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New Titles: November 17-30, 2012

BOOKS

FICTION
John Banville Ancient light
Patrick McGuinness The last hundred days
Andrew Miller Pure
Lydia Millet Magnificence
Janis Owens American ghost
Susan Elizabeth Phillips The great escape
Tan Twan Eng The garden of evening mists
Jeet Thayil Narcopolis
Albert Vigoleis Thelen The island of second sight: from the applied recollections of Vigoleis

Historical Fiction
Iris Anthony The ruins of lace
Peter Geye The lighthouse road
Young-ha Kim Black flower

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Rhys Bowen The twelve clues of Christmas
Reed Farrel Coleman Gun church
Nelson DeMille The panther
Dan Fesperman The double game
J.M. Gregson More than meets the eye
John Grisham The racketeer
Jay Caspian Kang The dead do not improve
Barbara Kingsolver Flight behavior
Donna Leon Friends in high places
Donna Leon Quietly in their sleep
Peter May The Blackhouse
Ian McEwan Sweet tooth
James McGee Resurrectionist: a Regency crime thriller
D.J. McIntosh The witch of babylon
Kate Morton The secret keeper
P.G. Sturges Shortcut man
Chris Womersley Bereft

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
John Ajvide Lindqvist Little star
Christopher L. Bennett Only superhuman
Lois McMaster Bujold Captain Vorpatril's alliance
Octavia E. Butler Kindred
Victor LaValle The devil in silver

Short Stories
Wendell Berry A place in time: twenty stories of the Port William membership
Emma Donoghue Astray

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NONFICTION
Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Terry Allen 700.92 A425
Edie Eckman Connect-the-shapes crochet motifs 746.43 E19c
Franz Schulze & Edward Windhorst Mies van der Rohe: a critical biography 720.92 M63s

Biography & Genealogy
Jonathan Bate Soul of the age: a biography of the mind of William Shakespeare 822 S527bat
Ava Chamberlain The notorious Elizabeth Tuttle: marriage, murder & madness in the family of Jonathan Edwards 92 T967
Ian Donaldson Ben Jonson: a life 92 J81d
The letters of T.S. Eliot. Volume 2, 1923-1925 92 E422
The letters of T.S. Eliot. Volume 3, 1926-1927 92 E422
Matthew Hollis Now all roads lead to France: a life of Edward Thomas 92 T4552
Ian Mortimer The fears of Henry IV: the life of England's self-made king 92 H5214m

Business & Economics
Barton Biggs Diary of a hedgehog: Biggs' final words on the markets 332.645 B592
Thane Gustafson Wheel of fortune: the battle for oil & power in Russia 338.2728 G982
William Knoedelseder Bitter brew: the rise & fall of Anheuser-Busch & America's kings of beer 338.766 K723
Thomas K. McCraw The founders & finance: how Hamilton, Gallatin & other immigrants forged a new economy 330.973 M132

Chess
Study chess with Matthew Sadler 794.1 S117s
John Watson Play the French 794.122 W339p

Computer Science
Susannah Gardner & Shane Birley Blogging for dummies 006.7 G228

Food & Drink
Philip Greene To have & have another: a Hemingway cocktail companion 641.874 G799
Yotam Ottolenghi & Sami Tamimi Jerusalem: a cookbook 641.5676 O918

Health & Medicine
Oliver Sacks Hallucinations 616.8 S12h

History
Bernard Bailyn The barbarous years: the peopling of British North America: the conflict of civilizations, 1600-1675 973.2 B16b
Kathleen Kete Making way for genius: the aspiring self in France from the old regime to the new 944 K43
Philip Nord France's New Deal: from the thirties to the postwar era 944.081 N828
Linda Levy Peck Consuming splendor: society & culture in seventeenth-century England 942.06 P366
David Von Drehle Rise to greatness: Abraham Lincoln & America's most perilous year 973.7 V94

Languages & Linguistics
R. Anthony Lodge French, from dialect to standard 440 L822

Literature & Writing
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Time of useful consciousness: Americus, book II 811 F35ti
Nicola Healey Dorothy Wordsworth & Hartley Coleridge: the poetics of relationship 828 H434
Anka Muhlstein Monsieur Proust's library 843 P968m
The open door: one hundred poems, one hundred years of Poetry magazine 811.08 O611
John Bartlett Bartlett's familiar quotations: a collection of passages, phrases & proverbs traced to their sources in ancient & modern literature REF 800.8 B28

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Mike Goldsmith Discord: the story of noise 534 G624
Matthew Guerrieri The first four notes: Beethoven's Fifth & the human imagination 784.2 B41g
Roger Lovegrove Islands beyond the horizon: the life of twenty of the world's most remote places 577.52 L897

Performing Arts & Music
Jim Al-Khalili Paradox: the nine greatest enigmas in physics 500 A41
Robert O. Self All in the family: the realignment of American democracy since the 1960s 320.5 S465
Neil Young Waging heavy peace: a hippie dream 780.92 Y681
Linda Marie Zaerr Performance & the Middle English Romance 782 Z17

Politics & Government
Paul Bracken The second nuclear age: strategy, danger & the new power politics 327.11 B79
Danielle Steel A gift of hope: helping the homeless 362.5 S813

Social Sciences & Current Events
Amos Oz & Fania Oz-Salzberger Jews & words 305.892 O99
Ed Stafford Walking the Amazon: 860 days. One step at a time 796.5 S779
Marilyn Yalom How the French invented love: nine hundred years of passion & romance 306.7 Y19

Travel & Geography
Bradt Travel Guide Macedonia 914.976 B81
Bradt Travel Guide Slow Cotswolds: including Bath, Stratford-upon-Avon & Oxford 914.24 B81
Paris: portrait of a city 914.436 P2325
The rough guide to Istanbul 914.961 R856
A traveller's wine guide to California 917.94 T779
A traveller's wine guide to Spain 914.6 T779

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Gillian Flynn Gone girl

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Lemony Snicket ; art by Seth Who could that be at this hour?

Nonfiction
Joe Cribb Eyewitness money 332.4 C92
Hadley Dyer Potatoes on rooftops: farming in the city 635 D996

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
Diamonds are forever
Octopussy
A view to a kill
The world is not enough

Foreign Language
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Posted on Nov. 30, 2012 by Matt Montgomery