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BOOKS

FICTION
Tara Conklin The house girl
Penelope Fitzgerald The bookshop ; The gate of angels ; The blue flower
Kristin Hannah Comfort & joy
Rachel Joyce The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Historical Fiction
Elizabeth Aston The Darcy connection
Rebecca Ann Collins Expectations of happiness: a companion volume to Jane Austen's Sense & sensibility
Tanis Rideout Above all things

Multi-Gen Literature
Elizabeth Wein Code name Verity

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Alex Berenson The night ranger
Lawrence Block Hit me: a Keller novel
Christopher R. Cox A good death
Roger Hobbs Ghostman
Jamie Mason Three graves full
James Patterson & Maxine Paetro The 8th confession
Barbara Corrado Pope The missing Italian girl
Matt Richtel The cloud
Gerald Seymour A deniable death

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Ariel Djanikian The Office of Mercy

Short Stories
Jim Gavin Middle men: stories
Ron Rash Nothing gold can stay: stories
Karen Russell Vampires in the lemon grove: stories

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Raina Telgemeier Drama 741.5 T271

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Siobhan Roberts Wind wizard: Alan G. Davenport & the art of wind engineering 624.175 D247
Sam Sheridan The disaster diaries: how I learned to stop worrying & love the apocalypse 613.69 S552

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Franklin Kelly American masters from Bingham to Eakins: the John Wilmerding collection 759.13 W743
Deborah Chandler Learning to weave 746.14 C455
Peter Hook Unknown pleasures: inside Joy Division 780.92 J88
Matt Kish Moby-Dick in pictures: one drawing for every page 741.6 K616

Biography & Genealogy
Michael Rumaker Robert Duncan in San Francisco: with letters & an interview 92 D912

Computer Science
Nancy C. Muir Kindle Fire HD for dummies 005.432 K517

Health & Medicine
Michael Moss Salt, sugar, fat: how the food giants hooked us 613.2 M913

History
Modoc vengeance: the 1873 Modoc War in Northern California & Southern Oregon as reported in the newspapers of the day 973.0497 M692

Home & Family Management
Ken Albala & Rosanna Nafziger Henderson The lost arts of hearth & home: the happy luddite's guide to self-sufficiency 640 A325
Nola Fournier & Jane Fournier In sheep's clothing: a handspinner's guide to wool 677.31 F778
Amy Korst The zero-waste lifestyle: live well by throwing away less 640.28 K849

Literature & Writing
Jane Austen Persuasion: an annotated edition 823 A933mp
Phillip Lopate To show & to tell: the craft of literary nonfiction 808.02 L86
Brenda Miller & Suzanne Paola Tell it slant: creating, refining & publishing creative nonfiction 808.04 M647
Now write! nonfiction: memoir, journalism & creative nonfiction exercises from today's best writers & teachers 808.02 N946
Hershel Parker Melville biography: an inside narrative 813 M53p
Gavin Flood & Charles Martin The Bhagavad Gita: a new translation 891.2 M21

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
This explains everything: deep, beautiful & elegant theories of how the world works 500 T448

Performing Arts & Music
Ellen Noonan The strange career of Porgy & Bess: race, culture & America's most famous opera 782.1 N817

Politics & Government
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman American umpire 327.73 C65

Social Sciences & Current Events
Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman Top dog: the science of winning & losing 302 B869
Rorke Denver & Ellis Henican Damn few: making the modern SEAL warrior 359.984 D416
Gretel Ehrlich Facing the wave: a journey in the wake of the tsunami 363.34 E338
Betty Friedan The feminine mystique 305.42 F91f
Melvin A. Goodman National insecurity: the cost of American militarism 355.033 G653
Fred Kaplan The insurgents: David Petraeus & the plot to change the American way of war 355.02 K17
James Lasdun Give me everything you have: on being stalked 362.88 L342
David Nirenberg Anti-Judaism: the Western tradition 305.892 N721

Travel & Geography
Christian Beamish The voyage of the Cormorant 910.45 B366
Frommer's Caribbean ports of call 917.29 F93
Frommer's Florida 917.59 F93
Frommer's San Diego 917.9498 F93
Frommer's San Francisco 2013 917.946 F93
Frommer's South Florida: with the best of Miami & the Keys 917.593 F93
Frommer's Sydney day by day 919.441 F93
Frommer's California 917.94 F93
Frommer's Italy, 2013 914.5 F93
Lonely Planet Colombia 918.61 L847
Lonely Planet Discover California 917.94 L847d
Lonely Planet Discover Costa Rica 917.286 L847d
Lonely Planet Eastern USA 917.4 L847e
Lonely Planet Egypt 916.2 L847
Lonely Planet Mexico 917.2 L847
Lonely Planet Paris 914.436 L847

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction

Nonfiction
Brandon Marie Miller Women of the frontier: 16 tales of trailblazing homesteaders, entrepreneurs & rabble-rousers 978 M647

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
James M. Cain The cocktail waitress: the lost final novel

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DVDs
Classics
Robinson Crusoe
The Emperor Jones

Comedy
I heart Huckabees

Drama
A Christmas carol

Foreign Language
Marriage Italian style

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Awake
Smokin' aces

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Buffy, the vampire slayer. Season four

Posted on Mar. 8, 2013 by Heather Terrell