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New Titles List for the Week of November 19

BOOKS

FICTION
Melanie Hobson Summer cannibals
Marci Vogel Death & other holidays
Tamsen Wolff Juno's swans
Yu Hua The April 3rd incident: stories

Historical Fiction
Samantha Harvey The western wind
Judith Merkle Riley In pursuit of the green lion: a Margaret of Ashbury novel
Éric Vuillard The order of the day

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
John Grisham The reckoning
H B Lyle The red ribbon
Anne Perry Dark tide rising: a William Monk novel
Zoe Sharp Fox hunter

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Shelli Frew Time Sailors
Robert Silverberg Time & time again: sixteen trips in time

Short Stories
Lucia Berlin Evening in paradise: more stories

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Santiago Calatrava; Cristina Carillo de Albornoz Santiago Calatrava. Drawing, building, reflecting. 720.92 C143
Guillaume de Laubier Sacred spaces: the awe-inspiring architecture of churches & cathedrals 726 L366
Mark Dery Born to be posthumous: the eccentric life & mysterious genius of Edward Gorey 700.92 G66d

Biography & Genealogy
Miranda Seymour In Byron's wake: the turbulent lives of Byron's wife & daughter: Annabella Milbanke & Ada Lovelace 92 B996s
Richard Brookhiser John Marshall: the man who made the Supreme Court 92 M368b
Zachary Leader The life of Saul Bellow: love & strife, 1965-2005 92 B448L
Andrew Roberts Churchill: walking with destiny 92 C5632r

Business & Economics
Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez Your money or your life: 9 steps to transforming your relationship with money & achieving financial independence 332.024 R552

Chess
Brin-Jonathan Butler The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen & the match that made chess great again 794.1092 C284b
Jaan Ehlvest Grandmaster opening preparation 794.122 E332
Cyrus Lakdawala Caruana: move by move 794.12 C3296La
Jan Markos Under the surface 794.1 M3462
Ivan Sokolov Chess middlegame strategies, Volume 2, Opening meets middlegame 794.1 S683
Robert E Burger The chess of Bobby Fischer 794.1 F52bu
Cyrus Lakdawala First steps: the Colle & London systems 794.122 L192f
Jimmy Liew The Veresov: move by move 794.122 L626
Arthur van de Oudeweetering Train your chess pattern recognition: more key moves & motifs in the middlegame 794.123 23 794.123 O22tr
Peter Romanovsky Soviet middlegame technique 794.123 R75s
Erik Zude & Jörg Hickl Play 1 ... d6 against everything: a compact & ready-to-use black repertoire for club players 794.1 Z836

Food & Drink
Tero Isokauppila Healing mushrooms: a practical & culinary guide to using mushrooms for whole body health 641.658 I71
Kristen Miglore Food52 genius desserts: 100 recipes that will change the way you bake 641.86 F686m
Najmieh Batmanglij Cooking in Iran: regional recipes & kitchen secrets 641.5955 B321

Health & Medicine
Rose George Nine pints: a journey through the money, medicine & mysteries of blood 612.11 G349n
Mark Lukach My lovely wife in the psych ward: a memoir 362.21 L968
Nicolette Perry, PhD & Elaine Perry, PhD Your brain on plants: improve the way you think & feel with safe--and proven--medicinal plants & herbs 615.788 P429

History
Andrew Delbanco The war before the war: fugitive slaves & the struggle for America's soul from the Revolution to the Civil War 973.711 D344w
Ferdinand Addis The eternal city: a history of Rome 945.63 A24
Guy Cuthbertson Peace at last: a portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918 940.439 C972
Ruth Goodman How to behave badly in Elizabethan England: a guide for knaves, fools, harlots, cuckolds, drunkards, liars, thieves & braggarts 942.05 G653h
Robert Kershaw Landing on the edge of eternity: twenty-four hours at Omaha Beach 940.542 K474
Robert Lyman Under a darkening sky: the American experience in Nazi Europe: 1939-1941 940.53 L989
Tony Spawforth The story of Greece & Rome 938 S73st
Edward J Watts Mortal republic: how Rome fell into tyranny 937.05 W349m

Law
Alan Dershowitz The case against impeaching Trump 342.73 D43c

Literature & Writing
The outlaw bible of American literature 810.8 O946
Companion to Victorian popular fiction 823.9 C738

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Ross D E MacPhee End of the megafauna: the fate of the world's hugest, fiercest & strangest animals 591.41 M172

Performing Arts & Music
John Cleese Professor at large: the Cornell years 792.092 C62p
Ezra Croft & Jennifer Raiser The art of being Bill: the many faces of awesome 791.43 M981c
David Markey & Jordan Schwartz We got power!: hardcore punk scenes from 1980s Southern California 781.66 M341
Lane Moore How to be alone: if you want to & even if you don't 792.7 M781

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Pope Francis God is young: a conversation with Thomas Leoncini 282.092 F818g
Joan Halifax Standing at the edge: finding freedom where fear & courage meet 128.4 H139
Brent Nongbri God's library: the archaeology of the earliest Christian manuscripts 270.1 N731

Social Sciences & Current Events
Lux Alptraum Faking it: the lies women tell about sex--and the truths they reveal 306.7 A75
Martin Rees On the future: prospects for humanity 303.483 R32on
Kirsten Swinth Feminism's forgotten fight: the unfinished struggle for work & family 305.42 S65

Travel & Geography
Lonely planet Barcelona 2019: top sights, authentic experiences 914.672 L847
Carolyn McCarthy Chile & Easter Island 918.3 L847

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

Nonfiction
Juan Felipe Herrera ; illustrated by Lauren Castillo Imagine Child 811.6 H433

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EBOOKS

Mark Adams Tip of the iceberg: my 3,000-mile journey around wild Alaska, the last great American frontier
Catharine Arnold Pandemic 1918: eyewitness accounts from the greatest medical holocaust in modern history
Kate Atkinson Transcription
Fredrik Backman Us against you
Donald A Barclay Fake news, propaganda & plain old lies: how to find trustworthy information in the digital age
The Best American Food Writing 2018
Jenna Blum The lost family
Laura Smith Borman Iconic San Francisco Dishes, Drinks & Desserts
Julia Boyd Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919-1945
T C Boyle A Friend of the Earth
Craig Brown Ninety-nine glimpses of Princess Margaret
Dale Brown The Moscow offensive
Phyllis Chesler A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement With Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors & Wonder Women
Marcus Tulius Cicero How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life
Bill Clinton & James Patterson The president is missing
Jon Cohen Harry's trees
James Conaway Napa at last light: America's eden in an age of calamity
Catherine Coulter Paradox
Anne de Courcy The husband hunters: American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz An indigenous peoples' history of the United States
Ashley Dyer Splinter in the blood
Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken A deal with the devil: the dark & twisted true story of one of the biggest cons in history
Gillian Flynn Sharp objects a novel
Caz Frear Sweet little lies
Emily Giffin All we ever wanted
Seth Greenland The Hazards of Good Fortune
Yuval Noah Harari 21 lessons for the 21st century
Jim Holt When Einstein walked with Gödel: excursions to the edge of thought
Anthony Horowitz The word is murder
Steven Hyden Twilight of the gods: a journey to the end of classic rock
Debra Jo Immergut The captives
Julia Jackson De Gaulle
Bill Kilday Never lost again: the Google mapping revolution that sparked new industries & augmented our reality
Kevin Kwan Crazy rich Asians
Kevin Kwan Rich people problems
Jaron Lanier Ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now
Christina Lauren Josh & Hazel's guide to not dating
Mike Maden Tom Clancy line of sight
Olivier Magny WTF?!: WHAT THE FRENCH
Ann Mah The lost vintage
Peter Mayle My twenty-five years in Provence: reflections on then & now
James A McLaughlin Bearskin
Nicola Moriarty Those other women
Celeste Ng Little fires everywhere
Omarosa Manigault Newman Unhinged: an insider's account of the Trump White House
Tommy Orange There there
James Patterson & Andrew Bourelle Texas Ranger
Frances de Pontes Peebles The air you breathe
Paulette Perhach Welcome to the writer's life: how to design your writing craft, writing business, writing practice & reading practice
Stanley Plumly Elegy landscapes: Constable & Turner & the intimate sublime
Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship With Money & Achieving Financial Independence
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers Saving Central Park: a history & a memoir
Allie Rowbottom Jell-O girls: a family history
Riley Sager The last time I lied
Robert J Sawyer Quantum night
Emelie Schepp Slowly we die
Bill Sevald Fishermen from Heaven
William Shatner with David Fisher Live long and-- what I might have learned along the way
Peng Shepherd The book of M
Gary Shteyngart Lake Success
Daniel Silva The other woman
Benjamin Spall & Michael Xander My morning routine: how successful people start every day inspired
William Stadiem Madame Claude: her secret world of pleasure, privilege & power
Jason Stanley How fascism works: the politics of us & them
Catherine Steadman Something in the water
Paul Tremblay The cabin at the end of the world
Anne Tyler Clock dance
Thrity Umrigar The secrets between us
Nico Walker Cherry
Lauren Weisberger When life gives you lululemons
Kenneth Womack Sound pictures: the life of Beatles producer George Martin: the later years, 1966-2016

Posted on Dec. 4, 2018 by Heather Terrell