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New Titles: September 8-14, 2012

BOOKS

FICTION
Historical Fiction
Philippa Gregory The kingmaker's daughter
Enid Shomer The twelve rooms of the Nile

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Jussi Adler-Olsen The absent one
Gerald Elias Death & the maiden
Tess Gerritsen Last to die
Laurie R. King Garment of shadows: a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes
Louise Penny The beautiful mystery
Kathy Reichs Bones are forever
Ruth Rendell The St. Zita Society
Peter Steiner The resistance: a thriller

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NONFICTION
Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Wendy Bertrand Enamored with place: as woman & as architect 720.92 B551
Wendy Scott Bertrand Rug retrospective of Weaving seasons 746.7 B551
Paul Koudounaris The empire of death: a cultural history of ossuaries & charnel houses 726.8 K881
Françoise Mouly Blown covers: New Yorker covers you were never meant to see 741.652 M92b
Clare Rojas Everything flowers 750.92 R741e

Biography & Genealogy
Craig Brown Hello goodbye hello: a circle of 101 remarkable meetings 920 B877
Jonathan Fenby The general: Charles de Gaulle & the France he saved 92 G269f
Bob Spitz Dearie: the remarkable life of Julia Child 92 C536sd

Business & Economics
Neil Barofsky Bailout: an inside account of how Washington abandoned Main Street while rescuing Wall Street 338.973 B264
Steven M. Sears The indomitable investor: why a few succeed in the stock market when everyone else fails 332.6322 S439

Health & Medicine
Phyllis A. Balch Prescription for herbal healing: an easy-to-use A-to-Z reference to hundreds of common disorders & their herbal remedies 615.321 B174

History
Thomas de Waal The Caucasus: an introduction 947.5 D515
Dennis Drabelle The great American railroad war: how Ambrose Bierce & Frank Norris took on the notorious Central Pacific Railroad 385.0979 D756
John Kelly The graves are walking: the great famine & the saga of the Irish people 941.5 K295

Home & Family Management
Novella Carpenter & Willow Rosenthal The essential urban farmer 630.91 C29e

Languages & Linguistics
Geoffrey Nunberg The ascent of the A-word: assholism, the first sixty years 427 N97

Music & Performing Arts
Susan Bernard Marilyn, intimate exposures 792.092 M75ber

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Spy the lie: former CIA officers show you how to detect deception 155.2 S772
David Steindl-Rast Essential writings 248.4 S821

Politics & Government
Dinesh D'Souza Obama's America: unmaking the American dream 973.932 D81
National Priorities Project A people's guide to the federal budget 352.4 N277

Social Sciences & Current Events
Bill Fletcher Jr They're bankrupting us! & 20 other myths about unions 331.88 F612
Giles Slade The big disconnect: the story of technology & loneliness 303.483 S63

Sports & Games
Hope Solo Solo: a memoir of Hope 796.334 S689

Travel & Geography
Moon Handbooks New Mexico 917.89 M818
Peter Potterfield Classic hikes of North America: 25 breathtaking treks in the United States & Canada 917 P869

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AUDIOBOOKS
Nonfiction
Robert A. Caro The passage of power 92 J673cc

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EBOOKS
Catherine Austen All good children
Martyn Bedford Flip
Richard Benson F in exams: the very best totally wrong test answers
Rajiv Chandrasekaran Little America: the war within the war for Afghanistan
Lara Chapman Flawless
Jennifer Donnelly Revolution
Jennifer Richard Jacobson Small as an elephant
Katie Kacvinsky Awaken
Julie Kagawa The iron king
Jackie Morse Kessler Rage
Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the rock
Kimberly Marcus Exposed
Myra McEntire Hourglass
Andy Mulligan Trash
Mike Mullin Ashfall
Patrick Ness A monster calls
Dana Reinhardt The things a brother knows
Ransom Riggs Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Benjamin Alire Sáenz Last night I sang to the monster
Michael Scott The alchemyst: the secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel
Marcus Sedgwick The book of dead days
Jessica Warman Between

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
Shooter

Drama
The river
Too big to fail

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Donnie Darko

Nonfiction
Brother outsider: the life of Bayard Rustin 323.092 R971b
Mister Rogers & me 792.092 R725

Opera
Die Fledermaus 782.5 S915f

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CDs
Jazz
Revival of the fittest
Bond: the Paris sessions
Rruga
Mellow

Posted on Sep. 13, 2012 by Matt Montgomery