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New Titles: April 7 - April 13, 2012

BOOKS

FICTION
Tiffany Baker The Gilly salt sisters
Louise Doughty Whatever you love
Jennifer DuBois A partial history of lost causes
Delia Ephron The lion is in
Valerie Frankel Four of a kind
Nadine Gordimer No time like the present
Sanjay Gupta Monday mornings
Riikka Pulkkinen True
Lionel Shriver The new republic
Anne Tyler The beginner's goodbye

Historical Fiction
Kate Alcott The dressmaker
Carolina De Robertis Perla

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Tom Epperson Sailor
Christopher Fowler The memory of blood: a Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery
Owen Laukkanen The professionals
Lisa Lutz The Spellmans strike again
Kieran Shields The truth of all things
Tina Whittle Darker than any shadow: a Tai Randolph mystery
Jacqueline Winspear Elegy for Eddie

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Elizabeth Bear Range of ghosts
Steven John Three A.M.
Ted Kosmatka The games

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Larry Gonick The cartoon guide to calculus 741.5 G638c

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NONFICTION
Arts & Architecture
Katrin Eismann, Séán Duggan & Tim Grey Real world digital photography 775 E365
The muses go to school: inspiring stories about the importance of arts in education 700.71 M986
Anne-Marie O'Connor The lady in gold: the extraordinary tale of Gustav Klimt's masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer 750.92 K648o

Biography & Genealogy
Glenn Beck & Kevin Balfe Being George Washington: the indispensable man, as you've never seen him 92 W318bg
Richard Davenport-Hines Voyagers of the Titanic: passengers, sailors, shipbuilders, aristocrats & the worlds they came from 910.45 D247
Paul Schilperoord The extraordinary life of Josef Ganz: the Jewish engineer behind Hitler's Volkswagen 338.092 G211

Business & Economics
Jon Burgstone & Bill Murphy, Jr Breakthrough entrepreneurship: the proven framework for building brilliant new businesses 658.11 B957
Caroline Dakers A genius for money: business, art & the Morrisons 338.092 M878
Frances Frei & Anne Morriss Uncommon service: how to win by putting customers at the core of your business 658.8 D862

Chess
Jacob Aagaard & Nikolaos Ntirlis The Tarrasch defence 794.122 A11t
Cyrus Lakdawala The Caro-Kann: move by move 794.122 L192c

Food & Drink
Jim Meehan The PDT cocktail book: the complete bartender's guide from the celebrated speakeasy 641.874 M494
Barb Stuckey Taste what you're missing: the passionate eater's guide to getting more from every bite 641.01 S932

Health & Medicine
Otis Webb Brawley How we do harm: a doctor breaks ranks about being sick in America 362.1 B826
Marcia M. Degelman Explaining health: what you need to know to stay healthy 613 D317
Rebecca L. Johnson & Steven Foster National Geographic guide to medicinal herbs: the world's most effective healing plants 615.321 N27
Clint Werner Marijuana: gateway to health: how cannabis protects us from cancer & Alzheimer's disease 615.323 W492

History
John Dougill In search of Japan's hidden Christians: a story of suppression, secrecy & survival 282.52 D732
Peter Mangold Britain & the defeated French: from occupation to liberation, 1940-1944 940.532 M277
Tony Platt Grave matters: excavating California's buried past 979.412 P719
Helen Rappaport A magnificent obsession: Victoria, Albert & the death that changed the British monarchy 941.081 R22
Piers Paul Read The Dreyfus affair: the scandal that tore France in two 944.081 R28
Martin Sixsmith Russia: a 1,000-year chronicle of the wild east 947 S625

Home & Family Management
Mayim Bialik Beyond the sling: a real-life guide to raising confident, loving children the attachment parenting way 649.1 B576

Languages & Linguistics
David Crystal The story of English in 100 words 422 C95
Andrea Stone & Marc Zender Reading Maya art: a hieroglyphic guide to ancient Maya painting & sculpture 497.4 S877

Literature & Writing
The complete romances of Chrétien de Troyes 841 C55s
John D'Agata & Jim Fingal The lifespan of a fact 808.02 D125
Stephen Meadows Releasing the days 811 M482
Gary Saul Morson The long & short of it: from aphorism to novel 818 M886
Ruth Richardson Dickens & the workhouse: Oliver Twist & the London poor 823 D5482r

Music & Performing Arts
Andrew Barker The science of harmonics in classical Greece 781.23 B255
Dan Callahan Barbara Stanwyck: the miracle woman 792.092 S79c

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Justin L. Barrett Born believers: the science of children's religious belief 200.1 B274
David G. Benner Spirituality & the awakening self: the sacred journey of transformation 248 B469
Chip Conley Emotional equations: simple truths for creating happiness + success 158 C752
Georg Ratzinger My brother, the Pope 282.092 B615r
Jon M. Sweeney The Pope who quit: a medieval tale of mystery, death & salvation 282.092 C3925

Politics & Government
Peter Beinart The crisis of Zionism 320.54 B422
Jack Goldsmith Power & constraint: the accountable presidency after 9/11 352.23 G62
Rachel Maddow Drift: the unmooring of American military power 306.2 M179

Pure Sciences
Andrew R. Halloran The song of the ape: understanding the languages of chimpanzees 599.885 H192
Lawrence M. Krauss A universe from nothing: why there is something rather than nothing 523.1 K91
Ian Tattersall Masters of the planet: seeking the origins of human singularity 599.93 T221m

Social Sciences & Current Events
Jennifer Cockrall-King Food & the city: urban agriculture & the new food revolution 363.8 C666
Michael Dubasso Stamp collecting: the definitive-everything you ever wanted to know 383 D813
Gilbert King Devil in the grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys & the dawn of a new America 305.896 K521
Jessie Klein The bully society: school shootings & the crisis of bullying in America's schools 302.343 K643
Liza Mundy The richer sex: how the new majority of female breadwinners is transforming sex, love & family 305.4 M965
Philip Oltermann Keeping up with the Germans: a history of Anglo-German encounters 303.482 O529
Andrew Preston Sword of the spirit, shield of faith: religion in American war & diplomacy 322.1 P937
Michael J. Reznicek Blowing smoke: rethinking the war on drugs without prohibition & rehab 362.29 R467
Julie Scardina & Jeff Flocken Wildlife heroes: 40 leading conservationists & the animals they are committed to saving 333.72 S285
Doug Shadel Outsmarting the scam artists: how to protect yourself from the most clever cons 364.16 S524
Why are faggots so afraid of faggots?: flaming challenges to masculinity, objectification & the desire to conform 306.76 W629

Sports & Games
Jim Yardley Brave Dragons: a Chinese basketball team, an American coach & two cultures clashing 796.3 Y27

Travel & Geography
Amy Thomas Paris, my sweet: a year in the City of Light (and dark chocolate) 914.436 T454

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Jacqueline Winspear Elegy for Eddie

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Chris Raschka A ball for Daisy

Nonfiction
Forget-me-nots: poems to learn by heart 811.08 F721
Hallie Fryd Scandalous!: 50 shocking events you should know about (so you can impress your friends) 973.9 F947
Marilyn Singer ; illustrated by LeUyen Pham A stick is an excellent thing: poems celebrating outdoor play 811 S617
Kira Vermond ; illustrated by Clayton Hanmer The secret life of money: a kid's guide to cash 332.4 V527

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EBOOKS
Michael Brandman Robert B. Parker's killing the blues
Iris Johansen The ugly duckling
Henning Mankell The troubled man

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DVDs
Nonfiction
The celluloid closet 791.43 C39
Lee & Grant 973.7 L479
Magic trip 306.1 M194
A small act 370.967 M478
Waiting for "Superman" 370.973 W145
When strangers click 306.73 W567

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CDs
Folk
Leonard Cohen Old ideas

Jazz
Bill Frisell All we are saying

Musicals & Soundtracks
Jack Johnson Sing-a-longs & lullabies for the film Curious George
Classic film scores for Bette Davis

Opera
Mark Adamo Late Victorians
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Idomeneo: K. 366
Offenbach The tales of Hoffmann

Vocals
Percy Faith's greatest hits

Posted on Apr. 13, 2012 by Matt Montgomery