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New Titles for the Week of August 24

BOOKS

FICTION
Maurice Blanchot Aminadab
Mia Couto Confession of the lioness
Louis de Bernières The dust that falls from dreams
Amitav Ghosh Flood of fire
Joanna Hershon Swimming
Alice Hoffman The marriage of opposites: a novel based on the life of Rachel Pizzarro
James McGee The blooding
Haruki Murakami Wind/Pinball: two novels
Stuart Rojstaczer The Mathematician's Shiva
Elizabeth Rosner The speed of light
Lucy Sanna The cherry harvest

Historical Fiction
Jennifer Chiaverini Mrs. Grant & Madame Jule

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Linwood Barclay Broken promise
Carrie Bebris The suspicion at Sanditon: or, the disappearance of Lady Denham
Ken Bruen Green hell: a Jack Taylor novel
Raymond Chandler The high window
Martin Clark The Jezebel remedy
Catherine Coulter Nemesis
Linda Fairstein Devil's bridge
Christopher Fowler Full dark house
A.D. Garrett Believe no one
Elizabeth Gunn Noontime follies
Sophie Hannah Woman with a secret
Andrew Hughes The convictions of John Delahunt
Sophie Littlefield The missing place
Margaret Maron Long upon the land
Elizabeth Redfern The music of the spheres
Jon Talton High country nocturne
Vu Tran Dragonfish
Martin Walker The Patriarch: a Bruno, chief of police novel

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Ernest Cline Armada
Andrew Smith The Alex crow

Short Stories
Ann Beattie The state we're in: Maine stories
China Miéville Three moments of an explosion: stories

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Michael Lesy Angel's world: the New York photographs of Angelo Rizzuto 770.92 R627
Jeremy Rosenberg Under Spring: voices+art+Los Angeles 709.7949 R813
Twenty Eight Chinese: Rubell Family Collection ( Zhonghua nian ba ren: Lubei'er jia zu shou cang) 709.51 T971
John Whitenight Under glass: a Victorian obsession 745.594 W594

Biography & Genealogy
Janice P. Nimura Daughters of the samurai: a journey from East to West & back 920.72 N713
Evan Thomas Being Nixon: a man divided 92 N718t

Business & Economics
Thomas Piketty The economics of inequality 339.22 P636

Chess
Valery Aveskulov Attack with black 794.12 A955
Steve Giddins (editor) New In Chess: the first 25 years 794.1 N53g
John Hall, Jan R. Cartier A view from the top: the Kasparov-Anand PCA match, New York, 1995 794.159 H177

History
Jonathan M. Bryant Dark places of the earth: the voyage of the slave ship Antelope 342.7308 B915
Kathleen DuVal Independence lost: lives on the edge of the American Revolution 973.3 D983
Daniel Francis Closing time: prohibition, rum-runners & border wars 363.41 F818
James Kunetka The general & the genius: Groves & Oppenheimer: the unlikely partnership that built the atom bomb 355.8 K964
Andy McSmith Fear & the muse kept watch: the Russian masters--from Akhmatova & Pasternak to Shostakovich & Eisenstein--under Stalin 700.92 M175

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Susan Casey Voices in the ocean: a journey into the wild & haunting world of dolphins 599.53 C338

Politics & Government
Arthur C. Brooks The conservative heart: how to build a fairer, happier & more prosperous America 320.52 B873
Stephen Grey The new spymasters: inside the modern world of espionage from the Cold War to global terror 327.12 G845

Social Sciences & Current Events
Kristina Rizga Mission High: one school, how experts tried to fail it & the students & teachers who made it triumph 371.26 R627

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CDs

Opera
Strauss Four last songs 12 lieder CD Opera Strauss

Popular
the Beach Boys Pet sounds CD Pop Beach Boys
Elvis Costello My aim is true CD Pop Costello
Dido No angel CD Pop Dido
Little Feat Sailin' shoes CD Pop Little Feat
Tom Petty Full moon fever CD Pop Petty

Posted on Aug. 25, 2015 by Cherilyn Chang

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New Titles for the Week of August 17

BOOKS

FICTION
Carolina De Robertis The gods of tango
Dorothea Benton Frank All the single ladies
Kathi Kamen Goldmark Her wild oats
Paula McLain Circling the sun
Jenny Milchman As night falls
William T. Vollmann The dying grass: a novel of the Nez Perce War
Jan Karon At home in Mitford

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
C.J. Box Badlands
Andrea Camilleri Judges
Judith Cutler Green & pleasant land: a Fran Harman mystery
Lindsey Davis Deadly election: a Flavia Albia mystery
Jeff Lindsay Dexter is dead
Gayle Lynds The assassins
Alexander McCall Smith The novel habits of happiness
Sara Paretsky Brush back
Spencer Quinn Scents & sensibility
Georges Simenon The carter of La Providence

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Tom Holt The good, the bad & the smug: a novel beyond good & evil

Short Stories
Juan Gabriel Vásque Lovers on All Saints' Day: stories

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Howard Chaykin Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser 741.5 C512 comics
Brennan Wagner Grendel vs. The Shadow 741.5 G826 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Pete Culler on wooden boats: the master craftsman's collected teachings on boat design, building, repair & use 623.81 C967
Rich Johnson Urban survival guide: top urban survival skills 613.69 J687

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Toni Carr Geek knits: over 30 projects for fantasy fanatics, science fiction fiends & knitting nerds 746.43 C312
John Esten John Singer Sargent: the male nudes 750.92 S24e
Maceo Montoya Letters to the poet from his brother 750.92 M798
Ian Warrell Turner on the Loire 750.92 T94war

Biography & Genealogy
Charles Bukowski On writing 92 B932d
Suzanne Marrs (editor) Meanwhile there are letters: the correspondence of Eudora Welty & Ross Macdonald 920 W464
Aleta George Ina Coolbrith: the bittersweet song of California's first poet laureate 92 C7744

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Cheryl Ann Peltier-Davis ; The cybrarian's web 2: an A-Z guide to free social media tools, apps & other resources 025.04 P393

Business & Economics
Benjamin H. Barton Glass half full: the decline & rebirth of the legal profession 331.7 B293
Jake Bright The next Africa: an emerging continent becomes a global powerhouse 330.96 B855
Sonia Faruqi Project animal farm: an accidental journey into the secret world of farming & the truth about our food 338.17 F247
Vicki Howard From Main Street to mall: the rise & fall of the American department store 381 H852
Josh Peters The ultimate dividend playbook: income, insight & independence for today's investor 332.6322 P482
Gary Vaynerchuk The thank you economy 658.812 V392

Computer Science
Guy Hart-Davis Teach yourself visually Android phones & tablets 004.1675 A574h
Bill Hughes Samsung Galaxy S6 For Dummies 004.1675 S193
Michael Linenberger Total workday control using Microsoft Outlook 005.3 M934L

Health & Medicine
Susan Kiser Scarff Dementia: the journey ahead: a practical guide for in-home caregivers 616.83 S285
Joel L. Young When your adult child breaks your heart: coping with mental illness, substance abuse & the problems that tear families apart 616.89 Y734

History
George Nafziger The end of empire: Napoleon's 1814 campaign 940.27 N146
Napoleon I Napoleon on war 355 N216
Susan Southard Nagasaki: life after nuclear war 940.542 S726
John Sweeney North Korea undercover: inside the world's most secret state 951.93 S974

Home & Family Management
Mark Le Messurier Parenting tough kids: simple proven strategies to help kids succeed 649.153 L552
Charles Rubin Don't let your kids kill you: a guide for parents of drug & alcohol addicted children 649.4 R896

Law
Laurence Leamer The price of justice: a true story of greed & corruption 346.7302 L436

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Michael Hiltzik Big science: Ernest Lawrence & the invention that launched the military-industrial complex 530.92 L41h
Nick Lane The vital question: energy, evolution & the origins of complex life 576.8 L26v
Sy Montgomery Walking with the great apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas 599.88 M788
Carl Safina Beyond words: what animals think & feel 591.56 S128

Performing Arts & Music
David Burge Twentieth-century piano music 786.2 B954

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Michael Jackson Harmattan: a philosophical fiction 128 J135
Nicholas Rescher A journey through philosophy in 101 anecdotes 190 R431

Politics & Government
Rohan Gunaratna The global Jihad movement: a handbook 363.325 G975
Joe Mathews California crackup: how reform broke the Golden State & how we can fix it 320.9794 M429

Social Sciences & Current Events
Matthew Battles Palimpsest: a history of the written word 302.224 B336
Joan T. Erber Great myths of aging 305.26 E657
Kentaro Toyama Geek heresy: rescuing social change from the cult of technology 303.483 T756
Kristin M. White It's the student, not the college: the secrets of succeeding at any schoolwithout going broke or crazy 378.16 W585

Sports & Games
Chris Froome The climb 796.6 F936

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Michael Hiltzik Big science: Ernest Lawrence, the cyclotron & the birth of the military-industrial complex CD 530.92 L41h
Susan Casey Voices in the ocean: a journey into the wild & haunting world of dolphins CD 599.53 C338

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CDs

Folk
Folkways Folkways, the original vision CD Folk Folkways

Popular
James Brown The payback CD Pop Brown
Prince 1999 CD Pop Prince
Tom Waits Closing time CD Pop Waits

Posted on Aug. 25, 2015 by Cherilyn Chang

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New Titles for the Week of August 11

BOOKS

FICTION
Roland Merullo Dinner with Buddha
Natasha Pulley The watchmaker of Filigree Street
Tatiana de Rosnay A Paris affair
Jan-Philipp Sendker The art of hearing heartbeats
Penny Vincenzi A perfect heritage
P.G. Wodehouse Joy in the morning
P.G. Wodehouse Jeeves & the feudal spirit
P.G. Wodehouse Meet Mr. Mulliner
P.G. Wodehouse Right ho, Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse The clicking of Cuthbert
P.G. Wodehouse Stiff upper lip, Jeeves

Historical Fiction
Peter Watson Madeleine's war

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Ace Atkins The redeemers
Jean-Luc Bannalec Death in Brittany
Frances Brody A medal for murder
Frances Brody Dying in the wool
Jeanne M. Dams The gentle art of murder
Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet, the Sign of Four, the Hound of the Baskervilles
Simon R. Green The dark side of the road
Shane Kuhn Hostile takeover: a John Lago thriller
Andrew Vachss Sign Wave
S.J. Watson Second life
Ian Weir Will Starling
Glenis Wilson Dead certainty

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Ed Greenwood The iron assassin or a clockwork Prometheus
Erika Johansen The invasion of the Tearling
A.L. Kennedy The Drosten's curse
Jo Walton The just city
Jo Walton The philosopher kings

Short Stories
Year's best science fiction The year's best science fiction SS Y39s

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Jeff Smith Bone 741.5 B712 comics
a graphic biography by Jessie Hartland Steve Jobs: insanely great 92 J629h comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Jay van Arsdale Shoji: how to design, build & install Japanese screens 694.6 V217

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Anthony M. Amore The art of the con: the most notorious fakes, frauds & forgeries in the art world 702.874 A524
Women artists: the Linda Nochlin reader 704.042 N757

Biography & Genealogy
Andrew R.B. Simpson Another life: Lawrence after Arabia 92 L423si
Tim Weiner One man against the world: the tragedy of Richard Nixon 92 N718we

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Alice Crawford (editor) The meaning of the library: a cultural history 027 M483

Business & Economics
Edward T. O'Donnell Henry George & the crisis of inequality: progress & poverty in the Gilded Age 330.092 G348

Chess
Boris Avrukh The Catalan 794.122 A963c
Boris Avrukh The classical Slav 794.122 A963cl

Computer Science
Andres Calvo Beginning Android wearables 005.258 A574c

Food & Drink
Diana Henry A bird in the hand: chicken recipes for every day & every mood 641.665 H521

Health & Medicine
Joseph LeDoux Anxious: using the brain to understand & treat fear & anxiety 616.8522 L474
Bruce Roseman The addictocarb diet: avoid the 9 highly addictive carbs while eating anything else you want 613.2 R812

History
Jane C. Beck Daisy Turner's kin: an African American family saga 929.2 T945
Robert Goodwin Spain: the centre of the world, 1519-1682 946.04 G656
Gil Hahn Four score & four: America in 1860 973.6 H148
John Julius Norwich Sicily: an island at the crossroads of history 945.8 N89s
Christo Thanos (editor) Schliemann & the California gold rush: the 1850-1852 American travel journal of Heinrich Schliemann 930.1092 S34t

Literature & Writing
Andrea E. Mays The millionaire & the bard: Henry Folger's obsessive hunt for Shakespeare's first folio 822.3 M474

Performing Arts & Music
Curtis Harrington Nice guys don't work in Hollywood: the adventures of an aesthete in the movie business 791.4 H299
Lisa Rogak Angry optimist: the life & times of Jon Stewart 792.092 S849

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Daniel Goleman A force for good: the Dalai Lama's vision for our world 294.3 B917go

Social Sciences & Current Events
Sarah Hepola Blackout: remembering the things I drank to forget 362.292 H529

Travel & Geography
Bradt travel guide World War 1 Battlefields: a travel guide to the Western Front: sites, museums, memorials 914 B81w
Fodor's essential Europe 914 F65
Footprint Andalucía 914.68 F689
Lonely Planet Bali & Lombok 915.986 L847
Lonely Planet British Columbia & the Canadian Rockies 917.11 L847
Lonely Planet Kuala Lumpur, Melaka & Penang 915.951 L847
Lonely Planet Los Angeles, San Diego & southern California 917.949 L847
Lonely Planet Munich, Bavaria & the Black Forest 914.33 L847
Lonely Planet Myanmar (Burma) 915.91 L847
Lonely Planet New England 917.4 L847
Lonely Planet Norway 914.81 L847
Lonely Planet Scandinavia 914.8 L847
Lonely Planet Seattle 917.977 L847
Lonely Planet Texas 917.64 L847
Lonely Planet Tibet 915.15 L847
Lonely Planet Washington, Oregon & the Pacific Northwest 917.95 L847
Moon handbooks Atlantic Canada 917.15 M818
Moon handbooks California road trip: San Francisco, Yosemite, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, Los Angeles & the Pacific Coast 917.94 M818r
Moon handbooks Colombia 918.6 M818
Moon handbooks Cuba 917.291 M818
Moon handbooks Mexico City 917.25 M818
Moon handbooks Oaxaca 917.27 M818

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DVDs

Comedy
This is Spïnal Tap: a rockumentary

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Ronin

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Alien nation

Posted on Aug. 11, 2015 by Cherilyn Chang

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New Titles for the Week of August 3

BOOKS

FICTION
Candace Bushnell Killing Monica
Barbara Delinsky Blueprints
Janet Evanovich Wicked charms
Susan Froetschel Fear of beauty
Sarah Hall The wolf border
Milan Kundera The festival of insignificance
Kevin Kwan China rich girlfriend
Alexis Landau The empire of the senses
Lori Lansens The mountain story
Harper Lee Go set a watchman

Historical Fiction
Stephen Jarvis Death & Mr. Pickwick

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
M. A. Adler In the shadow of lies: an Oliver Wright mystery novel
Jefferson Bass The breaking point
Roger Hobbs Vanishing games
Peter Lovesey Down among the dead men: a Peter Diamond investigation
David Mark Taking pity
Carla Norton What doesn't kill her
Taylor Stevens The mask
Brad Taylor The insider threat: a Pike Logan thriller
Neely Tucker Murder, D.C.
Stuart Woods Naked greed

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Wesley Chu Time salvager
Félix J. Palma The map of chaos

Short Stories
Langston Hughes The ways of white folks

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Emmanuel Guibert How the world was: a California childhood 979.405 G944 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Christopher Cumo The ongoing Columbian exchange: stories of biological & economic transfer in world history Ref 616.9 C971

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Jean-Michel Basquiat The notebooks 750.92 B31n
Walead Beshty (Editor) Ethics 701 E843
Robert Lacey Model woman: Eileen Ford & the business of beauty 746.92 F699
Thierry Lenain Art forgery: the history of a modern obsession 702.874 L563
Martinez Celaya: working methods = métodos de trabajos 750.92 M386
Mark Daniel Nelson Learn to paint in acrylics: with 50 small paintings 751.4 N428

Biography & Genealogy
Jimmy Carter A full life: reflections at ninety 92 C3235f
I greet you at the beginning of a great career: the selected correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Allen Ginsberg, 1955-1997 920 F357i
Charles Kaiser The cost of courage 920 B764
Rory Muir Wellington 92 W451mu

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Alex Johnson Improbable libraries: a visual journey to the world's most unusual libraries 027 J661
Scott Sherman Patience & fortitude: power, real estate & the fight to save a public library 027.4 S553

Business & Economics
Robin Chase Peers, Inc.: how people & platforms are inventing the collaborative economy & reinventing capitalism 338.04 C487
Harvey Neiman Customize wall street: take control of your financial future 332.024 N414

Chess
Emanuel Berg The French Defence 3 794.122 B493
Mark Dvoretsky For friends & colleagues. Volume 1, Profession--chess coach 794.1 D988f
Cyrus Lakdawala The classical French, move by move 794.122 L192cl
Bent Larsen Bent Larsen's best games: fighting chess with the great Dane 794.15 L33b
Parimarjan Negi 1.e4 vs The French, Caro-Kann & Philidor 794.122 N384
Parimarjan Negi 1.e4 vs the Sicilian I 794.122 N384s
Richard Pert Playing the Trompowsky 794.122 P468
Judit Polgar A game of queens 794.15 P76g

Computer Science
Jason Bell Machine learning: hands-on for developers & technical professionals 006.3 B433

Health & Medicine
Miranda Esmonde-White Aging backwards: reverse the aging process & look 10 years younger in 30 minutes a day 613.2 E76
Steven Lamm Fighting fat: break the dieting cycle & get healthy for life!: one size does not fit all 613.25 L232
Marc Lewis The biology of desire: why addiction is not a disease 616.86 L675

History
Gavan Daws Shoal of time: a history of the Hawaiian Islands 996.9 D272
Mary McGrigor The other Tudor Princess: Margaret Douglas, Henry VIII's niece 942.05 L568
James M. Scott Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle & the raid that avenged Pearl Harbor 940.542 S427

Literature & Writing
Harold Bloom The daemon knows: literary greatness & the American sublime 810.9 B655
Greg Proops The smartest book in the world: a lexicon of literacy, a rancorous reportage, a concise curriculum of cool 818 P965

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Marc Chamberland Single digits: in praise of small numbers 510 C443
Jorge Daniel Taillant Glaciers: the politics of ice 551.31 T131
Timothy Gowers (editor) The Princeton companion to mathematics Ref 510 P957
Performing Arts & Music
Judd Apatow Sick in the head: conversations about life & comedy 792.7 A639
Gina Arnold Exile in Guyville 780.92 P532a
Bobby Hart Psychedelic bubble gum: Boyce & Hart, the Monkees & turning mayhem into miracles 780.92 H3252

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Steven M. Cahn Happiness & goodness: philosophical reflections on living well 171.3 C132
Jimena Canales The physicist & the philosopher: Einstein, Bergson & the debate that changed our understanding of time 115 C212

Politics & Government
Scott Horton Lords of secrecy: the national security elite & America's stealth warfare 327.12 H823
Naveed Jamali How to catch a Russian spy: the true story of an American civilian turned double agent 327.12 J271

Reference
Richard A. Walker The atlas of California: mapping the challenges of a new era Ref 317.94 W183

Social Sciences & Current Events
America's moment: creating opportunity in the connected age 303.4833 A512
Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the world & me 305.8 C652
Huan Hsu The porcelain thief: searching the Middle Kingdom for buried China 305.895 H873
Mary Anna King Bastards: a memoir 306.85 K537
David Madland Hollowed out: why the economy doesn't work without a strong middle class 305.55 M182
Val McDermid Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA & More Tell Us About Crime 363.25 M134
Ken Robinson Creative schools: the grassroots revolution that's transforming education 370.973 R662
Roberto Saviano Zero zero zero 363.45 S267
Kathy Moskowitz Strain Giants, cannibals & monsters: Bigfoot in native culture 398.208 S896

Sports & Games
William Finnegan Barbarian days: a surfing life 797.32 F514
Gwyneth Anne Thayer Going to the dogs: greyhound racing, animal activism & American popular culture 798.8 T371

Travel & Geography
Lonely Planet Tanzania 916.78 L847
Venice: a travel guide to Murano glass, carnival masks, gondolas, lace, paper & more/ Laura Morelli 914.53 M842

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Harper Lee Go set a watchman

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Sandy De Lisle Hens for friends

AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
David Guterson Snow falling on cedars

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DVDs

Drama
Going for gold: the '48 games

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CDs

Popular
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga Cheek to cheek
Kendrick Lamar To pimp a butterfly
St. Vincent STV

Posted on Aug. 3, 2015 by Cherilyn Chang

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New Titles for the Week of July 28

FICTION
Sascha Arango The truth & other lies
Jami Attenberg Saint Mazie
Jane Austen Mansfield Park
Annie Barrows The truth according to us
Rebecca Dinerstein The sunlit night
Jane Green Summer secrets
Matthew Quick Love may fail

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Mary Higgins Clark The melody lingers on
Alex Gilly Devil's harbor
James Grippando Cash landing
Ellen Hart The Old Deep & Dark
Mai Jia Decoded
Patricia Skalka Death at Gills Rock

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Christopher Golden Tin Men
Terry Pratchett The long Utopia

Short Stories
Jack Livings The dog: stories

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Tom Devlin (editor) Drawn & Quarterly 741.59 D767 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Chris Impey Beyond: our future in space 629.4 I345

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Greg Battye Photography, narrative, time: imaging our forensic imagination 770 B336
Terence Conran Conran on color 747.94 C754
Joan Ford When bad things happen to good quilters: survival guide for fixing & finishing any quilting project 746.46 F699w
Systems 700.1 S995
Andy Tuohy A to Z great modern artists 709.22 T927
Trevor Winkfield How I Became a Painter 750.92 W774

Biography & Genealogy
Hugh Aldersey-Williams In search of Sir Thomas Browne: the life & afterlife of the seventeenth century's most inquiring mind 92 B884a
Matthew Dennison Behind the mask: the life of Vita Sackville-West 92 S1215d
Michelle Goldberg The goddess pose: the audacious life of Indra Devi, the woman who helped bring yoga to the West 92 D492
Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs Jonas Salk: a life 610.92 S16j
Christopher D. O'Sullivan Harry Hopkins: FDR's envoy to Churchill & Stalin 327.73 H793
Dana Perino And the good news is--: lessons & advice from the bright side 92 P445
Michelle Tea How to grow up: a memoir 92 T253

Business & Economics
Thomas J. Christensen The China challenge: shaping the choices of a rising power 327.51 C554
Richard Kirschenbaum Isn't that rich?: life among the 1 percent 305.52 K612

Computer Science
A.K. Dewdney The (new) Turing omnibus: 66 excursions in computer science 004 D515

Food & Drink
Susan Herrmann Loomis In a French kitchen: tales & traditions of everyday home cooking in France 641.5944 L86i

Health & Medicine
Carolyn A. Brent The caregiver's companion: caring for your loved one medically, financially & emotionally while caring for yourself 362.24 B839
Joe Herbert Testosterone: sex, power & the will to win 612.61 H536
Jeff Krasno Wanderlust: a modern yogi's guide to discovering your best self 613.7 K898

History
Richard Alston Rome's revolution: death of the republic & birth of the empire 937.05 A464
John Boardman The Greeks in Asia 950 B662
Rinker Buck The Oregon Trail: a new American journey 978 B922
Nancy Goldtone The rival queens: Catherine de' Medici, her daughter Marguerite De Valois & the betrayal that ignited a kingdom 944.028 G624
Nisid Hajari Midnight's furies: the deadly legacy of India's partition 954.04 H154
Philip T. Hoffman Why did Europe conquer the world? 909.08 H711
Colin M. MacLachlan Imperialism & the origins of Mexican culture 972 M161
Paul Moses An unlikely union: the love-hate story of New York's Irish & Italians 973.0451 M911
Randy Shaw The Tenderloin: sex, crime & resistance in the heart of San Francisco 979.461 S535

Home & Family Management
Audrey Levatino Woman-powered farm: manual for a self-sufficient lifestyle from homestead to field 630 L656

Law
Joseph L. Matthews Social security, Medicare & government pensions: get the most out of your retirement & medical benefits 368.42 M43
101 law forms for personal use 347.055 O584

Literature & Writing
I say: the Moves that Matter in Academic Writing They say 808.04 G736
William Styron My generation: collected nonfiction 814 S93m

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Tom Clynes The boy who played with fusion: extreme science, extreme parenting & how to make a star 539.7 W753
Richard Jones House guests, house pests: a natural history of animals in the home 591.75 J787
Claude Martin On the edge: the state & fate of the world's tropical rainforests: a report to the Club of Rome 577.34 M379
Terry Masear Fastest things on wings: rescuing hummingbirds in Hollywood 598 M396
Peter Moore The weather experiment: the pioneers who sought to see the future 551.5 M823
Christian Sardet Plankton: wonders of the drifting world 578.77 S244
Ian Tattersall The strange case of the rickety Cossack: & other cautionary tales from human evolution 599.93 T221s
Chris Woodford Atoms under the floorboards: the surprising science hidden in your home 502 W887

Performing Arts & Music
Bowie on Bowie: interviews & encounters with David Bowie 780.92 B78e

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Always present: the luminous wisdom of Jigme Phuntsok 294.34 J612
Maurice Merleau-Ponty The primacy of perception: & other essays on phenomenological psychology, the philosophy of art, history & politics 194 M564p
Ruwen Ogien Human kindness & the smell of warm croissants: an introduction to ethics 170 O347
John Durham Peters The marvelous clouds: toward a philosophy of elemental media 302.2 P482
Manuela Mischke Reeds 8 keys to practicing mindfulness: practical strategies for emotional health & well-being 158.1 R327
Mark R. Stoll Inherit the holy mountain: religion & the rise of American environmentalism 261.88 S875

Politics & Government
Joel K. Bourne Jr. The end of plenty: the race to feed a crowded world 363.8 B775
Walter Laqueur Putinism: Russia & its future with the West 947.086 L317

Social Sciences & Current Events
Adam Benforado Unfair: the new science of criminal injustice 364.3 B465
Peter Cappelli Will college pay off?: a guide to the most important financial decision you will ever make 378.3 C247
Jerome Gold In the spider's web 365.42 G618
Peter D. Kiernan American mojo: lost & found: restoring our middle class before the world blows by 305.55 K475
Dominic Tierney The right way to lose a war: America in an age of unwinnable conflicts 355 T564r

Sports & Games
John D. Williams, Jr Word nerd: dispatches from the games, grammar & geek underground 793.73 W721

Travel & Geography
Robert Kurson Pirate hunters: treasure, obsession & the search for a legendary pirate ship 910.916 K969
Chris Townsend Rattlesnakes & Bald Eagles: hiking the Pacific Crest Trail 917.9 T747
Lloyd Ultan The Bronx: the ultimate guide to New York City's beautiful borough 917.4727 U471

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Catriona McPerson The day she died

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DVDs
Classics
The man who shot Liberty Valance

Posted on Jul. 28, 2015 by Cherilyn Chang

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