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BOOKS

FICTION
Nickolas Butler Shotgun lovesongs
Anne Fortier The lost sisterhood
Yiyun Li Kinder than solitude
Helen Oyeyemi Boy, snow, bird
Victoria Redel Make me do things

Historical Fiction
Tatamkhulu Afrika Bitter Eden
Jeffrey Archer Be careful what you wish for
Tessa Hadley Clever girl
Judy Juanita Virgin soul
Dermot McEvoy The 13th apostle: a novel of a Dublin family, Michael Collins & the Irish uprising
Sharon Kay Penman A king's ransom
Nina Siegal The anatomy lesson

Multi-Gen Literature
Tim Tharp The spectacular now

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Louis Bayard Roosevelt's beast
James M. Cain Three by Cain: Serenade, Love's lovely counterfeit, The butterfly
Rick Campbell The Trident deception
Harlan Coben Missing you
James Grippando Black horizon
Siri Hustvedt The blazing world
Daniel Levine Hyde
Mike Offit Nothing personal: a novel of Wall Street
Olen Steinhauer The Cairo affair

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
H.G. Wells Graphic classics: H.G. Wells 741.5 G7663 v.3
McSweeney's M175
Sean Murphy Punk Rock Jesus 741.5 M978

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Andreas Bernard Lifted: a cultural history of the elevator 621.877 B518
Masanobu Fukuoka The natural way of farming: the theory & practice of green philosophy 630 F96
Henry W. Lawrence City trees: a historical geography from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century 635.977 L421

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
John Flaxman, 1755-1826 709.2 F592
History of design: decorative arts & material culture, 1400-2000 745 H673
Ian Jeffrey How to read a photograph: lessons from master photographers 770.92 J46
PostSecret: Extraordinary confessions from ordinary lives 741.683 P858
Titian: prince of painters 750.92 T61t

Biography & Genealogy
Dashiell Hammett: man of mystery 92 H2257c
Dying every day: Seneca at the court of Nero 188 S47r
American saint: the life of Elizabeth Seton 92 S495

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Deborah Hunt & David Grossman The librarian's skillbook: 51 essential career skills for information professionals 020.23 H939

Business & Economics
Mika Brzezinski Knowing your value: women, money & getting what you're worth 650.1 B916
Bob Ivry The seven sins of Wall Street: big banks, their Washington lackeys & the next financial crisis 332.0973 I962
George Soros The tragedy of the European Union: disintegration or revival? 337.142 S714

Computer Science
Responsive theming for Drupal 006.78 D795c

Food & Drink
Teresa Giudice Skinny Italian: live la bella vita, eat it & enjoy it & look great, too! 641.5945 G537
Allison Kave First prize pies: Shoo-fly, candy apple & other deliciously inventive pies for every week of the year 641.865 K219
Joe Yonan Eat your vegetables: bold recipes for the single cook 641.65 Y55

Health & Medicine
Osama Hamdy The diabetes breakthrough: based on a scientifically proven plan to lose weight & cut medications 616.462 H211
Dean A. Haycock Murderous minds: exploring the criminal psychopathic brain: neurological imaging & the manifestation of evil 616.8582 H413
Paul A. Marks On the cancer frontier: one man, one disease & a medical revolution 616.994 M346

History
John Baxter The golden moments of Paris: a guide to the Paris of the 1920s 944.36 B35g
Gary L. Bloomfield Duty, honor, applause: America's entertainers in World War II 940.53 B655
Steven Cassedy Connected: how trains, genes, pineapples, piano keys & a few disasters transformed Americans at the dawn of the twentieth century 973.8 C344
John Keay Midnight's descendants: a history of South Asia since partition 954.04 K256

Literature & Writing
Molière The imaginary invalid 842 M72i

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Sheldon Axler Linear algebra done right 512.5 A969
Nancy Forbes & Basil Mahon Faraday, Maxwell & the electromagnetic field: how two men revolutionized physics 537 F21
Anthony J. Martin Dinosaurs without bones: dinosaur lives revealed by their trace fossils 567.9 M379
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Beasts: what animals can teach us about the origins of good & evil 591.51 M419be
Leonard Susskind Quantum mechanics: the theoretical minimum 530.12 S964q

Performing Arts & Music
Saul Austerlitz Sitcom: a history in 24 episodes from I love Lucy to Community 791.45 A934
Beethoven: the man revealed 780.92 B415
Mark Harris Five came back: a story of Hollywood & the Second World War 791.43 H315f
Robert J. Wagner You must remember this: life & style in Hollywood's golden age 791.43 W135

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Barbara Graziosi The gods of Olympus: a history 292.2 G785
Edward Slingerland Trying not to try: the art & science of spontaneity 181 S633
Douglas Stone Thanks for the feedback: the science & art of receiving feedback well 153.68 S877
Scott Weems Ha!: the science of when we laugh & why 152.43 W397

Politics & Government
Luke Harding The Snowden files: the inside story of the world's most wanted man 327.12 S674

Social Sciences & Current Events
Murray Carpenter Caffeinated: how our daily habit helps, hurts & hooks us 362.299 C296
The Family story: 1976-2008 367.9794 F198w
Robert A. Ferguson Inferno: an anatomy of American punishment 364.6 F35
Kitty Genovese: the murder, the bystanders, the crime that changed America 364.152 G335
Michael Gross House of outrageous fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the world's most powerful address 974.71 G87h
Arthur Hargrave The Family story: about men young of heart & the building of fellowship & fun from 1902 to 1999 367.9794 F198
Walter Kirn Blood will out: the true story of a murder, a mystery & a masquerade 364.152 K599
Paul Martin Villains, scoundrels & rogues: incredible true tales of mischief & mayhem 364.1 M382
Larry Siems Torture report: what the documents say about America's post-9/11 torture program 364.67 S571

Sports & Games
Benjamin Baumer The sabermetric revolution: assessing the growth of analytics in baseball 796.357 B347
Kostya Kennedy Pete Rose: an American dilemma 796.357 R797

Travel & Geography
Andrew Evans Iceland: the Bradt travel guide 914.91 B81
Patrick Leigh Fermor The broken road: from the Iron Gates to Mount Athos 914.96 F36
Donna Leon My Venice & other essays 945.31 L579
Main cities of Europe 2013. 647.944 M623
Italia: la guida Michelin 2014 647.9445 M623
The Michelin guide. San Francisco Bay Area & wine country restaurants 2014. 647.9579 M623
NFT: not for tourists guide to Boston 917.446 N899
NFT: not for tourists guide to London 914.21 N899
NFT: not for tourists guide to Los Angeles 917.9494 N899
NFT: not for tourists guide to San Francisco 917.9461 N899
NFT: not for tourists guide to Washington DC 917.53 N899
The rough guide to Dubai 915.357 R856
Rick Steves' Vienna, Salzburg & Tirol 914.36 S848
Zagat 2014 America's top restaurants 647.9573 Z18

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Nonfiction
Arun Gandhi & Bethany Hegedus Grandfather Gandhi 92 G1957

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
John Grisham Sycamore row

Nonfiction
Doris Kearns Goodwin The bully pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft & the golden age of journalism 973.91 G656c
12 years a slave: the extraordinary true story of Solomon Northup 92 N878c

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
Die hard

Comedy
Who framed Roger Rabbit

Drama
The mission

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Experiment in terror

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
The hunger games: catching fire

Nonfiction
Riding giants 797.32 R544
Shakespeare: the king's man 822.3 K551

Posted on Mar. 29, 2014 by Sarah Cruz