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New Titles for the Week of June 27

BOOKS

FICTION
Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Janet Evanovich Top secret twenty-one
Stuart MacBride A song for the dying

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Matt Fraction Sex criminals. Volume 1, One weird trick 741.5 F798

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Mark Miodownik Stuff matters: exploring the marvelous materials that shape our man-made world 620.11 M669

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Debbie Shore Half yard heaven: easy sewing projects using left-over pieces of fabric 646.2 S559

Biography & Genealogy
Hillary Rodham Clinton Hard choices 92 C6415h

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Phyllis Rose The shelf: from LEQ to LES 028.9 R795

Business & Economics
Greg Marcus Busting your corporate idol: self-help for the chronically overworked 650.1 M324

Food & Drink
Diana Yen A simple feast: a year of stories & recipes to savor & share 641.5974 Y451

History
Timothy M. Gay Savage will: the daring escape of Americans trapped behind Nazi lines 940.542 G285
Neill Lochery Brazil: the fortunes of war: World War II & the making of modern Brazil 940.5381 L812
James Oakes The scorpion's sting: antislavery & the coming of the Civil War 973.711 O116
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern The golden age shtetl: a new history of Jewish life in East Europe 947 P497
Michael Reid Brazil: the troubled rise of a global power 981 R353

Literature & Writing
Andrew D. Kaufman Give War & Peace a chance: Tolstoyan wisdom for troubled times 891.73 T65k

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Donald Eugene Canfield Oxygen: a four billion year history 551.5 C222
Lewis Dartnell The knowledge: how to rebuild our world from scratch 500 D226
Jordan Ellenberg How not to be wrong: the power of mathematical thinking 510 E452
Marcelo Gleiser The Island of Knowledge: the limits of science & the search for meaning 501 G557

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Fran Moreland Johns Dying unafraid 155.93 J658
Steven D. Levitt Think like a freak: the authors of Freakonomics offer to retrain your brain 153.43 L666

Politics & Government
John Micklethwait The fourth revolution: the global race to reinvent the state 320.1 M62

Posted on Jun. 27, 2014 by Sarah Cruz