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New Titles: December 8-14, 2012

BOOKS

FICTION
Deborah Levy Swimming home
Robin Maxwell Jane: the woman who loved Tarzan
Irène Némirovsky The wine of solitude
Victoria Roberts After the fall: an illustrated novel
Emma Straub Laura Lamont's life in pictures
Lygia Fagundes Telles The girl in the photograph
Enrique Vila-Matas Dublinesque
Herman Wouk The lawgiver

Historical Fiction
Angus Donald King's man: a novel of Robin Hood
Colm Tóibín The testament of Mary
James Wilde The time of the wolf

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
C.C. Benison Eleven pipers piping
James Church A drop of Chinese blood
K.O. Dahl Lethal investments
Rick Gavin Beluga
Dashiell Hammett Return of the thin man: the original screen stories
Stephen M. Irwin The broken ones
Roderic Jeffries Murdered by nature
James Kimmel, Jr The trial of fallen angels
Eliot Pattison Mandarin gate
A.D. Scott Beneath the abbey wall
Paul Sussman The labyrinth of Osiris

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Ray Bradbury Dandelion wine
Kate Griffin Stray souls

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Mark Waid Daredevil. Vol. 1 741.5 D217w
Mark Waid Daredevil. Vol. 2 741.5 D217w

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NONFICTION
Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Sheila Hale Titian: his life 750.92 T61h
Raymond Pettibon 741.9 P511
Ed Templeton The cemetery of reason 709.2 T288
John Updike Always looking: essays on art 700 U66a

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
John B. Thompson Merchants of culture: the publishing business in the twenty-first century 070.5 T468

History
Kevin Phillips 1775: a good year for revolution 973.3 P56
John Rennie Short Representing the Republic: mapping the United States, 1600-1900 912.09 S55

Law
Who owns the past?: cultural policy, cultural property & the law 344.7309 W628

Literature & Writing
Sorley MacLean White leaping flame: collected poems in Gaelic with English translations 891.63 M145
David Foster Wallace Both flesh & not: essays 814 W18b

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Mad science: Einstein's fridge, Dewar's flask, Mach's speed & 362 other inventions & discoveries that made our world 500 M178
Nate Silver The signal & the noise: why so many predictions fail-- but some don't 519.5 S587

Performing Arts & Music
Philip Norman Mick Jagger 780.92 J24n
John Taylor In the pleasure groove: love, death, & Duran Duran 780.92 T244

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Jean Baudrillard Simulacra & simulation 194 B34s
Women philosophers of the early modern period 190 W872

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EBOOKS
Mary Ellen Hannibal The spine of the continent: the most ambitious wildlife conservation project ever undertaken

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DVDs
Nonfiction
Ai Weiwei: never sorry 709.2 A288
The Civil War 973.7 B96

Posted on Dec. 14, 2012 by Matt Montgomery