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New Titles List for the Week of January 15

BOOKS

FICTION
Sonali Dev A distant heart
Neel Mukherjee A state of freedom
Julie Murphy Dumplin'
Sam Graham-Felsen Green
William H. Gass Omensetter's luck
Simon Sebag Montefiore Red sky at noon
Becky Albertalli Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens agenda
Patrick Modiano Such fine boys
Cherie Dimaline The marrow thieves
Gary Barwin Yiddish for pirates
Rachel Joyce The music shop

Historical Fiction
William T. Vollmann Fathers & crows

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Jeffrey Siger An Aegean April
Jennifer Ashley Death below stairs
John Bude Death makes a prophet
Thomas Perry The bomb maker
Andrea Camilleri The pyramid of mud
Robert Crais The wanted
Gary Blackwood Bucket's list
Andrew Grant False witness
Barbara Hambly Murder in July
Stuart Woods Unbound

Short Stories
Martin Edwards (editor) The long arm of the law: classic police stories SS L849

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
William Morrison Broadway theatres: history & architecture 792.0974 M878
Darryl Wheye Humans, nature & birds: science art from cave walls to computer screens 704.943 W569
Donn Salt Stone, bone & jade 736.24 S176
Todd Hido Todd Hido on landscapes, interiors & the nude 778.9 H632
Uta Barth: ... & of time 779.092 B284

Biography & Genealogy
Caroline Fraser Prairie fires: the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder 92 W673f

Business & Economics
Jennifer Romolini Weird in a world that's not: a career guide for misfits, f*ckups & failures 650.1 R766

Computer Science
Larry Ullman PHP & MySQL for dynamic web sites 005.1 P57u
Cory Althoff The self-taught programmer 005.1 A467

Food & Drink
Tsehai Fessehatsion Auntie Tsehai cooks: a guide to making authentic Ethiopian & Eritrean cuisine 641.5963 F413

Health & Medicine
Héctor García Ikigai: the Japanese secret to a long & happy life 613 G216
Gloria Valoris Overcome hoarding & transform your life: how to choose hope & life instead of things 616.8522 V199
Ridha Arem The thyroid solution: a revolutionary mind-body program for regaining your emotional & physical health 616.44 A679
Meredith Wadman The vaccine race: science, politics & the human costs of defeating disease 614.5 W123

History
Nicholas Blincoe Bethlehem: biography of a town 956.94 B648
Shelby Foote Shelby Foote, the Civil War, a narrative 973.7 F68c
Rick Beyer The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects & Other Audacious Fakery 940.5486 B573
Ron Field Silent witness: the Civil War through photography & its photographers 973.7 F453
Shaun Walker The long hangover: Putin's new Russia & the ghosts of the past 947.086 W177
Daniel J. Sharfstein Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard & the Nez Perce War 979.5 S531

Law
Stephen Fishman Every landlord's tax deduction guide 343.052 F537e

Literature & Writing
Annie Finch A poet's craft: a comprehensive guide to making & sharing your poetry 808.1 F492
Ursula K. Le Guin No time to spare: thinking about what matters 818 L521n
Homer The Odyssey 881 H76wi

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Christopher Kemp The lost species: great expeditions in the collections of natural history museums 508 K321

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Jen Hatmaker 7: an experimental mutiny against excess: clothes, shopping, waste, food, possessions, media, stress 248 H364
John Bargh Before you know it: the unconscious reasons we do what we do 154.2 B251
Massimo Pigliucci How to be a stoic: using ancient philosophy to live a modern life 188 P631
Thich Nhat Hanh How to fight 294.3 N57f
Richard Elliott Friedman The Exodus: how it happened & why it matters 222.12 F911
Meik Wiking The little book of lykke: secrets of the world's happiest people 158.1 W663L
Michael Puett The path: what Chinese philosophers can teach us about the good life 181.1 P977
David McRaney You are now less dumb: how to conquer mob mentality, how to buy happiness & all the other ways to outsmart yourself 153.4 M174
Abigail Williams The social life of books: reading together in the eighteenth-century home 002.09 W721

Social Sciences & Current Events
Stewart E. Tolnay A festival of violence: an analysis of Southern lynchings, 1882-1930 364.1 T652
Andrew Fisher Big hunger: the unholy alliance between corporate America & anti-hunger groups 363.8 F533
Rosemary Mahoney For the benefit of those who see: dispatches from the world of the blind 371.91 M216
Trebor Scholz (editor) Ours to hack & to own: the rise of platform cooperativism, a new vision for the future of work & a fairer internet 383.4833 S368
Sara Wachter-Boettcher Technically wrong: sexist apps, biased algorithms & other threats of toxic tech 303.4834 W114
William H. Miller, Jr. The fabulous interiors of the great ocean liners in historic photographs 387.2 M647f
William H. Miller, Jr. The first great ocean liners in photographs: 193 views, 1897-1927 387.2 M647g
William H. Miller, Jr. The Great luxury liners, 1927-1954: a photographic record 387.2 M647
Peter Temin The vanishing middle class: prejudice & power in a dual economy 339.22 T279
Mary Beard Women & power: a manifesto 305.42 B368
Deborah Tannen You're the only one I can tell: inside the language of women's friendships 302.34 T166

Travel & Geography
Lonely Planet France's best trips: 38 amazing road trips 914.4 L847b
Lonely Planet Italy's best trips: 40 amazing road trips 914.5 L847b
Luisa Grigoletto The 500 hidden secrets of Rome 914.56 G857

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
George Saunders Lincoln in the bardo Large Print Saunders

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MAGAZINES

Dow theory forecasts
France-Amérique
Investment quality trends
Latitude 38

AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Jesmyn Ward Sing, unburied, sing CD Fic Ward

Nonfiction
Michael Wolff Fire & fury: inside the Trump White House CD 973.933 W855
Sean Ellis Hacking growth: how today's fastest-growing companies drive breakout success CD 658 E471
Satya Nadella Hit refresh: the quest to rediscover Microsoft's soul & imagine a better future for everyone CD 338.761 N134
Kim Scott Radical candor: be a kick-ass boss without losing your humanity CD 658.4 S425
Gretchen Rubin The four tendencies: the indispensable personality profiles that reveal how to make your life better (and other people's lives better, too) CD 155.2 R896

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EAUDIOBOOKS
Helene Hanff 84, charing cross road
Alexander McCall Smith A distant view of everything
Joan Johnston Blackthorne's bride
Gary Corby Death on Delos
Scott Williams Haunted Texas: famous phantoms, sinister sites & lingering legends
Jodi Thomas Indigo Lake
Eve Babitz Sex & rage
Jay Posey Sungrazer
Miranda Lee Taken over by the billionaire
Georgie Lee The courtesan's book of secrets
Charles Stross The delirium brief
Sharon Kendrick The housekeeper's awakening
Kaia Roman The joy plan: how i took 30 days to stop worrying, quit complaining & find ridiculous happiness
Ellen Marie Wiseman The life she was given
Carolyn Purnell The sensational past: how the enlightenment changed the way we use our senses
Christie Golden Valerian & the city of a thousand planets

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EBOOKS
Luca D'Andrea Beneath the Mountain
Kristan Higgins Now that you mention it
James Lee Burke Robicheaux
Paullina Simons The girl in Times Square
Mark Henshaw The last man in Tehran
Anna Todd The Spring girls
Robyn Carr The wanderer
A.J. Finn The woman in the window
Tyrell, Johnson Wolves of Winter

Posted on Jan. 17, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang