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BOOKS

FICTION
Akhil Sharma Family life
Maggie Shipstead Astonish me

Historical Fiction
Michael Nava The city of palaces

Multi-Gen Literature
Beth Kephart Going over
Katherine Kirkpatrick Between two worlds
Barbara Mariconda Bird with the heart of a mountain
Tess Sharpe Far from you

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
David Baldacci The target
Henry Chang Death money
Agatha Christie Appointment with death: a Hercule Poirot mystery
Colin Cotterill The axe factor
Samantha Hayes Until you're mine
Ewart Hutton Dead people
Roderic Jeffries In search of murder: an Inspector Alvarez mystery
William Kent Krueger Heaven's keep
Bob van Laerhoven Baudelaire's revenge
Liza Marklund The long shadow
T.T. Monday The setup man
Steven Rigolosi The outsmarting of criminals

Short Stories
Lydia Davis Can't & won't
Violet Kupersmith The Frangipani Hotel: stories

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Max Brooks The Harlem Hellfighters 741.5 B8735
MK Brown Stranger than life: cartoons & comics, 1970-2013 741.5 B879

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Michael SanClements Plastic purge: how to use less plastic, eat better, keep toxins out of your body & help save the sea turtles! 668.4 S211

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
New York transformed: the architecture of Cross & Cross 720.92 C951
Lucian Freud: eyes wide open 750.92 F88he
Tintin: the art of Hergé, from the archives of the Hergé Museum 741.5 H545d Comics
Christopher Lloyd Impressionists on the water 759.4 L793

Biography & Genealogy
Gail Caldwell New life, no instructions 070.92 C147n
Barbara Ehrenreich Living with a wild god: a nonbeliever's search for the truth about everything 92 E33
Ramachandra Guha Gandhi before India 92 G1890 v.1
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela 491 days: prisoner number 1323/69 92 M271f
The adventures of Henry Thoreau: a young man's unlikely path to Walden Pond 92 T490s

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Dan Jenkins His ownself: a semi-memoir 070.92 J522
The public library: a photographic essay 027.7 P976

Business & Economics
Kim Flynn Playing big: the unsexy truth about how to succeed in business 658.4 F648
Arianna Huffington Thrive: the third metric to redefining success & creating a life of well-being, wisdom & wonder 650.1 H889
Bill McGowan Pitch perfect: how to say it right the first time, every time 658.45 M146
Jeremy Rifkin The zero marginal cost society: the Internet of things, the Collaborative Commons & the eclipse of capitalism 330.126 R564
Joan C. Williams What works for women at work: four patterns working women need to know 650.13 W724

Computer Science
The official Ubuntu server book 005.432 U15r

Food & Drink
Josey Baker Josey Baker bread 641.815 B167
Kim Boyce Good to the grain: baking with whole-grain flours 641.631 B789

Health & Medicine
Walter C. Willett Eat, drink & be healthy: the Harvard Medical School guide to healthy eating 613.2 S627

History
Götz Aly Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: envy, race hatred & the prehistory of the Holocaust 943 A477
Alon Confino A world without Jews: the Nazi imagination from persecution to genocide 940.5318 C748
Martin Evans France since 1815 944 E927
Dan McMillan How could this happen: explaining the Holocaust 940.5318 M167
Desmond Seward The last white rose 941.05 S514
Yvonne M. Ward Censoring Queen Victoria: how two gentlemen edited a queen & created an icon 941.081 W264
Robin Waterfield Taken at the flood: the Roman Conquest of Greece 939.87 W325

Literature & Writing
Carl Rollyson Reading biography 808.066 R755r

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Amir Alexander Infinitesimal: how a dangerous mathematical theory shaped the modern world 511 A374
Brian Capon Botany for gardeners 580 C246
Oscar E. Fernandez Everyday calculus: discovering the hidden math all around us 515 F363
Philippe Squarzoni Climate changed: a personal journey through the science 551.6 S773 Comics
Rick Stroud The book of the moon 523.3 S925

Performing Arts & Music
Peter Evans & Ava Gardner Ava Gardner: the secret conversations 792.092 G226e
A life of Barbara Stanwyck: steel-true, 1907-1940 792.092 S79wL v.1

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Shawn Achor The happiness advantage: the seven principles of positive psychology that fuel success & performance at work 158.7 A179
Stephen Cox American Christianity: the continuing revolution 277.3 C878
Sara Davidson The December Project: an extraordinary rabbi & a skeptical seeker confront life's greatest mystery 296.7 D253
Wendy Doniger On Hinduism 294.5 D683o
Raymond Geuss A world without why 190 G395
Frédéric Gros A philosophy of walking 128.4 G877
Donald S. Lopez Jr. In search of the Christian Buddha: how an Asian sage became a medieval saint 261.243 L864
James Martin Jesus: a pilgrimage 232 M381
Michael L. Satlow How the Bible became holy 220.1 S253

Politics & Government
Marc Frank Cuban revelations: behind the scenes in Havana 327.7291 F828
James Petras The politics of empire: the US, Israel & the Middle East 327.73 P493

Social Sciences & Current Events
George Cooper Money, blood & revolution: how Darwin & the doctor of King Charles I could turn economics into a science 338.54 C776
Robert Fletcher Romancing the wild: cultural dimensions of ecotourism 338.4791 F614
Henry A. Giroux Zombie politics & culture in the age of casino capitalism 306.0973 G528
Peter Hecht Weed land: inside America's marijuana epicenter & how pot went legit 363.45 H447

Sports & Games
Gil Capps The magnificent Masters: Jack Nicklaus, Johnny Miller, Tom Weiskopf & the 1975 cliffhanger at Augusta 796.352 C249
Michael Lewis Coach: lessons on the game of life 796.357 L675c

Travel & Geography
Fodor's Bermuda 917.299 F65
Lonely Planet Amsterdam 914.923 L847
Lonely Planet Portugal 914.69 L847
NFT: not for tourists guide to Chicago 917.731 N899

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AUDIOBOOKS
Nonfiction
Gail Caldwell New life, no instructions 070.92 C147nc

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DVDs
Comedy
Foul play
Savages

Drama
Tucker: the man & his dream

Foreign Language
Paris, I love you (Paris, je t'aime)

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Before the devil knows you're dead

Nonfiction
Buena Vista Social Club 781.626 B928

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CDs
Classical
Field Piano concerto no. 2 [sound recording] ; Piano concerto no. 3 CD Classical Field
Philip Glass Music in twelve parts CD Classical Glass
Lars-Erik Larsson God in disguise, op. 24 ; A winter's tale, op. 18 ; Little serenade, op. 12 ; Pastoral suite, op. 19 CD Classical Larsson
Ravel. Nocturnes Miroirs CD Classical Miroirs
Mendelssohn. Märchenbilder, op. 113 ; Piano quartet in E flat, op. 47 Quartet no. 3 in B minor, op. 3 CD Classical Quartet
Luigi Rossi Le canterine romane: Roman cantatas CD Classical Rossi

Jazz
Karrin Allyson Footprints CD Jazz Allyson

Vocals
Trapp Family Singers One voice CD Vocals Trapp

World
Laurie Rasmussen The dawning of the day: traditional Celtic & original melodies for harp, cello & flute CD World Rasmussen
Kealiʻi Reichel Melelana CD World Reichel
John Williams El diablo suelto: guitar music of Venezuela CD World Williams

Posted on May. 3, 2014 by Sarah Cruz