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New Titles: December 3-December 9, 2011

BOOKS

FICTION
Historical Fiction
Meira Chand A different sky
Katherine Govier The printmaker's daughter: a novel
Luis Alberto Urrea Queen of America: a novel

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Roberto Bolaño The Third Reich
James W. Hall Dead last
Gerald Hammond With my little eye
Dana Haynes Breaking point
Peter James Dead man's grip
Todd Ritter Bad moon

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Michael Dempsey Necropolis
Steampunk!: an anthology of fantastically rich & strange stories

Short Stories
Daphne du Maurier The doll: the lost short stories

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Buffy the vampire slayer: time of your life (season 8, vol. 4) 741.5 B929
Buffy the vampire slayer: predators & prey (season 8, vol. 5) 741.5 B929
Buffy the vampire slayer: retreat (season 8, vol. 6) 741.5 B929
Buffy the vampire slayer: twilight (season 8, vol. 7) 741.5 B929
Buffy the vampire slayer: last gleaming (season 8, vol. 8) 741.5 B929
Pogo: through the wild blue wonder: the complete syndicated comic strips, vol. 1, 741.5 K293

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NONFICTION

Applied Sciences
Robert Courland Concrete planet: the strange & fascinating story of the world's most common man-made material 620.136 C86
The nation's hangar: aircraft treasures of the Smithsonian from the National Air & Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center 629.13334 N277

Biography & Genealogy
Heike B. Görtemaker Eva Braun: life with Hitler 943.086 G675
Stephanie Madoff Mack The end of normal: a wife's anguish, a widow's new life 364.16 M153

Business & Economics
Bill Clinton Back to work: why we need smart government for a strong economy 330.973 C64
The nonprofit's guide to human resources: managing your employees & volunteers 658.3 M394
James A. Roberts Shiny objects: why we spend money we don't have in search of happiness we can't buy 339.47 R643
Adrian Wooldridge Masters of management: how the business gurus & their ideas have changed the world--for better & for worse 658 W913

Health & Medicine
Loren Cordain The Paleo diet: lose weight & get healthy by eating the foods you were designed to eat 613.2 C794
Terrence W. Deacon Incomplete nature: how mind emerged from matter 612.82 D278
Debbie Nathan Sybil exposed: the extraordinary story behind the famous multiple personality case 616.8582 S981
Jesse H. Wright & Laura W. McCray Breaking free from depression: pathways to wellness 616.8527 W951

History
Henry Louis Gates, Jr Life upon these shores: looking at African American history, 1513-2008 973.0496 G259
Sean McMeekin The Russian origins of the First World War 940.311 M167
Craig L. Symonds The Battle of Midway 940.545 S988

Literature & Writing
Howard Junker An old Junker 814 J956
John Updike Higher gossip: essays & criticism 814 U66h

Philosophy, Psychology& Religion
Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV Beyond religion: ethics for a whole world 170.44 B917
Pamela Meyer Liespotting: proven techniques to detect deception 153.6 M612

Politics & Government
Scott Farris Almost president: the men who lost the race but changed the nation 324.973 F246

Social Sciences & Current Events
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Giving 2.0: transform your giving & our world 361.74 A776
Colleen Mondor The map of my dead pilots: the dangerous game of flying in Alaska 387.7 M741
Rory Stewart & Gerald Knaus Can intervention work? 327.11 S85

Sports & Games
At the fights: American writers on boxing 796.83 A861
Richard O. Davies Sports in American life: a history 796 D257
Michael Holley War room: the legacy of Bill Belichick & the art of building the perfect team 796.33 H738

Travel & Geography
Blue Guide Greece: the Aegean Islands 914.95 B65
Hilary Bradt Madagascar: the Bradt travel guide 916.91 B81
Eyewitness travel Barcelona & Catalonia 914.67 E97
Frommer's 500 places to see before they disappear 910.202 F93
Frommer's Amsterdam 914.923 F93
Frommer's Canada 917.1 F93
Frommer's Maine Coast 917.41 F93m
Frommer's Ottawa 917.1384 F93
Frommer's Scandinavia 914.8 F93
Frommer's Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands & the San Juan Islands 917.112 F93
Great journeys: travel the world's most spectacular routes 910.202 G786
Jim Nelson Everywhere man 917.9461 N427

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Janet Evanovich Explosive eighteen: a Stephanie Plum novel
Jane Haddam Flowering Judas: a Gregor Demarkian novel
Louise Penny A trick of the light

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION
Fiction
Avi ; illustrated by Greg Ruth City of orphans
Henry Cole The littlest evergreen
J. Patrick Lewis & Gary Kelley And the soldiers sang
Linda Sue Park ; illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline The third gift
Lauren Thompson ; illustrated by Jonathan Bean One starry night
Laurel Long, illustrator The twelve days of Christmas

Nonfiction
Clement C. Moore ; illustrated by Charles Santore The night before Christmas: or, A visit from St. Nicholas 811 M821s
Allen Say Drawing from memory 740.92 S274
Andrea Warren Charles Dickens & the street children of London 823 D5482wa
Ed Young The house Baba built: an artist's childhood in China 740.92 Y71

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Dashiell Hammett Red harvest

Nonfiction
L.A. Theatre Works The graduate: a full-cast production starring Kathleen Turner & Matthew Rhys 822 J696

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
The Pacific

Classics
Heaven knows, Mr. Allison

Comedy
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch stole Christmas

Drama
The last emperor
Out of Africa

Foreign Language
Il postino (The postman)
The edge of heaven (Auf der anderen Seite)

Nonfiction
Capitalism: a love story 330.12 C244
Cave of forgotten dreams 759.01 C378
Page one: inside the New York times 071.3 P133

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CDs
Sacred
Robert Shaw A Robert Shaw Christmas: angels on high CD Sacred Shaw

Posted on Dec. 9, 2011 by Matt Montgomery