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New Titles List for the Week of April 11

BOOKS

FICTION
Eric Bogosian Mall
Elizabeth Bowen To the north
Fariba Hachtroudi The man who snapped his fingers
Jonathan Hull Losing Julia
Cherie Priest Boneshaker
Miss Read Winter in Thrush Green
Bradley Spinelli Killing Williamsburg
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney The nest
Dorothy Whipple Greenbanks

Historical Fiction
Tracy Chevalier At the edge of the orchard
Tom Gilling The sooterkin
Helen Simonson The summer before the war

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Esmahan Aykol Baksheesh
Harlan Coben Fool me once
Barry Maitland Spider trap
Kennedy Quinn The last, best lie
Sam Thomas The midwife & the assassin

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Alastair Reynolds Blue remembered earth

Short Stories
Shobha Rao An unrestored woman
Ayelet Tsabari The best place on Earth

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Cullen Bunn Deadpool kills the Marvel Universe 741.5 D278 comics
Meredith Gran Octopus Pie. Volume 1 741.5 G748 comics
Ananth Hirsh Lucky Penny 741.5 H669 comics
Tim Hanley Investigating Lois Lane: the turbulent history of the Daily Planet's ace reporter 741.5973 L265

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Guy Davenport Objects on a table: harmonious disarray in art & literature 704.943 D247
Dorit Elisha Printmaking + mixed media: simple techniques & projects for paper & fabric 760.28 E431
Hilarie Faberman Aerial muse: the art of Yvonne Jacquette ; including a catalogue raisonné of prints 750.92 J199
Man Ray: writings on art 709.2 M266
Karl E. Meyer The China collectors: America's century-long hunt for Asian art treasures 709.51 M612
Carlo Pedretti Leonardo: art & science 741 L58
Queer 700 Q382
Rembrandt 750.92 R385bo
R.A. Scotti Vanished smile: the mysterious theft of Mona Lisa 759.5 S431
Deborah Valoma Scrape the willow until it sings 746.41 P241

Biography & Genealogy
Alex Abramovich Bullies: a friendship 979.466 A161
Hazel Pierce Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, 1473-1541: loyalty, lineage & leadership 92 S167
Anne Boyd Rioux Constance Fenimore Woolson: portrait of a lady novelist 92 W916
Laura Ingalls Wilder The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder 92 W673as

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
The magazine 070.5 M189

Business & Economics
John Browne Connect: how companies succeed by engaging radically with society 658.4 B882
Natalie Canavor Business writing today: a practical guide 808.066 C213
Wendy Enelow Modernize your resume: get noticed ... get hired 650.14 E56m
Joana Geraldi Visuals matter!: designing & using effective visual representations to support project & portfolio decisions 658.45 G354
Larry E. Swedroe The incredible shrinking alpha: & what you can do to escape its clutches 332.6 S974

Chess
Tibor Károlyi Jan Timman 794.1 K187
Hans Ree My chess 794.1 R322

Computer Science
Frank Gallaugher The photographer's iPad 004.1675 I646g
Tom Greever Articulating design decisions: communicate with stakeholders, keep your sanity & deliver the best user experience 006.7 G816
Peter Kim The hacker playbook 2: practical guide to penetration testing 005.8 K493

Food & Drink
Christopher Boswell Verdure: vegetable recipes from the American Academy in Rome 641.5945 B747
Tim Federle Tequila mockingbird: cocktails with a literary twist 641.874 F293
Alice Feiring For the love of wine: my odyssey through the world's most ancient wine culture 338.4766 F299

History
Christian G. Appy American reckoning: the Vietnam War & our national identity 959.7 A653
David Reid The brazen age: New York City & the American empire: politics, art & bohemia 974.7 R354
James W. Ermatinger The world of Ancient Rome: a daily life encyclopedia 937 E711
Don Jordan The king's bed: sex & power in the court of Charles II 941 J822
Paul Strathern The Medici: power, money & ambition in the Italian Renaissance 945.51 S899m
Jonathan Sumption The Hundred Years War 944.025 S956

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Kat Arney Herding Hemingway's cats: understanding how our genes work 572.8 A748
Linda Chalker-Scott How plants work: the science behind the amazing things plants do 571.2 C436
J. Richard Gott The cosmic web: mysterious architecture of the universe 523.1 G685
Marah J. Hardt Sex in the sea: our intimate connection with sex-changing fish, romantic lobsters, kinky squid & other salty erotica of the deep 591.77 H266
Timothy J. Jorgensen Strange glow: the story of radiation 539.2 J827
Carlo Rovelli Seven brief lessons on physics 530 R873
Bruce Watson Light: a radiant history from creation to the quantum age 535 W337

Performing Arts & Music
Chris Adams The grail guitar: the search for Jimi Hendrix's "Purple haze" Telecaster 787.87 A211
Barney Hoskyns Small town talk: Bob Dylan, the Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix & friends in the wild years of Woodstock 781.66 H826
Padma Lakshmi Love, loss & what we ate 792.092 L192
Charlotte Higgins This new noise: the extraordinary birth & troubled life of the BBC 384.54 H636
Winifred Phillips A composer's guide to game music 781.54 P564

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
James H. Cone The cross & the lynching tree 277.3 C747
Alex Cooper Saving Alex: when I was fifteen I told my Mormon parents I was gay & that's when my nightmare began 289.3 C776
Charles Duhigg Smarter faster better: the secrets of productivity in life & business 158 D871
Donniel Hartman Putting God second: how to save religion from itself 200.1 H333
Susan Jacoby Strange gods: a secular history of conversion 204 J179
Georges Minois The atheist's Bible: the most dangerous book that never existed 200 M666

Politics & Government
Bernard Crick In defence of politics 320 C928
The Snowden reader 353 S674

Social Sciences & Current Events
Ken Corbett A murder over a girl: justice, gender, junior high 364.152 C789
Somini Sengupta The end of karma: hope & fury among India's young 305.235 S476
Roger Waldinger Still the promised city?: African-Americans & new immigrants in postindustrial New York 330.9747 W163
Jay Wexler When God isn't green: a world-wide journey to places where religious practice & environmentalism collide 363.7 W545
Richard Whitmire Why boys fail: saving our sons from an educational system that's leaving them behind 370.15 W615
Edward O. Wilson Half-earth: our planet's fight for life 333.95 W74h
Hella Winston Unchosen: the hidden lives of Hasidic rebels 305.6 W783
Catherine C. Robbins All Indians do not live in teepees (or casinos) 970.004 R632

Sports & Games
Shawn Fury Rise & fire: the origins, science & evolution of the jump shot-- & how it transformed basketball forever 796.3 F992

Travel & Geography
1000 things to do in London for under £10 914.21 T583ou
Delia Gray-Durant Paris 914.436 B658
Terry Marsh French Riviera 914.49 M623g
Lonely Planet France 914.4 L847
Lonely Planet Great Britain 914.1 L847
Lonely Planet Greece 914.95 L847
Lonely Planet Greek islands 914.95 L847i
Michelin Brittany 914.41 M623g
Michelin France 914.4 M623g
National Geographic guide to national parks of the United States 917.304 N277n
Not for Tourists guide to Washington DC 917.53 N899
The rough guide to Peru 918.5 R856
The rough guide to Barcelona 914.672 R856

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DVDs

Foreign Language
Du rififi chez les hommes

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MAGAZINES
Net: the Internet magazine

Posted on Apr. 8, 2016 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of April 4

BOOKS

FICTION
Michelle Adelman Piece of mind
Mo Daviau Every anxious wave
Drago Jancar I saw her that night
Alexander McCall Smith The revolving door of life
Belinda McKeon Tender
Susan Meissner Stars over Sunset Boulevard
Patrick Modiano Young once
Andrew Motion The new world
Idra Novey Ways to disappear
Matt Ruff Lovecraft Country
Sarah Schulman The cosmopolitans
Lavie Tidhar A man lies dreaming
Tony Tulathimutte Private citizens
Tamara Valentine What the waves know

Historical Fiction
Jeffrey Archer Cometh the hour
Pat Barker Noonday
Alison Case Nelly Dean: a return to Wuthering Heights
Álvaro EnrigueSudden death
Ariel Lawhon Flight of dreams
Patrick Modiano In the café of lost youth

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Fiona Barton The widow
Samuel Bjørk I'm traveling alone
Rhys Bowen Time of fog & fire
C.J. Box Off the grid
Elizabeth Brundage All things cease to appear
Jeffery Deaver The steel kiss
Lisa Gardner Find her
T. Greenwood Where I lost her
Diane Les Becquets Breaking wild
Rosamund Lupton The quality of silence
Lisa Lutz The passenger
Phillip Margolin Violent crimes
Peter May The critic
Ann A. McDonald The Oxford inheritance
John Pearce Last stop: Paris
Peter Turnbull In vino veritas

Short Stories
Kirill Kobrin Eleven Prague corpses: stories
New York stories SS N53274
Shotguns v. Cthulhu: double-barrelled action in the horrific world of H.P. Lovecraft SS S5598
Waves: an anthology of new gay fiction SS W355

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Richard W. Bulliet The wheel: inventions & reinventions 621.8 B937

Biography & Genealogy
George Goodwin Benjamin Franklin in London: The British life of America's founding father 92 F831g
Claire Harman Charlotte Bronte: a fiery heart 92 B869h
Leonard Pitt My brain on fire: Paris & other obsessions 92 P6883

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Kevin Johnson The dark page II: books that inspired American film noir, (1950-1965) 016.813 J677
Kevin Johnson The dark page: books that inspired American film noir, (1940-1949) 016.813 J677

Business & Economics
Paul Brest Money well spent: a strategic plan for smart philanthropy 658.4 B843
Stanley Weinstein Capital campaigns from the ground up: how nonprofits can have the buildings of their dreams 658.152 W424

Chess
Savielly Tartakower My best games of chess, 1905-1954 794.15 T19m

Computer Science
Michael Alexander Excel dashboards & reports 005.3 M611a
Joyce Cox Microsoft Access 2013: step by step 005.3 M12c
Bill Jelen Excel 2013 charts & graphs 005.3 M611j
Bobbi Sandberg Quicken 2015: the official guide 005.3 Q6s

Food & Drink
America's Test Kitchen Cook it in cast iron: kitchen-tested recipes for the one pan that does it all 641.77 C771

Health & Medicine
Toni Bernhard How to live well with chronic pain & illness: a mindful guide 616.044 B527

History
Jonathan Dimbleby The Battle of the Atlantic: how the allies won the war 940.542 D582
Anne Garrels Putin country: a journey into the real Russia 947 G239
David van Reybrouck Congo: the epic history of a people 967.51 V274

Languages & Linguistics
Peter Boyd-Bowman From Latin to Romance in sound charts 441.5 B789
David Burnley The history of the English language: a source book 420.9 B966

Literature & Writing
Richard Jenkyns Classical literature: an epic journey from Homer to Virgil & beyond 880.09 J53
Neil L. Rudenstine Ideas of order: a close reading of Shakespeare's sonnets 822 S527ru

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Nick Davies Cuckoo: cheating by nature 598.74 D256
Mike Sullivan Trees of San Francisco 582.16 S951

Performing Arts & Music
Matthew Gear At the end of the street in the shadow: Orson Welles & the city 791.4 W44g

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Robert Alter Ancient Israel: the Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel & Kings: a translation with commentary 222 A541
Todd Rose The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World that Values Sameness 155.2 R797
Whitley Strieber The super natural: a new vision of the unexplained 130 S917
Mary Terhune Out of the blue: true-life experiences of awakening, revelation & transformation 204 T318
Robert L. Payton Understanding philanthropy: its meaning & mission 177.7 P347

Politics & Government
Thomas Frank Listen, Liberal, or, What ever happened to the party of the people? 324.2736 F828

Social Sciences & Current Events
Albert-László Barabási Bursts: the hidden patterns behind everything we do, from your e-mail to bloody crusades 303.49 B223
Jamie Bartlett The dark net: inside the digital underworld 302.23 B289
China's new 21st-century realities: social equity in a time of change 303.372 C539
Jack Myers The future of men: masculinity in the twenty-first century 305.31 M996
Judy Wajcman Pressed for time: the acceleration of life in digital capitalism 304.237 W145
Lisa M. Dietlin Transformational philanthropy: entrepreneurs & nonprofits 361.7 D565

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Donna Leon The waters of eternal youth Large Print Leon

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Matt de la Peña Last stop on Market Street

DVDs
The Peanuts movie

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Kelly McGonigal The willpower instinct: how self-control works, why it matters & what you can do to get more of it CD 153.8 M146

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DVDs

Foreign Language
Confidences trop intimes = Intimate strangers

Nonfiction
Amy DVD 780.92 A531
The Black Panthers: vanguard of the revolution DVD 322.42 B627
The great flood DVD 363.34 G786

Posted on Apr. 5, 2016 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of March 28

BOOKS

FICTION
Dana Spiotta Innocents & others

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Donna Leon The waters of eternal youth

Short Stories
Rick Bass For a little while

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Thomas Crow The long march of pop: art, music & design, 1930-1995 700.9 C953

Biography & Genealogy
Jo Manning My lady scandalous the amazing life & outrageous times of Grace Dalrymple Elliot, royal courtesan 92 E462

Health & Medicine
Susannah Cahalan Brain on fire: my month of madness 616.8 C132

History
Richard Engel And then all hell broke loose: two decades in the Middle East 956.05 E573

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Jean Baudrillard America 194 B34a

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DVDs

Drama
Brooklyn
Mr. Holmes
Room
Spotlight
The big short
The Danish girl

Foreign Language
The garden of the Finzi-Continis

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
J.R.R. Tolkien's the lord of the rings
Jurassic Park ultimate trilogy

Posted on Mar. 25, 2016 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of March 21

BOOKS

FICTION
Agent Kasper Supernotes
Mona Awad 13 ways of looking at a fat girl
Richard Fifield The flood girls
Scott Frank Shaker
Paul Goldberg The Yid
Garth Greenwell What belongs to you
Olga Grushin Forty rooms
Kate Hamer The girl in the red coat
Lawrence Hill The illegal
Anna Livia Bruised fruit
Anna Livia Bulldozer rising
Ethan Mordden How's your romance?: concluding the "Buddies" cycle
Ethan Mordden One last waltz
Iain Pears Arcadia
Theresa Rebeck I'm glad about you
Hannah Tennant-Moore Wreck & Order
Irvine Welsh A decent ride

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Alex Berenson The wolves
David Burnsworth Burning heat
Joe Gannon The last dawn
Keigo Higashino A Midsummer's equation
Ausma Zehanat Khan The language of secrets
Minerva Koenig South of nowhere
Jonathan Moore The poison artist
Sally Spencer Thicker than water
Peter Steiner The capitalist

Short Stories
Amy Gustine You should pity us instead: stories
Helen Oyeyemi What is not yours is not yours

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Albers & Moholy-Nagy: from the Bauhaus to the new world 709.22 A332
Kazimir Malevich: suprematism 759.7 M248
Olivia Laing The lonely city: adventures in the art of being alone 700.1 L187
John M. MacGregor Metamorphosis: the fiber art of Judith Scott: the outsider artist & the experience of Down's syndrome 706 S427
Masterworks of American painting at the De Young 759.13 M423
Mari Carmen Ramirez Helio Oiticica: the body of color 709.81 O396
Robert Smithson 700 S664t
Scott Rothkopf Mel Bochner photographs, 1966-1969 779.092 B664
Meyer Schapiro The unity of Picasso's art 709.2 P586s
Corinna Thierolf Dan Flavin: icons 709.2 F589
Avedon--photographs,1947-1977 770.92 A948p

Biography & Genealogy
Jeffrey Abt American Egyptologist: the life of James Henry Breasted & the creation of his Oriental Institute 92 B8274a

Business & Economics
Peter L. Bernstein Capital ideas: the improbable origins of modern Wall Street 332.632 B531
Carmine Gallo The storyteller's secret: from TED speakers to business legends, why some ideas catch on & others don't 658.45 G172s
Chris Farrell Unretirement: how baby boomers are changing the way we think about work, community & the good life 306.38 F245
Robert F. Sharpe Planned giving simplified: the gift, the giver & the gift planner 658.152 S532

Chess
New in chess yearbook = New in chess Jahrbuch 794.1 N53y

Computer Science
Susan Prosser FileMaker Pro 14: the missing manual 005.7565 F481
Matthew Mathias Swift programming: the Big Nerd Ranch guide 005.25 S977
Boisy G. Pitre Swift for beginners 005.25 S977p
David Pogue OS X El Capitan: the missing manual 005.446 E374

Health & Medicine
Louis Cozolino Why therapy works: using our minds to change our brains 616.89 C882

History
Stephen Aron The American West: a very short introduction 978 A769
Timothy Egan The immortal Irishman: the Irish revolutionary who became an American hero 355 M482
Ron Jones Life in the Sunset 979.461 J789

Languages & Linguistics
Charles Jones A history of English phonology 421.5 J765
Italian I CD 458 P644i

Law
Michael Boyer Every landlord's guide to managing property: best practices, from move-in to move-out 333.5 B791
Deborah C. England The essential guide to handling workplace harassment & discrimination 344.7301 E581
Janice Green Divorce after 50: your guide to the unique legal & financial challenges 306.89 G796
Margie Mader-Clark The employee performance handbook: smart strategies for coaching employees 658.314 M181
Anthony Mancuso Form your own limited liability company 346.0668 M269
Anthony Mancuso How to form a nonprofit corporation: [a step-by-step guide to forming a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in any state] 346.7306 M269h
David Brown The California landlord's law book. Evictions 346.794 B877
Emily Doskow Nolo's essential guide to child custody & support 346.7301 D723
Lisa Guerin The essential guide to family & medical leave 344.7301 G932e
Lisa Guerin The manager's legal handbook 344.7301 G932m
Frederick C. Hertz Making it legal: a guide to same-sex marriage, domestic partnerships & civil unions 346.7301 H576
Anthony Mancuso LLC or corporation?: how to choose the right form for your business 346.7306 M269
Janet Portman Every tenant's legal guide 346.7304 P853
Janet Portman First-time landlord: your guide to renting out a single-family home 333.33 P853
Mary Randolph The executor's guide: settling a loved one's estate or trust 346.056 R194
Marcia Stewart Leases & rental agreements 346.0434 S851
Richard Stim Music law: how to run your band's business 344.7309 S858
Richard Stim Patent pending in 24 hours 346.048 S858p
Mimi Lyster Zemmelman Building a parenting agreement that works: child custody agreements step by step 346.7301 Z53

Literature & Writing
Allen Ginsberg Wait till I'm dead: uncollected poems 811 G49wa
John Carey The intellectuals & the masses: pride & prejudice among the literary intelligentsia, 1880-1939 820 C274
John Carey The violent effigy: a study of Dickens' imagination 823 D5482c

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Robert Ornduff Introduction to California plant life 581.9794 O742
John D. Stuart Trees & shrubs of California 582.16 S931

Performing Arts & Music
Dalí & film 791.43 D136
Rise again: a group singing songbook 782.42 R595

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Susan O'Malley Advice from my 80-year-old self: real words of wisdom from people ages 7 to 88 170.44 O544
The Oxford dictionary of classical myth & religion 292 O983

Politics & Government
Paul R. Pillar Why America misunderstands the world: national experience & roots of misperception 327.73 P641

Social Sciences & Current Events
Sally Denton The profiteers: Bechtel & the men who built the world 338.762 D415
Mark Dery I must not think bad thoughts: drive-by essays on American dread, American dreams 306.0973 D439
Matthew Desmond Evicted: poverty & profit in the American city 339.46 D464
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Democracy in black: how race still enslaves the American soul 305.896 G552
Thomas D. Wilson Winning gifts: make your donors feel like winners 361.763 W753
James Axtell Wisdom's Workshop: the Rise of the Modern University 378 A972
Archie Green Harry Lundeberg's stetson & other nautical treasures 398.0973 G82h

Travel & Geography
Susan Dinkelspiel Cerny An architectural guidebook to San Francisco & the Bay area 917.9461 C415

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

DVDs
Animal atlas. Family time
Animal holiday

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Timothy Egan The immortal Irishman: the Irish revolutionary who became an American hero CD 355 M482

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
The Eiger sanction
Wind across the Everglades

Classics
Now, voyager

Drama
A month in the country
Emma

Musicals
Little Miss Broadway

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Cry danger
The debt

Nonfiction
Radio City Christmas Spectacular: Starring the Rockettes DVD 782.14 R129
Sinatra: all or nothing at all DVD 780.92 S61

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CDs

Popular
Eagles Their greatest hits, 1971-1975 CD Pop Eagles
Bonnie Raitt Luck of the draw CD Pop Raitt

Posted on Mar. 22, 2016 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of March 14

BOOKS

FICTION
Cristina Alger This was not the plan
Katarina Bivald The readers of Broken Wheel recommend
Therese Bohman The other woman
V.C. Chickering Nookietown
Alison Gaylin What remains of me
Sharon Guskin The forgetting time
Inaam Kachachi The American granddaughter
Elizabeth Marro Casualties
Joyce Maynard Under the influence
Sathnam Sanghera Marriage material
Koushun Takami Battle royale
Minette Walters The cellar

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
M.C. Beaton Death of a nurse
Frances Brody Murder on a summer's day
Ann Cleeves Blue lightning
Libby Cudmore The big rewind
William Wells Detective fiction
Anthony Wynne Murder of a lady: a Scottish mystery

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Dexter Palmer Version control
V.E. Schwab A gathering of shadows

Short Stories
Andrea Camilleri Montalbano's first case & other stories
Amy Parker Beasts & children
Susan Perabo Why they run the way they do

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Tim Fish Love is the reason 741.5 F532 comics
Tim Fish Something fishy this way comes 741.5 F532s comics
Tim Fish Strugglers 741.5 F532st comics
Tim Fish Trust, truth: a homo-satirization 741.5 F532t comics
Robert Kirby Curbside boys: the New York years 741.5 K584 comics
Sonny Liew The art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye 741.5 L722 comics
Tim Seeley Revival. Volume one, You're among friends 741.5 S452 comics
Peter Dunlap-Shohl My degeneration: a journey through Parkinson's 616.833 D921 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Adam Leith Gollner The fruit hunters: a story of nature, adventure, commerce & obsession 641.3 G626
Henry Petroski The road taken: the history & future of America's infrastructure 388.1 P497

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Susan E. Cahan Mounting frustration: the art museum in the age of Black power 704.0396 C132

Biography & Genealogy
Nancy Johnson The rubber orchestra: a memoir in two voices 92 J679
Steve Kemper A splendid savage: the restless life of Frederick Russell Burnham 910.4 K327
Jhumpa Lahiri In other words 92 L183

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Margret Aldrich The little free library book 027 A365

Business & Economics
John Perkins The new confessions of an economic hit man 332.042 P44n

Food & Drink
Caroline M. Grant (editor) The cassoulet saved our marriage: true tales of food, family & how we learn to eat 641.01 C345
La cucina: the regional cooking of Italy 641.5945 C963

History
Jo Guldi The history manifesto 901 G971

Home & Family Management
Evelyn J. Hadden Hellstrip gardening: create a paradise between the sidewalk & the curb 635 H126
Pamela D. Wilson The caregiving trap: solutions for life's unexpected changes 649.8 W752

Languages & Linguistics
Laurent Pflughaupt Letter by letter: an alphabetical miscellany 411 P531

Law
Erwin Chemerinsky The case against the Supreme Court 347.732 C517
Joel Cohen Blindfolds off: judges on how they decide 347.731 C678

Literature & Writing
C. G. Jung On psychological & visionary art: notes from C. G. Jung's lecture on Gérard de Nerval "Aurélia" 843 J951
Stephen J. Mexal Reading for liberalism: the Overland monthly & the writing of the modern American West 810.9 M611

Performing Arts & Music
Joel Grey Master of ceremonies: a memoir 792.092 G843
Bob Mehr Trouble boys: the true story of the Replacements 780.92 R425
Jack Sullivan Hitchcock's music 781.54 S949
Jack Viertel The secret life of the American musical: how classic Broadway shows are built 792.6 V665

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Sarah Bakewell At the existentialist café: freedom, being & apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty & others 142 B168
Douglas Boin Coming out Christian in the Roman world: how the followers of Jesus made a place in Caesar's empire 270.1 B681
Tina Seelig Insight out: get ideas out of your head & into the world 153.35 S452i

Politics & Government
Jakub J. Grygiel The unquiet frontier: rising rivals, vulnerable allies & the crisis of American power 327.73 G894

Reference
Rand McNally Rand McNally road atlas, 2016: large scale 912.7 R187r
Oxford new concise world atlas 912 O982

Social Sciences & Current Events
Karen Branan The family tree: a lynching in Georgia, a legacy of secrets & my search for the truth 364.1 B816
Ioan Grillo Gangster warlords: drug dollars, killing fields & the new politics of Latin America 364.106 G859

Travel & Geography
Berlitz cruising & cruise ships 2016 910.2 B515
Barcelona 914.672 W215
CDC health information for international travel 2016: the yellow book 910.2 C386
Christophe Destournelles Old-fashioned corners of Paris 914.4 D476
Jo-Anne Elikann 111 places in New York that you must not miss 917.47 O5846
Beate C. Kirchner 111 places in Florence & northern Tuscany that you must not miss 914.55 O584
Lonely Planet Korea 915.19 L847
Lonely Planet Seoul 915.195 L847
Lonely Planet's best in travel 910.2 L847b
Monocle Istanbul 914.961 M751
Michael Murphy 111 places in New Orleans that you must not miss 917.63 O5846
Ralf Nestmeyer 111 places in Provence that you must not miss 914.49 O5846

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Peter L. Bergen Manhunt: the ten-year search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad CD 363.325 B495
Philip Caputo The longest road: [overland in search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean] CD 973.93 C255
Karl Marlantes What it is like to go to war CD 959.7 M347

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DVDs

Drama
Suffragette

Foreign Language
Barbara
Labyrinth of lies
Lola

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Spectre

Posted on Mar. 15, 2016 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles for the Week of March 7

BOOKS

FICTION
Stephen Alter The rataban betrayal
Melanie Benjamin The Swans of Fifth Avenue
Alexander Chee The queen of the night
Nicola Gardini Lost words
C.W. Gortner The Vatican princess
Han Kang The vegetarian
Tendai Huchu The maestro, the magistrate & the mathematician
Gregg Hurwitz Orphan X
Jim Krusoe The sleep garden
Sergei Lebedev Oblivion
Francesc Miralles Love in lowercase
Omar Musa Here come the dogs
Jo Nesbø Midnight sun
Marieke Nijkamp This is where it ends
Carrie Brown The stargazer's sister
Rachel Cantor Good on paper
Joshilyn Jackson The opposite of everyone
Suzanne Joinson The photographer's wife

Historical Fiction
Phillip DePoy A prisoner in Malta
Stephen Harrigan A friend of Mr. Lincoln
Charlie Smith Ginny Gall: a life in the South

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Stephanie Barron Jane & the Waterloo map
Belinda Bauer The shut eye
Sara Blaedel The killing forest
Charlie Donlea Summit Lake
Barry Eisler The God's eye view
Loren D. Estleman Shoot
Anthea Fraser The twelve apostles
Mark Greaney Back blast
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles One under
Mark Henshaw The fall of Moscow station
Tami Hoag The bitter season
Teresa A. LaRue A talent for murder
Priscilla Royal Land of shadows
Terry Shames The necessary murder of Nonie Blake
Song Ying Apricot's revenge
Charles Todd No shred of evidence
Yrsa Sigurdardottir The silence of the sea

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Charlie Jane Anders All the birds in the sky

Short Stories
Peter Straub Interior darkness: selected stories

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
David Deardoff What's wrong with my houseplant?: save your indoor plants with 100% organic solutions 635.965 D285
Dwight Eschliman Ingredients: a visual exploration of 75 additives & 25 food products 664.06 E745
Roy Underhill The woodwright's eclectic workshop 684.08 U554
Roy Underhill The woodwright's shop: a practical guide to traditional woodcraft 684.08 U554p

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Gregory F. Tague Art & adaptation: a primer from notes 701 T128
Terence Ward The guardian of mercy: how an extraordinary painting by Caravaggio changed an ordinary life today 750.92 C26w
Claire Zimmerman Mies van der Rohe, 1886-1969: the structure of space 720.92 M63z

Biography & Genealogy
Michael J. Makley John Mackay: silver king in the gilded age 92 M153
John Carey The unexpected professor: an Oxford life in books 92 C275
Andrew Lycett Wilkie Collins: a life of sensation 92 C7182L

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
John Sandstrom Fundamentals of technical services 025.02 S221
Anjan Sundaram Bad news: last journalists in a dictatorship 079 S957

Business & Economics
Michael Hudson Killing the host: how financial parasites & debt destroy the global economy 338.54 H886
Carol Realini Financial inclusion at the bottom of the pyramid 332.1 R288

Chess
Alexander Alekhine Complete games of Alekhine 794.15 A36c
James Howell Essential chess endings 794.124 H859
Kurt Richter Chess combination as a fine art 794.15 R53c
Mikhail Tals Tal's winning chess combinations: the secrets of winning chess combinations described & explained by the Russian Grandmaster Mikhail Tal 794.123 T152

Food & Drink
Alice Medrich Flavor flours: a new way to bake with teff, buckwheat, sorghum, other whole & ancient grains, nuts & non-wheat flowers 641.3 M492

History
Felipe Fernández-Armesto Ideas that changed the world 909 F36i
Peter Frankopan The Silk Roads: a new history of the world 909 F834
Charles R. Lister The Syrian jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State & the evolution of an insurgency 956.91 L773
Kim MacQuarrie Life & death in the Andes: on the trail of bandits, heroes & revolutionaries 980 M167
Mario Vargas Llosa Notes on the death of culture: essays on spectacle & society 909.82 V297
David J. Breeze The frontiers of Imperial Rome 937 B832
Florian Illies 1913: the year before the storm 940.28 I291
Jona Lendering Edge of empire: Rome's frontier on the Lower Rhine 936.3 L564
Raoul McLaughlin The Roman Empire & the Indian Ocean: the ancient world economy & the kingdoms of Africa, Arabia & India 382 M161
Alan Titchmarsh The Queen's houses: royal Britain at home 941.085 T617
Sam Willis The struggle for sea power: a naval history of the American Revolution 973.35 W735

Languages & Linguistics
Noam Chomsky What kind of creatures are we? 401 C54w

Literature & Writing
Feast: poetry & recipes for a full seating at dinner 811.6 F288
Modernist women poets: an anthology 811 M689
Bill Morgan Beat atlas: a state by state guide to the Beat generation in America 810.9 M848s
Ann Rittenberg Your first novel: a published author & a top agent share the keys to achieving your dream 808.3 R613

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
David Rains Wallace Mountains & marshes: exploring the Bay area's natural history 508.794 W188

Performing Arts & Music
Owen Gleiberman Movie freak: my life watching movies 791.43 G556
Christian Metz Impersonal enunciation, or, The place of film 791.43 M596
Rashod Ollison Soul serenade: rhythm, blues & coming of age through vinyl: a memoir 781.64 O498
Ben Ratliff Every song ever: twenty ways to listen in an age of musical plenty 781.1 R236
Reality radio: telling true stories in sound 791.44 R288
William Shatner Leonard: my fifty-year friendship with a remarkable man 791.45 S53L
Eric Grode The book of Broadway: the 150 definitive plays & musicals 792.0974 G873
Jerry on Jerry: the unpublished Jerry Garcia interviews 780.92 G216m

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
John Shelby Spong Biblical literalism: a gentile heresy: a journey into a new Christianity through the doorway of Matthew's gospel 226.2 S763

Politics & Government
Fergus M. Bordewich The First Congress: how James Madison, George Washington & a group of extraordinary men invented the government 327.73 B728
Paddy Hayes Queen of spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War spy master 327.12 P235

Reference
Independent guide to fidelity funds 332.6327 I382

Social Sciences & Current Events
Ed Boland The battle for Room 314: my year of hope & despair in a New York City high school 371.1 B687
Erika Christakis The importance of being little: what preschoolers really need from grownups 372.21 C554
Baz Dreisinger Incarceration nations: a journey to justice in prisons around the world 365 D771
Jim Grimsley How I shed my skin: unlearning the racist lessons of a southern childhood 379.26 G865
Ann Neumann The good death: an exploration of dying in America 304.6 N492
Eli Sanders While the city slept: a love lost to violence & a young man's descent into madness 364.152 S213
David F. Lancy The anthropology of childhood: cherubs, chattel, changelings 305.23 L252

Sports & Games
David Ippen The art of self: an interpretation of traditional Taekwon-do 796.815 I648

Travel & Geography
Eleanor Burke Sketching San Francisco's neighborhoods: a visual journey through the well-known & not-so-well-known areas of the city 917.9461 B959
Tom Jones Tired of London, tired of life: one thing a day to do in London 914.21 J794

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley The war that saved my life

Posted on Mar. 4, 2016 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of March 1

BOOKS

FICTION
Chris Abani Becoming Abigail
Nelly Alard Couple mechanics
W. B. Belcher Lay down your weary tune
Rafael Chirbes On the edge
Lawrence Osborne Hunters in the dark
John Pearce Treasure of Saint-Lazare
Roger Rosenblatt Thomas Murphy
Andria Williams The longest night
Lucy Wood Weathering
Suzannah Dunn The lady of misrule
Winston Graham The loving cup: a novel of Cornwall, 1813-1815
Sally Hepworth The things we keep

Historical Fiction
Kathleen Spivack Unspeakable things
Mary Chamberlain The dressmaker's war

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Arnaldur Indridason Into oblivion
Alafair Burke The ex
Michel Bussi After the crash
Sarah Cain The 8th circle
Reed Farrel Coleman Where it hurts
Jason Gurley Eleanor
Christobel Kent The crooked house
Ausma Zehanat Khan The unquiet dead
Lawrence H. Levy Brooklyn on fire
David McCallum Once a crooked man
Ann Morgan Beside myself
Nele Neuhaus I am your judge
Tawni O'Dell Angels burning
Nicholas Petrie The drifter
T.R. Richmond What she left
Gerald Seymour Vagabond
William Shaw A song for the brokenhearted

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Jessica Chiarella And again
Patricia A. McKillip Kingfisher
James Rollins The bone labyrinth
Marcus Sakey Written in fire
Ian Tregillis The rising

Short Stories
Harlan Ellison Can & can'tankerous
Robert Lopez Good people
Amber Sparks The unfinished world: & other stories
Valerie Trueblood Criminals: love stories
Helen Ellis American housewife

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Julian Hanshaw T!m G!nger 741.5 H2499 comics
Tom Hart Rosalie Lightning 741.5 H326 comics
Fábio Moon Two brothers 741.5 M818t comics
Vincent Mahé 750 years in Paris 741.5 M214 comics

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Lucy R. Lippard Undermining: a wild ride through land use, politics & art in the changing West 701 L765
Pam Clark Treasures from the Royal Archives 708.2 T784
Peyton Skipwith Edward Bawden's Kew Gardens 759.2 B354

Biography & Genealogy
Nick Offerman Gumption: relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers 920 O322
Michael Everett The rise of Thomas Cromwell: power & politics in the reign of Henry VIII 92 C947e

Business & Economics
Richard Teitelbaum The most dangerous trade: how short sellers uncover fraud, keep markets honest & make & lose billions 332.645 T265

Chess
Alexei Kornev A practical white repertoire with 1.d4 & 2.c4 794.122 K847
New in chess yearbook = New in chess Jahrbuch 794.1 N53y
Šahovski informator = Shakhmatnyĭ informator = Chess informant 794.1 S12

Food & Drink
Ali Berlow The food activist handbook: big & small things you can do to help provide fresh, healthy food for your community 363.8 B515

Health & Medicine
Jack Canfield The 30-day sobriety solution: how to cut back or quit drinking in the privacy of your own home 616.89 C222
Jo Marchant Cure: a journey into the science of mind over body 616.8914 M315

History
James P. Duffy War at the end of the world: Douglas MacArthur & the forgotten fight for New Guinea, 1942-1945 940.542 D858
Gulwali Passarlay The lightless sky: a twelve-year-old refugee's harrowing escape from Afghanistan & his extraordinary journey across half the world 958.104 P286
Ben Rawlence City of thorns: nine lives in the world's largest refugee camp 967.7 R258
Paul Sonnino The search for the Man in the Iron Mask: a historical detective story 944.033 S699
Anjan Sundaram Stringer: a reporter's journey in the Congo 967.51 S957
Tonio Andrade The gunpowder age: China, military innovation & the rise of the West in world history 355 A553
Ruth Goodman How to be a Tudor: a dawn-to-dusk guide to Tudor life 942.05 G653
Jeffrey Lyons What a time it was!: Leonard Lyons & the Golden Age of New York nightlife 974.7 L991

Pierre Bayard How to talk about places you've never been: on the importance of armchair travel 809 B348p
John Martin Crime scene Britain & Ireland: a reader's guide 823.087 M381
Why we write about ourselves: twenty memoirists on why they expose themselves (and others) in the name of literature 808.066 W629
Clive James Latest readings 828 J27L

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Tim Lewens The meaning of science: an introduction to the philosophy of science 501 L671
David Wootton The invention of science: a new history of the scientific revolution 509 W918

Performing Arts & Music
1001 TV shows you must watch before you die 791.45 O585
Nick Offerman Paddle your own canoe: one man's fundamentals for delicious living 792.092 O322

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Alfonso Gómez-Lobo Bioethics & the human goods: an introduction to natural law bioethics 174.2 G569

Politics & Government
E.J. Dionne Why the right went wrong: conservatism-- from Goldwater to the Tea Party & beyond 320.52 D592
Matthew W. Hall Dividing the union: Jesse Burgess Thomas & the making of the Missouri Compromise 328.73 H178

Social Sciences & Current Events
John S. Allen Home: how habitat made us human 392.3 A427
Mark Barnes Teaching the iStudent: a quick guide to using mobile devices & social media in the K-12 classroom 371.334 B261
Jonathan R. Cole Toward a more perfect university 378.73 C689
Saru Jayaraman Forked: a new standard for American dining 331.2 J425
Richard Susskind The future of the professions: how technology will transform the work of human experts 303.4834 S964
Donald Worster Shrinking the Earth: the rise & decline of American abundance 304.2 W931
Jamie Yasko-Mangum Look, speak, & behave for men: expert advice on image, etiquette & effective communication for the professional 395.52 Y29

Sports & Games
Thomas W. Miller Sports analytics & data science: winning the game with methods & models 796.0151 M651

Travel & Geography
Annett Klingner 111 places in Rome that you must not miss 914.56 O5846

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

DVDs
Minions

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EBOOKS
Marc E. Agronin The dementia caregiver: a guide to caring for someone with alzheimer's disease & other neurocognitive disorders
Sarah Addison Allen First frost
Victoria Aveyard Red queen
Melanie Benjamin The Swans of Fifth Avenue
Michael Blanding The map thief: the gripping story of an esteemed rare-map dealer who made millions stealing priceless maps
Daniel James Brown The boys in the boat: nine Americans & their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Edward Caudill Inventing Custer: the making of an American legend
Tom Clancy Command authority
Thurston Clarke Jfk's last hundred days: the transformation of a man & the emergence of a great president
Bernard Cornwell Warriors of the Storm
Frances Dinkelspiel Tangled vines: greed, murder & an arsonist in the vineyards of California
Anthony Doerr All the light we cannot see
Sebastian Faulks Where My Heart Used to Beat
Elena Ferrante My brilliant friend. book one: childhood, adolescence
John J. Fialka Car wars: the rise, the fall & the resurgence of the electric car
Alan Dean Foster The Force Awakens
Paula Hawkins The girl on the train
Samantha Hunt Mr. splitfoot
Dan Jones The Plantagenets: the warrior kings & queens who made England
Dan Jones The Wars of the Roses: the Fall of the Plantagenets & the Rise of the Tudors
James Kaplan Sinatra: the Chairman.
J.A. Kay Other people's money: the real business of finance
Jonathan Kellerman Breakdown: an Alex Delaware novel
Henry Kissinger World order
Erik Larson Lethal passage: the story of a gun
Patrick McGilligan Young Orson: the years of luck & genius on the path to Citizen Kane
Brian Panowich Bull Mountain
Steven Pinker The sense of style: the thinking person's guide to writing in the 21st century
Thomas Pynchon Inherent vice
Andrew Roberts Napoleon: a life
James Rollins The bone labyrinth
Victor Sebestyen 1946: the making of the modern world
Robert Service The end of the Cold War, 1985-1991
James Shapiro The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
Gloria Steinem My Life on the Road
The stone reader: modern philosophy in 133 arguments
Gil Troy The age of Clinton: America in the 1990s
Donald J. Trump Crippled America: how to make America great again

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
Ant-Man

Drama
Straight outta Compton
The belly of an architect
The diary of a teenage girl
Downton Abbey. Season 6

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Mission: impossible. The complete first TV season

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
2010

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CDs

Jazz & Blues
John Scofield Past present CD Jazz Scofield

Popular
Blur The magic whip CD Pop Blur
Jamie xx In colour CD Pop Jamie xx
Father John Misty I love you, Honeybear CD Pop Misty
Muse Drones CD Pop Muse
Joanna Newsom Divers CD Pop Newsom

Posted on Feb. 29, 2016 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of February 22

BOOKS

FICTION
Eileen Curtright The burned bridges of Ward, Nebraska
Matt Gallagher Youngblood
Barbara Solomon Josselsohn The last dreamer
James E. McTeer II Minnow
Maureen Sherry Opening Belle
Sari Wilson Girl through glass
Yann Martel The high mountains of Portugal
Darryl Pinckney Black Deutschland

Historical Fiction
Taylor Brown Fallen land

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Stephen Coonts The art of war
Abby Geni The lightkeepers
Kerry Greenwood Ruddy gore
C.A. Higgins Lightless
Jonathan Kellerman Breakdown
Charles Lambert The children's home
Alen Mattich Killing pilgrim
James Patterson NYPD Red 4
Eric Reed The guardian stones
Phoef Sutton Crush

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Robert Masello The Einstein prophecy
Lawrence M. Schoen Barsk: the elephants' graveyard: an anthropomorphic novel
Johanna Sinisalo The core of the sun

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Kelly Sue DeConnick Bitch Planet. Book one, Extraordinary machine 741.5 B624 comics

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Marion Coutts The iceberg 709.2 C871
James L. McElhinney Art Students League of New York on painting: lessons & meditations on mediums, styles & methods 751 M141
James Murray Store front: the disappearing face of New York 725.21 M982
Writers: literary lives in focus 779.2 W956

Business & Economics
Charlotte B. Beyer Wealth management unwrapped: unwrap what you need to know & enjoy the present 332.6 B573
Michael Farmer Madison Avenue manslaughter: an inside view of fee-cutting clients, profit-hungry owners & declining ad agencies 659.1 F234
Bryan Franklin The last safe investment: spending now to increase your true wealth forever 650.1 F831
Teresa Ghilarducci How to retire with enough money: & how to know what enough is 332.024 G424
Alec Ross The industries of the future 338.06 R823

Food & Drink
Jenni Hulet My paleo patisserie 641.5638 H912
Bennett Jacobstein The joy of ballpark food: from hot dogs to haute cuisine 642.5 J178

Health & Medicine
Steve Silberman Neurotribes: the legacy of autism & the future of neurodiversity 616.8588 S582

History
Sean McFate The modern mercenary: private armies & what they mean for world order 355.354 M143
Peter Sager Oxford & Cambridge: an uncommon history 942.5 S129

Literature & Writing
William Egginton The man who invented fiction: how Cervantes ushered in the modern world 863 C419e
Mark Twain Writings 813 T969w

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Heidi Grant Halvorson Focus: use different ways of seeing the world for success & influence 153.8 H197
Frits de Lange Loving later life: an ethics of aging 248.8 L274

Politics & Government
Gary Gerstle Liberty & coercion: the paradox of American government from the founding to the present 320.473 G383
Tim Marshall Prisoners of geography: ten maps that explain everything about the world 320.12 M369

Social Sciences & Current Events
Wade Graham Dream cities: seven urban ideas that shape the world 307.12 G742

Travel & Geography
Marcus X. Schmid 111 places in Istanbul that you must not miss 914.961 O5846

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Pam Muñoz Ryan Echo

DVDs
Peanuts: Emmy honored collection

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
David E. Sanger Confront & conceal: Obama's secret wars & surprising use of American power CD 973.932 S225

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DVDs
Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Bridge of spies

Nonfiction
Damnation DVD 627.8 D162
Iris DVD 391 A641
Somm DVD 642.6 S697
How to play chess: lessons from an international master DVD 794.1 H847
Robert Klein: the HBO specials, 1975-2005 DVD 792.2 K644

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CDs

Opera
Richard Wagner Parsifal CD Opera Wagner

Popular
Tal National Zoy zoy CD Pop Tal National

Posted on Feb. 19, 2016 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of February 15

BOOKS

FICTION
Suzanne Berne The dogs of Littlefield
John Fante 1933 was a bad year
John Fante Dreams from Bunker Hill
John Fante The road to Los Angeles
John Fante West of Rome
Lina Wolff Bret Easton Ellis & other dogs
Sunil Yapa Your heart is a muscle the size of a fist
Don Carpenter Fridays at Enrico's
Sebastian Faulks Where my heart used to beat
Elizabeth McKenzie The portable Veblen
Joyce Carol Oates The man without a shadow

Historical Fiction
Bernard Cornwell Warriors of the storm

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Piero Chiara The disappearance of Signora Giulia
Susan Cox The man on the washing machine
Tim Dorsey Coconut cowboy
Sarah Graves The girls she left behind
Alexander Lernet-Holenia I was Jack Mortimer
Ian Rankin Even dogs in the wild
Giorgio Scerbanenco A private Venus
Giorgio Scerbanenco Traitors to all
Marco Vichi Death in Florence

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
China Miéville This census-taker

Short Stories
Stuart Evers Your father sends his love
Katherine Heiny Single, carefree, mellow

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Brian Michael Bendis Jessica Jones: Alias. Vol. 1 741.5 A398 comics
Ramzi Fawaz The new mutants: superheroes & the radical imagination of American comics 741.5973 F278 comics

Joe Sacco Journalism 355.02 S119 comics

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Deborah Forman Color lab for mixed-media artists: 52 exercises for exploring color concepts through paint, collage, paper & more 701.8 F724
Dave Hickey 25 women: essays on their art 704.042 H628
James Hamilton A strange business: a revolution in art, culture & commerce in 19th century London 709.034 H218

Health & Medicine
Alex Kerten Goodbye Parkinson's, hello life!: the gyro-kinetic method for eliminating symptoms & reclaiming your good health 616.833 K418
R. Douglas Fields Why we snap: understanding the rage circuit in your brain 616.8914 F462

History
Dawn Anahid MacKeen The hundred-year walk: an Armenian odyssey 956.6 M154
Barry Cunliffe By steppe, desert & ocean: the birth of Eurasia 930 C972
Keith Jeffery 1916: a global history 909.821 J458
Frank M. Turner European intellectual history from Rousseau to Nietzsche 909.0982 T946

Home & Family Management
Reader's Digest Home hints & timeless tips: more than 3,000 tried-and-trusted techniques for smart housekeeping, home cooking, beauty & body care, natural remedies, home style & comfort & easy gardening 640 R286

Law
Irin Carmon Notorious RBG: the life & times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg 347.73 G493

Literature & Writing
Roy Peter Clark The art of X-ray reading: how the secrets of 25 great works of literature will improve your writing 808 C594
David Denby Lit up: one reporter, three schools, twenty-four books that can change lives 807.1 D391
Bill Morgan The Beats abroad: a global guide to the Beat Generation 810.9 M848b

Performing Arts & Music
Christina Rice Ann Dvorak: Hollywood's forgotten rebel 792.092 D988
David Wills The cinematic legacy of Frank Sinatra 791.4 S615
Charles Pignone Frank Sinatra 100 780.92 S61p

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Scott Barry Kaufman Wired to create: unraveling the mysteries of the creative mind 153.35 K214
Helga Nowotny The cunning of uncertainty 121.6 N948
The study Quran: a new translation & commentary 297.1 S933n

Politics & Government
Andrew Burstein Democracy's muse: how Thomas Jefferson became an FDR liberal, a Reagan Republican & a Tea Party fanatic, all the while being dead 320.01 B972
Jane Mayer Dark money: the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right 320.52 M468

Reference
ProQuest statistical abstract of the United States 317.3 S7977

Social Sciences & Current Events
Massive open online courses: the MOOC revolution 371.33 M418
Malala Yousafzai I am Malala: the girl who stood up for education & was shot by the Taliban 371.82 Y82
The Oxford handbook of philosophy of education 370.1 O984
Nancy Tomes. Remaking the American patient: how Madison Avenue & modern medicine turned patients into consumers 368.38 T656

Travel & Geography
Bill Bryson The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain 914.104 B916
Robert E. Johnson Berkeley walks: 18 revealing rambles through america's most intriguing city 917.9467 J688
Matt Kepnes How to travel the world on $50 a day: travel cheaper, longer, smarter 910.2 K38

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Lindsay Mattick Finding Winnie: the true story of the world's most famous bear

Nonfiction
Didier Cornille Modern houses: who built that?: an introduction to modern houses & their architects 728 C818
Didier Cornille Skyscrapers: who built that?: an introduction to skyscrapers & their architects 720 C818

Posted on Feb. 16, 2016 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles List for the Week of February 8

BOOKS

FICTION
Leila Aboulela The kindness of enemies
Bridget Asher All of us & everything
Hélène Grémillon The case of Lisandra P
Eytan Halaban The Vermeer conspiracy
Catherine Ryan Hyde Ask him why
Susan Lewis Too close to home
Ethan Mordden How long has this been going on?
Fuminori Nakamura The gun
Ed Tarkington Only love can break your heart
John Fante Full of life

Historical Fiction
Sophie Perinot Médicis daughter

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Andrew Grant False positive
Samantha Hunt Mr. splitfoot
Vasudev Murthy Sherlock Holmes, the missing years: Timbuktu
Håkan Nesser Hour of the wolf
Linda Lee Peterson The spy on the Tennessee Walker
Stuart Woods Scandalous behavior
Yi Mun-yol Son of man

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Ian Tregillis The Mechanical

Short Stories
The Faber book of gay short fiction SS F115
The mammoth book of gay short stories SS M265g

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
The Simpsons treehouse of horror: hoodoo, voodoo, brouhaha 741.5 S613 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Raymond Coppinger How dogs work 636.7 C785h
The best writing on mathematics 510 B561
David Eagleman The brain 612.82 E117
Map: exploring the world 526 M297c

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Mary Street Alinder Group f.64: Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham & the community of artists who revolutionized American photography 770.92 G882
Patricia Goldstone Interlock: art, conspiracy & the shadow worlds of Mark Lombardi 700.92 L842
Erick Lyle (editor) Streetopia 700.9794 S915
Barbara Stoeltie Paper illusions: the art of Isabelle de Borchgrave 746.9 D141s
G. Thomas Tanselle Book-jackets: their history, forms & use 741.64 T168
The poster: 1,000 posters from Toulouse-Lautrec to Sagmeister 741.6 P857

Biography & Genealogy
David Kulczyk California fruits, flakes, & nuts: true tales of California crazies, crackpots & creeps 920.0794 K962

Business & Economics
Samuel B. Bacharach Get them on your side 658.4 B118
Liz Davidson What your financial advisor isn't telling you: the 10 essential truths you need to know about your money 332.024 D252
Randy Gage Mad genius: a manifesto for entrepreneurs 658.4 G133
Cal Newport Deep work: rules for focused success in a distracted world 650.1 N558
Jane Bryant Quinn How to make your money last: the indispensable retirement guide 332.024 Q74h
Joshua Birkholz Fundraising analytics: using data to guide strategy 658.152 B619

Chess
David Bronstein The sorcerer's apprentice 794.15 B86s
Andrew Soltis Transpo tricks in chess: finesse your chess moves & win 794.122 S691t

Computer Science
Andy Farnell Designing sound 006.5 F235
Michael Miller My Google Chromebook 004.165 C557

Food & Drink
Victoria Boutenko 12 steps to raw foods: how to end your dependency on cooked food 613.26 B778
Elizabeth Castoria How to be vegan 641.5636 C354
Emma Hearst Sorella 641.5945 H436
Andrew Kimbrell Your right to know: genetic engineering & the secret changes in your food 631.523 K497
Eric Prum Shake: a new perspective on cocktails 641.874 P971

Health & Medicine
David B. Agus The lucky years: how to thrive in the brave new world of health 613 A284L
Joseph J. Luciani Thin from within: the powerful self-coaching program for permanent weight loss 613.25 L937

History
Mark Celinscak Distance from the Belsen heap: Allied forces & the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp 940.5318 C392
Don Glickstein After Yorktown: the final struggle for American independence 973.3 G559
David Greenberg Republic of spin: an inside history of the American presidency 973.09 G798
Marvin Kalb Imperial gamble: Putin, Ukraine & the new Cold War 947.7 K142
Adam Makos A higher call 940.544 M235
Giles Milton When Hitler took cocaine & Lenin lost his brain: history's unknown chapters 909 M662
Ranulph Fiennes Agincourt: the fight for France 944.025 F464

Languages & Linguistics
Christine A. Hult The Handy English grammar answer book 428.2 H917

Literature & Writing
The Columbia anthology of gay literature: readings from Western antiquity to the present day 808.8 C726
Gregory Woods A history of gay literature: the male tradition 809.8 W894
Steven S. Lee The ethnic avant-garde: minority cultures & world revolution 810.9 L481

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
J.L. Heilbron Physics: a short history, from quintessence to quarks 530 H466
Richard Mabey The cabaret of plants: forty thousand years of plant life & the human imagination 580 M112
Steve Parker (editor) Evolution, the whole story 576.8 E938
Nate Swick Birding for the curious: the easiest way for anyone to explore the incredible world of birds 598.072 S976
Margaret J. Wheatley Leadership & the new science: discovering order in a chaotic world 500 W557

Performing Arts & Music
M.T. Anderson Symphony for the city of the dead: Dmitri Shostakovich & the Siege of Leningrad 780.92 S558a
Les Six: the French composers & their mentors, Jean Cocteau & Erik Satie 780.92 G882

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Introduction to Aristotle 185 A71m
Peter Stanford Judas: the most hated name in history 226.092 J92s

Politics & Government
David Burke The spy who came in from the Co-op: Melita Norwood & the ending of Cold War espionage 327.12 N895
Roger Eatwell Fascism: a history 320.533 E148

Social Sciences & Current Events
Nicholas Burns (editor) Blind spot: America's response to radicalism in the Middle East 363.325 B648
Susan N. Herman Taking liberties: the war on terror & the erosion of American democracy 344.7305 H551
Chris Jennings Paradise now: the story of American utopianism 307.77 J542
Thomas W. Laqueur The work of the dead: a cultural history of mortal remains 306.9 L317
Paul Monette Becoming a man: half a life story 306.76 M742
Charles Murray By the people: rebuilding liberty without permission 303.6 M981
Walter Schneir Final verdict: what really happened in the Rosenberg case 364.131 S359
Andrew Tobias The best little boy in the world grows up 305.38 T629
Mitchell Zuckoff 13 hours: the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi 363.325 Z943
Robert J. Gordon The rise & fall of American growth: the U.S. standard of living since the Civil War 339.4 G664

Sports & Games
Ben Applebaum The book of beer pong: the official guide to the sport of champions 790.1 A648
Roy Williams Hard work: a life on & off the court 796.3 W726

Travel & Geography
Beaches & parks from San Francisco to Monterey: counties included, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Monterey 917.9 B365
Charles Fleming Secret stairs: East Bay: a walking guide to the historic staircases of Berkeley & Oakland 917.9467 F597
Lonely Planet Trekking in the Nepal Himalaya 915.496 L847t
Fodor's essential Italy 914.5 F65e
Lonely Planet Nepal 915.496 L847
Lonely Planet Sydney 919.441 L847

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DVDs

Drama
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Nonfiction
The jinx: the life & deaths of Robert Durst DVD 364.152 D966

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CDs

Jazz & Blues
Tony Bennett The silver lining: the songs of Jerome Kern CD Jazz Bennett
Dylan Howe Subterranean: new designs on Bowie's Berlin CD Jazz Howe
Tom Harrell First impressions CD Jazz Harrell
José James Yesterday I had the blues: the music of Billie Holiday CD Jazz José James
Daniel Weltlinger Koblenz: a tribute to the family Reinhardt CD Jazz Weltlinger

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