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New Titles List for the Week of March 27

BOOKS

FICTION
Rabih Alameddine The angel of history
Elif Batuman The idiot
Yasunari Kawabata Snow country
Hari Kunzru White tears
Elinor Lipman On Turpentine Lane
Daniel Magariel One of the boys
Andrea Molesini Not all bastards are from Vienna
Janis Cooke Newman A master plan for rescue
Borislav Pekić Houses
Susan Perabo The fall of Lisa Bellow
Bob Proehl A hundred thousand worlds
Philippe Soupault Last nights of Paris
Mary Volmer Reliance, Illinois
Robin Wasserman Girls on fire
Patty Yumi Cottrell Sorry to disrupt the peace
Arthur Morrison A child of the Jago

Historical Fiction
Caroline Brothers The memory stones

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Mike Barnes The Adjustment League: File 1: The boiled child Fic Barnes
Sarah Cain One by one Fic Cain
Catherine Coulter The devil's triangle Fic Coulter
Clive Cussler The cutthroat Fic Cussler
Lyndsay Faye The whole art of detection: lost mysteries of Sherlock Holmes Fic Faye
Oliver Harris Deep Shelter Fic Harris
Christobel Kent The loving husband Fic Kent
Vaseem Kahn The unexpected inheritance of Inspector Chopra Fic Khan
Laurie R. King Mary Russell's war: & other stories of suspense Fic King
Joe R. Lansdale Savage season Fic Lansdale
Ed O'Loughlin Minds of winter Fic O'Loughlin
Alexis M. Smith Marrow Island Fic Smith
Bradley Spinelli The painted gun Fic Spinelli
Gunnar Staalesen The consorts of death Fic Staalesen
Chevy Stevens Never let you go Fic Stevens
Jacqueline Winspear In this grave hour Fic Winspear
Jess Kidd Himself Fic Kidd
Graham Norton Holding Fic Norton

Short Stories
Joseph Nassise (editor) Urban allies: ten brand-new collaborative stories SS U728
David Constantine In another country
Mary Sojourner The talker

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Charles Wohlforth Beyond Earth: our path to a new home in the planets 629.45 W846

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Leo Bronstein El Greco 759.6 B869
Adele Tutter Dream house: an intimate portrait of the Philip Johnson Glass House 728.37 T967
Martin A. Berger Freedom now!: forgotten photographs of the civil rights struggle 779.9 B496
George T. M. Schackelford Monet: the early years 759.4 M742

Biography & Genealogy
Alice Arlen The huntress: the adventures, escapades & triumphs of Alicia Patterson: aviatrix, sportswoman, journalist, publisher 92 P318
Ruth Franklin Shirley Jackson: a rather haunted life 92 J124
Bill Hayes Insomniac City: New York, Oliver & me 920.073 H417
Megan Marshall Elizabeth Bishop: a miracle for breakfast 92 B623
Eric Burns Someone to watch over me: a portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt & the tortured father who shaped her life 920 R781b
Giles Tremlett Isabella of Castile: Europe's first great queen 92 I74t

Business & Economics
David O. Renz The Jossey-Bass handbook of nonprofit leadership & management 658.048 R424

Computer Science
Aidas Bendoraitis Web development with Django cookbook : over 90 practical recipes to help you create scalable websites using the Django 1.8 framework 005.72 B459
Luke Dormehl Thinking machines: the quest for artificial intelligence--and where it's taking us next 006.3 D712
Matt Stauffer Laravel: up & running: a framework for building modern PHP apps 005.5762 S798

Food & Drink
Terry Pratchett Nanny Ogg's cookbook 641.5 P912
Patricia Wells My master recipes: 165 recipes to inspire confidence in the kitchen: with dozens of variations 641.5 W453

Health & Medicine
Barry S. Willdorf Dancing with cancer: maladies & miracles in stem cell transplantland 616.994 W697
Moris Senegor Dogmeat: a memoir of love & neurosurgery in San Francisco 617.48 S475

History
Jack E. Davis The Gulf: the making of an American sea 976 D261
Mark Kurlansky Havana: a subtropical delirium 972.912 K968
Judith Matloff No friends but the mountains: dispatches from the world's violent highlands 355.009 M433
Pankaj Mishra Age of anger: a history of the present 909.8 M678
Helen Russell The year of living Danishly: uncovering the secrets of the world's happiest country 948.95 R961
Christina Snyder Great crossings: Indians, settlers & slaves in the age of Jackson 976.9 S675
Gerard Toal Near abroad: Putin, the West & the contest over Ukraine & the Caucasus 947.086 T627

Literature & Writing
Clayton Eshleman (editor) A Sulfur anthology 808.8 E755
David Hernandez Dear, sincerely 811.6 H557
Konundrum: selected prose of Franz Kafka 838 K11w
Rosa Lane Tiller North: poems 811.54 L265
Jack Mueller The Gate: an essay in open form 811.6 M946
Elena Passarello Animals strike curious poses 814.6 P286
Emma Smith Shakespeare's First Folio: four centuries of an iconic book 822.33 S642
Vincent Toro Stereo. Island. Mosaic. 811.6 T686
Thomas Kyd The Spanish tragedy 822 K991

Performing Arts & Music
Fred Plotkin Opera 101: a complete guide to learning & loving opera 782.1 P729
Richard Ayoade Ayoade on Ayoade: a cinematic odyssey 791.43 A983

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Kṛṣṇa: the supreme personality of Godhead 294.5 B57
Abigail Pogrebin My Jewish year: 18 holidays, one wondering Jew 296.43 P746

Politics & Government
Mickey Huff Censored: the top censored stories & media analysis 323.445 C396
Gene Stone The Trump survival guide: everything you need to know about what you hoped would never happen 324.973 S877
J. D. Zahniser Alice Paul: claiming power 324.6 Z19

Social Sciences & Current Events
Robert Cohen Freedom's orator: Mario Savio & the radical legacy of the 1960s 378.198 C678
Henry A. Giroux America at war with itself 303.3 G528
Robyn C. Spencer The revolution has come: Black power, gender & the Black Panther Party in Oakland 322.4 S745

Sports & Games
Jason Turbow Dynastic, bombastic, fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish & Charlie Finley's swingin' A's 796.357 T931d
Dennis Snelling The greatest minor league: a history of the Pacific Coast League, 1903-1957 796.357 S671

Travel & Geography
Aaron Millar The 50 greatest wonders of the world 910.2 M645
Bob Shacochis Kingdoms in the air: dispatches from the far away 910.4 S524

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Eric Carle The very quiet cricket Child Carle

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Julia Baird Victoria the queen: an intimate biography of the woman who ruled an empire CD 92 V645b
Steven Hahn A nation without borders: the United States & its world in an age of civil wars, 1830-1910 CD 973.5 H148
Marc Myers Anatomy of a song: the oral history of 45 iconic hits that changed rock, R & B & pop CD 780.92 M996

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CDs

Jazz & Blues
Vitor Goncalves Vitor Gonc̦alves Quartet CD Jazz Gonc̦alves

Popular
Madeleine Peyroux Secular hymns CD Pop Peyroux

Posted on Mar. 23, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

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New Titles List for the Week of March 20

BOOKS

FICTION
Jami Attenberg All grown up
Kevin Canty The underworld
David Grossman A horse walks into a bar
Annie Hartnett Rabbit cake
David Joy The weight of this world
Paul La Farge The night ocean
Victor Lodato Edgar & Lucy
Drew Magary The hike
Julianne Pachico The lucky ones
Viveka Shanbhaga Ghachar ghochar
Domenico Starnone Ties
Jennifer Steil The ambassador's wife
Yoojin Grace Wuertz Everything belongs to us
Cecelia Ahern The Marble Collector
Nickolas Butler The hearts of men
Mohsin Hamid Exit west

Historical Fiction
Peter Kimani Dance of the Jakaranda
Kathleen Rooney Lillian Boxfish takes a walk
Tim Pears The horseman

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Jorgen Brekke The fifth element
John Bude The Cheltenham Square murder
Dan Chaon Ill will
Augusto De Angelis The mystery of the three orchids
Gerald Elias Playing with fire
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen Waking lions
Peter Heller Celine
K.J. Howe The freedom broker
Faye Kellerman Bone box
Adrian McKinty Police at the station & they don't look friendly
Kate Moretti The vanishing year
Nicolás Obregón Blue light Yokohama
Brad Parks Say nothing
V. Sanjay Kumar The third squad
Marcus Sedgwick Mister Memory
Brian Thiem Red line
The complete Sherlock Holmes: the A. Conan Doyle memorial edition
Charlie Lovett The lost book of the Grail, or, A visitor's guide to Barchester Cathedral

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Joseph Fink Welcome to Night Vale
Richard Kadrey The wrong dead guy
Jaroslav Kalfar Spaceman of Bohemia
Keith Rosson The mercy of the tide

Short Stories
Bandi The accusation

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Rob Davis The can opener's daughter 741.5 D2611 comics
Andrzej Klimowski Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde 741.5 S847 comics
Francois Riviere Agatha Christie's Endless night 741.5 C555 comics

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Lars Åberg Floating in Sausalito 779.9 A145
American Artist magazine Inside the art studio: a guided tour of 37 artists' creative spaces 709.22 I591
Thomas Bärnthaler Do it yourself: 50 projects by designers & artists 747.1 B262
Cristina Paredes Benitez (editor) Lofts 2 728.31 P227
Ana G. Cañizares Lofts designsource 728.31 C223
James Crawford Fallen glory: the lives & deaths of history's greatest buildings 720 C899
The definitive book about icehotel art & design 745.4 I15

Biography & Genealogy
Amy Gary In the great green room: the brilliant & bold life of Margaret Wise Brown 92 W813
Kay Redfield Jamison Robert Lowell, setting the river on fire: a study of genius, mania & character 92 L916j
Melissa Müller Anne Frank: the biography 92 F828m
Trevor Noah Born a crime: stories from a South African childhood 92 N739
John Stubbs Jonathan Swift: the reluctant rebel 92 S977s

Chess
Viacheslav Eingorn A rock-solid chess opening repertoire for black 794.1 E354
Evgeny Sveshnikov A Chess Opening Repertoire for Blitz & Rapid: Sharp, Surprising & Forcing Lines for Black & White 794.122 S968c

Computer Science
Brooke Borel The Chicago guide to fact-checking 001.42 B731

Food & Drink
Melissa Clark Dinner: changing the game 641.5 C592
Marlena De Blasi The Umbrian Thursday night supper club 641.5945 D286u
Wendy A. Woloson Refined tastes: sugar, confectionery & consumers in nineteenth-century America 641.86 W866

Health & Medicine
Elaine Taylor-Klaus Parenting ADHD now!: easy intervention strategies to empower kids with ADHD 616.89 T247
James W. Jones Live better while you age: tips & tools for a healthier, longer life 613.2 J762

History
Andrea Baldeck Venice, a personal view 945.31 B175
A. Scott Berg (editor) World War I & America: told by the Americans who lived it 940.4 W927
R.B. Bernstein The founding fathers: a very short introduction 973.3 B531
Tom Clavin Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson & the wickedest town in the American West 978.1 C617
Will Englund March 1917: on the brink of war & revolution 940.31 E588
Tim Judah In wartime: stories from Ukraine 947.086 J921
James Kirchick The end of Europe: dictators, demagogues & the coming dark age 940.56 K587
Alia Malek The home that was our country: a memoir of Syria 956.91 M245
Frank McDonough The Gestapo: the myth & reality of Hitler's secret police 363.283 M136
Charles R. Morris A rabble of dead money: the Great Crash & the global depression: 1929-1939 973.916 M875
Douglas Preston The lost city of the Monkey God: a true story 972.85 P937
Giles T. Brown Ships that sail no more; marine transportation from San Diego to Puget Sound, 1910-1940 387.5 B877
Sylvia Linsteadt Lost worlds of the San Francisco Bay Area 979.46 L759
G.J. Meyer The world remade: America in World War I 940.373 M612
John Romer A history of ancient Egypt, volume 2: from the Great Pyramid to the fall of the Middle Kingdom 932 R763h

Law
Stephen Fishman Working for yourself: law & taxes for independent contractors, freelancers & gig workers of all types 343.7305 F53w
Anthony Mancuso How to form your own California corporation 346.0668 M269h

Literature & Writing
Matt Avery Public speaking in a week: presentation skills in seven simple steps 808.51 A954
John Casey Beyond the first draft: the art of fiction 808.3 C338
Emma Darwin Get started in writing historical fiction 808.3 D228
Laura Miller (editor) Literary wonderlands: a journey through the greatest fictional worlds ever created 809.93 M647
Deb Norton Part wild: a writer's guide to harnessing the creative power of resistance 808.02 N882

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Keith Devlin Finding Fibonacci: the quest to rediscover the forgotten mathematical genius who changed the world 510.1 D497
Richard Dunn The telescope 522.2 D923
Dan Egan The death & life of the Great Lakes 577.63 E282
Richard Fortey The wood for the trees: one man's long view of nature 577.3 F738
Ian Stewart Taming the infinite: the story of mathematics 510.9 S849

Performing Arts & Music
Walter Rimler George Gershwin: an intimate portrait 780.92 G38r

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Andy Andrews The little things: why you really should sweat the small stuff 170.44 A565
Lisa Feldman Barrett How emotions are made: the secret life of the brain 152.4 B274
Andrea Bonior Psychology: essential thinkers, classic theories & how they inform your world 150.9 B715
Julia Cameron It's never too late to begin again: discovering creativity & meaning at midlife & beyond 155.67 C182
Brian Christian Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions 153.43 C555
Steven Kotler Stealing fire: how Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALS & maverick scientists are revolutionizing the way we live & work 154.4 K874
James T. Palmer The Apocalypse in the early Middle Ages 236.9 P173
Scott Sonenshein Stretch: unlock the power of less-- & achieve more than you ever imagined 153.35 S698

Politics & Government
Abbas Milani The myth of the great Satan: a new look at America's relations with Iran 327.73 M637
P. J. O'Rourke How the hell did this happen?: the election of 2016 324.973 O745
Ruy Teixeira The optimistic leftist: why the 21st century will be better than you think 320.51 T266

Social Sciences & Current Events
Adam Alter Irresistible: the rise of addictive technology & the business of keeping us hooked 302.23 A466
Tyler Cowen The complacent class: the self-defeating quest for the American dream 305.51 C874
Gish Jen The girl at the baggage claim: explaining the East-West culture gap 306.4 J511
Peter Moskowitz How to kill a city: gentrification, inequality & the fight for the neighborhood 307.3 M911
Walter Scheidel The great leveler: violence & the history of inequality from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century 305.5 S318
J. Harvie Wilkinson III All falling faiths: reflections on the promise & failure of the 1960s 347.73 W686

Travel & Geography
Eyewitness Barcelona & Catalonia 914.67 E97
Eyewitness Russia 914.7 E97
National Geographic Prague & the Czech Republic 914.37 N277
Bruce Redford Venice & the grand tour 914.53 R315

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Ruth Bader Ginsburg My own words CD 347.73 G493g
Chris Smith The Daily Show CD 791.45 S849

Posted on Mar. 16, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

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New Titles List for the Week of March 13

BOOKS

FICTION
Laurie Frankel This is how it always is

Historical Fiction
Hanna Krall Chasing the king of hearts
Robin E. Levin Death of carthage
Patrick Gale A place called winter

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
M.C. Beaton Death of a ghost
Boileau-Narcejac She who was no more
Roberto Costantini The root of all evil
Judith Flanders A cast of vultures
Stephen Mack Jones August Snow

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Peter S. Beagle In Calabria
Jim Butcher Grave peril
Giorgio De Maria The twenty days of Turin
Ursula K. Le Guin (editor) Selected stories of H.G. Wells
Michelle Paver Thin air: a ghost story
Adrian J. Walker The End of the World Running Club
H.G. Wells The island of Doctor Moreau

Short Stories
Rachel Ingalls Three masquerades

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Jason Shiga Demon Volume 2 741.5 S555 comics
Moebius The world of Edena 741.5 M693 comics
Simon Roy Habitat 741.5 R888 comics
R. Sikoryak Terms & conditions 741.5 S579 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Damion Searls The inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, his iconic test & the power of seeing 616.89 S439

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Brooching it diplomatically: a tribute to Madeleine K. Albright 739.27 A342b
Beaver Brook Cabin porn 728.7 C115
Cecelia Campochiaro Sequence knitting: simple methods for creating complex reversible fabrics 746.43 C198
Matthew Christopher Abandoned America: dismantling the dream 778.94 C556
Jonathan Glancey What's so great about the Eiffel Tower?: 70 questions that will change the way you think about architecture 720 G545

Biography & Genealogy
Nikki M. Taylor Driven toward madness: the fugitive slave Margaret Garner & tragedy on the Ohio 92 T2381
Terry Mort Hemingway at war: Ernest Hemingway's adventures as a World War II correspondent 92 H479mo

Business & Economics
F. William Engdahl Gods of money: Wall Street & the death of the American century 332.0973 E571
Leigh Gallagher The Airbnb story: how three ordinary guys disrupted an industry, made billions... & created plenty of controversy 647.94 G162
Melanie Gerlis Art as an investment?: a survey of comparative assets 332.63 G371
Hildy Gottlieb Friend raising: community engagement strategies for boards who hate fundraising but love making friends 658.15 G686
Bernard B. Kamoroff Small time operator: how to start your own business, keep your books, pay your taxes & stay out of trouble 658.11 K157
Beth Kanter The happy, healthy nonprofit: strategies for impact without burnout 658.048 K168
Andrea Kihlstedt Train your board (and everyone else) to raise money: a cookbook of easy-to-use fundraising exercises 658.15 K478
Donald MacKenzie An engine, not a camera: how financial models shape markets 332.01 M156
Christine Porath Mastering civility: a manifesto for the workplace 650.13 P832

Computer Science
Mike McGrath C# programming in easy steps 005.13 M147

Food & Drink
Domenica Marchetti Ciao Biscotti: sweet & savory recipes celebrating Italy's favorite cookie 641.8654 M317
Simone Ortega The book of tapas 641.5946 O77t
Anya von Bremzen The new Spanish table 641.5946 V945
Mark Bittman Mark Bittman's kitchen matrix: more than 700 simple recipes & techniques to mix & match for endless possibilities 641.5 B624
Jenny Linford The chef's library: favorite cookbooks from the world 's great kitchens 641.5 L754
Chris Santos Share: delicious & surprising recipes to pass around your table 641.5 S237

Health & Medicine
Julie Daniluk The hot detox plan: cleanse your body & heal your gut with warming, anti-inflammatory foods 613.2 D186
Carol Lambert Women with controlling partners: taking back your life from a manipulative or abusive partner 362.82 L222
Ayelet Waldman A really good day: how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage & my life 616.895 W164

History
Rick Beyer Rivals unto death: Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr 973.46 B573
Isabel Denny The fall of Hitler's fortress city: the battle for Konigsberg, 1945 940.542 D412
Yuval Noah Harari Homo deus: a brief history of tomorrow 909 H254h
Tom Hayden Hell no: the forgotten power of the Vietnam peace movement 959.7 H414
Doug Mack The Not-Quite States of America: dispatches from the territories & other far-flung outposts of the USA 909.097 M153
Stephen O'Shea The Alps: a human history from Hannibal to Heidi & beyond 949.4 O824
Karl Schlögel In space we read time: on the history of civilization & geopolitics 909.82 S345
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor The original Black elite: Daniel Murray & the story of a forgotten era 973.0496 T238
Kevin Wilson Blood & fears: how America's bomber boys of the 8th air force saved World War II 940.54 W746
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough Beyond the Northlands: Viking voyages & the Old Norse sagas 948.022 B268
Giles Milton Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: the mavericks who plotted Hitler's defeat 940.54 M662
Frank N. Pieke Knowing China: A Twenty-First-Century Guide 951.06 P613
Helen Rappaport Caught in the revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917-- a world on the edge 355 R221
edited by Nigel Saul (editor) The Oxford illustrated history of medieval England 942.03 S256

Law
Michael E. Jones Art law: a concise guide for artists, curators & art educators 344.7309 J762

Literature & Writing
Janis Bell Clean, well-lighted sentences: a guide to avoiding the most common errors in grammar & punctuation 808.04 B433
J.D. Daniels The correspondence 814.6 D186

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Elizabeth Blackburn The telomere effect: a revolutionary approach to living younger, healthier, longer 572.8 B628
Douglas Adams Last chance to see 591.52 A211
Simon Ings Stalin & the scientists: a history of triumph & tragedy 1905-1953 509.47 I55

Performing Arts & Music
Steve Turner Beatles '66: the revolutionary year 780.92 B36t
Noah Isenberg We'll always have Casablanca: the life, legend & afterlife of Hollywood's most beloved movie 791.43 I78

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Geneive Abdo The new sectarianism: the Arab uprisings & the rebirth of the Shi'a-Sunni divide 297.8 A135
Mustafa Akyol The Islamic Jesus: how the King of the Jews became a prophet of the Muslims 297.2 A315
Carl R. Trueman The real scandal of the evangelical mind 280.4 T866
Chris Voss Never split the difference: negotiating as if your life depended on it 158.5 V969
Florence Williams The nature fix: why nature makes us happier, healthier & more creative 155.9 W721

Politics & Government
Becky Bond Rules for revolutionaries: how big organizing can change everything 323 B711
Chas W. Freeman, Jr America's continuing misadventures in the Middle East 327.56 F855
David A. Moss Democracy: a case study 320.473 M913
Joel Whitney Finks: how the CIA tricked the world's best writers 327.12 W617
Dan Zak Almighty: courage, resistance & existential peril in the nuclear age 327.17 Z215
Thomas Lake Unprecedented: the election that changed everything 324.973 L192

Social Sciences & Current Events
David Billings Deep denial: the persistence of white supremacy in United States history & life 305.8 B598
Jessa Crispin Why I am not a feminist: a feminist manifesto 305.42 C932
Kay S. Hymowitz The new Brooklyn: what it takes to bring a city back 306.0974 H996
Robert D. Kaplan Earning the Rockies: how geography shapes America's role in the world 306.0973 K172
Sheelah Kolhatkar Black edge: inside information, dirty money & the quest to bring down the most wanted man on Wall Street 364.16 K813
Ellen Condliffe Lagemann Liberating minds: the case for college in prison 365.6 L174L
Dan Pallotta Charity case: how the nonprofit community can stand up for itself & really change the world 361.763 P168
Keith Somerville Ivory: power & poaching in Africa 381.456 S696
Timothy B. Tyson The blood of Emmett Till 364.1 T574t

Sports & Games
Robert F. Garratt Home team: the turbulent history of the San Francisco Giants 796.357 G238

Travel & Geography
Christopher P. Baker Colombia 918.6 N277
Hilary Bradt North Devon: local, characterful guides to Britain's special places 914.235 B812
Travis Elborough Atlas of improbable places: a journey to the world's most unusual corners 910 E374
Alexandra Kenin Urban trails. San Francisco: Coastal Bluffs, The Presidio Hilltop Parks & Stairways 917.946 K339
Fodor's the Amalfi Coast, Capri & Naples 914.573 F653
Lonely Planet Chicago 917.731 L847
Monocle Los Angeles 917.9494 M751
Insight Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania 914.79 I592

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Kelly Barnhill The girl who drank the moon Child Barnhill

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CDs
Classical
Thibaut Garcia Leyendas: works for solo guitar CD Classical Garcia

Jazz & Blues
Kenny Burrell Unlimited. 1 CD Jazz Burrell

Posted on Mar. 9, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

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New Titles List for the Week of March 6

BOOKS

FICTION
J.M. Coetzee The schooldays of Jesus
Margaret Drabble The dark flood rises
Alex George Setting free the kites
Sergei Lebedev The year of the comet
Anna McPartlin The last days of Rabbit Hayes
Nicholas Searle The good liar
Anne Bronte Agnes Grey

Historical Fiction
Jennifer Ryan The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
George Saunders Lincoln in the bardo

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Jason Arnopp The last days of Jack Sparks
E.O. Chirovici The book of mirrors
Charles Cumming A divided spy
Caite Dolan-Leach Dead letters
Mark Greaney Gunmetal gray
James Grippando Most dangerous place
Jonathan Kellerman Heartbreak Hotel
Kathleen Kent The dime
Joe R. Lansdale Rusty puppy
Clare Mackintosh I see you
James Patterson Humans, bow down
Charles Todd Racing the devil
Emma Healey Elizabeth is missing

Short Stories
Roxane Gay Difficult women
Eric Puchner Last day on earth

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Jason R. Lamb Predator kindred Volume 1 741.5 L218 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Ken Light Coal Hollow: photographs & oral histories 622.33 C652
Leonard Wickenden Gardening with nature: how to grow your own vegetables, fruit & flowers by natural methods 635.987 W636

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Anne Berendsen Tiles: a general history 738.6 B488
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Life studies, life stories: 80 works on paper 741.9 F357

Biography & Genealogy

Flavius Josephus Life of Herod 92 H55j
Carl Van Doren Benjamin Franklin 92 F831va

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
George W. Houston Inside Roman libraries: book collections & their management in antiquity 027.037 H843

History
Kevin Butcher Roman Syria & the Near East 939.4 B983
Trevor N. Dupuy A genius for war: the German army & general staff, 1807-1945 355.3 D945
Michael Grant From Rome to Byzantium: the fifth century A.D. 938 G761r
Michael Grant The collapse & recovery of the Roman Empire 937.07 G761
Robert Graves Goodbye to all that 940.9 G776
Edith Hamilton The Roman way 937 H217
Georges Lefebvre Napoleon 944.05 L489
Peter Salway The Oxford illustrated history of Roman Britain 942.01 S186
The history of Chinese civilization 951 Y945
F.W. Walbank The Hellenistic world 938.08 W151
Robert P. Watson The Nazi Titanic: the incredible untold story of a doomed ship in World War II 940.542 W337
Frances Wood The Silk Road 950 W873

Languages & Linguistics
Juan Kattán-Ibarra Latin American Spanish 468 K197
Hildur Jónsdóttir Icelandic 439.69 J81
Juan Kattán-Ibarra Improve your Spanish 468 K197i
Terttu Leney Finnish 494.541 L565
Gerdi Quist Dutch 439.31 Q87
Elizabeth Scurfield Chinese 495.1 S437
Jack Smart Teach yourself Gulf Arabic 492.78 S636

Literature & Writing
Cicero Orations 874 C56
A.K. Ramanujan Speaking of Śiva 894.814 R165

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Carla Yanni Nature's museums: Victorian science & the architecture of display 508 Y24

Performing Arts & Music
Irina Levin The Stanislavsky secret: not a system, not a method but a way of thinking 792.028 L665
Constantin Stanislavski Creating a role 792.028 S786

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Jacob Bronowski The ascent of man 501 B86ab
Dolf Hartsuiker Sādhus: holy men of India 294.5 H335
David Hempton Methodism: empire of the spirit 287 H491
Stephen P. Huyler Meeting God: elements of Hindu devotion 294.54 H987
Ajit Mookerjee The tantric way: art, science, ritual 294.39 M817
Plato Complete works 184 P718

Social Sciences & Current Events
Hans Licht Sexual life in ancient Greece 392.6 L69
Alexander Stille The future of the past 303.4 S857

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MAGAZINES
Vegetarian today

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION
DVDs
Finding Dory

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CDs
Classical
Samuel Barber The songs CD Classical Barber
Ludwig van Beethoven Beethoven songs CD Classical Beethoven
Giuseppe Verdi Lauri-Volpi sings Verdi CD Classical Verdi

Jazz & Blues
Bennett/Brubeck: the White House sessions, live 1962 CD Jazz Bennett
the Horace Silver Quintet Tokyo blues CD Jazz Silver
Charles Mingus The clown CD Jazz Mingus
Charlie Mingus Tijuana moods CD Jazz Mingus
Lee Morgan Search for the new land CD Jazz Morgan

Musicals & Soundtracks
Oliver!: the original Broadway cast recording CD Musicals/Soundtracks Oliver
Cole Porter Cole Porter's Can-can: original Broadway cast recording CD Musicals/Soundtracks Porter

Sacred
Georgia Kelly Winter classics CD Sacred Kelly

Popular
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass Whipped cream & other delights CD Pop Alpert
the Band Stage fright CD Pop Band
the Black Keys El Camino CD Pop Black Keys
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Tender prey CD Pop Nick Cave
Bob Dylan New morning CD Pop Dylan
Grateful Dead Wake of the flood CD Pop Grateful Dead
Interpol Turn on the bright lights CD Pop Interpol
Radiohead I might be wrong: live recordings CD Pop Radiohead
Radiohead OK computer CD Pop Radiohead
Radiohead The bends CD Pop Radiohead
Sex Pistols Never mind the bollocks, here's the Sex Pistols CD Pop Sex Pistols
Elliott Smith XO CD Pop Smith
Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones CD Pop Waits
Neil Young After the gold rush CD Pop Young

Posted on Mar. 2, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

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New Titles List for the Week of March 1

BOOKS

FICTION
Min Jin Lee Pachinko
Jason Rekulak The impossible fortress

Historical Fiction
Claude McKay Amiable with big teeth
Laird Hunt The evening road

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
David Mark Cruel mercy
Deborah Crombie Garden of lamentations
Mark Billingham Rush of blood
Freeman Wills Crofts The 12.30 from Croydon
Shamini Flint The Singapore school of villainy

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Seanan McGuire Every heart a doorway
Mur Lafferty Six wakes
John Darnielle Universal harvester
Elan Mastai All our wrong todays

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Jonathan Coopersmith Faxed: the rise & fall of the fax machine 621.382 C778

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Linda Merrill After Whistler: the artist & his influence on American painting 759.13 W576
Shane McCausland Chinese romance from a Japanese brush: Kano Sansetsu's Chōgonka scrolls in the Chester Beatty Library 759.952 M123
Mikkel Aaland County fair: portraits 779.2 A112
Amee K. Sweet-McNamara Elegant soutache 745.5942 S974
Clifford Ross Hurricane waves 779.37 R823
Marvin Heiferman Now is then: snapshots from the Maresca Collection 770.973 H465
Jonathan J.G. Alexander The painted book in Renaissance Italy: 1450-1600 745.6 A374
Alexander Nemerov To make a world: George Ault & 1940s America 759.13 N433

Biography & Genealogy
Candace Fleming Presenting Buffalo Bill: the man who invented the Wild West 92 C671f
Brad Gooch Rumi's secret: the life of the Sufi poet of love 92 R936
Larry Brilliant Sometimes brilliant: the impossible adventure of a spiritual seeker & visionary physician who helped conquer the worst disease in history 92 B857

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Jack Covert The 100 best business books of all time: what they say, why they matter & how they can help you 016.65 C873
Matthew Rubery The untold story of the talking book 002.09 R895

Business & Economics
Derek Thompson Hit makers: the science of popularity in an age of distraction 658.834 T468
Gary Keller The one thing: the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results 650.1 K291
John Brooks Business adventures: twelve classic tales from the world of Wall Street 332.0973 B873
John Curtis Perry Singapore: unlikely power 330.95 P462

Chess
John Nunn Learn chess 794.12 N972

Computer Science
Shelley Powers Learning Node: moving to the server side 006.73 P888
Stoyan Stefanov React: up & running: building web applications 006.78 S816
The best American infographics 2016 001.422 C771

Food & Drink
Tana Amen Change your brain, change your body cookbook: eat right to look younger, be thinner & decrease your risk of obesity, depression, Alzheimer's disease, cancer & diabetes 641.563 A511
Molly Gilbert One pan & done: hassle-free meals from the oven to your table 641.7 G464
Sam Choy Sam Choy's sampler: welcome to the wonderful world of Hawaiʻi's cuisine 641.5996 C55s
Debby Maugans Nakos Small-batch baking: when just enough for 1 or 2 ... is just enough! 651.815 N163
Edna Lewis The taste of country cooking 641.5975 L67
Jamie Purviance Weber's big book of burgers: the ultimate guide to grilling backyard classics 641.578 P986

History
Bahgat Korany (editor) Arab spring in Egypt: revolution & beyond 962.05 K841
David Armitage Civil wars: a history in ideas 355.02 A732
Karnig Panian Goodbye, Antoura: a memoir of the Armenian genocide 956.6 B215
Oriana Fallaci Interviews with history & conversations with power 909.82 F195
Brad Ricca Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: the true story of New York City's greatest female detective & the 1917 missing girl case that captivated a nation 362.82 R489
J. M. Tyree Vanishing streets: journeys in London 942.1 T992
Vintage San Francisco 979.461 M926
Christopher Goscha Vietnam: a new history 959.7 G676
Simon Goldhill Wonders of the world 909 G618

Home & Family Management
Laura Sanchez Adobe houses for today: flexible plans for your adobe home 690.8 S211
Neil I. Bernstein How to keep your teenager out of trouble & what to do if you can't 649.125 B531
E.K. Rossiter Authentic color schemes for Victorian houses: Comstock's modern house painting, 1883 698.12 R835

Languages & Linguistics
J.R. Smart Arabic 492.7 S636
Keith S.T. Tong Colloquial Cantonese 495.1 T665

Literature & Writing
Pliny: a self portrait in letters 876 P72r
Tim Z. Hernandez All they will call you: the telling of the plane wreck at Los Gatos Canyon 813.6 H557
Poetry please 821 B364

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Douglas Chadwick Tracking Gobi grizzlies: surviving beyond the back of beyond 599.784 C43t

Performing Arts & Music
Edward Sorel Mary Astor's purple diary: the great American sex scandal of 1936 791.45 A858

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Alexander Nehamas On friendship 177.6 N395
Juan M. Floyd-Thomas The altars where we worship: the religious significance of popular culture 261 F645
John Yates The mind illuminated: a complete meditation guide integrating Buddhist wisdom & brain science for greater mindfulness 294.34 Y31
Mikkel Aaland The Sword of Heaven: a five continent odyssey to save the world 299.56 A112
Geraldine Pinch Egyptian mythology: a guide to the gods, goddesses & traditions of ancient Egypt 299.31 P647

Politics & Government
Luke Harding A very expensive poison: the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko & Putin's war with the West 327.12 H263

Social Sciences & Current Events
Owen Fiss A war like no other: the constitution in a time of terror 344.7305 F543
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Growing each other up: when our children become our teachers 306.874 L424
Anders Rydell The book thieves: the Nazi looting of Europe's libraries & the race to return a literary inheritance 364.2 R992
Jon Else True south: Henry Hampton & eyes on the prize, the landmark television series that reframed the civil rights movement 305.8 E494

Travel & Geography
Joe Yogerst 50 states, 5,000 ideas: where to go, when to go, what to see, what to do 917.304 N277f
Eyewitness Back roads Italy 914.5 E975
Eyewitness travel Scotland 914.11 E975
Frommer's shortcut Milan & the lakes 914.52 F932
National Geographic Cuba 917.29 N277
Rick Steves' Snapshot Loire Valley 914.45 S848
Magalie Raman The 500 hidden secrets of Havana 917.291 R165
The Civil War: a traveler's guide: experience the history, follow the battles 917.304 N277c
National geographic traveler China 915.1 N277

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

DVDs
Boy & the world
Kubo & the two strings
The secret of Kells
Zootopia

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
J.D. Vance Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family & culture in crisis CD 305.562 V222
Matthew Rubery The untold story of the talking book CD 002.09 R895

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
Jason Bourne
Suicide squad

Drama
All creatures great & small: the complete collection

Nonfiction
The untold history of the United States DVD 973.91 S877

Posted on Feb. 23, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

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New Titles List for the Week of February 20

BOOKS

FICTION
Emily Bitto The strays
Lisa Carey The stolen child
Reed Farrel Coleman What you break
Neil Gaiman Norse mythology
Katie Kitamura A separation
Andrew Miller The crossing
Viet Thanh Nguyen The refugees
Joyce Carol Oates A book of American martyrs
Ali Smith Autumn
April Smith Home sweet home
Yoko Tawada Memoirs of a polar bear
Aharon Appelfeld The man who never stopped sleeping
Paul Auster 4 3 2 1
Anna Pitoniak The futures
Jean Thompson She poured out her heart
Kayla Rae Whitaker The animators

Historical Fiction
Sarah A. Morris Le temps viendra: a novel of Anne Boleyn. Vol. 1
Sarah A. Morris Le temps viendra: a novel of Anne Boleyn. Volume II

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
M.C. Beaton Pushing up daisies
Alex Berenson The prisoner
Tracee de Hahn Swiss vendetta
Brian Freeman The night bird
Arjun Raj Gaind A very pukka murder
Lisa Gardner Right behind you
Sarah Pinborough Behind her eyes
Ian Rankin Rather be the devil
Duane Swierczynski Revolver
Hideo Yokoyama Six four

Westerns
Robert Knott Robert B. Parker's Revelation

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
David Prudhomme Cruising through the Louvre 741.5 P971 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
John Parrington Redesigning life: how genome editing will transform the world 660.6 P261

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Jimmy DiResta Workshop mastery with Jimmy Diresta: a guide to working with metal, wood, plastic & leather 745.56 D598
Michael Robinson Japanese woodblocks 769.952 R658
Henry Plummer The experience of architecture 721 P735

Biography & Genealogy
Alex Prud'homme The French chef in America: Julia Child's second act 92 C536p
David J. Skal Something in the blood: the untold story of Bram Stoker, the man who wrote Dracula 92 S874s
Kevin Dann Expect great things: the life & search of Henry David Thoreau 92 T490d

Business & Economics
Ellen Gordon Reeves Can I wear my nose ring to the interview?: the crash course: finding, landing & keeping your first real job 650.14 R332

Food & Drink
Jennifer Farley The gourmet kitchen: recipes from the creator of Savory Simple 641.5 F231
Ellen Jackson Portland Farmers Market cookbook: 100 seasonal recipes & stories that celebrate local food & people 641.5979 J124
Andrea Quynhgiao Nguyen The pho cookbook: easy to adventurous recipes for Vietnam's favorite soup & noodles 641.5959 N576
Robert Simonson A proper drink: the untold story of how a band of bartenders saved the civilized drinking world 641.874 S611
Annelies Zijderveld Steeped: recipes infused with tea 641.637 Z68

Health & Medicine
Sharon Begley Can't just stop: an investigation of compulsions 616.852 B417
Miranda Esmonde-White Forever painless: end chronic pain & reclaim your life in 30 minutes a day 616.047 E761
Berna G. Huebner (editor) I remember better when I paint: art & alzheimer's, opening doors, making connections 616.8916 H887
Joe Tatta Heal your pain now: the revolutionary program to reset your brain & body for a pain-free life 616.047 T221

History
Ben Coates Why the Dutch are different: a journey into the hidden heart of the Netherlands 949.2 C652
Daniel Gordis Israel: a concise history of a nation reborn 956.94 G661
Kevin R.C. Gutzman Thomas Jefferson, revolutionary: a radical's struggle to remake America 973.4 G985
Cate Lineberry The secret rescue: an untold story of American nurses & medics behind Nazi lines 940.54 L754
Alexis Peri The war within: diaries from the Siege of Leningrad 940.54 P441
Michael R. Auslin End of the Asian century: war, stagnation & the risks to the world's most dynamic region 950.4 A935
David Satter The less you know, the better you sleep: Russia's road to terror & dictatorship under Yeltsin & Putin 947.086 S253

Literature & Writing
Caitlin Moran Moranifesto 828 M829

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Claire Beverley The anatomy of insects & spiders: over 600 exquisite forms 571.3 B571

Performing Arts & Music
Robert J. Wagner I loved her in the movies: memories of Hollywood's legendary actresses 791.43 W132

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Tom Bissell Apostle, or, Bones that shine like fire: travels among the tombs of the twelve 225.92 B623
Nadia Bolz-Weber Pastrix: the cranky, beautiful faith of a sinner & saint 284.1 B694p
Gretchen Rubin Happier at home: kiss more, jump more, abandon a project, read Samuel Johnson & my other experiments in the practice of everyday life 158 R896h
Meik Wiking The little book of hygge: Danish secrets to happy living 158.1 W663

Politics & Government
David Daley Ratf**ked: the true story behind the secret plan to steal America's democracy 328.73 D141
Louis Sell From Washington to Moscow: US-Soviet relations & the collapse of the USSR 327.73 S467
Matt Taibbi Insane clown president: dispatches from the 2016 circus 324.973 T129

Reference
VideoHound's golden movie retriever 791.4 V65

Social Sciences & Current Events
Ivan Coyote Tomboy survival guide 306.76 C881
Alfred Mill Social security 101: from medicare to spousal benefits, an essential primer on government retirement aid 368.4 M645
Caitlin Shetterly Modified: GMOs & the threat to our food, our land, our future 363.192 S554

Travel & Geography
Paul Doyle Lebanon 915.692 B812
Jason Frye Blue Ridge & Smoky Mountains 917.6889 M818
Ginevra Lovatelli Secret Rome 914.56 S446
National Geographic guide to the national parks of Canada 917.1 N277
National Geographic Traveler Arizona 917.91 N277
Rolf Potts Vagabonding: an uncommon guide to the art of long-term world travel 910 P871

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Sherri Duskey Rinker Mighty, mighty construction site Child Rinker

Nonfiction
Walter Dean Myers Frederick Douglass: the lion who wrote history Child 92 D737

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Wm. Paul Young The shack CD Fic Young

Nonfiction
Glennon Doyle Melton Love warrior CD 306.89 M528
Caitlin Moran Moranifesto CD 828 M829
Bernie Sanders Our revolution: a future to believe in CD 973.932 S215
David J. Skal Something in the blood: the untold story of Bram Stoker, the man who wrote Dracula CD 92 S874s
Salim Yaqub The United States & the Middle East, 1914 to 9/11 CD 327.73 Y25

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DVDs

Classics
Holiday affair

Drama
Pit stop
The curious case of Benjamin Button

Nonfiction
Cutie & the boxer DVD 759.13 C988
al-Maydān = The square DVD 962.056 S773
Citizen Koch DVD 324.977 C581
Stories we tell DVD 306.85 S884
The Orient Express DVD 385.095 O691
The Trans-Siberian Railroad DVD 385.095 T772

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CDs

Jazz & Blues
Charlie Hunter Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth CD Jazz Hunter
Sonny Rollins Road shows. Vol. 4, Holding the stage CD Jazz Rollins

Popular
Macy Gray Stripped CD Pop Gray

Posted on Feb. 16, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

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New Titles List for the Week of February 13

BOOKS

FICTION
Rachel Cusk Transit
Henry Green Caught
Angela Thirkell Miss Bunting

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Robert Dugoni The trapped girl
Shamini Flint Inspector Singh investigates: a curious Indian cadaver
Shamini Flint Inspector Singh investigates: a deady Cambodian crime spree
Alison Bruce Cambridge blue
Alison Bruce The calling

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Peter S. Beagle A fine & private place

Short Stories
Prize stories SS S67

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Joe Ollmann The abominable Mr. Seabrook 741.5 O499a comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Alexandra Horowitz Being a dog: following the dog's nose into a world of smell 636.7 H81b

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Hans Ibelings Rise & sprawl: the condominiumization of Toronto 724.6 I125
Nichole Vogelsinger Boho embroidery: modern projects from traditional stitches 746.44 V879
Christopher Herwig Soviet bus stops 778.94 H581

Biography & Genealogy
David Hare The blue touch paper 92 H275

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Will Schwalbe Books for living 028.9 S398

Business & Economics
Jonathan A. Knee Class clowns: how the smartest investors lost billions in education 338.4 K683
Howard Marks The most important thing illuminated: uncommon sense for the thoughtful investor 332.6 M346
Klaus Schwab The fourth industrial revolution 338.06 S398
Lisa Servon The unbanking of America: how the new middle class survives 332.1 S492
Brad Stone The Upstarts: how Uber, Airbnb & the killer companies of the new Silicon Valley are changing the world 658.11 S877
George G. Szpiro Pricing the future: finance, physics & the 300-year journey to the Black-Scholes equation: a story of genius & discovery 332.64 S998

Computer Science
Subrata Dasgupta Computer science: a very short introduction 004 D229
Brian W. Kernighan Understanding the digital world: what you need to know about computers, the Internet, privacy & security 004 K399
Siddhartha Rao Sams teach yourself C++ in one hour a day 005.1 C399r

Health & Medicine
Stephan J. Guyenet The hungry brain: outsmarting the instincts that make us overeat 613 G988
Amy Kurtz Kicking sick: your go-to guide for thriving with chronic health conditions 616.044 K969

History
Kaya Genç Under the shadow: rage & revolution in modern Turkey 956.1 G324
Andrew Harding The Mayor of Mogadishu: a story of chaos & redemption in the ruins of Somalia 967.7 H263
Clifton Hood In pursuit of privilege: a history of New York City's upper class & the making of a Metropolis 974.7 H776
Joshua Kurlantzick A great place to have a war: America in Laos & the birth of a military CIA 959.7 K968
Paul D. Moreno The bureaucrat kings: the origins & underpinnings of America's bureaucratic state 351.73 M843
Sophia A. Nelson E Pluribus One: reclaiming our founders' vision for a united America 973.31 N424
Laura Secor Children of paradise: the struggle for the soul of Iran 955.054 S445
Darrell M. West Megachange: economic disruption, political upheaval & social strife in the 21st century 909.83 W516
Daniel Beer The house of the dead: Siberian exile under the tsars 957 B415

Home & Family Management
Frances Kay (editor) The Good Retirement Guide 2017: everything you need to know about health, property, investment, leisure, work, pensions & tax 646.79 K231

Languages & Linguistics
Sharon Eliza Nichols. Delusions of grammar: the worst of the worst 428.2 N616
Bryan A. Garner Garner's modern English usage 428 G234

Law
Ilona Bray How to get a green card 342.082 B827h
Stephen Elias How to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy 346.078 E422
Shae Irving Living wills & powers of attorney for California 344.04 I72

Literature & Writing
Janet Burroway Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft 808.3 B972
Annie Dillard The abundance: narrative essays old & new 814.54 D578
Margaret Doody Jane Austen's names: riddles, persons, places 823.7 D691
Neil Gaiman The view from the cheap seats: selected nonfiction 824.9 G141
Václav Havel Letters to Olga: June 1979 - September 1982 891.86 H384
Mary Oliver Upstream: selected essays 811 O48u
Anna Pasternak Lara: the untold love story that inspired Doctor Zhivago 891.73 P291L
Barbara Graziosi Homer 883 G785

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Sean B. Carroll The Serengeti rules: the quest to discover how life works & why it matters 570 C319
Sean Carroll The big picture: on the origins of life, meaning & the universe itself 577 C319
James Essinger Ada's algorithm: how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age 510.92 E789
Rachel Ignotofsky Women in science: 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world 509.2 I247
Margot Lee Shetterly Hidden figures: the American dream & the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race 510.92 L477
Janna Levin Black hole blues: & other songs from outer space 539.7 L665
Dava Sobel The glass universe: how the ladies of the Harvard Observatory took the measure of the stars 522.19 S677
Ed Yong I contain multitudes: the microbes within us & a grander view of life 579.17 Y55

Performing Arts & Music
David Cavanagh Good night & good riddance: how thirty-five years of John Peel helped to shape modern life 791.44 C377
Edward Dusinberre Beethoven for a later age: living with the string quartets 785.71 D973

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Tim Ferriss Tools of titans: the tactics, routines & habits of billionaires, icons & world-class performers 158 F394
Cordelia Fine Testosterone rex: myths of sex, science & society 155.3 F495
Erich Fromm The art of loving 152.41 F932
Winifred Gallagher The power of place: how our surroundings shape our thoughts, emotions & actions 155.91 G162
Martha C. Nussbaum Love's knowledge: essays on philosophy & literature 170 N975
Adam Phillips Unforbidden pleasures 128 P558
Maggie Rowe Sin bravely: a memoir of spiritual disobedience 270 R878
Martha C. Taylor From labor to reward: black church beginnings in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley & Richmond, 1849-1972 277.94 T238
Krista Tippett Becoming wise: an inquiry into the mystery & art of living 170.44 T595
Miroslav Volf Public faith: how followers of Christ should serve the common good 261.7 V914
Haider Warraich Modern death: how medicine changed the end of life 179.7 W286
Leigh Eric Schmidt Village atheists: how America's unbelievers made their way in a Godly nation 211.8 S349
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich A house full of females: plural marriage & women's rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870 289.3 U45
Stuart Vyse Believing in magic: the psychology of superstition 133.43 V998

Politics & Government
Edward Jay Epstein How America lost its secrets: Edward Snowden, the man & the theft 327.12 S674a
Stephen Kinzer The true flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain & the birth of American empire 327.73 K568
Melissa Lane The birth of politics: eight Greek & Roman political ideas & why they matter 320 L265

Social Sciences & Current Events
Carmen Boullosa A narco history: how the United States & Mexico jointly created the "Mexican drug war" 363.45 B764
Greg Clark Global cities: a short history 307.76 C592
Leland Faust A capitalist's lament: how Wall Street is fleecing you & ruining America 364.2 F267
Shauna Pomerantz Smart girls: success, school & the myth of post-feminism 371.822 P785

Travel & Geography
Lisa Dickey Bears in the streets: three journeys across a changing Russia 914.7 D551
Lonely Planet Tahiti & French Polynesia 919.62 L847
Monocle Copenhagen 914.891 M751
Monocle Toronto 917.1354 M751
Caroline Paul ; illustrations by Wendy MacNaughton The gutsy girl: escapades for your life of epic adventure 910.4 P324

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Sherri Duskey Rinker Goodnight, goodnight, construction site Child Rinker
Alessandro Sanna Pinocchio: the origin story Child Sanna

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Malala Yousafzai I am Malala CD 371.82 Y82

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DVDs

Classics
Born yesterday
Miracle on 34th Street
Safe in hell
Titanic

Comedy
A Christmas Story
The Simpsons Christmas

Drama
Cruel intentions
The Natural

Foreign Language
Nŭktae sonyŏn = A werewolf boy DVD Asian

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Devil in a blue dress
Inspector Morse. Deadly slumber

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
The twilight zone: fan favorites

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CDs

Jazz & Blues
Mary Halvorson Octet Away with you CD Jazz Mary Halvorson Octet

Posted on Feb. 9, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

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New Titles List for the Week of February 6

BOOKS

FICTION
R.D. Blackmore Lorna Doone
Ruth Gilligan Nine folds make a paper swan
Robert Glancy Please do not disturb
John Metcalf The museum at the end of the world
Chaim Potok My name is Asher Lev
Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea
Eileen Chang Naked earth
Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert Sentimental education
Kevin Wilson Perfect little world

Historical Fiction
Rafael Sabatini The sea-hawk

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Margery Allingham Flowers for the judge
J.P. Delaney The girl before
Tim Dorsey Clownfish blues
Adele Fasick Death calls at the palace
Tana French In the woods
Gregg Hurwitz The nowhere man
J. Robert Janes Carnival
Anna Jaquiery The lying-down room
Laurie R. King The murder of Mary Russell
John Lescroart Fatal
Dorothy L. Sayers Gaudy Night
Dorothy L. Sayers Whose body?
Rex Stout Fer-de-lance ; &, the league of frightened men
Miles Burton Death in the tunnel
Dorothy L. Sayers Have his carcase
Dorothy L. Sayers Strong poison
Dorothy L. Sayers The unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Peter S. Beagle The last unicorn
Jim Butcher Fool moon
Daniel José Older Shadowshaper
Jules Verne Seven novels

Short Stories
Josh Barkan Mexico
Tim Gautreaux Signals
Ottessa Moshfegh Homesick for another world

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Kieron Gillen The wicked + the divine. Vol. 4, Rising action 741.5 G476 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Caroline Maniaque-Benton (editor) Whole Earth field guide 628 M278

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Voulkos: the breakthrough years 730.92 V973

Biography & Genealogy
Charles River Editors William Henry Harrison: the life & legacy of the first American president to die in office 92 H31
Philippe Desan Montaigne 92 M761d
Scott Donaldson The impossible craft 920 D676

Business & Economics
Peter Conti-Brown The power & independence of the Federal Reserve 332.11 C762
Joseph Turow The aisles have eyes: how retailers track your shopping, strip your privacy & define your power 658.834 T956

Food & Drink
Carolynn Carreno Bowls of plenty: recipes for healthy & delicious whole-grain meals 641.631 C314

Health & Medicine
Michael Lewis The undoing project: a friendship that changed our minds 612.8 L673
Dean Burnett Idiot brain: what your head is really up to 612.8 B964

History
Mavis Batey Dilly: the man who broke enigmas 940.5486 B184
Ernest Beyl San Francisco appetites & afterthoughts: in search of the good life by the Golden Gate 979.461 B573s
Thomas Hippler Governing From the Skies: A Global History of Aerial Bombing 358.4 H667
Xu Hongci No wall too high: one man's daring escape from Mao's darkest prison 951.05 X8n
Thomas Christensen River of ink: literature, history & art 909 C554
John Keay The spice route 382.4 K255

Languages & Linguistics
Lauren Collins When in French: love in a second language 448 C712

Law
Paul Bergman The criminal law handbook: know your rights, survive the system 345.7305 B499
David Brown The California landlord's law book. Rights & responsibilities 346.043 B877
Denis Clifford Quick & legal will book 346.054 C637
Stephen Fishman Deduct it!: lower your small business taxes 343.052 F537
Lisa Guerin Create your own employee handbook: a legal & practical guide for employers 658.3 G932
Jack Lo How to make patent drawings: a "Patent it yourself companion" 608.022 L795
Joseph L. Matthews How to win your personal injury claim 346.0323 M438
Janet Portman California tenants' rights 346.043 P853
Mary Randolph 8 ways to avoid probate 346.052 R194
Marcia Stewart Every landlord's legal guide 346.0434 S849
Ralph Warner Everybody's guide to small claims court in California 347.04 W279
Melvin I. Urofsky Dissent & the Supreme Court: its role in the Court's history & the nation's constitutional dialogue 342.7302 U781

Literature & Writing
Jacqueline Novak How to weep in public: feeble offerings on depression from one who knows 818.602 N935

Performing Arts & Music
Carrie Fisher The princess diarist 791.45 F533
Sarah Jensen A perfect union of contrary things 780.92 K264

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Robert B. Cialdini Influence: the psychology of persuasion 153.85 C565

Politics & Government
Richard Haass A world in disarray: American foreign policy & the crisis of the old order 327.73 H1129

Social Sciences & Current Events
Michael C. Healy BART: the dramatic history of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system 388.42 H434

Travel & Geography
Pocket Rough Guide Copenhagen 914.891 R856
Kristine Poggioli Walking San Francisco's 49 mile scenic walk: explore the famous sites, neighborhoods & vistas in 17 enchanting walks 917.9461 P746
Susan Van Allen 100 places in Italy every woman should go 914.5 V217
Nicholas Woodworth The liquid continent: travels through Alexandria, Venice & Istanbul 910.91 W898

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DVDs

Nonfiction
The Black power mixtape 1967-1975: a documentary in 9 chapters DVD 305.8 B627

Posted on Feb. 2, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

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New Titles List for the Week of February 1

BOOKS

FICTION
Szilárd Borbély The dispossessed
Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
Graham Greene The third man
Han Kang Human acts
Thomas Hardy Jude the obscure
Antoine Laurain French rhapsody
David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary
N. Scott Momaday House made of dawn
Richard Stark Slayground
Amos Oz Judas
Angela Thirkell Before Lunch
Angela Thirkell Christmas at high rising
Angela Thirkell High rising

Historical Fiction
Georgina Harding The gun room

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Margery Allingham Dancers in mourning
Margery Allingham Death of a ghost
Andrew Grant False friend
Jane Harper The dry
Carl Hiaasen Tourist season
Sue Ann Jaffarian Rhythm & clues
Robert Littell The Mayakovsky tapes
D. A. Mishani The man who wanted to know everything
Jonathan Moore The dark room
James Patterson Never never
Peter Swanson Her every fear
Joakim Zander The believer

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Katherine Arden The bear & the nightingale
Arthur C. Clarke 2001: a space odyssey
Michael Ende The neverending story
T. H. White The once & future king

Short Stories
Lauren Buekes Slipping
Blume Lempel Oedipus in Brooklyn & other stories

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Albert Howard An agricultural testament 631.584 H848a
Albert Howard The soil & health: a study of organic agriculture 631.584 H848

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Tiqui Atencio Could have, would have, should have: inside the world of the art collector 707.5 A864
Quentin Bajac (editor) Photography at MoMA 779 M732
Robert Traynham Coles Architecture + advocacy 720.92 C693

Business & Economics
Jonathan Dahl 1,001 things they won't tell you: an insider's guide to spending, saving & living wisely 332.024 D131
Wesley R. Gray Quantitative value: a practitioner's guide to automating intelligent investment & eliminating behavioral errors + website 332.6 G778
Matt Haig Brand royalty: how the world's top 100 brands thrive & survive 658.827 H149
John Mihaljevic The manual of ideas: the proven framework for finding the best value investments 332.6 M636

Chess
Sarah Hurst Curse of Kirsan: adventures in the chess underworld 794.1092 H966

Food & Drink
Best food writing 641 B56
Lukas Volger Bowl: vegetarian recipes for ramen, pho, bibimbap, dumplings & other one-dish meals 641.5636 V915

Health & Medicine
Adam Tanner Our bodies, our data: how companies make billions selling our medical records 610.285 T166

History
Hugh Bicheno Battle royal: the Wars of the Roses, 1440-1462 942.04 B583
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz All the real Indians died off: & 20 other myths about Native Americans 970.004 D899a
Dan Kurzman Soldier of peace: the life of Yitzhak Rabin, 1922-1995 956.94 K969
Ward Winslow (editor) The Making of Silicon Valley: a one hundred year renaissance 979.473 S231
George F. Bass (editor) Beneath the seven seas: adventures with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology 930.1 B317
Andre Bonnard Greek civilization 938 B716
Averil Cameron The later Roman Empire, AD 284-430 937.06 C182
J. Anne Funderburg Rumrunners: liquor smugglers on America's coasts, 1920-1933 364.133 F981
Edward Gibbon The history of the decline & fall of the Roman Empire 937 G43de
John Marincola The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika: a new translation 938 X5
Raoul McLaughlin The Roman Empire & the silk routes: the ancient world economy & the empires of Parthia, Central Asia & Han China 950 M161
Oswyn Murray Early Greece 938 M981
Carol G. Thomas Citadel to city-state: the transformation of Greece, 1200-700 B.C.E. 938 T454

Home & Family Management
Marni Jameson Downsizing the family home: what to save, what to let go 648.5 J31

Languages & Linguistics
John McWhorter Talking back, talking black: truths about America's Lingua Franca 427.973 M177

Literature & Writing
Henning Mankell Quicksand: what it means to be a human being 839.73 M278
Susan Faludi In the darkroom 818.603 F197

Performing Arts & Music
Arman Schwartz (editor) Giacomo Puccini & his world 780.92 P97s

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Julian Baggini The edge of reason: a rational skeptic in an irrational world 128.3 B144
Dalai Lama The book of joy: lasting happiness in a changing world 294.3 D136
Kevin Griffin One breath at a time: Buddhism & the twelve steps 294.3 G851
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg Moses: a human life 220.92 M911

Politics & Government
Stephen G. Brooks America abroad: the United States' global role in the 21st century 327.73 B794
John Gillingham The EU: an obituary 337.142 G463
Karen M. Paget Patriotic betrayal: the inside story of the CIA's secret campaign to enroll American students in the crusade against communism 327.12 P135
Richard North Patterson Fever swamp: a journey through the strange neverland of the 2016 presidential race 324.973 P317
Ronald G. Shafer The carnival campaign: how the rollicking 1840 campaign of "Tippecanoe & Tyler too" changed presidential elections forever 324.973 S525
Guy Verhofstadt Europe's last chance: why the European states must form a more perfect union 337.142 V473

Social Sciences & Current Events
William W. Keller Democracy betrayed: the rise of the surveillance security state 363.232 K291
Farhad Khosrokhavar Radicalization: why some people choose the path of violence 363.325 K458
Patrick Kingsley The new odyssey: the story of the twenty-first-century refugee crisis 362.87 K511
James Kwak Economism: bad economics & the rise of inequality 330 K981
Jane F. McAlevey No shortcuts: organizing for power in the new gilded age 303.4 M478
E. M. Rose The murder of William of Norwich: the origins of the blood libel in medieval Europe 305.892 R795
Lisa Wade American hookup: the new culture of sex on campus 306.7 W119

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
James Patterson Never never

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS

Nonfiction
Barry Rothstein Eye-popping 3-D pets: phantogram animals you can practically pet! Child 636 R847

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EBOOKS
Madeleine Korbel Albright Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box
Dale Carnegie How to win friends & influence people
David Cesarani The Fate of the Jews 1933-1948
Tim Pat Coogan 1916: One Hundred Years of Irish Independence: From the Easter Rising to the Present
Blanche Wiesen Cook Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years & After, 1939-1963
Edward Jay Epstein How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man & the Theft
Jonathan Fenby France: A Modern History from the Revolution to the War With Terror
Frommer's 2017 Easyguide Paris
Frommer's 2017 Easyguide to Ireland
Frommer's 2017 Easyguide to Las Vegas
Frommer's 2017 Easyguide to New York City
Frommer's 2017 Easyguide to Rome, Florence & Venice
Frommer's Easyguide to Australia 2016
Frommer's Easyguide to Beijing, Xian & Shanghai
Frommer's Easyguide to Cuba
Frommer's Easyguide to London 2016
Frommer's Easyguide to London 2017
Frommer's Easyguide to New Orleans 2017
Frommer's Easyguide to Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque
Atul Gawande Being mortal: medicine & what matters in the end
Steven Hahn A nation without borders: the United States & its world in an age of civil wars, 1830-1910
Marc Levinson An Extraordinary Time
Giles Milton When Churchill slaughtered sheep & Stalin robbed a bank: history's unknown chapters
David Sax The revenge of analog: real things & why they matter
Simon Sebag Montefiore The Romanovs: 1613-1918
Robert Sellers Peter O'Toole: The Definitive Biography
Neil Simon Neil Simon's Memoirs
James Stourton Kenneth Clark: Life, Art & Civilisation

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DVDs

Classics
An affair to remember|Laura|A letter to three wives|The three faces of Eve DVD Set
Massacre River

Drama
Brighton rock
Carol
Dopamine
New York stories
Pariah
Slaughterhouse-five
The lady in the van
The man who knew infinity

Foreign Language
A simple life DVD Chinese
Hombre mirando al sudeste = Man facing Southeast DVD Spanish
Indochine DVD French
La rafle DVD French
Pokłosie DVD European
Tomboy DVD French
Wadjda DVD Middle East

Musicals
The band wagon
Topsy-turvy

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
D.O.A.
Blood simple

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
The last unicorn
Twixt

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CDs
Classical
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano concertos K.414, 413, 415 CD Classical Mozart
Jorge Federico Osorio Salón mexicano CD Classical Osorio

Popular
Beyoncé Lemonade CD Pop Beyoncé
Bruno Mars XXIVK magic CD Pop Mars
the Rolling Stones Blue & lonesome CD Pop Rolling Stones
A Tribe Called Quest We got it from here... thank you 4 your service CD Pop Tribe Called Quest

Posted on Jan. 26, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang

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