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New Titles for the Week of November 23

BOOKS

FICTION
Tanwi Nandini Islam Bright lines
Gavin McCrea Mrs. Engels
Karen Olsson Waterloo
Eugene Vodolazkin Laurus
Kathy Giuffre The drunken spelunker's guide to Plato
Orhan Pamuk A strangeness in my mind

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Héctor Aguilar Camín Death in Veracruz
John Fortunato Dark Reservations
Daniel Friedman Don't ever look back
Thom Satterlee The stages: a mystery

Short Stories
Jesse Eisenberg Bream gives me hiccups
Colum McCann Thirteen ways of looking
Heather O'Neill Daydreams of angels

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Leah Hayes Not funny ha-ha: a handbook for something hard 741.5 H417 comics
P. Craig Russell The graveyard book. Volume 1 741.5 G14g comics
P. Craig Russell The graveyard book. Volume 2 741.5 G14g comics
Julian Voloj Ghetto brother: warrior to peacemaker 974.72 V929 comics

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NONFICTION
Akademie X: lessons in art + life 709.05 A313
Jens Hoffmann (editor) Huckleberry Finn 709.05 H882
Nathan Knobler The visual dialogue: an introduction to the appreciation of art 701 K721
The monumental landscapes of Li Huayi /Li Huayi 750.92 L693

Biography & Genealogy
T.J. Stiles Custer's trials: a life on the frontier of a new America 92 C987s
Marguerite Yourcenar Dear departed 92 Y819
Betty Boyd Caroli Lady Bird & Lyndon: the hidden story of a marriage that made a president 920 J6729
Antonia Fraser My history: a memoir of growing up 92 F8412
Richard Stoneman Xerxes: a Persian life 92 X5
Benjamin Taylor Proust: the search 92 P96ta

Business & Economics
Leander Kahney Jony Ive: the genius behind Apple's greatest products 621.39 K129
Eric Rauchway The money makers: how Roosevelt & Keynes ended the Depression, defeated fascism & secured a prosperous peace 339.53 R241

Food & Drink
Alberto Capatti Italian cuisine: a cultural history 641.5945 C236
Alana Chernila The homemade kitchen: recipes for cooking with pleasure 641.5 C521h
Ken Haedrich Dinner pies 641.821 H133
Madhur Jaffrey Vegetarian India: a journey through the best of Indian home cooking 641.5954 J23v
Dana Velden Finding yourself in the kitchen: kitchen meditations & inspired recipes from a mindful cook 641.5 V435
Matt Goulding Rice, noodle, fish: deep travels through Japan's food culture 394.12 G698
Jacques Pépin Heart & soul in the kitchen 641.5 P42he

History
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. And still I rise: Black America since MLK: an illustrated chronology 973.0496 G259a
John D. McDermott A guide to the Indian wars of the West 917.8 M134
Peter Robb Street fight in Naples: a city's unseen history 945.73 R631
Kim Heacox National Geographic the national parks: an illustrated history 363.68 H432
Edward Dallam Melill Strangers on familiar soil: rediscovering the chile-california connection 305.868 M522
Josiah Ober The rise & fall of classical Greece 938 O123

Literature & Writing
Rainbow in the cloud: the wisdom & spirit of Maya Angelou 818 A584

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
David R. Begun The real planet of the apes: a new story of human origins 599.93 B418
Michelle Feynman (editor) The quotable Feynman 081 F435
Matt Kaplan Science of the magical: from the holy grail to love potions to superpowers 398.4 K174
Lisa Randall Dark matter & the dinosaurs: the astounding interconnectedness of the universe 523.112 R188

Performing Arts & Music
Greil Marcus Real life rock: the complete top ten columns, 1986-2014 782.421 M322r
Kunal Nayyar Yes, my accent is real: & some other things I haven't told you 792.092 N333
Karin Wieland Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin & a century in two lives 791.43 W646

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Stephen Batchelor After buddhism: rethinking the Dharma for a secular age 294.3 B32a
Harry G. Frankfurt On inequality 340.115 F829
John Robinson Get off your knees: a story of faith, courage & determination 277.3 R662
Stacy Schiff The witches: Salem, 1692 272.8 S333
Patricia Appelbaum St. Francis of America: how a thirteenth-century friar became america's most popular saint 271.3 A646

Politics & Government
Giles Whittell Bridge of spies: a true story of the Cold War 327.12 W624

Reference
Literary market place 655.52 L77

Social Sciences & Current Events
Ted Koppel Lights out: a cyberattack: a nation unprepared: surviving the aftermath 363.11 K836
Jacobo Timerman Prisoner without a name, cell without a number 365.45 T583

Sports & Games
Charles Fountain The betrayal: the 1919 World Series & the birth of modern baseball 796.357 F771

Travel & Geography
Zagat 2016 New York City restaurants 917.471 Z18

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
John Grisham Rogue lawyer CD Fic Grisham
Louis L'Amour A ranger rides to town; Rain on the mountain fork; Down Sonora way CD Fic L'Amour
Barbara Vine A dark-adapted eye CD Fic Vine
Barbara Vine Asta's book CD Fic Vine
Barbara Vine The Brimstone wedding CD Fic Vine

Nonfiction
Lisa Randall Dark matter & the dinosaurs: the astounding interconnectedness of the universe CD 523.112 R188

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EBOOKS
The Best American essays 2015
The Best American mystery stories 2015
The Best American poetry 2015
The Best American science & nature writing 2015
The Best American sports writing 2015
Best food writing 2015
Ben Carson A more perfect union: what we the people can do to reclaim our Constitutional liberties
Michael Connelly The crossing: a novel ; The brass verdict
Bernard Cornwell Waterloo: the history of four days, three armies & three battles
Patricia Cornwell Depraved heart: a Scarpetta novel
William C. Davis Crucible of command
Bavo Dhooge Styx
Josh DiPietro Day trading stocks the Wall Street way
Umberto Eco Numero Zero
Frederick Forsyth The outsider: my life in intrigue
Felix Francis Front runner: a Dick Francis novel
Robert Galbraith Career of evil
Timothy F. Geithner Stress test: reflections on financial crises
Elizabeth George A banquet of consequences
John Grisham Rogue lawyer
Garth Risk Hallberg City on fire
Alice Hoffman The marriage of opposites: a novel based on the life of Rachel Pizzarro
John Irving Avenue of Mysteries
Peter James You are dead
Michelle Knight Finding me: a memoir of the Cleveland kidnappings
Tom Lewis Washington: a history of our national city
Kate Morton The lake house
The Old farmer's almanac 2016
100 Years of the Best American Short Stories
Jacques Pepin Jacques Pépin: heart & soul in the kitchen
Ruth Rendell Dark corners
Michael Riedel Razzle dazzle: the story of Broadway
Jan Jarboe Russell The train to Crystal City
A.D. Scott A kind of grief
Lisa Scottoline Corrupted
Jane Smiley Golden age: Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga Series, Book 3
Melanne Verveer Fast forward: how women can achieve power & purpose

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DVDs

Classics
A cottage on Dartmoor

Comedy
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Pitch perfect 2

Drama
A room with a view

Foreign Language
New world

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
When worlds collide

Nonfiction
The Central Park five DVD 364.15 C397
The wild west DVD 973 W668

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CDs

Jazz & Blues
The best of chess blues vol. 2 CD Jazz Chess Records
Charlie Byrd Homage to Jobim: live at the Fujitsu-Concord 26th Jazz Festival CD Jazz Byrd

Popular
Kate Bush The whole story CD Pop Bush
Ciccone Youth The whitey album CD Pop Ciccone Youth
Clash The story of the Clash. Volume 1 CD Pop Clash
Counting Crows August & everything after CD Pop Counting Crows
INXS Kick CD Pop INXS
Chris Isaak Forever blue CD Pop Isaak
Chris Isaak Heart shaped world CD Pop Isaak
Jethro Tull 20 years of Jethro Tull CD Pop Jethro Tull
Kinks Kinks, the ultimate collection CD Pop Kinks
Willie Nelson Stardust CD Pop Nelson
O'Jays The O'Jays' collectors items CD Pop O'Jays
Iggy Pop Brick by brick CD Pop Pop
Bonnie Raitt Nick of time CD Pop Raitt
Frank Sinatra Sinatra & company CD Pop Sinatra
Talking Heads The name of this band is Talking Heads CD Pop Talking Heads
U2 War CD Pop U2
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble Couldn't stand the weather CD Pop Vaughan
Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas flood CD Pop Vaughan

Posted on Nov. 20, 2015 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles for the Week of November 16

BOOKS

FICTION
Chris Abani The virgin of flames
Chris Adrian The new world
Jon Baird The explorers guild: a passage to Shambhala
Clare Clark We that are left
Bill Clegg Did you ever have a family
Donald Cozzens Master of ceremonies
Patrick deWitt Ablutions: notes for a novel
Parnaz Foroutan The girl from the garden
Marianne Fritz The weight of things
Elin Hilderbrand Winter stroll
George Keithley Ring of fire
Eka Kurniawan Beauty is a wound
Grace Mattioli Discovery of an eagle
David Mitchell Slade house
Chinelo Okparanta Under the udala trees
Rainbow Rowell Landline
Jane Smiley Golden age
Lily Tuck The double life of Liliane
Emma Jane Unsworth Animals
Jojo Moyes After you
Virginia Pye Dreams of the Red Phoenix
Kyung-sook Shin The girl who wrote loneliness

Historical Fiction
Lynn Cullen Twain's end
Adriana Trigiani All the stars in the heavens

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Jean-Pierre Alaux Montmartre mysteries
Rhys Bowen Malice at the palace: a Royal Spyness mystery
John Burley The forgetting place
Patricia Cornwell Depraved heart: a Scarpetta novel
Clive Cussler The Solomon Curse
Jeremy Duns The Dark chronicles: a spy trilogy: Free agent, Song of treason, the Moscow option
Elizabeth George A banquet of consequences
Tess Gerritsen Playing with fire
Kerry Greenwood Murder & Mendelssohn
Kerry Greenwood Murder in the dark: a Phryne Fisher mystery
John Grisham Rogue lawyer
Michael Keenan Gutierrez The trench angel
Garth Risk Hallberg City on fire
Anthony Horowitz Trigger mortis: a James Bond novel
Faye Kellerman The theory of death
G. M. Malliet The haunted season: a Max Tudor novel
Alexander McCall Smith The woman who walked in sunshine
Lisa Sandlin The do-right
A.D. Scott A kind of grief
Brad Thor Code of conduct: a thriller
Charles Belfoure House of thieves

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Seth Dickinson The traitor Baru Cormorant

Short Stories
Percival Everett Half an inch of water: stories
James McManus The education of a poker player: linked stories
Leslie Pietrzyk This angel on my chest: stories
Sait Faik Abasiyanik A useless man: selected stories
Joy Williams The visiting privilege: new & collected stories
Jacob M. Appel Miracles & conundrums of the secondary planets: stories
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Diaboliques: six tales of decadence
Andrea Camilleri Judges SS J927

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
S.J. Harris Eustace 741.5 H313 comics
Mark Kneece The art of comic book writing 741.51 K684 comics
Ethan Young Nanjing: the burning city 951.042 Y681 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Kathryn Harkup A is for arsenic: the poisons of Agatha Christie 615.9 H282

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Warren Adelson Sargent's Venice 750.92 S24v
Affect/Marcel: the selected correspondence of Marcel Duchamp 750.92 D826a
Janice Gunner Shibori for textile artists 746.6 G976
Materiality 709.04 M425
Moving image 700 M935
Marie-France Pochna Christian Dior: the biography 746.9 D59pb
Susan Ronald Hitler's art thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis & the looting of Europe's treasures 709.2 R768
Julius Shulman: modernism rediscovered 724.6 S562
Michael Riedel Razzle dazzle: the battle for Broadway 792.0974 R551

Biography & Genealogy
Michael Casey Henry E. Bothin: philanthropist of steel 92 B7493
Gary Indiana I can give you anything but love 92 I395
Harlow Giles Unger Henry Clay, America's greatest statesman 92 C619u
David Cressy Charles I & the people of England 92 C476c
Steven Lee Myers The new tsar: the rise & reign of Vladimir Putin 92 P9885m
John Norris Mary McGrory: the first queen of journalism 070.92 M147n

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Lillian Ross Reporting always: writings from The New Yorker 070.4 R824r

Business & Economics
Norman Bodek Kaikaku: the power & magic of lean: a study in knowledge transfer 658.5 B666
Kay-Yut Chen Secrets of the moneylab: how behavioral economics can improve your business 658.4 C518
Steven Hill Raw deal: how the "Uber economy" & runaway capitalism are screwing American workers 331.1 H645
Eric Janszen The postcatastrophe economy: rebuilding America & avoiding the next bubble 330.973 J353
Jon Kolko Well-designed: how to use empathy to create products people love 658.5 K813
Tim Richards Investing psychology: the effects of behavioral finance on investment choice & bias 332.6 R514
George A. Akerlof Phishing for phools: the economics of manipulation & deception 330 A31
Willie Drye For sale--American paradise: how our nation was sold an impossible dream in Florida 333.33 D799
Tren Griffin Charlie Munger: the complete investor 332.6 G851
Owen Jones The establishment: & how they get away with it 302.35 J762
Moshe A. Milevsky Pensionize your nest egg: how to use product allocation to create a guaranteed income for life 332.024 M643p
Computer Science
Craig Gilchrist Learning iBeacon 005.26 I125
Brian Knittel Windows 8.1 in depth 005.432 W8k

Food & Drink
Jacques Pepin Jacques Pépin's New complete techniques 641.5 P42j
Forrest Pritchard Growing tomorrow: a farm-to-table journey in photos & recipes 338.1 P961
Claire Ptak The Violet Bakery cookbook 641.86 P975

Health & Medicine
Sonia Arrison 100 plus: how the coming age of longevity will change everything 612.68 A776
Madelyn Fernstrom Don't eat this if you're taking that: the hidden risks of mixing food & medicine 615.7 F366
Gary B. Huffnagle The probiotics revolution 615.329 H889
Theresa Brown The shift: one nurse, twelve hours, four patients' lives 616.02 B877

History
Miranda Aldhouse-Green Bog bodies uncovered: solving Europe's ancient mystery 930.1 A362
Michael Jones After Hitler: the last ten days of World War II in Europe 940.534 J78a
Ray Locker Nixon's gamble: how a president's own secret government destroyed his administration 973.924 L815
Carroll L. Riley Rio del Norte: people of the Upper Rio Grande from earliest times to the Pueblo revolt 976.4 R573
Ian W. Toll The conquering tide: war in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 940.54 T65c
Michael Bloch Closet queens: some 20th century British politicians 941.082 B651
Edward Caudill Inventing Custer: the making of an American legend 92 C987c
Tom Holland Dynasty: the rise & fall of the House of Caesar 937 H734
Dan Jones Magna Carta: the birth of liberty 942.033 J762
Neil MacGregor Germany: memories of a nation 943 M147
Ralph Nader Return to sender: unanswered letters to the President, 2001-2015 973.93 N135r
Matthew Parker Willoughbyland: England's lost colony 988.3 P242
Luc Sante The other Paris 944.36 S234
Ned Sublette The American slave coast: a history of the slave-breeding industry 331.11 S941
Gil Troy The age of Clinton: America in the 1990s 973.929 T864
Christina Vella George Washington Carver: a life 92 C331v
Alison Weir The ring & the crown: a history of royal weddings, 1066-2011 942 R581
The World of Athens 938 W927

Home & Family Management
Jennifer L. Scott At home with Madame Chic: becoming a connoisseur of daily life 646.7 S425

Languages & Linguistics
Wendy Ayres-Bennett A history of the French language through texts 440.9 A985
David Crystal Making a point: the Persnickety story of English punctuation 421 C95m

Literature & Writing
Juan Felipe Herrera Notes on the assemblage 811.54 H565no
Marilynne Robinson The givenness of things: essays 814 R66g
Poems of the decade: an anthology of the Forward books of poetry 821.9 P744

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Donald R. Prothero The story of life in 25 fossils: tales of intrepid fossil hunters & the wonders of evolution 560 P967

Performing Arts & Music
Jewel Never broken: songs are only half the story 780.92 J591
Steve Knopper MJ: the genius of Michael Jackson 780.92 J134k

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Jonathan Sacks Not in God's name: confronting religious violence 201.7 S121
Peter Adamson Philosophy in the Hellenistic & Roman worlds: a history of philosophy without any gaps. Volume 2 100 A221

Politics & Government
Ira Berlin The long emancipation: the demise of slavery in the United States 326 B51

Reference
The Newbery & Caldecott awards 011.62 N534

Social Sciences & Current Events
Abdel Bari Atwan Islamic State: the digital caliphate 363.325 A887
William McCants The ISIS apocalypse: the history, strategy & doomsday vision of the Islamic State 363.325 M1229
Pallavi Aiyar New Old World: an Indian journalist discovers the changing face of Europe 306.094 P165
Jason Mark Satellites in the high country: searching for the wild in the Age of Man 333.78 M345
Anne-Marie Slaughter Unfinished business: women men work family 305.42 S63
Sarah B. Pomeroy Goddesses, whores, wives & slaves: women in classical antiquity 305.42 P785

Travel & Geography
Better than fiction: true travel tales from great fiction writers 910.4 B565

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

DVDs
Inside out DVD Children's

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DVDs

Classics
Decoy Vol. 1 DVD
Decoy Vol. 2 DVD
Decoy Vol. 3 DVD
Decoy Vol. 4 DVD
Decoy Vol. 5 DVD

Comedy
What we do in the shadows DVD

Drama
Hyde Park on Hudson DVD
The imitation game DVD
The last September DVD
Mr. Turner DVD

Nonfiction
Midnight ramble: Oscar Micheaux & the story of race movies DVD 791.4 M629

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CDs

Jazz & Blues
T-Bone Walker T-Bone blues CD Jazz Walker

Popular
Beatles The Beatles anthology 1 CD Pop Beatles
Beatles The Beatles anthology 2 CD Pop Beatles
Beatles The Beatles anthology 3 CD Pop Beatles
Led Zeppelin Houses of the holy CD Pop Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd The dark side of the moon CD Pop Pink Floyd
Traveling Wilburys Traveling Wilburys CD Pop Traveling Wilburys
Steve Winwood Steve Winwood CD Pop Winwood

Posted on Nov. 17, 2015 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles for the Week of November 10

BOOKS

FICTION
Kirk Lynn Rules for werewolves
LaShonda Katrice Barnett Jam on the vine
Carolyn Chute Treat us like dogs & we will become wolves
Jennine Capó Crucet Make your home among strangers
Julia Elliott The new & improved Romie Futch
Elin Hilderbrand The rumor
Judith Hooper Alice in bed
Greg Hrbek Not on fire, but burning
Mary-Beth Hughes The loved ones
Jan Karon Come rain or come shine
Kathleen Lee All things tending towards the eternal
Valeria Luiselli Faces in the crowd
Thomas Mallon Finale: a novel of the Reagan years
Howard Frank Mosher God's kingdom
John Niven Straight white male
Kenzaburo Oe Death by water
Joseph Roth The hotel years
Rainbow Rowell Attachments
Guy Saville The Madagaskar plan
Elena Mauli Shapiro In the red
Danielle Steel Undercover
Jeanette Winterson The gap of time: the Winter's tale retold
David Butler City of Dis
Patrick deWitt Undermajordomo Minor
Jennifer Eremeeva Lenin lives next door: marriage, martinis & mayhem in Moscow
Elif Shafak The architect's apprentice
Claire Vaye Watkins Gold fame citrus

Historical Fiction
Caitlin Hicks A theory of expanded love
Emily Holleman Cleopatra's shadows
Rebecca Hunt Everland
Virginia Baily Early one morning
Gabriel Chevallier Fear: a novel of World War I

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Martin Limon The ville rat
Chris Abani The secret history of Las Vegas
Elise Blackwell The lower quarter
David Burnsworth Southern heat
Tom Callaghan A killing winter
Jonathan Carriel Exquisite folly: Thomas Dordrecht in 1765
Donis Casey Hell with the lid blown off: an Alafair Tucker mystery
Maia Chance Come hell or highball: a mystery
E.J. Copperman The question of the unfamiliar husband
Catherine Coulter The end game
Charles Cutter The Pink Pony
Maurizio de Giovanni The day of the dead: the autumn of Commissario Ricciardi
Catherine Dilts Stone cold case: a rock shop mystery
Janet Evanovich The scam: a Fox & O'Hare novel
Chris Goff Dark waters: a thriller
Ellen Hart The grave soul
Sue Ann Jaffarian The curse of the holy pail
Sue Ann Jaffarian Too big to miss
John Katzenbach The dead student
Jim Kelly Death on demand
Shannon Kirk Method 15/33
Archer Mayor The company she kept
Patrick Modiano So you don't get lost in the neighborhood
Nick Oldham Unforgiving
Karen E. Olsen Hidden
James Patterson Alert
J. D. Robb Devoted in death
Michael Wiley Second skin
Dick Wolf The execution: a Jeremy Fisk novel

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Dale Brown Iron Wolf
M. R. Carey The girl with all the gifts
Ann Leckie Ancillary mercy
Terry Pratchett The shepherd's crown
Rainbow Rowell Carry on: the rise & fall of Simon Snow
John Sandford Saturn run
Chuck Wendig ZerØes
David Wong Futuristic violence & fancy suits

Short Stories
Donald Antrim The emerald light in the air: stories
Bonnie Jo Campbell Mothers, tell your daughters: stories
100 years of the best American short stories SS O58y
Harry Turtledove We install: & other stories

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Pénélope Bagieu Exquisite corpse 741.5 B145 comics
Étienne Davodeau Lulu anew 741.5 D266 comics
Annie Goetzinger Girl in Dior 741.5 G611 comics
Dean Haspiel Beef with tomato 741.5 H352
Jennifer Hayden The story of my tits 362.19 H414 comics
Robert Kirkman Outcast. Volume 1, A darkness surrounds him 741.5 K596o comics
Alan Moore Top 10 741.5 M821t comics
Anders Nilsen Poetry is useless 741.5 N712p comics
Sydney Padua The thrilling adventures of Lovelace & Babbage 741.5 P125 comics
Riad Sattouf The Arab of the future: a graphic memoir: a childhood in the Middle East (1978-1984) 741.5 S253 comics
Adrian Tomine Killing & dying 741.5 T657k comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
David A. Mindell Our robots, ourselves: robotics & the myths of autonomy 629.89 M663
Gavin Francis Adventures in human being: a grand tour from the cranium to the calcaneum 612 F818
Tracey Stewart Do unto animals: a friendly guide to how animals live & how we can make their lives better 636.083 S849

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Julian Barnes Keeping an eye open: essays on art 709.03 B261
Deborah Davis The trip: Andy Warhol's plastic fantastic cross-country adventure 700.92 W27d
Leslie Frontz The watercolor course you've always wanted: guided lessons for beginners & experienced artists 751.42 F936
Erika Knight Simple color knitting: a complete how-to-knit-with-color workshop with 20 projects 746.43 K695s
Sketch city: tips & inspiration for drawing on location 743.8 S627
David Taylor Digital photography complete course 770 T238
Paul D. Grushkin The art of rock: posters from Presley to punk 769 G892
Leslie Williamson Modern originals: at home with midcentury European designers 747 W731

Biography & Genealogy
Peter Ackroyd Wilkie Collins 92 C7182a
David Attwell J.M. Coetzee & the life of writing: face to face with time 92 C673
Tracy Daugherty The last love song: a biography of Joan Didion 92 D556d
Shane White Prince of darkness: the untold story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's first black millionaire 332.092 H217
Frederick Forsyth The outsider: my life in intrigue 92 F735
Marc Morris King John: treachery & tyranny in Medieval England: the road to Magna Carta 92 J651m

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Manuel Lima The book of trees: visualizing branches of knowledge 001.2 L732
Travis Vogan ESPN: the making of a sports media empire 070.44 V877
Wayne A. Wiegand Part of our lives: a people's history of the American public library 027.4 W645

Business & Economics
Marion Nestle Soda politics: taking on big soda (and winning) 338.4766 N468
Taylor Larimore The Bogleheads' guide to investing 332.6 L323
Dani Rodrik Economics rules: the rights & wrongs of the dismal science 330 R696

Computer Science
John Brockman (editor) What to think about machines that think: today's leading thinkers on the age of machine intelligence 006.3 W555
Matthew MacDonald WordPress: the missing manual 005.3 W924mw
Sanjay M. Mishra Wearable Android: Android wear & Google Fit app development 004.1675 A574m

Food & Drink
Dave Broom Gin: the manual 641.255 B873
Alain Passard The art of cooking with vegetables 641.65 P286
Cheryl Sternman Rule Yogurt culture: a global look at how to make, bake, sip & chill the world's creamiest, healthiest food 641.671 R935
Michael Solomonov Zahav: a world of Israeli cooking 641.5956 S689
Yong Chen Chop suey, USA: the story of Chinese food in America 641.5951 C518

Health & Medicine
Dennis Greenberger Mind over mood: change how you feel by changing the way you think 616.8914 G798
Jay Ingram The end of memory: a natural history of aging & Alzheimer's 616.831 I542
Dr. Ranjana Srivastava A cancer companion: an oncologist's advice on diagnosis, treatment & recovery 616.994 S774

History
Louis Barthas Poilu: the World War I notebooks of Louis Barthas, barrelmaker, 1914-1918 940.412 B284
Ernest Beyl Sketches from a North Beach journal: heroes & heroines, the wise & the wily: San Franciscans from the Gold Rush to yesterday 979.461 B573
Margaret MacMillan History's people: personalities & the past 920 M167
Sean McMeekin The Ottoman endgame: war, revolution & the making of the modern Middle East, 1908-1923 956.1 M167
David Pietrusza 1932: the rise of Hitler & FDR ; two tales of politics, betrayal & unlikely destiny 973.917 P626
Sarah Vowell Lafayette in the somewhat United States 973.33 V97
Douglas Waller Disciples: the World War II missions of the CIA directors who fought for Wild Bill Donovan 327.12 W198
Derek W. Beck Igniting the American Revolution: 1773-1775 973.3 B393
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore These United States: a nation in the making, 1890 to the present 973.9 G488
John Sedgwick War of two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr & the duel that stunned the nation 973.46 S448
Nicholas Stargardt The German War: a nation under arms, 1939-1945: citizens & soldiers 943.086 S795
Joby Warrick Black flags: the rise of ISIS 956.91 W295

Languages & Linguistics
David J. Peterson The art of language invention: from Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the words behind world-building 499.99 P485

Law
Roberta Kaplan Then comes marriage: United States v. Windsor & the defeat of DOMA 346.7301 K172

Literature & Writing
Erik Didriksen Pop sonnets: Shakespearean spins on your favorite songs 811 D558
Philip Kan Gotanda No more cherry blossoms: Sisters Matsumoto & other plays 812 G683
Ben Hecht The front page: a play in three acts 812 H44f
Joshua Landy Philosophy as fiction: self, deception & knowledge in Proust 843.9 P96L
Ursula K. Le Guin Steering the craft: a twenty-first century guide to sailing the sea of story 808.02 L52
Diane Seuss Four-legged girl: poems 811 S496
James Shapiro The year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 822.3 S529y

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Richard Dawkins Brief candle in the dark: my life in science 570.92 D27b
Judith Larner Lowry California foraging: 120 wild & flavorful edibles from evergreen huckleberries to wild ginger 581.632 L921
Merlin Tuttle The secret lives of bats: my adventures with the world's most misunderstood mammals 569 T967
Paul B. Wignall The worst of times: how life on earth survived eighty million years of extinctions 576.84 W661

Performing Arts & Music
Elvis Costello Unfaithful music & disappearing ink 780.92 C841u
Thomas Doherty Hollywood & Hitler, 1933-1939 791.43 D655
Michael Stewart Foley Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables 780.92 D278
Keith Elliot Greenberg Too fast to live, too young to die: James Dean's final hours 792.092 D281gr
George Harrison I, me, mine 780.92 H319i
Jessica Hopper The first collection of criticism by a living female rock critic 781.66 H798
Aidan Levy Dirty Blvd.: the life & music of Lou Reed 780.92 R323
Greil Marcus Three songs, three singers, three nations 782.421 M322t

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Gaston Bachelard The poetics of space 114 B119
Michael Bennett F*ck feelings: one shrink's practical advice for managing all life's impossible problems 158 B471
Peter Brown The ransom of the soul: afterlife & wealth in early western Christianity 270.2 B877r
Mark Goulston Talking to crazy: how to deal with the irrational & impossible people in your life 158.2 G699
David Jaher The witch of Lime Street: séance, seduction & Houdini in the spirit world 133.9 J251
Keith Rollag What to do when you're new: how to be confident, comfortable & successful in new situations 158.2 R749
Mark Riebling Church of spies: the Pope's secret war against Hitler 282.092 P693r

Politics & Government
Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis Madam Ambassador: three years of diplomacy, dinner parties & democracy in Budapest 327.2 K881
Kathryn S. Olmsted Right out of California: the 1930s & the big business roots of modern conservatism 320.52 O514
Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders: in his own words: 250 quotes from America's political revolutionary 328.73 S215b
Dennis Ross Doomed to succeed: the U.S.-Israel relationship from Truman to Obama 327.73 R82d

Social Sciences & Current Events
Holly Kearl 50 stories about stopping street harassers 362.83 K245f
Ronald Y. Nakasone (editor) Okinawan diaspora 304.8 O414
Irving Rothstein It couldn't have been the pay: a life of teaching & learning in public schools: a memoir 371.1 R847
Philip E. Tetlock Superforecasting: the art & science of prediction 303.49 T347
Vron Ware Beyond the pale: white women, racism & history 305.42 W267
Gloria Steinem My life on the road 305.4 S822m

Sports & Games
Daniel Goldberg (editor) The state of play: creators & critics on video game culture 794.8 S797
Matt Higgins Bird dream: adventures at the extremes of human flight 797.5 H636
Lou Kasischke After the wind: 1996 Everest tragedy: one survivor's story 796.52 K192

Travel & Geography
Rasa Gustaitis San Francisco Bay shoreline guide 917.94 S224
Lonely Planet Coastal California 917.94 L847
Lonely Planet Greek islands 914.95 L847i
Lonely Planet Thailand 915.93 L847d
Time out Berlin 914.315 T583
Fodor's San Francisco 917.9461 F65
Jane Huber 60 hikes within 60 miles, San Francisco: including North Bay, East Bay, Peninsula & South Bay 917.946 H875
Lonely Planet Northern California 917.94 L847n
Michelin New York City restaurants 2016 917.471 M623r
Michelin San Francisco Bay Area & wine country 917.946 M623r
Elizabeth Wenk John Muir Trail: the essential guide to hiking America's most famous trail 917.948 W475

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
T.J. Stiles Custer's trials: a life on the frontier of a new America CD 92 C987s

Posted on Nov. 10, 2015 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles for the Week of November 2

BOOKS

FICTION
Sloane Crosley The clasp
The complete works of Primo Levi
Nicholas Sparks See me

Historical Fiction
Geraldine Brooks The secret chord

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Saul Black The killing lessons
Chris Holm The killing kind
Stuart Woods Foreign affairs

Short Stories
The best American mystery stories SS B563
The Best American short stories SS B56
Anthony Marra The tsar of love & techno

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
James L. Oschman Energy medicine: the scientific basis 615.85 O819

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
James A. Ganz (editor) Jewel city: art from San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exhibition 709.04 J591
Sarah Palmer (editor) Modernity in healing & learning: the architecture of Anshen + Allen 720 M689
Andrea Ponsi San Francisco: a map of perceptions 759.19461 P798
April Vollmer Japanese woodblock print workshop: a modern guide to the ancient art of mokuhanga 761 V924

Biography & Genealogy
Jay Parini Empire of self: a life of Gore Vidal 92 V648pa

Food & Drink
Best food writing 641 B56
Paul Bocuse Bocuse: the complete Bocuse 641.5944 B665c
Duggan McDonnell Drinking the devil's acre: a love letter to San Francisco & her cocktails 641.874 M136
Alice Waters My pantry 641.5944 W329
Kathleen Weber Della Fattoria bread: 63 foolproof recipes for yeasted, enriched & naturally leavened breads 641.815 W374

History
James Green The devil is here in these hills: West Virginia's coal miners & their battle for freedom 622 G796
Scott L. Montgomery The shape of the new: four big ideas & how they made the modern world 909.4 M788
The Nixon tapes: 1973 973.924 B858
Wendell Steavenson Circling the Square: stories from the Egyptian Revolution 962.05 S799

Literature & Writing
The Best American essays 814.8 B56
The best American nonrequired reading. 814.8 B561
Michael Hofmann Where have you been?: selected essays 824 H713
Jean-Paul Sartre We have only this life to live: selected essays of Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939-1975 848 S25w

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
The best American science & nature writing 500 B56n

Performing Arts & Music
Victor Bockris Keith Richards: the biography 780.92 R516b
Cynthia Brideson Ziegfeld & his Follies: a biography of Broadway's greatest producer 792.092 Z65b
Chrissie Hynde Reckless: my life as a Pretender 780.92 H997
Mindy Kaling Why not me? 792.092 K144
A. Brad Schwartz Broadcast hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the worlds & the art of fake news 791.44 S399

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Tim Freke The mystery experience: a revolutionary approach to spiritual awakening 204 F867
Alex Mar Witches of America 299.94 M298

Social Sciences & Current Events
Pino Aprile Terroni: all that has been done to ensure that the Italians of the south became "southerners" 306.0945 A654
Eric Berkowitz The boundaries of desire: a century of bad laws, good sex & changing identities 306.7 B513
Noah Charney The art of Forgery: the minds, motives & methods of master forgers 364.16 C483a
Elaine Fantham Women in the classical world: image & text 305.4 W872
Margo Jefferson Negroland: a memoir 305.896 J456
Premilla Nadasen Household workers unite: the untold story of African American women who built a movement 331.4 N129
Johan Rockström Big world, small planet: abundance within planetary boundaries 333.7 R683
Sherry Turkle Reclaiming conversation: the power of talk in a digital age 302.23 T939
Michele Wallace Black Macho & the myth of the superwoman 305.48 W192

Sports & Games
The Best American sports writing 796 B56a

Travel & Geography
The Best American travel writing 910 B561
Gael Chandler Chronicles of old San Francisco: exploring the historic city by the bay 917.9461 C455
Jamie Jensen San Francisco & Northern California 917.946 E97
Aspen Matis Girl in the woods: a memoir 917.9 M433
Wildsam Brooklyn 974.723 W674
Wildsam Detroit 917.7434 W674
Wildsam field guides. Austin. 917.6431 W674
Wildsam field guides. Nashville. 917.685 W674
Wildsam New Orleans 917.63 W674
Wildsam San Francisco 917.9461 W674
Mapping it out: an alternative atlas of contemporary cartographies 912 M297o

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Lincoln Child The forgotten room CD Fic Child
Joy Fielding Someone is watching CD Fic Fielding

Nonfiction
Candice Bergen A fine romance: a memoir CD 792.092 B495f
Helen Macdonald H is for hawk CD 598.9 M135

Posted on Oct. 30, 2015 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles for the week of October 26

BOOKS

FICTION
Naja Marie Aidt Rock, paper, scissors
Margaret Atwood The heart goes last
Carmiel Banasky The suicide of Claire Bishop
Jill Bialosky The prize
Jonathan Evison This is your life, Harriet Chance!
Stephen Gillis Bencher in wonderland
Eli Gottlieb Best boy
Louisa Hall Speak
Alexandra Kleeman You too can have a body like mine
Helaine Mario The lost concerto
Mal Peet The Murdstone trilogy
Joan Schweighardt The accidental art thief
Erik Tarloff All our yesterdays
Aatish Taseer The way things were

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Mycroft Holmes
Jussi Adler-Olsen The hanging girl
Lisa Ballantyne Everything she forgot
Susan Barker The incarnations
M. C. Beaton Dishing the dirt: an Agatha Raisin mystery
Ted Bell Patriot
Adam Brookes Spy games
Reed Farrel Coleman Robert B. Parker's The Devil wins: a Jesse Stone novel
John Connolly A song of shadows: a Charlie Parker thriller
James DeVita A winsome murder
Janet Evanovich Wicked business: a Lizzy & Diesel novel
Philippe Georget Summertime, all the cats are bored
J.A. Jance Dance of the bones
Jonathan Kellerman The murderer's daughter
Camilla Läckberg The drowning
James Patterson The Murder House

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Michael H. Rubin The Cottoncrest curse

Short Stories
Clarice Lispector The complete stories

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
JP Ahonen Sing no evil 741.5 A286 comics
Kate Beaton Step aside, pops: a Hark! A vagrant collection 741.5 B369 comics
Don Brown Drowned city: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans 363.34 B877 comics
Ricardo Cavolo 101 artists to listen to before you die 780.9 C383 comics
Lucy Knisley An age of license 741.5 K718a comics
Boaz Lavie The Divine 741.5 L411 comics
Alecos Papadatos Democracy 741.5 P213 comics
Damian A. Wassel The gifted. Books 1& 2 741.5 W321 comics
Stephen Weiner 101 outstanding graphic novels 016.7415 W423 comics
David Leopold. The Hirschfeld century: portrait of an artist & his age, Al Hirschfeld 741.5 H66Lp comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Tom Jackson Chilled: how refrigeration changed the world & might do so again 621.56 J144

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Amy Gibson For keeps: meaningful patchwork for everyday living 746.46 G448
Witold Rybczynski Mysteries of the mall: & other essays 720 R989m
Cintra Wilson Fear & clothing: unbuckling American style 746 W747
Dr. Edd Morris Exploring English castles: evocative, romantic & mysterious true tales of the kings & queens of the British Isles 728.81 M875

Biography & Genealogy
James Karman Robinson Jeffers: poet & prophet 92 J447kr
T.J. Stiles Jesse James: last rebel of the Civil War 92 J2765st
Niall Ferguson Kissinger. Volume I, 1923-1968: the idealist 92 K618
Sarah Gristwood Arbella: England's lost queen 92 S9292
Elizabeth Norton Margaret Beaufort: mother of the Tudor dynasty 92 B374
Alison Weir Mary Boleyn: the mistress of kings 92 B688

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Peggy Levitt Artifacts & allegiances: how museums put the nation & the world on display 069 L666
Ken Cuthbertson A complex fate: William L. Shirer & the American century 070.92 S558

Business & Economics
Tony Crabbe Busy: how to thrive in a world of too much 650.1 C883
John J. Fialka Car wars: the rise, the fall & the resurgence of the electric car 338.4762 F438
John Kay Other people's money: the real business of finance 332 K232

Chess
Gary Alan Fine Players & pawns: how chess builds community & culture 794.1 F4949

Food & Drink
Tish Boyle Flavorful: 150 irresistible desserts in all-time favorite flavors 641.86 B792
Peter Burke Year-round indoor salad gardening: how to grow nutrient-dense, soil-sprouted greens in less than 10 days 635.5 B959
Déborah Holtz Tacopedia 641.5972 H758
J. Kenji López-Alt The food lab: better home cooking through science 664 L864
Ruth Reichl My kitchen year: 136 recipes that saved my life 641.5 R35m
Heidi Swanson Near & far: recipes inspired by home & travels 641.59 S972
Frances Dinkelspiel Tangled vines: greed, murder, obsession & an arsonist in the vineyards of California 338.4766 D585
Lizzie Kamenetzky The great British bake off: Christmas 641.8653 K153

Health & Medicine
Robert Butera Yoga therapy for stress & anxiety: create a personalized holistic plan to balance your life 613.7 B983
Luis Carlos Montalván Until Tuesday: a wounded warrior & the golden retriever who saved him 362.4 M763
Elisa Port The new generation breast cancer book 616.994 P8392

History
Thomas Buergenthal A lucky child: a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy 940.5 B928
Greg Graffin Population wars: a new perspective on competition & coexistence 355.02 G736
Andrew Hosken Empire of Fear: Inside the Islamic State 956.1 H826
Sheila Fitzpatrick On Stalin's team: the years of living dangerously in Soviet politics 947.084 F55o
Alonzo L. Hamby Man of destiny: FDR & the making of the American century 973.917 H199
Francis Pike Hirohito's war: the Pacific war, 1941-1945 940.542 P635
Ray Raphael The spirit of 74: how the American Revolution began 973.31 R217
Jay Winik 1944: FDR & the year that changed history 940.5373 W772

Literature & Writing
Stella Beratlis Alkali sink: poems 811 B483
The Best American essays 814.8 B56
Elizabeth Bishop Geography III 811 B62g
J.A. Bryant, Jr Twentieth-century southern literature 810.9 B915
Abigail Cloud Sylph 811 C647
James Lasdun Bluestone: new & selected poems 821.9 L342

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Sander Bais Very special relativity: an illustrated guide 530.11 B163
Albert Einstein Relativity: the special & the general theory 530.1 E35r
M Jackson While glaciers slept: being human in a time of climate change 551.31 J134
Paul Halpern Einstein's dice & Schrödinger's cat: how two great minds battled quantum randomness to create a unified theory of physics 530.13 H195
M.R. O'Connor Resurrection science: conservation, de-extinction & the precarious future of wild things 591.68 O187

Performing Arts & Music
Patti Smith M train 780.92 S656m

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Elizabeth Gilbert Big magic: creative living beyond fear 153.35 G464
Gary Gutting What philosophy can do 100 G985
Eric Jarosinski Nein.: a manifesto 100 J376
Dana Suskind Thirty million words: building a child's brain: tune in, talk more, take turns 155.413 S964
Sudhir Hazareesingh How the French think: an affectionate portrait of an intellectual people 194 H428

Politics & Government
Greg Grandin Kissinger's shadow: the long reach of America's most controversial statesman 327.2 K61
Larry Hancock Surprise attack: from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to Benghazi 327.12 H234

Social Sciences & Current Events
Kermit Alexander The valley of the shadow of death: a tale of tragedy & redemption 364.152 A376
Andrei Soldatov The red web: the struggle between Russia's digital dictators & the new online revolutionaries 303.4833 S684
Ron Stodghill Where everybody looks like me: at the crossroads of America's Black colleges & culture 378.73 S869
David Sloan Wilson Does altruism exist?: culture, genes & the welfare of others 302.14 W747

Sports & Games
Lizzy Hawker Runner: a short story about a long run 796.42 H392

Travel & Geography
Laura Smith Borrman Discovering vintage San Francisco: a guide to the city's timeless eateries, bars, shops & more 917.9461 B737
Don George The way of wanderlust: the best travel writing of Don George 910.4 G347
Andy N. Robinson It's NOT a holiday!: the A-Z guide to group travel 910.2 R658

Posted on Oct. 23, 2015 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles for the Week of October 19

BOOKS

FICTION
Sandra Cisneros Caramelo, or, Puro cuento
Michael Fitzgerald The fracking war
Spalding Gray Impossible vacation
Valeria Luiselli The story of my teeth
Fiston Mwanza Mujila Tram 83
Vladimir Pištalo Tesla, a portrait with masks
Christine Schutt Prosperous friends
Amy Stewart Girl waits with gun
Jean-Christophe Valtat Aurorarama
Richard Voorhees A little too rambunctious
Charlie Lovett The bookman's tale: a novel of obsession

Historical Fiction
Frances Itani Tell

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Stephen Booth The Devil's Edge
Julia Dahl Run you down
Catherine Dilts Stone cold dead
Karin Fossum The drowned boy
Julia Keller Last ragged breath
Ian A. O'Connor The Barbarossa covenant
Fred Vargas Dog will have his day

Short Stories
Ali Eteraz Falsipedies & fibsiennes
Guadalupe Nettel Natural Histories
Robert Thomas Bridge
Juan Villoro The guilty: stories
Best European fiction SS B5635

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Simon Hanselmann Megahex 741.5 H249 comics
Jack Baxter Mike's place: a true story of love, blues & terror in Tel Aviv 363.325 B355 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Guru Madhavan Applied minds: how engineers think 620 M181
Craig Ryan Sonic wind: the story of John Paul Stapp & how a renegade doctor became the fastest man on Earth 571.4 S794

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Not nothing: selected writings by Ray Johnson, 1954-1994 750.92 J686
Ray Johnson Ray Johnson: Taoist Pop Heart School 750.92 J686p
John Ott Manufacturing the modern patron in Victorian California: cultural philanthropy, industrial capital & social authority 707.9 O892
Paul Goldberger Building art: the life & work of Frank Gehry 720.92 G31g
Betty Kirke Madeleine Vionnet 746.92 V798
Kristine Stiles (editor) Theories & documents of contemporary art: a sourcebook of artists' writings 709.04 T396

Biography & Genealogy
Cecelia Tichi Jack London: a writer's fight for a better America 92 L84ti

Business & Economics
Elmira Bayrasli From the other side of the world: extraordinary entrepreneurs, unlikely places 338.04 B361
Thomas Sowell Wealth, poverty & politics: an international perspective 339 S731
Ashish J. Thakkar The lion awakes: adventures in Africa's economic miracle 330.96 T364
Mike Veseth Money, taste & wine: it's complicated! 338.4766 V57m

Chess
Anish Giri After Magnus: who can dethrone the world chess champion? 794.157 G525

Computer Science
AutoCAD 2016 for beginners 005.3 A93c

Food & Drink
Tom Acitelli American wine: a coming-of-age story 338.4766 A181
Lisa Leake 100 days of real food: how we did it, what we learned & 100 easy, wholesome recipes your family will love 613.2 L435

Health & Medicine
Leslie D. Michelson The patient's playbook: how to save your life & the lives of those you love 610.696 M623
Casey Schwartz In the mind fields: exploring the new science of neuropsychoanalysis 616.89 S399
Tim Spector The diet myth: why the secret to health & weight loss is already in your gut 613.2 S741

History
Victor Brooks The longest year: America at war & at home in 1944 940.54 B873
Richard W. Harrison (editor) Battle of Moscow 1941-1942: the Red Army's defensive operations & counter-offensive along the Moscow Strategic Direction 940.542 S729
Michael Jones Bosworth, 1485: the battle that transformed England 942.04 J783
Stephen F. Knott Washington & Hamilton: the alliance that forged America 973.4 K729
Susanna Moore Paradise of the Pacific: approaching Hawaiʻi 996.9 M824
Göran Rosenberg A brief stop on the road from Auschwitz 940.5318 R893

Home & Family Management
Kenneth R. Ginsburg Raising kids to thrive: balancing love with expectations & protection with trust 649.1 G4934
Tovah Martin The indestructible houseplant: 200 beautiful plants that everyone can grow 635.965 M38i
Tao Orion Beyond the war on invasive species: a permaculture approach to ecosystem restoration 631.58 O698

Literature & Writing
Yellowlees Douglas The reader's brain: how neuroscience can make you a better writer 808 D734
Chad Harbach (editor) MFA vs NYC: the Two Cultures of American Fiction 808.02 M617
Ikkyū Having once paused: poems of Zen Master Ikkyū (1394-1481) 895.61 I267h

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Herbert A. Simon The sciences of the artificial 501 S594

Performing Arts & Music
Mark Beaumont Kanye West: god & monster 780.92 W518
Jon Fine Your band sucks: what I saw at indie rock's failed revolution (but can no longer hear) 781.66 F495
Mary G. Hurd Kris Kristofferson: Country Highwayman 780.92 K929
J. D. McClatchy Seven Mozart librettos: a verse translation 782.1 M126
Andrew Schartmann Super Mario Bros. 781.54 K821
Elijah Wald Dylan goes electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan & the night that split the sixties 781.66 D996
Julian Upton (editor) Offbeat: British cinema's curiosities, obscurities & forgotten gems 791.43 O321

Politics & Government
David Milne Worldmaking: the art & science of American diplomacy 327.73 M659

Social Sciences & Current Events
Stephen M. Chambers No God but gain: the untold story of Cuban slavery, the Monroe doctrine & the making of the United States 306.362 C445
Lillian Faderman The gay revolution: the story of the struggle 306.76 F144g
Anthony Galvin Old sparky: the electric chair & the history of the death penalty 364.66 G182
Tom Gjelten A nation of nations: a great American immigration story 305.8 G539
Julie Lythcott-Haims How to raise an adult: break free of the overparenting trap & prepare your kid for success 306.874 L996
John C. Mutter The disaster profiteers: how natural disasters make the rich richer & the poor even poorer 363.34 M993
Richard J. Perry Killer apes, naked apes, & just plain nasty people: the misuse & abuse of science in politics 304.5 P464
Ed Regis Monsters: the Hindenburg disaster & the birth of pathological technology 303.48 R337
Samuel I. Schwartz Street smart: the rise of cities & the fall of cars 388.4 S399
Joe Urschel The year of fear: Machine Gun Kelly & the manhunt that changed the nation 364.152 K297
Tony Wagner Most likely to succeed: preparing our kids for the innovation era 371.2 W135
Leonard Cassuto The graduate school mess: what caused it & how we can fix it 378.1 C345
Eileen Pollack The only woman in the room: why science is still a boys' club 305.42 P771

Posted on Oct. 20, 2015 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles for the Week of October 13

BOOKS

FICTION
Alaa Al Aswany The Automobile Club of Egypt
John Banville The blue guitar
Adrienne Celt The daughters
Laurie Foos The blue girl
Christopher Moore Secondhand souls

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Massimo Carlotto Gang of lovers
Amanda Coe The love she left behind
Maurizio de Giovanni By My Hand: The Christmas Of Commissario Ricciardi
Maurizio De Giovanni Viper: no resurrection for Commissario Ricciardi
Philippe Georget Autumn, all the cats return
Victor Gischler Stay
Wolf Haas Brenner & God
Wolf Haas Come, sweet death!
M.L. Longworth Death at the Château Bremont
M.L. Longworth Death in the Vines: a Verlaque & Bonnet Provencal mystery
M.L. Longworth Murder in the Rue Dumas
M.L. Longworth Murder on the Île Sordou: a Verlaque & Bonnet Provençal mystery
M. L. Longworth The mystery of the lost Cézanne: a Verlaque & Bonnet Provençal mystery
Helen Phillips The beautiful bureaucrat
Serge Quadruppani The sudden disappearance of the worker bees
Leah Stewart The new neighbor

Westerns
Charles Neider The authentic death of Hendry Jones

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Megan Prelinger Inside the machine: art & invention in the electronic age 621.381 P924

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Matthias Koddenberg (editor) Christo & Jeanne-Claude: in/out studio 730.92 C55i
Alva Noë Strange tools: art & human nature 700.1 N763
Francine Prose Peggy Guggenheim: the shock of the modern 708 G94pr
Jonas Reif Cultivating chaos: how to enrich landscapes with self-seeding plants 715 R361
Emily Eliza Scott (editor) Critical landscapes: art, space, politics 704.943 C934

Biography & Genealogy
Michael D'Antonio Never enough: Donald Trump & the pursuit of success 92 T871d
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Writing across the landscape: travel journals 1960-2010 92 F357w

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
The Writer's market. 655.52 W95

Business & Economics
Charles D. Ellis Falling short: the coming retirement crisis & what to do about it 331.252 E471
Philip Warburg Harness the sun: America's quest for a solar-powered future 333.79 W253

Computer Science
Guy Hart-Davis Apple Watch 004.1675 A648
Paul McFedries Teach yourself visually Windows 10 005.432 W10
Andy Rathbone Windows 10 for dummies 005.432 W10r
Marc Saltzman Apple Watch for dummies 004.1675 A648s

Food & Drink
Aaron Franklin Franklin barbecue: a meat-smoking manifesto 641.76 F831
Alejandro Junger Clean eats: over 200 delicious recipes to reset your body's natural balance & discover what it means to be truly healthy 641.563 J953

Health & Medicine
Alejandro Junger Clean gut: the breakthrough plan for eliminating the root cause of disease & revolutionizing your health 616.3 J953

History
Matthew Coolidge Around The Bay: Man-Made Sites of Interest in the San Francisco Bay Region 979.46 C774
Joy-Ann Reid Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons & the racial divide 973.932 R356
Timothy Snyder Black earth: the Holocaust as history & warning 940.5318 S675

Literature & Writing
Novel & short story writer's market 655.52 N937
Dinty W. Moore Dear mister essay writer guy: advice & confessions on writing, love & cannibals 808 M821
Ilan Stavans Quixote: the novel & the world 863 C419st
Guide to literary agents 655.52 G941
Poet's market 655.52 P745
Children's writer's & illustrator's market 655.52 C53

Performing Arts & Music
Emanuel Levy Gay directors, gay films?: Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters 791.43 L668
John Lydon Anger is an energy: my life uncensored 780.92 L983
Mark Ribowsky Dreams to remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records & the transformation of Southern soul 780.92 R313
John Seabrook The song machine: inside the hit factory 781.64 S438
Lucy Miller Murray Chamber music: an extensive guide for listeners 785 M982

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Jimmy Burns Francis, Pope of good promise 282.092 F818b
Margalis Fjelstad Stop caretaking the borderline or narcissist: how to end the drama & get on with life 155.232 F567
Paul Vallely Pope Francis: untying the knots: the struggle for the soul of Catholicism 282.092 F818v

Politics & Government
Jonathan Haslam Near & distant neighbors: a new history of Soviet intelligence 327.12 H352
The Statesman's year-book 310 S79

Reference
Chase's ... calendar of events 394 C48
Guinness book of world records 032 G96
The Old farmer's almanack 051 O44c

Social Sciences & Current Events
Jon Birger Date-onomics: how dating became a lopsided numbers game 306.73 B618
Kathryn J. Edin $2.00 a day: living on almost nothing in America 339.46 E235
Karen Kelsky The professor is in: the essential guide to turning your Ph.D. into a job 378.12 K299
Dale Russakoff The prize: who's in charge of America's schools? 371.2 R958

Sports & Games
John Branch Boy on ice: the life & death of Derek Boogaard 796.96 B724
Mark Miller Pain don't hurt: fighting inside & outside the ring 796.81 M649
Lonnie Wheeler Intangiball: the subtle things that win baseball games 796.357 W563

Travel & Geography
Richard Di Giacomo Historical gems of the San Francisco Bay Area: a guide to museums, historical sites, history parks & historical homes: over 200 fascinating sites to visit!: includes Santa Cruz & Monterey Counties 917.946 D574
Georg Henke Landscapes of the Cinque Terre & Riviera di Levante: a countryside guide 914.518 H512

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Marcia Bartusiak Black hole: how an idea abandoned by Newtonians, hated by Einstein & gambled on by Hawking became loved CD 523.88 B294

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CDs

Folk
Lucinda Williams Essence CD Folk Williams

Popular
Stevie Wonder Innervisions CD Pop Wonder

Posted on Oct. 13, 2015 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles for the Week of September 21

BOOKS

FICTION
Julianna Baggott Harriet Wolf's seventh book of wonders
Jesse Ball A cure for suicide
Ivan Doig Last bus to wisdom
Elena Ferrante The story of the lost child
Lauren Fox Days of awe
Jonathan Franzen Purity
Guadalupe Nettel The body where I was born
J. Ryan Stradal Kitchens of the great Midwest
Paul Tremblay A head full of ghosts
Barbara Delinsky Sweet salt air
Jan Karon In the company of others

Historical Fiction
Maurice Druon The poisoned crown
Leona Francombe The sage of Waterloo: a tale
Felix Gilman The revolutions

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Virginie Despentes Apocalypse baby
Michael Koryta Last words
Heda Margolius Kovaly Innocence
David Lagercrantz The girl in the spider's web
Jeremy Massey The last four days of paddy buckley
Louise Penny The nature of the beast
Georges Simenon A crime in Holland
Ruth Ware In a dark, dark wood

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Bucky Sinister Black hole

Short Stories
Naja Marie Aidt Baboon

Posted on Sep. 21, 2015 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles for the Week of September 14

BOOKS

FICTION
Ted Kosmatka The flicker men
Mary Kubica Pretty baby
Rebecca Scherm Unbecoming
Bradley Somer Fishbowl
Lidia Yuknavitch The small backs of children

Historical Fiction
Kim Leine The prophets of Eternal Fjord

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Robert Karjel The Swede
Gabriel Urza All that followed
Louise Walters Mrs. Sinclair's suitcase

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Kirsty Logan The gracekeepers

Short Stories
Lauren Holmes Barbara the slut & other people

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Donald MacDonald Democratic architecture: practical solutions to housing crises 307.8 M135

Chess
Alexei Kornev Rossolimo & friends: a complete repertoire vs. the Sicilian 794.1 K847
Zdenko Kozul The Richter Rauzer reborn: restyle your repertoire with the razor-sharp Kozul variation 794.1 K889

Al Roker The storm of the century: tragedy, heroism, survival & the epic true story of America's deadliest natural disaster: the great Gulf hurricane of 1900 976.4 R742

Law
Henry R. Cheeseman Business law: legal environment, online commerce, business ethics & international issues 346.7307 C51

Literature & Writing
Juan Felipe Herrera 187 reasons mexicanos can't cross the border: undocuments, 1971-2007 811.54 H565o

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Richard E. Nisbett Mindware: tools for smart thinking 153.4 N72m

Reference
Washington information directory 353 W317

Sports & Games
Steve Almond Against football: one fan's reluctant manifesto 796.332 A452
Michael Weinreb Season of saturdays: a history of college football in 14 games 796.332 W424

Posted on Sep. 14, 2015 by Cherilyn Chang

New Titles for the Week of September 8

BOOKS

FICTION
Austin Grossman Crooked
Emma McLaughlin How to be a grown-up
Julia Pierpont Among the ten thousand things
Christopher Tilghman Mason's retreat
Peter Tremayne The devil's seal: a mystery of ancient Ireland
Christopher J. Yates Black chalk

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Dorothy Cannell Death at Dovecote Hatch
Hannah Dennison Deadly desires at Honeychurch Hall
Martin Edwards Eve of destruction
Kjell Eriksson Open grave
Steffen Jacobsen When the dead awaken
John Lawton Black out
T. Frank Muir Eye for an eye
Regina O'Melveny The book of madness & cures
Brian Panowich Bull Mountain
Sally Spencer Best served cold
Arkady Strugatsky The Dead Mountaineer's Inn

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
John Scalzi The end of all things

Short Stories
Charles Bukowski The bell tolls for no one: stories

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Stephen Buchmann The reason for flowers: their history, culture, biology & how they change our lives 635.9 B919

Frank McLynn Genghis Khan: his conquests, his empire, his legacy 92 G329m

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Michael Dirda Browsings: a year of reading, collecting & living with books 028.9 D59b

Business & Economics
Henry R. Cheeseman Contemporary business & online commerce law 346.7307 C51c
Yasmin Davidds Your own terms: a woman's guide to taking charge of any negotiation 658.4 D249
Victor Lipman The type B manager: leading successfully in a type A world 658.4 L764

Chess
Mauricio Flores Rios Chess structures: a grandmaster guide: standard patterns & plans explained 794.15 F634
Ernest F. Pecci Chess: a psychiatrist matches wits with Fritz: a new strategy to an old game beats today's best computer programs 794.17 P365

Health & Medicine
Christian W. McMillen Discovering tuberculosis: a global history, 1900 to the present 616.995 M167

History
Alex Kershaw Avenue of spies: a true story of terror, espionage & one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris 940.5344 K416
Dominic Lieven The end of Tsarist Russia: the march to World War I & revolution 947 L722
James Neff Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy versus Jimmy Hoffa 973.922 K36v
Robin Prior When Britain Saved The West: The Story of 1940 940.53 P958
Mary Louise Roberts D-Day through French eyes: Normandy 1944 940.542 R646
Jonathan Rose The literary Churchill: author, reader, actor 941.084 C5632r
Hugh Thomas World without end: Spain, Philip II & the first global empire 946.04 T457

Literature & Writing
Juan Felipe Herrera Half of the world in light: new & selected poems 811.54 H565h
Juan Felipe Herrera Notebooks of a chile verde smuggler 811.54 H565n
Shirley Jackson Let me tell you: new stories, essays & other writings 818.54 J14L
J.P. Seaton. (editor) Cold mountain poems: Zen poems of Han Shan, Shih Te & Wang Fan-chih 895.61 H249

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Stephanie Dowrick Seeking the sacred: transforming our view of ourselves & one another 204 D751
Norman E. Rosenthal The gift of adversity: the unexpected benefits of life's difficulties, setbacks & imperfections 155.24 R815

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
James Patterson Alert

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Dr. Seuss What pet should I get?

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EBOOKS
Fiction
Lucia Berlin A manual for cleaning women: selected stories
Judy Blume In the unlikely event
Andrea Camilleri A beam of light
Andrea Camilleri The fourth secret
Linda Castillo After the storm
Stephanie Clifford Everybody rise
Ernest Cline Armada
Stephen Dobyn Is fat Bob dead yet?
Ivan Doig Last bus to wisdom
Janet Evanovich Wicked charms
Elena Ferrante The story of the lost child
Parnaz Foroutan The girl from the garden
Karin Fossum The drowned boy
Jonathan Franzen Purity
Nancy Herriman No comfort for the lost
Roger Hobbs Vanishing games
Adam Johnson Fortune Smiles: Stories
Jonathan Kellerman The murderer's daughter
Harper Lee The Harper Lee collection
Donna Leon Quietly in their sleep
Clarice Lispector The Complete Stories
Jason Matthews Palace of treason
Paula McLain Circling the sun
Brad Meltzer The president's shadow
Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen
Haruki Murakami Wind ; pinball: two novels
James Patterson Alert
Louise Penny The nature of the beast
Ian Rankin The beat goes on: the complete Rebus stories
Nina Revoyrf Lost canyon
Daniel Silva The English spy
Edward St. Aubyn A clue to the exit
Neal Stephenson Seveneves
Amy Stewart Girl waits with gun
J. Ryan Stradal Kitchens of the great Midwest
Brad Thor Code of conduct: a thriller
Vu Tran Dragonfish
Vendela Vida Diver's clothes lie empty
Martin Walker The patriarch
Ruth Ware In a dark, dark wood
Don Winslow The cartel

Posted on Sep. 14, 2015 by Cherilyn Chang