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New Titles List for the week of December 26

BOOKS

FICTION
George Eliot Middlemarch
George Eliot Scenes of clerical life
George Eliot The Mill on the Floss

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
James Church The gentleman from Japan
Loren D. Estleman Brazen
Mark Greaney Tom Clancy: true faith & allegiance
Anne Holt Beyond the truth
Jim Kelly Death ship
Charles Kingston Murder in Piccadilly
Val McDermid Out of bounds
James Patterson Cross the line

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Jim Butcher Storm front
James S. A. Corey Babylon's ashes
Hillary Monahan Gods & monsters: snake eyes

Short Stories
Martin Edwards (editor) Capital crimes: London mysteries SS C244

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Kieron Gillen The wicked + the divine. Vol. 1, The Faust act 741.5 G476 comics
Kieron Gillen The wicked + the divine. Vol. 2, Fandemonium 741.5 G476 comics
Brian K. Vaughan Saga 741.5 S1289 comics
Ronald Wimberly Prince of cats 741.5 W757 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
David Macaulay The way things work now: from levers to lasers, windmills to Wi-Fi, a visual guide to the world of machines 603 M117

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
John Massengale Street design: the secret to great cities & towns 711.4 M415
Francesca Tatarella Labyrinths & mazes: a journey through art, architecture & landscape 710 T216
Vern Yip Vern Yip's design wise: your smart guide to a beautiful home 747 Y519

Biography & Genealogy
Nicola Tallis Crown of blood: the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey 92 D847t

Business & Economics
Chris Miller The struggle to save the Soviet economy: Mikhail Gorbachev & the collapse of the USSR 330.947 M647
Angus Burgin Great persuasion: reinventing free markets since the depression 330.122 B956

Chess
Boris Avrukh 1.d4 The Queen's gambit 794.122 A963q
Boris Gelfand Dynamic decision making in chess 794.1 G316d
Jorg Hickl The power of pawns: chess structure fundamentals for post-beginners 794.14 H628
Liliana Najdorf Najdorf x Najdorf 794.1092 N162
Parimarjan Negi 1.e4 vs the Sicilian III 794.122 P231
Nikolaos Ntirlis Playing 1. e4 e5: a classical repertoire 794.122 N961
Hans Renette H.E. Bird: a chess biography with 1,198 games 794.1092 R411
John Shaw Playing 1.e4. Caro-Kann, 1...e5 & minor lines: a grandmaster guide 794.122 S534p
Ilya Smirin King's Indian warfare 794.12 S641
Artur Yusupov Revision & exam. 1, The fundamentals 794.1 Y959
Daniel King Secrets of the English Chess School 791.1 K521
Vadim Milov Nimzo-Indian 4.f3 & Sämisch-Variation 794.1 M637

Food & Drink
Gina Homolka Skinnytaste fast & slow: knockout quick-fix & slow cooker recipes 641.563 H768
Sarah Lohman Eight flavors: the untold story of American cuisine 641.5973 L833

Health & Medicine
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Rest: why you get more done when you work less 612 P191
Casey Truffo Be a wealthy therapist: finally, you can make a living while making a difference 610.23 T866b
Casey Truffo From clinician to confident CEO: your step-by-step guide to more ease, more time off & more profit 610.23 T866

History
Roger Boas Battle rattle: a last memoir of World War II 940.5412 B662
Saul Friedländer Where memory leads: my life 940.53 F911
Neil Kagan The secret history of World War II: spies, code breakers & covert operations 940.5485 K118
Tracy Borman The private lives of the Tudors: uncovering the secrets of Britain's greatest dynasty 942.05 B735
Ian Davidson The French Revolution: from Enlightenment to tyranny 944.04 D252
Anthony Everitt The rise of Athens: the story of the world's greatest civilization 938.5 E934
William J. Mann The wars of the Roosevelts: the ruthless rise of America's greatest political family 973.91 M281
Philip Mansel Aleppo: the rise & fall of Syria's great merchant city 956.91 M286
Chris Wickham Medieval Europe 940.1 W637

Performing Arts & Music
Paul Anderer Kurosawa's Rashomon: a vanished city, a lost brother & the voice inside his iconic films 791.4 K96a
David Bianculli The platinum age of television: from I love Lucy to The walking dead, how TV became terrific 791.45 B578
Steven Johnson Wonderland: how play made the modern world 790.1 J661
Robbie Robertson Testimony 780.92 R649
Brian Jay Jones George Lucas: a life 791.4 L933

Politics & Government
Jodi Dean Crowds & party 322.4 D281
Mark Lilla The shipwrecked mind: on political reaction 320.01 L729
Timothy Mitchell Carbon democracy: political power in the age of oil 320.01 M681
Serhii Plokhy The man with the poison gun: a Cold War spy story 327.12 P729

Social Sciences & Current Events
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Racism without racists: color-blind racism & the persistence of racial inequality in America 305.8 B715
Wesley Lowery They can't kill us all: Ferguson, Baltimore & a new era in America's racial justice movement 305.896 L917

Travel & Geography
Explore Copenhagen 914.891 I592
Eyewitness Egypt 916.2 E975
Eyewitness Hawaii 919.69 E975
Eyewitness Lisbon 914.694 E975
Eyewitness New England 917.4 E975
Eyewitness New Orleans 917.63 E975
Eyewitness Philadelphia & the Pennsylvania Dutch country 917.481 E975
Sharon Fernandes 111 places in New Delhi that you must not miss 915.4 F363
Fodor's Boston 917.446 F653
Fodor's Caribbean 917.29 F653
Fodor's essential Australia 919.4 F653
Fodor's Germany 914.3 F653
Fodor's Greek Islands 914.95 F653
Fodor's Los Cabos 917.22 F653
Fodor's Montréal & Québec City 917.14 F653
Fodor's New York City 917.471 F653
Jacques Garance Secret Paris 914.436 G212
Julian Holland World railway journeys 910.4 C712
Insight Australia 919.4 I592
Insight Explore Barcelona 914.672 I592
Insight Explore Hawaii 919.69 I592
Lonely Planet Belize 917.282 L847
Lonely Planet Central America on a shoestring 917.28 L847
Lonely Planet Spain 914.6 L847
Michelin Italy 914.5 M623
Michelin San Francisco, Bay Area & Wine Country 917.946 M623
Monocle Honolulu 919.693 M751
Monocle Paris 914.436 M751
Monocle Rio de Janeiro 918.153 M751
Monocle Sydney 919.44 M751
National Geographic Barcelona 914.67 N27
Rick Steves' Barcelona 914.672 S848
Rick Steves Florence & Tuscany 2017 914.55 S848
Moon Charleston & Savannah 917.579 M818
Nicholas Woodsworth Seeking Provence: old myths, new paths 914.49 W898

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

Nonfiction
Jessica Firpi (editor) Ripley's believe it or not!: wild & wacky edition 2017 Child 031 R589w

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
David Baldacci No man's land CD Fic Baldacci
Michael Chabon Moonglow CD Fic Chabon
Michael Connelly The wrong side of goodbye CD Fic Connelly
John Grisham The whistler CD Fic Grisham
Jodi Picoult Small great things CD Fic Picoult
Zadie Smith Swing time CD Fic Zadie
Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad CD Fic Whitehead

Posted on Dec. 23, 2016 by Cherilyn Chang