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New Titles for the Week of December 7

BOOKS

FICTION
Daniel Alarcón At night we walk in circles
Mitch Albom The first phone call from heaven
Anne Raeff Clara Mondschein's melancholia
Robert Stone Death of the black-haired girl

Historical Fiction
Nicola Griffith Hild
Maureen Lindley A girl like you
Anita Shreve Stella Bain

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Dan Simmons The abominable

Short Stories
Russell Banks A permanent member of the family

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Jason Fagone Ingenious: a true story of invention, automotive daring & the race to revive America 629.222 F156
Chris Hadfield An astronaut's guide to life on earth 629.45 H129
Kendra Smith-Howard Pure & modern milk: an environmental history since 1900 636.2 S649

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Gordon Baldwin Architecture in photographs 779 B181
Geoffrey Batchen Burning with desire: the conception of photography 770.9 B328
Christian Brandstätter Wiener Werkstätte design in Vienna, 1903-1932 745.0943 B819
Alistair Crawford Mario Giacomelli 779 G429
Geoff Dyer The ongoing moment 770 D996
Inside MAD: the "usual gang of idiots" pick their favorite MAD spoofs (and tell why!) 741.5973 I591 Comics
Knitting yarns: writers on knitting 746.43 K719
Perri Lewis Material world: the modern craft bible 745.5 L675
John Lidzey Mix your own watercolors 751.42 L715
Pound's artists: Ezra Pound & the visual arts in London, Paris & Italy 709.04 P87
Witold Rybczynski How architecture works: a humanist's toolkit 720 R989h
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Taking place: photographs from the Prentice & Paul Sack collection 770.92 S121
Joan Simon Susan Rothenberg 750.92 R846
Deborah Solomon American mirror: the life & art of Norman Rockwell 750.92 R68s
ON&BY Luc Tuymans 750.92 T968o

Biography & Genealogy
Alan Cranston, senator from California: making a "dent in the world" 328.73 C891
Davi Kopenawa The falling sky: words of a Yanomami shaman 305.898 K832
David Plante Becoming a Londoner 92 P713 v.1
The pleasures of diaries: four centuries of private writing 920 P724
The man he became: how FDR defied polio to win the presidency 92 R778t
Not for turning: the life of Margaret Thatcher 92 T367h
Hugh Trevor-Roper The wartime journals 92 T818d

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Tom Nissley A reader's book of days: true tales from the lives & works of writers for every day of the year 809 N726

Business & Economics
Lucy Lethbridge Servants: a downstairs history of Britain from the nineteenth century to modern times 331.7 L647
Jen Shirkani Ego vs. EQ: how top leaders beat 8 ego traps with emotional intelligence 658.4 S558

Food & Drink
Simone Beck Simca's cuisine: one hundred classic French recipes for every occasion 641.5944 B393
Sue Conley Cowgirl Creamery cooks 641.673 C752
Karen Mitchell The Model Bakery cookbook: 75 favorite recipes from the beloved Napa Valley bakery 641.7 M681
Yvonne Ruperti One bowl baking: simple, from scratch recipes for delicious desserts 641.86 R945

Health & Medicine
Jonathan Black Making the American body: the remarkable saga of the men & women whose feats, feuds & passions shaped fitness history 613.7 B627

History
Michael Axworthy Revolutionary Iran: a history of the Islamic republic 955.054 A97
Bob Brier Egypt-omania: our three thousand year obsession with the land of the Pharaohs 932 B853e
Jerry Brotton A history of the world in twelve maps 911 B874
James MacGregor Burns Fire & light: how the Enlightenment transformed our world 940.25 B967
Alice L. Conklin France & its empire since 1870 944.08 C752
Slavko Goldstein 1941: the year that keeps returning 949.72 G624
Brian Kilmeade George Washington's secret six: the spy ring that saved the American Revolution 973.4 K487
Chris Matthews Tip & the Gipper: when politics worked 973.927 M435
Gavin Menzies Who discovered America?: the untold history of the peopling of the Americas 970.01 M55
Robert L. Miller Indochina & Vietnam: the thirty-five-year war, 1940-1975 959 M649
Patrick Nolan CIA rogues & the killing of the Kennedys: how & why US agents conspired to assassinate JFK & RFK 973.922 N789
Cees Nooteboom Roads to Berlin: detours & riddles in the lands & history of Germany 943.155 N819
Nancy Olmsted Vanished waters: a history of San Francisco's Mission Bay 979.461 O516v
Jeff Rosenheim Photography & the American Civil War 973.7 R813
Stephen R. Taaffe Marshall & his generals: U.S. Army commanders in World War II 355.09 M367
Calder Walton Empire of secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War & the twilight of Empire 327.1 W238

Languages & Linguistics
Language & culture in medieval Britain: the French of England, c.1100-c.1500 447 L287

Law
Joseph L. Matthews How to win your personal injury claim 346.0323 M439

Literature & Writing
Neil Gaiman Angels & visitations 818 G141
Homer The Odyssey 881 H76mo
Stephen Hoover The joke's on you: how to write comedy 808.7 H789
Ron Padgett Collected poems 811 P123
Bernd Stiegler Traveling in place: a history of armchair travel 809.93 S855

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Vladimir Dinets Dragon songs: love & adventure among crocodiles, alligators & other dinosaur relations 597.98 D583

Performing Arts & Music
Judy Collins Singing lessons: a memoir of love, loss, hope & healing 780.92 C712s
Howard Sounes 27: a history of the 27 Club through the lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain & Amy Winehouse 780.92 S724
Carl Wilson Let's talk about love: a journey to the end of taste 782.421 D592

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Tim Bayne Thought: a very short introduction 153.42 B361
Barry Magid Nothing is hidden: the psychology of Zen koans 294.39 M194
Jay Michaelson Evolving dharma: meditation, Buddhism & the next generation of enlightenment 294.34 M621
Radical Jesus: a graphic history of faith 270 R129 Comics
Mark Rowlands Running with the pack: thoughts from the road on meaning & mortality 128 R88r
Samuel Scheffler Death & the afterlife 128.5 S317
Francis Spufford Unapologetic: why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense 248 S77

Social Sciences & Current Events
Henry Hitchings Sorry!: the English & their manners 395 H675
Jessica Kerwin Jenkins All the time in the world: a book of hours 390 J521
Lewis Perry Civil disobedience: an American tradition 303.6 P462

Travel & Geography
Fodor's Israel 915.694 F65
Justin Marozzi The way of Herodotus: travels with the man who invented history 910.92 H55
Treasures of Britain: the architectural, cultural, historical & natural heritage of Britain 914.1 T784

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Ann Hood The knitting circle

Nonfiction
iPhone for seniors: quickly start working with the iPhone with iOS7 004.1675 I647s

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Julie Anderson ; illustrated by David López Erik the red sees green: a story about color blindness
Ben Clanton The table sets itself
Elisha Cooper Train
Josh Schneider Bedtime monsters
Helen Stephens How to hide a lion
David Wiesner Mr. Wuffles!

Nonfiction
Tricia Brown ; photographs by Ken Cardwell Salaam: a Muslim American boy's story 973 B881
Children's book of art: an introduction to the world's most amazing paintings & sculptures 709 C536
James M. Deem Bodies from the ash 937.7 D311
Geraldine McCaughrean ; illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark Greek myths 292 M12
Clement C. Moore The night before Christmas 811 M821h

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
World Trade Center

Drama
The shooting party

Foreign Language
The lost honor of Katharina Blum (Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum)
The music room (Jalsaghar)
Tokyo story (Tōkyō monogatari)

Nonfiction
Inside combat rescue 958.1 I591

Posted on Dec. 7, 2013 by Sarah Cruz