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BOOKS

FICTION
Sylvia Day Spellbound
María Dueñas The heart has its reasons
Elena Ferrante Those who leave & those who stay
William Giraldi Hold the dark
Ismail Kadare Twilight of the eastern gods
Patrick Modiano Out of the dark (Du plus loin de l'oubli)
Jojo Moyes Silver Bay
David Poyer The cruiser

Historical Fiction
Anita Diamant The Boston girl
Alessandro Marzo Magno Bound in Venice: the serene republic & the dawn of the book

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Jo Bannister Perfect sins
Eric Brown Murder at the Chase: a Langham & Dupré mystery
Paul Charles Down on Cyprus Avenue
Loren D. Estleman You know who killed me
Anthony Horowitz Moriarty
Malcolm Mackay The necessary death of Lewis Winter
Sebastian Rotella The convert's song
Richard Voorhees Shooting Genji

Short Stories
Thomas Fante Border crossing
Thomas Fante Budget cut: fiction
Thomas Fante Dreams of war stories
Thomas Fante End of the world of luminous motion
Thomas Fante For sale by owner
Thomas Fante Revenge of the gods
Thomas Fante Short story tall tale
Thomas Fante Tarry till I come
Thomas Fante The annotated Zeno: the full text of Zeno's religion game ; with a copy of his life, written by himeslf
Thomas Fante The night train to Xenia
Thomas Fante Worlds in collision
Nebula awards showcase SS N36 2014

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Chris Hackett The big book of maker skills: tools & techniques for building great tech projects 621.9 H121

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Tom Ang Photography: the definitive visual history 770.9 A581
Victoria Finlay The brilliant history of color in art 701.8 F511
The Guerrilla Girls' bedside companion to the history of Western art 704.042 G935
Christopher Simon Sykes David Hockney: the biography, 1975-2012: a pilgrim's progress 750.92 H68s v.2
The possible 708.194 P856
Henry Sultan The art of the mandala 750.92 S954
Philip Gefter Wagstaff, before & after Mapplethorpe: a biography 709.2 W135
Bruce Waldman Drawing for everyone: classic & creative fundamentals 741 W164

Biography & Genealogy
David Margolick Dreadful: the short life & gay times of John Horne Burns 92 B9671
Debi & Irwin Unger George Marshall: a biography 92 M3677u

Business & Economics
Debby Banham & Rosamond Faith Anglo-Saxon farms & farming 338.1 B216
Richard Nelson Bolles What color is your parachute?: a practical manual for job-hunters & career changers 650.14 B69 2015
Eugene F. Brigham Financial management: theory & practice 658.15 B855f
Michael C. Ehrhardt Corporate finance: a focused approach 658.15 E336

Chess
Jacob Aagaard Endgame play 794.124 A112e

Computer Science
Jim Boyce Microsoft Outlook 2013 plain & simple 005.3 M934b 2013
Rick Greenwald Oracle essentials 005.75 O631g

History
Daniel Bolger Why we lost: a general's inside account of the Iraq & Afghanistan Wars 956.7 B688
William Deverell Railroad crossing: Californians & the railroad, 1850-1910 385.0979 D491
Malcolm Gaskill Between two worlds: how the English became Americans 973 G248
Carrie Gibson Empire's crossroads: a history of the Caribbean from Columbus to the present day 972.9 G448
Anne Evers Hitz Emporium Department Store 979.461 H676
Marilyn Johnson Lives in ruins: archaeologists & the seductive lure of human rubble 930.1 J661
Carl Lane A nation wholly free: the elimination of the national debt in the age of Jackson 973.56 L265
Miko Peled The General's son: journey of an Israeli in Palestine 956.94 P381
Mike Pitts Digging for Richard III: how archaeology found the king 942.04 P692

Literature & Writing
Maeve Binchy Maeve's times: in her own words 824.9 B612
Paul Strohm Chaucer's tale: 1386 & the road to Canterbury 821 C49s
Jack Hirschman The Viet arcane 811 H669v
Mark J. Mitchell Three visitors 811 M681
Jeanne Powell Carousel: essays & such 814 P882c
Roman letters: an anthology 876 R758

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Fiona Sunquist & Mel Sunquist The wild cat book 599.75 S958

Performing Arts & Music
Shawn Levy De Niro: a life 792.092 D394
Carol Verburg Edward Gorey on stage: playwright, director, designer, performer 792 G666o

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Peter Adamson Classical philosophy: a history of philosophy without any gaps. Volume 1 100 A221 v.1
Eben Alexander The map of heaven: how science, religion & ordinary people are proving the afterlife 202.3 A374
James Carroll Christ actually: the Son of God for the secular age 232 C319
Christina Boyle An American Cardinal: the biography of Cardinal Timothy Dolan 282.092 D659
Peter Sloterdijk Globes: macrospherology 126 S634

Politics & Government
Bret Stephens America in retreat: the new isolationism & the coming global disorder 327.73 S832

Social Sciences & Current Events
Robert Beachy Gay Berlin: birthplace of a modern identity 306.76 B365
Weiming Lu The Tao of urban rejuvenation: building a livable creative urban village 307.3 L926
Catherine McNeur Taming Manhattan: environmental battles in the antebellum city 307.76 M169
assassination eyewitness James T. Tague LBJ & the Kennedy killing 364.152 T128

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AUDIOBOOKS
Nonfiction
Robert Greenberg The operas of Mozart CD 780.92 M939

Posted on Dec. 31, 2014 by Sarah Cruz