Readers' Nook

Lawrence Block A dance at the slaughterhouse : a Matthew Scudder novel
Tana French In the woods
Yomi Adegoke The list : a novel
Patrick Suskind Perfume : the story of a murderer
Anne Hillerman Spider woman's daughter : a Leaphorn & Chee Novel
Madelaine Lucas Thirst for salt
John Sweeney The useful idiot
Susan Wiggs Welcome to beach town
Julian Barnes A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters
Jon Fosse Aliss at the fire
Edmund De Waal The hare with the amber eyes
Daniyal Mueenuddin In other rooms, other wonders
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
Ming-Yi Wu The man with the compound eyes
Jon Fosse Morning and evening
Mary Webb Precious bane
Joseph Roth The radetzky march
Pär Lagerkvist The sibyl
Flannery O'Connor The violent bear it away
Costanza Casati Clytemnestra
Hanna Pylväinen The end of drum-time
Alexis Zegerman The fever syndrome
Madeline Miller Galatea : a short story
Bernard Shaw The George Bernard Shaw collection
Madeline Martin The librarian spy : a novel of World War II
Kenneth Lonergan Lobby hero
Carson McCullers The member of the wedding
Paul Edwards The picture of Dorian Gray
Erskine Childers The riddle of the sands
Jeff Santo A rough in the diamond
Cixin Liu The three-body problem

PRINT BOOKS
NON-FICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Hamburger eyes : inside Burgerworld 779.092 H199

Biography & Genealogy

William Henry Hill Antonio Stradivari, his life and work : 1644-1737 787.1 S89h

Biography & Genealogy

Tricia Romano The freaks came out to write : the definitive history of the Village Voice, the radical paper that changed American culture 071.4 R759

Business & Economics

Hamilton Nolan The hammer : power, inequality, and the struggle for the soul of labor 331.8 N787
Alex Tapscott Web3 : charting the Internet's next economic and cultural frontier 338.47 T175
Mark Larson Working in the 21st century : an oral history of American work in a time of social and economic transformation 331.0973 L334
Gerald A. Epstein Busting the bankers' club : finance for the rest of us 332.1 E645

Chess

Max Euwe The Hague-Moscow 1948 : match 794.157 E91ha
James Schuyler Your opponent is overrated : a practical guide to inducing errors 794.1 S397
Valeri Bronznik 1.d4--beat the guerrillas! : a powerful repertoire against annoying black sidelines 794.122 B8699
Jon Speelman Moscow marathon : the World Chess Championship 1984 794.157 M89s
M. M. Botvinnik Botvinnik-Smyslov : three world chess championship matches: 1954, 1957, 1958 794.159 B75
Leonid Aleksandrovich. Shamkovich Tactical chess training : 300 brilliant tactical studies from events 1985-1995 794.12 S52
Harry Golombek 4th Candidates' Tournament, 1959 : Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade, September 7th - October 29th 1959 794.157 G627c
Emanuel Lasker The international chess congress St. Petersburg 1909 794.157 L34 2008
Ė. E. Gufelʹd Leonid Stein : master of risk strategy 794.15 S561g
Alexey Dreev I mprove your practical play in the middlegame 794.123 D77
Igor Khmelnitsky Chess exam: matches against chess legends : you vs. Bobby Fischer : play the match, rate yourself, improve your game! 794.12 F52k
Steve Giddins The French Winawer, move by move 794.1225 C15 G45
Evgenny Sveshnikov The complete French advance : the most uncompromising way to attack the French defence 794.1225 C13 S968
Sverre Johnsen The Ruy Lopez : a guide for black 794.1225 C60 J659
Cyrus Lakdawala Anti-Sicilians : move by move 794.1225 B20 L192
Carsten Hansen Sicilian dragon, move by move 795.1225 B70 H249
Neil McDonald The Ruy Lopez 794.1225 C60 M135
C. J. S. Purdy The search for chess perfection. II 794.15 P98 2006

Food & Drink

Jamie Oliver Cook with Jamie : my guide to making you a better cook 641.51 O48c

Health

Andrew Leland The country of the blind : a memoir at the end of sight 362.4 L537

History

Marie Arana Latinoland : a portrait of America's largest and least understood minority 973.0468 A141
Matthew J. Davenport The longest minute : the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 979.461 D247

Law
Richard A. Zitrin Trial lawyer : a life representing people against power 340.092 Z822

Natural Sciences & Mathematics

Carissa Carter The secret language of maps : how to tell visual stories with data 526 C323

Performing Arts & Music

Jason Ruiz Narcomedia : Latinidad, popular culture, and America's war on drugs 791.43 R934

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion

Mark Matousek Lessons from an American stoic : how Emerson can change your life 158.1 M433
Nick Hanauer Corporate bullsh*t : exposing the lies and half-truths that protect profit, power, and wealth in America 174.4 H233
Richard A. Zitrin The moral compass of the American lawyer : truth, justice, power, and greed 174.3 Z822

Social Sciences & Current Events

Kurt Wagner Battle for the bird : Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 billion fight for Twitter's soul 302.3 W132
Diarmuid Hester Nothing ever just disappears : seven hidden queer histories 306.76 H588
Kim Cross I n light of all darkness : inside the Polly Klaas kidnapping and the search for America's child 364.154 C951

Stuart Woods Chiefs
Stuart Woods Deep lie : a novel
Stuart Woods Run before the wind
Stuart Woods Choke
Stuart Woods Dead eyes
Stuart Woods Dead in the water
Stuart Woods Dirt
Stuart Woods Heat.
Stuart Woods I mperfect Strangers
Stuart Woods L.A. Times A Novel.
Stuart Woods New York Dead
Stuart Woods Orchid beach
Stuart Woods Palindrome
Stuart Woods The run
Stuart Woods Santa Fe Rules
Stuart Woods Swimming to Catalina
Stuart Woods Worst fears realized
Irvine Welsh The acid house
John Langan House of windows
Michelle Tillis Lederman The 11 laws of likability : relationship networking-- because people do business with people they like
Jane Casey The close
Benjamin Stevenson Everyone on this train is a suspect : a novel
Gill Meller Gather : everyday seasonal recipes from a year in our landscapes
Yanis Varoufakis Technofeudalism : what killed capitalism
Douglas Century The last boss of Brighton : Boris "Biba" Nayfeld and the rise of the Russian mob in America
Will Larson An elegant puzzle : Systems of engineering management
Lois Lowry The giver
Jan Morris Thinking again : a diary
Boyah J Farah America made me a black man : a memoir
Tony Hillerman Skinwalkers
Lawrence Block When the sacred ginmill closes
Graham Greene The heart of the matter
Adam Hochschild American midnight : the Great War, a violent peace, and democracy's forgotten crisis
Charles Yu Third class superhero

The Moomin books, that is.

Moomins are white, hippopotamus-like creatures that live in the snowy lands of the Moomin Valley. A creation of a Finnish writer, Tove Jansson, published originally in Swedish, these books have proven very popular with children (and adults) for decades. I first learned of these beloved books when I read a semi-autobiographical book by Stephen Johnson. In a deeply personal account of his troubles overcoming abuse and trauma, he wrote: "As a child, I loved Tove Jansson's Moomintroll books; more recently, as an adult, I've had the pleasure of returning to them and discovering how full of wisdom, compassion, and psychological insight they are." (From Stephen Johnson, How Shostakovich changed my mind, p. 81. 781.1 J630 

Finding these in English translation has proven a bit challenging, but we have some well-regarded adaptations in our collection now.

For a belated Christmas: Christmas comes to Moomin Valley

And in keeping with the season: Moomin and the Ice Festival

And others, such as:

Moomin and the Wishing Star 

Moomin and the Spring Surprise 

We also have a volume of the comic strips:

Moomin: the complete Tove Jansson comic strip 

And for very small children, a book that teaches numbers:

Moomin's Little Book of Numbers 

You can browse the Moomin books under the call number U Jansson in the Universal section on the 2nd floor (formerly called "Children's" we renamed this part of our collection because people of all ages can enjoy many of the books it contains, not just children).