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New Titles List for the Week of December 10

BOOKS

FICTION
Marc Cameron Oath of office
M.R. Carey Someone like me
Hamlin Garland Main-travelled roads
Abby Geni The wildlands
Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen Barbara
Daisy Johnson Everything under
Shobha Rao Girls burn brighter
Jenn Stroud Rossmann The place you're supposed to laugh
Anuradha Roy All the lives we never lived
Josephine Wilson Extinctions

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Ben Aaronovitch Lies sleeping

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Joyce Carol Oates Hazards of time travel

Short Stories
McSweeney's 54 The end of trust SS M175
N. K. Jemisin How long 'til black future month? Fic Jemisin

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Edmond Baudoin Piero 741.5 B341 comics
M. Dean I am young 741.5 D2811 comics
Jason Lutes Berlin 741.5 L9731 comics
Donia Maher The apartment in Bab el-Louk 741.5 M2146 comics

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Lance Esplund The art of looking: how to read modern & contemporary art 709.04 E777

Biography & Genealogy
Patrice Gueniffey Bonaparte: 1769-1802 92 N216g
Lisa McCubbin Betty Ford: First Lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer 92 F6942m

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Alex Johnson Book towns: forty five paradises of the printed word 070.5 J661

Business & Economics
Philip Campbell A quick start guide to financial forecasting: discover the secret to driving growth, profitability & cash flow higher 658.4 C1871
Harvey Cox The market as god 330 C8771
Acha Leke Africa's business revolution: how to succeed in the world's next big growth market 330.96 L536
Carmen Simon Impossible to ignore: creating memorable content to influence decisions 658.452 S594

Chess
Alan McGowan Kurt Richter: a chess biography with 499 games 794.15 R53m
Thomas Engqvist Réti: move by move 794.15 E369
Ron W. Henley Crushing white: the Dzindzi Indian!: an easy to learn chess opening & strategy 794.122 H389
Ron W. Henley Win like Karpov!: learn to play chess like Anatoly Karpov 794.159 H389w
Rashid Nezhmetdinov Nezhmetdinov's best games of chess 794.15 N499
Alexander Panchenko Mastering chess middlegames: lectures from the all-Russian school of grandmasters 794.123 P191
Peter Romanovsky Soviet middlegame technique 794.123 R75s
Wilhelm Steinitz Modern Chess Instructor. parts I & II 794.1 S822m

Computer Science
John Ousterhout A philosophy of software design 005.12 O941

Food & Drink
Aaron Bobrow-Strain White bread: a social history of the store-bought loaf 641.815 B6639
Jennifer McGruther Broth & stock from the Nourished kitchen: wholesome master recipes for bone, vegetable & seafood broths & meals to make with them 641.81 M1479

History
David K. Allison (editor) The American Revolution: a world war 973.3 A438
Colin G. Calloway The Indian world of George Washington: the first President, the first Americans & the birth of the nation 974.02 C163
Eric Hammel Two flags over Iwo Jima: solving the mystery of the U.S. Marine Corps' proudest moment 940.542 H22t
Lynn M. Hudson The making of "Mammy Pleasant": a Black entrepreneur in nineteenth-century San Francisco 979.461 H8851
Chris Naunton Searching for the lost tombs of Egypt 932 N312
Marion Rankine Brolliology: a history of the umbrella in life & literature 391.44 R211
Gus Russo Best of enemies: the last great spy story of the Cold War 327.12 R9697
Marina Soroka The summer capitals of Europe, 1814-1919 940 S7144
World heritage sites: a complete guide to 1073 UNESCO world heritage sites 910.2 W92

Literature & Writing
Deborah Eisenberg Your duck is my duck 813.54 E362
Jonathan Franzen The end of the end of the earth 814.54 F8375

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Philip Ball Beyond weird: why everything you thought you knew about quantum physics is different 530.12 B187
Sandeep Jauhar Heart: a history 616.12 J412

Performing Arts & Music
Anthony Tommasini The indispensable composers: a personal guide 780.92 T661

Tucker Carlson Ship of fools: how a selfish ruling class is bringing America to the brink of revolution 305.52 C2843
David Priess How to get rid of a president: history's guide to removing unpopular, unable, or unfit chief executives 342.73 P949

Social Sciences & Current Events
Sohaila Abdulali What we talk about when we talk about rape 364.15 A136
Annie Duke Thinking in bets: making smarter decisions when you don't have all the facts 658.4 D877
Jonathan Lusthaus Industry of anonymity: inside the business of cybercrime 364.16 L972
Alan Macfarlane Japan through the looking glass 915.2 M1435
Elizabeth A. Segal Social empathy: the art of understanding others 152.4 S454

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EAUDIOBOOKS
Kenneth Abel Bait
David Adam The genius within smart pills, brain hacks & adventures in intelligence
James Aldred The man who climbs trees
Ted Allbeury A time without shadows
Omer Artun Predictive marketing easy ways every marketer can use customer analytics & big data
Catherine Asaro Bronze skies
Baker Street Irregulars 2 the game is afoot
David Ball Empires of sand
Mary Balogh Someone to care
Mary Balogh Someone to trust
Bill Bartlett The sales coach's playbook breaking the performance code
Elizabeth Bear Stone mad
Greg Bear Blood music
Joseph Berger Displaced persons growing up American after the holocaust
Lawrence Block Ariel
Lawrence Block Random walk
Lawrence Block Small town
Robert Bly Iron john
Larry Bond Arctic gambit
Marion Zimmer Bradley The heritage of hastur
Angela Britnell What happens in Nashville
Stephen Brumwell Turncoat benedict arnold & the crisis of American liberty
Jeffrey Bussgang Entering startupland an essential guide to finding the right job
A.S. Byatt The djinn in the nightingale's eye
A.S. Byatt The matisse stories
Daniel M. Cable Alive at work the neuroscience of helping your people love what they do
Italo Calvino The complete cosmicomics
Tony Carlson The how of wow the guide to giving a speech that will positively blow 'em away
Dave Carvajal Hire smart from the start the entrepreneur's guide to finding, catching & keeping the best talent for your company
Carlos Castaneda Magical passes the practical wisdom of the shamans of ancient mexico
David Christian Origin story a big history of everything
Peter Clutterbuck The sea takes no prisoners
Dennis J. Cohen The project manager's mba how to translate project decisions into business success
Nigel Collin The game inches why small change wins big results
Robert Conley Killing time
Thomas H. Cook The chatham school affair
Marcus Cowper Command Henry V
John Cunningham Warhorse
Janet Dailey Texas fierce
Sandra Dallas The patchwork bride
Jan DeBlieu Wind how the flow of air has shaped life, myth & the land
Ted Dekker The 49th mystic
G.S. Denning Warlock holmes my grave ritual
De'Nesha Diamond Collusion
Constance Dierickx High-stakes leadership leading through crisis with courage, judgment & fortitude
Gabrielle Dolan Ignite real leadership, real talk, real results
Beverly Donofrio Riding in cars with boys confessions of a bad girl who makes good
Richard Dooling Critical care
Edge of infinit
Louis Efron Purpose meets execution how winning organizations accelerate engagement & drive profits
Engineering infinity
Lance Erlick Reborn
Howard Fast Freedom road
Howard Fast The jews story of a people
Fearsome journeys the new solaris book of fantasy
Christine Feehan Shadow keeper
Paul Finch Grendel's lair
Paul Finch The poppet
Ian Fleming Thrilling cities
Aminatta Forna Happiness
Earlene Fowler Broken dishes
Jody Gastfriend My parents' keeper the guilt, grief, guesswork & unexpected gifts of caregiving
Dorothy Gilman Caravan
Dorothy Gilman Mrs. pollifax on safari
Dorothy Gilman Mrs. pollifax on the china station
Dorothy Gilman Palm for mrs. pollifax
Emma Glass Peach
Heather Graham Captive
Simon R. Green Night fall
Sean Grigsby Smoke eaters
Carolyn Haines Charmed bones
Brenda Hampton Bff's forever best frenemies forever series, books 1-3
Ron Hansen Atticus
Thomas Harding Blood on the page
Lisa Harris Pursued
Barb Hendee A choice of crowns
Mick Herron London rules
Tony Hillerman Dance hall of the dead
Tony Hillerman People of darkness
Tony Hillerman The blessing way
Tony Hillerman The dark wind
Tony Hillerman The ghostway
Pam Howes The forgotten family of liverpool
L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the future
Kristi Ann Hunter A defense of honor
Christopher Husberg Blood requiem
Dave Hutchinson Europe at midnight
David Ignatius The bank of fear
William W. Johnstone Ten guns from Texas
J. A. Johnstone The last gunfighter. William W. Johnstone with
William W. Johnstone This violent land a smoke
William W. Johnstone Vengeance of the mountain man
Diana Jones Leadership material how personal experience shapes executive presence
Blake Karrington Thickums
Elmer Kelton Eyes of a hawk
Tracy Kidder House
Laurie R. King Island of the mad
Sophie Kinsella Confessions of a shopaholic
Sophie Kinsella Shopaholic takes manhattan
Sophie Kinsella Shopaholic ties the knot
Karl Ove Knausgaard Spring
Nik Korpon Queen of the struggle
Natalie Kusz Road song a memoir
Jon Laser Writers of the future
D.H. Lawrence St. mawr
D.H. Lawrence The captain's doll
D.H. Lawrence The ladybird & love among the haystacks
D.H. Lawrence The prussian officer
Aya De Leon The accidental mistress
Donna Leon Acqua alta
Craig Lesley The sky fisherman
Alan Lewis Edge strategy a new mindset for profitable growth
Amy Lillard Kappy king & the puppy kaper
Jack H. Llewellyn Commonsense leadership no-nonsense rules for improving your mental game & increasing your team's performance
Thomas Lockwood Innovation by design how any organization can leverage design thinking to produce change, drive new ideas & deliver meanigful solutions
Helen Macdonald Falcon
Anna-Lucia Mackay The four mindsets how to influence, motivate & lead high performance teams
Gail Z. Martin Iron & blood
Kat Martin Beyond control
John Masters Bhowani junction
John Masters The deceivers
Todd McAulty The robots of gotham
Ed McBain Downtown
Donald McCaig The American homeplace
James P. McCollom The last sheriff in Texas a true tale of violence & the vote
Val McDermid Common murder
William McFeely Frederick douglass
Dinny McMahon China's great wall of debt shadow banks, ghost cities, massive loans & the end of the chinese miracle
Nick Mehta Customer success how innovative companies are reducing churn & growing recurring revenue
Linda Mitchelmore Grand designs
Mary McGarry Morris A dangerous woman
John Mortimer Rumpole & the golden thread
John Mortimer Rumpole for the defence
John Mortimer Rumpole of the bailey
John Mortimer Rumpole's last case
John Mortimer Rumpole's return
Fuminori Nakamura Cult x
Thomas T. Noguchi Physical evidence
Hannah Orenstein Playing with matches
Scott E. Page The diversity bonus how great teams pay off in the knowledge economy
Barbara Parker Criminal justice
Barbara Parker Suspicion of betrayal
Barbara Parker Suspicion of deceit
Barbara Parker Suspicion of malice
Tony Parsons Girl on fire
Donn Pearce Cool hand luke
Mary Pilon The kevin show an olympic athlete's battle with mental illness
Hannah Pittard Visible empire
C.L. Polk Witchmark
Randy Powell Run if you dare
Lee Reilly Women living single thirty women share their stories of navigating through a married world
Ruth Rendell An unkindness of ravens
Ruth Rendell The bridesmaid
Ruth Rendell The veiled one
Dusty Richards Sharpshooter a byrnes family ranch western
Gillian Roberts Caught dead in philadelphia
Gillian Roberts The mummer's curse
Robert Rotenberg Heart of the city
Henry Roth Call it sleep
Greg Rucka Keeper
Greg Rucka Smoker
Amy Sandas Gunslinger's vow
Liese O'Halloran Schwarz The possible world
Gerald Seymour Traitor's kiss
Barbara Sofer The thirteenth hour
Scott Spencer Waking the dead
Les Standiford Raw deal
Francis Steegmuller A woman, a man & two kingdoms the story of madame d'epinay & the abbe galiani
Dustin Steinacker Writers of the future volume 33
John Stockwell In search of enemies a cia story
John Straley The woman who married a bear
Shelly Stratton Between lost & found
Shelly Stratton The house on harbor hill
The best science fiction & fantasy of the year
Etan Thomas We matter athletes & activism
Patrick S. Tomlinson Gate crashers
Steve Toutonghi Side life
Siva Vaidhyanathan Anti-social media how Facebook disconnects us & undermines democracy
Kevin Vallely Rowing the northwest passage adventure, fear & awe in a rising sea
Freek Vermeulen Breaking bad habits defy industry norms & reinvigorate your business
Becky Wade Falling for you
Courtney Walsh Just let go
Pamela Wechsler The fens
Martha Wells Artificial condition
Chuck Wendig The complete double dead
Richard Wheeler Dodging red cloud
Richard Wheeler Where the river runs
Christopher Wills Children of prometheus the accelerating pace of human evolution
Christopher Wills Yellow fever black goddess the coevolution of people & plagues
James Wilson The earth shall weep a history of native America
Karen Witemeyer More than meets the eye
Anthony Wolf It's not fair, jeremy spencer's parents let him stay up all night! a guide to the tougher parts of parenting
M.K. Wren Neely jones the medusa pool
Rebecca Zanetti Vampire's faith

Posted on Dec. 18, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang