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New Titles List for the Week of February 3

BOOKS
FICTION
Mary Fleming The art of regret
Andrew MacDonald When we were Vikings
Charles Yu Interior Chinatown

Historical Fiction
Eric D. Martin Saving the Republic: a novel based on the life of Marcus Cicero

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Robin Cook Pandemic
Sara Gran The Infinite blacktop
Christopher Bollen A beautiful crime
Gregg Hurwitz Into the fire
Pol Koutsakis Baby blue
Ben Pastor Tin Sky
Riley Sager The last time I lied
Kate Weinberg The truants
Christian White The wife & the widow

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NONFICTION
Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Courtney Spainhower Elemental knits: a perennial knitwear collection 746.43 S159
Leo Steinberg Michelangelo's painting 759.5 B943

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Julie Des Jardins American queenmaker: how Missy Meloney brought women into politics 070.92 M492d

Business & Economics
Randy Charles Epping The new world economy: a beginner's guide: demystifying everything from ai & bitcoins to unicorns & Generation Z 330.9 E64n
Naveen Jain Moonshots: creating a world of abundance: how entrepreneurs are enabling life without limits 658.4 J199
Mikaela Kiner Female firebrands: stories & techniques to ignite change, take control & succeed in the workplace 650.1 K579
Anastasia Nesvetailova Sabotage: the hidden nature of finance 332.0973 N379
Ramit Sethi I will teach you to be rich: No guilt. No excuses. No BS. Just a 6-week program that works 332.024 S75
Anna Wiener Uncanny valley 338.47 W636

Computer Science
Stephen Few Now you see it: simple visualization techniques for quantitative analysis 001.4226 F436n

Food & Drink
Dan Buettner The Blue Zones kitchen: 100 recipes to live to 100 641.563 B928
Tony Tan Hong Kong food city 641.5951 T153

History
Rashid Khalidi The hundred years' war on Palestine: a history of settler colonialism & resistance, 1917-2017 956.94 K45
Michael R. Marrus Vichy France & the Jews 940.5318 M349
Philip Rucker A very stable genius: Donald J. Trump's testing of America 973.933 R828
Eddy de Wind Last stop Auschwitz: my story of survival from within the camp 940.5318 W722
Tom Shachtman The founding fortunes: how the wealthy paid for & profited from America's revolution 973.31 S524

Home & Family Management
Dominique Loreau L'art de la liste: simplify, organise, enrich your life 640.43 L885
Martha Stewart's organizing: the manual for bringing order to your life, home & routines 648.8 S851

Literature & Writing
Lawrence Block Lawrence Block's writing the novel from plot to print to pixel 808.3 B65
Adam Nicolson The making of poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths & their year of marvels 821.7 N653

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Craig Pittman Cat tale: the wild, weird battle to save the Florida panther 599.752 P689

Performing Arts & Music
Demi Moore Inside out 792.092 M781
Bill Niven Hitler & film: the Führer's hidden passion 791.436 N644

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Megan Phelps-Roper Unfollow: a memoir of loving & leaving the Westboro Baptist Church 286.5 P516
Nan Wise Why good sex matters: understanding the neuroscience of pleasure for a smarter, happier & more purpose-filled life 155.3 W754
Jamil Zaki The war for kindness: building empathy in a fractured world 152.41 Z138
Neil MacGregor Living with the gods: on beliefs & peoples 200.9 M147
Michel Pastoureau Yellow: the history of a color 155.91 P293y
David Robert Grimes The irrational ape: why flawed logic puts us all at risk & how critical thinking can save the world 160 G882

Politics & Government
Michael Chabon (editor) Fight of the century: writers reflect on 100 years of landmark ACLU cases 323 F468

Social Sciences & Current Events
Howard Bryant Full dissidence: notes from an uneven playing field 306.2 B915f
Christopher Caldwell The age of entitlement: America since the sixties 305.24 C127
Jerry Mitchell Race against time: a reporter reopens the unsolved murder cases of the civil rights era 364.152 M692
Thomas Chatterton Williams Self-portrait in black & white: unlearning race 305.8 W727s
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Stop telling women to smile: stories of street harassment & how we're taking back our power 305.42 F298
Ilan Stavans (editor) How Yiddish changed America & how America changed Yiddish 306.44 S79

Travel & Geography
Lonely Planet Venice & the Veneto 914.53 L847
Moon Atlantic Canada 917.15 M818
Moon Cancún & Cozumel 917.26 M818
Moon Cuba 917.291 M818
Moon Hudson Valley & the Catskills 917.473 M818
Moon Pacific Northwest road trip: Seattle, Vancouver, Victoria, the Olympic Peninsula, Portland, the Oregon coast & Mount Rainier 917.95 M818r
Moon Portland 917.9549 M818
Moon Puerto Vallarta 917.23 M818
Moon Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque 917.895 M818
Moon Zion & Bryce 917.92 M818z

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Nonfiction
Adrienne B. Tacke Coding for kids Python: learn to code with 50 awesome games & activities Child 005.1 P99t

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EBOOKS
Maya Angelou The heart of a woman
Joshua Becker The minimalist home: a room-by-room guide to a decluttered, refocused life
Kyle Chayka The Longing for Less Living with Minimalism
Thierry Cruvellier The master of confessions: the making of a Khmer Rouge torturer
Nicola Gardini Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language
Kristin Hannah The great alone
Kelly McGonigal The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection & Courage
Ann Napolitano Dear Edward
Peggy Orenstein Boys & sex: young men on hookups, love, porn, consent & navigating the new masculinity
James Patterson Lost
Richard Powers The overstory
Kiley Reid Such a fun age
Nora Roberts The rise of magicks
Nicholas Sparks Every Breath
Danielle Steel Moral compass
John Steinbeck The short novels of John Steinbeck
Greta Thunberg No one is too small to make a difference
Matthew Walker Why we sleep: unlocking the power of sleep & dreams
Stuart Woods Treason
David B. Yoffie Strategy rules: five timeless lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove & Steve jobs

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
Ant-Man & the Wasp

Drama
Downton Abbey
Joker
Judy

Foreign Language
Le amiche = The girlfriends DVD Italian
The invisibles DVD German
War & peace DVD Russian

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Scary stories to tell in the dark

Posted on Feb. 6, 2020 by Cherilyn Chang