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New Titles List for the Week of August 7

BOOKS

FICTION
N.J. Campbell Found audio
Jennifer Down Our magic hour
Owen Egerton Hollow
Matthew Klam Who is Rich?
Armistead Maupin 28 Barbary Lane: a Tales of the city omnibus
Scott McClanahan The Sarah book
Jennie Melamed Gather the daughters
Bonnie Nadzam Lions
Marcel Proust The captive
Marcel Proust The fugitive ; time regained

Historical Fiction
Ami McKay The witches of New York

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
C.J. Box Paradise valley
Maurizio de Giovanni Glass souls
Nicci French Dark Saturday
Sheena Kamal The lost ones
Richard Lange The smack
Adrian McKinty In the morning I'll be gone
James Runcie Sidney Chambers & the persistence of love
William Shaw The birdwatcher
Ruth Ware The lying game

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Jim Butcher Blood rites
Kay Kenyon At the table of wolves
Tal M. Klein The punch escrow

Short Stories
Sarah Hall Madame Zero: 9 stories Fic Hall
Norman Antonio Zelaya Orlando & other stories Fic Zelaya
Tayari Jones (editor) Atlanta noir SS A881

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Michael Brian Schiffer Draw the lightning down: Benjamin Franklin & electrical technology in the Age of Enlightenment 621.3 S333

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Jean M. Burks Shaker design: out of this world 745.088 B959
Haike Falkenberg (editor) Pools 728.9 F192

Biography & Genealogy
Naoki Inose Persona: a biography of Yukio Mishima 92 M6787i
Laura Shapiro What she ate: six remarkable women & the food that tells their stories 920.72 S529

Business & Economics
Joshua Gans The disruption dilemma 658.4 G199
Sally Herigstad Help! I can't pay my bills: surviving a financial crisis 332.024 H546
Dan Roam Unfolding the napkin: the hands-on method for solving complex problems with simple pictures 658.4 R628u

Chess
Victor Bologan Bologan's King's Indian: a modern repertoire for Black 794.122 B693b
Lauren Goodkind 50 poison pieces: solve 50 puzzles where the unprotected piece is toxic 794.12 G652

Health & Medicine
Preston Estep The mindspan diet: reduce Alzheimer's risk, minimize memory loss & keep your brain young 616.8983 E796
Raphael Kellman The microbiome diet: the scientifically proven way to restore your gut health & achieve permanent weight loss 613.25 K294
Janet Lintala The un-prescription for Autism: a natural approach for a calmer, happier & more focused child 616.85 L761
Robert M. Sapolsky Behave: the biology of humans at our best & worst 612.8 S241

History
Steve Early Refinery town: big oil, big money & the remaking of an American city 979.463 E123
Stephanie Elizondo Griest All the agents & saints: dispatches from the U.S. borderlands 972.1 E434
Jeremiah Moss Vanishing New York: how a great city lost its soul 974.71 M913
Kristin Ross Communal luxury: the political imaginary of the Paris Commune 944.36 R823
James Suzman Affluence without abundance: the disappearing world of the bushmen 968 S968
Svetlana Alexievich The unwomanly face of war: an oral history of women in World War II 940.5347 A366
Guy de la Bédoyère Praetorian: the rise & fall of Rome's imperial bodyguard 937 D331

Home & Family Management
Marie Kondo Spark joy: an illustrated master class on the art of organizing & tidying up 648 K821s

Literature & Writing
Samantha Ellis How to be a heroine: or, What I've learned from reading too much 809.3 E471
John Pfordresher The secret history of Jane Eyre: how Charlotte Brontë wrote her masterpiece 823.8 P531
David Whyte Everything is waiting for you: poems 811.54 W629
David Whyte River flow: new & selected poems, 1984-2007 811.54 W629r

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Michael A.B. Deakin Hypatia of Alexandria: mathematician & martyr 510.92 D278

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
James Hollis Finding meaning in the second half of life 155.66 H742
William H. McRaven Make your bed: little things that can change your life...and maybe the world 179.6 M174
Steven Pressfield Do the work!: overcome resistance & get out of your own way 153.8 P935
Sharon Salzberg Real love: the art of mindful connection 152.41 S186
Frans de Waal The bonobo & the atheist: in search of humanism among the primates 205 W111

Politics & Government
Stephen Elliott Looking forward to it, or, How I learned to stop worrying & love the American electoral process 324.973 E463

Social Sciences & Current Events
Michael Klassen Hippie, Inc. 305.568 K634
Mitch Prinstein Popular: the power of likability in a status-obsessed world 302.1 P957
Geoffrey West Scale: the universal laws of growth, innovation, sustainability & the pace of life in organisms, cities, economies & companies 303.44 W516

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Anthony Horowitz Magpie murders Large Print Horowitz

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS

Nonfiction
Andrew Larsen The man who loved libraries: the story of Andrew Carnegie Child 92 C289

AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Will Englund March 1917: on the brink of war & revolution CD 940.31 E588
Bill O'Reilly Killing the rising sun: how America vanquished World War II Japan CD 940.542 O66
Thomas E. Ricks Churchill & Orwell: the fight for freedom CD 941.084 R539
Elizabeth Warren This fight is our fight: the battle to save America's middle class CD 305.55 W286

Posted on Aug. 3, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang