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New Titles for the Week of July 17

BOOKS

FICTION
Anne Roiphe Ballad of the black & blue mind
Nancy Thayer The guest cottage

Historical Fiction
Jeff Shaara The fateful lightning

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Mark Billingham Time of death
Frances Brody Murder in the afternoon
Jane Casey The kill
Richard Crompton Hell's gate
Paul Doiron The precipice
Carola Dunn Superfluous women: a Daisy Dalrymple mystery
A. D. Garrett Everyone lies
Michael Harvey The governor's wife
Shane Kuhn The Intern's handbook
Stuart MacBride The missing & the dead
Mike Ripley Margery Allingham's Albert Campion returns in Mr Campion's fox
Patricia Skalka Death stalks Door County: a Dave Cubiak Door County mystery
Marco Vichi Death in Sardinia
Dick Wolf The ultimatum: a Jeremy Fisk novel

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Scott Hawkins The Library at Mount Char

Short Stories
Elmore Leonard Charlie Martz & other stories

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Brandon R. Brown Planck: driven by vision, broken by war 530.92 P711

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Basquiat: the unknown notebooks 750.92 B31u
Penny Coombe Roman sculpture from London & the South-East 733 R758
Warren Adelson Childe Hassam, impressionist 750.92 H35a
Paul Hills Venetian colour: marble, mosaic, painting & glass, 1250-1550 701.8 H655
Deborah Howard Venice & the East: the impact of the Islamic world on Venetian architecture, 1100-1500 720.9453 H848
Portraits by Ingres: image of an epoch 750.92 I55p
Janneken Smucker Amish quilts: crafting an American icon 746.46 S666

Biography & Genealogy
Cece Bell El Deafo 92 B4328 Comics
Deborah Lutz The Brontë cabinet: three lives in nine objects 920 B869
Jennifer Teege & Nikola Sellmair My grandfather would have shot me: a Black woman discovers her family's Nazi past 92 T258

Business & Economics
Brian J. Robertson Holacracy: the new management system for a rapidly changing world 658.4 R649

Food & Drink
America's Test Kitchen The how can it be gluten free cookbook: revolutionary techniques, groundbreaking recipes 641.3 A512

Health & Medicine
The New York Times book of medicine: more than 150 years of reporting on the evolution of medicine 616 N532

History
Julia M. Walker (editor) Dissing Elizabeth: negative representations of Gloriana 942.05 D613
Susan Doran Elizabeth I & Her Circle 942.05 E434
Kathy Lynn Emerson The writer's guide to everyday life in Renaissance England 942.05 E53
Peter Grose A good place to hide: how one French community saved thousands of lives during World War II 940.5318 G877
Brian Murphy 81 days below zero: the incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness 940.5449 M978
100 voices: words that shape our souls, wisdom to guide our future 909.82 O584
Richard Toye The roar of the lion: the untold story of Churchill's World War II speeches 940.53 C56to
The Victorian empire & Britain's maritime world, 1837-1901: the sea & global history 941.081 V645

Languages & Linguistics
Sándor Hervey Thinking French translation: a course in translation method 428 H578

Law
Stephen Elias The new bankruptcy: will it work for you? 346.078 E42n

Literature & Writing
G. Ronald Murphy Gemstone of paradise: the Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival 831 W861m

Performing Arts & Music
Kathleen Cremonesi Love in the elephant tent: how running away with the circus brought me home 791.3 C915
Nicole Laporte The men who would be king: an almost epic tale of moguls, movies & a company called Dreamworks 384.8 L315

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
J.K. Rowling Very good lives: the fringe benefits of failure & the importance of imagination 158 R884
Robert Thurman Infinite life: seven virtues for living well 294.3 T539i

Reference
Resource: a guide to Jewish life in the Bay Area 917.946 R434 2015

Social Sciences & Current Events
Joseph Kim Under the same sky: from starvation in North Korea to salvation in America 362.87 K49
Stephen & Joyce Singular The spiral notebook: the Aurora theater shooter & the epidemic of mass violence committed by American youth 364.152 S617s

Sports & Games
George Mumford The mindful athlete: secrets to pure performance 796.019 M962
Greg Toppo The game believes in you: how digital play can make our kids smarter 794.8 T675

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DVDs
Comedy
30 Rock. Season 1
30 Rock. Season 2
30 Rock. Season 3
The Ben Stiller show
The low life

Drama
No way out

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Dark country
Strange days

Posted on Jul. 21, 2015 by Sarah Cruz