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New Titles: May 6-12

BOOKS

FICTION
Cecile David-Weill The suitors
Brian Kimberling Snapper
Patrick McGrath Constance
Elizabeth Strout The burgess boys

Historical Fiction
Edward Rutherfurd Paris: the novel
Christina Schwarz The edge of the earth

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
C. Robert Cargill Dreams & shadows

Short Stories
The Nebula awards
Lavanya Sankaran The red carpet: Bangalore stories

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Gilbert Hernandez Marble season
Michel Rabagliati Paul goes fishing
Michel Rabagliati Paul has a summer job
Michel Rabagliati Paul moves out

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NONFICTION
Biography & Genealogy
Willa Cather The selected letters of Willa Cather 92 C361j
Peter Graham Anne Perry & the murder of the century 364.152 P4621

Computer Science
Dan Cederholm CSS3 for web designers 006.74 C336c
Jeremy Keith HTML5 for web designers 006.74 H873k
Erin Kissane The elements of content strategy 006.7 K618
Ethan Marcotte Responsive web design 006.7 M321
Karen McGrane Content strategy for mobile 006.7 M147
Mike Monteiro Design is a job 006.7 M775
Aarron Walter Designing for emotion 006.7 W231
Luke Wroblewski Mobile first 006.7 W957

Food & Drink
Michael Pollan Cooked: a natural history of transformation 641.5 P771

Health & Medicine
Brian B. Hoffman Adrenaline 616.45 H699
Lloyd I. Sederer The family guide to mental health care 616.89 S447
Rich Snyder What you must know about kidney disease: a practical guide to using conventional & complementary treatments 616.61 S675
Eric Topol The creative destruction of medicine: how the digital revolution will create better health care 610.285 T675

History
Dan Jones The Plantagenets: the warrior kings & queens who made England 942.03 J762
Marjorie Shaffer Pepper: a history of the world's most influential spice 641.3384 S525

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Lance Fortnow The golden ticket: P, NP & the search for the impossible 511.3 F743
William Leach Butterfly people: an American encounter with the beauty of the world 595.78 L434
Callum Roberts The ocean of life: the fate of man & the sea 551.46 R643
Edward O. Wilson Letters to a young scientist 570.92 W747L

Performing Arts & Music
Paul Anka My way: an autobiography 780.92 A611
Timothy Brennan Secular devotion: Afro-Latin music & imperial jazz 781.63 B838
R. Larry Todd Fanny Hensel : the other Mendelssohn 780.92 H526

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony G. Greenwald Blindspot: hidden biases of good people 155.92 B212
David Cannadine The undivided past: humanity beyond our differences 128 C21
Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth & Karen Dillon How will you measure your life? 158.1 C554
Jeff Chu Does Jesus really love me?: a gay Christian's pilgrimage in search of God in America 261.83 C559
Michael D'Antonio Mortal sins: sex, crime & the era of Catholic scandal 261.83 D194
Bart D. Ehrman Forgery & counterforgery: the use of literary deceit in early Christian polemics 270.1 E33
Stephen R. Haynes The last segregated hour: the Memphis kneel-ins & the campaign for Southern church desegregation 277.68 H424
Nicholas Humphrey Soul dust: the magic of consciousness 126 H92so
Steven Nadler The philosopher, the priest & the painter: a portrait of Descartes 194 D44n
Thomas Nagel Mind & cosmos: why the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false 113 N147

Politics & Government
Noam Chomsky Power systems: conversations on global democratic uprisings & the new challenges to U.S. empire 322.4 C54
Jeremy Scahill Dirty wars: the world is a battlefield 355 S132

Social Sciences & Current Events
Karl Beitel Local protest, global movements: capital, community & state in San Francisco 363.5 B423
Tanner Colby Some of my best friends are Black: the strange story of integration in America 305.896 C686
Guy Debord Society of the spectacle 302 D287
Edward Jay Epstein The annals of unsolved crime 364.152 E64
Caroline Paul Lost cat: a true story of love, desperation & GPS technology 636.8 P32

Sports & Games
The official rules of Major League Baseball 796.357 O328

Travel & Geography
Moses Gates Hidden cities: travels to the secret corners of the world's great metropolises: a memoir of urban exploration 910.9 G259
Andrew Skurka The ultimate hiker's gear guide: tools & techniques to hit the trail 796.51 S629

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Lemony Snicket ; illustrated by Jon Klassen The dark

Posted on May. 12, 2013 by Heather Terrell