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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
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Posted on Apr. 8, 2016 by Cherilyn Chang