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BOOKS

FICTION
Emma Chapman How to be a good wife
Helen Fielding Bridget Jones: mad about the boy
Aminatta Forna The hired man
David Leavitt The two Hotel Francforts
Bob Shacochis The woman who lost her soul

Historical Fiction
Eleanor Catton The luminaries
Eric Linklater The dark of summer
Jayne Anne Phillips Quiet dell

Multi-Gen Literature
Julie Berry All the truth that's in me
Karen Foxlee The midnight dress
David Levithan Two boys kissing
Elizabeth Wein Rose under fire

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Rhys Bowen Heirs & graces
Kate Charles Appointed to die
Janet Dawson Death rides the Zephyr
Deadly pleasures: a Crime Writers' Association anthology D2785
Lyndsay Faye Seven for a secret
Iris Johansen Silencing Eve
Stephen King Joyland
Kwik krimes K986
Margit Liesche Triptych
Val McDermid Cross & burn
Mary Miley The impersonator
Sara Paretsky Blood shot
Sara Paretsky Critical mass
Sara Paretsky Indemnity only
Robert B. Parker Silent night: a Spenser holiday novel
Andrew Rosenheim The Little Tokyo informant
A.D. Scott North Sea requiem
Ovidia Yu Aunty Lee's delights

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Ann Leckie Ancillary justice

Short Stories
T.C. Boyle stories II: the collected stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle. Volume II
Andre Dubus III Dirty love
Abby Geni The last animal

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
The dark tower. The long road home 741.5 D2195 v.2

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Nicholas A. Basbanes On paper: the everything of its two-thousand-year history 676 B29
Dawn Day Biehler Pests in the city: flies, bedbugs, cockroaches & rats 632.6 B586
Alexander Langlands Edwardian farm: rural life at the turn of the century 630.941 L282

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
50 knitted gifts for year-round giving 746.43 F469
More than you wanted to know about John Baldessari. Volume 2: 1975-2011 709.2 B176m v.2
Lace collection for knitting: intricate shawls, simple accessories, cozy sweaters & more stylish designs for every season 746.2 L131
Annie Leibovitz Pilgrimage 973 L525
Paul Rennie Modern British posters: art, design & communication 741.67 R416
Lynne Rowe Whimsical hats: delightful & amusing hats to knit, wear & love 746.43 R878

Biography & Genealogy
Artemis Cooper Patrick Leigh Fermor 92 F361
Wil Haygood The butler: a witness to history 352.237 A425
The letters of Ernest Hemingway. Volume 2, 1923-1925 92 H479s v.2
Carla Kaplan Miss Anne in Harlem: the white women of the Black Renaissance 920 K172
Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz The tie that bound us: the women of John Brown's family & the legacy of radical abolitionism 929.2 B8778
Linda Leavell Holding on upside down: the life & work of Marianne Moore 92 M823
J. Michael Lennon Norman Mailer: a double life 92 M219
Richard Rodriguez Darling: a spiritual autobiography 92 R696d
Peter Savodnik The interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald inside the Soviet Union 92 O86
James V. Schall Remembering Belloc 92 B44sr
Ellen Stimson Mud season 974.3 S859
Stanley Weintraub Young Mr. Roosevelt: FDR's introduction to war, politics & life 92 R778wy

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism
David Folkenflik Murdoch's world: the last of the old media empires 070.92 M97

Business & Economics
Richard Koch The 80/20 manager: the secret to working less & achieving more 658.4 K76

Chess
Fred Waitzkin Searching for Bobby Fischer 794.15 W145

Food & Drink
Best food writing 641 B56
Christophe Blain In the kitchen with Alain Passard 641.5 P286
J.M. Hirsch Beating the lunch box blues: fresh ideas for lunches on the go! 641.53 H669
Katherine Knight Spuds, spam & eating for victory: rationing in the Second World War 641.3 K699
Kathe Lison The whole fromage: adventures in the delectable world of French cheese 637.3 L771
Francine Segan Pasta modern: new & inspired recipes from Italy 641.822 S454

Health & Medicine
Carl Hart High price: a neuroscientist's journey of self-discovery that challenges everything you know about drugs & society 612.82 H325

History
Robert O. Bucholz London: a social & cultural history, 1550-1750 942.1 B921
Bryan E. Burns Mycenaean Greece, Mediterranean commerce & the formation of identity 938 B967
The Cambridge companion to medieval English culture 942.03 C178
David Cannadine Making history now & then: discoveries, controversies & explorations 902 C21
Edward I & the governance of England, 1272-1307 942.03 E25
Empire, the sea & global history: Britain's maritime world, c. 1760-c. 1840 359.0942 E551
Sandra Hempel The inheritor's powder: a tale of arsenic, murder & the new forensic science 364.152 H491
A. Bernard Knapp The archaeology of Cyprus: from earliest prehistory through the Bronze Age 939.37 K672
Wendy Lower Hitler's furies: German women in the Nazi killing fields 940.5318 L917
Ralph W. Mathisen Ancient Mediterranean civilizations: from prehistory to 640 CE 937 M431
J.C. McKeown A cabinet of Roman curiosities: strange tales & surprising facts from the world's greatest empire 937 M478
Neil Oliver The Vikings 948.022 O487
Paul Roberts Life & death in Pompeii & Herculaneum 937.7 R646
Peter Sarris Empires of faith: the fall of Rome to the rise of Islam, 500-700 936 S247
Ethan H. Shagan The rule of moderation: violence, religion & the politics of restraint in early modern England 942.05 S525
David Stahel Operation Typhoon: Hitler's march on Moscow, October 1941 940.542 S781

Home & Family Management
Jane Bull Crafty creatures 646.2 B93

Languages & Linguistics
The Cambridge companion to Old English literature REF 829.09 C177

Law
Alan Dershowitz Taking the stand: my life in the law 340.9 D43

Literature & Writing
Al-Mutanabbi street starts here: poets & writers respond to the March 5th, 2007, bombing of Baghdad's "Street of the Booksellers" 808.81 A316
Frank Bidart Metaphysical dog 811 B584m
Catullus: poems, books, readers 874 C369d
William Fitzgerald How to read a Latin poem: if you can't read Latin yet 871 F554
August Kleinzahler The Hotel Oneira 811 K64h
Pablo Neruda All the odes 861 N45as
Jonathan Swift & the eighteenth-century book 828 S977
Colm Toibin New ways to kill your mother: writers & their families 809 T64

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
William Hartson The things that nobody knows: 501 mysteries of life, the universe & everything 500 H335
Daniel Tammet Thinking in numbers: on life, love, meaning & math 510 T15

Performing Arts & Music
The Leonard Bernstein letters 780.92 B53s
Mervyn Cooke The chronicle of jazz 781.65 C773
Billy Crystal Still foolin' 'em: where I've been, where I'm going & where the hell are my keys? 792.092 C957s
Jean-Michel Guesdon All the songs: the story behind every Beatles release 782.421 G936
Ethan Mordden Anything goes: a history of American musical theatre 782.14 M83a
Rikky Rooksby The songwriting sourcebook: how to turn chords into great songs 782.421 R777
Songwriter's market REF 784.02 S69

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Ahmad of Qadian Jesus in India: Jesus' deliverance from the cross & journey to India 261.2 A286
Billy Graham The reason for my hope: salvation 234.25 G738

Social Sciences & Current Events
Jesse Bering Perv: the sexual deviant in all of us 306.7 B511
Hanne Blank Straight: the surprisingly short history of heterosexuality 306.764 B642
Anita Elberse Blockbusters: hit-making, risk-taking & the big business of entertainment 384 E373
Tea Krulos Heroes in the night: inside the Real Life Superhero movement 303.372 K944
Matthew D. Lieberman Social: why our brains are wired to connect 302 L716
Caryl Rivers The new soft war on women: how the myth of female ascendance is hurting women, men--and our economy 305.4 R622
Tom Standage Writing on the wall: social media--the first 2,000 years 302.23 S785
Sean Michael Wilson Fight the power!: a visual history of protest among the English-speaking peoples 303.484 W753
Jean Ziegler Betting on famine: why the world still goes hungry 363.8 Z66

Sports & Games
Daniel James Brown The boys in the boat: nine Americans & their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 797.123 B877
Christopher Byrne Toy time!: from hula hoops to He-man to Hungry hungry hippos 688.7 B995
Steve Rushin The 34-ton bat: the story of baseball as told through bobbleheads, Cracker Jacks, jockstraps, eye black & 375 other strange & unforgettable objects 796.357 R953

Travel & Geography
Rick Deutsch Yosemite's Half Dome: everything you need to know to successfully hike Yosemite's most famous landmark 917.9447 D486
Fodor's Beijing 915.1156 F65
Rick Steves' Provence & the French Riviera 914.49 S848
Vivian Swift Le road trip: a traveler's journal of love & France 944 S977
Zagat 2014 Boston restaurants 647.9574 Z18b

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Lee Child Never go back
Paulo Coelho The alchemist

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION
DVDs
Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island

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AUDIOBOOKS
Nonfiction
Sheryl Sandberg Lean in: women, work & the will to lead 658.4 S213c

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EBOOKS
Charles Belfoure The Paris architect
Ken Follett Fall of giants
Autobiography of Mark Twain. Volume 2

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DVDs
Foreign Language
Les destinées
The man from Deep River (Il paese del sesso selvaggio)

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
All good things (Toute bonne chose)

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CDs
Classical
Bruch Violin concerto no. 1 CD Classical Bruch

Posted on Nov. 2, 2013 by Sarah Cruz