New Titles for the Week of August 3 | Mechanics' Institute

You are here

New Titles for the Week of August 3

BOOKS

FICTION
Candace Bushnell Killing Monica
Barbara Delinsky Blueprints
Janet Evanovich Wicked charms
Susan Froetschel Fear of beauty
Sarah Hall The wolf border
Milan Kundera The festival of insignificance
Kevin Kwan China rich girlfriend
Alexis Landau The empire of the senses
Lori Lansens The mountain story
Harper Lee Go set a watchman

Historical Fiction
Stephen Jarvis Death & Mr. Pickwick

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
M. A. Adler In the shadow of lies: an Oliver Wright mystery novel
Jefferson Bass The breaking point
Roger Hobbs Vanishing games
Peter Lovesey Down among the dead men: a Peter Diamond investigation
David Mark Taking pity
Carla Norton What doesn't kill her
Taylor Stevens The mask
Brad Taylor The insider threat: a Pike Logan thriller
Neely Tucker Murder, D.C.
Stuart Woods Naked greed

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Wesley Chu Time salvager
Félix J. Palma The map of chaos

Short Stories
Langston Hughes The ways of white folks

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Emmanuel Guibert How the world was: a California childhood 979.405 G944 comics

* * * * *

NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Christopher Cumo The ongoing Columbian exchange: stories of biological & economic transfer in world history Ref 616.9 C971

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Jean-Michel Basquiat The notebooks 750.92 B31n
Walead Beshty (Editor) Ethics 701 E843
Robert Lacey Model woman: Eileen Ford & the business of beauty 746.92 F699
Thierry Lenain Art forgery: the history of a modern obsession 702.874 L563
Martinez Celaya: working methods = métodos de trabajos 750.92 M386
Mark Daniel Nelson Learn to paint in acrylics: with 50 small paintings 751.4 N428

Biography & Genealogy
Jimmy Carter A full life: reflections at ninety 92 C3235f
I greet you at the beginning of a great career: the selected correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Allen Ginsberg, 1955-1997 920 F357i
Charles Kaiser The cost of courage 920 B764
Rory Muir Wellington 92 W451mu

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Alex Johnson Improbable libraries: a visual journey to the world's most unusual libraries 027 J661
Scott Sherman Patience & fortitude: power, real estate & the fight to save a public library 027.4 S553

Business & Economics
Robin Chase Peers, Inc.: how people & platforms are inventing the collaborative economy & reinventing capitalism 338.04 C487
Harvey Neiman Customize wall street: take control of your financial future 332.024 N414

Chess
Emanuel Berg The French Defence 3 794.122 B493
Mark Dvoretsky For friends & colleagues. Volume 1, Profession--chess coach 794.1 D988f
Cyrus Lakdawala The classical French, move by move 794.122 L192cl
Bent Larsen Bent Larsen's best games: fighting chess with the great Dane 794.15 L33b
Parimarjan Negi 1.e4 vs The French, Caro-Kann & Philidor 794.122 N384
Parimarjan Negi 1.e4 vs the Sicilian I 794.122 N384s
Richard Pert Playing the Trompowsky 794.122 P468
Judit Polgar A game of queens 794.15 P76g

Computer Science
Jason Bell Machine learning: hands-on for developers & technical professionals 006.3 B433

Health & Medicine
Miranda Esmonde-White Aging backwards: reverse the aging process & look 10 years younger in 30 minutes a day 613.2 E76
Steven Lamm Fighting fat: break the dieting cycle & get healthy for life!: one size does not fit all 613.25 L232
Marc Lewis The biology of desire: why addiction is not a disease 616.86 L675

History
Gavan Daws Shoal of time: a history of the Hawaiian Islands 996.9 D272
Mary McGrigor The other Tudor Princess: Margaret Douglas, Henry VIII's niece 942.05 L568
James M. Scott Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle & the raid that avenged Pearl Harbor 940.542 S427

Literature & Writing
Harold Bloom The daemon knows: literary greatness & the American sublime 810.9 B655
Greg Proops The smartest book in the world: a lexicon of literacy, a rancorous reportage, a concise curriculum of cool 818 P965

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Marc Chamberland Single digits: in praise of small numbers 510 C443
Jorge Daniel Taillant Glaciers: the politics of ice 551.31 T131
Timothy Gowers (editor) The Princeton companion to mathematics Ref 510 P957
Performing Arts & Music
Judd Apatow Sick in the head: conversations about life & comedy 792.7 A639
Gina Arnold Exile in Guyville 780.92 P532a
Bobby Hart Psychedelic bubble gum: Boyce & Hart, the Monkees & turning mayhem into miracles 780.92 H3252

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Steven M. Cahn Happiness & goodness: philosophical reflections on living well 171.3 C132
Jimena Canales The physicist & the philosopher: Einstein, Bergson & the debate that changed our understanding of time 115 C212

Politics & Government
Scott Horton Lords of secrecy: the national security elite & America's stealth warfare 327.12 H823
Naveed Jamali How to catch a Russian spy: the true story of an American civilian turned double agent 327.12 J271

Reference
Richard A. Walker The atlas of California: mapping the challenges of a new era Ref 317.94 W183

Social Sciences & Current Events
America's moment: creating opportunity in the connected age 303.4833 A512
Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the world & me 305.8 C652
Huan Hsu The porcelain thief: searching the Middle Kingdom for buried China 305.895 H873
Mary Anna King Bastards: a memoir 306.85 K537
David Madland Hollowed out: why the economy doesn't work without a strong middle class 305.55 M182
Val McDermid Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA & More Tell Us About Crime 363.25 M134
Ken Robinson Creative schools: the grassroots revolution that's transforming education 370.973 R662
Roberto Saviano Zero zero zero 363.45 S267
Kathy Moskowitz Strain Giants, cannibals & monsters: Bigfoot in native culture 398.208 S896

Sports & Games
William Finnegan Barbarian days: a surfing life 797.32 F514
Gwyneth Anne Thayer Going to the dogs: greyhound racing, animal activism & American popular culture 798.8 T371

Travel & Geography
Lonely Planet Tanzania 916.78 L847
Venice: a travel guide to Murano glass, carnival masks, gondolas, lace, paper & more/ Laura Morelli 914.53 M842

* * * * *

LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Harper Lee Go set a watchman

* * * * *

CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Sandy De Lisle Hens for friends

AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
David Guterson Snow falling on cedars

* * * * *

DVDs

Drama
Going for gold: the '48 games

* * * * *

CDs

Popular
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga Cheek to cheek
Kendrick Lamar To pimp a butterfly
St. Vincent STV

Posted on Aug. 3, 2015 by Cherilyn Chang