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BOOKS

FICTION
Kurt Andersen True believers
Jennifer Weiner The next best thing

Historical Fiction
Liza Klaussmann Tigers in red weather

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Carlos Fuentes Vlad
Jesse Kellerman Potboiler
Carlos Ruiz Zafon The prisoner of heaven
John Verdon Let the devil sleep

Short Stories
Richard Russo Interventions: a novella & three stories

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Michel Rabagliati The song of Roland 741.5 R112

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Stanley Coren Do dogs dream?: nearly everything your dog wants you to know 636.7 C79d
Steven Ujifusa A man & his ship: America's greatest naval architect & his quest to build the S.S. United States 623.8 G444

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Ai Weiwei Ai Weiwei's blog: writings, interviews & digital rants, 2006-2009 709.51 A288
An autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area, parts 1 & 2. Part 2, The future lasts forever 779 A939
Josephine Ross Beaton in Vogue 770.92 B36r
Marian Bisanz-Prakken Gustav Klimt: the magic of line 741.9 K648
Victoria Nelson Gothicka: vampire heroes, human gods & the new supernatural 700.415 N43
Alexandra Schwartz Ed Ruscha's Los Angeles 709.2 R951s

Biography & Genealogy
Héctor Abad Oblivion: a memoir 610.92 A116
Douglas Brinkley Cronkite 070.92 C94b
Michael Darlow & Barbara Bray Ibn Saud: the desert warrior who created the kingdom of Saudi Arabia 92 I13d
John Guy Thomas Becket: warrior, priest, rebel: a 900-year-old-story retold 92 T454
Cory MacLauchlin Butterfly in the typewriter: the tragic life of John Kennedy Toole & the remarkable story of A confederacy of dunces 92 T671m

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Jacques Bonnet Phantoms on the bookshelves 002.075 B717

Business & Economics
Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele The betrayal of the American dream 330.973 B257b
The best business writing 2012 658 B56
Max Isaacman Winning with ETF strategies: top asset managers share their methods for besting the market 332.6327 I73w
Robert T. Kiyosaki Rich dad, poor dad: what the rich teach their kids about money-- that the poor & middle class do not 332.024 J62
Katherine Losse The boy kings: a journey into the heart of the social network 338.761 L881
Jonah Sachs Winning the story wars: why those who tell--and live--the best stories will rule the future 658.8 S121
Hugh Sinclair Confessions of a microfinance heretic: how microlending lost its way & betrayed the poor 332 S616

Chess
Boris Alterman The Alterman gambit guide. Black gambits 1 794.122 A466b v.1
Helgi Olafsson Bobby Fischer comes home: the final years in Iceland: a saga of friendship & lost illusions 794.1 F52h
Alexander Khalifman Opening for white according to Kramnik: 1.nf3 794.122 K89 2011 v.4
Isaak & Vladimir Linder José Raúl Capablanca : third World Chess Champion 794.15 C23L
Igor Lysyj, Roman Ovetchkin The Berlin defence 794.122 L995
Miguel Najdorf Zürich 1953: 15 contenders for the World Chess Championship 794.157 N16k

Computer Science
Paul E. Ceruzzi Computing: a concise history 004 C418
Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman Networked: the new social operating system 006.7 R157

Food & Drink
Marisa McClellan Food in jars: preserving in small batches year-round 641.4 M478

Health & Medicine
Darcy Lockman Brooklyn zoo: the education of a psychotherapist 616.891 L816
Eric Manheimer Twelve patients: life & death at Bellevue Hospital 362.11 M277
Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy Rabid: a cultural history of the world's most diabolical virus 614.563 W319

History
John W. Dower Ways of forgetting, ways of remembering: Japan in the modern world 940.5352 D746
Bernard Lewis Notes on a century: reflections of a Middle East historian 956 L67n
Keith Lowe Savage continent: Europe in the aftermath of World War II 940.55 L913
Robert W. Merry Where they stand: the American presidents in the eyes of voters & historians 973 M573
Shawn Francis Peters The Catonsville Nine: an American story 959.7 P481
Mike Phipps & Don Holmgren Watermusic in the track: a history of San Francisco cable cars 625.6 P573
Daniel Pick The pursuit of the Nazi mind: Hitler, Hess & the analysts 943.086 P594

Home & Family Management
Matthew Batt Sugarhouse: a memoir 643.7 B335
Michelle Obama American grown: the story of the White House kitchen garden & gardens across America 635.0975 O1215

Law
Kevin Bleyer Me the people, or, One man's quest to rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America 342.7302 B647

Literature & Writing
Isabelle Eberhardt Writings from the sand, volume 1: collected works of Isabelle Eberhardt 848 E161 v.1
Michael Larsen How to write a book proposal 808.02 L334
Daniel Levin Becker Many subtle channels: in praise of potential literature 840.9 L665
John T. Noonan, Jr Shakespeare's spiritual sonnets 822.3 N817
Joan Rivers I hate everyone... starting with me 814 R622
Winning words: The New York Society Library Young Writers Awards, 2003-2012 810.8 N5328

Music & Performing Arts
Ted Gioia The jazz standards: a guide to the repertoire 781.65 G495

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Alex Boese Electrified sheep: glass-eating scientists, nuking the moon & more bizarre experiments 500 B672
Albert Binkley Dickas 101 American geo-sites you've gotta see 557.3 D547
Ofir Drori & David McDannald The last great ape: a journey through Africa & a fight for the heart of the continent 599.88 D786
Hali Felt Soundings: the remarkable woman who mapped the ocean floor 526.092 T367
David Kirby Death at SeaWorld: Shamu & the dark side of killer whales in captivity 599.536 K58
Sébastien Steyer Earth before the dinosaurs 596 S853
Terrie M. Williams The odyssey of KP2: an orphan seal, a marine biologist & the fight to save a species from extinction 599.79 W727

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Augusten Burroughs This is how: proven aid in overcoming shyness, molestation, fatness, spinsterhood, grief, disease, lushery, decrepitude & more... for young & old alike. 158.1 B972
R. Jay Magill, Jr Sincerity: how a moral ideal born five hundred years ago inspired religious wars, modern art, hipster chic & the curious notion that we all have something to say (no matter how dull) 179.9 M194
David Niose Nonbeliever nation: the rise of secular Americans 211.6 N718
David Rynick This truth never fails: a Zen memoir in four seasons 294.3 R995
Nancy L. Segal Born together...reared apart: the landmark Minnesota twin study 306.875 S45
Sarah Silverton The mindfulness breakthrough: the revolutionary approach to dealing with stress, anxiety & depression 158.12 S587
Michael Walzer In God's shadow: politics in the Hebrew Bible 221 W24
Eric G. Wilson Everyone loves a good train wreck: why we can't look away 155.93 W748

Politics & Government
Peter Hennessy The secret state: preparing for the worst 1945-2010 327.41 H515
Alison Pargeter Libya: the rise & fall of Qaddafi 961.2 P229

Reference
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational outlook handbook 331.7 O156

Social Sciences & Current Events
Ken Budd The voluntourist: a six-country tale of love, loss, fatherhood, fate & singing Bon Jovi in Bethlehem 361.74 B927
Labor rising: the past & future of working people in America 331.88 L1234
Walter Lippman Public opinion 303.38 L766
Reuters Our world now 5 909.83 O939
Karl Pillemer 30 lessons for living: tried & true advice from the wisest Americans 305.26 P641
Peter Post Essential manners for men: what to do, when to do it & why 395 P857
To promote the general welfare: the case for big government 361.973 T627

Sports & Games
Lopez Lomong Running for my life: one Lost Boy's journey from the killing fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games 796.42 L846

Travel & Geography
Albania: the Bradt travel guide 914.965 B81
Shelley Buck Floating point: endlessly rocking off Silicon Valley 917.946 B922
Lonely Planet Banff, Jasper & Glacier national parks 917.1233 L847
Lonely Planet Cambodia 915.96 L847
Lonely Planet Denmark 914.89 L847
Lonely Planet Dominican Republic & Haiti 917.293 L847
Lonely Planet Kenya 916.762 L847
Lonely Planet Northern California 917.94 L847n
Lonely Planet Poland 914.38 L847
Lonely Planet Russia 914.7 L847
Lonely Planet Southern Italy 914.57 L847
Lonely Planet Sweden 914.85 L847
The unofficial guide to Washington, D.C. 917.53 U585

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Mary Alice Monroe Beach house memories

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Meg Rosoff There is no dog
Dr. Seuss ; pop-ups by David A. Carter The Lorax pop-up!
John Corey Whaley Where things come back

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
John Le Carré Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy
Patrick O'Brian Master & commander
Patrick O'Brian Post captain

Nonfiction
Hank Haney The big miss: my years coaching Tiger Woods 796.352 W89hanc
Marilu Henner Total memory makeover: uncover your past, take charge of your future 153.12 H515c
Anna Quindlen Lots of candles, plenty of cake 92 Q7c
Michael J. Sandel What money can't buy: the moral limits of markets 174 S214c

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DVDs
Nonfiction
Art:21: art in the twenty-first century. Season five 709 A792

Posted on Aug. 10, 2012 by Matt Montgomery