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BOOKS

FICTION
Cynthia Bond Ruby
Stuart Archer Cohen This is how it really sounds
Andrew Ervin Burning down George Orwell's house
Bridget Foley Hugo & Rose
Wendy Jones The world is a wedding: in which the unexpected nature of reality surprises Mister Wilfred Price
Eliza Kennedy I take you
Paul Lynch The black snow
Chigozie Obioma The fishermen
Tom Spanbauer I loved you more
Jennifer Tseng Mayumi & the sea of happiness
Richard Wagamese Medicine walk
Sarai Walker Dietland
Nell Zink Mislaid

Historical Fiction
Robyn Cadwallader The anchoress
John Donoghue The Death's Head chess club
Hazel Gaynor The girl who came home: a novel of the Titanic
Ralph Peters Valley of the shadow
Jim Shepard The book of Aron

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Ted Bell Warriors
Gerry Boyle Once burned
Clive Cussler & Boyd Morrison Piranha
Jeffery Deaver Solitude creek: a Kathryn Dance novel
Anne Emery Ruined abbey: a mystery
Loren D. Estleman Detroit is our beat: tales of the four horsemen
John Farrow The storm murders
Lyndsay Faye The fatal fame
Neal C. Griffin Benefit of the doubt
Elly Griffiths The ghost fields
Nicholas Guild Blood ties
Seán Haldane The devil's making
Carolyn Hart Don't go home: a Death on Demand mystery
Anne Hillerman Rock with wings
Déborah Lévy-Bertherat The travels of Daniel Ascher
Stephen Lloyd Jones Written in the blood
Steve Martini The enemy inside: a Paul Madriani novel
Scott McEwen The sniper & the wolf: a Sniper elite novel
Catriona Mcpherson Come to harm
Matthew Palmer Secrets of state
Heidi Pitlor The daylight marriage
Will Thomas Anatomy of evil
Ronald Tierney Killing Frost: Deets Shanahan's final case

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Clive Barker The scarlet gospels
Paula Brackston The silver witch

Short Stories
Lauren Acampora The wonder garden
Chuck Palahniuk Make something up: stories you can't unread

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Stephen Collins The gigantic beard that was evil 741.5 C712
Gail Simone Sensation Comics featuring Wonder Woman Volume 1 741.5 W872s

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Margaret Lazarus Dean Leaving orbit: notes from the last days of American spaceflight 629.4 D281
Richard Paul & Steven Moss We could not fail: the first African Americans in the Space Program 629.4 P324

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Brian Cook's landscapes of Britain 741.64 B334
Kathleen A. Foster Thomas Chambers: American marine & landscape painter, 1808-1869 750.92 C444f
Constance M. Lewallen 500 Capp Street: David Ireland's house 709.2 I654L
Nick Neddo The organic artist: make your own paint, paper, pens, pigments, prints & more from nature 702.8 N371
Myra Wood Knit in new directions 746.43 W873

Biography & Genealogy
Terry Alford Fortune's fool: the life of John Wilkes Booth 92 B725a
Alexander V. Pantsov Deng Xiaoping: a revolutionary life 92 D392p
Helen Castor Joan of Arc: a history 92 J43c
Richard Davenport-Hines Universal man: the lives of John Maynard Keynes 330.92 K44d
Kate Schatz Rad American women A-Z 920.72 S312
From books to bezoars: Sir Hans Sloane & his collections 92 S634f
Oleg V. Khlevniuk Stalin: new biography of a dictator 92 S782kh
Kyle Baker Nat Turner 92 T948b Comics
Charlotte Gordon Romantic outlaws: the extraordinary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & her daughter Mary Shelley 920 W864g
Viviane Forrester Virginia Woolf: a portrait 92 W909f

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Tim Parks Where I'm reading from: the changing world of books 028.9 P252
Rethinking library technical services: redefining our profession for the future 025.02 R438

Business & Economics
American enterprise: a history of business in America 338.0973 A512
François Bourguignon The globalization of inequality 330.9 B773
Lester R. Brown The great transition: shifting from fossil fuels to solar & wind energy 333.79 B878
Richard Dobbs No ordinary disruption: the four global forces breaking all the trends 337 D632
First jobs: true tales of bad bosses, quirky coworkers, big breaks & small paychecks 331.12 F527
Martin Ford Rise of the robots: technology & the threat of a jobless future 331.137 F699
Richard Heinberg Blackout: coal, climate & the last energy crisis 333.82 H468
Craig Lambert Shadow work: the unpaid, unseen jobs that fill your day 331 L222
Mcgraw Hill Education GMAT premium 2015 650.076 M147
Jonathan McMillan The end of banking: money, credit & the digital revolution 332.1 M167
Nathaniel Popper Digital gold: bitcoin & the inside story of the misfits & millionaires trying to reinvent money 332.4 P831
Susan U. Raymond Nonprofit finance for hard times: leadership strategies when economies falter 658.15 R272

Computer Science
Learning agile: understanding Scrum, XP, Lean & Kanban Andrew Stellman Learning agile: understanding Scrum, XP, Lean & Kanban 005.1 S824

Food & Drink
Gabriele Bonci Pizza: seasonal recipes from Rome's legendary pizzarium 641.82 B699
Barry Estabrook Pig tales: an omnivore's quest for sustainable meat 636.4 E792
Maida Heatter's cakes 641.8653 H44
Jeff Koehler Darjeeling: the colorful history & precarious fate of the world's greatest tea 633.72 K773
Reid Mitenbuler Bourbon empire: the past & future of America's whiskey 663.5 M682
Mark Schatzker The Dorito effect: the surprising new truth about food & flavor 641.3 S312

Health & Medicine
Robert A. Burton A skeptic's guide to the mind: what neuroscience can & cannot tell us about ourselves 616.8 B974
Constance Hanstedt Don't leave yet: how my mother's Alzheimer's opened my heart 616.831 H251
Bob Harper Skinny habits: the 6 secrets of thin people 613.25 H293
Lee Jampolsky Healing the addictive personality: freeing yourself from addictive patterns & relationships 616.8584 J329

History
Christopher Andrew & Vasili Mitrokhin The world was going our way: the KGB & the battle for the Third World 327.12 A562w
James Angelos The full catastrophe: travels among the new Greek ruins 949.507 A584
Alan Axelrod Lost destiny: Joe Kennedy Jr. & the doomed WWII mission to save London 940.5449 A969
Philip P. Boucher Les Nouvelles Frances: France in America, 1500-1815, an imperial perspective 325.344 B753
Ahron Bregman Cursed victory: Israel & the Occupied Territories: a history 956.94 B833
Eric Burns 1920: the year that made the decade roar 973.913 B96
Averil Cameron The Byzantines 949.5 C182b
Bernard Cornwell Waterloo: the history of four days, three armies & three battles 940.27 C821
Joseph J. Ellis The quartet: orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789 973.3 E47q
John Ferling Whirlwind: the American Revolution & the war that won it 973.3 F357w
André Gerolymatos The Balkan wars: conquest, revolution & retribution from the Ottoman era to the twentieth century & beyond 949.6 G37
Godfrey Hodgson JFK & LBJ: the last two great presidents 973.09 H69
Steve Inskeep Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross & a great American land grab 973.56 I592
Ari Kelman Battle lines: a graphic history of the Civil War 973.7 K298 Comics
Preston Lauterbach Beale Street dynasty: sex, song & the struggle for the soul of Memphis 976.819 L389
Michael Neiberg Potsdam: the end of World War II & the remaking of Europe 940.5314 N397
Mitchell P. Postel The University Club of San Francisco: centennial history, 1890-1990 979.461 P85u
Lindsay Powell Marcus Agrippa: right-hand man of Caesar Augustus 937 A279
Richard Reeves Infamy: the shocking story of the Japanese American internment in World War II 940.5317 R33
Camilla Schofield Enoch Powell & the making of postcolonial Britain 941.085 S367
J.A. Sharpe Early modern England: a social history, 1550-1760 941.06 S532
A social history of England, 1200-1500 942.03 S678

Languages & Linguistics
Rosemarie Ostler Founding grammars: how early America's war over words shaped today's language 427.973 O85f

Law
Carol Berkin The Bill of Rights: the fight to secure America's liberties 342.73 B512
McGraw-Hill Education LSAT premium 2015 340.076 M147
Bryan Stevenson Just mercy: a story of justice & redemption 353.48 S847

Literature & Writing
Emily Berry Dear boy 821 B534
Cavafy: 166 poems 889 C37bo
George D. Gopen The sense of structure: writing from the reader's perspective 808.04 G659
Edmund Gosse A history of eighteenth century literature 820.9 G678
Roxane Beth Johnson Black crow dress 811 J682b
Jamie McKendrick Out there 821 M155

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Niles Eldredge Eternal ephemera: adaptation & the Origin of species, from the nineteenth century, through punctuated equilibria & beyond 576.8 E378
Susan Wise Bauer The story of science: from the writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang theory 509 B344
Eugenia Cheng 880-01 How to bake [pi]: an edible exploration of the mathematics of mathematics 510.1 C518
Fred Pearce The new wild: why invasive species will be nature's salvation 578.62 P36
Rachel Swaby Headstrong: 52 women who changed science-- & the world 509.2 S971

Performing Arts & Music
Rhonda K. Garelick Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's performance of modernism 792.8 F965

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Anthony Alvarado D.I.Y. magic: a strange & whimsical guide to creativity 153.35 A472
Michael C. Corballis The wandering mind: what the brain does when you're not looking 153 C789
Jerry A. Coyne Faith versus fact: why science & religion are incompatible 201.65 C881
Carlos Fraenkel Teaching Plato in Palestine: philosophy in a divided world 107 F799
Robert Garfield Breaking the male code: unlocking the power of friendship: overcoming male isolation for a longer, happier life 155.33 G231
Heather Lende Find the good: unexpected life lessons from a small-town obituary writer 170.44 L56
Deirdre N. McCloskey The bourgeois virtues: ethics for an age of commerce 174 M127
Richard Rohr What the mystics know: seven pathways to your deeper self 248.8 R739
Freedom & the self: essays on the philosophy of David Foster Wallace 191 W187c

Politics & Government
Colin Dueck The Obama doctrine: American grand strategy today 327.73 D852
Kevin M. Kruse One nation under God: how corporate America invented Christian America 322.1 K946

Social Sciences & Current Events
Frank Bruni Where you go is not who you'll be: an antidote to the college admissions mania 378.16 B896
Michael M. Crow & William B. Dabars Designing the new American university 378.73 C953
Porter Erisman Alibaba's world: how a remarkable Chinese company is changing the face of global business 381 E689
David C. Forward A century of service: the story of Rotary international 369.5 F745
Caroline Fredrickson Under the bus: how working women are being run over 331.4 F852
Home away from home: the forgotten history of orphanages 362.73 H765
Rosabeth Moss Kanter Move: putting America's infrastructure back in the lead 388 K168
Cleary Wolters Out of orange: a memoir 364.177 W868

Sports & Games
Mike Tyson Undisputed truth 796.83 T994

Travel & Geography
J.M. Barwise & N.J. White A traveller's history of Southeast Asia 915.9 B296
David Downie A passion for Paris: romanticism & romance in the City of Light 914.436 D751
Fodor's Puerto Vallarta 917.23 F65
Great adventures: experience the world at its breathtaking best 910.202 G786a
Karen Haid Calabria: the other Italy 914.57 H149
Moon handbooks Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque 917.895 M818
Rob & Jaki Roy The coincidental traveler: adventure travel for budget-minded grown-ups 910.202 R888
Paul Schneider The enduring shore: a history of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket 917.449 S35
Chet Van Duzer Sea monsters on medieval & Renaissance maps 912.09 V246

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Mac Barnett Sam & Dave dig a hole
Lauren Castillo Nana in the city
Anna Kang ; illustrated by Christopher Weyant You are (not) small
Dan Santat The adventures of Beekle: the unimaginary friend
Mo Willems Waiting is not easy!

Nonfiction
Jen Bryant ; Melissa Sweet The right word: Roget & his thesaurus 92 R732b
Barb Rosenstock The noisy paint box: the colors & sounds of Kandinsky's abstract art 750.92 K16r
Jacqueline Woodson Brown girl dreaming 811 W898

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DVDs
Foreign Language
A royal affair (En kongelig affære)
Barrio Cuba
Clandestine childhood
The liberator (Libertador)
Vincent wants to sea (Vincent will meer)
Wild tales

Posted on Jul. 1, 2015 by Sarah Cruz