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BOOKS

FICTION
Stephen Alter The rataban betrayal
Melanie Benjamin The Swans of Fifth Avenue
Alexander Chee The queen of the night
Nicola Gardini Lost words
C.W. Gortner The Vatican princess
Han Kang The vegetarian
Tendai Huchu The maestro, the magistrate & the mathematician
Gregg Hurwitz Orphan X
Jim Krusoe The sleep garden
Sergei Lebedev Oblivion
Francesc Miralles Love in lowercase
Omar Musa Here come the dogs
Jo Nesbø Midnight sun
Marieke Nijkamp This is where it ends
Carrie Brown The stargazer's sister
Rachel Cantor Good on paper
Joshilyn Jackson The opposite of everyone
Suzanne Joinson The photographer's wife

Historical Fiction
Phillip DePoy A prisoner in Malta
Stephen Harrigan A friend of Mr. Lincoln
Charlie Smith Ginny Gall: a life in the South

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Stephanie Barron Jane & the Waterloo map
Belinda Bauer The shut eye
Sara Blaedel The killing forest
Charlie Donlea Summit Lake
Barry Eisler The God's eye view
Loren D. Estleman Shoot
Anthea Fraser The twelve apostles
Mark Greaney Back blast
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles One under
Mark Henshaw The fall of Moscow station
Tami Hoag The bitter season
Teresa A. LaRue A talent for murder
Priscilla Royal Land of shadows
Terry Shames The necessary murder of Nonie Blake
Song Ying Apricot's revenge
Charles Todd No shred of evidence
Yrsa Sigurdardottir The silence of the sea

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Charlie Jane Anders All the birds in the sky

Short Stories
Peter Straub Interior darkness: selected stories

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
David Deardoff What's wrong with my houseplant?: save your indoor plants with 100% organic solutions 635.965 D285
Dwight Eschliman Ingredients: a visual exploration of 75 additives & 25 food products 664.06 E745
Roy Underhill The woodwright's eclectic workshop 684.08 U554
Roy Underhill The woodwright's shop: a practical guide to traditional woodcraft 684.08 U554p

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Gregory F. Tague Art & adaptation: a primer from notes 701 T128
Terence Ward The guardian of mercy: how an extraordinary painting by Caravaggio changed an ordinary life today 750.92 C26w
Claire Zimmerman Mies van der Rohe, 1886-1969: the structure of space 720.92 M63z

Biography & Genealogy
Michael J. Makley John Mackay: silver king in the gilded age 92 M153
John Carey The unexpected professor: an Oxford life in books 92 C275
Andrew Lycett Wilkie Collins: a life of sensation 92 C7182L

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
John Sandstrom Fundamentals of technical services 025.02 S221
Anjan Sundaram Bad news: last journalists in a dictatorship 079 S957

Business & Economics
Michael Hudson Killing the host: how financial parasites & debt destroy the global economy 338.54 H886
Carol Realini Financial inclusion at the bottom of the pyramid 332.1 R288

Chess
Alexander Alekhine Complete games of Alekhine 794.15 A36c
James Howell Essential chess endings 794.124 H859
Kurt Richter Chess combination as a fine art 794.15 R53c
Mikhail Tals Tal's winning chess combinations: the secrets of winning chess combinations described & explained by the Russian Grandmaster Mikhail Tal 794.123 T152

Food & Drink
Alice Medrich Flavor flours: a new way to bake with teff, buckwheat, sorghum, other whole & ancient grains, nuts & non-wheat flowers 641.3 M492

History
Felipe Fernández-Armesto Ideas that changed the world 909 F36i
Peter Frankopan The Silk Roads: a new history of the world 909 F834
Charles R. Lister The Syrian jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State & the evolution of an insurgency 956.91 L773
Kim MacQuarrie Life & death in the Andes: on the trail of bandits, heroes & revolutionaries 980 M167
Mario Vargas Llosa Notes on the death of culture: essays on spectacle & society 909.82 V297
David J. Breeze The frontiers of Imperial Rome 937 B832
Florian Illies 1913: the year before the storm 940.28 I291
Jona Lendering Edge of empire: Rome's frontier on the Lower Rhine 936.3 L564
Raoul McLaughlin The Roman Empire & the Indian Ocean: the ancient world economy & the kingdoms of Africa, Arabia & India 382 M161
Alan Titchmarsh The Queen's houses: royal Britain at home 941.085 T617
Sam Willis The struggle for sea power: a naval history of the American Revolution 973.35 W735

Languages & Linguistics
Noam Chomsky What kind of creatures are we? 401 C54w

Literature & Writing
Feast: poetry & recipes for a full seating at dinner 811.6 F288
Modernist women poets: an anthology 811 M689
Bill Morgan Beat atlas: a state by state guide to the Beat generation in America 810.9 M848s
Ann Rittenberg Your first novel: a published author & a top agent share the keys to achieving your dream 808.3 R613

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
David Rains Wallace Mountains & marshes: exploring the Bay area's natural history 508.794 W188

Performing Arts & Music
Owen Gleiberman Movie freak: my life watching movies 791.43 G556
Christian Metz Impersonal enunciation, or, The place of film 791.43 M596
Rashod Ollison Soul serenade: rhythm, blues & coming of age through vinyl: a memoir 781.64 O498
Ben Ratliff Every song ever: twenty ways to listen in an age of musical plenty 781.1 R236
Reality radio: telling true stories in sound 791.44 R288
William Shatner Leonard: my fifty-year friendship with a remarkable man 791.45 S53L
Eric Grode The book of Broadway: the 150 definitive plays & musicals 792.0974 G873
Jerry on Jerry: the unpublished Jerry Garcia interviews 780.92 G216m

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
John Shelby Spong Biblical literalism: a gentile heresy: a journey into a new Christianity through the doorway of Matthew's gospel 226.2 S763

Politics & Government
Fergus M. Bordewich The First Congress: how James Madison, George Washington & a group of extraordinary men invented the government 327.73 B728
Paddy Hayes Queen of spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War spy master 327.12 P235

Reference
Independent guide to fidelity funds 332.6327 I382

Social Sciences & Current Events
Ed Boland The battle for Room 314: my year of hope & despair in a New York City high school 371.1 B687
Erika Christakis The importance of being little: what preschoolers really need from grownups 372.21 C554
Baz Dreisinger Incarceration nations: a journey to justice in prisons around the world 365 D771
Jim Grimsley How I shed my skin: unlearning the racist lessons of a southern childhood 379.26 G865
Ann Neumann The good death: an exploration of dying in America 304.6 N492
Eli Sanders While the city slept: a love lost to violence & a young man's descent into madness 364.152 S213
David F. Lancy The anthropology of childhood: cherubs, chattel, changelings 305.23 L252

Sports & Games
David Ippen The art of self: an interpretation of traditional Taekwon-do 796.815 I648

Travel & Geography
Eleanor Burke Sketching San Francisco's neighborhoods: a visual journey through the well-known & not-so-well-known areas of the city 917.9461 B959
Tom Jones Tired of London, tired of life: one thing a day to do in London 914.21 J794

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley The war that saved my life

Posted on Mar. 4, 2016 by Cherilyn Chang