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New Titles List for the Week of October 23

BOOKS

FICTION
Joey Comeau Malagash
Cristina Garcia Here in Berlin
Simeon Marsalis As lie is to grin
Hye-young Pyun The hole
Susan Rivers The second Mrs. Hockaday
Mary Kay Zuravleff The bowl is already broken
Alice Hoffman The rules of magic

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Tasha Alexander Death in St. Petersburg
Boileau-Narcejac Vertigo
Andrew Cartmel The vinyl detective: written in dead wax
Ron Corbett Ragged Lake
Jason Goodwin The Baklava Club
David Rosenfelt The Twelve dogs of Christmas
C. M. Wendelboe Hunting the Five Point Killer
Paul Finch Strangers
Martin Limón The nine-tailed fox

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Naomi Alderman The power
Dave Duncan Ironfoot
Hillary Monahan The hollow girl
K. Arsenault Rivera The Tiger's Daughter
Elizabeth Bear The stone in the skull

Short Stories
Carmen Maria Machado Her body & other parties Fic Machado
Lisa Morton (editor) Haunted nights: a Horror Writers Association anthology SS H373

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Roz Chast Going into town: a love letter to New York 741.5 C489g comics
Sophie Goldstein House of women 741.5973 G624 comics

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Reed Tucker Slugfest: inside the epic fifty-year battle between Marvel & DC 741.53 T891

Biography & Genealogy
Adam Begley The great Nadar: the man behind the camera 92 N128
Art Garfunkel What is it all but luminous: notes from an underground man 92 G234
Emily Nunn The comfort food diaries: my quest for the perfect dish to mend a broken heart 92 N972
Scot D. Ryersson Infinite variety: the life & legend of the Marchesa Casati 92 C337
Ron Chernow Grant 92 G763ch
Francine Klagsbrun Lioness: Golda Meir & the nation of Israel 92 M5147k

Business & Economics
Tim O'Reilly WTF: what's the future & why it's up to us 338.06 O667
Robert I. Sutton The asshole survival guide: how to deal with people who treat you like dirt 650.13 S967

Food & Drink
America's Test Kitchen All time best holiday entertaining 641.568 A512
Justin Spring The gourmands' way: six Americans in Paris & the birth of a new gastronomy 641.5092 S769
Vikram Sunderam Rasika: flavors of India 641.5954 B165

History
Michael Meyer The road to Sleeping Dragon: learning China from the ground up 951.06 M612
Thomas Childers The Third Reich: a history of Nazi Germany 943.086 C536
Serhii Plokhy Lost kingdom: the quest for empire & the making of the Russian nation, from 1470 to the present 947 P729L

Law
Paul Bergman Represent yourself in court: how to prepare & try a winning case 347.05 B499
Ilona Bray Nolo's essential guide to buying your first home 643.12 B827
Denis Clifford Estate planning basics 346.052 C63e
Denis Clifford Plan your estate 346.052 C63p
Amy DelPo Dealing with problem employees: how to manage performance & personality issues in the workplace 658.3 D363
Emily Doskov Nolo's essential guide to divorce 346.0166 D723
Stephen Elias Chapter 13 bankruptcy: keep your property & repay debts over time 346.078 E422e
Stephen Fishman The public domain: find & use free content for your website, book, app, music, video, art & more 346.0482 F537
Lisa Guerin The essential guide to federal employment laws 344.7301 G932
Frederick Hertz Living together: a legal guide for unmarried couples 346.016 W28
Amy Loftsgordon Solve your money troubles: strategies to get out of debt & stay that way 346.077 L58
Amy Loftsgordon The foreclosure survival guide: keep your house or walk away with money in your pocket 346.043 L829
Anthony Mancuso Incorporate your business 346.0662 M269
Mike P. McKeever How to write a business plan 658.15 M154
Fred S. Steingold The employer's legal handbook 344.73 S822
Richard Stim Contracts: the essential business desk reference 346.7302 S858

Literature & Writing
Gillian Beer Alice in space: the sideways Victorian world of Lewis Carroll 823.8 B415
David Biespiel The education of a young poet 811.54 B589
Harold Bloom Cleopatra: I am fire & air 822.33 B655
Robert Hass A little book on form: an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry 809.1 H353
Grady Hendrix Paperbacks from Hell: the twisted history of '70s & '80s horror fiction 809.38 H498
Leslie Jamison (editor) The best American essays 2017 814.8 B56 2017

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Peter Collier A most incomprehensible thing: notes towards a very gentle introduction to the mathematics of relativity 530.11 C699
E.T. Jaynes Probability theory: the logic of science 519.2 J428

Performing Arts & Music
Francis Ford Coppola Live cinema & its techniques 791.43 C785
Edward Gross Slayers & vampires: the complete uncensored, unauthorized oral history of Buffy & Angel 791.45 G878
Barney Hoskyns (editor) Joni: the anthology 782.421 M681h

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Peter Manseau The apparitionists: a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography & the man who captured Lincoln's ghost 133.9 M286
Candida R. Moss Bible nation: the United States of Hobby Lobby 261.7 M913
Garry Wills What the Qurʼan meant & why it matters 297.1 W741
David Wolpe David: the divided heart 222.4 W866
Dennis C. Rasmussen The infidel & the professor: David Hume, Adam Smith & the friendship that shaped modern thought 192 R225

Politics & Government
Chris Gibson Rally point: five tasks to unite the country & revitalize the American dream 320.52 G448

Reference
Washington information directory, 2017-2018 353 W317

Social Sciences & Current Events
Graydon Carter (editor) Vanity fair's schools for scandal: the inside dramas at 16 of America's most elite campuses--plus Oxford! 378.73 V258
Ta-Nehisi Coates We were eight years in power: an American tragedy 305.896 C652
Daniel Mendelsohn An odyssey: a father, a son & an epic 370.92 M537
Loren Rhoads 199 cemeteries to see before you die 363.75 R474
Noliwe Rooks Cutting school: privatization, segregation & the end of public education 379.1 R777
Rachel Sherman Uneasy street: the anxieties of affluence 305.52 S553
Morgan Simon Real impact: the new economics of social change 361.76 S594
Aaron Freundschuh The courtesan & the gigolo: the murders in the Rue Montaigne & the dark side of empire in nineteenth-century Paris 364.152 F889

Travel & Geography
Chris Fitch Atlas of untamed places: an extraordinary journey through our wild world 910.914 F544

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Louise Penny Glass houses Large Print Penny

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

DVDs
Aladdin
Cinderella
Dumbo
Toy story 2

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Ta-Nehisi Coates We were eight years in power: an American tragedy CD 305.896 C652
Liza Mundy Code girls: the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II CD 940.5486 M965

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
Kingdom of heaven
Wonder Woman

Classics
Cleopatra

Comedy
Hairspray
Harold & Kumar go to White Castle
Seven psychopaths

Drama
All eyez on me
American gigolo
Bad boys
Last days
Lord of the flies
Seven years in Tibet
Shine
Snowden
The blue lagoon
The Doors
The great dictator
The man who wasn't there
Woman in Gold

Foreign Language
A man escaped = un condamné à mort s'est échappé, ou, Le vent souffle où il veut DVD French
After the storm = Umi yori mo mada fukaku DVD Japanese
Coup de grace = Der Fangschuss DVD German
Knife in the Water = Nóż w wodzie DVD European
Mouchette DVD French
Pop aye DVD Asian

Musicals
For me & my gal
The Harvey girls

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Hostel
Sleepy Hollow
The Dresden files. The complete first season
The fifth element

Nonfiction
Made in Sheffield: the birth of electronic pop DVD 781.66 W873

Posted on Oct. 19, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang