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New Titles for the Week of December 1

BOOKS

FICTION
Paul Murray The mark & the void

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Timothy Hallinan The hot countries

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
George R. R. Martin A knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Short Stories
William H. Gass Eyes

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
The best American comics 741.5 B56 comics
Kazuo Koike Lone Wolf & Cub omnibus 741.5 L847 comics
Craig Thompson Blankets 741.5 T468b comics
G. Willow Wilson Ms. Marvel 741.5 M939 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Wendy Williams The horse: the epic history of our noble companion 636.1 W721

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Allan Kaprow: art as life 709.2 K178
Robert Atkins Artspeak: a guide to contemporary ideas, movements & buzzwords, 1945 to the present 709.04 A873
Edmund de Waal The white road: journey into an obsession 738.2 D515
Ellen DeGeneres Home 747 D317

Biography & Genealogy
Vladimir Nabokov Letters to Vera 92 N11Lv
Lynn Oakley Moff: a photobiography of Edward Raymond Moffitt, legendary San Francisco craftsman 92 M695
Marta McDowell Beatrix Potter's gardening life: the plants & places that inspired the classic children's tales 92 P866m

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Roberto Calasso The art of the publisher 070.5 C143
Terence Brown The Irish Times: 150 years of influence 072 B881

Business & Economics
Moshe Milevsky King William's tontine: why the retirement annuity of the future should resemble its past 368.3 M643
Moshe Milevsky The 7 most important equations for your retirement 332.024 M643s

Chess
Gawain Jones The Dragon 1 794.122 J77d
Gawain Jones The Dragon 2 794.122 J77d

Food & Drink
Eating words: a Norton anthology of food writing 641.01 E142
Gordon Edgar Cheddar: a journey to the heart of America's most iconic cheese 637.3 E231

History
Piu Marie Eatwell The dead duke, his secret wife & the missing corpse 941.082 E148
Sheila Fitzpatrick A spy in the archives: a memoir of Cold War Russia 947.31 F559
Lawrence Malkin Krueger's men: the secret Nazi counterfeit plot & the prisoners of Block 19 940.5487 M251
Paul Theroux Deep South: four seasons on back roads 975 T412
Keith Thomson Jefferson's shadow: the story of his science 973.46 J45t
Mary Beard SPQR: a history of ancient Rome 937 B368
Antony Beevor Ardennes 1944: Hitler's last gamble 940.542 B415a
Richard H. Brown Revolution: mapping the road to American independence 1755-1783 973.3 B877
Sebastian Faulks (editor) A broken world: letters, diaries & memories of the Great War 940.48 B867
The 50s: the story of a decade (The New Yorker) 973.92 N53f

Home & Family Management
Katie Hurley The happy kid handbook: how to raise joyful children in a stressful world 649.1 H965

Literature & Writing
Clive James Poetry notebook: reflections on the intensity of language 809.1 J274
Ian F. Svenonius Censorship now!! 814.6 S968
Amber Tamblyn Dark sparkler 811 T155
Shawn Coyne The story grid: what good editors know 808.027 C881

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Liz Cunningham Ocean country: one woman's voyage from peril to hope in her quest to save the seas 333.95 C973

Performing Arts & Music
John Brady Frank & Ava: in love & war 780.92 S61b
Carrie Brownstein Hunger makes me a modern girl: a memoir 780.92 B885
Daniel de Visé Andy & Don: the making of a friendship & a classic American TV show 791.45 D496
Richard J. Hand Grand-Guignol: the French theatre of horror 792.0944 H236
Grace Jones I'll never write my memoirs 792.092 J772
Mary-Louise Parker Dear Mr. You 792.092 P242
Megan Pugh America dancing: from the cakewalk to the moonwalk 793.3 P978
David Thomson How to watch a movie 791.43 T482ho
Tracey Goessel The first king of Hollywood: the life of Douglas Fairbanks 792.092 F163g
Lewis Lockwood Beethoven's symphonies: an artistic vision 784.2 B41L

Politics & Government
David Talbot The devil's chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA & the rise of America's secret government 327.12 T138

Social Sciences & Current Events
Svetlana Alexievich Voices from Chernobyl 363.17 A366
Devery S. Anderson Emmett Till: the murder that shocked the world & propelled the civil rights movement 364.1 T574
Angus Deaton The great escape: health, wealth & the origins of inequality 339.2 D285
Oliver Morton The planet remade: how geoengineering could change the world 363.738 M891

Sports & Games
Alex Honnold Alone on the wall 796.52 H773
Tim Moore Gironimo!: riding the very terrible 1914 Tour of Italy 796.62 M824g

Travel & Geography
Lauret Edith Savoy Trace: memory, history, race & the American landscape 917.304 S269
Simon Winchester Pacific 909 W759
Kathleen Winter Boundless: tracing land & dream in a new Northwest Passage 910.9163 W785

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Robert L. Wolke What Einstein kept under his hat: secrets of science in the kitchen CD 641.3 W862

Posted on Dec. 1, 2015 by Cherilyn Chang