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BOOKS

FICTION
Kirk Lynn Rules for werewolves
LaShonda Katrice Barnett Jam on the vine
Carolyn Chute Treat us like dogs & we will become wolves
Jennine Capó Crucet Make your home among strangers
Julia Elliott The new & improved Romie Futch
Elin Hilderbrand The rumor
Judith Hooper Alice in bed
Greg Hrbek Not on fire, but burning
Mary-Beth Hughes The loved ones
Jan Karon Come rain or come shine
Kathleen Lee All things tending towards the eternal
Valeria Luiselli Faces in the crowd
Thomas Mallon Finale: a novel of the Reagan years
Howard Frank Mosher God's kingdom
John Niven Straight white male
Kenzaburo Oe Death by water
Joseph Roth The hotel years
Rainbow Rowell Attachments
Guy Saville The Madagaskar plan
Elena Mauli Shapiro In the red
Danielle Steel Undercover
Jeanette Winterson The gap of time: the Winter's tale retold
David Butler City of Dis
Patrick deWitt Undermajordomo Minor
Jennifer Eremeeva Lenin lives next door: marriage, martinis & mayhem in Moscow
Elif Shafak The architect's apprentice
Claire Vaye Watkins Gold fame citrus

Historical Fiction
Caitlin Hicks A theory of expanded love
Emily Holleman Cleopatra's shadows
Rebecca Hunt Everland
Virginia Baily Early one morning
Gabriel Chevallier Fear: a novel of World War I

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Martin Limon The ville rat
Chris Abani The secret history of Las Vegas
Elise Blackwell The lower quarter
David Burnsworth Southern heat
Tom Callaghan A killing winter
Jonathan Carriel Exquisite folly: Thomas Dordrecht in 1765
Donis Casey Hell with the lid blown off: an Alafair Tucker mystery
Maia Chance Come hell or highball: a mystery
E.J. Copperman The question of the unfamiliar husband
Catherine Coulter The end game
Charles Cutter The Pink Pony
Maurizio de Giovanni The day of the dead: the autumn of Commissario Ricciardi
Catherine Dilts Stone cold case: a rock shop mystery
Janet Evanovich The scam: a Fox & O'Hare novel
Chris Goff Dark waters: a thriller
Ellen Hart The grave soul
Sue Ann Jaffarian The curse of the holy pail
Sue Ann Jaffarian Too big to miss
John Katzenbach The dead student
Jim Kelly Death on demand
Shannon Kirk Method 15/33
Archer Mayor The company she kept
Patrick Modiano So you don't get lost in the neighborhood
Nick Oldham Unforgiving
Karen E. Olsen Hidden
James Patterson Alert
J. D. Robb Devoted in death
Michael Wiley Second skin
Dick Wolf The execution: a Jeremy Fisk novel

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Dale Brown Iron Wolf
M. R. Carey The girl with all the gifts
Ann Leckie Ancillary mercy
Terry Pratchett The shepherd's crown
Rainbow Rowell Carry on: the rise & fall of Simon Snow
John Sandford Saturn run
Chuck Wendig ZerØes
David Wong Futuristic violence & fancy suits

Short Stories
Donald Antrim The emerald light in the air: stories
Bonnie Jo Campbell Mothers, tell your daughters: stories
100 years of the best American short stories SS O58y
Harry Turtledove We install: & other stories

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Pénélope Bagieu Exquisite corpse 741.5 B145 comics
Étienne Davodeau Lulu anew 741.5 D266 comics
Annie Goetzinger Girl in Dior 741.5 G611 comics
Dean Haspiel Beef with tomato 741.5 H352
Jennifer Hayden The story of my tits 362.19 H414 comics
Robert Kirkman Outcast. Volume 1, A darkness surrounds him 741.5 K596o comics
Alan Moore Top 10 741.5 M821t comics
Anders Nilsen Poetry is useless 741.5 N712p comics
Sydney Padua The thrilling adventures of Lovelace & Babbage 741.5 P125 comics
Riad Sattouf The Arab of the future: a graphic memoir: a childhood in the Middle East (1978-1984) 741.5 S253 comics
Adrian Tomine Killing & dying 741.5 T657k comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
David A. Mindell Our robots, ourselves: robotics & the myths of autonomy 629.89 M663
Gavin Francis Adventures in human being: a grand tour from the cranium to the calcaneum 612 F818
Tracey Stewart Do unto animals: a friendly guide to how animals live & how we can make their lives better 636.083 S849

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Julian Barnes Keeping an eye open: essays on art 709.03 B261
Deborah Davis The trip: Andy Warhol's plastic fantastic cross-country adventure 700.92 W27d
Leslie Frontz The watercolor course you've always wanted: guided lessons for beginners & experienced artists 751.42 F936
Erika Knight Simple color knitting: a complete how-to-knit-with-color workshop with 20 projects 746.43 K695s
Sketch city: tips & inspiration for drawing on location 743.8 S627
David Taylor Digital photography complete course 770 T238
Paul D. Grushkin The art of rock: posters from Presley to punk 769 G892
Leslie Williamson Modern originals: at home with midcentury European designers 747 W731

Biography & Genealogy
Peter Ackroyd Wilkie Collins 92 C7182a
David Attwell J.M. Coetzee & the life of writing: face to face with time 92 C673
Tracy Daugherty The last love song: a biography of Joan Didion 92 D556d
Shane White Prince of darkness: the untold story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's first black millionaire 332.092 H217
Frederick Forsyth The outsider: my life in intrigue 92 F735
Marc Morris King John: treachery & tyranny in Medieval England: the road to Magna Carta 92 J651m

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Manuel Lima The book of trees: visualizing branches of knowledge 001.2 L732
Travis Vogan ESPN: the making of a sports media empire 070.44 V877
Wayne A. Wiegand Part of our lives: a people's history of the American public library 027.4 W645

Business & Economics
Marion Nestle Soda politics: taking on big soda (and winning) 338.4766 N468
Taylor Larimore The Bogleheads' guide to investing 332.6 L323
Dani Rodrik Economics rules: the rights & wrongs of the dismal science 330 R696

Computer Science
John Brockman (editor) What to think about machines that think: today's leading thinkers on the age of machine intelligence 006.3 W555
Matthew MacDonald WordPress: the missing manual 005.3 W924mw
Sanjay M. Mishra Wearable Android: Android wear & Google Fit app development 004.1675 A574m

Food & Drink
Dave Broom Gin: the manual 641.255 B873
Alain Passard The art of cooking with vegetables 641.65 P286
Cheryl Sternman Rule Yogurt culture: a global look at how to make, bake, sip & chill the world's creamiest, healthiest food 641.671 R935
Michael Solomonov Zahav: a world of Israeli cooking 641.5956 S689
Yong Chen Chop suey, USA: the story of Chinese food in America 641.5951 C518

Health & Medicine
Dennis Greenberger Mind over mood: change how you feel by changing the way you think 616.8914 G798
Jay Ingram The end of memory: a natural history of aging & Alzheimer's 616.831 I542
Dr. Ranjana Srivastava A cancer companion: an oncologist's advice on diagnosis, treatment & recovery 616.994 S774

History
Louis Barthas Poilu: the World War I notebooks of Louis Barthas, barrelmaker, 1914-1918 940.412 B284
Ernest Beyl Sketches from a North Beach journal: heroes & heroines, the wise & the wily: San Franciscans from the Gold Rush to yesterday 979.461 B573
Margaret MacMillan History's people: personalities & the past 920 M167
Sean McMeekin The Ottoman endgame: war, revolution & the making of the modern Middle East, 1908-1923 956.1 M167
David Pietrusza 1932: the rise of Hitler & FDR ; two tales of politics, betrayal & unlikely destiny 973.917 P626
Sarah Vowell Lafayette in the somewhat United States 973.33 V97
Douglas Waller Disciples: the World War II missions of the CIA directors who fought for Wild Bill Donovan 327.12 W198
Derek W. Beck Igniting the American Revolution: 1773-1775 973.3 B393
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore These United States: a nation in the making, 1890 to the present 973.9 G488
John Sedgwick War of two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr & the duel that stunned the nation 973.46 S448
Nicholas Stargardt The German War: a nation under arms, 1939-1945: citizens & soldiers 943.086 S795
Joby Warrick Black flags: the rise of ISIS 956.91 W295

Languages & Linguistics
David J. Peterson The art of language invention: from Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the words behind world-building 499.99 P485

Law
Roberta Kaplan Then comes marriage: United States v. Windsor & the defeat of DOMA 346.7301 K172

Literature & Writing
Erik Didriksen Pop sonnets: Shakespearean spins on your favorite songs 811 D558
Philip Kan Gotanda No more cherry blossoms: Sisters Matsumoto & other plays 812 G683
Ben Hecht The front page: a play in three acts 812 H44f
Joshua Landy Philosophy as fiction: self, deception & knowledge in Proust 843.9 P96L
Ursula K. Le Guin Steering the craft: a twenty-first century guide to sailing the sea of story 808.02 L52
Diane Seuss Four-legged girl: poems 811 S496
James Shapiro The year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 822.3 S529y

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Richard Dawkins Brief candle in the dark: my life in science 570.92 D27b
Judith Larner Lowry California foraging: 120 wild & flavorful edibles from evergreen huckleberries to wild ginger 581.632 L921
Merlin Tuttle The secret lives of bats: my adventures with the world's most misunderstood mammals 569 T967
Paul B. Wignall The worst of times: how life on earth survived eighty million years of extinctions 576.84 W661

Performing Arts & Music
Elvis Costello Unfaithful music & disappearing ink 780.92 C841u
Thomas Doherty Hollywood & Hitler, 1933-1939 791.43 D655
Michael Stewart Foley Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables 780.92 D278
Keith Elliot Greenberg Too fast to live, too young to die: James Dean's final hours 792.092 D281gr
George Harrison I, me, mine 780.92 H319i
Jessica Hopper The first collection of criticism by a living female rock critic 781.66 H798
Aidan Levy Dirty Blvd.: the life & music of Lou Reed 780.92 R323
Greil Marcus Three songs, three singers, three nations 782.421 M322t

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Gaston Bachelard The poetics of space 114 B119
Michael Bennett F*ck feelings: one shrink's practical advice for managing all life's impossible problems 158 B471
Peter Brown The ransom of the soul: afterlife & wealth in early western Christianity 270.2 B877r
Mark Goulston Talking to crazy: how to deal with the irrational & impossible people in your life 158.2 G699
David Jaher The witch of Lime Street: séance, seduction & Houdini in the spirit world 133.9 J251
Keith Rollag What to do when you're new: how to be confident, comfortable & successful in new situations 158.2 R749
Mark Riebling Church of spies: the Pope's secret war against Hitler 282.092 P693r

Politics & Government
Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis Madam Ambassador: three years of diplomacy, dinner parties & democracy in Budapest 327.2 K881
Kathryn S. Olmsted Right out of California: the 1930s & the big business roots of modern conservatism 320.52 O514
Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders: in his own words: 250 quotes from America's political revolutionary 328.73 S215b
Dennis Ross Doomed to succeed: the U.S.-Israel relationship from Truman to Obama 327.73 R82d

Social Sciences & Current Events
Holly Kearl 50 stories about stopping street harassers 362.83 K245f
Ronald Y. Nakasone (editor) Okinawan diaspora 304.8 O414
Irving Rothstein It couldn't have been the pay: a life of teaching & learning in public schools: a memoir 371.1 R847
Philip E. Tetlock Superforecasting: the art & science of prediction 303.49 T347
Vron Ware Beyond the pale: white women, racism & history 305.42 W267
Gloria Steinem My life on the road 305.4 S822m

Sports & Games
Daniel Goldberg (editor) The state of play: creators & critics on video game culture 794.8 S797
Matt Higgins Bird dream: adventures at the extremes of human flight 797.5 H636
Lou Kasischke After the wind: 1996 Everest tragedy: one survivor's story 796.52 K192

Travel & Geography
Rasa Gustaitis San Francisco Bay shoreline guide 917.94 S224
Lonely Planet Coastal California 917.94 L847
Lonely Planet Greek islands 914.95 L847i
Lonely Planet Thailand 915.93 L847d
Time out Berlin 914.315 T583
Fodor's San Francisco 917.9461 F65
Jane Huber 60 hikes within 60 miles, San Francisco: including North Bay, East Bay, Peninsula & South Bay 917.946 H875
Lonely Planet Northern California 917.94 L847n
Michelin New York City restaurants 2016 917.471 M623r
Michelin San Francisco Bay Area & wine country 917.946 M623r
Elizabeth Wenk John Muir Trail: the essential guide to hiking America's most famous trail 917.948 W475

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
T.J. Stiles Custer's trials: a life on the frontier of a new America CD 92 C987s

Posted on Nov. 10, 2015 by Cherilyn Chang