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BOOKS

FICTION
Kevin Barry City of Bohane
Jane Gardam Crusoe's daughter
Kim Izzo The Jane Austen marriage manual
Andrey Kurkov Death & the penguin
Norman Manea The lair
Alexander McCall Smith A conspiracy of friends
Maggie Shipstead Seating arrangements
Franz Werfel Pale blue ink in a lady's hand: a novella

Historical Fiction
Lindsey Davis Master & God
C.W. Gortner The queen's vow: a novel of Isabella of Castile
Francine du Plessix Gray The queen's lover
Anna Keesey Little century
Frances Osborne Park Lane
Mario Vargas Llosa The dream of the Celt

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Alafair Burke Never tell: a novel of suspense
Lincoln Child The third gate
Colin Cotterill Grandad, there's a head on the beach
Nick Crowe A cold night for alligators
Judith Cutler Guilt trip: a Lina Townend mystery
Jeffery Deaver XO
David Ellis The wrong man
Conor Fitzgerald The namesake: a Commissario Alec Blume novel
Gillian Flynn Gone girl
Brian Freemantle Red star burning: a thriller
Elizabeth Haynes Into the darkest corner
Jonathan Hicks The dead of Mametz
Anne Holt Blind goddess
Peter Lovesey Cop to corpse
Sheldon Russell Dead man's tunnel
Steven Saylor The seven wonders: a novel of the ancient world
Charles Todd An unmarked grave: a Bess Crawford mystery
Simon Toyne The key
David Whellams Walking into the ocean

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
David Brin Existence
Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter The long Earth
John Scalzi Redshirts

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Jeffrey Brown Darth Vader & son 741.5 B877

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
David F. Dufty How to build an android: the true story of Philip K. Dick's robotic resurrection 629.89 D864

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Leslie Williamson Handcrafted modern: at home with mid-century designers 747 W729
World textiles: a sourcebook 677 W927

Biography & Genealogy
Gordon Bowker James Joyce: a biography 92 J88b
Edward Klein The amateur: Barack Obama in the White House 973.932 O12k

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Jenny Lawson Let's pretend this never happened: (a mostly true memoir) 070.92 L425

Business & Economics
Eli Broad The art of being unreasonable: lessons in unconventional thinking 338.092 B863
James K. Galbraith Inequality & instability: a study of the world economy just before the Great Crisis 339.2 G139
Dick Morris & Eileen McGann Screwed!: how foreign countries are ripping America off & plundering our economy--and how our leaders help them do it 337.73 M875
Dambisa F. Moyo Winner take all: China's race for resources & what it means for the world 330.951 M93
Fred Pearce The land grabbers: the new fight over who owns the Earth 333.3 P36
Howard Schilit, Jeremy Perler Financial shenanigans 657 S334
Frank Sennett Groupon's biggest deal ever: the inside story of how one insane gamble, tons of unbelievable hype & millions of wild deals made billions for one ballsy joker 381 S478

Chess
Alexander Delchev The modern Réti: an Anti-Slav repertoire 794.122 D345
Tim Harding Eminent Victorian chess players: ten biographies 794.1 H263
Igor Lysyj & Roman Ovetchkin The open games for black: a complete black repertoire with 1.e4 e5 against everthing except the Ruy Lopez 794.122 L995o
Milos Pavlovic The cutting edge: Sicilian Najdorf 6.e3 794.122 P338c
Joseph G. Ponterotto A psychobiography of Bobby Fischer: understanding the genius, mystery & psychological decline of a world chess champion 794.1 F52p
Nikita Vitiugov The French defence: reloaded 794.122 V833

Computer Science
James Beswick Google Apps express: the fast way to start working in the cloud 005.3 G211b

Health & Medicine
Tomasz M. Beer & Larry W. Axmaker Cancer clinical trials: a commonsense guide to experimental cancer therapies & clinical trials 616.994 B415
Greg Campbell Pot, Inc.: inside medical marijuana, America's most outlaw industry 362.295 C187
H. Ballentine Carter & Gerald Secor Couzens The whole life prostate book: everything that every man-at every age-needs to know about maintaining optimal prostate health 616.65 C323

History
John Mraz Photographing the Mexican Revolution: commitments, testimonies, icons 972 M939
Raymond Van Dam Rome & Constantinople: rewriting Roman history during late antiquity 937 V224
Bernard Wasserstein On the eve: the Jews of Europe before the Second World War 305.892 W32

Law
P. Mark Accettura Blood & money: why families fight over inheritance & what to do about it 347.6 A169

Literature & Writing
Will Eno Middletown: a play 812 E57
Vladimir Nabokov Selected poems 811 N11

Music & Performing Arts
J.D. Davis Unconquered: the saga of cousins Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Swaggart & Mickey Gilley 780.92 L674d
Todd Decker Music makes me: Fred Astaire & jazz 792.092 A85t
Mark Dillon Fifty sides of the Beach Boys 780.92 B357
Moshe Kasher Kasher in the rye: the true tale of a white boy from Oakland who became a drug addict, criminal, mental patient & then turned 16 792.7 K191
Alex Stone Fooling Houdini: magicians, mentalists, math geeks & the hidden powers of the mind 793.8 S877
Richard Vacca The Boston jazz chronicles: faces, places & nightlife, 1937-1962 781.65 V113

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Daniel Chamovitz What a plant knows: a field guide to the senses 580 C448
Kent Flannery & Joyce Marcus The creation of inequality: how our prehistoric ancestors set the stage for monarchy, slavery & empire 569.9 F585
Nick Lomb Transit of Venus: 1631 to the present 523.9 L839
Bill McGuire Waking the giant: how a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis & volcanoes 551.6 M148

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Lama Marut A spiritual renegade's guide to the good life 294.34 S642

Politics & Government
Gail Collins As Texas goes--: how the Lone Star State hijacked the American agenda 320.6 C71
John Stossel No, they can't: why government fails--but individuals succeed 320.6 S889

Social Sciences & Current Events
Rachelle Bergstein Women from the ankle down: the story of shoes & how they define us 391.41 B499
Andrew Blackwell Visit sunny Chernobyl: & other adventures in the world's most polluted places 363.73 B632
Robin Gaby Fisher & Angelo J. Guglielmo. Jr The woman who wasn't there: the true story of an incredible deception 364.16 F533
Linda Hirshman Victory: the triumphant gay revolution 306.76 H617
James Howard Kunstler Too much magic: wishful thinking, technology & the fate of the nation 363.7 K96
Meghan McCain & Michael Ian Black America, you sexy bitch: a love letter to freedom 303.38 M1217
Joseph E. Stiglitz The price of inequality 305.5 S85

Sports & Games
John Fox The ball: discovering the object of the game 796 F791
Mark Hyman The most expensive game in town: the rising cost of youth sports & the toll on today's families 796 H996

Travel & Geography
Frommer's Cuba 917.291 F93
Gideon Lewis-Kraus A sense of direction: pilgrimage for the restless & the hopeful 910.4 L674
Lonely Planet Cuba 917.291 L847

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
Blood alley
Captain America: the first avenger

Animation
Batman: Gotham knight

Comedy
The artist
Choose me
She's having a baby
Wimbledon

Drama
Bright star
Great expectations
The Old Curiosity Shop
Oliver Twist

Musicals
Gene Autry: 8 episodes

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
The day of the jackal
Out of time

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Blade runner [director's cut]
The road warrior & Mad Max beyond Thunderdome

Posted on Jul. 13, 2012 by Matt Montgomery