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BOOKS

FICTION
Susanna Kaysen Cambridge
Jean Hanff Korelitz You should have known
Tova Mirvis Visible city
Patrick O'Keeffe The visitors
Susan Rieger The divorce papers

Historical Fiction
Chris Greenhalgh Seducing Ingrid Bergman
Robin Oliveira I always loved you: a story of Mary Cassatt & Edgar Degas

Multi-Gen Literature
Lynne Ewing The lure

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Harry Bingham Love story, with murders
Tom Bradby The White Russian
Mignon G. Eberhart House of storm
Janet Gleeson The thief taker
Batya Gur Murder on a kibbutz: a communal case
Carolyn Hart Castle Rock
Laura McHugh The weight of blood
Jo Nesbø Cockroaches
Kwei Quartey Murder at Cape Three Points
Atiq Rahimi A curse on Dostoevsky
William Shaw She's leaving home

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Stephen Leigh Immortal muse
George MacDonald The gifts of the child Christ: fairytales & stories for the childlike

Short Stories
The best short stories of Dostoevsky

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Dan Dare, pilot of the future. Marooned on mercury 741.5 D217 v.4
Dan Dare, pilot of the future. The man from nowhere 741.5 D217 v.8
Isabel Greenberg The encyclopedia of Early Earth: a graphic novel 741.5 G798
Denise Mina The girl with the dragon tattoo. Book 2 741.5 M663 bk.2
Jesse Reklaw Couch tag 741.5 R381

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Malcolm Margolin The earth manual: how to work on wild land without taming it 639.9 M329

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Ben Broos Great Dutch paintings from America 759.9492 B873
Paul Cézanne, letters 750.92 C42rh
Judy Chicago Institutional time: a critique of studio art education 707 C533
Design outlaws on the ecological frontier 720.47 D457
Steven Ehrlich architects 720.92 E338
Charles Gatewood, William S. Burroughs Sidetripping 779 G259
Kazuyoshi Nomachi A photographer's pilgrimage: 30 years of great reportage 770.92 N799
Chris Rankin Decorating table linens: 60 tablecloths, place mats & napkins to appliqué, paint, cross-stitch, embroider & sew 746.96 R211
Robert A.M. Stern New York 2000: architecture & urbanism between the bicentennial & the millennium 720.9747 S839t
Bruce Weber 770.92 W373
Whistler: a life for art's sake 750.92 W576sw

Biography & Genealogy
Chronicle of a pharaoh: the intimate life of Amenhotep III 932 A511
The double life of Paul de Man 92 D371
Ray McDevitt From Donegal to Divisadero Street: the journey of Edward McDevitt 92 M1348

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Walter Goldwater Radical periodicals in America, 1890-1950: with a genealogical chart & a concise lexicon of the parties & groups which issued them REF 016.3224 G624

Business & Economics
Dan Antonelli Building a big small business brand 658.827 A634
William L. Bird, Jr. Holidays on display 659.157 B618
Lisa Guerin Smart policies for workplace technologies: email, blogs, cell phones & more 651.7 G93
John Mauldin Code red: how to protect your savings from the coming crisis 332.024 M449

Chess
Jacob Aagaard Playing the French 794.122 A11p
Sam Collins The Tarrasch defence 794.122 C712t
James Eade The chess player's bible: illustrated strategies for staying ahead of the game 794.1 E105c
Michael Krasenkow Finding chess jewels: improve your imagination & calculation 794.1 K898
Anatoly Lein In the world of tactics 794.123 L531
Judit Polgar From GM to top ten 794.15 P76f
Ivan Sokolov Sacrifice & initiative in chess: seize the moment to get the advantage 794.15 S683s

Computer Science
Bob Cohen Social networking for beginners: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn & more 006.7 C678
Steve Krug Don't make me think, revisited: a common sense approach to Web usability 005.72 K942

Food & Drink
Laila El-Haddad The Gaza kitchen: a Palestinian culinary journey 641.5929 E41
François Payard Payard desserts 641.86 P343

Health & Medicine
Kat Duff The secret life of sleep 612.821 D855
Ezekiel J. Emanuel Reinventing American health care: how the Affordable Care Act will improve our terribly complex, blatantly unjust, outrageously expensive, grossly inefficient, error prone system 362.1 E531
Hollye Jacobs The silver lining: a supportive & insightful guide to breast cancer 616.994 J172

History
Stanley Appelbaum The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: a photographic record 907.4773 A648
Wayne Bonnett California & the camera: from glass to film: 1850-1930 979.4 P713 2014
Anthony Heilbut The fan who knew too much: the secret closets of American culture 973.91 H466
Peter James Ancient mysteries 930 J28
Jefferson's Poplar Forest: unearthing a Virginia plantation 975.5675 J457
Catriona Kelly St Petersburg: shadows of the past 947.21 K296
Mary McAuliffe Twilight of the Belle Epoque: the Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein & their friends through the Great War 944.36 M478t
Darrin M. McMahon Divine fury: a history of genius 153.98 M167
Questions on German history: paths to parliamentary democracy 943 Q58
Anna Ritchie Viking Scotland 936.1 R598
David Ross Ships: visual encyclopedia 387.2 R823
Ingrid D. Rowland From Pompeii: the afterlife of a Roman town 937.7 R883
C.L. Sonnichsen Tucson, the life & times of an American city 979.1776 S699
Alan J. Stein Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: Washington's first world's fair 907.9777 S819

Languages & Linguistics
Benny Lewis Fluent in 3 months: how anyone at any age can learn to speak any language from anywhere in the world 418 L673

Law
Paul Bergman Represent yourself in court: how to prepare & try a winning case 347.05 B499
Lisa Guerin The essential guide to federal employment laws 344.7301 G93
Anthony Mancuso Nolo's quick LLC 346.0668 M268q
Ed Sherman How to do your own divorce in California in 2014 & thru February 2015 346.0166 S553

Literature & Writing
Alexandre Dumas The great lover & other plays 842 D885
Christopher Innes Avant garde theatre, 1892-1992 809.2 I582
Edgar Allan Poe The raven ; with, The philosophy of composition 811 P74rp
Vernon Ruland Tactics of nevertheless 811 R9351

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Edward K. Balls Early uses of California plants 581.6 B193
Jeffrey Bennett What is relativity?: an intuitive introduction to Einstein's ideas & why they matter 530.11 B471

Performing Arts & Music
The Ballets russes & its world 792.8 B191
David Itzkoff Mad as hell: the making of Network & the fateful vision of the angriest man in movies 808.23 I91
Eric Schneider Toy instruments: design, nostalgia, music 784.192 S358
Hugo Wolf: a biography 780.92 W853

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Theodore Pulcini Exegesis as polemical discourse: Ibn Ḥazm on Jewish & Christian Scriptures 297.2 I13
Jeffrey Satinover Cracking the Bible code 222.1 S253

Reference
Book review digest 010.5 C97
Britannica book of the year 030 E56b

Social Sciences & Current Events
Carol Corbett Burris On the same track: how schools can join the twenty-first-century struggle against resegregation 371.2 B971
Arun Kundnani The Muslims are coming!: Islamophobia, extremism & the domestic war on terror 363.325 K964
Sally Bedell Smith For love of politics: Bill & Hillary Clinton: the White House years 973.929 S659

Sports & Games
Aili & Andres McConnon Road to valor: a true story of WWII Italy, the Nazis & the cyclist who inspired a nation 796.62 B283
Al Seckel The ultimate book of optical illusions 152.14 S44

Travel & Geography
Majorca: culture & life 917.6754 M234

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Louisa May Alcott ; illustrations by Eunice Stephenson Under the lilacs

Nonfiction
Sally Fisher The tale of the shining princess 398.2952 F536

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DVDs
Drama
The intouchables
The last station
Plenty

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Star trek. Into darkness

Nonfiction
Virgil Thomson composer 780.92 T485

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CDs
Classical
American journey CD Classical American

Jazz
Queen Latifah Trav'lin' light CD Jazz Queen Latifah

Musicals & Soundtracks
Barrington Pheloung Hilary & Jackie: music from the motion picture CD Musicals/Soundtracks Pheloung

Vocals
Judy Collins sings Leonard Cohen: Democracy CD Vocals Collins

Posted on Apr. 5, 2014 by Sarah Cruz