skara Brae: Neolithic Scotland & the origins of ancient Egypt 936.1 S433
Jay Winter Sites of memory, sites of mourning: the Great War in European cultural history 940.42 W784
Michael Alexander Medievalism: the Middle Ages in modern England 942.01 A374
Charles Clover Black wind, white snow: the rise of Russia's new nationalism 947.086 C647
Waldo Heinrichs Implacable foes: war in the Pacific, 1944-1945 940.54 H469
Elizabeth Brown Pryor Six encounters with Lincoln: a president confronts democracy & its demons 973.7 P973
Thomas E. Ricks Churchill & Orwell: the fight for freedom 941.084 R539

Home & Family Management
Lisa Miller The spiritual child: the new science on parenting for health & lifelong thriving 649.7 M647

Literature & Writing
Pamela Paul My life with Bob: flawed heroine keeps book of books, plot ensues 818.603 P324
David Sedaris Theft by finding: diaries (1977-2002) 818 S447
Stevie Smith All the poems of Stevie Smith 821.9 S642

Performing Arts & Music
Kirke Mechem Believe your ears: life of a lyric composer 780.92 M486
Howard Sounes Notes from the Velvet Underground: the life of Lou Reed 780.92 R323s

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Simon Loveday The Bible for grown-ups: a new look at the good book 220.6 L897
The Jewish annotated New Testament: New Revised Standard Version Bible translation 225.6 J593

Politics & Government
Graham Allison Destined for war: can America & China escape Thucydides's trap? 327.73 A438
John Bicknell Lincoln's pathfinder: John C. Frémont & the violent election of 1856 324.973 B583
Al Franken Al Franken, giant of the Senate 328.73 F829
Thomas J. Wright All measures short of war: the contest for the twenty-first century & the future of American power 320.471 W947

Social Sciences & Current Events
Paul Hawken (editor) Drawdown: the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming 363.738 H392
Eva Illouz Cold intimacies: the making of emotional capitalism 306.34 I298
David F. Labaree A perfect mess: the unlikely ascendancy of American higher education 378.73 L113
Adam Lashinsky Wild ride: inside Uber's quest for world domination 388.4 L343
Finn Murphy The long haul: a trucker's tales of life on the road 388.324 M978
Social Security handbook: overview of Social Security Programs, 2017 368.4 S6785
Jeff Speck Walkable city: how downtown can save America, one step at a time 307.12 S741
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Everybody lies: big data, new data & what the Internet can tell us about who we really are 302.23 S835
Rick Wartzman The end of loyalty: the rise & fall of good jobs in America 331.7 W298
Anna Pavord Landskipping: painters, ploughmen & places 304.2 P339

Travel & Geography
Jaime Kurtz The happy traveler: unpacking the secrets of better vacations 910.2 K969
Saul Rubin Northern California curiosities: quirky characters, roadside oddities & other offbeat stuff 917.94 R896

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Agatha Christie The murder at the Vicarage Large Print Christie
B.A. Shapiro The art forger Large Print Shapiro

Nonfiction
Erik Larson In the garden of beasts: love, terror & an American family in Hitler's Berlin Large Print 943.086 L334

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Sarah Addison Allen The peach keeper CD Fic Allen
Ace Atkins Robert B. Parker's Cheap shot CD Fic Atkins
John Grisham The racketeer CD Fic Grisham
Anne Rice Prince Lestat CD Fic Rice

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EBOOKS
Joseph Kanon Defectors

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EAUDIOBOOKS

J.M. Benjamin Watch out for the big girls 2
Gerald Brandt The operative
Melody Carlson The Christmas angel project
Evan S. Connell Mr. Bridge
Anne Emery Ruined Abbey
Christopher Fowler Bryant & May: strange tide
Nicholas Guild The spartan dagger
Nathaniel Hawthorne The blithedale romance
E.N. Joy She's no angel
Blake Karrington Carl Weber's kingpins: Charlotte
Elmer Kelton Shotgun
Ursula K. Le Guin The found & the lost: the collected novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin
Amaleka McCall 2 timers
Lily Tuck The double life of Liliane

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BLURAYs

Drama
Apocalypse now ; Apocalypse now redux
Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro
The conversation

Musicals
One from the heart

Posted on Jun. 8, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of June 5

BOOKS

FICTION
Janet Benton Lilli de Jong
Tracy Chevalier New boy
René Depestre Hadriana in all my dreams
Rodrigo Fresan The invented part
Barbara Gowdy Little sister
Amelia Gray Isadora
Laleh Khadivi A good country
Kevin Kwan Rich people problems
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Kintu
Kei Miller Augustown
Susan Rieger The heirs
J. Courtney Sullivan Saints for all occasions
Jem Lester Shtum

Historical Fiction
Julie Lekstrom Himes Mikhail & Margarita
Crystal King Feast of sorrow
Melodie Winawer The scribe of Siena

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Dale Brown Price of duty
Michael Crichton Dragon teeth
Frédéric Dard Bird in a cage
Leif G.W. Persson The dying detective
Scott Turow Testimony
Tim Walker Smoke over Malibu

Short Stories
Nebula Awards Showcase 2017: the year's best science fiction & fantasy SS N36

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Jeff Lemire Black Hammer: secret origins 741.5 B628 comics
J.C. Mezieres Valerian & Laureline. 2, The empire of a thousand planets 741.5 M999 comics
Jillian Tamaki Boundless 741.5 T153b comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Dan Hampton The flight: Charles Lindbergh's daring & immortal 1927 transatlantic crossing 629.13 H232

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Lars Rains Modern Lopi: One: new approaches to an Iceland classic 746.43 R158

Biography & Genealogy
Mary V. Dearborn Ernest Hemingway 92 H479d
Rüdiger Safranski Goethe: life as a work of art 92 G599s

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Lara Seven Phillips Taking your MLIS abroad: getting & succeeding in an international library job 020.23 P558

Business & Economics
Jack Ewing Faster, higher, farther: the Volkswagen scandal 338.4762 E951
Mark R. Kennedy Shapeholders: business success in the age of activism 658.4 K351
Richard E. Ocejo Masters of craft: old jobs in the new urban economy 331.794 O159

Food & Drink
Randy Garutti Shake Shack: recipes & stories 641.5 G244
Ophélie Neiman Wine isn't rocket science: a quick & easy guide to understanding, buying, tasting, & pairing every type of wine 641.22 N414

History
Elizabeth Greenhalgh The French Army & the First World War 940.4 G813
Paul Hockenos Berlin calling: a story of anarchy, music, the Wall & the birth of the new Berlin 943.155 H685
William Hogeland Autumn of the Black Snake: the creation of the U.S. Army & the invasion that opened the West 970.004 H715
Catherine Merridale Lenin on the train 947.084 M568
Max Adams King in the North: the life & times of Oswald of Northumbria 942.88 O86
Carol Berkin A sovereign people: the crises of the 1790s & the birth of American nationalism 973.3 B512s
T.J. Cornell The beginnings of Rome: Italy & Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c. 1000-264 BC) 937 C814b
Paul N Pearson Maximinus Thrax: from common soldier to emperor of Rome 937.07 P361
David R. Woodward The American army & the First World War 940.4 W899

Home & Family Management
Mark Ehrman Getting out: your guide to leaving America 646.79 E339
Melissa Brayer Hess The expert expat: your guide to successful relocation abroad: moving, living, thriving 648.9 H586

Literature & Writing
Catherine Bowman Can I finish, please? 811.54 B787

Performing Arts & Music
Tim Falconer Bad singer: the surprising science of tone deafness & how we hear music 781.1 F182
Jonathan Gould Otis Redding: an unfinished life 780.92 R313
Nahid Siamdoust Soundtrack of the revolution: the politics of music in Iran 780.955 S519
Ryan White Jimmy Buffett: a good life all the way 780.92 B929

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Anthony Louis Tarot plain & simple 133.324 L888t
Rachel Pollack Rachel Pollack's tarot wisdom: spiritual teachings & deeper meanings 133.324 P771

Politics & Government
Henry Hemming Agent M: the lives & spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight 327.12 H489

Reference
Photographer's market 2017: how & where to sell your photography 770 P565
Songwriter's market 784.02 S698

Social Sciences & Current Events
Tressie McMillan Cottom Lower ed: the troubling rise of for-profit colleges in the new economy 378.73 C851
Michael Ruhlman Grocery: the buying & selling of food in America 381.456 R933
Gerald Steinacher Humanitarians at war: the Red Cross in the shadow of the Holocaust 361.772 S819
Zeynep Tufekci Twitter & tear gas: the power & fragility of networked protest 303.484 T914
Timothy D. Walker Teach like Finland: 33 simple strategies for joyful classrooms 370.15 W177

Travel & Geography
Marc Bennetts Top 10 St Petersburg 914.72 E97
Eyewitness Belgium & Luxembourg 914.93 E97
Insight South India 915.4 I592
The rough guide to Norway 914.81 R856
The rough guide to Sweden 914.85 R856
Evelyn Waugh Labels: a Mediterranean journal 910.91 W354

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Jerry Pinkney The three billy goats gruff Child Pinkney

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Ace Atkins Robert B. Parker's Kickback CD Fic Atkins
Ace Atkins Robert B. Parker's lullaby CD Fic Atkins
Margaret Atwood Cat's eye CD Fic Atwood
Terry Brooks The darkling child CD Fic Brooks
Lee Child Never go back CD Fic Child
Lee Child The affair CD Fic Lee
Fannie Flagg The all-girl filling station's last reunion CD Fic Flagg
Elizabeth George A banquet of consequences CD Fic George
John Grisham Calico Joe CD Fic Grisham
John Grisham The confession CD Fic Grisham
Lev Grossman The magician king CD Fic Grossman
Sara Gruen At the water's edge CD Fic Gruen
Kazuo Ishiguro The buried giant CD Fic Ishiguro
Jonathan Kellerman Motive CD Fic Kellerman
Milan Kundera The unbearable lightness of being CD Fic Kundera
Kevin Kwan Crazy rich Asians CD Fic Kwan
Susan Elia MacNeal His Majesty's Hope CD Fic MacNeal
Susan Elia MacNeal The Prime Minister's secret agent CD Fic MacNeal
Peter Mayle The Corsican caper CD Fic Mayle
Peter Mayle The diamond caper CD Fic Mayle
David Mitchell Cloud atlas CD Fic Mitchell
Alice Munro Dear life CD Fic Munro
Julie Otsuka When the emperor was divine CD Fic Otsuka
John Sandford Deadline CD Fic Sandford
John Sandford Saturn run CD Fic Sandford
Stuart Woods Insatiable appetites CD Fic Woods
Stuart Woods Naked greed CD Fic Woods
Stuart Woods Paris match CD Fic Woods

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DVDs

Drama
Queen & country

Posted on Jun. 1, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of June 1

BOOKS

FICTION
Hala Alyan Salt houses
Bryn Chancellor Sycamore
Charmaine Craig Miss Burma
Alexandre Dumas Louise de la Vallière
Shekhar Paleja An extraordinary destiny
Francesca Segal The awkward age
Elizabeth Wein The pearl thief

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Peter Blauner Proving ground
Lee Child No middle name
Steve Hamilton Exit strategy
Stephen Hunter G-man
Brian Thiem Thrill kill
Kaite Welsh The wages of sin
Eva Dolan Long way home

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Robyn Bennis The guns above
Jim Butcher Death masks

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Juan Diaz Canales Blacksad. Amarillo 741.5 D539 comics
Emil Ferris My favorite thing is monsters. Book one 741.5 F394 comics
Martínez de Antoñana David travels to the past 741.5 M385 comics
Fante Bukowski. 2/ Noah Van Sciver 741.5 V278f comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Amina Khan Adapt: how humans are tapping into nature's secrets to design & build a better future 620 K452
Laura J. Moss Adventure cats: living nine lives to the fullest 636.8 M913
Lennard Zinn Zinn & the art of road bike maintenance: the world's best-selling bicycle repair & maintenance guide 629.2877 Z784

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Deborah Chasman (editors) Drawing us in: how we experience visual art 700 D767
Michael Auping Frank Stella: a retrospective 709.2 S824

Biography & Genealogy
Erica Benner Be like the fox: Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom 92 M149b

Business & Economics
Louis Uchitelle Making it: why manufacturing still matters 338.4767 U17

History
Bill Emmott The fate of the west: the battle to save the world's most successful political idea 909.0982 E547
Elena Gorokhova Russian tattoo: a memoir 947.21 G67r
Gary Noy Gold rush stories: 49 tales of seekers, scoundrels, loss & luck 979.404 N949
Holger Hoock Scars of independence: America's violent birth 973.31 H776
Lynne Olson Last Hope Island: Britain, occupied Europe & the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war 940.534 O524
Mike Rapport The unruly city: Paris, London & New York in the age of revolution 944.04 R221

Law
Laura Kalman The long reach of the Sixties: LBJ, Nixon & the making of the contemporary Supreme Court 347.732 K147

Literature & Writing
Hilton Als The women 810.9 A461
Joan Didion South & West: from a notebook 813.54 D556
Allen Ginsberg The best minds of my generation: a literary history of the Beats 810.9 G493
Salva Rubio Save the cat! goes to the Indies: the screenwriters guide to 50 films from the masters 808.23 R896

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Melissa Cynova Kitchen table tarot: pull up a chair, shuffle the cards & let's talk tarot 133.324 C996
Marc Wittmann Felt time: the science of how we experience time 153.75 W832

Social Sciences & Current Events
Scott Hartley The fuzzy & the techie: why the liberal arts will rule the digital world 384.3 H332
Keith Payne The broken ladder: how inequality affects the way we think, live & die 305.5 P346
Ali Soufan Anatomy of terror: from the death of bin Laden to the rise of the Islamic State 363.325 S721

Sports & Games
Steven R. Travers Remembering the Stick: Candlestick Park, 1960-2013 796.4 T779

Travel & Geography
Amsterdam pocket guide 914.92 I59
Eyewitness Argentina 918.2 E97
Eyewitness Brittany 914.41 E97
Eyewitness Budapest 914.391 E97
Eyewitness Croatia 914.972 E97
Eyewitness Japan 915.2 E97
Eyewitness Paris 914.436 E97
Lonely Planet Dublin 914.183 L847
Lonely Planet Vienna 914.361 L847
Monocle Rome 914.56 M751
National Geographic Italy 914.5 N27
NIcola Perry 33 walks in London that you shouldn't miss 914.21 P462
Rick Steves' pocket Rome 914.56 S848

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Fredrik Backman A man called Ove Large Print Backman
Anthony Doerr All the light we cannot see Large Print Doerr
Paula Hawkins The girl on the train Large Print Hawkins
Anita Shreve The stars are fire Large Print Shreve
Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad Large Print Whitehead
Jacqueline Winspear In this grave hour Large Print Winspear

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Maeve Binchy A week in winter CD Fic Binchy
Chris Bohjalian The sandcastle girls CD Fic Bohjalian
Robin Cook Host CD Fic Cook
Linda Fairstein Lethal legacy CD Fic Fairstein
Joseph Finder The fixer CD Fic Finder
John Grisham The litigators CD Fic Grisham
Roger Hobbs Ghostman CD Fic Hobbs
Jonathan Kellerman The Golem of Hollywood CD Fic Kellerman
Jonathan Kellerman The golem of Paris CD Fic Kellerman
Sophie Kinsella Shopaholic to the stars CD Fic Kinsella
Jo Nesbo The redeemer CD Fic Nesbo
Kathy Reichs Speaking in Bones CD Fic Reichs
John Sandford Gathering prey CD Fic Sandford
Jane Smiley Golden age CD Fic Smiley
Adriana Trigiani The shoemaker's wife CD Fic Trigiani
Stuart Woods Foreign affairs CD Fic Woods
Stuart Woods Hot pursuit CD Fic Woods

Nonfiction
Nora Ephron I remember nothing: & other reflections CD 814 E63i

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EBOOKS
David Baldacci The fix
Kathleen Flynn The Jane Austen Project
Paula Hawkins Into the Water
Martha Hall Kelly Lilac girls
Richard Russo Trajectory
John Sandford Golden prey
Elizabeth Strout Anything is possible: fiction
Kate White The secrets you keep

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CDs
Musicals & Soundtracks
Charles Strouse Rags: the new American musical CD Musicals/Soundtracks Strouse

Posted on May. 25, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of May 22

BOOKS

FICTION
Fredrik Backman Britt-Marie was here
Fredrik Backman My grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry
Paula Cocozza How to be human
Mary Gordon There your heart lies
Lisa Ko The leavers
Dennis Lehane Since we fell
Édouard Louis The end of Eddy
Benjamin Ludwig Ginny Moon
Julie Murphy Ramona blue
Jill Santopolo The light we lost
Rakesh Satyal No one can pronounce my name
Doree Shafrir Startup
Graeme Simsion The best of Adam Sharp
Paul Theroux Mother Land
Colm Tóibín House of names
Darcie Wilder Literally show me a healthy person
Gail Honeyman Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine

Historical Fiction
Yves Jégo The Sun King conspiracy

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Brian Freeman Marathon
Paula Hawkins Into the water
Abir Mukherjee A rising man
Jo Nesbø The thirst
Anthony Rolls Family matters

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
M.R. Carey The boy on the bridge

Short Stories
Haruki Murakami Men without women

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Guy Delisle Hostage 741.5 D354 comics
Juan Díaz Canales Blacksad. A silent hell 741.5 D539 comics
Brian K. Vaughan Saga. Volume seven 741.5 S1289 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Lee Alan Dugatkin How to tame a fox (and build a dog): visionary scientists & a Siberian tale of jump-started evolution 636.977 D866

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Kitty Bartholomew Designer knitting with Kitty Bartholomew 746.43 B287
Kitty Bartholomew Kitty Bartholomew's decorating style: a hands-on approach to creating affordable, beautiful & comfortable rooms 747 B287
Nina Freudenberger Surf shack: laid-back living by the water 747.88 F889
Surendran Nair Itinerant mythologies 759.954 N158

Business & Economics
Noam Chomsky Requiem for the American dream: the 10 principles of concentration of wealth & power 339.22 C548

Chess
Yuri Razuvaev Key concepts of gambit play 794.1 R279

Food & Drink
Alison Cayne The Haven's Kitchen cooking school: recipes & inspiration to build a lifetime of confidence in the kitchen 641.564 C385
Joshua McFadden Six seasons: a new way with vegetables 641.564 M143
Leela Punyaratabandhu Bangkok: stories & recipes from the heart of Thailand 641.5959 P984

Health & Medicine
Eric A. Newman (editor) The beautiful brain: the drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal 612.82 R175

History
Nir Baram A land without borders: my journey around East Jerusalem & the West Bank 956.94 B224
China Miéville October: the story of the Russian Revolution 947.084 M632

Home & Family Management
Jennifer Jones The three p's of parenting 649.1 J762

Literature & Writing
Footsteps: from Ferrante's Naples to Hammett's San Francisco, literary pilgrimages around the world 808.8 N567
Jeffrey Alan Melton Mark Twain, travel books & tourism: the tide of a great popular movement 818.4 M528

Performing Arts & Music
Lucy Chase Williams The complete films of Vincent Price 791.43 W721

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Rod Dreher The Benedict option: a strategy for Christians in a post-Christian nation 261 D771

Politics & Government
Jonathan Allen Shattered: inside Hillary Clinton's doomed campaign 324.973 A425

Social Sciences & Current Events
Richard Rothstein The color of law: a forgotten history of how our government segregated America 305.8 R847

Sports & Games
Jay Atkinson Memoirs of a rugby-playing man: guts, glory & blood in the world's greatest game 796.333 A875
Martin Gitlin Powerful moments in sports: the most significant sporting events in American history 796.0973 G536

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION
AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Judy Blume It's not the end of the world CD Fic Blume
Gennifer Choldenko Chasing secrets CD Fic Choldenko
Dr. Seuss What pet should I get? ; & One fish two fish red fish blue fish CD Fic Seuss
Laurence Yep A dragon's guide to the care & feeding of humans CD Fic Yep
Kimberly Newton Fusco Beholding Bee CD Fic Fusco

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AUDIOBOOKS
Nonfiction
H.W. Brands Reagan: the life CD 92 R287br
Tom Brokaw A lucky life interrupted CD 92 B867
Kenneth C. Davis Don't know much about geography: everything you need to know about the world but never learned CD 910 D262
Frederick Forsyth The outsider: a life in intrigue CD 92 F735
Arianna Huffington Thrive CD 650.1 H889
Chrissie Hynde Reckless: my life as a Pretender CD 780.92 H997
Diane Keaton Let's just say it wasn't pretty CD 792.092 K254
Harold S. Kushner Nine essential things I've learned about life CD 296.7 K97n
Jon Meacham Thomas Jefferson: the art of power CD 92 J45m
Joan Rivers Diary of a mad diva CD 792.092 R622d
Brent Schlender Becoming Steve Jobs: the evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader CD 92 J629s
Neil Shubin The universe within: [discovering the common history of rocks, planets & people] CD 550 S56
Betty White If you ask me: [(and of course you won't)] CD 792.092 W58i
Rainn Wilson The bassoon king: my life in art, faith & idiocy CD 792.092 W746
Neil Young Special deluxe: a memoir of life & cars CD 782.421 Y681
Michael Moss Salt, sugar, fat: how the food giants hooked us CD 613.2 M913

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DVDs
Musicals
Funny lady

Nonfiction
Back to Space-Con DVD 791.45 B126

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BLURAYs
Action & Adventure
Dirty Harry collection

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
The lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring
The lord of the rings: the return of the king
The lord of the rings: the two towers

Posted on May. 18, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of May 15

BOOKS

FICTION
C.D. Payne Frisco pigeon mambo

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
John O'Brian (editor) Camera atomica 779.074 O132
Sandra S. Phillips (editor) Exposed: voyeurism, surveillance & the camera since 1870 779.074 E968
Jackie Simmonds You can sketch: a step-by-step guide for absolute beginners 741.2 S592

Business & Economics
Tom Rath StrengthsFinder 2.0 658.4 R234
Scott Wintrip High velocity hiring: how to hire top talent in an instant 658.311 W794

Chess
Gary Lane Prepare to attack 794.1 L265
Vlastimil Hort: meine Partien gegen die Weltmeister 794.1 V867

Computer Science
Louis Davidson Pro SQL Server relational database design & implementation 005.7585 D252

Food & Drink
Timothy Ferriss The 4-hour chef: the simple path to cooking like a pro, learning anything & living the good life 641.5 F394
Debby Maugans Small-batch baking for chocolate lovers 641.6374 N163

History
Expat Women Bloggers Dutched up!: rocking the clogs expat style 949.2 E964
Jeanine Michna-Bales Through darkness to light: photographs along the underground railroad: a photographic essay 973.711 M624
Jane Bingham The Cotswolds: a cultural history 942.4 B613
Elizabeth Carney Olympias: mother of Alexander the Great 938.07 C289
Andrew Carroll My fellow soldiers: General John Pershing & the Americans who helped win the Great War 940.412 C319
Carl Chinn (editor) Birmingham: the workshop of the world 942.496 C539
A.K. Gundy Richard II & the rebel earl 942.03 G975
Dawn M. Hadley (editor) The archaeology of the 11th century: continuities & transformations 942.01 H131
Flint F. Johnson The British heroic age: a history, 367-664 942.01 J661
Andrew J. Lawson Painted caves: palaeolithic rock art in western Europe 936 L425
Donna A. Lowery Women Vietnam Veterans: our untold stories 959.7 L917
Philip Matyszak Chronicle of the Roman Republic: the rulers of ancient Rome from Romulus to Augustus: with 293 illustrations, 98 in color 937 M446c
David Rollason Northumbria, 500-1100: creation & destruction of a kingdom 942.88 R749
Catherine Fleetwood Around the Channel Islands 942.34 R848

Home & Family Management
Margaret Willes The making of the English gardener 712.0942 W713

Law
Anthony Mancuso How to form a nonprofit corporation in California 346.064 M269

Literature & Writing
Thomas Dilworth David Jones in the Great War 821.9 D581
Christopher Prendergast (editor) A history of modern French literature: from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century 840.9 P926

Performing Arts & Music
Ken Browar The art of movement 792.8 B878
Meirion Hughes The English musical renaissance, 1840-1940: constructing a national music 780.942 H893

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Ranchor Prime Ramayana: a journey 294.59 P953

Politics & Government
Eleanor Roosevelt The moral basis of democracy 321.8 R781

Social Sciences & Current Events
Jeffrey L. Seglin The simple art of business etiquette: how to rise to the top by playing nice 395.52 S454

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MAGAZINES
Little white lies: truth & movies

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Neil Gaiman Norse mythology CD Fic Gaiman
Donna Leon Earthly remains CD Fic Leon

Nonfiction
Joan Didion South & West CD 813.54 D556
Thomas Sowell Black rednecks & white liberals CD 305.8 S731

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
The Matrix experience

Foreign Language
Werckmeister harmóniák [videorecording] = Werckmeister harmonies DVD European

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
The animatrix

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CDs

Jazz & Blues
Ahmad Jamal The legendary Okeh & Epic recordings CD Jazz Jamal

Popular
Roy Orbison 16 biggest hits CD Pop Orbison
Elvis Presley Elvis Presley CD Pop Presley
Elvis, a legendary performer. Volume 1 CD Pop Presley

Posted on May. 11, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of May 8

BOOKS

FICTION
Fredrik Backman Beartown
William Christie A single spy
Brittany Newell Oola
Elizabeth Strout Anything is possible
Deepak Unnikrishnan Temporary people

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Ross Armstrong The watcher
Sandrone Dazieri Kill the father
Mavis Doriel Hay Death on the Cherwell
Mavis Doriel Hay Murder underground
Lisa Jewell I found you
Jennifer McMahon Burntown
Fuminori Nakamura The boy in the earth
James Naughtie Paris spring
John Sandford Golden prey
Lisa Unger The red hunter
M.J. Carter The infidel stain
Oliver Harris The house of fame

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Maurice Broaddus Buffalo soldier
Cory Doctorow Walkaway
Cixin Liu Death's end
Cixin Liu The dark forest
Zachary Mason Void star
Jeff VanderMeer Borne

Short Stories
Osama Alomar The teeth of the comb & other stories

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Peter Bagge Fire!!: the Zora Neale Hurston story 741.5 B144f comics
Ed Brubaker Kill or be killed. Volume 1 741.5 B886k comics
Santiago García Beowulf 741.5 G216 comics
Carmine Infantino The Flash chronicles. Vol. 2 741.5 F585 comics
Jeff Lemire Roughneck 741.5 L554 comics
Scott Snyder All star Batman. Vol. 1, My own worst enemy 741.5 B333a comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Tim Richardson The New English garden 635 R521

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Janet Bishop (editor) Matisse/Diebenkorn 709.22 M433
Liesbeth M. Helmus (editor) Pieter Saenredam, the Utrecht work: paintings & drawings by the 17th-century master of perspective 750.92 S127p
Maggie L. Popkin The architecture of the Roman triumph: monuments, memory & identity 722.7 P828
Pat Sloan The splendid sampler: 100 spectacular blocks from a community of quilters 746.46 S634
John North Hopkins The genesis of Roman architecture 722.7 H793
Donald King The Victoria & Albert Museum's textile collection: embroidery in Britain from 1200 to 1750 746.0941 V645

Biography & Genealogy
Bengt Jangfeldt Mayakovsky: a biography 92 M467
Morgan Ring So high a blood: the story of Margaret Douglas, the Tudor that time forgot 92 D7331
B. Alexandra Szerlip The man who designed the future: Norman Bel Geddes & the invention of twentieth-century America 92 G295

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Ben Handicott 50 museums to blow your mind 069 L847
J.P. Romney Printer's error: irreverent stories from book history 002.09 R766

Business & Economics
Kate Raworth Doughnut economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist 330 R261
Robert Bruce Shaw Extreme teams: why Pixar, Netflix, AirBnB & other cutting-edge companies succeed where most fail 658.4 S534

Food & Drink
Elisabeth Prueitt Tartine all day: modern recipes for the home cook 641.5979 P971

History
Kate Brown Dispatches from dystopia: histories of places not yet forgotten 907.2 B877
Eduardo A. Mayone Dias The Portuguese presence in California 979.4 D541
David Grann Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders & the birth of the FBI 976.6 G759
Richard Reeves President Nixon: alone in the White House 973.924 R332
Kathleen E. Smith Moscow 1956: the silenced spring 947.085 S642
Paul Starobin Madness rules the hour: Charleston, 1860 & the mania for war 975.7 S795
Richard van Emden Tommy's war: the Western Front in soldiers' words & photographs 940.48 V252
Richard S. Faulkner Pershing's Crusaders: the American soldier in World War I 940.4 F263
Robin Fleming Britain after Rome: the fall & rise, 400-1070 941.01 F597
Edward N. Luttwak The grand strategy of the Roman Empire: from the first century CE to the third 937 L974
Ian Mortimer The time traveler's guide to Restoration Britain: a handbook for visitors to the seventeenth century: 1660-1700 942.06 M888
Laurence Rees The Holocaust: a new history 940.53 R328
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill Houses & society in Pompeii & Herculaneum 937.7 W189

Law
Floyd Abrams The soul of the first amendment 342.7308 A161
Michael Schudson The rise of the right to know: politics & the culture of transparency, 1945-1975 342.73 S384

Performing Arts & Music
Jason Zinoman Letterman: the last giant of late night 791.45 L651

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Sheryl Sandberg Option B: facing adversity, building resilience & finding joy 155.93 S213
Regina M. Schwartz The curse of Cain: the violent legacy of monotheism 221.83 S399

Politics & Government
Peter Conradi Who lost Russia?: how the world entered a new Cold War 327.47 C754
John Robert Greene I like Ike: the presidential election of 1952 324.973 G799
Brian Klass The despot's accomplice: how the West is aiding & abetting the decline of democracy 321.8 K631
Timothy Snyder On tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century 321.9 S675

Social Sciences & Current Events
Jonathan C. Brown Cuba's revolutionary world 303.6 B877
James Forman, Jr. Locking up our own: crime & punishment in Black America 364.973 F724
Nathaniel Frank Awakening: how gays & lesbians brought marriage equality to America 306.76 F828
Daniel Lerner U thrive: how to succeed in college & life 370.15 L616
Jonathan Taplin Move fast & break things: how Facebook, Google & Amazon cornered culture & undermined democracy 303.48 T173
Elizabeth Warren This fight is our fight: the battle to save America's middle class 305.55 W286
James Q. Whitman Hitler's American model: the United States & the making of Nazi race law 342.43 W614

Travel & Geography
Petru Popescu The encounter: Amazon beaming 918.1 P826
The rough guide to Australia 919.404 R856

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Donna Leon Earthly remains Large Print Leon

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS

Nonfiction
Laura Atkins Fred Korematsu speaks up Child 341.6 A873

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
A fistful of dollars
For a few dollars more

Drama
Hacksaw Ridge

Foreign Language
Adventures of Zatoichi DVD Japanese
New tale of Zatoichi DVD Japanese
Samaritan Zatoichi DVD Japanese
The tale of Zatoichi DVD Japanese
Zatoichi & the chess expert DVD Japanese
Zatoichi & the chest of gold DVD Japanese
Zatoichi challenged DVD Japanese
Zatoichi goes to the fire festival DVD Japanese
Zatoichi in desperation DVD Japanese
Zatoichi meets the one-armed swordsman DVD Japanese
Zatoichi the fugitive DVD Japanese
Zatoichi the outlaw DVD Japanese
Zatoichi, the blind swordsman: supplements DVD Japanese
Zatoichi's cane sword DVD Japanese
Zatoichi's conspiracy DVD Japanese
Zatoichi's flashing sword DVD Japanese
Zatoichi's revenge DVD Japanese
Zatoichi's vengeance DVD Japanese

Posted on May. 4, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of May 1

BOOKS

FICTION
Sara Baume A line made by walking
Yasmine El Rashidi Chronicle of a last summer
John Daniel Gifted
Pajtim Statovci My cat Yugoslavia
Brian Van Reet Spoils
Nadeem Aslam The golden legend
Donia Bijan The last days of Café Leila
Anita Shreve The stars are fire

Historical Fiction
Richard Grant Cave dwellers
Andrea Camilleri The revolution of the moon

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Karo Hämäläinen Cruel is the night
Stuart Woods Fast & loose
Jeffery Deaver The burial hour
David Baldacci The fix

Short Stories
Siel Ju Cake time
F. Scott Fitgerald I'd die for you: & other lost stories
Samrat Upadhyay Mad country

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Autumn Stanley Mothers & daughters of invention: notes for a revised history of technology 604 S787
Vint Virga Soul of all living creatures: what animals can teach us about being human 636.089 V816

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
John Zukowsky Building Chicago: the architectural masterworks 720.9773 Z946

Biography & Genealogy
Lauren Marks A stitch of time: the year a brain injury changed my language & life 92 M346
Stuart Jeffries Grand Hotel Abyss: the lives of the Frankfurt School 920 F829
Alec Baldwin Nevertheless 92 B1811
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya The girl from the Metropol Hotel: growing up in communist Russia 92 P498
Tatiana de Rosnay Manderley forever 92 D885

Computer Science
Kirupa Chinnathambi Learning react 006.76 C539

Health & Medicine
Joseph Alton The survival medicine handbook: the essential guide for when help is not on the way 616.02 A469

History
Paul Watson Ice ghosts: the epic hunt for the lost Franklin Expedition 917.19 W337
Michael Savage Trump's war: his battle for America 973.93 S263
Paul Gething & Edoardo Albert Northumbria: the lost kingdom 942.88 G394
Chris Peers Offa & the Mercian Wars: the rise & fall of the first Great English Kingdom 942.01 P375
David Ride The ancient symbolic landscape of Wessex 942.3 R544
Paul Hill The Anglo-Saxons at war, 800-1066 941.01 H645
Barry Coward The Stuart age: England, 1603-1714 942.06 C874
Elizabeth Donnelly Carney Women & monarchy in Macedonia 938.1 C289

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
The Jewish Study Bible 221.5 B582
Daniel P. Keating Born anxious: the lifelong impact of early life adversity-- & how to break the cycle 155.92 K251
Ian Johnson The souls of China: the return of religion after Mao 200.951 J661

Social Sciences & Current Events
Thomas Sowell Black rednecks & white liberals 305.8 S731
Demet Güzey Food on foot: a history of eating on trails or in the wild 394.1 G993
Ariel Levy The rules do not apply 305.3 L668
Margie Jenkins You only die once: preparing for the end of life with grace & gusto 306.9 J521
Victor Hassine Life without parole: living & dying in prison today 365.6 H355
Duff McDonald The golden passport: Harvard Business School, the limits of capitalism & the moral failure of the MBA elite 378.744 M135

Travel & Geography
Tsh Oxenreider At home in the world: reflections on belonging while wandering the globe: an adventure across 4 continents with 3 kids, 1 husband & 5 backpacks 910.4 O981
Alex Shoumatoff The wasting of Borneo: dispatches from a vanishing world 915.98 S559

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
George Saunders Lincoln in the bardo CD Fic Saunders

Nonfiction
Douglas Preston The Lost City of the Monkey God: a true story CD 972.85 P937
Brad Stone The Upstarts: how Uber, Airbnb & the killer companies of the new Silicon Valley are changing the world CD 658.11 S877

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EAUDIOBOOKS
Chris Matthews Kennedy & nixon: the rivalry that shaped postwar America
Linda Mitchelmore Red is for rubies
Philip Kerr Research
Sarah Tranter Romancing the soul
Jane Fallon Skeletons
Kirsty Ferry Some veil did fall
Jackie Moggridge Spitfire girl
Jules Wake Talk to me
Jonathan Powell Talking to terrorists
Kerry Hudson Thirst
Maureen Carter Working girls

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
Afro samurai
Robocop

Comedy
Funny girl
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
The Goodbye girl

Drama
Beaches
Dancer in the dark
Naked lunch
On the road
The book thief
This sporting life
Torch song trilogy

Foreign Language
Der junge Törless DVD German
Le Million DVD French
Passion DVD French
Sophie Scholl: die letzten tage = the final days DVD German
Yūkoku = Patriotism, or the rite of love & death DVD Japanese

Musicals
Damn Yankees
Jolson sings again

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Mr. Wong, detective: the complete collection
The element of crime

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Underworld trilogy

Nonfiction

Advanced yoga DVD 613.7 Y42a
Blackbeard: terror at sea DVD 92 B628
Nefertiti resurrected DVD 932 N383
Robin Williams: live on Broadway DVD 792.23 W721
T'ai chi: beginning practice DVD 613.7 T129
The Doors collection DVD 782.421 D691c
The last voices of WWI: a generation lost DVD 940.48 R888
The royal wedding: William & Catherine, April 29, 2011 DVD 941.085 R888
When you're strange: afilm about The Doors DVD 782.421 D691w
Une education manquée: operette en un acte DVD 782.1 C429
Acapulco, Ixtapa, Zihuatanejo & inland to Taxco DVD 917.2 A379

Posted on Apr. 27, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of April 24

BOOKS

FICTION
Elizabeth Kostova The shadow land
Roland Merullo The delight of being ordinary: a road trip with the Pope & the Dalai Lama
Vaddey Ratner Music of the ghosts
M.L. Rio If we were villains
Jesse Ruddock Shot-blue
Eleanor Wasserberg Foxlowe

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Jennifer Finney Boylan Long black veil
Oscar de Muriel A fever of the blood
Stephen Dobyns Saratoga payback
Nir Hezroni Three envelopes
Jeff Johnson Lucky supreme
Malcolm Mackay Every night I dream of hell
Lisa Scottoline One perfect lie
Robin Yocum A welcome murder

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Reza Negarestani Cyclonopedia: complicity with anonymous materials
Cherie Priest Brimstone
Kim Stanley Robinson New York 2140
Terry Pratchett Equal rites
Terry Pratchett Sourcery
Terry Pratchett The light fantastic
Terry Pratchett Wyrd sisters

Short Stories
Jim Shepard The world to come
Jerry Thompson (editor) Oakland noir SS O117
Jerry White (editor) London stories SS L847

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Alan Moore The league of extraordinary gentlemen. Vol. 2 741.5 M82 comics
Mark Waid Daredevil. Volume 4 741.5 D217w comics

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NONFICTION

Biography & Genealogy
Uri Bar-Joseph The angel: the Egyptian spy who saved Israel 92 M3911
Alexandra Popoff Tolstoy's false disciple: the untold story of Leo Tolstoy & Vladimir Chertkov 920 T654
Sally Bedell Smith Prince Charles: the passions & paradoxes of an improbable life 92 C4762s

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Leah Price How to do things with books in Victorian Britain 028.9 P945

Business & Economics
Michael Bungay Stanier The coaching habit: say less, ask more & change the way you lead forever 658.3124 B942
Charles R. Geisst Loan sharks: the birth of predatory lending 332.8 G313
Ilana Gershon Down & out in the new economy: how people find (or don't find) work today 650.14 G381

Food & Drink
Randall Heskett Divine vintage: following the wine trail from Genesis to the modern age 641.22 H584
Hubert Keller Burger Bar: build your own ultimate burgers 641.84 K291
Robyn Stone Add a pinch: easier, faster, fresher Southern classics 641.5975 S877
Jenn Louis The book of greens: a cook's compendium of 40 varieties, from arugula to watercress, with more than 175 recipes 641.65 L888
Deborah Madison In my kitchen: a collection of new & favorite vegetarian recipes 641.5636 M182

Health & Medicine
Alanna Mitchell Malignant metaphor: confronting cancer myths 616.994 M681

History
Mark Ellman (editor) Practice aloha: secrets to living life Hawaiian style: stories, recipes & lyrics from Hawai'i's favorite folks 996.9 E478
Greg Girard City of darkness revisited 951.25 G517
John Julius Norwich Four princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent & the obsessions that forged modern Europe 940.23 N892
Les Standiford Water to the angels: William Mulholland, his monumental aqueduct & the rise of Los Angeles 979.494 S785
Chris Whipple The gatekeepers: how the White House Chiefs of Staff define every presidency 973.92 W573
J. Rasmus Brandt (editor) Life & death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman & Byzantine times: studies in archaeology & bioarchaeology 939.2 B821
Robert Gildea Fighters in the shadows: a new history of the French resistance 940.5344 G468f
Philip Nord France 1940: defending the republic 940.54 N828

Home & Family Management
Michele McKee-Orsini Handmade birdhouses & feeders: 35 projects to attract birds into your garden 690.8927 M154

Literature & Writing
Anselm Berrigan (editor) What is poetry? (just kidding, I know you know): interviews from the Poetry Project Newsletter, 1983-2009 811.54 B533
Mai Der Vang Afterland 811.6 V253
Peter Brooks Flaubert in the ruins of Paris: the story of a friendship, a novel & a terrible year 843.8 B873
David Wallace (editor) The Cambridge history of medieval English literature 820.9 C178

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Gregory S. Paul The Princeton field guide to dinosaurs 567.9 P324

Performing Arts & Music
Glenn Frankel High noon: the Hollywood blacklist & the making of an American classic 791.43 F829h
Ben Greenman Dig if you will the picture: funk, sex, God & genius in the music of Prince 780.92 P954g
Michael Wood Alfred Hitchcock: the man who knew too much 791.43 W873

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Ravi M. Gupta (editor) The Bhāgavata Purāṇa: sacred text & living tradition 294.59 G977
Ravi M. Gupta (editor) The Bhāgavata Purāṇa: selected translations 294.59 G977b
Robert A. Orsi History & presence 234 O76
Morihei Ueshiba The art of peace 796.8 U22

Politics & Government
Malcolm Nance The plot to hack America: how Putin's cyberspies & WikiLeaks tried to steal the 2016 election 324.973 N176

Social Sciences & Current Events
David Callahan The givers: wealth, power & philanthropy in a new gilded age 361.74 C156
Richard Florida The new urban crisis: how our cities are increasing inequality, deepening segregation & failing the middle class-- & what we can do about it 307.76 F636
Mike Hoefflinger Becoming Facebook: the 10 challenges that defined the company that's disrupting the world 302.3 H693
Joshua Reeves Citizen spies: the long rise of America's surveillance society 364.4 R332
Peter Tinti Migrant, refugee, smuggler, savior 364.137 T593

Travel & Geography
1001 amazing places you must see before you die 910.202 C379
Michelin French Atlantic coast 914.4 M623a
Moon Seattle 917.977 M818
NFT Not for tourists guide to San Francisco 917.9461 N899
Rolf Potts Marco Polo didn't go there: stories & revelations from one decade as a postmodern travel writer 910.4 P871
Rudolph Wurlitzer Hard travel to sacred places 915.9 W967
Ashley Baynton-Williams The curious map book 912.074 B361

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

DVDs
Cinderella

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Anthony Doerr About Grace CD Fic Doerr

* * * * *

DVDs
Action & Adventure
Jack Ryan: shadow recruit

Comedy
The front
The interview

Drama
Double indemnity
Genius
Hidden figures
Lion

Foreign Language
Détective DVD French
Hélas pour moi DVD French
Passion DVD French
Prénom Carmen DVD French
Senso DVD Italian

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
And then there were none
Our kind of traitor

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Elysium

Nonfiction
Gasland: Can you light your water on fire? DVD 622 G248
The age of consequences DVD 632 A265
The Doors R-evolution DVD 782.421 D691
Love's labour's lost DVD 822 S521Lve
Eugene Onegin DVD 782.5 T251
King Roger DVD 782.5 S999

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CDs
Classical
Adolph von Henselt Piano works = Klavierwerke CD Classical Henselt

Jazz & Blues
Billy Childs Rebirth CD Jazz Childs
Jazz loves Disney CD Jazz Disney
Robert Randolph & the Family Band Got soul CD Jazz Randolph

Posted on Apr. 20, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of April 17

BOOKS

FICTION
Julie Buntin Marlena
Omar El Akkad American war
David Samuel Levinson Tell me how this ends well
Alexander McCall Smith My Italian bulldozer
Michel Stone Border child
Angie Thomas The hate u give
Stephanie Powell Watts No one is coming to save us

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Steve Berry The Lost Order
Mary Higgins Clark All by myself, alone
David Hagerty They tell me you are crooked
C.S. Harris Where the dead lie
Philip Kerr Prussian blue
Donna Leon Earthly remains
M.L. Longworth The curse of La Fontaine
Anthony Rolls Scarweather
Daniel Cole Ragdoll

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Jim Butcher Summer knight
Indra Das The devourers
Ira Levin The Stepford wives
Nnedi Okorafor Akata witch
Terry Pratchett Mort
Lilith Saintcrow Roadside magic

Short Stories
Lesley Nneka Arimah What it means when a man falls from the sky

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Noah Van Sciver Fante Bukowski 741.5 V278f comics

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Richard Longstreth Road trip: roadside America from Custard's Last Stand to the Wigwam Restaurant 725.2 L857
Elizabeth Rynecki Chasing portraits: a great-granddaughter's quest for her lost art legacy 700.92 R995
Clare Browne (editor) English medieval embroidery: Opus Anglicanum 746.44 V645
Marc Morris Castles: their history & evolution in medieval Britain 728.81 M875c

Biography & Genealogy
Michael Finkel The stranger in the woods: the extraordinary story of the last true hermit 92 K692
John A. Farrell Richard Nixon: the life 92 N718f
Gareth Russell Young & damned & fair: the life of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of King Henry VIII 92 C359r

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Melissa Adler Cruising the library: perversities in the organization of knowledge 025.4 A237

Business & Economics
Paul David Blanc Fake silk: the lethal history of viscose rayon 338.4767 B638
Richard N. Bolles What color is your parachute? 2017 edition: a practical manual for job-hunters & career-changers 650.14 B69
Jean Chatzky Ageproof: living longer without running out of money or breaking a hip 650.1 C495
Jody Foster The schmuck in my office: how to deal effectively with difficult people at work 658.3 F754
Susan Wharton Gates Days of slaughter: inside the fall of Freddie Mac & why it could happen again 332.72 G259
T. R. Reid A fine mess: a global quest for a simpler, fairer & more efficient tax system 336.24 R353
Wendy Sachs Fearless & free: how smart women pivot & re-launch their careers 650.1 S121
Miya Tokumitsu Do what you love: & other lies about success & happiness 650.1 T646

Casey Reas Processing: a programming handbook for visual designers & artists 006.6 R288

Food & Drink
Chitra Agrawal Vibrant India: fresh vegetarian recipes from Bangalore to Brooklyn 641.5954 A277
Joan Nathan King Solomon's table: a culinary exploration of Jewish cooking from around the world 641.5676 N274

Health & Medicine
John Abraham How to get the death you want: a practical & moral guide 616.029 A159

History
Susan Bordo The destruction of Hillary Clinton 973.932 B729
Tony Brenton (editor) Was revolution inevitable?: turning points of the Russian Revolution 947.084 B839
Masha Gessen Where the Jews aren't: the sad & absurd story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish autonomous region 957 G392
Gideon Rachman Easternization: Asia's rise & America's decline from Obama to Trump & beyond 355.033 R119
Steven J. Ramold Slaves, sailors, citizens: African Americans in the Union navy 973.7 R175
Dennis Showalter Frederick the Great: a military history 943 S559
Geoffrey R. Stone Sex & the constitution: sex, religion & law from America's origins to the twenty-first century 345.7302 S877
Jennifer T. Roberts The plague of war: Athens, Sparta & the struggle for ancient Greece 938.05 R643
Trevor Bryce Atlas of the ancient Near East: from prehistoric times to the Roman imperial period 939.4 B916
Marc Aronson Sugar changed the world: a story of magic, spice, slavery, freedom & science 664.1 A769

Home & Family Management
Barbara Eisenstein Wild suburbia: learning to garden with native plants 635.9 E364

Law
Erwin Chemerinsky Closing the courthouse door: how your constitutional rights became unenforceable 347.732 C517c
Emily Doskow Neighbor law: fences, trees, boundaries & noise 346.0432 J82

Literature & Writing
Kathy Chamberlain Jane Welsh Carlyle & her Victorian world: a story of love, work, marriage & friendship 824.8 C443
Joshua Edwards Castles & islands 811.6 E261
Anne H. Janzer The writer's process: getting your brain in gear 808.02 J355
Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus: a 1604 version edition 822 M34d

Performing Arts & Music
Blair Davis Movie comics: page to screen/screen to page 791.43 D261m

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Frances FitzGerald The Evangelicals: the struggle to shape America 277.3 F553
Steve Richards Invisibility: mastering the art of vanishing 133 R514
Alec Ryrie Protestants: the faith that made the modern world 280.4 R995
Brenda Salgado (editor) Real world mindfulness for beginners: navigate daily life one practice at a time 158.1 S164
Brad Warner Don't be a jerk & other practical advice from Dōgen, Japan's greatest Zen master: a radical but reverent paraphrasing of Dōgen's Treasury of the true dharma eye 294.3 W279d

Politics & Government
James Baldwin I am not your Negro 323.1196 B181
Torkel Brekke Faithonomics: religion & the free market 322.1 B835
Basharat Peer A question of order: India, Turkey & the return of strongmen 320.4 P375

Reference
Famous first facts: a record of first happenings, discoveries & inventions in American history 031.02 K16

Social Sciences & Current Events
Nigel Brennan Price of life 364.154 B838
Lauren Smith Brody The fifth trimester: the working mom's guide to style, sanity & big success after baby 306.36 B864

Sports & Games
Jeff Passan The arm: inside the billion-dollar mystery of the most valuable commody in sports 796.357 P286

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS

Nonfiction
Ellen Levine If you lived at the time of the great San Francisco earthquake Child 979.461 L665

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EBOOKS
The zookeeper's wife: a war story Diane Ackerman
The new allergy solution: supercharge resistance, slash medication, stop suffering Clifford W. Bassett
The novel of the century: the extraordinary adventure of Les Misérables David Bellos
The Gulf: the making of an American sea Jack E. Davis
South & West: from a notebook Joan Didion
Captain Fantastic: Elton John's stellar trip through the '70s Tom Doyle
March 1917: on the brink of war & revolution Will Englund
Her little majesty: the life of Queen Victoria Carolly Erickson
Richard Nixon: the life John A. Farrell
The stranger in the woods: the extraordinary story of the North Pond hermit Michael Finkel
From silk to silicon: the story of globalization through ten extraordinary lives Jeffrey E. Garten
A Colony in a Nation Chris Hayes
When breath becomes air Paul Kalanithi
The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir Levy, Ariel
The world remade: America in World War I G.J. Meyer
Ike & McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's secret campaign against Joseph McCarthy David A. Nichols
How the hell did this happen?: the election of 2016 P.J. O'Rourke
Year of no clutter: a memoir Eve Schaub
Word by word: the secret life of dictionaries Kory Stamper
Aging gracefully: portraits of people over 100 Karsten Thormaehlen
Dynastic, bombastic, fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish & Charlie Finley's swingin' A's Jason Turbow
Marilyn in Manhattan: her year of joy Elizabeth Winder

Posted on Apr. 19, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of April 10

BOOKS

FICTION
Sebastian Barry Days without end
Erika Carter Lucky you
Ron Currie The one-eyed man
Eva Darrows Dead little mean girl
Sarah Dunn The arrangement
Mathias Enard Compass
Lauren Grodstein Our short history
Steven Heighton The nightingale won't let you sleep
Catriona Lally Eggshells
Jim Minick Fire is your water
Shawna Yang Ryan Green Island
Hannah Tinti The twelve lives of Samuel Hawley
Émile Zola The belly of Paris = (Le ventre de Paris)

Historical Fiction
S. J. Parris Conspiracy

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Todd Borg Tahoe dark
Anne Cleeland Murder in containment
David Corbett Thirteen confessions
Amy Engel The Roanoke girls
Mary Feliz Address to die for
David Hagerty They tell me you are wicked
Francine Mathews Death in rough water
Georges Simenon The hanged man of Saint-Pholien

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
G.J. Koch Alexander Outland: space pirate
Lilith Saintcrow Trailer park Fae
Douglas Adams Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Short Stories
Laurie R. King (editor) In the company of sherlock holmes: stories inspired by the holmes canon SS S552k

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Pam Peirce Golden Gate gardening: the complete guide to year-round food gardening in the San Francisco Bay area & coastal California 635 P37
Bonnie Rochman The gene machine: how genetic technologies are changing the way we have kids--and the kids we have 616.042 R679

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Stefan Al The Strip: Las Vegas & the architecture of the American dream 725.76 A316
Kanji Ishii New York 974.71 I796
Anne Odom Russian silver in America: surviving the melting pot 739.23 O25
Anthony W. Robins New York art deco: a guide to Gotham's jazz age architecture 720.9747 R657
Shigeru Ban: paper in architecture 721.044 B212
Susana Martínez Vidal Frida Kahlo: fashion as the art of being 709.04 K124

Biography & Genealogy
Joshua Safran Free spirit: growing up on the road & off the grid 92 S1289
John Bew Clement Attlee: the man who made modern Britain 92 A8857

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Chris Paling Reading allowed: true stories & curious incidents from a provincial library 027.4 P162

Food & Drink
Rosalee de la Foret Alchemy of herbs: transform everyday ingredients into foods & remedies that heal 615.321 F718

Health & Medicine
Sara C. Mednick Take a nap!: change your life 612.821 M491

History
Steven Casey The war beat, Europe: the American media at war against Nazi Germany 940.5311 C338
Janine di Giovanni The morning they came for us: dispatches from Syria 956.91 D574
Richard N. Frye The heritage of Central Asia from antiquity to the Turkish expansion 958 F948
David A. Nichols Ike & McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's secret campaign against Joseph McCarthy 973.921 N616
Dorothy U. Seyler The obelisk & the Englishman: the pioneering discoveries of Egyptologist William Bankes 932 B218
Steven Snape The complete cities of ancient Egypt 932 S669
Stephen Turnbull The samurai & the sacred 952 T94s
Pierre Briant The first European: a history of Alexander in the age of empire 938.07 B849

Home & Family Management
John Michael Greer Green wizardry: conservation, solar power, organic gardening & other hands-on skills from the appropriate tech toolkit 640.28 G816

Literature & Writing
David Bellos The novel of the century: the extraordinary adventure of Les Misérables 843.7 H895
Teju Cole Known & strange things 824.9 C689
Stuart Horwitz Book architecture: how to plot & outline without using a formula 808.02 H824b

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Stephen Sharnoff A field guide to California lichens 579.7 S531

Performing Arts & Music
Ray Connolly Being Elvis: a lonely life 780.92 P934
William McKeen Everybody had an ocean: music & mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles 781.66 M154

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Ajahn Brahm Kindfulness 294.34 A312
Ajahn Brahm The art of disappearing: the Buddha's path to lasting joy 294.34 A312a
Charlotte Joko Beck Everyday Zen: love & work 294.3 B393
Philip Gorski American covenant: a history of civil religion from the Puritans to the present 306.6 G674
Sarah Ruden The face of water: a translator on beauty & meaning in the Bible 220.5 R915
Brad Warner Sit down & shut up: punk rock commentaries on Buddha, God, truth, sex, death & Dogen's Treasury of the right dharma eye 294.3 W279s

Social Sciences & Current Events
Howard W. French Everything under the heavens: how the past helps shape China's push for global power 327.51 F873
Chris Hayes A colony in a nation 364.973 H417
Jill Abraham Hummer First ladies & American women: in politics & at home 320.082 H925
Peter Markus Inside my pencil: teaching poetry in the Detroit Public Schools 371.1 M346

Sports & Games
Ann Marie Brown Hike smart: tips & tactics for improving your treks 796.51 B877

Travel & Geography
Fionn Davenport Ireland's best trips: 34 amazing road trips 914.15 L847b
Eyewitness The Italian Riviera 914.518 E97
Patrick Leigh Fermor Words of mercury: tales from a lifetime of travel 910.4 F361
The rough guide to Berlin 914.315 R856
Nick Middleton An atlas of countries that don't exist: a compendium of fifty unrecognized & largely unnoticed states 911 M628

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Fredrik Backman A man called Ove CD Fic Backman

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DVDs

Nonfiction
Fuocoammare = Fire at sea DVD 325.4 F982
Hitchcock Truffaut DVD 791.43 H674
Queen & country DVD 941.085 P348
Talent has hunger DVD 780.7 A769
The lottery of birth DVD 323.44 L884

Posted on Apr. 6, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang