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New eAudiobooks for April 2023
by
Heather Miles

E-AUDIOBOOKS

Kay Dick They
Lauren Willig Band of sisters
Michael Kardos Before he finds her
Kristin Hannah The great alone
Liv Constantine The last time I saw you
Charly Evon Simpson Behind the Sheet
Pierce Brown Dark age
Gregg Oppenheimer I love Lucy : a funny thing happened on the way to the sitcom
Morris Pearl Tax the rich! : How lies, loopholes, and lobbyists make the rich even richer
Sarah Churchwell The wrath to come : Gone with the wind and the lies america tells
David Mamet American buffalo
William Shakespeare As you like it
James Baldwin James Baldwin reading from Another country.
James Baldwin James Baldwin reading from Giovanni's room.
John Hopkins Absent forever
Christopher Hayes A colony in a nation
Michael Frayn Copenhagen
Kate McAll Daniel Deronda
David Mamet Glengarry Glen Ross
Peter Ackerman I'd rather eat pants
Vauhini Vara The immortal King Rao : a novel
Norman F Cantor In the wake of the plague : The black death and the world it made
Isabel Quintero My papi has a motorcycle
Nina Nesseth Nightmare fuel : the science of horror films
Ellen Jovin Rebel with a clause : tales and tips from a roving grammarian
Jim Holt When Einstein walked with Gödel : excursions to the edge of thought
Flann O'Brien At swim-two-birds
Paula Vogel The Baltimore waltz
David Edmonds Bobby Fischer goes to war : how the Soviets lost the most extraordinary chess match of all time
PJ Fitzsimmons The case of the ghost of christmas morning
Daniel G Amen Change your brain every day : simple daily practices to strengthen your mind, memory, moods, focus, energy, habits, and relationships
John Lewis Gaddis The Cold War : a new history
Alastair Storm Browne Cosmic careers : Exploring the universe of opportunities in the space industries
Susan Colbourn Euromissiles : The nuclear weapons that nearly destroyed nato
Bibidishu Flying high : Engineering and aerospace
Simon Webb The forgotten slave trade : The white european slaves of islam
Steve Toltz A fraction of the whole
Richard Nelson The general from America
Steve Toltz Here goes nothing
Paula Vogel How I learned to drive
Nevil Shute In the wet
Charles River Editors Kosmos 954 and operation morning light : The history of efforts to contain radioactive debris spread across canada by a soviet satellite
Athol Fugard Master Harold and the boys
Nevil Shute On the beach
Athol Fugard Playland
1980- author Baoshu The redemption of time : a three-body problem novel
Athol Fugard The road to Mecca
Friedrich A von Hayek The road to serfdom
Ann Hagedorn Sleeper agent : The atomic spy in america who got away
Karl Schlögel The Soviet century : archaeology of a lost world
Charles River Editors The soviet nuclear weapons program : The history and legacy of the ussr's efforts to build the atomic bomb
Vladimir Sorokin Telluria
Nevil Shute Trustee from the toolroom
Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood

E-AUDIOBOOKS

Kay Dick They
Lauren Willig Band of sisters
Michael Kardos Before he finds her
Kristin Hannah The great alone
Liv Constantine The last time I saw you
Charly Evon Simpson Behind the Sheet
Pierce Brown Dark age
Gregg Oppenheimer I love Lucy : a funny thing happened on the way to the sitcom
Morris Pearl Tax the rich! : How lies, loopholes, and lobbyists make the rich even richer
Sarah Churchwell The wrath to come : Gone with the wind and the lies america tells
David Mamet...

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Hidden Gems - Russian Ark (movie on DVD and Kanopy)
by
Steven Dunlap

Do you like art? History? Cinema? This unclassifiable film takes you on a trip through Russian history by following historical figures from one gallery to another in the Hermitage Museum -- and all in one continuous 96 minute take! (the first feature film ever created in a single take). 

 

The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia is, after the Louvre in Paris, the 2nd largest museum in the world. Its collection has millions of items including an enormous number of masterpieces of Western European art from the Middle Ages to the present. 

 

Alexander Sokurov, the writer/director, has worked in films and television since 1979. Although he has directed over 20 documentaries to date, Russian Ark remains his great masterwork. 

 

Via Kanopy.

Do you like art? History? Cinema? This unclassifiable film takes you on a trip through Russian history by following historical figures from one gallery to another in the Hermitage Museum -- and all in one continuous 96 minute take! (the first feature film ever created in a single take). 

 

The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia is, after the Louvre in Paris, the 2nd largest museum in the world. Its collection has millions of items including an enormous number of masterpieces of Western European art from the Middle Ages to the present. 

 

Alexander Sokurov, the writer/director, has worked in films and television since 1979. Although he has directed over 20 documentaries to date, Russian Ark remains his great masterwork. 

 

Via Kanopy.

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Hidden Gems - Fortunes of War (Mini-Series)
by
Steven Dunlap

In olden times when we watched videos at home using these strange, now antiquated, machines called "VHS players," I decided to rent this mini-series to give me something to do on a long, rainy weekend. I planned to watch it over the course of 2-3 days. Instead, I binge-watched it continuously, one episode after another, straight through until well after midnight on the first night. I could not stop watching. 

 

Contrary to the title, this is not a war movie, at least not in the typical sense. You would also not think that this story would prove so engaging either. Kenneth Brannagh and Emma Thomson portray a rather ordinary British married couple, Guy and Harriet Pringle, living in Romania in 1939. Guy starts out as a lecturer in English Literature at a university in Bucharest. But when the war starts and the Germans advance, they have to flee – first to Athens, then to Cairo. Guy's gregarious nature leads him to make friends with a motley assortment of expats: White Russians, displaced royals, diplomats, writers, journalists, literary types, dissidents, grifters and spies. 

 

You never see any battle scenes – the Second World War serves as a background, the political upheaval in Romania and its subsequent alliance with Nazi Germany imposing extraordinary situations and circumstances on the Pringles and their friends. Lacking action sequences, shoot-outs, chase scenes or other loudness, Fortunes of War above all else embodies the best elements of character drama. The mini-series format gives us more time than a movie ever could to get to know the characters, flesh out their personalities and motivations, show where the fractures form in marriages, friendships, and in some cases, ever shifting loyalties. 


The script starts out with excellent source material in the books by Olivia Manning: The Balkan and Levant trilogies.

In olden times when we watched videos at home using these strange, now antiquated, machines called "VHS players," I decided to rent this mini-series to give me something to do on a long, rainy weekend. I planned to watch it over the course of 2-3 days. Instead, I binge-watched it continuously, one episode after another, straight through until well after midnight on the first night. I could not stop watching. 

 

Contrary to the title, this is not a war movie, at least not in the typical sense. You would also not think that this story would prove so engaging either. Kenneth Brannagh and Emma Thomson portray a rather ordinary British married couple, Guy and Harriet Pringle, living in Romania in 1939. Guy starts out as a lecturer in English Literature at a university in Bucharest. But when the war starts and the Germans advance, they have to flee – first to Athens, then to Cairo. Guy's gregarious nature leads him to make friends with a motley assortment of expats: White Russians, displaced royals, diplomats, writers, journalists, literary types, dissidents, grifters and spies...

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New eAudiobooks for March 2023
by
Heather Miles

E-AUDIOBOOKS
Kermit Roosevelt The Nation That Never Was : Reconstructing America's Story
Peter Shaffer Amadeus
Oscar Wilde Ever yours, Oscar : selected letters by Oscar Wilde
Hannie Rayson Extinction
A R Gurney Later life
Vern Thiessen Lenin's embalmers
Lillian Hellman The little foxes
Kate McAll Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Norman Corwin Together tonight : Hamilton, Jefferson, Burr
Anna Della Subin Accidental gods : on men unwittingly turned divine
Nana Nkweti Walking on cowrie shells : stories
Oliver Bullough Butler to the world : how Britain helps the world's worst people launder money, commit crimes, and get away with anything
Sandra Newman The men
Stanisław Lem The truth and other stories
Katherine W Schweit Stop the killing : how to end the mass shooting crisis
Bonnie Kistler The Cage
D L Coburn The gin game
Henrik Ibsen Hedda Gabler
David Schwimmer The jungle
Kevin Daniels Life on Paper
Laura Maria Censabella Paradise
Qui Nguyen Vietgone
Lillian Hellman Watch on the Rhine
Andrew Scull Desperate remedies : psychiatry's turbulent quest to cure mental illness
James Gavin George Michael : A Life
Julia Shaw Bi : the hidden culture, history, and science of bisexuality
Sophie Egan Devoured : from chicken wings to kale smoothies : how what we eat defines who we are
King James version audio Bible.
Anna Ziegler Boy
Keith Reddin But not for me
Katori Hall The mountaintop
Dan Gordon Murder in the first
Bruce Coville My teacher is an alien
Geoffrey Cowan Top secret : the battle for the Pentagon Papers (1991)
MD Kernisan When your aging parent needs help : A geriatrician's step-by-step guide to memory loss, resistance, safety worries, and more
Kristin Kobes Du Mez Jesus and John Wayne : how white evangelicals corrupted a faith and fractured a nation
Ethan Lou Once a bitcoin miner : Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West
Bess Wohl Continuity
Brian Friel Fathers and sons
Neil Simon The goodbye girl
Abby Mann Judgment at Nuremberg
Sam Chanse What you are now
Joyce Carol Oates The woman who laughed.
Robert Leckie Helmet for my pillow : from Parris Island to the Pacific
E B Sledge With the Old Breed : at Peleliu and Okinawa
Claire Oshetsky Chouette
Charles Portis Escape velocity : A charles portis miscellany
Richard Smoley Forbidden faith : the secret history of gnosticism
Kristin Hannah The four winds
Charles Portis Gringos : a novel
Sequoia Nagamatsu How high we go in the dark
Simone de Beauvoir Inseparable : a never before-published novel
J T Ellison It's One of Us
Charles Portis Masters of atlantis
Nikki Erlick The measure : a novel
Frank Norris The octopus : a story of California
Julia Whelan Thank you for listening
Sarah C Maza Thinking about history
Terence Rattigan The Browning version
Rona Munro Donny's brain
Yasmina Reza God of carnage
Timberlake Wertenbaker Jefferson's garden
Matt Pelfrey John Ball's In the heat of the night
John Osborne Look back in anger
Brian Bedford The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Jerry Stahl Nein, nein, nein! One man's tale of depression, psychic torment, and a bus tour of the holocaust
Geoffrey Nauffts Next fall
Craig Lucas Prelude to a kiss
E M Forster A room with a view
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov The seagull
Bernard Shaw You never can tell
Kay Dick They
Lauren Willig Band of sisters : a novel
Michael Kardos Before he finds her : a novel
Kristin Hannah The great alone
Liv Constantine The last time I saw you : a novel
J T Ellison Lie to me : they appeared to be the perfect couple : a novel
Lydia Millet My happy life
Julia Whelan My Oxford year : a novel
Heather Gudenkauf Not a sound
Jennifer McMahon The one I left behind
Malcolm Brooks Painted horses : a novel
Cat Clarke The pants project
Dennis Lehane Since we fell
Uzodinma Iweala Speak no evil : a novel
Ami McKay The witches of New York : a novel
Charif Shanahan Trace evidence
Brett Scott Cloudmoney : cash, cards, crypto, and the war for our wallets
Francesca Stanfill The falcon's eyes : a novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Jamal Greene How rights went wrong : why our obsession with rights is tearing America apart
Carl J Bon Tempo Immigration : An american history
Christopher Moore Lamb : the Gospel according to Biff, Christ's childhood pal
Sayaka Murata Life ceremony : stories
Stephen Brusatte The rise and reign of the mammals : a new history, from the shadow of the dinosaurs to us
Andrew Lownie Traitor king : The scandalous exile of the duke & duchess of windsor

E-AUDIOBOOKS
Kermit Roosevelt The Nation That Never Was : Reconstructing America's Story
Peter Shaffer Amadeus
Oscar Wilde Ever yours, Oscar : selected letters by Oscar Wilde
Hannie Rayson Extinction
A R Gurney Later life
Vern Thiessen Lenin's embalmers
Lillian Hellman The little foxes
Kate McAll Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Norman Corwin Together tonight : Hamilton, Jefferson, Burr
Anna Della Subin Accidental gods : on men unwittingly turned divine
Nana Nkweti ...

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Hidden Gems - A month in the country
by
Steven Dunlap

Do not look for a plot in this movie – you will not find one. Do not look for excitement either. You will not find any in this quietly beautiful, slow-paced, and thoughtful film. Disregard all summaries or descriptions, you find on the DVD container (or online). I have no idea what they're talking about or if the people who wrote these even saw the movie. 


Two survivors of the battlefields of the First World War meet in a small, quiet English town, then fall into a friendship. They interact with the townspeople as best they can, they struggle to fit into the new, alien (for them) environment and to re-enter a society in which no one but each other can understand their experience. One of them spends his days restoring a 500-year-old mural in the town's church. This mural restoration acts as a metaphor for the peeling back of layers to reveal what's hidden beneath – perhaps the rediscovery of their pre-war selves and the reintegration of these earlier personas into their present day lives?  No high drama, no heavy interpersonal conflicts, the title of the film says it all.  A Month in the Country is about precisely that – a month in a small English countryside community. It's about life, death, art, history, beauty, hope, recovery and change. 

Do not look for a plot in this movie – you will not find one. Do not look for excitement either. You will not find any in this quietly beautiful, slow-paced, and thoughtful film. Disregard all summaries or descriptions, you find on the DVD container (or online). I have no idea what they're talking about or if the people who wrote these even saw the movie. 


Two survivors of the battlefields of the First World War meet in a small, quiet English town, then fall into a friendship. They interact with the townspeople as best they can, they struggle to fit into the new, alien (for them) environment and to re-enter a society in which no one but each other can understand their experience. One of them spends his days restoring a 500-year-old mural in the town's church. This mural restoration acts as a metaphor for the peeling back of layers to reveal what's hidden beneath – perhaps the rediscovery of their pre-war selves and the reintegration of these earlier personas into their present day lives?  No high drama, no heavy interpersonal conflicts, the title of the film says it all. ...

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New Print Non-Fiction for March 2023
by
Heather Miles

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NON-FICTION
Applied Sciences
Anna Ploszajski Handmade : a scientist's search for meaning through making 620.11 P723
Bruce W. Holsinger On parchment : animals, archives, and the making of culture from Herodotus to the digital age 676 H756
Judith M. Taylor Women and gardens : obstacles and opportunities for women gardeners throughout history 635.082 T238
Luc Olivier Bauer The microchip revolution : a brief history 621.3815 B344

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Antoinette J. Lee Architects to the nation : the rise and decline of the Supervising Architect's Office 725.1 L510
Leslie Jones Coded : art enters the computer age, 1952-1982 776 J762
Brian D. Coleman Inner spaces : Paul Vincent Wiseman & the Wiseman Group 747.0922 W814
Helen Frankenthaler Helen Frankenthaler : late works, 1988-2009 759.13 F829
Osei Bonsu African art now : 50 pioneers defining African art for the twenty-first century 709.6 B721
Michael Jang Who is Michael
Jang? 779.2 J336
Miodrag Marković Ot Temišvara do Havaja : Pavel Petrović--zaboravljeni srpski slikar 606 P49

Biography & Genealogy
Zhifeng Huang Unfree speech : the threat to global democracy and why we must act, now 951.25 H860
Nick Cave Faith, hope and carnage 780.92 C378
John Boessenecker Gentleman bandit : the true story of Black Bart, the Old West's most infamous stagecoach robber 979.404 B627
Jennette McCurdy I 'm glad my mom died 792.092 M133
Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt Ramses II : an illustrated biography 932 R183
Kal Raustiala The absolutely indispensable man : Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the fight to end empire 973.0496 B942
Heather Gay Bad Mormon : a memoir 792.092 G285
Pamela Anderson Love, Pamela 792.092 An231
Mihail Sebastian Journal, 1935-1944 940.5318 S443
Reid Mitenbuler Wanderlust : an eccentric explorer, an epic journey, a lost age 910.92 F88

Business & Economics
J. Rolf Haltza Job Stacking : Leverage the advent of remote work into more money and security 650.1 H169
Kevin Eikenberry The long-distance team : designing your team for the modern workplace 650.1 E348
Naomi Oreskes The big myth : how American business taught us to loathe government and love the free market 330.122 O669
Bill Perkins Die with zero : getting all you can from your money and your life 332.024 P448
Tyler Cowen Talent : how to identify energizers, creatives, and winners around the world 650.14 C874
James B. Stewart Unscripted : the epic battle for a media empire and the Redstone family legacy 658.11 S849
Jamie P. Hopkins Find your freedom: financial planning for a life on purpose 332.024 H774
Thomas H. Davenport All-in on AI : how smart companies win big with artificial intelligence 658.05 D247
Martin Wolf The crisis of democratic capitalism 330.12 W853
Martin Neil Baily The retirement challenge : what's wrong with America's system and a sensible way to fix it 332.024 B161

Chess
Vladimir Barskiĭ Korchnoi and his chess grandchildren 794.15 K84ba
Mihail Marin Learn from Bent Larsen 794.15 L33m
Tigran Vartanovich Petrosi͡an Python strategy 794.15 P49q
Judit Polgár Master your chess with Judit Polgar : inspirational lessons from the all-time best female chess player 794.1 P769
Lubomir Kavalek Life at play : a chess memoir 794.1092 K21
Nathan Rose Chess opening names : the fascinating & entertaining history behind the first few moves 794.1 R79
Junior Tay Ivanchuk, move by move 794.15 I932t
Steve Giddins Nimzowitsch, move by move 794.15 N71g
Savelij G. Tartakover The hypermodern game of chess 794.12 T19

Computer Science
J. F. DiMarzio Android smartphones 004.1675 D582
Joseph Steinberg Cybersecurity all-in-one 005.8 S819
Edward C. Baig iPhone 004.1675 I647b
Dwight Spivey iPhone for seniors 004.1675 I647s
Peter Weverka Microsoft Office 365 all-in-one 005.5 W544m
Nick Vandome Video chatting for seniors in easy steps 004.6 V246

Business & Economics
Mark. Light The Strategic board : the step-by-step guide to high-impact governance 658.422 L723
Lilya Wagner Diversity and philanthropy : expanding the circle of giving 658.152 W125
Lila Corwin Berman The American Jewish philanthropic complex : the history of a multibillion-dollar institution 361.76 B516

Performing Arts & Music
Jeanette Leech Seasons they change : the story of acid and psychedelic folk 781.66 L483

Social Sciences & Current Events
Lila Corwin Berman The American Jewish philanthropic complex : the history of a multibillion-dollar institution 361.76 B516
Ali Winston The riders come out at night : brutality, corruption, and cover-up in Oakland 363.2 W783

Food & Drink
Michael Cecchi-Azzolina Your table is ready : tales of a New York City maître d' 647.9509 C387

Health & Medicine
Henry Marsh And finally : matters of life and death 617.48 M369a
Ricardo Nuila The people's hospital : hope and peril in American medicine 362.11 N968
Dasha Kiper Travelers to unimaginable lands: stories of dementia, the caregiver, and the human brain 616.831 K57
George C. Halvorson Epidemic of care : a call for safer, better, and more accountable health care 362.1 H197
Sarah Chadwick The Sweetness of Venus : a History of the Clitoris 612.6 C432
Jeffrey A. Lieberman Malady of the mind : schizophrenia and the path to prevention 616.89 L716m
Constance Okeke The glaucoma guidebook : expert advice on maintaining healthy vision 617.74 O413

History
Richard Hurowitz In the garden of the righteous : the heroes who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust 940.5318 H941
Volodymyr Zelensky A message from Ukraine : speeches, 2019-2022 947.7 Z377m
Louisa Lim The people's republic of amnesia : Tiananmen revisited 951.058 L628
Olga Onuch Zelensky effect 947.7 Z377on
Dina Porat Nakam : the Holocaust survivors who sought full-scale revenge 940.5318 P821
Jermaine Fowler The humanity archive : recovering the soul of Black history from a whitewashed American myth 973.0496 F785
Brad Meltzer The Nazi conspiracy : the secret plot to kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill 940.53 M496
Larry Loftis The watchmaker's daughter : the true story of World War II heroine Corrie Ten Boom 940.5318 L827
Corrie Ten Boom The hiding place 940.53 T289
Christopher Hibbert Venice : the biography of a city 945.31 H62
Myth America : historians take on the biggest legends and lies about our past 973 M999
Spencer A. Klavan How to save the West : ancient wisdom for 5 modern crises 909.0982 K637
Malcolm Harris Palo Alto : a history of California, capitalism, and the world 979.473 H313
Christopher C. Gorham The confidante : the untold story of the woman who helped win WWII and shape modern America 973.917 G668
Susan Ronald Hitler's aristocrats : the secret power players in Britain and America who supported the Nazis, 1923-1941 940.531 R768

Languages & Linguistics
Bryan A. Garner Garner's modern English usage 428 G234

Law
Anthony Mancuso Nolo's quick LLC 346.0668 M268q

Languages & Linguistics
Samara Bay Permission to speak : how to change what power sounds like, starting with you 808.51 B340
Grant Faulkner The art of brevity : crafting the very short story 808.3 F273
Matt Bird The secrets of character : writing a hero anyone will love 808.3 B618s
Lisa Cron Story genius : how to use brain science to go beyond outlining and write a riveting novel (before you waste three years writing 327 pages that go nowhere) 808 C947s
Joshua Landy The world according to Proust 843.9 P96w
Hallie Ephron Writing & selling your mystery novel 808.3 E63
Rachel Zucker The poetics of wrongness 814.6 Z938
Heather Bourbeau Monarch 811 B766
Erin Pushman How to read like a writer : 10 lessons to elevate your reading and writing practice 808.02 P987
Letters of note : correspondence deserving of a wider audience 808.8 L651
Zadie Smith The wife of Willesden : incorporating: The wife of Willesden's tale, which tale is preceded by The general lock-in and The wife of Willesden's prologue and followed by A retraction, told in verse couplets ; translated from the Chaucerian into North Weezian 822.9 S642
Hilton Als Joan Didion : what she means 813 D55w
Mark Twain at large, his travels here and abroad : an exhibition from the Mark Twain papers of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 25 September to 11 December 1998 818 T969

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Alexa Hagerty Still life with bones : genocide, forensics, and what remains 599.9 H144
Brian Cox Black holes : the key to understanding the universe 523.88 C87
Felix Flicker The magick of physics : uncovering the fantastical phenomena in everyday life 530 F621
Paco Calvo Planta sapiens : the new science of plant intelligence 571.2 C169
Elliot Rappaport Reading the glass : a captain's view of weather, water, and life on ships 551.5 R221
Jared Farmer Elderflora : a modern history of ancient trees 582.16 F233
Mike Brown How I killed Pluto and why it had it coming 523.49 B877

Performing Arts & Music
William Claxton Jazzlife : a journey for jazz across America in 1960 781.65 C579
Micah E. Salkind Do you remember house? : Chicago's queer of color undergrounds 781.648 S167

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Gloria Beth Amodeo God's ex-girlfriend : a memoir about loving and leaving the evangelical Jesus 269.2 A523
Leigh Brasington Right concentration : a practical guide to the jhanas 294.3 B823
Bart D. Ehrman Armageddon : what the Bible really says about the end 236.9 E339
Tiago Forte Building a second brain : a proven method to organize your digital life and unlock your creative potential 153.35 F737
Mary Jo McConahay Playing God : American Catholic bishops and the far right 261.7 M459
Susan Magsamen Your brain on art : how the arts transform us 111.85 M212
Toby Matthiesen The Caliph and the Imam : the making of Sunnism and Shiism 297.8 M443
Joe Hart Take command : find your inner strength, build enduring relationships, and live the life you want 155.2 H251
Fred Rosenbaum Visions of reform : Congregation Emanu-el and the Jews of San Francisco, 1849-1999 296.09 R813
Trey Gowdy Start, stay, or leave : the art of decision making 153.83 G722
Rick Rubin The creative act : a way of being 153.35 R896
Jenny Odell Saving time : discovering a life beyond the clock 153.75 O22

Politics & Government
Nathan Law Freedom : how we lose it and how we fight back 323.44 L410
Matthew Dallek Birchers : how the John Birch Society radicalized the American right 320.52 D146
James Bamford Spyfail : foreign spies, moles, saboteurs, and the collapse of America's counterintelligence 327.12 B19

Social Sciences & Current Events
Bruce Schneier A hacker's mind : how the powerful bend society's rules, and how to bend them back 303.4834 S359
Gustave Le Bon The crowd : a study of the popular mind 302.3 L492
Louisa Lim Indelible city : dispossession and defiance in Hong Kong 303.484 L628
Jeremy Atherton Lin Gay bar : why we went out 306.76 L735
author. United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol The January 6th report : the report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol 363.325 U581
Maggie Bullock The kingdom of prep : the inside story of the rise and (near) fall of J. Crew 381.14 B938
John Higgs Love and let die : James Bond, the Beatles, and the British psyche 306.0941 H637
David Mura The stories Whiteness tells itself : racial myths and our American narratives 305.8 M97
Margareta (Artist) Magnusson The Swedish art of aging exuberantly : life wisdom from someone who will (probably) die before you 305.26 M199
David McGowan Weird scenes inside the canyon : Laurel Canyon, covert ops & the dark heart of the hippie dream 306.1 M146
Black futures 305.896 B627
Elizabeth Cobbs Fearless women : feminist patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé 305.42 C654
Sander Van der Linden Foolproof : why misinformation infects our minds and how to build immunity 302.23 V228
Jake Bittle The great displacement : climate change and the next American migration 362.87 B624
Roxanna Asgarian We were once a family : a story of love, death, and child removal in America 364.152 A818
Robert D. Putnam The upswing : how America came together a century ago and how we can do it again 306.0973 P99u
Mary B. Marcy The small college imperative : models for sustainable futures 378.73 M322
Daniel T. Willingham Outsmart your brain : why learning is hard and how you can make it easy 370.15 W733
Alissa Quart Bootstrapped : liberating ourselves from the American Dream 305.5 Q19b
Oliver Darkshire Once upon a tome : the misadventures of a rare bookseller 381.45 D219

Travel & Geography
Anne Vipond Alaska by cruise ship : the complete guide to cruising Alaska 917.98 V812
Mexico. 917.2 E975
Rick Steves' Amsterdam & the Netherlands. 914.9 S848
Rick Steves' Great Britain. 914.1 S848
Fodor's Toronto. 917.1354 F653
Rick Steves Rick Steves Florence & Tuscany 914.55 S848
New Orleans 917.63 L847
Fodor's essential Hawaii. 919.69 F653

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NON-FICTION
Applied Sciences
Anna Ploszajski Handmade : a scientist's search for meaning through making 620.11 P723
Bruce W. Holsinger On parchment : animals, archives, and the making of culture from Herodotus to the digital age 676 H756
Judith M. Taylor Women and gardens : obstacles and opportunities for women gardeners throughout history 635.082 T238
Luc Olivier Bauer The microchip revolution : a brief history 621.3815 B344

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Antoinette J. Lee Architects to the nation : the rise and decline of the Supervising Architect's Office 725.1 L510
Leslie Jones Coded : art enters the computer age, 1952-1982 776 J762
Brian D. Coleman...

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New Print Fiction for March 2023
by
Heather Miles

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FICTION
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Fic Brontë
Willie Carr Love and avocados : Buell and Lloyd adventure Fic Carr
Ann-Helén Laestadius Stolen : a novel Fic Laestadius
Pilar Quintana Abyss Fic Quintana
Toshikazu Kawaguchi Before the coffee gets cold Fic Kawaguchi
Isabel Waidner Sterling karat gold Fic Waidner
Kelly Regan Barnhill The crane husband Fic Barnhill
Colleen Hoover It starts with us Fic Hoover
Julia Whelan My Oxford year Fic Whelan
Esther Kinsky Rombo Fic Kinsky
Ayobami Adebayo A spell of good things Fic Adebayo
Julia Whelan Thank you for listening Fic Whelan
Michael Rossi The doxxing of Clearwater High Fic Rossi
Sharon Dodua Otoo Ada's room Fic Otoo
Claire Oshetsky Chouette Fic Oshetsky
Elizabeth McKenzie The dog of the north Fic McKenzie
Lila Riesen Free radicals Fic Riesen
Martin Riker The guest lecture Fic Riker
Cathleen Schine Künstlers in paradise Fic Schine
Monica Heisey Really good, actually Fic Heisey
Ari Tison Saints of the household Fic Tison
Toshikazu Kawaguchi Tales from the cafe Fic Kawaguchi
Maurene Goo Throwback Fic Goo
Máirtín Ó Cadhain An eochair = The key Fic Ó Cadhain
Bryce Courtenay Solomon's song Fic Courtenay
Marie Phillips The table of less valued knights Fic Phillips
Deepti Kapoor Age of vice Fic Kapoor
Jojo Moyes Someone else's shoes Fic Moyes
Lakiesha Carr An autobiography of skin Fic Carr
Jessica George Maame Fic George
William Saroyan Little children Fic Saroyan
Annie Ernaux A woman's story Fic Ernaux
Franz Kafka The man who disappeared Fic Kafka

Historical Fiction
Dawn Raffel Boundless as the sky : fables & tales, some of them true Fic Raffel
Thomas Mallon Up with the sun Fic Mallon
Jamila Minnicks Moonrise over New Jessup Fic Minnicks
Vesna Goldsworthy Iron curtain : a love story Fic Goldsworthy
Rachel Heng The great reclamation Fic Heng
Salman Rushdie Victory city Fic Rushdie
Sadeqa Johnson The house of Eve Fic Johnson

Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage & Intrigue
Ana Reyes The house in the pines Fic Reyes
Viveca Sten Hidden in snow Fic Sten
I͡Ulii͡a I͡Akovleva Punishment of a hunter Fic Yakovleva
Ana Brazil Fanny Newcomb and the Irish channel ripper. Fic Brazil
Kalynn Bayron My dear Henry : a Jekyll & Hyde remix Fic Bayron
Stacy Willingham All the dangerous things Fic Willingham
J. T. Ellison It's one of us Fic Ellison
Bret Easton Ellis The shards Fic Ellis
Laurent Mauvignier The birthday party Fic Mauvignier
Jonathan Kellerman Unnatural history Fic Kellerman
Harlan Coben I will find you Fic Coben
Michael Bennett Better the blood Fic Bennett
Gregg Hurwitz The last orphan Fic Hurwitz
Kat Rosenfield You must remember this : a novel Fic Rosenfield
Walter Mosley Every man a king Fic Mosley
John Grisham The boys from Biloxi Fic Grisham
Ousmane K. Power-Greene The confessions of Matthew Strong Fic Power-Greene
Gabino Iglesias The devil takes you home : a barrio noir Fic Iglesias
Chuck Hogan Gang land Fic Hogan
James Patterson The house of Wolves Fic Patterson
Erin E. Adams Jackal Fic Adams
J. D. Robb Encore in death Fic Robb
Jordan Harper Everybody knows Fic Harper
C. J. Box Storm watch Fic Box
Rebecca Makkai I have some questions for you Large Print Makkai

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
George S. Schuyler Black empire Fic Schuyler
Stephen Markley The deluge Fic Markley
Adrienne Maree. Brown Grievers Fic Brown
David Scott Hay [NSFW] Fic Hay
Nnedi Okorafor Remote control Fic Okorafor
Kay Dick They : a sequence of unease Fic Dick
Grady Hendrix How to sell a haunted house Fic Hendrix

Short Stories
McSweeney's. 64, The audio issue. SS M175
Cristina Rivera Garza New and selected stories Fic Rivera Garza
Āśāpūrṇā Debī Brahma's weapon Fic Āśāpūrnā Debī
The best short stories 2022 : the O. Henry Prize winners SS S67
Janelle Monáe The memory librarian : and other stories of dirty computer Fic Monae

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Anke Feuchtenberger W the whore 741.5 F422 Comics
Héloïse Chochois The body factory : from the first prosthetics to the augmented human 617.58 C545 Comics
Ed Brubaker Destroy all monsters : a Reckless book 741.5 B886d Comics
Peter Milligan Britannia. Vol. 1 741.5 M654 Comics
Victoria Jamieson Roller girl 741.5 J324 Comic
Jon Macy Fearful hunter 741.5
M177 Comics

Universal (Children's)
Daniel Nayeri The many assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams U Nayeri
Matt Forbeck Return of the piglins U Forbeck
Heather M. Fawcett The grace of wild things U Fawcett
Kiran Millwood Hargrave Julia and the shark U Hargrave
Aaron Becker The tree and the river U Becker
You are here : connecting flights U You
Chrystal D. Giles Not an easy win U Giles
David O. Bowles Ancient night U Bowles
Andrea Wang Luli and the language of tea U Wang
Greg Neri Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrap the world : the story of two groundbreaking environmental artists U 730.92 C55
William Low Welcome to Chinatown = Huan ying lai dao tang ren jie U Low
Viviane Schwarz Is there a dog in this book? U Schwarz
Anita Sanchez The Monkey Trial : John Scopes and the battle over teaching evolution U 345.7302 S211
Dana Alison Levy Breaking the mold : changing the face of climate science U 509.2 L668
Rebecca Donnelly Total garbage : a messy dive into trash, waste, and our world U 628.44 D685
Nicola Davies Emperor of the ice : how a changing climate affects a penguin colony U 598.4 D256

PRINT BOOKS
FICTION
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Fic Brontë
Willie Carr Love and avocados : Buell and Lloyd adventure Fic Carr
Ann-Helén Laestadius Stolen : a novel Fic Laestadius
Pilar Quintana Abyss Fic Quintana
Toshikazu Kawaguchi Before the coffee gets cold Fic Kawaguchi
Isabel Waidner Sterling karat gold Fic Waidner
Kelly Regan Barnhill The crane husband Fic Barnhill
Colleen Hoover It starts with us Fic Hoover
Julia Whelan My Oxford year Fic Whelan
Esther Kinsky Rombo Fic Kinsky
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New eBooks for March 2023
by
Heather Miles

EBOOKS
Peng Shepherd The cartographers : a novel
Jack Parlett Fire Island : a century in the life of an American paradise
Fariha Róisín Who is wellness for? : an examination of wellness culture and who it leaves behind
David Santos Donaldson Greenland
Ṣādiq Hidāyat The blind owl
Angie Flynn-McIver Before you say anything : how to have better conversations, love public speaking, and finally know what to do with your hands
Kristin Kobes Du Mez Jesus and John Wayne : how white evangelicals corrupted a faith and fractured a nation
Sophie Egan Devoured : from chicken wings to kale smoothies-- how what we eat defines who we are
Ethan Lou Once a bitcoin miner : scandal and turmoil in the cryptocurrency wild west
Leslie Kernisan When your aging parent needs help : a geriatrician's step-by-step guide to memory loss, resistance, safety worries, and more
Edith Hope Fine Armando and the blue tarp school.
Annie Ernaux A woman's story
Feast of friends
Anne Davis Basting Creative care : a revolutionary approach to dementia and elder care
John Woodrow Cox Children under fire an American crisis
Charles M Blow The devil you know : a Black power manifesto
Brett Scott Cloudmoney : Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets
Jamal Greene How rights went wrong : why our obsession with rights is tearing America apart
Christopher Moore Lamb : the Gospel according to Biff, Christ's childhood pal
Stephen Brusatte The rise and reign of the mammals : a new history, from the shadow of the dinosaurs to us
Jeff Desjardins Signals : the 27 trends defining the future of the global economy

EBOOKS
Peng Shepherd The cartographers : a novel
Jack Parlett Fire Island : a century in the life of an American paradise
Fariha Róisín Who is wellness for? : an examination of wellness culture and who it leaves behind
David Santos Donaldson Greenland
Ṣādiq Hidāyat The blind owl
Angie Flynn-McIver Before you say anything : how to have better conversations, love public speaking, and finally know what to do with your hands
Kristin Kobes Du Mez Jesus and John Wayne : how white evangelicals corrupted a faith and fractured a nation
Sophie Egan Devoured : from chicken wings to kale smoothies-- how what we eat defines who we are
Ethan Lou...

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Hidden Gems - The Frisco Kid
by
Steven Dunlap

At the beginning of The Frisco Kid, a small Jewish community in 1850 San Francisco writes to a rabbinical school in Poland asking for a rabbi. They send Gene Wilder. Along the way he meets some of the best and worst kinds of people: thieves and liars, but also many who help him out of kindness. He needs the help of an outlaw (played by Harrison Ford) to go through dangerous territory. Fans of the Marx Brothers will no doubt see their influence, and most will appreciate this buddy movie for its cross between borscht-belt humor and a parody of movie Westerns.  

 

Greatly overshadowed by the earlier films of its co-stars (Ford in Star Wars and Wilder in Blazing Saddles), many people do not seem to even know about this gem. Wilder can play straight drama when called upon, and Ford reveals himself as a far more gifted comedic actor than most realize. You would not think at first glance that the two would work so well together, but put both of them on camera, and you get this kind-hearted, whimsical and often hilarious movie. 

 

This movie is so entertaining, perhaps even locals can forgive them for calling the city "Frisco."

At the beginning of The Frisco Kid, a small Jewish community in 1850 San Francisco writes to a rabbinical school in Poland asking for a rabbi. They send Gene Wilder. Along the way he meets some of the best and worst kinds of people: thieves and liars, but also many who help him out of kindness. He needs the help of an outlaw (played by Harrison Ford) to go through dangerous territory. Fans of the Marx Brothers will no doubt see their influence, and most will appreciate this buddy movie for its cross between borscht-belt humor and a parody of movie Westerns.  

 

Greatly overshadowed by the earlier films of its co-stars (Ford in Star Wars and Wilder in Blazing Saddles), many people do not seem to even know about this gem. Wilder can play straight drama when called upon, and Ford reveals himself as a far more gifted comedic actor than most realize. You would not think at first glance that the two would work so well together, but put both of them on camera, and you get this kind-hearted, whimsical and often...

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Hidden Gems - Penny (Graphic Novel)
by
Heather Miles

Penny, a graphic novel by Karl Stephens, is the whimsical story of the inner life of a humble tortoiseshell cat. Like many cats, she started life as a stray and was taken in (or kidnapped as she sees it) by two humans. Now that she has secure food and shelter, she spends her days contemplating various philosophical questions such as "Is time elastic?" and "What is the point of trying when the world is bent on destroying you?" She is often aided by catnip, in a sort of feline vision quest. Penny is not just an armchair philosopher as she does at one point leave her brownstone to have a small adventure. Penny is a graphic novel for both seekers of knowledge and lovers of cats.

Penny, a graphic novel by Karl Stephens, is the whimsical story of the inner life of a humble tortoiseshell cat. Like many cats, she started life as a stray and was taken in (or kidnapped as she sees it) by two humans. Now that she has secure food and shelter, she spends her days contemplating various philosophical questions such as "Is time elastic?" and "What is the point of trying when the world is bent on destroying you?" She is often aided by catnip, in a sort of feline vision quest. Penny is not just an armchair philosopher as she does at one point leave her brownstone to have a small adventure. Penny is a graphic novel for both seekers of knowledge and lovers of cats.

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