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New Titles: March 31 - April 6, 2012

BOOKS

FICTION
Jim Dodge Fup
Jill McGivering The last kestrel
Joyce Carol Oates Mudwoman: a widow's story
Aimee Phan The reeducation of Cherry Truong
Joseph M. Schuster The might-have-been
Fred Setterberg Lunch bucket paradise: a true-life novel
Jessica Maria Tuccelli Glow

Historical Fiction
Irvin D. Yalom The Spinoza problem

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Nick Arvin The reconstructionist
Jeffrey Ashford Justice deferred
Rhys Bowen Hush now, don't you cry
C.J. Box Force of nature
Harlan Coben Stay close
Alex Dryden The blind spy
Åke Edwardson Sail of stone
Lyndsay Faye The gods of Gotham
Keith Gilman My brother's keeper
Noah Hawley The good father
Fuminori Nakamura The thief
Fraser Nixon The man who killed
Brad Parks The girl next door
Richard North Patterson Fall from grace
Leif GW Persson Another time, another life: the story of a crime
James Thompson Helsinki white
Andrew Vachss That's how I roll

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Nick Harkaway Angelmaker
David J. Kowalski The company of the dead

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NONFICTION
Arts & Architecture
Richard Serra, drawing: a retrospective 741.092 S48
Francesca Woodman 770.92 W892k

Biography & Genealogy
Mark K. Updegrove Indomitable will: LBJ in the presidency 92 J673u

Business & Economics
Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson Why nations fail: the origins of power, prosperity & poverty 330 A173
Andrew Cracknell The real mad men: the renegades of Madison Avenue & the golden age of advertising 659.1 C883
Michael T. Klare The race for what's left: the global scramble for the world's last resources 333.7 K63

Chess
Grandmaster versus amateur 794.1 G754

Food & Drink
Tasha DeSerio Salad for dinner: simple recipes for salads that make a meal 641.83 D451

Health & Medicine
Ira Byock The best care possible: a physician's quest to transform care through the end of life 616 B994
Melanoma skin cancer: what you need to know--now 616.994 M5176
Dick Teresi The undead: organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating heart cadavers: how medicine is blurring the line between life & death 610 T31
Craig Timberg & Daniel Halperin Tinderbox: how the West sparked the AIDS epidemic & how the world can finally overcome it 614.59 T583
Steven Q. Wang Beating melanoma: a five-step survival guide 616.994 W246

History
George Black Empire of shadows: the epic story of Yellowstone 978.752 B627
Jon Gertner The idea factory: Bell Labs & the great age of American innovation 384 G384
Winston Groom Shiloh, 1862 973.731 G87
Neil Hegarty The story of Ireland: a history of the Irish people 941.5 H462
Robert Kanigel On an Irish island 941.96 K16
Alice Kaplan Dreaming in French: the Paris years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag & Angela Davis 944.36 K172
Angus Roxburgh The strongman: Vladimir Putin & the struggle for Russia 947.086 R887

Law
Dale Carpenter Flagrant conduct: the story of Lawrence v. Texas: how a bedroom arrest decriminalized gay Americans 342.7308 C295
David K. Shipler Rights at risk: the limits of liberty in modern America 342.7308 S55

Literature & Writing
Frank Cebulski Lonely nights & wild women: concrete visual shaped poems 811 C387L
Alexandra Harris Romantic moderns: English writers, artists & the imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper 820.9 H313
John Norton Air Transmigra 811 N885a
Marilynne Robinson When I was a child I read books 814 R66
Mark Strand Almost invisible 811 S89a

Music & Performing Arts
Mark Bego Aretha Franklin: the queen of soul 780.92 F831
Geoff Dyer Zona: a book about a film about a journey to a room 791.43 D99

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Jonathan Haidt The righteous mind: why good people are divided by politics & religion 201 H149
Eric R. Kandel The age of insight: the quest to understand the unconscious in art, mind & brain: from Vienna 1900 to the present 154.2 K16
Glen Martin Game changer: animal rights & the fate of Africa's wildlife 179.3 M379

Pure Sciences
Joanne Baker Universe: 50 ideas you really need to know 520 B167
David George Haskell The forest unseen: a year's watch in nature 577.3 H349
Chris Stringer Lone survivors: how we came to be the only humans on earth 599.93 S91L

Social Sciences & Current Events
Lisa Delpit Multiplication is for white people: raising expectations for other people's children 379.26 D363
Blaine Harden Escape from Camp 14: one man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the west 365.45 H259
Elizabeth Little Trip of the tongue: cross-country travels in search of America's languages 306.44 L77
Mikey Walsh Gypsy boy: my life in the secret world of the Romany Gypsies 305.8914 W223

Sports & Games
Jim Gullo Trading Manny: how a father & son learned to love baseball again 796.357 G973
Robert Andrew Powell This love is not for cowards: salvation & soccer in Ciudad Juárez 796.334 P882

Travel & Geography
Andrew Wilson Shadow of the Titanic: the extraordinary stories of those who survived 910.45 W746

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

DVDs
Hugo

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Chad Harbach The art of fielding

Nonfiction
Bill Clinton Back to work: why we need smart government for a strong economy 330.973 C64c
Ellen DeGeneres Seriously-- I'm kidding 792.092 D317c
Andreas Kluth Hannibal & me: what history's greatest military strategist can teach us about success & failure 937.03 K668c

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EBOOKS
Fiction
Jim Butcher Ghost story: a novel of the Dresden files
Lee Child Second son
Christine Feehan Dark predator: a Carpathian novel

Nonfiction
Mike Allen, Evan Thomas The right fights back
Fodor's France 2011
Fodor's Ireland 2011
Fodor's Italy 2011
National Geographic 7 billion: how your world will change
Gary D. Schmidt Okay for now
Charles Simic Confessions of a poet laureate

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DVDs
Classics
Anatomy of a murder

Drama
Anonymous
The descendants
Martin Chuzzlewit

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Barbarella

Posted on Apr. 6, 2012 by Matt Montgomery