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New Titles for the Week of July 4

BOOKS

FICTION
Megan Abbott The fever
Sergei Dovlatov Pushkin Hills
Elin Hilderbrand The matchmaker
Fernando de Rojas Celestina
Genevieve Valentine The girls at the Kingfisher Club
Alexi Zentner The lobster kings

Historical Fiction
William Dietrich The three emperors: an Ethan Gage adventure
Tom Phelan The canal bridge: a novel of Ireland, love & the First World War

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Catherine Aird Dead heading: a Sloan & Crosby mystery
Steve Berry The Lincoln myth
Andrew Brown Coldsleep lullaby: a mystery
Alafair Burke All day & a night
Linda Fairstein Terminal city
Chuck Greaves The last heir: a Jack MacTaggart mystery
Stephen Hunter Sniper's honor: a Bob Lee Swagger novel
David Ignatius The Director
Lauren Owen The quick
Jill Paton Walsh The late scholar: the new Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane mystery
Ridley Pearson The red room
Daniel Silva The kill artist
Karin Slaughter Cop Town

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Jim Butcher Skin game: a novel of the Dresden files
James S.A. Corey Cibola burn
Emmi Itäranta Memory of water
Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter The long Mars

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
J. Michael Straczynski Ten grand. Volume 1 741.5 S894t

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NONFICTION
Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Making it new: the art & style of Sara & Gerald Murphy 750.92 M978r

Biography & Genealogy
Jean Guéhenno Diary of the dark years, 1940-1944: collaboration, resistance & daily life in occupied Paris 92 G924d
Sandra Lansky & William Stadiem Daughter of the king 364.106 L295
Tom Robbins Tibetan peach pie: a true account of an imaginative life 92 R632
John Taliaferro All the great prizes: the life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt 92 H412t

Business & Economics
Kwasi Kwarteng War & gold: a 500-year history of empires, adventures & debt 332.422 K984

Chess
Larry Kaufman The chess advantage in black & white: opening moves of the grandmasters 794.122 K212

Food & Drink
David Sax The tastemakers: why we're crazy for cupcakes but fed up with fondue 394.12 S272

History
Geoff Dyer Another great day at sea: life aboard the USS George H.W. Bush 359.94 D996
Steven Pressman 50 children: one ordinary American couple's extraordinary rescue mission into the heart of Nazi Germany 940.5318 P935

Literature & Writing
Kevin Birmingham The most dangerous book: the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses 823 J89b
Leslie Jamison The empathy exams 814 J325

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Horace Freeland Judson The eighth day of creation: makers of the revolution in biology 572.8 J931

Performing Arts & Music
Edward Berger Softly, with feeling: Joe Wilder & the breaking of barriers in American music 780.92 W673

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Michael K. Kellogg The Roman search for wisdom 180 K295r

Social Sciences & Current Events
Fran Moreland Johns Perilous times: an inside look at abortion before- & after- Roe v. Wade 363.46 J658

Sports & Games
George Hincapie The loyal lieutenant: leading out Lance & pushing through the pain on the rocky road to Paris 796.6 H659

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Elizabeth Gilbert The signature of all things
Barbara Kingsolver Flight behavior
Cormac McCarthy All the pretty horses

Nonfiction
Lewis Dartnell The knowledge: how to rebuild our world from scratch 500 D226c
Adam Rogers Proof: the science of booze 641.2 R724c
Darren Staloff Thomas Jefferson: American visionary 92 J45s

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
Backdraft
Point break
Rocky

Comedy
Airplane!
The last days of disco

Drama
Antwone Fisher
The monuments men

Foreign Language
The great beauty (La grande bellezza)

Nonfiction
I am Divine 792.092 D618i
Shoah 940.5318 S559

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CDs
Jazz
Michael Bublé To be loved CD Jazz Bublé
Stan Kenton New concepts of artistry in rhythm CD Jazz Kenton

Posted on Jul. 5, 2014 by Sarah Cruz