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New Titles Lists for the Week of August 20

BOOKS

FICTION
David Chariandy Brother
Virginie Despentes Pretty things
Yuri Herrera Signs preceding the end of the world
Vanessa Hua A river of stars
Mochtar Lubis Twilight in Djakarta
Ling Ma Severance
Anna Moschovakis Eleanor, or, the rejection of the progress of love
S. K. Perry Let me be like water

Historical Fiction
Linnea Hartsuyker The sea queen

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Rhys Bowen Four funerals & maybe a wedding
Philip Youngman Carter Mr. Campion's farthing
Colin Cotterill Don't eat me
J. Jefferson Farjeon Thirteen guests
Caz Frear Sweet little lies
Lee Hollis Poppy Harmon investigates
Jonathan Kellerman A measure of darkness
Jon McGregor The reservoir tapes
Abir Mukherjee Smoke & ashes
Simone St. James The broken girls

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Neal Asher The soldier
Sarah Hennin Sea witch
Cixin Liu Ball lightning

Short Stories
Kevin Wilson Baby, you're gonna be mine: stories

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Matteo Pizzolo Calexit. Vol. 1 741.5 P689 comics
Jules Feiffer The ghost script 741.5 F297g comics
Nate Powell Come again 741.5 P871 comics
Riad Sattouf The Arab of the future 3: a graphic memoir: a childhood in the Middle East (1985-1987) 741.5 S253 comics

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Cathi Nelson Photo organizing made easy: going from overwhelmed to overjoyed 771.46 N331
Stanley Plumly Elegy landscapes: Constable & Turner & the intimate sublime 759.2 P735

Biography & Genealogy
Blaine T. Bettinger The family tree guide to DNA testing & genetic genealogy 929.1 B466
Drew Smith Organize your genealogy: strategies & solutions for every researcher 929.1 S511

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Marcy Burstiner Investigative reporting: from premise to publication 070.43 B949
Nancy Hendrickson Unofficial guide to Ancestry.com: how to find your family history on the #1 genealogy website 025.0692 H384
Susan Shapiro The byline bible: get published in five weeks 070.5 S52b

Business & Economics
James Freeman Borrowed time: two centuries of booms, busts & bailouts at Citi 332.1 F877
Sheila Moran The board of directors & audit committee guide to fiduciary responsibilities: ten critical steps to protecting yourself & your organization 657.45 M793
Jerold Panas Born to raise 658.152 P191

Chess
Emmanuel Neiman The Fianchetto solution: a complete, solid & flexible chess opening repertoire 794.122 N414f

Health & Medicine
Timothy Caulfield Is Gwyneth Paltrow wrong about everything?: how the famous sell us elixirs of health, beauty & happiness 613.2 C311

History
C.J. Chivers The fighters: Americans in combat in Afghanistan & Iraq 956.7 C543f
Anne de Courcy The husband hunters: American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy 974.71 D359
Tom Engelhardt A nation unmade by war: a TomDispatch book 973.933 E574n
Philip Morgan Hitler's collaborators: choosing between bad & worse in Nazi-occupied Western Europe 940.5316 M821
Omarosa Manigault Newman Unhinged: an insider's account of the Trump White House 973.933 O18
Deborah Baker The last Englishmen: love, war & the end of empire 954 B171

Literature & Writing
Fatimah Asghar If they come for us 811.6 A29
Ada Limón The carrying 811.6 L734c
Bill Roorbach Writing life stories: how to make memories into memoirs, ideas into essays & life into literature 808.066 R779
Wallace Shawn Night thoughts 814.54 S537n
Daniel Smith The Sherlock Holmes companion: an elementary guide 823 S511

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Joel Berger Extreme conservation: life at the edges of the world 551.6 B453
Carlo Rovelli The order of time 530.11 R769

Performing Arts & Music
Nate Chinen Playing changes: jazz for the new century 781.65 C441
Kenneth Womack Sound pictures: the life of Beatles producer George Martin: the later years, 1966-2016 781.66 W872s

Politics & Government
D.J. Mulloy Enemies of the state: the radical right in America from FDR to Trump 320.53 M959e

Social Sciences & Current Events
Phyllis Chesler A politically incorrect feminist: creating a movement with bitches, lunatics, dykes, prodigies, warriors & wonder women 305.42 C524p
Blake Ellis A deal with the devil: the dark & twisted true story of one of the biggest cons in history 364.163 E591
Chris Hedges America: the farewell tour 305.562 H45a
Matthew Horace The black & the blue: a cop reveals the crimes, racism & injustice in America's law enforcement 363.2 H78
Morgan Jerkins This will be my undoing: living at the intersection of black, female & feminist in (white) America 305.42 J477
Ronald Johnson 13 days in Ferguson 363.2 J630
Kate Moore The radium girls: the dark story of America's shining women 363.1799 M781
Paul Ortiz An African American & Latinx history of the United States 305.8 O85
Zoé Samudzi As black as resistance: finding the conditions for liberation 305.8 S494

Sports & Games
Michael Bennett Things that make white people uncomfortable 796.33 B439

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Alissa Quart Squeezed: why our families can't afford America CD 305.55 Q19
Karen Auvinen Rough beauty: forty seasons of mountain living CD 978.8 A88

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DVDs

Drama
Law & order: Trial by jury - the complete series
The Borgias: the complete series

Nonfiction
Tina Turner: wildest dreams: live from Amsterdam Arena DVD 780.92 T851
Jeanette Norden Understanding the brain DVD 612.82 N754

Posted on Aug. 23, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang