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New Titles for the Week of December 16

BOOKS

FICTION
Virginia Kantra Meg & Jo
Fiona Kidman This mortal boy
Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson The sacrament

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Mary Higgins Clark Kiss the girls & make them cry
Jeff Lindsay Just watch me
Sara Shepard Reputation
Val McDermid How the dead speak

Short Stories
Lawrence Block (editor) From sea to stormy sea: 17 stories inspired by great American paintings SS F925

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Bi-scriptual: typography & graphic design with multiple script systems 686.2 B470

Business & Economics
Dana Robinson Opt out: rethink success, reinvent rich, realize the life you want 650.1 R560

Chess
Victor Bologan The Rossolimo Sicilian: a powerful Anti-Sicilian that avoids tons of theory 794.1225 B20 B693
José Raul Capablanca World's championship matches, 1921 & 1927 794.157 C23
Nikolai Kalinichenko King's gambit 794.1225 C30 K144
Raymond Keene Warriors of the mind: a quest for the supreme genius of the chess board 794.12 K26
Andrew Soltis Petrosian, the powerful 794.15 P49s

Computer Science
Dan Bader Python tricks 005.1 P99ba

Health & Medicine
Kelly McGonigal The joy of movement: how exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection & courage 613.7 M146j

History
Sarah Fraser The prince who would be king: the life & death of Henry Stuart 941.06 F862
Tony Horwitz Spying on the South: an odyssey across the American divide 917.504 H82

Law
Brian McGinty Lincoln's greatest case: the river, the bridge & the making of America 346.7303 L736

Literature & Writing
Laura Foley Why I never finished my dissertation 811.6 F699
Saskia Hamilton (editor) The dolphin letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell & their circle 816.52 D698

Performing Arts & Music
Maura Spiegel Sidney Lumet 791.4 L97
Donald Spoto A girl's got to breathe: the life of Teresa Wright 792.092 W930
The letters of Cole Porter 780.92 P84L

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Christopher Grasso Skepticism & American faith: from the Revolution to the Civil War 277.3 G769

Politics & Government
Owen Matthews An impeccable spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent 327.12 M441
Bonnie Weinstein When Christians break bad: letters from the insane, inane & profane 323.442 W433

Reference
LMP 2020: literary market place: the directory of the American book publishing industry with industry indexes 655.52 L77 2020

Social Sciences & Current Events
Will Harris Mixed-race Superman: Keanu, Obama & multiracial experience 305.8 H240
Alex Tizon Invisible people: stories of lives at the margins 305.9069 T545
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DVDs

Classics
Monsieur Verdoux
Between midnight & dawn
Johnny o'clock
So dark the night
Walk a crooked mile
Walk east on Beacon!

Comedy
Blackadder remastered

Drama
The Adams chronicles

Nonfiction
The Tillman story DVD 355.0092 T57
This American life, season 1 DVD 791.44 T349
This American life. Season 2 DVD 791.44 T349

Posted on Dec. 20, 2019 by Cherilyn Chang