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New Titles List for the Week of October 15

BOOKS

FICTION
Dale Bailey In the night wood
Sandra Cisneros Puro amor
Evan Fallenberg The parting gift
Claire Fuller Bitter orange
Alyson Hagy Scribe

Historical Fiction
David Downing Lenin's roller coaster

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Lou Berney November road
Lindsay Emory The royal runaway
Peter Gadol The stranger game
Stephen Giles The boy at the keyhole
Volker Kutscher The silent death
Rick Homan Dark mural
Bill Petrocelli Through the bookstore window

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Nick Wood Azanian bridges

Short Stories
C.P. Boyko The children's war Fic Boyko
Paula Guran (editor) Swords against darkness SS W891
Dilman Dila A killing in the sun Fic Dila

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Fabien Nury Tyler Cross. Black Rock 741.5 N939 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Karen Chapman Gardening with foliage first: 127 dazzling combinations that pair the beauty of leaves with flowers, bark, berries & more 635.975 C366
Nan Sterman Hot color, dry garden: inspiring designs & vibrant plants for the waterwise gardener 635.95 S455
Colin Stuart How to live in space: everything you need to know for the not-so-distant future 629.45 S911
Jack Clemons Safely to earth: the men & women who brought the astronauts home 629.45 C592
John Gaudet The pharaoh's treasure: the origin of paper & the rise of Western civilization 676 G266p
Bill Phillips The complete book of locks & locksmithing 683 P541

Biography & Genealogy
Barbara F. Kawakami Picture bride stories 920 K179

Business & Economics
Matt Faircloth Raising private capital: building your real estate empire using other people's money 333.33 F16
Yanis Varoufakis Adults in the room: my battle with the European & American deep establishment 337.142 V324a

Computer Science
William Kent Data & reality: a timeless perspective on perceiving & managing information in our imprecise world 005.74 K413

History
Nathan Cardon A dream of the future: race, empire & modernity at the Atlanta & Nashville world's fairs 973.8 C179
Bob Drury Valley Forge 973.3 D796v
Mary Jo McConahay The tango war: the struggle for the hearts, minds & riches of Latin America during World War II 940.538 M459
Hampton Sides On desperate ground: the Marines at the reservoir, the Korean War's greatest battle 951.9 S568o
Pete Souza Shade: a tale of two presidents 973.932 S729sh
Mark Braude The invisible emperor: Napoleon on Elba from exile to escape 944.05 B825i
Paul Kenyon Dictatorland: the men who stole Africa 960 K423
Adrian Tinniswood Behind the throne: a domestic history of the British royal household 941 T591b

Home & Family Management
Ryder Carroll The bullet journal method: track the past, order the present, design the future 640.43 C236

Law
Laurence Tribe To end a presidency: the power of impeachment 342.73 T82

Literature & Writing
Christopher Hitchens Love, poverty & war: journeys & essays 814 H6698lo
Stephen Karam Speech & debate 812.6 K181sp
Jorge Luis Borges Professor Borges: a course on English literature 820.9 B73p
Desirina Boskovich The Steampunk user's manual: an illustrated practical & whimsical guide to creating retro-futurist dreams 809.3876 B652

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Seth Fletcher Einstein's shadow: a black hole, a band of astronomers & the quest to see the unseeable 523.88 F632e
Steven Novella The skeptics' guide to the universe: how to know what's really real in a world increasingly full of fake 500 N857
David Philipps Wild horse country: the history, myth & future of the mustang 636.1 P552
Paige Williams The dinosaur artist: obsession, betrayal & the quest for Earth's ultimate trophy 560.75 W670

Performing Arts & Music
Guy Branum My life as a goddess: a memoir through (un)popular culture 792.092 B735

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Stephanie Sarkis Gaslighting: recognize manipulative & emotionally abusive people-and break free 158.2 S738
Desmond Morris Manwatching: a field guide to human behaviour 152.3 M87ma
Thich Nhat Hanh Your true home: the everyday wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh 294.3 N576yo

Politics & Government
Max Boot The corrosion of conservatism: why I left the right 320.52 B725c
Ben Bradlee Jr. The forgotten: how the people of one Pennsylvania county elected Donald Trump & changed America 324.973 B728
Donna Brazile For colored girls who have considered politics 328.73 B739f
Dinesh D'Souza Death of a nation: plantation politics & the making of the Democratic Party 324.2736 D811de
Juan Williams What the hell do you have to lose?: Trump's war on civil rights 323.1196 W724wh

Reference
Karl Zinsmeister The almanac of American philanthropy 361.74 Z669

Social Sciences & Current Events
Timothy Ballard Slave stealers: true accounts of slave rescues then & now 306.362 B212
Kalman A. Chany Paying for college 378.3 C364
Cristen Conger Unladylike: a field guide to smashing the patriarchy & claiming your space 305.42 C760
Steven M. Gillon Separate & unequal: the Kerner Commission & the unraveling of American liberalism 305.8 G48s
Erik Loomis A history of America in ten strikes 331.88 L873
Crystal M. Fleming How to be less stupid about race: on racism, White supremacy & the racial divide 305.8 F629
Robert E. Friedman A few thousand dollars: sparking prosperity for everyone 339.2 F914
Annie Lowrey Give people money: how a universal basic income would end poverty, revolutionize work & remake the world 331.2 L955
Cary McClelland Silicon City: San Francisco in the long shadow of the valley 307.76 M459
Jeff Nesbit This is the way the world ends: how droughts & die-offs, heat waves & hurricanes are converging on America 363.7 N365

Sports & Games
Albert Samaha Never ran, never will: boyhood & football in a changing American inner city 796.33 S41

Travel & Geography
Devin Galaudet 10,000 miles with my dead father's ashes: or mi padre es muerto en la bolsa 914.6 G131
Lonely Planet Amsterdam 914.923 L847
Lonely Planet Argentina 918.2 L847
Lonely Planet Greece 914.95 L847
Lonely Planet Mexico 917.2 L847
Lonley Planet USA's best trips: 51 amazing road trips 917.304 L847
Olivia Laing To the river: a journey beneath the surface 942.25 L187t

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Tana French The witch elm CD French
Robert Galbraith Lethal white CD Galbraith

Nonfiction
D. L. Hughley How not to get shot: & other advice from white people CD 817 H874

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EAUDIOBOOKS
Joanne Fluke Christmas cake murder

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
Deadpool 2

Animation
April & the extraordinary world

Comedy
Book club
Person to person
The mouse that roared

Drama
Shattered Glass
The sheltering sky

Foreign Language
Es war einmal in Deutschland = Bye bye Germany DVD German
Flame & Citron DVD European
Padmaavat DVD Asian
The Guardians DVD French

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Inherent vice
Prime suspect Tennison

Nonfiction
Birgit Nilsson: a league of her own DVD 780.92 N71
Dawson City: frozen time DVD 384.8 D323
RBG DVD 347.73 G493
The true cost DVD 338.4768 T766
Art of the Western world DVD 709 A751
Civilizations 700.9 C582

Posted on Oct. 18, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang