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BOOKS

FICTION
Renata Adler Speedboat
Alain-Fournier The lost domain: le grand meaulnes
Tiffany Baker Mercy Snow
Willa Cather Death comes for the archbishop
E.L. Doctorow Andrew's brain
Gaute Heivoll Before I burn
Rachel Joyce Perfect
Armistead Maupin The days of Anna Madrigal
Harold Norse Beat hotel
Richard Powers Orfeo
Lara Vapnyar The scent of pine

Historical Fiction
Nancy Horan Under the wide & starry sky

Multi-Gen Literature
Daniel Handler Why we broke up
Mary Miller The last days of California

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Pieter Aspe The Midas murders
Maggie Barbieri Once upon a lie
Elizabeth Darrell Dutch courage
Elizabeth Darrell Russian roulette
Robert Harris An officer & a spy
Phillip Margolin Worthy Brown's daughter
Joycle Carol Oates Carthage
Michael Ponsor The hanging judge
S.G. Redling The widow file
Christopher Reich The prince of risk
C.J. Sansom Dominion
Charles Todd Hunting shadows: an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery

Short Stories
Gaza writes back: short stories from young writers in Gaza, Palestine G289

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Barry Parker The physics of war: from arrows to atoms 623.4 P238
Michael Steinberger The wine savant: a guide to the new wine culture 663.2 S819

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Banksy Seven years with Banksy 750.92 B218c
Michael Middleton Dwyer Carolands: Ernest Sanson, Achille Duchêne, Willis Polk 728.0979 D993
Howard W. French Disappearing Shanghai: photographs & poems of an intimate way of life 951.132 F87
Michael Hensel Emergent technologies & design 721 H526
The life & work of Winslow Homer 750.92 H766hL
Winslow Homer 750.92 H766ck
The cut-outs of Henri Matisse 709.2 M43
Marilyn Reaves Brush lettering: an instructional manual in western brush calligraphy 745.6 R288
Herb Ritts Pictures 770.92 R615
Diane Dorrans Saeks San Francisco: a certain style 728 S12c
John Szarkowski Looking at photographs; 100 pictures from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art 779 S996

Biography & Genealogy
Hubert Howe Bancroft Literary industries: chasing a vanishing West 92 B2132b
Marion, Countess Dönhoff Before the storm: memories of my youth in old Prussia 92 D682
The Black Count: glory, revolution, betrayal & the real Count of Monte Cristo 92 D8868
John Carlin Knowing Mandela 92 M270ck
Gary Shteyngart Little failure: a memoir 92 S561
Jonathan Swift: his life & his world 92 S977d
Eddie Woods Tennessee Williams in Bangkok 811 W894

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Nick Hornby Ten years in the tub: a decade soaking in great books 028.9 H814

Business & Economics
Hartmut Esslinger Keep it simple: the early design years of Apple 338.4762 E789
McKenzie Funk Windfall: the booming business of global warming 338.4736 F9823
Alan Greenspan The map & the territory: risk, human nature & the future of forecasting 330.973 G815
Tim Harford The undercover economist strikes back: how to run--or ruin--an economy 339.5 H27
Winthrop H. Smith Jr. Catching lightning in a bottle: how Merrill Lynch revolutionized the financial world 332.62 S663

Computer Science
iMac 004.165 I312v
My iMac 004.165 I312r

Food & Drink
Jen Lin-Liu On the noodle road: from Beijing to Rome, with love & pasta 641.822 L735

Health & Medicine
Dan Hurley Smarter: the new science of building brain power 612.8 H965
George Jelinek Recovering from multiple sclerosis: real-life stories of hope & inspiration 616.834 J48

History
Greg Borzo Chicago cable cars 625.6 B739
Cyprian Broodbank The making of the Middle Sea: a history of the Mediterranean from the beginning to the emergence of the classical world 937 B871
Douglas R. Egerton The wars of Reconstruction: the brief, violent history of America's most progressive era 973.8 E29
Greg Grandin The empire of necessity: slavery, freedom & deception in the New World 306.362 G753
Immanuel C.Y. Hsü The rise of modern China 951.03 H873
Donald Hyslop Titanic voices 910.45 H999
Owen Matthews Glorious misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov & the dream of a Russian America 979.8 R467
Betty Medsger The burglary: the discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's secret FBI 363.25 M492
Roland Morgan San Francisco then & now 979.461 M849
Chris Skidmore The rise of the Tudors: the family that changed English history 942.04 S628

Home & Family Management
Bruce Lubin & Jeanne Bossolina-Lubin Who knew?: 10,001 easy solutions to everyday problems 640.73 L929

Law
The American Bar Association guide to wills & estates 346.052 A512
Richard Cahan The court that tamed the West: from the Gold Rush to the tech boom 347.7322 C132

Literature & Writing
Careless people: murder, mayhem & the invention of The Great Gatsby 813 F55
Wil Huygen Secrets of the gnomes 398.4 H98s
Rumi: the big red book: the great masterpiece celebrating mystical love & friendship 891.5 J26bb
Harold Norse Hotel Nirvana: selected poems, 1953-1973 811 N86
William Shakespeare Coriolanus 822 S521cb
King Richard II 822 S521kr
Albius Tibullus The complete poems of Tibullus: an en face bilingual edition 874 T554

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Joel Greenberg A feathered river across the sky: the passenger pigeon's flight to extinction 598.168 G798
Benjamin Kilham Out on a limb: what black bears taught me about intelligence & intuition 599.785 K48o
Alan Lightman The accidental universe: the you thought you knew 523.1 L724
Dimitra Papagianni The Neanderthals rediscovered: how modern science is rewriting their story 569.9 P213

Performing Arts & Music
Louis Armstrong: master of modernism 780.92 A73bL
Ken Emerson Doo-dah!: Stephen Foster & the rise of American popular culture 780.92 F75e
Jack Gottlieb Funny, it doesn't sound Jewish: how Yiddish songs & synagogue melodies influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway & Hollywood 781.64 G686
Rob Harris Unexposed film: a year on location 791.43 H3158
Musorgsky Musorgsky & his circle: a Russian musical adventure 780.92 M989w
Mark Rafael Telling stories: a grand unifying theory of acting techniques 792.028 R136

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Yvonne Daniel Dancing wisdom: embodied knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba & Bahian Candomblé 299.6 D184
Adam Grant Give & take: a revolutionary approach to success 158.2 G761
The Lion handbook of science & Christianity 261.55 L763
More extraordinary popular delusions & the madness of crowds 133 M153b
Thomas Moore Meditations: on the monk who dwells in daily life 204.32 M82
Klara G. Roman Handwriting: a key to personality 155.282 R758
William Shewen Counsel to the Christian-traveller 289.6 S554

Social Sciences & Current Events
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett When will my grown-up kid grow up?: loving & understanding your emerging adult 306.874 A748
Maude Barlow Blue future: protecting water for people & the planet forever 333.91 B258b
William D. Eggers The solution revolution: how business, government & social enterprises are teaming up to solve society's toughest problems 361.8 E296
Donalyn Miller Reading in the wild: the book whisperer's keys to cultivating lifelong reading habits 372.4 M64

Sports & Games
The kid: the immortal life of Ted Williams 796.357 W72b

Travel & Geography
Marq de Villiers Down the Volga: a journey through Mother Russia in a time of troubles 947.8 D494
Fodor's Buenos Aires 918.211 F65
Fodor's 2014 Cancún & the Riviera Maya 917.26 F65
Fodor's 2014 Chicago 917.731 F65
Fodor's China 915.1 F65
Fodor's 2014 England 914.2 F65
Fodor's 2014 Las Vegas 917.931 F65
Fodor's 2014 London 914.21 F65
Fodor's 2014 New Orleans 917.63 F65
Fodor's 2014 Northern California 917.94 F65n
Fodor's 2014 San Francisco 917.9461 F65
Fodor's the complete guide to Caribbean cruises 917.29 F65c
Fodor's 2014 Washington, D.C. 917.53 F65
Gavin Francis Empire Antarctica: ice, silence & emperor penguins 919.89 F81
Fosco Maraini Secret Tibet 915.15 M299
The rough guide to Argentina 918.2 R856
The rough guide to Crete 914.959 R856
The rough guide to Kenya 916.762 R856
The rough guide to Portugal 914.69 R856

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Paul Fleischman ; illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline The matchbox diary

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AUDIOBOOKS
Nonfiction
Dr. Sue Johnson Love sense: the revolutionary new science of romantic relationships 152.41 J69c

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EBOOKS
Sasha Abramsky The American way of poverty: how the other half still lives
Mark Anastasi The laptop millionaire: how anyone can escape the 9 to 5 & make money online
Grace Burrowes The heir
Mary Carter My sister's voice
Sylvia Day Blood & roses
Margaret Drabble The pure gold baby
Jean Echenoz ; translated from the French by Linda Coverdale 1914
Amanda Forester A wedding in springtime
Lauren Grodstein The explanation for everything
Kristan Higgins The best man
Susanna Kearsley The firebird
Elinor Lipman The view from penthouse B
Lonely Planet Coastal California
Lonely Planet Costa Rica
Lonely Planet Washington, Oregon & the Pacific Northwest
Wendy Lower Hitler's furies: German women in the nazi killing fields
Michael J Martinez The daedalus incident
Jonathan Miles Want not
Susan J. Noonan Managing your depression: what you can do to feel better
Tim O'Brien In the lake of the woods
George Orwell 1984
Ann Patchett The magician's assistant
Louise Penny The hangman
Pocket London travel guide
Janet Reitman Inside scientology: the story of America's most secretive religion
Paul Russell The unreal life of Sergey Nabokov
Christina Skye The accidental bride
James Whitfield Thomson Lies you wanted to hear
Kristin von Kreisler An unexpected grace

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DVDs
Comedy
Ghostbusters 1 & 2
To Rome with love

Drama
Parade's end
Nonfiction
Twenty feet from stardom 782.1 T971

Posted on Feb. 10, 2014 by Sarah Cruz