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New Titles for the week of October 26

BOOKS

FICTION
Naja Marie Aidt Rock, paper, scissors
Margaret Atwood The heart goes last
Carmiel Banasky The suicide of Claire Bishop
Jill Bialosky The prize
Jonathan Evison This is your life, Harriet Chance!
Stephen Gillis Bencher in wonderland
Eli Gottlieb Best boy
Louisa Hall Speak
Alexandra Kleeman You too can have a body like mine
Helaine Mario The lost concerto
Mal Peet The Murdstone trilogy
Joan Schweighardt The accidental art thief
Erik Tarloff All our yesterdays
Aatish Taseer The way things were

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Mycroft Holmes
Jussi Adler-Olsen The hanging girl
Lisa Ballantyne Everything she forgot
Susan Barker The incarnations
M. C. Beaton Dishing the dirt: an Agatha Raisin mystery
Ted Bell Patriot
Adam Brookes Spy games
Reed Farrel Coleman Robert B. Parker's The Devil wins: a Jesse Stone novel
John Connolly A song of shadows: a Charlie Parker thriller
James DeVita A winsome murder
Janet Evanovich Wicked business: a Lizzy & Diesel novel
Philippe Georget Summertime, all the cats are bored
J.A. Jance Dance of the bones
Jonathan Kellerman The murderer's daughter
Camilla Läckberg The drowning
James Patterson The Murder House

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Michael H. Rubin The Cottoncrest curse

Short Stories
Clarice Lispector The complete stories

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
JP Ahonen Sing no evil 741.5 A286 comics
Kate Beaton Step aside, pops: a Hark! A vagrant collection 741.5 B369 comics
Don Brown Drowned city: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans 363.34 B877 comics
Ricardo Cavolo 101 artists to listen to before you die 780.9 C383 comics
Lucy Knisley An age of license 741.5 K718a comics
Boaz Lavie The Divine 741.5 L411 comics
Alecos Papadatos Democracy 741.5 P213 comics
Damian A. Wassel The gifted. Books 1& 2 741.5 W321 comics
Stephen Weiner 101 outstanding graphic novels 016.7415 W423 comics
David Leopold. The Hirschfeld century: portrait of an artist & his age, Al Hirschfeld 741.5 H66Lp comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Tom Jackson Chilled: how refrigeration changed the world & might do so again 621.56 J144

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Amy Gibson For keeps: meaningful patchwork for everyday living 746.46 G448
Witold Rybczynski Mysteries of the mall: & other essays 720 R989m
Cintra Wilson Fear & clothing: unbuckling American style 746 W747
Dr. Edd Morris Exploring English castles: evocative, romantic & mysterious true tales of the kings & queens of the British Isles 728.81 M875

Biography & Genealogy
James Karman Robinson Jeffers: poet & prophet 92 J447kr
T.J. Stiles Jesse James: last rebel of the Civil War 92 J2765st
Niall Ferguson Kissinger. Volume I, 1923-1968: the idealist 92 K618
Sarah Gristwood Arbella: England's lost queen 92 S9292
Elizabeth Norton Margaret Beaufort: mother of the Tudor dynasty 92 B374
Alison Weir Mary Boleyn: the mistress of kings 92 B688

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Peggy Levitt Artifacts & allegiances: how museums put the nation & the world on display 069 L666
Ken Cuthbertson A complex fate: William L. Shirer & the American century 070.92 S558

Business & Economics
Tony Crabbe Busy: how to thrive in a world of too much 650.1 C883
John J. Fialka Car wars: the rise, the fall & the resurgence of the electric car 338.4762 F438
John Kay Other people's money: the real business of finance 332 K232

Chess
Gary Alan Fine Players & pawns: how chess builds community & culture 794.1 F4949

Food & Drink
Tish Boyle Flavorful: 150 irresistible desserts in all-time favorite flavors 641.86 B792
Peter Burke Year-round indoor salad gardening: how to grow nutrient-dense, soil-sprouted greens in less than 10 days 635.5 B959
Déborah Holtz Tacopedia 641.5972 H758
J. Kenji López-Alt The food lab: better home cooking through science 664 L864
Ruth Reichl My kitchen year: 136 recipes that saved my life 641.5 R35m
Heidi Swanson Near & far: recipes inspired by home & travels 641.59 S972
Frances Dinkelspiel Tangled vines: greed, murder, obsession & an arsonist in the vineyards of California 338.4766 D585
Lizzie Kamenetzky The great British bake off: Christmas 641.8653 K153

Health & Medicine
Robert Butera Yoga therapy for stress & anxiety: create a personalized holistic plan to balance your life 613.7 B983
Luis Carlos Montalván Until Tuesday: a wounded warrior & the golden retriever who saved him 362.4 M763
Elisa Port The new generation breast cancer book 616.994 P8392

History
Thomas Buergenthal A lucky child: a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy 940.5 B928
Greg Graffin Population wars: a new perspective on competition & coexistence 355.02 G736
Andrew Hosken Empire of Fear: Inside the Islamic State 956.1 H826
Sheila Fitzpatrick On Stalin's team: the years of living dangerously in Soviet politics 947.084 F55o
Alonzo L. Hamby Man of destiny: FDR & the making of the American century 973.917 H199
Francis Pike Hirohito's war: the Pacific war, 1941-1945 940.542 P635
Ray Raphael The spirit of 74: how the American Revolution began 973.31 R217
Jay Winik 1944: FDR & the year that changed history 940.5373 W772

Literature & Writing
Stella Beratlis Alkali sink: poems 811 B483
The Best American essays 814.8 B56
Elizabeth Bishop Geography III 811 B62g
J.A. Bryant, Jr Twentieth-century southern literature 810.9 B915
Abigail Cloud Sylph 811 C647
James Lasdun Bluestone: new & selected poems 821.9 L342

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Sander Bais Very special relativity: an illustrated guide 530.11 B163
Albert Einstein Relativity: the special & the general theory 530.1 E35r
M Jackson While glaciers slept: being human in a time of climate change 551.31 J134
Paul Halpern Einstein's dice & Schrödinger's cat: how two great minds battled quantum randomness to create a unified theory of physics 530.13 H195
M.R. O'Connor Resurrection science: conservation, de-extinction & the precarious future of wild things 591.68 O187

Performing Arts & Music
Patti Smith M train 780.92 S656m

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Elizabeth Gilbert Big magic: creative living beyond fear 153.35 G464
Gary Gutting What philosophy can do 100 G985
Eric Jarosinski Nein.: a manifesto 100 J376
Dana Suskind Thirty million words: building a child's brain: tune in, talk more, take turns 155.413 S964
Sudhir Hazareesingh How the French think: an affectionate portrait of an intellectual people 194 H428

Politics & Government
Greg Grandin Kissinger's shadow: the long reach of America's most controversial statesman 327.2 K61
Larry Hancock Surprise attack: from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to Benghazi 327.12 H234

Social Sciences & Current Events
Kermit Alexander The valley of the shadow of death: a tale of tragedy & redemption 364.152 A376
Andrei Soldatov The red web: the struggle between Russia's digital dictators & the new online revolutionaries 303.4833 S684
Ron Stodghill Where everybody looks like me: at the crossroads of America's Black colleges & culture 378.73 S869
David Sloan Wilson Does altruism exist?: culture, genes & the welfare of others 302.14 W747

Sports & Games
Lizzy Hawker Runner: a short story about a long run 796.42 H392

Travel & Geography
Laura Smith Borrman Discovering vintage San Francisco: a guide to the city's timeless eateries, bars, shops & more 917.9461 B737
Don George The way of wanderlust: the best travel writing of Don George 910.4 G347
Andy N. Robinson It's NOT a holiday!: the A-Z guide to group travel 910.2 R658

Posted on Oct. 23, 2015 by Cherilyn Chang