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New Titles for the Week of February 20

BOOKS

FICTION
Daniel Handler We are pirates
Kristin Hannah The nightingale
Nick Hornby Funny girl
Ravi Howard Driving the king

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Dan Simmons Phases of gravity

Short Stories
Edith Pearlman Honeydew

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Sam Alden It never happened again: two stories 741.5 A359

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NONFICTION
Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Lisa Congdon Art, Inc.: the essential guide for building your career as an artist 702.3 C749

Biography & Genealogy
Michael Mewshaw Sympathy for the devil: four decades of friendship with Gore Vidal 920 V648m

Business & Economics
Bill Browder Red notice: a true story of high finance, murder & one man's fight for justice 332.092 B877
Spencer Rascoff Zillow talk: the new rules of real estate 333.33 R223

Chess
Lev Alburt Platonov's chess academy: using Soviet-era methods to improve 21st-century openings 794.122 A345p

History
Alexandra Fuller Leaving before the rains come 968.91 F966L
Helen McPhail The long silence: the tragedy of Occupied France in World War I 944.081 M172
T.G. Steward Buffalo soldiers: the colored regulars in the United States Army 355 S849
Samuel Hopkins Willey Personal memoranda: the journal of his voyage to California in 1848-1849 979.404 W71p

Law
Frederick W. Daily Stand Up to the IRS 336.24 D13s
Stephen Fishman Tax deductions for professionals 343.7306 F537

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Frank Close Half life: the divided life of Bruno Pontecorvo, physicist or spy 530.92 P814
Howard E. McMinn An illustrated manual of Pacific coast trees 582.16 M167
Bill Nye Undeniable: evolution & the science of creation 576.8 N994

Performing Arts & Music
Paul Fischer A Kim Jong-Il production: the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress & a young dictator's rise to power 791.43 K48
Darren Henley 50 moments that rocked the classical music world 780.9 H514
Patton Oswalt Silver screen fiend: learning about life from an addiction to film 792.092 O86

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Karen L. King The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus & the first woman apostle 229.8 K534

Politics & Government
Paul Broda Scientist spies: a memoir of my three parents & the atom bomb 327.12 B864
Sheldon S. Wolin Democracy incorporated: managed democracy & the specter of inverted totalitarianism 320.973 W861

Social Sciences & Current Events
Johann Hari Chasing the scream: the first & last days of the war on drugs 363.45 H281
Jill Leovy Ghettoside: a true story of murder in America 364.152 L588
Karyn Rashoff Parents in highschooland: helping students succeed in the critical years 373.18 R224
Judith Tannenbaum Disguised as a poem: my years teaching poetry at San Quentin 365.66 T166

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AUDIOBOOKS
Nonfiction
William J. Mann Tinseltown: murder, morphine & madness at the dawn of Hollywood CD 364.152 M281

Posted on Feb. 20, 2015 by Sarah Cruz