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New Titles List for the Week of March 13

BOOKS

FICTION
Laurie Frankel This is how it always is

Historical Fiction
Hanna Krall Chasing the king of hearts
Robin E. Levin Death of carthage
Patrick Gale A place called winter

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
M.C. Beaton Death of a ghost
Boileau-Narcejac She who was no more
Roberto Costantini The root of all evil
Judith Flanders A cast of vultures
Stephen Mack Jones August Snow

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Peter S. Beagle In Calabria
Jim Butcher Grave peril
Giorgio De Maria The twenty days of Turin
Ursula K. Le Guin (editor) Selected stories of H.G. Wells
Michelle Paver Thin air: a ghost story
Adrian J. Walker The End of the World Running Club
H.G. Wells The island of Doctor Moreau

Short Stories
Rachel Ingalls Three masquerades

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Jason Shiga Demon Volume 2 741.5 S555 comics
Moebius The world of Edena 741.5 M693 comics
Simon Roy Habitat 741.5 R888 comics
R. Sikoryak Terms & conditions 741.5 S579 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Damion Searls The inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, his iconic test & the power of seeing 616.89 S439

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Brooching it diplomatically: a tribute to Madeleine K. Albright 739.27 A342b
Beaver Brook Cabin porn 728.7 C115
Cecelia Campochiaro Sequence knitting: simple methods for creating complex reversible fabrics 746.43 C198
Matthew Christopher Abandoned America: dismantling the dream 778.94 C556
Jonathan Glancey What's so great about the Eiffel Tower?: 70 questions that will change the way you think about architecture 720 G545

Biography & Genealogy
Nikki M. Taylor Driven toward madness: the fugitive slave Margaret Garner & tragedy on the Ohio 92 T2381
Terry Mort Hemingway at war: Ernest Hemingway's adventures as a World War II correspondent 92 H479mo

Business & Economics
F. William Engdahl Gods of money: Wall Street & the death of the American century 332.0973 E571
Leigh Gallagher The Airbnb story: how three ordinary guys disrupted an industry, made billions... & created plenty of controversy 647.94 G162
Melanie Gerlis Art as an investment?: a survey of comparative assets 332.63 G371
Hildy Gottlieb Friend raising: community engagement strategies for boards who hate fundraising but love making friends 658.15 G686
Bernard B. Kamoroff Small time operator: how to start your own business, keep your books, pay your taxes & stay out of trouble 658.11 K157
Beth Kanter The happy, healthy nonprofit: strategies for impact without burnout 658.048 K168
Andrea Kihlstedt Train your board (and everyone else) to raise money: a cookbook of easy-to-use fundraising exercises 658.15 K478
Donald MacKenzie An engine, not a camera: how financial models shape markets 332.01 M156
Christine Porath Mastering civility: a manifesto for the workplace 650.13 P832

Computer Science
Mike McGrath C# programming in easy steps 005.13 M147

Food & Drink
Domenica Marchetti Ciao Biscotti: sweet & savory recipes celebrating Italy's favorite cookie 641.8654 M317
Simone Ortega The book of tapas 641.5946 O77t
Anya von Bremzen The new Spanish table 641.5946 V945
Mark Bittman Mark Bittman's kitchen matrix: more than 700 simple recipes & techniques to mix & match for endless possibilities 641.5 B624
Jenny Linford The chef's library: favorite cookbooks from the world 's great kitchens 641.5 L754
Chris Santos Share: delicious & surprising recipes to pass around your table 641.5 S237

Health & Medicine
Julie Daniluk The hot detox plan: cleanse your body & heal your gut with warming, anti-inflammatory foods 613.2 D186
Carol Lambert Women with controlling partners: taking back your life from a manipulative or abusive partner 362.82 L222
Ayelet Waldman A really good day: how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage & my life 616.895 W164

History
Rick Beyer Rivals unto death: Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr 973.46 B573
Isabel Denny The fall of Hitler's fortress city: the battle for Konigsberg, 1945 940.542 D412
Yuval Noah Harari Homo deus: a brief history of tomorrow 909 H254h
Tom Hayden Hell no: the forgotten power of the Vietnam peace movement 959.7 H414
Doug Mack The Not-Quite States of America: dispatches from the territories & other far-flung outposts of the USA 909.097 M153
Stephen O'Shea The Alps: a human history from Hannibal to Heidi & beyond 949.4 O824
Karl Schlögel In space we read time: on the history of civilization & geopolitics 909.82 S345
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor The original Black elite: Daniel Murray & the story of a forgotten era 973.0496 T238
Kevin Wilson Blood & fears: how America's bomber boys of the 8th air force saved World War II 940.54 W746
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough Beyond the Northlands: Viking voyages & the Old Norse sagas 948.022 B268
Giles Milton Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: the mavericks who plotted Hitler's defeat 940.54 M662
Frank N. Pieke Knowing China: A Twenty-First-Century Guide 951.06 P613
Helen Rappaport Caught in the revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917-- a world on the edge 355 R221
edited by Nigel Saul (editor) The Oxford illustrated history of medieval England 942.03 S256

Law
Michael E. Jones Art law: a concise guide for artists, curators & art educators 344.7309 J762

Literature & Writing
Janis Bell Clean, well-lighted sentences: a guide to avoiding the most common errors in grammar & punctuation 808.04 B433
J.D. Daniels The correspondence 814.6 D186

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Elizabeth Blackburn The telomere effect: a revolutionary approach to living younger, healthier, longer 572.8 B628
Douglas Adams Last chance to see 591.52 A211
Simon Ings Stalin & the scientists: a history of triumph & tragedy 1905-1953 509.47 I55

Performing Arts & Music
Steve Turner Beatles '66: the revolutionary year 780.92 B36t
Noah Isenberg We'll always have Casablanca: the life, legend & afterlife of Hollywood's most beloved movie 791.43 I78

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Geneive Abdo The new sectarianism: the Arab uprisings & the rebirth of the Shi'a-Sunni divide 297.8 A135
Mustafa Akyol The Islamic Jesus: how the King of the Jews became a prophet of the Muslims 297.2 A315
Carl R. Trueman The real scandal of the evangelical mind 280.4 T866
Chris Voss Never split the difference: negotiating as if your life depended on it 158.5 V969
Florence Williams The nature fix: why nature makes us happier, healthier & more creative 155.9 W721

Politics & Government
Becky Bond Rules for revolutionaries: how big organizing can change everything 323 B711
Chas W. Freeman, Jr America's continuing misadventures in the Middle East 327.56 F855
David A. Moss Democracy: a case study 320.473 M913
Joel Whitney Finks: how the CIA tricked the world's best writers 327.12 W617
Dan Zak Almighty: courage, resistance & existential peril in the nuclear age 327.17 Z215
Thomas Lake Unprecedented: the election that changed everything 324.973 L192

Social Sciences & Current Events
David Billings Deep denial: the persistence of white supremacy in United States history & life 305.8 B598
Jessa Crispin Why I am not a feminist: a feminist manifesto 305.42 C932
Kay S. Hymowitz The new Brooklyn: what it takes to bring a city back 306.0974 H996
Robert D. Kaplan Earning the Rockies: how geography shapes America's role in the world 306.0973 K172
Sheelah Kolhatkar Black edge: inside information, dirty money & the quest to bring down the most wanted man on Wall Street 364.16 K813
Ellen Condliffe Lagemann Liberating minds: the case for college in prison 365.6 L174L
Dan Pallotta Charity case: how the nonprofit community can stand up for itself & really change the world 361.763 P168
Keith Somerville Ivory: power & poaching in Africa 381.456 S696
Timothy B. Tyson The blood of Emmett Till 364.1 T574t

Sports & Games
Robert F. Garratt Home team: the turbulent history of the San Francisco Giants 796.357 G238

Travel & Geography
Christopher P. Baker Colombia 918.6 N277
Hilary Bradt North Devon: local, characterful guides to Britain's special places 914.235 B812
Travis Elborough Atlas of improbable places: a journey to the world's most unusual corners 910 E374
Alexandra Kenin Urban trails. San Francisco: Coastal Bluffs, The Presidio Hilltop Parks & Stairways 917.946 K339
Fodor's the Amalfi Coast, Capri & Naples 914.573 F653
Lonely Planet Chicago 917.731 L847
Monocle Los Angeles 917.9494 M751
Insight Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania 914.79 I592

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Kelly Barnhill The girl who drank the moon Child Barnhill

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CDs
Classical
Thibaut Garcia Leyendas: works for solo guitar CD Classical Garcia

Jazz & Blues
Kenny Burrell Unlimited. 1 CD Jazz Burrell

Posted on Mar. 9, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang