New Titles for the Week of March 22 | Page 3 | Mechanics' Institute

You are here

New Titles for the Week of March 22

BOOKS

FICTION
Kenneth Calhoun Black moon
Joseph Conrad Heart of darkness
Donal Ryan The spinning heart
Aaron Their The ghost apple
Adelle Waldman The love affairs of Nathaniel P.

Historical Fiction
Peter Ackroyd Three brothers
Maud Casey The man who walked away
Nicole Mones Night in Shanghai
Jacinda Townsend Saint monkey

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Carol Cassella Gemini
Ann Cleeves Dead water: a Shetland mystery
Elly Griffiths The outcast dead: a Ruth Galloway mystery
Karen Harper The queene's Christmas: an Elizabeth I mystery
Susan Hill The mist in the mirror
Mari Jungstedt The dead of summer
Jennifer McMahon The winter people
Chris Pavone The accident
Ian Rankin Saints of the Shadow Bible
Michael Robotham Watching you
John Straley Cold Storage, Alaska

Short Stories
Phil Klay Redeployment

* * * * *

NONFICTION
Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Colin Mackenzie The Chinese art book 709.51 M156
James H. Rubin How to read Impressionism: ways of looking 709.034 R896

Biography & Genealogy
George F. Kennan The Kennan diaries 327.73 K34
Philomena: a mother, her son & a fifty-year search 941.7 L479
Belle Starr, "the Bandit Queen": the true story of the romantic & exciting career of the daring & glamorous lady famed in legend & story throughout the West 92 S7961

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Gabriel Sherman The loudest voice in the room: how the brilliant, bombastic Roger Ailes built Fox News--and divided a country 070.43 A293

Business & Economics
Carmine Gallo Talk like TED: the 9 public-speaking secrets of the world's top minds 658.45 G172

Chess
Jacob Aagaard Attack & defence 794.122 A11a
Axel Smith Pump up your rating: unlock your chess potential 794.1 S642

Computer Science
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 book for digital photographers 006.6 A643k

Health & Medicine
Richard J. Ablin The great prostate hoax: how big medicine hijacked the PSA test & caused a public health disaster 362.19 A152

History
Joan DeJean How Paris became Paris: the invention of the modern city 944.36 D326
Terry Golway Machine made: Tammany Hall & the creation of modern American politics 974.7 G629
Annie Jacobsen Operation Paperclip: the secret intelligence program that brought Nazi scientists to America 940.5486 J175
Dayo Olopade The bright continent: breaking rules & making change in modern Africa 967 O521
Michael Scott Delphi: a history of center of the ancient world 938.2 S428
Peter Stark Astoria: John Jacob Astor & Thomas Jefferson's lost Pacific empire: a story of wealth, ambition & survival 978.02 S795

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Alan de Queiroz The monkey's voyage: how improbable journeys shaped the history of life 570 D426
Richard Elwes Math in 100 key breakthroughs 510.9 E523
Ruth Kassinger A garden of marvels: how we discovered that flowers have sex, leaves eat air & other secrets of plants 580.92 K19

Performing Arts & Music
Don Alberts A diary of the underdogs: jazz 1960's San Francisco 781.65 A334
The greatest movies you'll never see: unseen masterpieces by the world's greatest directors 791.43 G786

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Nicholas Epley Mindwise: how we understand what others think, believe, feel & want 152.41 E643
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Plato at the Googleplex: why philosophy won't go away 184 G624
Søren Kierkegaard The concept of anxiety: a simple psychologically oriented deliberation in view of the dogmatic problem of hereditary sin 233 K47

Social Sciences & Current Events
William Easterly The tyranny of experts: economists, dictators & the forgotten rights of the poor 362.5 E13
Jennifer Senior All joy & no fun: the paradox of modern parenthood 306.874 S477
Paul Taylor The next America: boomers, millennials & the looming generational showdown 305.2 T245

Sports & Games
Lew Freedman Pelé 796.334 P381

Travel & Geography
Eat smart in Germany: how to decipher the menu, know the market foods & embark on a tasting adventure 641.5943 E141
Christopher Elliott How to be the world's smartest traveler 910.2 E464
Lonely Planet Istanbul 914.961 L847
The rough guide to Ecuador & the Galápagos Islands 918.66 R856
The rough guide to Europe on a budget 914 R856
The rough guide to London 914.21 R856
The rough guide to New York City 917.471 R856
Rick Steves' England 914.2 S848
Rick Steves' Venice 2014 914.53 R848
Rick Steves' France 2014 914.4 S848
Rick Steves' Rome 2014 914.56 S848
Time out. London. 914.21 T583
TimeOut London: top 100 cheap eats. 647.9542 T583c
TimeOut. Chicago. 917.731 T583
TimeOut. Las Vegas. 917.931 T583
TimeOut. Los Angeles. 917.9494 T583
TimeOut. Madrid. 914.641 T583
TimeOut. New York. 917.471 T583
TimeOut. Rome. 914.56 T583
TimeOut. Washington, DC. 917.53 T583
Zagat 2014 San Francisco Bay area restaurants 647.9579 Z18s

* * * * *

CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Kevin Sheehan ; illustrated by Rob Dunlavey The dandelion's tale

DVDs
Annie ; Annie: a royal adventure
A Cinderella story ; The sisterhood of the traveling pants
Top 10 forgotten cartoons of all time

* * * * *

AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Dave Eggers The circle

* * * * *

EBOOKS
Ross King The judgment of Paris: the revolutionary decade that gave the world Impressionism
Nicole Mones Night in shanghai
Dayo Olopade The bright continent: breaking rules & making change in modern Africa
Michelle Tam Nom nom paleo: food for humans

* * * * *

DVDs
Classics
Forbidden Hollywood. Volume 7
Monsieur Beaucaire
Red Skelton whistling collection. Whistling in Brooklyn ; Whistling in Dixie ; Whistling in Brooklyn

Comedy
Fun with Dick & Jane

Foreign Language
Love & anarchy (Film d'amore e d'anarchia)
My father's glory (La gloire de mon pére)
Sundays & Cybele (Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray)

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
The comedy of terrors ; The raven

* * * * *

CDs
Jazz
Gregory Porter Liquid spirit CD Jazz Porter

Vocals
Daft Punk Random access memories CD Vocals Daft
Emmylou Harris Old yellow moon CD Vocals Harris
Alicia Keys Girl on fire CD Vocals Keys

World
Gipsy Kings Savor flamenco CD World Gipsy

Posted on Mar. 22, 2014 by Sarah Cruz