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New Titles List for the Week of July 16

BOOKS

FICTION
Eric Gansworth If I ever get out of here
Roque Larraquy Comemadre
Caitlin Moran How to be famous
Ottessa Moshfegh My year of rest & relaxation
Neel Patel If You See Me, Don't Say Hi
Anne Tyler Clock Dance
Fred Van Lente The con artist

Historical Fiction
Tracy Borman The King's witch

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Lucy Atkins The night visitor
Jo Bannister Other countries
James Brydon The moment before drowning
Paul Doiron Stay hidden
Dan Fesperman Safe houses
Sheena Kamal It all falls down
Robert Karjel After the monsoon
David Krugler Rip the angels from heaven
Carole Lawrence Edinburgh twilight
Rebecca Lim The astrologer's daughter
Dervla McTiernan The ruin
Chris Nickson The tin god
Brad Thor Spymaster
Antti Tuomainen The man who died
John Verdon White River burning

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Theodora Goss European travel for the monstrous gentlewoman

Short Stories
Maxine Beneba Clarke Foreign soil & other stories

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Kevin Begos Tasting the past: the science of flavor & the search for the original wine grapes 634.83 B394
Adam Fleischman Flavor bombs: the umami ingredients that make taste explode 664.58 F628
Shelley Levis Countertop gardens: easily grow kitchen edibles indoors for year-round enjoyment 635 L579
Greg Rubin The drought-defying California garden: 230 native plants for a lush, low-water landscape 635.952 R824

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Nancy Deihl (editor) The hidden history of American fashion: rediscovering twentieth-century women designers 746.9 D368
Designed in the USSR, 1950-1989: from the collection of the Moscow Design Museum 745.4 M459
Maria & Peter Hoey Coin-Op Comics Anthology: 1997-2017 741.5 H672
Lauren Kroiz Cultivating citizens: the regional work of art in the New Deal era 709.77 K916
Reid Pslatis Kingdom/order 741.5973 P958
Kathleen Taylor The big book of socks: the ultimate beyond-the-basics guide to knitting socks 746.43 T212
Wim Wenders The pixels of Paul Cézanne & reflections on other artists 709.2 W482

Biography & Genealogy
Marta McDowell The world of Laura Ingalls Wilder: the frontier landscapes that inspired the Little House books 92 W645
The prison letters of Nelson Mandela 92 M270pr

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Francine Prose What to read & why 028.9 P945

Business & Economics
Karen Berman Financial intelligence for entrepreneurs: what you really need to know about the numbers 658.1511 B456
James Crabtree The billionaire raj: a journey through India's new gilded age 330.9 C84
Adam Fisher Valley of genius: the uncensored history of Silicon Valley, as told by the hackers, founders & freaks who made it boom 338.4 F531
Jerry Z. Muller The tyranny of metrics 658.4013 M912

Health & Medicine
Mark Hyman Food: what the heck should I eat? 613.2 H997
Helen Thomson Unthinkable: an extraordinary journey through the world's strangest brains 612.82 T382

History
Brian Abrams Obama: an oral history 2009-2017 973.932 A834
Jeremy Dronfield The stone crusher: the true story of a father & son's fight for survival in Auschwitz 940.5318 D836
Porter Fox Northland: a 4,000-mile journey along America's forgotten border 974 F830
Kristen Ghodsee Red hangover: legacies of twentieth-century communism 947.0009 G345
John F. Ross Promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell's perilous journey & his vision for the American West 978.02 R733
Roy Scranton We're doomed, now what?: essays on war & climate change 909.82 S15
Lynn Vincent Indianapolis: the true story of the worst sea disaster in U.S. naval history & the fifty-year fight to exonerate an innocent man 940.545 V743
Richard Vinen 1968: radical protest & its enemies 909.826 V75

Law
Carl W. Battle The patent guide: how you can protect & profit from patents 346.048 B322
Richard Stim Patent, copyright & trademark: an intellectual property desk reference 346.048 S549
Adam Winkler We the corporations: how American businesses won their civil rights 346.7306 W729

Literature & Writing
John Freedman (editor) Real & phantom pains: an anthology of new Russian drama 891.72 F875

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
David M. Levine Even you can learn statistics & analytics: an easy to understand guide to statistics & analytics 519.5 L578

Performing Arts & Music
Saul Austerlitz Just a shot away: peace, love & tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont 782.421 R651
Gillian G. Gaar Hendrix: the illustrated story 780.92 H385
John Suchet Verdi: the man revealed 780.92 V584

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Chip Heath Decisive: how to make better choices in life & work 153.83 H351
Daniel H. Pink Drive: the surprising truth about what motivates us 153.1534 P655

Politics & Government
Loka Ashwood For-profit democracy: why the government is losing the trust of rural America 320.973 A396
Dan Kaufman The fall of Wisconsin: the conservative conquest of a progressive bastion & the future of American politics 320.9775 K162
Jeff Pegues Kompromat: how Russia undermined American democracy 324.973 P349
Onnesha Roychoudhuri The marginalized majority: claiming our power in a post-truth America 323.04 R813

Social Sciences & Current Events
Benjamin R. Barber Cool cities: urban sovereignty & the fix for global warming 307.76 B233
Robin DiAngelo White fragility: why it's so hard for White people to talk about racism 305.8 D542
Stéphane Hénaut A bite-sized history of France: gastronomic tales of revolution, war & enlightenment 394.1 H381
Charlie LeDuff Sh*tshow!: the country's collapsing-- & the ratings are great 306.0973 L499
Andrea Pitzer One long night: a global history of concentration camps 365.45 P687
David E. Sanger The perfect weapon: war, sabotage & fear in the cyber age 363.325 S581

Sports & Games
Marcus Thompson Golden: the miraculous rise of Steph Curry 796.3 T371

Travel & Geography
Mark Greenside (Not quite) Mastering the art of French living 944.1 G853

Posted on Jul. 19, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang