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New Titles for the Week of December 28

BOOKS

FICTION
Alessa Adamo Night flight
Roberto Bolaño Distant star
Victor LaValle Big machine

Historical Fiction
Barbara Mutch The housemaid's daughter

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Tasha Alexander Behind the shattered glass: a Lady Emily mystery
Thomas Berger Sneaky people
Carola Dunn Heirs of the body: a Daisy Dalrymple mystery
Marjorie Eccles A dangerous deceit
Christopher Fowler The Invisible Code: a Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery
Paul Halter The crimson fog
John Harvey Living proof
Joan Hess Murder as a second language
T. Frank Muir Tooth for a tooth
Michael Sears Black Fridays

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Philip Hensher The missing ink: the lost art of handwriting 652.1 H526
Richard Holmes Falling upwards: how we took to the air 629.1332 H752

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Ann Budd Scarf style 2: innovative to traditional, 26 fresh designs to knit 746.43 B92s
Noah Charney The thefts of the Mona Lisa 364.16 C483
Elizabeth Lunday The modern art invasion: Picasso, Duchamp & the 1913 Armory Show that scandalized America 700.9 L962

Biography & Genealogy
In tearing haste: letters between Deborah Devonshire & Patrick Leigh Fermor 920 D511
Auguste Piccard The explorer gene: how three generations of one family went higher, deeper & further than any before 910.92 P587
Roy Wilkins Roy Wilkins: the quiet revolutionary & the NAACP 323.092 W685

Chess
Bogdan Lalič Carpathian warrior: secrets of a master new opening theory. Book one 794.122 L195cw

Computer Science
Windows 8 for tablets plain & simple 005.432 W8mp

Food & Drink
Carole Clements French food & cooking: over 200 classic & contemporary dishes, shown step-by-step 641.5944 C626
Alice Medrich Seriously bitter sweet: the ultimate dessert maker's guide to chocolate 641.6374 M492

History
P.M.H. Bell Twelve turning points of the Second World War 940.54 B434
Ari Shavit My promised land: the triumph & tragedy of Israel 956.05 S533
Philip Shenon A cruel & shocking act: the secret history of the Kennedy assassination 973.922 S546

Languages & Linguistics
Kenneth A. Adams A manual of style for contract drafting 808.066 A214
Erich Auerbach Mimesis: the representation of reality in Western literature 809 A91
Roberto Bolaño: the last interview & other conversations 868 B68
The edge of the precipice: why read literature in the digital age? 809.91 E232
The most of Nora Ephron 818 E63
Simon Garfield To the letter: a celebration of the lost art of letter writing 808.6 G231
Edith E. Hartnett Breath on the water 811 H33b
Anne Jamison Fic: why fanfiction is taking over the world 809.3 J325
Sarah Lindsay Debt to the bone-eating snotflower 811 L749
Deborah Yaffe Among the Janeites: a journey through the world of Jane Austen fandom 823 A933y

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
David P. Barash Buddhist biology 570.1 B225
Justin Gregg Are dolphins really smart? 599.53 G819
Ray Jayawardhana Neutrino hunters: the thrilling chase for a ghostly particle to unlock the secrets of the universe 523.01 J427
Clifford A. Pickover The physics book: from the Big Bang to quantum resurrection, 250 milestones in the history of physics 530.9 P59

Performing Arts & Music
Mother Dolores Hart The ear of the heart: an actress' journey from Hollywood to holy vows 792.092 H3254

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Michel Cool Francis, a new world pope 282.092 F818
Anthony Le Donne The wife of Jesus: ancient texts & modern scandals 232.9 L474

Politics & Government
Mark Halperin Double down: game change 2012 324.973 H19d
Daniel Hannan Inventing freedom: how the English-speaking peoples made the modern world 323.44 H243

Social Sciences & Current Events
David Finkel Thank you for your service 362.86 F49
Diane Ravitch Reign of error: the hoax of the privatization movement & the danger to America's public schools 379.1 R25r

Sports & Games
Eric S. Kabakoff Rally caps, rain delays & racing sausages: a baseball fan's quest to see the game from a seat in every ballpark 796.357 K112

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Carl Hiaasen Bad monkey

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DVDs
Classics
Clash by night
Remember the night
Samuel Fuller's forty guns

Comedy
The Jane Austen Book Club

Foreign Language
After the wedding (Efter brylluppet)
The women on the 6th floor (Les femmes du 6ème étage)

Posted on Dec. 28, 2013 by Sarah Cruz