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New Titles for the Week of March 15

BOOKS

FICTION
Max Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson: or, An Oxford love story
Elizabeth Blackwell While Beauty slept
William Faulkner A fable
Thomas Christopher Greene The headmaster's wife
Alice Hoffman The Museum of Extraordinary Things
Cynan Jones The dig
Doris Lessing The fifth child
Machado de Assis The alienist
W. Somerset Maugham Catalina: a romance
Mary McCarthy The group
Olaf Olafsson The journey home
Richard Yates A good school

Historical Fiction
Kate Alcott The daring ladies of Lowell
Amy Greene Long man
TaraShea Nesbit The wives of Los Alamos

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Benjamin Black The black-eyed blonde: a Philip Marlowe novel
Cara Black Murder in Pigalle
Lawrence Block The burglar who counted the spoons: a Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery
Lisa Gardner Fear nothing
Robert Goddard The ways of the world
C.S. Harris Why kings confess: a Sebastian St. Cyr mystery
Bruce Holsinger A burnable book
Kristina Ohlsson The disappeared

Short Stories
Neil Bissoondath On the eve of uncertain tomorrows
Lorrie Moore Bark
Wright Morris Collected stories, 1948-1986

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NONFICTION
Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Diana Barillari Istanbul 1900: art nouveau architecture & interiors 720.9496 B252
Graydon Carter Oscar night from the editors of Vanity fair: 75 years of Hollywood parties 791.4 C323 Oversize
Orhan Pamuk The innocence of objects 069.0949 P18
Norbert Schoenauer 6,000 years of housing 728.09 S365
The prime minister of taste: a portrait of Horace Walpole 708 W218

Biography & Genealogy
Menachem Begin: the battle for Israel's soul 92 B417
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer I can see clearly now 150.92 D99
Myra MacPherson The scarlet sisters: sex, suffrage & scandal in the Gilded Age 305.42 M172
By his own rules: the ambitions, successes & ultimate failures of Donald Rumsfeld 92 R938g
Studs Terkel My American century 920.073 T318
Johnny Walker Code name: Johnny Walker: the extraordinary story of the Iraqi who risked everything to fight with the U.S. Navy SEALs 956.7 W181

Business & Economics
Joe Dobrow Natural prophets: from health foods to whole foods--how the pioneers of the industry changed the way we eat & reshaped American business 338.476 D634
Joel Kurtzman Unleashing the second American century: four forces for economic dominance 330.973 K969
Sherry Maysonave Casual power: how to power up your nonverbal communication & dress down for success 646.32 M474
Bob Swarup Money mania: booms, panics & busts from Ancient Rome to the Great Meltdown 332.645 S973

Computer Science
danah boyd It's complicated: the social lives of networked teens 004.6 B789

Health & Medicine
Judy Foreman A nation in pain: healing our biggest health problem 616.047 F715
Richard Saul ADHD does not exist: the truth about Attention Deficit & Hyperactivity Disorder 618.92 S256
Pamela Wartian Smith What you must know about memory loss & how you can stop it: a guide to proven techniques & supplements to maintain, strengthen, or regain memory 616.83 S658

History
Edward Seidensticker Low city, high city: Tokyo from Edo to the earthquake 952.135 S45

Literature & Writing
The Cambridge companion to English Renaissance drama 822 C177
Four contemporary French plays 842 F773
Michael Lackey Truthful fictions: conversations with American biographical novelists 813 L141
K.M. Weiland Structuring your novel: essential keys for writing an outstanding story 808.3 W422s

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Morris Kline Mathematical thought from ancient to modern times 510.9 K65

Performing Arts & Music
The Gilbert & Sullivan lexicon: in which is gilded the philosophic pill REF 782.1 G46
Richard Hell I dreamed I was a very clean tramp: an autobiography 780.92 H476

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Joan Breton Connelly Portrait of a priestess: women & ritual in ancient Greece 292.61 C752
Alan Jones Exploring spiritual direction 253.53 J762
Stefan Klein Survival of the nicest: how altruism made us human & why it pays to get along 155.7 K64
Mitchell Stephens Imagine there's no heaven: how atheism helped create the modern world 211.8 S834

Politics & Government
Hannah Arendt: the last interview & other conversations 320.5 A68
Marc Bennetts Kicking the Kremlin: Russia's new dissidents & the battle to topple Putin 320.947 B472
Michael Booth The almost nearly perfect people: the truth about the Nordic miracle 948.071 B725

Social Sciences & Current Events
Julia Angwin Dragnet nation: a quest for privacy, security & freedom in a world of relentless surveillance 323.448 A59
Philip Bobbitt The garments of court & palace: Machiavelli & the world that he made 320.1 B66
The ethics of asking: dilemmas in higher education fund raising 378.02 E843
The essence of Hayek 330 H41
Ronald Kessler In the president's secret service: behind the scenes with agents in the line of fire & the presidents they protect 363.283 K42
Tovah P. Klein How toddlers thrive: what parents can do today for children ages 2-5 to plant the seeds of lifelong success 305.232 K645
Ludmila Kybalová The pictorial encyclopedia of fashion 391 K991
James Mahaffey Atomic accidents: a history of nuclear meltdowns & disasters: from the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima 363.179 M214
Scott McEwen Eyes on target: inside stories from the brotherhood of the U.S. Navy SEALs 359.984 M478
Frank Richard Prassel The great American outlaw: a legacy of fact & fiction 364.1 P911
Nick Saul The Stop: how the fight for good food transformed a community & inspired a movement 363.8 S256

Sports & Games
Bruce Grierson What makes Olga run?: the mystery of the 90-something track star & what she can teach us about living longer, happier lives 796.42 K872

Travel & Geography
Lonely Planet Laos 915.94 L847
Lonely Planet London 914.21 L847
Lonely Planet San Francisco 917.9461 L847
Lonely Planet Vancouver 917.1133 L847

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AUDIOBOOKS
Nonfiction
Carmine Gallo Talk like TED: the 9 public-speaking secrets of the world's top minds 658.45 G172c

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
National treasure 2. Book of secrets

Classics
Christmas in Connecticut

Comedy
Miss Congeniality 2: armed & fabulous

Drama
The camomile lawn

Foreign Language
Rojo como el cielo (Rosso come il cielo)

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Ripley's game

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Quark. The complete series
Taken
Van Helsing

Nonfiction
Anne Sofie von Otter 782.42 O898

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CDs
Classical
Morton Feldman The late piano works. Vol. 1 CD Classical Feldman
Terry Riley Requiem for Adam CD Classical Riley
Saint-Saëns String quartets CD Classical Saint-Saëns

Jazz
Bill Charlap & Sandy Stewart Love is here to stay CD Jazz Charlap

World
Iliana Matos Angels in the street: the solo guitar music of Eduardo Martín CD World Matos

Posted on Mar. 15, 2014 by Sarah Cruz