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New Titles for the Week of June 1

BOOKS

FICTION
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah
Isabel Allende Maya's notebook
Jake Arnott The house of rumour
Roald Dahl My Uncle Oswald

Historical Fiction
Amy Brill The movement of stars

Multi-Gen Literature
Barry Lyga I hunt killers

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Jeffrey Archer Best kept secret
David Baldacci The hit
Dan Brown Inferno
Reed Farrel Coleman Onion Street: a Moe Prager mystery
Martin Edwards The frozen shroud
Alex Grecian The black country
Joe Hill NOS4A2
Bill Loehfelm The devil in her way
Peter Lovesey The tooth tattoo: a Peter Diamond investigation
James McGee Rapscallion: a Regency crime thriller
David Morrell Murder as a fine art
Gerard O'Donovan Dublin dead
Gerard O'Donovan The priest
Katherine Hall Page The body in the piazza: a Faith Fairchild mystery

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Richard Stephenson Collapse: America will fall

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Boaz Yakin & Nick Bertozzi Jerusalem: a family portrait 741.5 Y15j

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
C. Breck Hitz, J. J. Ewing, Jeff Hecht Introduction to laser technology 621.36 H676

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Art without art: selected writings from the world of Blunt edge 701.18 A784
Thomas A. Heinz Frank Lloyd Wright's stained glass & lightscreens 748.5 W94h

Biography & Genealogy
Saul Friedländer Franz Kafka: the poet of shame & guilt 92 K111f
Anchee Min The cooked seed: a memoir 92 M663c
Michael Sherborne H.G Wells: another kind of life 92 W452sh
Neal Thompson A curious man: the strange & brilliant life of Robert "Believe it or not" Ripley 92 R589t
Patricia Volk Shocked: my mother, Schiaparelli & me 746.9 S329v
François Weil Family trees: a history of genealogy in America 929.2 W422
Charles Williams Adenauer: the father of the new Germany 92 A232w

Business & Economics
Tom Diaz The last gun: how changes in the gun industry are killing Americans & what it will take to stop it 338.4768 D542

Chess
Marc Esserman Mayhem in the Morra! 794.122 E787
D.N.L. Levy Sacrifices in the Sicilian 794.122 L66s
Nikolay Minev Mastering tactical ideas 794.15 M664

Computer Science
Steve Suehring & Janet Valade PHP, MySQL, JavaScript & HTML5 all-in-one for dummies 005.2762 P575s

Food & Drink
Tom Acitelli The audacity of hops: the history of America's craft beer revolution 641.23 A181

Health & Medicine
Temple Grandin & Richard Panek The autistic brain: thinking across the spectrum 616.8588 G753

History
Allen C. Guelzo Gettysburg: the last invasion 973.7349 G925
Andrei Lankov The real North Korea: life & politics in the failed Stalinist utopia 951.93 L28r
Geoffrey Parker Global crisis: war, climate change & catastrophe in the seventeenth century 909 P238
Nathaniel Philbrick Bunker Hill: a city, a siege, a revolution 973.331 P545
John Strausbaugh The Village: 400 years of beats & bohemians, radicals & rogues: a history of Greenwich Village 974.71 S912
Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann Ultimate sacrifice: John & Robert Kennedy, the plan for a coup in Cuba & the murder of JFK 973.922 W167

Literature & Writing
Elinor Lipman I can't complain: (all too) personal essays 814 L764

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Tim Gallagher Imperial dreams: tracking the imperial woodpecker through the wild Sierra Madre 598.72 G163i
Michael Largo The big book of beasts: the world's most curious creatures 591.5 L322
Annalee Newitz Scatter, adapt & remember: how humans will survive a mass extinction 576.84 N548
Brian Switek My beloved Brontosaurus: on the road with old bones, new science & our favorite dinosaurs 567.913 S979

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Sir Ken Robinson Out of our minds: learning to be creative 153.35 R658

Social Sciences & Current Events
William Ecenbarger Kids for cash: two judges, thousands of children & a $2.8 million kickback scheme 365.42 E17
Jeffrey J. Selingo College (un)bound: the future of higher education & what it means for students 378 S465
Eric Simons The secret lives of sports fans: the science of sports obsession 306.48 S611
Dan Fagin Toms River: a story of science & salvation 363.72 F155

Sports & Games
Lucas Mann Class A : baseball in the middle of everywhere 796.357 M281
Daniel Naroditsky Mastering complex endgames: practical lessons, critical ideas & plans 794.124 N232

Travel & Geography
Moon Handbooks Canadian Rockies 917.123 M818

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Agatha Christie The clocks: a Hercule Poirot mystery

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Jim Averbeck Except if
Jim Averbeck Oh no, Little Dragon!
Jim Averbeck The market bowl
Judy Blundell A city tossed & broken: the diary of Minnie Bonner
stories by Ann Bonwill ; pictures by Stephen Gammell The Frazzle family finds a way
Karen Cushman The midwife's apprentice
Margarita Engle ; illustrated by Mary Morgan When you wander: a search-and-rescue dog story
Adina Rishe Gewirtz Zebra forest
Cynthia Kadohata Kira-Kira
Linda Sue Park A single shard
Farhana Zia The garden of my Imaan

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AUDIOBOOKS
Nonfiction
Samuel Beckett Murphy 842 B39mc

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DVDs
Comedy
Smoke signals
Travels with my aunt
Wag the dog

Drama
The beach

Nonfiction
Speed chess: superblitz knockout championship qualifying stage 794.157 S742

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CDs
Classical
Sol y sombra
Piano sonata in A, D959

Musicals & Soundtracks
The secret garden: the original Broadway cast album

Posted on Jun. 2, 2013 by Heather Terrell