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BOOKS

FICTION
Lan Cao The lotus & the storm
W.H. Hudson Green mansions; a romance of the tropical forest
Jess Row Your face in mine
Julie Schumacher Dear Committee Members
Matthew Thomas We are not ourselves
Anthony Trollope Ayala's angel
Anthony Trollope Barchester Towers
Anthony Trollope Doctor Thorne
Anthony Trollope Framley Parsonage
Anthony Trollope He knew he was right
Anthony Trollope Miss Mackenzie
Anthony Trollope Mr Scarborough's family
Anthony Trollope Orley farm
Anthony Trollope Phineas redux
Anthony Trollope Rachel Ray
Anthony Trollope Ralph the heir
Anthony Trollope The Duke's children
Anthony Trollope The Eustace diamonds
Anthony Trollope The fixed period
Anthony Trollope The golden lion of Granpere
Anthony Trollope The Kellys & the O'Kellys, or, Landlords & tenants
Anthony Trollope The Landleaguers
Anthony Trollope The last chronicle of Barset
Anthony Trollope The prime minister
Anthony Trollope The small house at Allington
Anthony Trollope The three clerks
Anthony Trollope The warden
Anthony Trollope The way we live now

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Thomas H. Cook A dancer in the dust
W.E.B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV Top secret: a clandestine operations novel
William Kent Krueger Windigo Island
Peter Tremayne Atonement of blood: a mystery of ancient Ireland

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Edgar Cantero The supernatural enhancements

Short Stories
The best horror of the year SS B565h v.1 2009
The improbable adventures of Sherlock Holmes SS I347

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
James A. Levine Get up!: why your chair is killing you & what you can do about it 613.71 L665

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
2000 BC: the Bruce Conner story part II. 709.2 C752t
Bruce Conner: the 70s 709.2 C752s
Adrian Ghenie 750.92 G412
Anna Maria Horner Anna Maria's needleworks notebook 746.4 H816
In wonderland: the surrealist adventures of women artists in Mexico & the United States 709.04 I358
Judi Madsen Quilting wide-open spaces 746.46 M183
Rethinking Andrew Wyeth 750.92 W97r

Biography & Genealogy
Piers Dudgeon Maeve Binchy: the biography 92 B612
James Bowen A street cat named Bob: & how he saved my life 636.8 B786
Jenny Hartley Charles Dickens & the house of fallen women 92 D548h
Walter Kirn Lost in the meritocracy: the undereducation of an overachiever 92 K599

Business & Economics
Laszlo Birinyi The master trader: Birinyi's secrets to understanding the market 332.6 B618
Suzan Haskins The international living guide to retiring overseas on a budget: how to live well on $25,000 a year 332.024 H351
Martin Yate Knock 'em dead social networking: for job search & professional success 650.14 Y31s

Food & Drink
Claudia Roden The food of Spain 641.5946 R687

History
Catherine Accardi San Francisco landmarks 979.461 A169L
Vincent Azoulay Pericles of Athens 938.5 P947
Tim Butcher The trigger: hunting the assassin who brought the world to war 940.311 P957
Tom CoIe A short history of San Francisco 979.461 C68 2014
Andrew Collins Göbekli Tepe: genesis of the gods: the Temple of the Watchers & the discovery of Eden 939.42 C712
Elizabeth Drew Washington Journal: reporting Watergate & Richard Nixon's downfall 973.924 D776
Derek R. Everett Creating the American West: boundaries & borderlands 978 E932
Ronald C. Rosbottom When Paris went dark: the City of Light under German occupation, 1940-1944 944.36 R789

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Carol Bradley Last chain on Billie: how one extraordinary elephant escaped the big top 639.97 B811
Alexander Unzicker Bankrupting physics: how today's top scientists are gambling away their credibility 530 U63

Performing Arts & Music
Eve Golden Golden images: 41 essays on silent film stars 791.43 G618

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Wallace J. Nichols Blue mind: the surprising science that shows how being near, in, on, or under water can make you happier, healthier, more connected & better at what you do 155.91 N616
James K.A. Smith How (not) to be secular: reading Charles Taylor 230.01 T238h

Politics & Government
James Bovard Attention deficit democracy 320.973 B783
Daniel Halper Clinton, Inc.: the audacious rebuilding of a political machine 973.929 C641ha
Robert E. Mutch Buying the vote: a history of campaign finance reform 324.78 M992
Hugh Wilford AMERICA'S GREAT GAME: the CIA's Secret Arabists & the Shaping of the Modern Middle East 327.73 W677

Social Sciences & Current Events
Stephen M. Caliendo Inequality in America: race, poverty & fulfilling democracy's promise 305.51 C153
James Joseph Dean Straights: heterosexuality in post-closeted culture 306.76 D281
Hannes Råstam Thomas Quick: the making of a serial killer 364.152 R229
Theda Skocpol Diminished democracy: from membership to management in American civic life 306.2 S628
Richard Zacks Island of vice : Theodore Roosevelt's quest to clean up sin-loving New York 363.2 R781

Sports & Games
Brian Benson Going somewhere: a bicycle journey across America 796.64 B474

Travel & Geography
America's 100 best places to retire 917.304 R438

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DVDs
Classics
The loved one
Mister Roberts

Drama
Big night
My own private Idaho

Posted on Sep. 5, 2014 by Sarah Cruz