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New Titles List for the Week of February 1

BOOKS

FICTION
Sam Eastland Red icon
Tessa Hadley The past
Janice Y. K. Lee The expatriates
Helen Klein Ross What was mine
John Schulian A better goodbye
Elizabeth Strout My name is Lucy Barton

Historical Fiction
Robert Harris Dictator

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
William Bayer The Luzern photograph
Benjamin Black Even the dead
Grant Bywaters The red storm
Daniel Friedman Riot most uncouth
Kerry Greenwood Death by water
Thomas Perry Forty thieves
Brad Taylor The forgotten soldier
Mette Ivie Harrison His right hand

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Robert Charles Wilson The affinities

Short Stories
Best European fiction SS B5635

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Jonathan Case The new deal 741.5 C337 comics
Neil Gaiman The Sandman: overture 741.5 G14so comics

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Brian A. Curran Obelisk 731.76 O122
Joseph B. Pecora The storied houses of Alamo Square 728 P369
Juliet Hacking Lives of the great photographers 770.92 H121
Hilary Roberts Lee Miller: a woman's war 779 M648

Business & Economics
Lois Kelly Rebels at work 658.4 K297

Food & Drink
Ree Drummond The Pioneer Woman cooks. Dinnertime: comfort classics, freezer food, 16-minute meals & other delicious ways to solve supper 641.5979 D795
Ellie Krieger You have it made: delicious, healthy, do-ahead meals 641.555 K926
Cal Peternell Twelve recipes 641.5 P479

Health & Medicine
Paul Kalanithi When breath becomes air 616.994 K141
Andrew J. Roth Managing prostate cancer: a guide for living better 616.994 R845

History
Des Ekin The last armada: Queen Elizabeth, Juan del Águila & Hugh O'Neill: the story of the 100-day Spanish invasion 941.5 E367

Languages & Linguistics
Gaston Dorren Lingo: around Europe in sixty languages 306.44 D716

Literature & Writing
Christopher Castallani The art of perspective: who tells the story 808.3 C348
Bryan Doerries The theater of war: what ancient Greek tragedies can teach us today 882 D652
Lewis Carroll The annotated Alice: Alice's adventures in Wonderland & Through the looking-glass 823 C319

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Marty Crump Eye of newt & toe of frog, adder's fork & lizard's leg: the lore & mythology of amphibians & reptiles 597.8 C956
Lewis Carroll Epstein Thinking physics is Gedanken physics 530 E646

Performing Arts & Music
1001 movies you must see before you die 791.4 O585
Musicals: the definitive illustrated story 782.14 M987
Mary Ellen Snodgrass The encyclopedia of world ballet 792.8 S673

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Rob Brotherton Suspicious minds: why we believe conspiracy theories 153.4 B874
Gary Lachman The secret teachers of the western world 130 L138
Steve Levinson The power to get things done: (whether you feel like it or not) 158.1 L665
Reimagining the sacred: Richard Kearney debates God with James Wood, Catherine Keller, Charles Taylor, Julia Kristeva, Gianni Vattimo, Simon Critchley, Jean-Luc Marion, John Caputo, David Tracey, Jens Zimmermann & Merold Westphal 211 R363
Eric Weiner The geography of genius: a search for the world's most creative places from ancient Athens to Silicon Valley 153.98 W423
Phillip Luke Sinitiere Salvation with a smile: Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church & American Christianity 280 O851
The Stone reader: modern philosophy in 133 arguments 190 S879

Reference
The World almanac & book of facts 310 W92

Social Sciences & Current Events
Carole Haber The trials of Laura Fair: sex, murder & insanity in the Victorian West 345.794 F163
Maria Konnikova The confidence game: why we fall for it... every time 364.16 K825
Bill Nye Unstoppable: harnessing science to change the world 363.738 N994
Jon Wilkman Floodpath: the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America & the making of modern Los Angeles 363.34 W687
Katherine Zoepf Excellent daughters: the secret lives of young women who are transforming the Arab world 305.42 Z85

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CDs
Classical
Franz Schubert The "great" C major symphony CD Classical Schubert

Jazz & Blues
Fred Hersch Solo CD Jazz Hersch

Popular
Adele 25 CD Pop Adele

Posted on Jan. 29, 2016 by Cherilyn Chang