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Arts, Architecture & Crafts

Michael Webb California houses : creativity in context 728.37 W365
Sophie Calle True stories 779.092 C157
John Martin : a self-portrait 709.2 M379
Tal Danino Beautiful bacteria : encounters in the microuniverse 700.105 D186
Corky Lee Corky Lee's Asian America : fifty years of photographic justice 770.92 L477
Jed Johnson Jed Johnson : opulent restraint interiors 729 J661
Supreme 746.92 S959
William Deresiewicz The death of the artist : how creators are struggling to survive in the age of billionaires and big tech 700.1 D431
Michael. Kenna Japan 779.99 K34
Lee Friedlander Lee Friedlander photographs, Frederick Law Olmsted landscapes 778.93 F911

Biography & Genealogy

Maureen Callahan Ask not : the Kennedys and the women they destroyed 973.922 C156
Jana Monroe Hearts of darkness : serial killers, the behavioral science unit, and my life as a woman in the FBI 363.25 M753
Rob Kim Henderson Troubled : a memoir of foster care, family, and social class 362.73 H496
Russ Tamblyn Dancing on the edge: a journey of living, loving, and tumbling through Hollywood 792.092 T155
Josh Young The fixer : moguls, mobsters, movie stars, and Marilyn 363.289 O872
Carrie Courogen Miss May does not exist : the life and work of Elaine May, Hollywood's hidden genius 792.092 M466
Julie Satow When women ran Fifth Avenue : glamour and power at the dawn of American fashion 381.141 S834
Elaine Brown A taste of power : a Black woman's story 973.0496 B877
Marc Petitjean Back to Japan : the life and art of master kimono painter Kunihiko Moriguchi 746.092 M856
Clarence B. Jones Last of the lions : an African American journey in memoir 323.092 J762
Jane Bertch The French ingredient : a memoir : making a life in Paris one lesson at a time 641.5092 B536

Business & Economics

Kyla Scanlon In this economy? : how money & markets really work 330 S283
Cory Doctorow The internet con : how to seize the means of computation 338.47 D637
Yanis Varoufakis Technofeudalism : what killed capitalism 338.47 V324
Melyssa Barrett Credit repair kit 332.7 B274
Scott Galloway The algebra of wealth : a simple formula for financial security 332.024 G174
Gary Vaynerchuk Day trading attention : how to actually build brand and sales in the new social media world 658.872 V392
Linda A. Hill Collective genius : the art and practice of leading innovation 658.4 H645c
Peter S. Goodman How the world ran out of everything : inside the global supply chain 658.7 G621
Mike Maples Pattern breakers : why some start-ups change the future 658.11 M297
Ruchir Sharma What went wrong with capitalism 330.12 S531

Business & Economics

Maurice Ashley Move by move : life lessons on and off the chessboard 794.1092 A826

Computer Science
Jeremy Kahn Mastering AI : a survival guide to our superpowered future 006.3 K124

Food & Drink

Sharon Wee Growing up in a Nonya kitchen : a Peranakan family's food memories of Singapore 641.5959 W394
Laura McLively The Berkeley Bowl cookbook : recipes inspired by the extraordinary produce of California's most iconic market 641.5979 M165
Jeff Morgan Dean & DeLuca : the food and wine cookbook 641.5 M847
Trevor Felch City Eats, San Francisco : 50+ recipes from the best of the city by the bay 641.5979 F311
Andrea. Israel Taking tea : the essential guide to brewing, serving, and entertaining with teas from around the world 641.53 I854
Sophie Dahl Very fond of food : a year in recipes 641.564 D131v
Sophie Dahl Miss Dahl's voluptuous delights : recipes for every season, mood and appetite 641.564 D131
Derick Santiago The mocktail club : classic recipes (and new favorites) without the booze 641.875 S235
The French art of tea 633.72 F873

History

Dan Kovalik The case for Palestine : why it matters and why you should care 956.94 K884
Norman G. Finkelstein Gaza : an inquest into its martyrdom 953.1 F499
Jason Friedman Liberty Street : a Savannah family, its golden boy, and the Civil War 975.8758 F911
Evelyn Toynton They were good Germans once : my Jewish émigré family : a memoir 973.0492 T756
Ian Rutledge Sea of troubles : the European conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the origins of the First World War, c1750-1918 909.0982 R981
Mark Harmon Ghosts of Honolulu : a Japanese spy, a Japanese American spy hunter, and the untold story of Pearl Harbor 940.542 H288
Mary Beard Emperor of Rome : ruling the ancient Roman world 937.06 B368
David Alan Johnson Admiral Canaris : how Hitler's chief of intelligence betrayed the Nazis 940.54 C213
Eric H. Cline After 1177 B 937 C641
Lois Conner China : the photographs of Lois Conner 951 C752
Handbook on German military forces 355 H236
Donald A.Gibbs The year that changed China 951.05 G442
Justine Firnhaber-Baker House of lilies : the dynasty that made medieval France 944.021 F526
Ted McClelland Chorus of the Union : how Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas set aside their rivalry to save the nation 973.7 M126

Languages & Linguistics

Jess Zafarris Words from hell : unearthing the darkest secrets of English etymology 427 Z17
Steven J. Mithen The language puzzle : piecing together the six-million-year story of how words evolved 400 M68

Law

Melissa B. Jacoby Unjust debts : how our bankruptcy system makes America more unequal 346.078 J179
Stephen M. Kohn Rules for whistleblowers : a handbook for doing what's right 344.7301 K795

Literature & Writing
Pedro Lemebel A last supper of queer apostles : selected essays 864 L551
Dante Alighieri The divine comedy 851 D19ma
James C. Morehead Canvas : poems 811.6 M838
Bahāʼ al-Dīn Majrūh Songs of love and war : Afghan women's poetry 891.593 M234
Peter G. Platt Shakespeare's essays : sampling Montaigne from Hamlet to The Tempest 822.33 P71
Jewelle Gomez Waiting for Giovanni : a dream play 812 G633

Natural Sciences & Mathematics

Steve Nadis The gravity of math : how geometry rules the universe 530.11 N136
Boyce Upholt The great river : the making and unmaking of the Mississippi 508.77 U67

Performing Arts & Music

Ray Padgett Pledging my time : conversations with Bob Dylan band members 780.92 D99p
Emily Nussbaum Cue the sun : the invention of reality TV 791.45 N975

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion

Michael Andor Brodeur Swole : the making of men and the meaning of muscle 155.33 B864
Robert M. Sapolsky Determined : a science of life without free will 123 S241
Ray Kurzweil The singularity is nearer : when we merge with AI 153.9 K967s

Politics

Liza Mundy The sisterhood : the secret history of women at the CIA 327.12 M965
Joe Moore White robes and broken badges : infiltrating the KKK and exposing the evil among us 322.42 M821
Zeke Hernandez The truth about immigration : why successful societies welcome newcomers 325.73 H557
Al Franken The truth (with jokes) 973.931 F829

Social Sciences & Current Events

Kim McLarin Everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed 305.8 M459
Anne E. Belden Inflamed : abandonment, heroism, and outrage in wine country's deadliest firestorm 363.37 B427
Wesley Lowery American whitelash : a changing nation and the cost of progress 305.8 L917
Sara Jane Ho Mind your manners : how to be your best self in any situation 395 H678
Tom Steyer Cheaper, faster, better : how we'll win the climate war 363.7 S853
Ethan Mollick Co-intelligence : living and working with AI 303.4834 M726
James Baldwin The evidence of things not seen 364.152 B181
Mark Fisher Ghosts of my life : writings on depression, hauntology and lost futures 306 F533
Madhumita Murgia Code dependent : living in the shadow of AI 303.4834 M976

Sports & Games

Will Cockrell Everest, Inc 796.522 C666

Travel & Geography

Milan & the lakes 914.52 E975
Jessica Lee Egypt 916.2 L847
The rough guide to Ireland 914.15 R856
Fodor's essential England 914.2 F653
Norm Longley The rough guide to the Scottish Highlands & Islands 914.115 R856
Teresa Fisher DK eyewitness Germany 914.3 E975 2023
Joseph Reaney Fodor's Budapest 914.3912 F653 2024
Wibke Carter Fodor's essential Germany 914.3 F653 2022
Mark Elliott Belgium & Luxembourg 914.93 L847 2024
Kata Fári Budapest & Hungary 914.391 L847 2023
Sean Connolly Denmark 914.89 L847 2023
Oliver Berry Devon & Cornwall 914.23 L847 2023
Anna Kaminski Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania 914.79 L847 2024
Paula Hotti Finland 914.897 L847 2023
Eygló Svala Arnarsdóttir Iceland 914.91 L847 2024
Peter Dragicevich Montenegro 914.9745 L847 2024
Jenna Gottlieb Iceland : with a road trip on the Ring Road : waterfalls, glaciers & hot springs 914.91 M818 2023
Rick Steves Rick Steves Europe through the back door 914 S848e 2024
Rick Steves Rick Steves Iceland 914.91 S848 2024
Rick Steves Rick Steves Kraków, Warsaw & Gdańsk 914.38 S848 2024
The rough guide to Norway 914.81 R856 2022
Marc Di Duca The rough guide to Prague 914.371 R856 2024
Chiura Obata Obata's Yosemite : the art and letters of Chiura Obata from his trip to the High Sierra in 1927 917.94 O122
Floriana Petersen 111 places in Napa & Sonoma you must not miss 917.9418 O584
Piera Chen Taiwan 915.124 L847 2023
Utah's National Parks : Zion, Bryce Canyon, Arches, Canyonlands & Capitol Reef 917.92 L847
Kenneth C. Davis Don't know much about geography : everything you need to know about where in the world you are 910 D262
Mary Jean. Pramik Travels on the edge : one woman's journeys on a runaway planet 910.4 P898
Bhutan 915.498 L847
Slovenia 914.973 L847
Fodor's Travel Publications Fodor's Greek Islands 914.95 F653
The Italian Riviera 914.518 E97
DK eyewitness travel guide : Switzerland 914.94 E975
France 914.4 L847
Lonely Planet Great Britain 914.1 L847
London 914.21 L847
Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque 917.895 M818
Fodor's Northern California 917.94 F653n
Moon handbooks 917.47 M818
Japan 915.2 L847

Posted on Sep. 9, 2024 by Heather Miles