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New Titles for the Week of April 26

BOOKS

FICTION
Douglas Coupland Worst. Person. Ever.
Brian Doyle The plover
Cara Hoffman Be safe I love you
Ward Just American romantic
Peter Matthiessen In paradise
Lawrence Osborne The ballad of a small player

Multi-Gen Literature
Jeri Smith-Ready This side of salvation

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Rhys Bowen City of darkness & light
E.R. Brown Almost criminal
Roberto Costantini The deliverance of evil
Laura Kasischke Mind of winter
Anne Perry Farriers' Lane
Ted Scofield Eat what you kill
Marco Vichi Death in August

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Katherine Addison The Goblin Emperor
Claire North The first fifteen lives of Harry August
Daniel Price The flight of the silvers

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Alexandro Jodorowski The Metabarons 741.5 J63

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NONFICTION
Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Crochet: the complete step-by-step guide 746.43 C9378

Biography & Genealogy
Abraham Lincoln's path to reelection in 1864 92 L736m
Updike 92 U663b

Business & Economics
Ed Catmull Creativity, Inc.: overcoming the unseen forces that stand in the way of true inspiration 658.4 C365
Ben Horowitz The hard thing about hard things: building a business when there are no easy answers 658.4 H816
Michael Lewis Flash boys: a Wall Street revolt 332.62 L67f

Chess
Dejan Bojkov Chess highways 794.1 B685c
Dejan Bojkov Try the Sicilian Kalashnikov! 794.122 B685
Mikhail Botvinnik: the life & games of a world chess champion 794.15 B75sL
Nigel Davies The closed Sicilian 794.122 D257cs
Viktor Kortchnoi My life for chess, vol. 1 794.15 K85m v.1
Viktor Kortchnoi My life for chess, vol. 2 794.15 K85m v.2
Andrew Martin The ABC of Alekhine 794.122 M379aa
Andrew Martin The ABC of Evans gambit 794.122 M379ae
Karsten Mueller Chess endgames 2: rook endgames 794.124 M95fr v.2
Karsten Mueller Chess endgames 3: major piece endgames 794.124 M95fr v.3
Karsten Müller Chess endgames 4: strategical endgames 794.124 M95fr v.4
Rustam Kasimdzhanov A world champion's guide to the King's Indian 794.122 K1924
Chess informant (Šahovski informator) 794.1 S12
Alexei Shirov My best games in the Nimzo-Indian 794.122 S558n
Alexei Shirov My best games in the Petroff defence 794.122 S558p
Alexei Shirov My best games in the Sicilian 794.122 S558s
Alexei Shirov My best games in the Spanish 794.122 S558 v.1

Health & Medicine
Martin J. Blaser Missing microbes: how the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our modern plagues 615.79 B644

History
Sverre Bagge Cross & scepter: the rise of the Scandinavian kingdoms from the Vikings to the Reformation 948.02 B144
Orlando Figes Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991 947.084 F471r
Judith Nies Unreal city: Las Vegas, Black Mesa & the fate of the West 979.31 N67
Mary Miley Theobald Death by petticoat: American history myths debunked 973 T385

Literature & Writing
William Logan Guilty knowledge, guilty pleasure: the dirty art of poetry 811.9 L832g
Maureen N. McLane This blue 811 M1613

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Bernd Heinrich The homing instinct: meaning & mystery in animal migration 591.568 H469
Henry Nicholls The Galápagos: a natural history 508.866 N61
Stephen R. Palumbi The extreme life of the sea 591.77 P184

Performing Arts & Music
Donald Brown Bob Dylan: American troubadour 780.92 D99b

Politics & Government
Big tent: the story of the Conservative Revolution-- as told by the thinkers & doers who made it happen 320.52 B592
Carlotta Gall The wrong enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 958.1 G162

Social Sciences & Current Events
Milton Ezrati Thirty tomorrows: the next three decades of globalization, demographics & how we will live 305.26 E99
Russell Gold The boom: how fracking ignited the American energy revolution & changed the world 333.823 G618
Matt Taibbi The divide: American injustice in the age of the wealth gap 303.372 T129
E.G. Vallianatos Poison spring: the secret history of pollution & the EPA 363.73 V188
The World almanac & book of facts REF 310 W92
Beth Zasloff Hold fast to dreams: a college guidance counselor, his students & the vision of a life beyond poverty 371.4 Z38

Travel & Geography
Lonely Planet Greece 914.95 L847
Lonely Planet USA 917.3 L847
Wendy MacNaughton Meanwhile, in San Francisco: the city in its own words 979.461 M169
Art Peterson Why is that bridge orange?: San Francisco for the curious 979.461 P485

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EBOOKS
Margaret Atwood The handmaid's tale
Ned Beauman The teleportation accident
Laurel Corona The mapmaker's daughter
Tracy Groot The sentinels of Andersonville
Mark Helprin Winter's tale
Colleen McCullough The first man in Rome
Jeremy Page The collector of lost things
Jessica Soffer Tomorrow there will be apricots
Nathanael West Miss Lonelyhearts
Gabrielle Zevin The storied life of A. J. Fikry

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
The secret life of Walter Mitty

Comedy
I.Q.

Nonfiction
The search for Robert Johnson 780.92 J68v
Beautiful losers 709.22 B384
The land where the blues began 781.643 L253d
Rio breaks 797.32 R585

Posted on Apr. 26, 2014 by Sarah Cruz