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New Titles: June 9 - June 15, 2012

BOOKS

FICTION
Andrei Codrescu Whatever gets you through the night: a story of Sheherezade & the Arabian entertainments
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi The colonel
Susan Wilson One good dog

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Jeffrey Archer The sins of the father
Andrea Camilleri The age of doubt
Stephen Coonts The sea witch: three novellas
James McGee Hawkwood: a regency crime thriller
Bernadette Pajer Fatal induction

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NONFICTION
Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Maggie Macnab Design by nature: using universal forms & principles in design 745.4 M169

Business & Economics
Bob Reiss The Eskimo & the oil man: the battle at the top of the world for America's future 333.82 R378
Peter D. Schiff The real crash: America's coming bankruptcy--how to save yourself & your country 330.973 S333

Computer Science
Tim O'Reilly & Sarah Milstein The Twitter book 006.7 T97o
James P. Steyer Talking back to Facebook: the common sense guide to raising kids in the digital age 004.6 S853

Food & Drink
John T. Edge The truck food cookbook: 150 recipes & ramblings from America's best restaurants on wheels 641.5 E232

Health & Medicine
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young The woman who changed her brain: & other inspiring stories of pioneering brain transformation 612.8 A779
Lee Guttkind & Pagan Kennedy An immense new power to heal: the promise of personalized medicine 616.042 G98

Languages & Linguistics
Marjorie Garber Loaded words 422 G213

Literature & Writing
Gerald Stern Stealing history 811 S839s
Joseph Vogl On tarrying 838 V883

Music & Performing Arts
Frank Langella Dropped names: famous men & women as I knew them 792.092 L274

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Mark Anderson The day the world discovered the sun: an extraordinary story of scientific adventure & the race to track the transit of Venus 523.9 A545
Gregory Chaitin Proving Darwin: making biology mathematical 576.8 C435
Brian Clegg Gravity: how the weakest force in the universe shaped our lives 531.14 C624

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Gregory Schrempp The ancient mythology of modern science: a mythologist looks (seriously) at popular science writing 201.65 S378
Ann Wroe Orpheus: the song of life 292 R378

Politics & Government
William J. Dobson The dictator's learning curve: inside the global battle for democracy 321.8 D635

Social Sciences & Current Events
Andrew Blum Tubes: a journey to the center of the Internet 384.3 B658
Richard Lloyd Parry People who eat darkness: the true story of a young woman who vanished from the streets of Tokyo & the evil that swallowed her up 364.152 P264
Rodger Streitmatter Outlaw marriages: the hidden histories of fifteen extraordinary same-sex couples 306.84 S915

Sports & Games
Charles Haine The urban biking handbook: the DIY guide to building, rebuilding, tinkering with & repairing your bicycle for city living 796.6 H152
Grant Petersen Just ride: a radically practical guide to riding your bike 796.6 P484

Travel & Geography
Frommer's New England day by day 917.404 F93d
Frommer's Thailand 915.93 F93
Adrian Tierney-Jones CAMRA's great British pubs 914.1 T564

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EBOOKS
John Bateson The final leap: suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge
Charles Duhigg The power of habit: why we do what we do in life & business
Nathan Englander What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank: stories
Thom Hartmann Screwed: the undeclared war against the middle class--and what we can do about it
Gay Hendricks & Tinker Lindsay The first rule of Ten
Alexander McCall Smith The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
John Sandford Shock wave

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DVDs
Nonfiction
We were here 616.979 W361

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CDs
Jazz
Preservation Hall Jazz Band Preservation: an album to benefit Preservation Hall & the Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program

Posted on Jun. 15, 2012 by Matt Montgomery