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New Titles List for the Week of December 17

BOOKS

FICTION
Nuruddin Farah North of dawn
Kim Hooper Cherry blossoms
Jennifer Mathieu Moxie
Laura Purcell The silent companions
Matthew Quick Every exquisite thing
Charles Quimper In every wave
Heather Rose The museum of modern love
Sjón Codex 1962
Anne Youngson Meet me at the museum
Jason Reynolds Long way down
Yan Lianke The day the sun died

Historical Fiction
Jamie Ford Love & other consolation prizes
Sherry Jones Josephine Baker's last dance
Tom Barbash The Dakota Winters

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Ezekiel Boone The mansion
Anna Burns Milkman
Mary Higgins Clark You don't own me
Wendy Guerra Revolution Sunday
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Headlong
Susan Hill The comforts of home
Richard Hull The murder of my aunt
Louise Jensen The surrogate
Stephen King Elevation
Ngaio Marsh Money in the morgue
Alexander McCall Smith The colors of all the cattle
Jenny Rogneby Leona: the die is cast
Stuart Turton The 7 1/2 deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Ed Lin 99 ways to die
Catriona McPherson Go to my grave
Mike Ripley Mr. Campion's war
John Sandford Holy ghost
Diane Setterfield Once upon a river

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Stephen King Elevation
Stanislaw Lem Solaris
Joyce Carol Oates Hazards of time travel
Tasha Suri Empire of sand
V.E. Schwab Vicious

Short Stories
Sheila Heti (editor) The best American nonrequired reading 2018 SS B5611
Jason Y. Ng (editor) Hong Kong noir SS H757
The Pushcart prize: best of the small presses 810.8 P98

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Rina Ayuyang Blame this on the boogie 741.5 A989 comics
Jason Novak Et tu, Brute?: the deaths of the Roman emperors 937.06 N9356 comics

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NONFICTION

Biography & Genealogy
Anthony J. Badger Albert Gore, Sr.: a political life 92 G6661b
Anne Berest Sagan, Paris 1954 92 S129b
Mark Griffin All that heaven allows: a biography of Rock Hudson 792.092 H8851g
Randy Roberts Blood brothers: the fatal friendship between Muhammad Ali & Malcolm X 796.83 R6431
Karl Ove Knausgaard Autumn 92 K679a
The annotated memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant 92 G763s

Business & Economics
Tyler Cowen Stubborn attachments 330.122 C8747
Ray Dalio Principles for navigating big debt crises 338.54 D143b
Douglas K. Shaw More rules of fundraising 658.152 S5341

Chess
Leslie H. Ault The chess tutor: elements of combinations 794.123 A54

Food & Drink
Suzanne Lenzer Graze: inspiration for small plates & meandering meals 641.812 L549
Julia Turshen Now & again: go-to recipes, inspired menus + endless ideas for reinventing leftovers 641.5 T869n
Julia Turshen Small victories: recipes, advice + hundreds of ideas for home-cooking triumphs 641.5 T869s

Health & Medicine
Alice Gregory Nodding off: the science of sleep from cradle to grave 613.794 G862

Languages & Linguistics
Gaston Dorren Babel: around the world in twenty languages 409 D716

Literature & Writing
Stephanie Reents I meant to kill ye: Cormac McCarthy's Blood meridian 813.54 M1232r

Performing Arts & Music
David Stubbs Future sounds: the story of electronic music from Stockhausen to Skrillex 786.74 S932

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Kate Atkinson Transcription Large Print Atkinson

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EBOOKS
Lux Alptraum Faking it: the lies women tell about sex--and the truths they reveal
Barry J. Balleck Modern American extremism & domestic terrorism: an encyclopedia of extremists & extremist groups
Michael Beschloss Presidents of War
H. W. Brands Heirs of the founders: the epic rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun & Daniel Webster, the second generation of American giants
Derek Diedricksen Micro living: 40 innovative tiny houses equipped for full-time living, in 400 square feet or less
Lance Esplund The art of looking: how to read modern & contemporary art
Adam Fisher Valley of genius: the uncensored history of Silicon Valley, as told by the hackers, founders & freaks who made it boom
Jonathan Franzen The end of the end of the earth
Ruth Goodman How to behave badly in Elizabethan England: a guide for knaves, fools, harlots, cuckolds, drunkards, liars, thieves & braggarts
Alan Greenspan Capitalism in America: A History
Hal Gregersen Questions are the answer: a breakthrough approach to your most vexing problems at work & in life
Winston Groom The allies: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin & the unlikely alliance that won World War II
Asad Haider Mistaken identity: race & class in the age of Trump
Jane Harper Force of nature
Sandeep Jauhar Heart: a history
Sam Kashner The fabulous Bouvier sisters: the tragic & glamorous lives of Jackie & Lee
Zachary Leader The life of Saul Bellow: love & strife, 1965-2005
Stanislaw Lem The cyberiad: fables for the cybernetic age
Erik Loomis A History of America in Ten Strikes
Diarmaid MacCulloch Thomas Cromwell: a revolutionary life
Howard Marks Mastering the market cycle: getting the odds on your side
Cary McClelland Silicon City: San Francisco in the long shadow of the valley
Lisa McCubbin Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer
Peter Moskowitz How to kill a city: gentrification, inequality & the fight for the neighborhood
Jeff Nesbit This is the way the world ends: how droughts & die-offs, heat waves & hurricanes are converging on America
Bill O'Reilly Killing the SS: the hunt for the worst war criminals in history
Susan Orlean The library book
Reihan Salam Melting pot or civil war?: a son of immigrants makes the case against open borders
Michael Savage Mass Hysteria America's Insanity from 1492 to the Present
Jen Sincero You are a badass at making money: master the mindset of wealth
Adrian Tinniswood Behind the throne a domestic history of the British royal household
Anthony Tommasini The indispensable composers: a personal guide
Fred Waitzkin Searching for Bobby Fischer: a father's story of love & ambition

Posted on Dec. 20, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang