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BOOKS

FICTION
Terry Bisson Any day now
Barbara Taylor Bradford Letter from a stranger
Stephen Dau The book of Jonas
John Grisham Calico Joe
Deborah Copaken Kogan The red book
Joe R. Lansdale Edge of dark water
Earl Lovelace Is just a movie
Christopher Moore Sacre bleu: a comedy d'art
Sayed Kashua Second person singular
D.J. Taylor Derby Day
Penny Vincenzi More than you know

Historical Fiction
Kate Quinn Empress of the seven hills
Adriana Trigiani The shoemaker's wife

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Brian Andrews The calypso directive
Wayne Arthurson A killing winter
Rita Mae Brown The big cat nap: the 20th anniversary Mrs. Murphy mystery
Paul Doherty Bloodstone: being the eleventh of the Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan
Byron L. Dorgan & David Hagberg Blowout
Vince Flynn Kill shot
Beth Gutcheon Gossip
Jane Haddam Blood in the water
Carolyn Hart Death comes silently
Jonathon King Midnight guardians: a Max Freeman thriller
Phillip Margolin Capitol murder: a novel of suspense
Alexander McCall Smith The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
Anne Perry Dorchester Terrace: a Charlotte & Thomas Pitt novel
James Sallis Driven
Jon Stock Games traitors play
Joseph Wambaugh Harbor nocturne
Kate Wilhelm Death of an artist

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
J.G. Ballard Kingdom come
Seth Grahame-Smith Unholy night
Tim Powers Hide me among the graves
Robert J. Sawyer Triggers

Short Stories
Etgar Keret Suddenly, a knock on the door

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NONFICTION
Arts & Architecture
Kaffe Fassett's quilts en Provence 746.46 F24qu

Biography & Genealogy
Hugh Brewster Gilded lives, fatal voyage: the Titanic's first-class passengers & their world 910.45 G656
Robert Hardman Her majesty: Queen Elizabeth II & her Court 92 E4345hh
Claire Bidwell Smith The rules of inheritance: a memoir 616.994 S642
David Cohen The escape of Sigmund Freud 92 F895c

Business & Economics
Greg David Modern New York: the life & economics of a city 330.9747 D249
Peter D. Kiernan Becoming China's bitch: & nine more catastrophes we must avoid right now: a manifesto for the radical center 330.973 K475
Michael Moran The reckoning: debt, democracy & the future of American power 330.973 M829
Bruce Piasecki Doing more with less: the new way to wealth 332.024 P58
Ruchir Sharma Breakout nations: in pursuit of the next economic miracles 330.9 S531
George Soros Financial turmoil in Europe & the United States: essays 330.94 S71

Computer Science
David Pogue & Aaron Miller iMovie '11 & iDVD: the missing manual 005.3 I29p
David Pogue Mac OS X Lion 005.432 M152pm
David Pogue Switching to the Mac: Lion edition 005.432 M152ps

Food & Drink
Mia Andler & Kevin Feinstein The Bay Area forager: your guide to edible wild plants of the San Francisco Bay Area 581.6 A552
Gustavo Arellano Taco USA: how Mexican food conquered America 641.5972 A679

Health & Medicine
Kaitlin Bell Barnett Dosed: the medication generation grows up 616.89 B437
Ricki Lewis The forever fix: gene therapy & the boy who saved it 616.042 L67

History
Brian Campbell The Romans & their world 937 C187
Victor Cha The impossible state: North Korea, past & future 951.93 C426
George Goodwin Fatal colours: Towton 1461--England's most brutal battle 942.04 G656
Paul Kriwaczek Babylon: Mesopotamia & the birth of civilization 935 K92
Isaac Levendel & Bernard Weisz Hunting down the Jews: Vichy, the Nazis & Mafia collaborators in Provence, 1942-1944 940.5318 L671
Scott Martelle Detroit: a biography 977.434 M376
Mary McAuliffe Clash of crowns: William the Conqueror, Richard Lionheart & Eleanor of Aquitaine: a story of bloodshed, betrayal & revenge 942.03 M478
Lawrence N. Powell The accidental city: improvising New Orleans 976.335 P885
Ray Raphael Mr. President: how & why the founders created a chief executive 352.23 R217
Scott Wallace The unconquered: in search of the Amazon's last uncontacted tribes 981 W187

Home & Family Management
John H. Tullock The new American homestead: sustainable, self-sufficient living in the country or in the city 640 T921

Law
Peter Decherney Hollywood's copyright wars: from Edison to the Internet 346.048 D293

Literature & Writing
Eduardo C. Corral Slow lightning: poems 811 C823
W.G. Sebald Across the land & the water: selected poems, 1964-2001 831 S443
Aaron Shurin Citizen 811 S5618

Music & Performing Arts
Steven Feld Jazz cosmopolitanism in Accra: five musical years in Ghana 781.65 F312
Marion Jacobson Squeeze this!: a cultural history of the accordion in America 788.86 J176
Carole King A natural woman: a memoir 780.92 K52
Bernie Krause The great animal orchestra: finding the origins of music in the world's wild places 780 K913
Madonna & me: women writers on the queen of pop 780.92 M183m
Gerald Schoenfeld Mr. Broadway: the inside story of the Shuberts, the shows & the stars 792.023 S562s
Lisa Wong Scales to scalpels: doctors who practice the healing arts of music & medicine 781.1 W872

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Willis Barnstone (translator) The poems of Jesus Christ 226 B262
Paul C. Gutjahr The Book of Mormon: a biography 289.3 G98
Simon M. Laham The science of sin: the psychology of the seven deadlies (and why they are so good for you) 150 L183
T.M. Luhrmann When God talks back: understanding the American evangelical relationship with God 277.3 L951
The Huston Smith reader 200 S64p
Robert Wokler Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment & their legacies 194 R864

Politics & Government
Richard Aldous Reagan & Thatcher: the difficult relationship 327.73 A36
Eric Alterman & Kevin Mattson The cause: the fight for American liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama 320.51 A466
David Corn Showdown: the inside story of how Obama fought back against Boehner, Cantor & the Tea Party 973.932 C812
Heonik Kwon & Byung-Ho Chung North Korea: beyond charismatic politics 320.9519 K988
Michael Patrick Leahy Covenant of liberty: the ideological origins of the Tea Party movement 320.52 L434
Edward Luce Time to start thinking: America in the age of descent 973.932 L935

Social Sciences & Current Events
Charles, Prince of Wales Harmony: a new way of looking at our world 333.72 C42
Martin Cohen & Andrew McKillop The doomsday machine: the high price of nuclear energy, the world's most dangerous fuel 333.79 C678
Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler Abundance: the future is better than you think 303.483 D537
David Harvey Rebel cities: from the right to the city to the urban revolution 303.372 H34
Ray Hilborn Overfishing: what everyone needs to know 338.3727 H641
Akash Kapur India becoming: a portrait of life in modern India 330.954 K179
Joshua Knelman Hot art: chasing thieves & detectives through the secret world of stolen art 364.16 K687
Anthony Shadid House of stone: a memoir of home, family & a lost Middle East 306.0956 S524

Sports & Games
James Dodson American triumvirate: Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan & the modern age of golf 796.352 D647a
Robert K. Fitts Banzai Babe Ruth: baseball, espionage, & assassination during the 1934 tour of Japan 796.357 F547

Travel & Geography
Explorer's Guide Baltimore, Annapolis & the Chesapeake Bay 917.526 E96
Explorer's Guide Connecticut 917.46 E96
Explorer's Guide The Jersey Shore: Atlantic City to Cape May 917.49 E96
Explorer's Guide Kansas 917.81 E96
Explorer's Guide Minnesota: land of 10,000 lakes 917.76 E96
Explorer's Guide South Carolina 917.57 E96
Explorer's Guide West Virginia 917.54 E96
Fodor's Colorado 917.88 F65
Fodor's essential USA 917.3 F65
Fodor's Portland 917.9549 F65
Fodor's the Carolinas & Georgia 917.56 F65

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Joyce Carol Oates Mudwoman

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
John Grisham The firm
Tom Rob Smith Agent 6
Stuart Woods Unnatural acts: a Stone Barrington novel
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EBOOKS
Jeffrey Kluger The sibling effect: what the bonds among brothers & sisters reveal about us
Steve Pieczenik Tom Clancy's Op-center

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DVDs
Classics
Moulin Rouge [1952]

Drama
A better life
Cross Creek
Dead Poets Society

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Tinker tailor soldier spy [2011]

Nonfiction
American teacher 371.1 A512
Born rich 305.52 B736
Encounters at the end of the world 998 E562
4th & goal 796.33 F781
Hell & back again 958.1 H315

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CDs
Jazz
Pilc, Moutin, Hoenig Threedom

Posted on Apr. 20, 2012 by Matt Montgomery