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BOOKS

FICTION
Sarah Addison Allen Lost Lake
Wiley Cash This dark road to mercy
Roddy Doyle The guts
Charles Finch The last enchantments
Margaret Hawkins Lydia's party
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Dust
Leonardo Padura The man who loved dogs
Rachel Pastan Alena
Anna Quindlen Still life with bread crumbs

Historical Fiction
Susan Wittig Albert A wilder rose
Valerie Martin The ghost of the Mary Celeste
Erin Lindsay McCabe I shall be near to you

Multi-Gen Literature
Brendan Kiely The gospel of winter

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Isabel Allende Ripper
Parker Bilal The ghost runner: a Makana mystery
Leighton Gage The ways of evil men
Roy Hoopes Our man in Washington
Deborah Johnson The secret of magic
James McGee Rebellion: a thriller in Napoleon's Paris
Chris Ryan Killing for the company
Sally Spencer Fatal quest: Woodend's first case: a Chief Inspector Woodend mystery
Peter Temple Shooting star

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Pierce Brown Red rising
John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar
James L. Cambias A darkling sea
Walter Tevis The man who fell to earth

Short Stories
Mary O'Toole A little bite: & other stories

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Hussam Elbehiery Microwaves; principles, fundamentals & applications 621.381 E373
Nathanael Johnson All natural: a skeptic's quest to discover if the natural approach to diet, childbirth, healing & the environment really keeps us healthier & happier 640 J683
Brad Lancaster Rainwater harvesting for drylands & beyond. Volume 1, Guiding principles to welcome rain into your life & landscape 628.1 L244
Myra Yellin Outwater Cast iron automotive toys 629.221 O949

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Adam style 720.92 A19p
Karl Bodmer's North American prints 760.92 B668
Nicholas Cooper The opulent eye: late Victorian & Edwardian taste in interior design 747.22 C777
John Singleton Copley in America 750.92 C78
Dürer: his art & life 750.92 D96ah
Louis Finkelstein The unpicturelikeness of Pollock, Soutine & others: selected writings & talks 759.06 F499
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen American porcelain, 1770-1920 738.2 F868
The glory of Venice: art in the eighteenth century 709.453 G562
Morrison H. Heckscher American rococo, 1750-1775: elegance in ornament 745.44 H449
The kiss of Apollo: photography & sculpture, 1845 to the present 779.973 K618
Michiyo Morioka Modern masters of Kyoto 759.952 M859
Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler Photographs: archival care & management 771.46 R61
Aldo Rossi: the sketchbooks, 1990-1997 720.22 R83
Master of shadows: the secret diplomatic career of the painter Peter Paul Rubens 750.92 R89L
Pieter Saenredam: the painter & his time 750.92 S127
Charlotte Seeling Moroccan gardens 712.0964 S452
John Soane: an accidental romantic 720.92 S67d
Derrick Story Digital photography hacks 775 S887

Biography & Genealogy
Paul Bowles: a life 92 B7873
Churchill's first war: young Winston at war with the Afghans 954.91 C563
Norman Corwin's letters 92 C832
Robert M. Gates Duty: memoirs of a Secretary at war 355 G259
Lincoln's boys: John Hay, John Nicolay & the war for Lincoln's image 973.7 H41z
Eddie Huang Fresh off the boat 647.9509 H874
James & Dolley Madison: America's first power couple 920 M182c
Priscilla: the hidden life of an Englishwoman in wartime France 944.081 M231
Norma Satten: a remembrance 92 S2537

Business & Economics
Seth Godin All marketers are liars: the power of telling authentic stories in a low-trust world 658.8 G58a
Seth Godin Free prize inside: the next big marketing idea 658.8 G58f
Barry Libert We are smarter than me: how to unleash the power of crowds in your business 658.044 L695

Food & Drink
The gluten-free bible: the all-in-one guide to enjoying fabulous food without gluten 641.3 G567
Lucy Knisley Relish: my life in the kitchen 641.5 K718 Comics

Health & Medicine
American Medical Association handbook of first aid & emergency care REF 616.02 A51
Jeannie Marshall The lost art of feeding kids: what Italy taught me about why children need real food 613.2 M368
Anahad O'Connor Never shower in a thunderstorm: surprising facts & misleading myths about our health & the world we live in 613 O18
Michael F. Roizen You, being beautiful: the owner's manual to inner & outer beauty 613 R741b

History
Arms & equipment of the Confederacy 973.742 A734
Arms & equipment of the Union 973.741 A734
Theodore Draper A struggle for power: the American revolution 973.3 D76
Felipe Fernández-Armesto Our America: a Hispanic history of the United States 973.0468 F363
Christian Habicht Athens from Alexander to Antony 938.5 H116
Illustrated atlas of the Civil War REF 973.73 I298
Ronald M. James The roar & the silence: a history of Virginia City & the Comstock Lode 979.356 J289
Simon James Exploring the world of the Celts 936.4 J291
Marwan Muasher The second Arab awakening: & the battle for pluralism 909.097 M941
Simon Winder Danubia: a personal history of Habsburg Europe 943.6 W76

Literature & Writing
Gary Blake & Robert W. Bly The elements of technical writing 808.066 B636
Amy Einsohn The copyeditor's handbook: a guide for book publishing & corporate communications, with exercises & answer keys 808.027 E356
Suzanne Gilad Copyediting & proofreading for dummies 808.027 G463
The subject tonight is love: 60 wild & sweet poems of Hafiz 891.5 H13
Karen Judd Copyediting: a practical guide 808.027 J923
Juvenal The satires 877 J97
Beauty is convulsive: the passion of Frida Kahlo 811 K124
Rebecca Mead My life in Middlemarch 823 M47
Anne Michaels Correspondences 811 M621c
Sister Miriam Joseph The trivium: the liberal arts of logic, grammar & rhetoric 808.042 M675
Poetry of witness: the tradition in English, 1500-2001 808.81 P7457
Sol Stein Stein on writing: a master editor of some of the most successful writers of our century shares his craft techniques & strategies 808.02 S819s
Barry Tarshis How to be your own best editor 808.04 T19
Tolkien: a cultural phenomenon 823 T64r

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Raymond A. Barnett College mathematics for business, economics, life sciences & social sciences 510 B261
Esther Woolfson Field notes from a hidden city: an urban nature diary 591.9412 W913
Benjamin H. Yandell The honors class: Hilbert's problems & their solvers 510.9 Y21

Performing Arts & Music
Dina Di Mambro True Hollywood noir: filmland mysteries & murders 364.152 D582
Marc Eliot Nicholson: a biography 792.092 N626
Lily Pons: a centennial portrait 780.92 P798
Puccini: king of Verismo 782.1 P97mp
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson Mo' meta blues: the world according to Questlove 780.92 Q58

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
David R. Dow Things I've learned from dying 155.93 D74
Amit Sood The Mayo Clinic guide to stress-free living 155.9 S711

Social Sciences & Current Events
Alan C. Fox People tools: 54 strategies for building relationships, creating joy & embracing prosperity 302 F791
Erika Hayasaki The death class: a true story about life 306.9 H413
Paul Oyer Everything I ever needed to know about economics I learned from online dating 306.73 O989
Alex Pentland Social physics: how good ideas spread--the lessons from a new science 303.483 P419

Sports & Games
Bridge from the Times 795.41 B851

Travel & Geography
Bradt Serbia 914.971 B81s
Bradt Switzerland without a car 914.94 B81
Bradt Zimbabwe 916.891 B81
Fodor's 2014 Rio de Janeiro & São Paulo 918.153 F65
Lonely Planet Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks 917.94 L847y
Lonely Planet's best in travel 2014: the best trends, destinations, journeys & experiences for the upcoming year 910.2 L847b
Bay Area biking 796.64 M818
Moon handbooks. Florida Keys 917.59 M818
National Geographic traveler. Alaska 917.98 N27
The rough guide to Singapore 915.957 R856
The rough guide to Southwest USA 917.9 R856
Nick Thorpe The Danube: a journey upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest 914.96 T521
The unofficial guide to Las Vegas, 2014 917.931 U585

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
A treasury of Sholom Aleichem children's stories

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Jo Baker Longbourn
Louise Penny How the light gets in: a Chief Inspector Gamache novel
Graeme Simsion The Rosie project

Nonfiction
Marilyn Monroe Fragments: poems, intimate notes, letters 792.092 M75bc

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EBOOKS
Dara M. Beevas The indie author revolution: an insider's guide to self-publishing
Gray Brechin Imperial San Francisco: urban power, earthly ruin
Philip P. Choy San Francisco Chinatown: a guide to its history & its architecture
Drupal for dummies
San Francisco in the 1930s: the WPA Guide to the City by the Bay
Philip L. Fradkin The left coast: California on the edge
Frommer's day by day guide to Paris
The selected letters of Allen Ginsberg & Gary Snyder
Julie Gutin The everything Spanish grammar book
Chris Haft This is our time!: the 2010 San Francisco Giants World Series Champions, the inside story
Cecie Kraynak Spanish grammar for dummies
Mark Logue & Peter Conradi The King's speech
Veronique Mazet French Grammar for Dummies
Bruce Watson Jon Stewart: beyond the moments of Zen
Rob Yeung Answering tough interview questions for dummies

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DVDs
Drama
Friday night lights
Infamous
Malcolm X
Starting out in the evening

Foreign Language
Carmen

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Taking lives

Nonfiction
Kings of pastry 641.865 K551
Zapatista 972.75 Z35

Posted on Feb. 15, 2014 by Sarah Cruz