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New Titles: November 5 - November 11, 2011

BOOKS

FICTION
Alan S. Cowell The Paris correspondent
Erri De Luca The day before happiness
Nicholas Delbanco Sherbrookes
Barbara Delinsky Escape
Rick Gavin Ranchero
Hermann Hesse Steppenwolf
Ismet Prcic (...shards...)
Manuel Rivas Books burn badly
Larry Watson American boy

Historical Fiction
Debra Brenegan Shame the devil
Umberto Eco The Prague cemetery

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Alan Bradley I am half-sick of shadows
John F. Dobbyn Frame-up
Tricia Fields The territory
Susan Hill The betrayal of trust
Anthony Horowitz The house of silk: a Sherlock Holmes novel
Bill James Vacuum
Åsa Larsson Until thy wrath be past
Barry Maitland Chelsea mansions
Joyce Carol Oates The corn maiden & other nightmares
Matt Rees Mozart's last aria
Peter Robinson Before the poison
Peter Turnbull Deep cover: a Harry Vicary novel

Science Fiction & Fantasy
Stephen King 11/22/1963
Sherrida Woodley Quick fall of light

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Batman: Hush unwrapped 741.5 B333hu

NONFICTION

Arts & Architecture
75 years: the very best of Life 779 L722s

Biography & Genealogy
Rosamund Bartlett Tolstoy: a Russian life 92 T654b
Joan Didion Blue nights 813 D55b
Ernest Hemingway The letters of Ernest Hemingway, vol. 1, 1907-1922 92 H479s v.1
Robert K. Massie Catherine the Great: portrait of a woman 92 C363mas
Chris Matthews Jack Kennedy: elusive hero 92 K355mat

Business & Economics
James W. Cortada Information & the modern corporation 658.4 C82
Richard Heinberg The end of growth: adapting to our new economic reality 330.9 H468
Guy Kawasaki Reality check: the irreverant guide to outsmarting, outmanaging, & outmarketing your competition 658 K22

Health & Medicine
James Greenblatt The breakthrough depression solution: a personalized 9-step method for beating the physical causes of your depression 616.8527 G798

History
Archaeology of desperation: exploring the Donner Party's Alder Creek camp 979.401 A669
Morris Berman Why America failed: the roots of imperial decline 973.9 B51
Niall Ferguson Civilization: the West & the rest 909.098 F35
Max Hastings Inferno: the world at war, 1939-45 940.54 H35
Candice Millard Destiny of the republic: a tale of madness, medicine, & the murder of a president 973.8 G231
Simon Sebag Montefiore Jerusalem: the biography 956.944 S443
Brian Glyn Williams Afghanistan declassified: a guide to America's longest war 958.1 W721

Home & Family Management
Lidia Matticchio Bastianich & Tanya Bastianich Manuali Lidia's Italy in America 641.5945 B326Li
Holly Erickson Lights! Camera! Cuisine!: cooking fabulous food from the films you love 641.5 E683
Anthony Myint & Karen Leibowitz Mission Street Food: recipes & ideas from an improbable restaurant 641.5979 M996
Molly Stevens All about roasting: a new approach to a classic art 641.71 S84
Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough Lobsters scream when you boil them: & 100 other myths about food & cooking... plus 25 recipes to get it right every time 641.3 W42

Law
John Paul Stevens Five chiefs: a Supreme Court memoir 340.9 S844

Literature & Writing
Jonathan Lethem The ecstasy of influence: nonfictions, etc. 814 L64e
Tracy K. Smith Life on Mars: poems 811 S662L

Music & Performing Arts
Amid Amidi The art of Pixar: the complete color scripts & select art from 25 years of animation 791.43 A516
William C. Banfield Representing black music culture: then, now, & when again? 780.92 B215
Rose Eichenbaum The actor within: intimate conversations with great actors 792.028 E342
Caseen Gaines Inside Pee-Wee's playhouse: the untold, unauthorized, & unpredictable story of a pop phenomenon 791.45 G142
Olivia Harrison George Harrison: living in the material world 780.92 H319h
Brian Kellow Pauline Kael: a life in the dark 791.4 K11kL
Greil Marcus The Doors: a lifetime of listening to five mean years 780.92 D691m
Joseph Vogel Man in the music: the creative life & work of Michael Jackson 780.92 J134v

Philosophy, Psychology& Religion
Robert Barron Catholicism: a journey to the heart of the faith 230 B277
Harold Bloom The shadow of a great rock: a literary appreciation of the King James Bible 220.5 B655
Early Christian thinkers: the lives & legacies of twelve key figures 230 E123
David McRaney You are not so smart: why you have too many friends on Facebook, why your memory is mostly fiction, & 46 other ways you're deluding yourself 153.8 M478
Michael Michalko Creative thinkering: putting your imagination to work 153.35 M62c
Gretchen Rubin The happiness project: or, why I spent a year trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets, fight right, read Arisotle, & generally have more fun 158 R896
Ben Stein What would Ben Stein do?: applying the wisdom of a modern-day pundit to tackle the challenges of business & life 646.7 S819

Politics & Government
Lawrence Lessig Republic, lost: how money corrupts Congress… & a plan to stop it 328.73 L639

Pure Sciences
Eugenia Bone Mycophilia: revelations from the weird world of mushrooms 579 B712
Lynne A. Isbell The fruit, the tree, & the serpent: why we see so well 599.93 I76

Social Sciences & Current Events
Jason Benlevi Too much magic: pulling the plug on the cult of tech: secrets they won't tell you about your digital life 301.243 B468
Randy Fenoli It's all about the dress: savvy secrets, priceless advice, & inspiring stories to help you find "the one" 392.5 F339
Misha Glenny DarkMarket: cyberthieves, cybercops, & you 364.16 G558
Ioan Grillo El Narco: inside Mexico's criminal insurgency 363.45 G859
Melissa Lamson No such thing as small talk: 7 keys to understanding German business culture 395.52 L241
Ashley Mears Pricing beauty: the making of a fashion model 338.4774 M483
Carl Zimmer Science ink: tattoos of the science obsessed 391.65 Z72

Travel & Geography
Yann Arthus-Bertrand New York from the air: a story of architecture 917.471 A791
Fodor's Egypt 916.2 F65
Fodor's France 914.4 F65
Fodor's Honduras & the Bay Islands 917.283 F65
Fodor's Italy 914.5 F65
Fodor's Oregon 917.95 F65
Fodor's Prague & the best of the Czech Republic 914.37 F65
Fodor's Peru 918.5 F65
Fodor's the complete African safari planner 916 F65
Fodor's Venice & the best of Northern Italy 914.53 F65
Fodor's Portugal 914.69 F65

CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS

Fiction
Kathryn Reiss ; illustrations by Jean-Paul Tibbles The tangled web: a Julie mystery

AUDIOBOOKS

Fiction
Rudyard Kipling ; performed by Boris Karloff Just so stories

AUDIOBOOKS

Fiction
Alafair Burke Long gone
Agatha Christie The essential Agatha Christie stories: 20 unabridged mysteries
Colin Cotterill Killed at the whim of a hat
Christopher Paolini Eldest

Nonfiction
Nassir Ghaemi A first-rate madness: uncovering the links between leadership & mental illness 303.34 G411c

DVDs
Action & Adventure
Open range
Tigerland

Classics
A place in the sun

Comedy
Who's the caboose?

Drama
The boys in the band
Conviction
Get low
Steel magnolias

Foreign Language
Caché
Since Otar left…
Ugetsu

Musicals
The Great Caruso

Nonfiction
Forks over knives 613.2 F721d
How to fold a flag 956.7 H847
Ten9eight: shoot for the moon 658.11 T311

CDs

Opera
Jacques Offenbach La belle Hélène

Posted on Nov. 11, 2011 by Matt Montgomery