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BOOKS

FICTION
Martin Amis Lionel Asbo: state of England
Amanda Coplin The orchardist
Margaret Dilloway The care & handling of roses with thorns
Ivan Doig The bartender's tale
Jonathan Evison The revised fundamentals of caregiving
Jennie Fields The age of desire
Beth Harbison When in doubt, add butter
Christian Kiefer The infinite tides
Harriet Lane Alys, always
Clarice Lispector A breath of life (pulsations)
Alexander McCall Smith The importance of being seven: a 44 Scotland Street novel
Charles Robbins The accomplice
Tatjana Soli The forgetting tree
Pauls Toutonghi Evel Knievel days
Jonathan Tropper One last thing before I go

Historical Fiction
Kathy Leonard Czepiel A violet season
Debra Dean The mirrored world
David R. Gillham City of women
Vincent Lam The headmaster's wager
Michelle Moran The second empress: a novel of Napoleon's court
Lawrence Norfolk John Saturnall's feast
Gail Tsukiyama A hundred flowers
Lance Weller Wilderness
Michael Zimmer City of rocks: a western story

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Emily Arsenault Miss me when I'm gone
Lou Berney Whiplash River
Benjamin Black Vengeance
Michael Brandman Robert B. Parker's Fool me twice: a Jesse Stone novel
Christopher Brookmyre Where the bodies are buried
Fiona Buckley Queen's bounty: a Tudor mystery featuring Ursula Blanchard
Tania Carver The creeper
Thomas H. Cook The crime of Julian Wells
Charles Cumming A foreign country
Susan Dunlap No footprints
Karin Fossum The caller
W.E.B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV The spymasters
Elly Griffiths A room full of bones: a Ruth Galloway mystery
Mischa Hiller Shake off
Gregg Hurwitz The survivor
Michael Kardos The three-day affair
Julia Keller A killing in the hills
William Kent Krueger Trickster's point
Laura Lippman And when she was good
William Martin The Lincoln letter: a Peter Fallon novel
Deon Meyer Seven days
Thomas Mogford Shadow of the rock: a Spike Sanguinetti novel
R.N. Morris Summon up the blood
Håkan Östlundh The viper
Anne Perry A sunless sea: a William Monk novel
Julia Stuart The pigeon pie mystery
Franck Thilliez Syndrome E
P.J. Tracy Off the grid
Elie Wiesel Hostage
Jean Zimmerman The orphanmaster

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Cory Doctorow & Charles Stross Rapture of the nerds
Félix J. Palma The map of the sky

Short Stories
Bernhard Schlink Summer lies
Steve Stern The book of mischief: new & selected stories

Westerns
Johnny D. Boggs South by southwest: a Western story

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Homer ; adapted by Seymour Chwast The odyssey 741.5 C564o
Michael Goodwin Economix: how & why our economy works (& doesn't work) in words & pictures 741.5 G656
The graphic canon, vol. 1: from The epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous liaisons 741.5 G766
Margreet de Heer Philosophy: a discovery in comics 741.5 H459
No straight lines: four decades of queer comics 741.5 N739
Harvey Pekar & JT Waldman Not the Israel my parents promised me 741.5 P37
Ed Piskor Wizzywig: portrait of a serial hacker 741.5 P677

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NONFICTION
Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Erika Knight Simple crocheting: a complete how-to-crochet workshop with 20 projects 746.43 K695
Ed Panar Animals that saw me 770.92 P187
Michael Peppiatt Interviews with artists 1966-2012 709.22 P42i

Biography & Genealogy
John Bew Castlereagh: a life 92 C353
Lisa Cohen All we know: three lives 920.72 C678
Christopher Hitchens Mortality 92 H674m
James D. Scurlock King Larry: the life & ruins of a billionaire genius 92 H6491
William Souder On a farther shore: the life & legacy of Rachel Carson 92 C3215s

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Janet Groth The receptionist: an education at The New Yorker 051 G881

Business & Economics
Charles Arthur Digital wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft & the battle for the Internet 338.47 A788
Deltina Hay The bootstrapper's guide to the mobile web: practical plans to get your business mobile in just a few days for just a few bucks 658.872 H412
Saral Sarkar The crises of capitalism: a different study of political economy 330.12 S245

History
Tim Gunn Tim Gunn's fashion bible: the fascinating history of everything in your closet 746.9 G976
Fredrik Logevall Embers of war: the fall of an empire & the making of America's Vietnam 959.7 L832
Gail MacColl & Carol McD. Wallace To marry an English Lord: tales of wealth & marriage, sex & snobbery 974.71 M129
Pankaj Mishra From the ruins of empire: the intellectuals who remade Asia 950 M67
Scott Reynolds Nelson A nation of deadbeats: an uncommon history of America's financial disasters 338.54 N43

Literature & Writing
Catherine Barnett The game of boxes: poems 811 B2617
Lucille Clifton The collected poems, 1965-2010 811 C63c
Nick Hornby More baths, less talking 814 H81m
Jack Kerouac Collected poems 811 K39c
Matthew Pennock Sudden dog: poems 811 P415
Jo Sarzotti Mother desert: poems 811 S251
Gerald Stern In beauty bright 811 S839i

Music & Performing Arts
Adam Brent Houghtaling This will end in tears: the miserabilist guide to music 781 H838
Claude Lanzmann The Patagonian hare: a memoir 791.4 L297
Carl Rollyson Hollywood enigma: Dana Andrews 792.092 A565

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Ian Stewart In pursuit of the unknown: 17 equations that changed the world 511.3 S849

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Janine Driver You can't lie to me: the revolutionary program to supercharge your inner lie detector & get to the truth 153.8 D782
Huston Smith And live rejoicing: chapters from a charmed life: personal encounters with spiritual mavericks, remarkable seekers & the world's great religious leaders 200.92 S64a
Phyllis Tickle Emergence Christianity: what it is, where it is going & why it matters 270.83 T556e

Politics & Government
Chris Cillizza The gospel according to the Fix: an insider's guide to a less than holy world of politics 324.973 C572

Social Sciences & Current Events
Chris Hedges & Joe Sacco Days of destruction, days of revolt 305.56 H45
Loren Pope Colleges that change lives: 40 schools that will change the way you think about college 378.73 P82c
Rafe Sagarin Learning from the octopus: how secrets from nature can help us fight terrorist attacks, natural disasters & disease 363.34 S129

Sports & Games
Persi Diaconis & Ron Graham Magical mathematics: the mathematical ideas that animate great magic tricks 793.8 D536
Alberto Salazar & John Brant 14 minutes: a running legend's life & death & life 796.42 S161
W. K. Stratton Floyd Patterson: the fighting life of boxing's invisible champion 796.83 P317s

Travel & Geography
William Craig Yankee come home: on the road from San Juan Hill to Guantánamo 917.291 C886
Lonely Planet Argentina 918.2 L847
Lonely Planet Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan 914.75 L847
Lonely Planet Goa & Mumbai 915.478 L847
Lonely Planet Southeast Asia on a shoestring 915.9 L847
Lonely Planet Switzerland 914.94 L847
Lonely Planet Tokyo 915.2135 L847

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LARGE PRINT
Nonfiction
Christopher Hitchens ; foreword by Graydon Carter Mortality 92 H674m

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Mario Puzo The godfather

Nonfiction
Agatha Christie Sparkling cyanide 822 C555s
Joan Rivers I hate everyone-- starting with me 814 R622c

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EBOOKS
Susan Cain Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking
Debbie Macomber The inn at Rose Harbor
Francesco Marciuliano I could pee on this : & other poems by cats
William Souder On a farther shore : the life & legacy of Rachel Carson
Bob Spitz Dearie : the remarkable life of Julia Child
The Garden of Evening Mists
J.R.R. Tolkien The hobbit : or, There & back again

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DVDs
Classics
Stella Dallas

Drama
Persuasion [1995]
Searching for Bobby Fischer

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Déjà vu

Nonfiction
Crude: the real price of oil 628.168 C955

Posted on Sep. 21, 2012 by Matt Montgomery