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BOOKS

FICTION
Ishmael Beah Radiance of tomorrow
James Magnuson Famous writers I have known
Carson McCullers Complete novels: The heart is a lonely hunter ; Reflections in a golden eye ; The ballad of the sad café ; The member of the wedding ; Clock without hands
Anthony Trollope Barchester towers

Historical Fiction
Robert Graves Count Belisarius
Sue Monk Kidd The invention of wings
Phillip Margulies Belle Cora

Multi-Gen Literature
Laurie Halse Anderson The impossible knife of memory

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Alan Bradley The dead in their vaulted arches: a Flavia de Luce novel
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Hard going: a Bill Slider mystery
Jim Kelly The Funeral Owl: a Philip Dryden mystery
Javier Marías The infatuations
Joe Nelms The last time I died
James Rollins & Rebecca Cantrell Innocent blood
Cath Staincliffe Dead to me

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
John Ajvide Lindqvist Let the right one in
Brian Staveley The Emperor's Blades

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Cool tools: a catalog of possibilities 621.9 C774
Rick Houston Wheels stop: the tragedies & triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986-2011 629.441 H843

Biography & Genealogy
The heart of Charles Dickens: as revealed in his letters to Angela Burdett-Coutts 92 D548jh
Daniel Menaker My mistake 070.4 M534
Citizen explorer: the life of Zebulon Pike 92 P636

Business & Economics
Michael Covel Trend following: how great traders make millions in up or down markets 332.6 C873
Jim Cramer's get rich carefully 332.024 C889
Harry S. Dent, Jr. The demographic cliff: how to survive & prosper during the great deflation of 2014-2019 330.973 D414d
Timothy Howard The mortgage wars: inside Fannie Mae, big-money politics & the collapse of the American dream 332.72 H852
Robert Koppel Investing & the irrational mind: rethink risk, outwit optimism & seize opportunities others miss 332.6 K83
Jie Jack Li Blockbuster drugs: the rise & decline of the pharmaceutical industry 338.4761 L693

Food & Drink
Betty Crocker's new choices for two 641.561 C938
Martha Holmberg Crêpes: 50 savory & sweet recipes 641.8153 H747
The international soup book 641.813 I617
Renewing America's food traditions: saving & savoring the continent's most endangered foods 641.5973 R411
Bill Wavrin The Rancho La Puerta cookbook: 175 bold vegetarian recipes from America's premier fitness spa 641.5636 W355

Health & Medicine
Mireille Guiliano French women don't get facelifts: the secret of aging with style & attitude 613.0424 G95
Steven F. Hotze Hypothyroidism, health & happiness: the riddle of illness revealed 616.444 H834
Peter W. Huber The cure in the code: how 20th century law is undermining 21st century medicine 338.4761 H877
Ilyana Romanovsky Choosing therapy: a guide to getting what you need 616.8914 R759
Rhoda Wynn 100 questions & answers about sinusitis & other sinus diseases 616.2 W988

History
T.D. Allman Finding Florida: the true history of the Sunshine State 975.9 A439
Rick Beyer The greatest stories never told: 100 tales from history to astonish, bewilder, & stupefy 904 B573
Sebastian Haffner The ailing empire: Germany from Bismarck to Hitler 943.08 H138
Gloria Muñoz Ramírez The fire & the word: a history of the Zapatista movement 972.75 M967
Alexandra Richie Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler & the Warsaw uprising 940.5343 R59
Thomas Schneider Ancient Egypt in 101 questions & answers 932 S359
The Wars of the Roses: from Richard II to the fall of Richard III at Bosworth field: seen through the eyes of their contemporaries 942.04 W295
Jack Weatherford The secret history of the Mongol queens: how the daughters of Genghis Khan rescued his empire 950 W362

Languages & Linguistics
Jürgen Leonhardt Latin: story of a world language 470.9 L584

Law
Joseph L. Sax Playing darts with a Rembrandt: public & private rights in cultural treasures 344.094 S272

Literature & Writing
Atlantic harvest: memoirs of the Atlantic 810.8 A881
Roberto Bolaño Between parentheses: essays, articles & speeches, 1998-2003 864 B68
James Fenton Yellow tulips: poems, 1968-2011 821 F342y
W. Somerset Maugham Mr. Maugham himself 820.81 M44
Gregory Nagy The best of the Achaeans: concepts of the hero in Archaic Greek poetry 883 N152
The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash 811 N26fa

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Caroline Walker Bynum Christian materiality: an essay on religion in late medieval Europe 231.73 B994
Brad S. Gregory The unintended Reformation: how a religious revolution secularized society 211.6 G822
Leonard Scheff The cow in the parking lot: a zen approach to overcoming anger 294.34 S316

Social Sciences & Current Events
Ann Dowsett Johnston Drink: the intimate relationship between women & alcohol 362.292 J721
Ronald Orenstein Ivory, horn & blood: behind the elephant & rhinoceros poaching crisis 333.95 O66
Rachel Lee Rubin Well met: Renaissance faires & the American counterculture 394.6 R896
Ben Waber People analytics: how social sensing technology will transform business & what it tells us about the future of work 302 W112

Sports & Games
Rick Rickman The wonder years: portraits of athletes who never slow down 796.092 R539
We'll always have Linsanity: strange takes from the strangest season in Knicks history 796.3 W447

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Nonfiction
Kathleen Gilbert ; paintings by Terre Reed Just us chickens 811 G4653

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AUDIOBOOKS
Nonfiction
Thomas L. Friedman Hot, flat & crowded: why we need a green revolution & how it can renew America 333.79 F911c
Brad Stone The everything store: Jeff Bezos & the age of Amazon 381 S877c

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DVDs
Classics
Birdman of Alcatraz

Drama
The outsiders
Stateside

Foreign Language
The last kiss
People on Sunday: a film without actors (Menschen am Sonntag: ein Film ohne Schauspieler)

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
The descent

Nonfiction
J.S. Bach English suites: BWV 806-811 784.1858 B118
Dogfights. The complete season one 358.4 D654
Max Raabe & Palast Orchester 782.421 R1118
Rebecca's garden. Volume 4, Container gardening 635.9 R289
Rebecca's garden. Volume 6, Summer in the garden 635.9 R289
Unmanned: America's drone wars 623.7469 U589

Posted on Jan. 25, 2014 by Sarah Cruz