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New Titles: May 12 - May 18, 2012

BOOKS

FICTION
Allison Winn Scotch The song remains the same

Historical Fiction
Laurent Binet HHhH
Hilary Mantel Bring up the bodies

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Marcia Clark Guilt by degrees
Chuck Greaves Hush money
Sadie Jones The uninvited guests
Donna Leon Beastly things
Mark Mills House of the hunted
Katherine Hall Page The body in the boudoir: a Faith Fairchild mystery
James Runcie Sidney Chambers & the shadow of death

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Alison Bechdel Are you my mother?: a comic drama 741.5 B391a

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Paul Ingrassia Engines of change: a history of the American dream in fifteen cars 629.222 I54
Neil deGrasse Tyson Space chronicles: facing the ultimate frontier 629.4 T994

Biography & Genealogy
Meg Greene Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: a biography 92 G259g
Jeff Himmelman Yours in truth: a personal portrait of Ben Bradlee 070.92 B81h
Anna Quindlen Lots of candles, plenty of cake 92 Q7
Glenn L. Starks & F. Erik Brooks Thurgood Marshall: a biography 340.9 M369s

Business & Economics
Paul Krugman End this depression now! 330.973 K94e

Food & Drink
Karen Adler & Judith Fertig The gardener & the grill: the bounty of the garden meets the sizzle of the grill 641.76 A23
Danielle Levy Cupcake cakes: delicious, delightful, & spectacular 641.865 L668
Martha Stewart Martha's American food: a celebration of our nation's most treasured dishes, from coast to coast 641.5 S851a

Health & Medicine
Timothy Caulfield The cure for everything: untangling twisted messages about health, fitness & happiness 613 C372
Susan Gubar Memoir of a debulked woman: enduring ovarian cancer 616.994 G466
Robert N. Proctor Golden holocaust: origins of the cigarette catastrophe & the case for abolition 362.296 P96
Victoria Sweet God's hotel: a doctor, a hospital & a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine 610.92 S974

History
Herbert Hoover Freedom betrayed: Herbert Hoover's secret history of the Second World War & its aftermath 940.5373 H789
Craig B. Smith Counting the days: POWs, internees & stragglers of World War II in the Pacific 940.5472 S64
David Talbot Season of the witch: enchantment, terror & deliverance in the city of love 979.461 T138
Geoffrey C. Ward A disposition to be rich: how a small-town pastor's son ruined an American president, brought on a Wall Street crash & made himself the best-hated man in the United States 92 W258

Literature & Writing
Jez Butterworth Mojo & other plays 822 B988m
Katherine Frank Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox & the creation of a myth 823 D314f
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reader 810.9 G259h

Music & Performing Arts
Ken Caillat Making Rumours: the inside story of the classic Fleetwood Mac album 780.92 F595c

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Jean Baudrillard Impossible exchange 194 B34
Leonard Mlodinow Subliminal: how your unconscious mind rules your behavior 154.2 M68
Martha C. Nussbaum The new religious intolerance: overcoming the politics of fear in an anxious age 201.7 N975
Michael J. Sandel What money can't buy: the moral limits of markets 174 S214
Peter Sloterdijk Bubbles: microspherology 126 S634

Politics & Government
Aryeh Neier The international human rights movement: a history 323 N397
Michael Savage Trickle down tyranny: crushing Obama's dream of the Socialist States of America 320.52 S264

Pure Sciences
Eric Rutkow American canopy: trees, forests & the making of a nation 577.3 R977
Andrea Wulf Chasing Venus: the race to measure the heavens 523.9 W961

Social Sciences & Current Events
Taras Grescoe Straphanger: saving our cities & ourselves from the automobile 388.4 G83

Sports & Games
Hank Haney The big miss: my years coaching Tiger Woods 796.352 W89han

Travel & Geography
Susan Cahill Hidden gardens of Paris: a guide to the parks, squares & woodlands of the City of Light 914.436 C128
Frommer's New Zealand day by day 919.3 F93d
Insiders' guide to Twin Cities 917.76 I591
National Geographic guide to national parks of the United States 917.304 N277n
National Geographic guide to state parks of the United States 917.304 N277s

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AUDIOBOOKS
Nonfiction
Leonard Mlodinow Subliminal: how your unconscious mind rules your behavior 154.2 M68c

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DVDs
Comedy
Find me guilty

Posted on May. 18, 2012 by Matt Montgomery