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New Titles List for the Week of April 4

BOOKS

FICTION
Michelle Adelman Piece of mind
Mo Daviau Every anxious wave
Drago Jancar I saw her that night
Alexander McCall Smith The revolving door of life
Belinda McKeon Tender
Susan Meissner Stars over Sunset Boulevard
Patrick Modiano Young once
Andrew Motion The new world
Idra Novey Ways to disappear
Matt Ruff Lovecraft Country
Sarah Schulman The cosmopolitans
Lavie Tidhar A man lies dreaming
Tony Tulathimutte Private citizens
Tamara Valentine What the waves know

Historical Fiction
Jeffrey Archer Cometh the hour
Pat Barker Noonday
Alison Case Nelly Dean: a return to Wuthering Heights
Álvaro EnrigueSudden death
Ariel Lawhon Flight of dreams
Patrick Modiano In the café of lost youth

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Fiona Barton The widow
Samuel Bjørk I'm traveling alone
Rhys Bowen Time of fog & fire
C.J. Box Off the grid
Elizabeth Brundage All things cease to appear
Jeffery Deaver The steel kiss
Lisa Gardner Find her
T. Greenwood Where I lost her
Diane Les Becquets Breaking wild
Rosamund Lupton The quality of silence
Lisa Lutz The passenger
Phillip Margolin Violent crimes
Peter May The critic
Ann A. McDonald The Oxford inheritance
John Pearce Last stop: Paris
Peter Turnbull In vino veritas

Short Stories
Kirill Kobrin Eleven Prague corpses: stories
New York stories SS N53274
Shotguns v. Cthulhu: double-barrelled action in the horrific world of H.P. Lovecraft SS S5598
Waves: an anthology of new gay fiction SS W355

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Richard W. Bulliet The wheel: inventions & reinventions 621.8 B937

Biography & Genealogy
George Goodwin Benjamin Franklin in London: The British life of America's founding father 92 F831g
Claire Harman Charlotte Bronte: a fiery heart 92 B869h
Leonard Pitt My brain on fire: Paris & other obsessions 92 P6883

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Kevin Johnson The dark page II: books that inspired American film noir, (1950-1965) 016.813 J677
Kevin Johnson The dark page: books that inspired American film noir, (1940-1949) 016.813 J677

Business & Economics
Paul Brest Money well spent: a strategic plan for smart philanthropy 658.4 B843
Stanley Weinstein Capital campaigns from the ground up: how nonprofits can have the buildings of their dreams 658.152 W424

Chess
Savielly Tartakower My best games of chess, 1905-1954 794.15 T19m

Computer Science
Michael Alexander Excel dashboards & reports 005.3 M611a
Joyce Cox Microsoft Access 2013: step by step 005.3 M12c
Bill Jelen Excel 2013 charts & graphs 005.3 M611j
Bobbi Sandberg Quicken 2015: the official guide 005.3 Q6s

Food & Drink
America's Test Kitchen Cook it in cast iron: kitchen-tested recipes for the one pan that does it all 641.77 C771

Health & Medicine
Toni Bernhard How to live well with chronic pain & illness: a mindful guide 616.044 B527

History
Jonathan Dimbleby The Battle of the Atlantic: how the allies won the war 940.542 D582
Anne Garrels Putin country: a journey into the real Russia 947 G239
David van Reybrouck Congo: the epic history of a people 967.51 V274

Languages & Linguistics
Peter Boyd-Bowman From Latin to Romance in sound charts 441.5 B789
David Burnley The history of the English language: a source book 420.9 B966

Literature & Writing
Richard Jenkyns Classical literature: an epic journey from Homer to Virgil & beyond 880.09 J53
Neil L. Rudenstine Ideas of order: a close reading of Shakespeare's sonnets 822 S527ru

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Nick Davies Cuckoo: cheating by nature 598.74 D256
Mike Sullivan Trees of San Francisco 582.16 S951

Performing Arts & Music
Matthew Gear At the end of the street in the shadow: Orson Welles & the city 791.4 W44g

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Robert Alter Ancient Israel: the Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel & Kings: a translation with commentary 222 A541
Todd Rose The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World that Values Sameness 155.2 R797
Whitley Strieber The super natural: a new vision of the unexplained 130 S917
Mary Terhune Out of the blue: true-life experiences of awakening, revelation & transformation 204 T318
Robert L. Payton Understanding philanthropy: its meaning & mission 177.7 P347

Politics & Government
Thomas Frank Listen, Liberal, or, What ever happened to the party of the people? 324.2736 F828

Social Sciences & Current Events
Albert-László Barabási Bursts: the hidden patterns behind everything we do, from your e-mail to bloody crusades 303.49 B223
Jamie Bartlett The dark net: inside the digital underworld 302.23 B289
China's new 21st-century realities: social equity in a time of change 303.372 C539
Jack Myers The future of men: masculinity in the twenty-first century 305.31 M996
Judy Wajcman Pressed for time: the acceleration of life in digital capitalism 304.237 W145
Lisa M. Dietlin Transformational philanthropy: entrepreneurs & nonprofits 361.7 D565

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Donna Leon The waters of eternal youth Large Print Leon

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Matt de la Peña Last stop on Market Street

DVDs
The Peanuts movie

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Kelly McGonigal The willpower instinct: how self-control works, why it matters & what you can do to get more of it CD 153.8 M146

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DVDs

Foreign Language
Confidences trop intimes = Intimate strangers

Nonfiction
Amy DVD 780.92 A531
The Black Panthers: vanguard of the revolution DVD 322.42 B627
The great flood DVD 363.34 G786

Posted on Apr. 5, 2016 by Cherilyn Chang